Complete Nonsense: Joe Biden, 'The 14th Best President' by 154 historians; Trump Ranked Dead Last
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Townhall ^
| 07/15/2024 | Jeff Davidson
During the presidential debate, Joe Biden mentioned or, shall we say, tried to mention a survey from early 2024 in which 154 historians rated all U.S. presidents. The
ratings are so ridiculous as to be laughable. In the Official Results of the 2024 Presidential Greatness Project Expert Survey, listed as a “Joint Project of Professors Brandon Rottinghaus from the University of Houston, and Justin Vaughn from Coastal Carolina University” while only in office for 36 months at the time, Joe Biden was ranked 14th among 46 U.S. presidents, In the same survey, Donald Trump was ranked 46th—dead last. Like me,...
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[Catholic Caucus] The Sacred Page: Hard-Hearted and Stiff-Necked: The Readings for the 14th Sunday of Ordinary Time
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The Sacred Page Blog ^
| July 04, 2018 | Dr. John Bergsma
This Sunday’s readings draw a comparison between three groups: (1) stiff-necked Israelites in the time of the prophets, (2) the townsfolk of Nazareth in the days of Jesus, and (3) you and I sitting in the pew. The
message to us is: repent, and believe the Good News. 1. Our first reading comes from near the beginning of the book of Ezekiel, when that great prophet was receiving his initial call from God: Reading 1: Ezekiel 2:2-5As the LORD spoke to me, the spirit entered into me and set me on my feet, and I heard the one who was...
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California college grad the 14th person to fall off 'serial killer' cliffs; family says death 'preventable'
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Fox News via Yahoo ^
| May 1, 2024 | Audrey Conklin
Over the last 30 years, 14 people, including three University of California, Santa Barbara, students, have fallen to their deaths from the same stretch of cliffs in Isla Vista, a neighborhood along the coast in Santa Barbara. Jacob Parker, a 23-year-old UCSB alumnus who graduated last spring, became the 14th victim to
fall off the cliffs' edge while he was attending an afternoon party April 20 at one of the many houses that back up onto the bluffs. "He had so much potential. I was just looking forward to seeing what he would accomplish in life. This was just the...
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Democrats Eye New Way to Get Trump Off Ballot After Supreme Court Loss: Rep. Jamie Raskin plans to revive legislation barring Trump from office via 14th amendment
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Newsweek via MSN ^
| 03/04/2024 | Jon Jackson
Representative Jamie Raskin, a Maryland Democrat, on Monday said he's working with colleagues on legislation that could bar someone who committed insurrection from holding office. Raskin
made the announcement after the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that former President Donald Trump should appear on the primary ballot in states that have challenged his presidential candidacy. "I'm working with a number of my colleagues—including [Democratic Representatives] Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Eric Swalwell—to revive legislation...to set up a process by which we could determine that someone who committed insurrection is disqualified by section three of the 14th amendment," Raskin said during an appearance...
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Maine's Secretary of State Makes Announcement Following SCOTUS's 14th Amendment Ruling
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Townhall ^
| 3/4/24 | Leah Barkoukis
Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellow has reversed course in her effort to keep former President Trump off the primary ballot after the Supreme Court on Monday unanimously overturned a similar ruling in Colorado. “I have reviewed the Anderson decision carefully. The
U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that individual states lack authority to enforce Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment with respect to federal offices,” wrote Bellows, a Democrat. “Consistent with my oath and obligation to follow the law and the Constitution, and pursuant to the Anderson decision, I hereby withdraw my determination that Mr. Trump’s primary petition is invalid.”...
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US Supreme Court rules for Trump in historic 14th Amendment ballot eligibility case
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ABC News ^
| March 4, 2024, 9:25 AM | By Devin Dwyer and Alexandra Hutzler
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ruled in favor of Donald Trump in a historic case challenging his eligibility to seek the Republican presidential nomination under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment due to his actions around the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. The court was unanimous in reversing
the unprecedented decision out of Colorado that would kick Trump off the ballot under the provision after a state trial court found he participated in "insurrection" on Jan. 6 through incitement. “For the reasons given, responsibility for enforcing Section 3 against federal officeholders and candidates rests with Congress...
