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After the report was released on the Russia collusion investigation, it has become clear that FISA requests were approved by judges based on the Steele dossier -- a report funded for and written by anti-Trump hacks. Over the last few years, however, many journalists denied this to be the case. Oh no, they said time and again, the Steele dossier wasn't (much of) the basis of the FISA request(s) to spy on former Trump adviser Carter Page at all. No sir. Twitter-user @Techno_Fog was so kind as to collect tweets from those journalists about the matter. To start with: the...

The new report from Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz is an absolutely damning indictment of the Steele dossier. The dossier, compiled by the former British spy Christopher Steele during the 2016 campaign, was a collection of damaging and unfounded rumors about candidate Donald Trump. It was paid for by the Democratic National Committee and the Hillary Clinton campaign, and overseen by the opposition research firm Fusion GPS. It was never verified, and some of it was laughably far-fetched from the very beginning. Still, the dossier's tales were taken seriously by officials in the highest ranks of the FBI --...

The Legacy Republican Alliance (LRA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to expanding the presence and engagement of Black Americans and the African diaspora in the Republican Party and in our nation’s political system. The LRA is a direct reflection of the Republican Party’s founding principles of empowering Black Americans in our nation’s political system. We will work to keep the Black community informed through political education and provide resources for Black Republicans who seek elected office at all levels of government. The LRA is vested in upholding and honoring the tremendous work, sacrifices and commitments of Black Republicans throughout the...

There is no doubt that Joshua Watson died a hero. The sailor, stationed at Naval Air Station Pensacola as he trained to become a Navy aviator, was shot multiple times by a wanna-be terrorist and Saudi pilot, but managed to escape the classroom where the shooting took place and alert responders to the location of the attack and who was responsible before succumbing to his injuries. One thing Joshua Watson couldn’t do was shoot back, and as Fox News reports, his grieving family is now speaking out in support of allowing members of the military to be armed on base....

The children of victims of Stalin-era repressions have the right to receive state housing in the cities where their parents had been deported from, Russia’s Supreme Court has said in a landmark ruling Tuesday. Amendments to the 1991 law rehabilitating victims of Soviet-era political repressions adopted in 2005 contradict the Russian Constitution because they make it “impossible” for their children to receive housing, the court said. The court instructed federal and regional lawmakers to amend their legislation to ease housing restrictions “without delay.” “This is practically the most we could have expected from the Constitutional Court,” Grigory Vaypan, a lawyer...

On Tuesday in Washington, D.C., at Politico’s Women Rule Summit, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) admitted the impeachment process of President Donald Trump has been going on for “two and a half” years.

Morning "Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it." 1 Thessalonians 5:24 Heaven is a place where we shall never sin; where we shall cease our constant watch against an indefatigable enemy, because there will be no tempter to ensnare our feet. There the wicked cease from troubling, and the weary are at rest. Heaven is the "undefiled inheritance;" it is the land of perfect holiness, and therefore of complete security. But do not the saints even on earth sometimes taste the joys of blissful security? The doctrine of God's word is, that all who are in...

Does anyone have a link to the video of Obama reciting the Muslim call to prayer? I am fairly certain it was on one of the morning news shows the day after the election.

<p>Congress and the media obsess endlessly over whether President Donald Trump should be impeached.</p> <p>Both ignore $23 trillion of bigger problems.</p> <p>That's how deep in debt the federal government is now, and because they keep spending much more than they could ever hope to collect in taxes, that number will only go up. It's increasing by $1 trillion a year.</p>

The Black Hebrew Israelites have been labeled a hate group. The suspect wrote anti-Semitic and anti-police posts, an official said. An assailant involved in the prolonged firefight in Jersey City, N.J., that left six people dead, including one police officer, was linked on Wednesday to the Black Hebrew Israelite movement, which has been designated a hate group, and had published anti-Semitic posts online, a law enforcement official said. The violent rampage on Tuesday took place largely at a kosher supermarket where three bystanders were killed. The authorities now believe that the store was specifically targeted by the assailants. The law...

On Tuesday, while touring a Clinton Foundation program in New York City, former President Bill Clinton told Fox News that House Democrats were “doing their job” by impeaching President Donald Trump. Clinton said, “They’re doing their job as they see it, and we should wait to see it unfold. And the rest of us should go about our jobs and do them as we see it.”

