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Just one more reason to thank John Ratcliffe. – The FBI did everything it could to influence both the 2016 and 2018 election cycles in favor of the Democrats with largely exaggerated claims about Russian interference, and completely fabricated claims that they made those efforts in coordination with the 2016 Trump Campaign and 2018 Trump Administration. That is a matter of historical fact. Given that history, can anyone doubt that Christopher Wray, who led the raging dumpster fire agency’s 2018 Russia collusion smear effort, was about to do it all over again yesterday, just 12 days prior to Election Day?...

Because real, actual voting data is better than polling data. – Our good friend and frequent contributor Larry Schweikart has a terrific piece over at UncoverDC.com this morning, covering a multitude of early voting data. Here’s an excerpt: In yesterday’s [Florida] Vote By Mail, the Democrats continued to add ballots—at a rate of about 3% per day. A poster to www.freerepublic.com, “SpeedyinTexas,” has been working off assumptions based on 81% Democrat turnout and 2016 numbers that put the Democrats’ target for VBMs at a lead of 653,000. That would overcome the 2016 Trump advantage and the anticipated Republican lead in...

New York Post Cover Hunter Biden, This morning, Slow Joe Biden was being “virtually” interviewed, by a WISN (in Wisconsin) reporter when he got served a question about the ongoing Hunter Biden saga, in which Joe himself has been implicated. Reporter: “Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson put out a statement on Homeland Security letterhead saying Hunter Biden, together with other Biden family members, profited off the Biden name. Is there any legitimacy to Senator Johnson’s claims?” Good Start. Let’s see what Joe had to say for himself: Joe Biden: “None whatsoever! This the same garbage Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s henchman… It’s a...

CNN reporter Brian Stelter lost his temper during a BBC Radio 4 roundtable at the suggestion that mainstream media newsrooms had shown poor ethics and a double standard in their breathless reporting of the “Russia collusion” hoax. The panel discussion discussed censorship of the recent story about Hunter Biden’s emails, which many newsrooms ignored and the Silicon Valley social media companies actively suppressed. Stelter supported the suppression, saying that the tech companies needed to do more of it.

In 1953, Senator Joseph McCarthy's House Un-American Activities Committee unearthed a disturbing fact: Lucille Ball was a member of the Communist Party. This revelation came only two years into the I Love Lucy phenomenon that besotted Americans simply called "The Show." Now the future of The Show and Lucille Ball's hard-won career hung by a thread. As it turns out, Lucy was no more Communist than you or I. As a young woman, she'd signed a Communist Party card to please her beloved grandfather who became a Communist after he lost his entire life's savings in a court battle after...

Every five or so years, it rips me apart to watch the same tragedy: a La Niña weather cycle brings devastating drought and hunger to East Africa, threatening the lives and livelihoods of millions of people in Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya. Using climate models and Earth observations, we can now predict these droughts. And once again, dry conditions are predicted from this month until December, with a very good chance of another poor rainy season in March to May 2021. Advances in predictive science allow us to anticipate these potential crises. Scientists issued alerts in August. East African climate experts...

Matthew Dolloff, 30, the unlicensed security guard working with a news crew for 9NEWS, the Denver NBC affiliate covering a protest in downtown Denver on October 10, had bond set at $500,000 yesterday after he was formally charged with Second Degree Murder in the shooting death of Lee Keltner who was an attendee at the “Patriot Muster” rally. Dolloff will have to post the bond before he can be released from the downtown Denver jail, where he has been since his arrest at the scene of the shooting near the Denver Art Museum... Some at the scene [of the shooting]...

A recent report in Florida shows that over 40% of the state’s Covid-19 deaths may not merit that classification. According to Dr. Andrew Bostom at AndrewBostom.org a Florid House of Representatives report covered an investigation of the COVID-19 deaths reported in Florida: The Florida House investigators stressed that “nearly 60% [8,058/13.920] of the [COVID-19] records classified by the Department of Health,” had “errors,” or were “recorded in a manner inconsistent with state and national guidance.” They also provided evidence, as noted earlier, that ~10% [1,256] of these alleged Covid-19 deaths were misclassified.I maintain this latter ~10% estimate is far too...

A rule restricting criminal aliens from gaining asylum in the U.S. under new regulations was announced by the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security Tuesday. The new rule makes aliens convicted of certain crimes ineligible for asylum, Department of Homeland Security Acting Deputy Secretary Ken Cuccinelli said on a call with reporters Tuesday. The final rule will go into effect on Nov. 20 and prohibits convicted felons, drunk drivers, gang members, and individuals convicted of other crimes from qualifying for asylum. Anyone who has committed a felony under federal or state law will not qualify for asylum...

President Donald Trump is working hard to secure the battleground state of Pennsylvania in the November election, holding yet another campaign rally there Tuesday night. The president visited the town of Erie for another airport rally with thousands of supporters. “With your vote, we will continue to cut your taxes, cut regulations, support our great police, protect our 2nd Amendment, defend our borders, and keep jobs and wealth in America where it belongs,” Trump said. Trump warned voters that Democratic nominee Joe Biden would prolong the coronavirus pandemic by shutting down the economy and closing schools again. He said Americas...