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Insanity: Historians rank Biden as the 14th-best president...Trump is ranked last
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MSNBC ^
| 2/19/24 | Peter Baker
President Biden is ranked as the 14th-best U.S. president, according to a new poll of historians. Former
President Trump is ranked as the last. The New York Times' Peter Baker joins Morning Joe to discuss.
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Poll Ranks Biden as 14th-Best President in American History, With Trump Last
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The New York Times ^
| Feb. 18, 2024 | Peter Baker
Mr. Biden’s signature accomplishment, according to the historians, was evicting Donald J. Trump from the Oval Office.President Biden has not had a lot of fun perusing polls lately. He
has a lower approval rating than every president going back to Dwight D. Eisenhower at this stage of their tenures, and he trails former President Donald J. Trump in a fall rematch. But Mr. Biden can take solace from one survey in which he is way out in front of Mr. Trump.A new poll of historians coming out on Presidents’ Day weekend ranks Mr. Biden as the 14th-best president in American...
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Justices skeptical of 14th Amendment case banning Trump from ballot: Key takeaways
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Yahoo! ^
| Thu, February 8, 2024 at 1:11 p.m. CST | DEVIN DWYER and ISABELLA MURRAY
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday appeared highly critical of a Colorado Supreme Court decision that would ban former President Donald Trump from the state's 2024 GOP primary ballot under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. During more than two hours of oral argument in the historic case Trump v. Anderson,
each of the court's nine justices expressed skepticism that an individual state has the authority to deny a candidate for federal office from the ballot as an "insurrectionist." “It just doesn't seem like a state call,” Justice Amy Coney Barrett said. “Why should a single state have the ability...
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Hawaii Democrat introduces bill to ban Trump from ballot
Hawaii considers legislation to ban presidential candidates over 14th Amendment's insurrection clause
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Fox News ^
| January 24, 2024 | Danielle Wallace
A Democrat-sponsored bill in Hawaii that could ban former President Trump from the ballot for allegedly inciting the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol advanced in the state legislature Monday. Hawaii state Sen. Karl Rhoads, a Democrat representing Honolulu who frequently criticizes Trump and Republicans over the Jan. 6 riot online,
first introduced SB 2392 last week, which aims to "specify that election ballots issued by the chief election officer or county clerk shall exclude any candidate who is disqualified under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States; article XVI, section 3 of...
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Archaeologists discover complete armored 14th-century gauntlet in Switzerland
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Arkeonews ^
| January 18, 2024 | Oguz Buyukyildirim
Excavations in Kyburg in the canton of Zürich, northeastern Switzerland have discovered a 14th-century fully preserved gauntlet of armor in exceptional condition.Only five 14th-century gauntlets have been discovered in Switzerland thus far, according to the Zurich cantonal infrastructure department on Tuesday. However, their state of preservation is nowhere near that of the
glove discovered in Kyburg. All the iron parts of this one have been found, and some of the fingers are even completely free of corrosion and look as good as new.The metal parts of the glove were originally riveted to a leather glove. The 25 pieces were also...
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If you respect the Constitution, you must respect enforcement of the 14th Amendment - Barf (The Hill) Alert
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The Hill ^
| 01/18/2024 | CHRIS TRUAX
There’s a strange idea floating in the political ether. Everyone
from Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) to Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.) seems to think there is something unseemly about invoking the 14th Amendment to keep Donald Trump off the presidential ballot, and that his electoral fate ought to be left to the voters rather than the courts. Even Maine Sen. Susan Collins, who voted to impeach the former president over his involvement in the events of Jan. 6, 2021, thinks keeping him off the ballot is undemocratic. It’s a strange idea because none of these people think about any other constitutional...
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Trump 14th Amendment political challenger arrested on federal tax charges
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The Hill ^
| 1/10/24 | NICK ROBERTSON
A Texas man who filed over two dozen challenges to former President Trump’s ballot eligibility was arrested Tuesday on charges alleging he filed 17 sets of false tax documents to the IRS. John Anthony Castro was indicted last week on 33 counts of aiding the preparation of false tax returns. Prosecutors
claim he ran a virtual tax preparation business that provided customers with tax returns beyond what they were actually owed, defrauding the government. “Castro would promise a significantly higher refund than taxpayers could receive from other preparers and on many occasions, offered to split the additional refund with taxpayers,”...
