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The Democrats are arranging their own loss. You’ve heard of the silent majority. It’s a very real body of voters that goes to work, raises their children, lives their everyday lives, and keeps to themselves. They don’t really speak out much but when it comes time to vote they’re heard loud and clear. Most of these people vote Republican, and in the last presidential election, they spoke very, very loudly. Research has shown us that this silent majority may have its own little sub-group called the “shy voter.” According to The Hill, it’s unusually quiet. Members of this sub-group don’t...

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Last week, President Trump claimed the election will determine the future of private gun ownership in the United States. On Saturday, the NRA tweeted out that a Biden win “will destroy our Second Amendment.” They are right. If Democrats gain control, Joe Biden and Senate Democrats promise a radical change in the Senate by eliminating the filibuster, which will allow them to pass any legislation that they want with a simple majority vote.

India has now banned over 200 mostly Chinese mobile apps, citing their collection of user data as a national security risk. India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology issued the latest ban on Sept. 2, naming a total of 118 mobile apps, according to a government press release. It is the third list of banned apps issued since June. The 118 apps “engaged in activities which [are] prejudicial to sovereignty and integrity of India, defense of India, security of state, and public order,” the ministry said. Among the banned apps are two apps by Chinese search giant Baidu; online payment...

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), not Russia, poses the biggest threat to election security leading up to November, said Attorney General William Barr. In an interview on Wednesday night with CNN, Barr was asked about election security and who is the most assertive or aggressive nation. “I believe it’s China,” Barr said. “China more than Russia right now.” Asked about why he made that assessment, Barr said he has “seen the intelligence” suggesting the CCP is a greater threat than Moscow. “That’s what I concluded,” he added, saying that could not elaborate more on classified information. But he stressed that...

VIDEO Immediately upon arrival in Milwaukee on his way to Kenosha, Wisconsin today, Joe Biden broke a big COVID-19 Social Distancing rule, namely NO handshaking. Got that, Joe? NO HANDSHAKING! Yet as soon as Joe got off the plane what did he do? He shook someone's bare hand with his own bare hand as you can see.

President Trump on Thursday went off on Nancy Pelosi’s claims she was “set up” at a San Francisco hair salon — as his press secretary laced into the House speaker while repeatedly playing the video that kicked off the fiasco. “Crazy Nancy Pelosi said she was ‘set up’ by the beauty parlor owner when she improperly had the salon opened (and didn’t wear a MASK!),” Trump tweeted. “Does anyone want a Speaker of the House who can be so easily SET UP?” The president’s post was contemporaneous to White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany’s press briefing with reporters, which she...

A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that the National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance program that collected data on Americans' telephone calls was illegal and possibly unconstitutional. A three-judge panel on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the program, which was revealed by whistleblower Edward Snowden and officially ended in 2015, violated U.S. surveillance laws and potentially the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution. Despite their conclusion about the surveillance program, the judges upheld the convictions of four Somali immigrants who brought a legal challenge against it on appeal. Wednesday's ruling came seven years after the four were convicted in...

CHINA is looking to enhance its anti-satellite weaponry as part of a huge push to expand their "world-class" military, according to a new report from the Pentagon. The report said China wants to develop it’s “counterspace capabilities” with more advanced weaponry. It claimed China already has ground-based missiles which can hit low-orbit satellites around the Earth. But the report added the country “probably intends to pursue additional ASAT weapons capable of destroying satellites up to geosynchronous Earth orbit”. The Department of Defence, who published the report, has been legally required to submit a summary of China’s military capabilities since 2000....

Penn State's director of athletic medicine, Wayne Sebastianelli, says 30-35 percent of Big Ten athletes who tested positive for COVID-19 also had myocarditis, a condition that inflames the heart muscle and can potentially be fatal. Per Parth Upadhyaya of the Centre Daily Times, Sebastianelli said Monday during a State College Area board of directors meeting: "When we looked at our COVID-positive athletes, whether they were symptomatic or not, 30 to roughly 35 percent of their heart muscles (are) inflamed. And we really just don't know what to do with it right now. It's still very early in the infection. Some...