This on Facebook gives DT’s opening shot to a most exceptional speech from any world leader as he points heaven-ward saying, “But you know something else? We still need help from the Boss! We need help from the Boss – that’s what I think – we need help….They’ll criticise me for saying it: ‘How dare he say that!’ Nah, I’ll say it…I’ll say it! Someone said to me the other day ‘You’re the most famous person in the world by far’. I said ‘No I’m not, no I’m not!’ and they said, ‘Who’s more famous?’ I said, ‘Jesus Christ!’ (…applause…)...

Another game-changer from the Trump Campaign. – At a massive rally in Eerie, PA last night, the Trump Campaign rolled out a big surprise for the Quid Pro China Joe Biden campaign: A huge video screen on which the President played a compilation of all the times Biden and his designated successor-in-waiting, Kamala Harris, promised to ban fracking in the United States. It was a pretty long video clip, and those were just the time they promised to kill America’s oil and gas industry while on live TV. Think of all the times they’ve made the same promise in private,...

A question I’ve wrestled with this past year or so is a pretty basic one: if critical race/gender/queer theory is unfalsifiable postmodern claptrap, as I have long contended, how has it conquered so many institutions so swiftly? It’s been a staggering achievement, when you come to think of it. Critical theory was once an esoteric academic pursuit. Now it has become the core, underlying philosophy of the majority of American cultural institutions, universities, media, corporations, liberal churches, NGOs, philanthropies, and, of course, mainstream journalism. This summer felt like a psychic break from old-school liberalism, a moment when a big part...

Picture it: You're ninety-five years old. You put your life on the line and served your country. You bleed red, white and blue and revere the voting process. But your nursing home confiscated your ballot, your voter registration card and won't give them back. If you get upset, they sedate you. That's exactly what's happening in care homes across the country and it stinks to High Heaven. Thankfully, @lemonmaid3 is raising awareness in her Twitter thread. (Sorry for the excerpt but most of this article is Twitter screenshots which I can't include here.)

Democrats Freak Out Over "Deja Vu" As Dems ALREADY Underperform, Republicans WINNING Voter Advantage. Biden enters PA with a smaller lead than Hillary did in the polling average. While Democrats have a huge lead in early voting in PA they are underperforming in many key battleground states. This combined with Trump's voter registration advantage suggests Democrats are on track for 2016 round two and they know it. Democrats are getting worried that it is starting to play out exactly like 2016 did and the Republicans and Trump may be set to defeat Joe Biden early on election night. ...

President Trump absolutely savaged a lefty reporter on Monday as he was boarding Air Force One in Phoenix en route to his Tucson rally.The President on Monday took Marine One from Prescott, Arizona to Phoenix International Airport to board Air Force One for his second rally of the day in Tucson. Trump decided to answer a few questions from reporters before he boarded and he didn’t hold back.A reporter asked President Trump about his “strategy” to call Joe Biden a criminal. President Trump unleashed on crooked Joe Biden and the reporter.“Joe Biden is a criminal and he’s been a...

Jemele Hill sparked a Twitter debate on Tuesday with a comment about Black men and their adherence to the patriarchy. "I have increasingly found that many black men just want better access to patriarchy. They don't actually want it dismantled," she wrote.

It’s been just over a month since I last updated Missouri’s COVID numbers here — and it’s been an erratic one at that. There was the single-day gargantuan leap in reported tests (from September 30 to October 1, Missouri reported (per Worldometers) an increase in tests of — get this — 564,236!) followed by the four days last week when the DHSS website/COVID dashboard was down due to a “database extraction error“. The headlines from the Post Dispatch (and other local news sources) of late have been all about how we’re hitting record-high numbers of new cases and hospitalizations and...

No matter how bad your day was on Monday, it was not as bad as the day that CNN Lead Legal Analyst and general all-round hack Jeffrey Toobin had. Toobin was suspended by his other employer, The New Yorker Magazine, when it was revealed that he had whipped it full-on out during a recent staff ZOOM call. But it gets worse: Toobin not only whipped it out during the call, but then went on to engage in the act of – ummmm, how should I characterize this? – “pleasuring” himself live and on camera. No, I am not making this...

Kingsville, Maryland – A Biden supporter on Saturday was arrested and charged for firing a shotgun at 2 Trump supporters driving by his property. The Biden supporter, 50-year-old Douglas Kuhn, was reportedly putting up a Biden 2020 sign on his yard when a father and son drove by in a truck with Trump 2020 flags and honked. Douglas Kuhn became enraged, grabbed his shotgun and discharged his weapon. The Trump supporters, Neal Houk and his son, Bradley Lang, sped off and called police. According to reports no one was injured and the truck was not damaged. WBALTV reported: Trump supporters...