Here is Time Magazine’s Person of the Year: Time’s Person of the Year is a 17 year-old girl who: – Was born in to great white privilege in her racially-homogeneous country of Sweden; – Has lived a prosperous and privileged life provided to her by her neglectful, attention-seeking parents, both of whom are performers and radical leftist activists; – Has been used and abused by every adult who has ever held influence over her life; – Is currently being held up as a poster child by the radical climate alarmist community in order to advance its globalist/socialist political agenda; –...

Today’s tell-tale picture as a memento of how the desperado Dems pulled the 2020 presidency of Hillary Clinton out of the 2016 raging fire The picture of the holier-than-thou Democrats in today’s announced articles of impeachment against President Trump alleging abuse of power and obstruction because of his alleged interactions with Ukraine, couldn’t possibly speak for them any louder. In fact, it positively renders blood-curdling screams.

Today, Obie came cutting through all the weeds, all the lies, taking patriots back to where the Dems’ announced “official articles of Impeachment” began—with Obama’s Fundamental Transformation of America What was witnessed yesterday in the Democrat Party’s delivery of the Impeachment Articles against President Donald Trump, alleging “Abuse of Power” and “Congressional Obstruction” based on his alleged interactions with Ukraine, was no less than Barack Hussein Obama’s Fundamental Transformation of America made manifest. To me, the release of Cuban exile Oswaldo Usategui (Obie’s) first YouTube called ‘Communism 101’, one day later is nothing less than providential.

Two Navy instructor pilots told Fox News the December 6, 2019, Pensacola attacker had 10 minutes without armed resistance in which to carry out his horrific work. Fox News reports those pilots are among a group of instructors who are asking military brass to allow them to carry guns for self-defense. One instructor pilot said, “It’s so stupid that on a military base, the shooter was allowed to roam free for so long. In a gun fight, that’s an eternity.” Breitbart News reported that decision to allow military personnel to be armed for self-defense falls to the installation commanders, per...

The Inspector General’s Report from the Department of Justice (DOJ) features a heretofore unheralded costar by the name of Bruce Swartz, the assistant attorney general in the Criminal Division. Swartz was also the supervisor of the feckless Bruce Ohr, husband of Fusion GPS contractor Nellie Ohr and frequent breakfast buddy of Christopher Steele of Steele dossier fame. Unreported by Inspector General Michael Horowitz, however, was Swartz’s starring role in another DoJ drama some 15 years earlier. Given the scant media attention the case received in 2004-2005, it is possible Horowitz did not even know about Swartz’s yeoman effort to save...

Like disgraced former FBI director James Comey before him exonerating Hillary Clinton for her crimes, DOJ inspector general Michael Horowitz presents us with a documented list of crimes, fraud, and deception in the FISA warrant application process by the FBI but then says never mind — these are bureaucratic mistakes made without bias and without intent. There still was sufficient predicate, says he, for starting an investigation and surveillance of Team Trump, even as Horowitz admits that the first FISA warrant, the one authorizing surveilling Carter Page, was riddled with errors and omissions of key exculpatory evidence. It was the...

Here is the reality about the the myriad of Patriots cheating scandals that have surfaced under Bill Belichick: despite the sensationalist national media coverage, they are all minimal infractions, and going on the facts, incredibly dull. That is the case regarding the latest allegation of supposed Patriots subterfuge. It all started Monday afternoon, when Bengals head coach Zac Taylor confirmed at his press conference the NFL is investigating New England for filming the Cincinnati sideline from the press box during its contest Sunday against the Browns. The bullet-point description of the claim reads like a redux of Spygate, the infamous...

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The Austin Chamber of Commerce’s coalition ATX Helps raised just $50,000 in its first month and remains far from the $2 million goal it set to raise by the end of the year. And at the current pace, it would take them more than two decades to raise their ultimate goal of $14 million to build a new temporary, emergency homeless shelter... Austin currently only has 812 shelter beds, and on any given night when these beds are full, there are still 1,100 people living outdoors without a roof, bathroom, showers or laundry facilities.” Austin has been riddled with increasing...