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Judge rejects Trump 14th Amendment claim in Nevada by GOP political competitor (DJT Wins)
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The Hill ^
| 1/9/24 | Nick Robertson
A federal judge in Nevada dismissed a ballot eligibility challenge against former President Trump on Tuesday, ruling the challenge does not have proper standing. Federal
Judge Gloria Navarro determined that the man who brought the challenge, long-shot GOP presidential candidate John Anthony Castro, didn’t have authentic standing to bring the suit because he filed to run for president in order to manufacture legal standing. “In rejecting his political competitor standing argument, courts have found that Castro improperly manufactured his standing merely to file this lawsuit,” Navarro wrote.
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The Travels of Marco Polo: The true story of a 14th-Century bestseller
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BBC ^
| 1/8/24 | Anna Bressanin
Filled with wonders, Marco Polo's tales are the first European account of the Silk Road. But, 700 years after the famed Venetian merchant and explorer's death, can they be trusted? Can
a man who claimed to have seen a unicorn in the Indonesian island of Sumatra be trusted? This and other similarly valid questions have cast doubt on the truthfulness of Marco Polo since the 14th Century, when his book The Travels of Marco Polo became a bestseller and was translated into dozens of languages, hand-copied in countless manuscripts and available at any lavish court in Europe. Polo's tales are...
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It's Not Just Trump: Democrats Trying to Disqualify Other Republican Candidates Using the 14th Amendment
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Red State ^
| 01/04/2024 | Jeff Charles
Former President Donald Trump is apparently not the only Republican that Democrats are trying to remove from the ballot. The
left has begun going after other candidates using the 14th Amendment in their effort to influence the outcome of the 2024 election.Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA) has found himself in the crosshairs with a new lawsuit filed in his state seeking to disqualify him from holding office under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, according to political commentator and Georgetown University Law School professor Jonathan Turley.As the decisions disqualifying former President Donald Trump from the 2024 election work their way through...
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Questions about the 14th Amendment, and the effects of Nimrota being eligible and anchor babies.
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12/31/2023 | Dacula
I had a discussion today with a church buddy, he was professing the fact that Nimrata was going to be the GOP choice for president. Back-and-forth
banter took place. My thought is that her parents were NOT citizens at the time she was born, therefore she is not eligible. Similar to Obama. He also stated that anchor babies who are born in the United States are automatically US citizens. I disagree. Please help.
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Raskin: Clarence Thomas Should Recuse Himself from Trump-14th Amendment Decision
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Breitbart ^
| 12/31/2023 | Pam Key
Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD) said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that he believed Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas “absolutely should recuse himself” from decisions on President Donald Trump’s ballot access case, adding, “the question is, what do we do if he doesn’t?” Dana
Bash asked, “Three of the sitting justices were appointed by Donald Trump and in addition to that, Justice Clarence Thomas’ wife, Ginny, texted Mark Meadows about the 2020 election, the lead up to January 6th, as you well know. Should any of the justices recuse themselves if they take this up?”
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Ex-White House lawyer says Supreme Court could rule ‘9-0’ in possible Trump 14th Amendment case. *Video at link
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The Hill ^
| 12/29/23 | BY MIRANDA NAZZARO
Former White House lawyer Ty Cobb predicted Tuesday that the U.S. Supreme Court could rule “9-0” in favor of former President Trump in a potential appeal of Colorado Supreme Court’s ruling that would kick Trump off the state’s ballot. “I
think this case will be handled quickly. I think it could be 9-0 in the Supreme Court for Trump,” Cobb said in an interview on CNN, adding later, “I do believe it could be 9-0, because I think the law is clear.” The Colorado Supreme Court issued a ruling Tuesday that Trump should not appear on Colorado’s ballot due to...
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This 14th century chart was just rediscovered...it changes map making history [8:51]
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YouTube ^
| December 18, 2023 | Geography Geek
Late last year, a map that could revolutionize our understanding of the origins of modern mapmaking was rediscovered. Created
in the aftermath of the Black Death, this map is the fourth oldest surviving complete portolan chart of Europe.This 14th century chart was just rediscovered...it changes map making history8:51 | Geography Geek | 256K subscribers | 89,502 views | December 18, 2023
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