"It's just so sad, just watching the Republican convention, and they're spewing this fear," Rivers said. "Donald Trump and all of them, talking about fear. We're the ones getting killed, we're the ones getting shot. All you do is keep hearing about fear. It's amazing to me why we keep loving this country and this country does not love us back." (DOC RIVERS)

MUMBAI/ NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The death of a Tibetan member of an Indian special forces unit in a mine blast near the site of a border flare-up with Chinese troops has offered a rare glimpse into a little-known group of elite, high-altitude warriors. Tenzin Nyima, 53, was killed and another commando critically wounded in the blast near the shores of the Pangong Tso lake in the western Himalayas, three Indian government officials and two members of his family told Reuters. Indian and Chinese forces came close to direct confrontation in the area over the weekend over competing territorial claims,...

In my life I have never intentionally harmed any person. I prefer to live in a dreamy peaceful world where I surround myself in a quiet calm that envelops me in a safety bubble wrap. I desire to sleep with an innocent expectation, letting go of my conscious thoughts and entering into the deep rest of the pure in mind and body. When sleep refreshes us, the body rejuvenates itself. One of our former family members (by marriage, and divorce) recently had a organ transplant. It is so amazing that even though the spirit of the one who died is...

Today our society is broken. We have out-of-control schools, confused leaders, collapsing banking systems, widespread unemployment, unmanageable social programs, and a complete breakdown of moral values. And to top it off, the earth could be standing on the brink of a nuclear catastrophe. In short, things seem to be spinning out of control. How can believers possibly stand firm and steadfast in the midst of all this chaos? The author of Hebrews answers us: We must see Jesus in all that is happening in our lives (see Hebrews 2:9). Some may wonder, “How could the Lord be in any of...

China has raised its pressure on Taiwan, using harsh rhetoric and flexing military muscle around what it sees as a breakaway province. Taiwan has not interest in rejoining mainland China, and it has its own extensive military capabilities to defend itself. Increasing tensions across the Taiwan Strait have raised fears that actual fighting could break out, potentially drawing the US into a clash with China.Taiwan's future as an independent democratic state is uncertain. Chinese officials have repeatedly stated the island's importance to what President Xi Jinping has called "the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation" and have made no secret...

In 2007, comedian Chris Rock did a schtick as an educational video for blacks explaining "How not to get your a-- kicked by the police." Obviously meant as comedy, ironically the video was insightfully logical on what anyone, black or white, should not do when confronted by police. It does not take a rocket scientist to recognize police never know when the simple act of stopping a person on the street could result in that person turning violent. But it is those confronted who have the edge in determining whether a non-violent act becomes violent. Accordingly, they have a responsibility...

(H/T FReeper Dead Corpse for the link) Is the US media being held hostage? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnIQalprvR8&feature=youtu.be  TRT World   956K subscribers   A video that shows dozens of news anchors in the US reading the same script about the dangers of 'fake news' has provoked debate about media consolidation and bias.  

But often this grim and devastating image of natural calamities does not reveal the complete picture. In fact, climate activists exaggerate weather events (short-term and local) as climate events (long-term and global to regional) and misrepresent regular incidents as unprecedented ones. Last month, I came across a retweet by Greta Thunberg, a globally recognized climate activist. She retweeted a tweet showing recent flooding in India. The tweet was preceded and followed by a series of tweets that highlighted allegedly climate-driven natural disasters in an attempt to drive home the need for climate action. It was surprising for me to learn...

PALM BEACH, Florida – The Democratic Party, including the candidates on its presidential ticket this year, are fiercely trying to spark a nationwide race war, says talk-radio giant Rush Limbaugh. "I believe the Democrat Party – Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, whoever – I think they are attempting, and have been for a while, to literally foment a race war. I think that has been the objective," Limbaugh said Monday on his national broadcast. "Trump is not just running for reelection. There's so much more going on here. The story that the president told at the Republican National Convention – and...

So this morning I watched a webcast of the latest SpaceX Starlink launch from Cape Canaveral, some times I can see the rockets from my house....and I'm well over 100 miles away..... It's pretty cool to watch in less than 20 minutes you get to see the launch, first stage separation, the landing of the first stage booster on the barge at sea and then the release of the 60 satellites.... Two more launches are scheduled by late September or early October, which will put them over 800 satellites in orbit.... I would be happy with 100mb download speed and...