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There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it. 1 Corinthians 10:13 KJV The election is going to come down to who believes in Global Warming or Communism and those who do not. All the other issues they are supposedly concerned about such as healthcare or border crossings comes down to one belief, do you believe in Global Warming or...

During the Clinton impeachment process in 1998, Democrat Sen. Dianne Feinstein said that impeachment hurt the U.S. and the U.S. presidency, and that the trial and process should be finished “as quickly as possible.”

Mini Mike Bloomberg... (picture)

In a show of unity with President Trump's critics, the government of Iran took steps to ease the tensions initiated by his callous assassination of the world's foremost terrorist. The first of these steps entailed the arrest of the person who filmed their missile downing the Ukrainian passenger plane. Democratic presidential contender South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg praised "this positive step toward peace. The existence of this video only served to disparage the intentions and competence of the Iranian regime. While the arrest can't undo the damage done by this video it can send a message dissuading others from releasing...

Trump voter Antwon Williams explains why he supports POTUS 45…

Sit down, shut up and keep that phone in the closet. Detention for high schoolers? Nope, it’s the rules of the impeachment trial for US Senators. Lawmakers who normally relish bloviating on the Senate floor will be forced to remain silent throughout every session of the impeachment trial of President Trump when it begins Tuesday — and will be required to attend sessions six days a week, including Saturdays, for the duration. “That’s going to suck,” Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Florida) told CNN. “I guarantee you it’s going to be hard,” he said, adding jokingly, “but I think we’ll survive.” Senators...

It’s difficult to deny that the implementation of leftist ideology is less a series of four-way intersections with stop signs or traffic lights at which people are forced to stop and possibly consider the ramifications of such implementation...and more a series of on-ramps onto an already-busy and flowing highway. Far too many people are intellectually lazy and believe that, to extend the metaphor, if they don’t have to slow below 70 mph then more cars entering the highway isn’t a problem for them. It’s only after they’ve passed dozens of such ramps that they wonder how and why their child...

An accused, six-time bank robber who’s become the face of all that’s wrong with New York’s new bail-reform law is now finally in jail - thanks to federal prosecutors, who have seized control of his case and done what no state judge was free to do. Gerod Woodberry turned himself in at the Manhattan Criminal Court building on Centre Street around 4 p.m., Friday - 18 days after his alleged spree began. “I’m Woodberry,” he told a court worker. “I’m the one that’s been robbing banks.” The feds promptly scooped him up, arguing that Woodberry, 42, had been arrested, then...

Happy New Year, everyone!! Here's hoping 2020 is the best year yet!! President Trump should take the win in the Senate trial without dragging it out, then concentrate on winning the 2020 election with wide coattails, then bide his time as the cases against the various coup plotters wind their way through the justice system. Win the election, hold the senate, take back the house!! And then continue the work of making America great again: Build the wall, enforce the law, deport them all!! End DACA!! End sanctuary cities!! End anchor babies!! Continue cutting regulations, cutting government, cutting spending and...

Sen. Ted Cruz (D-TX) tweeted his thoughts about President Trump's Senate impeachment trial and how he see the trial playing out in the Senate.  "I'm headed to the Senate floor," Cruz says in a video the senator tweeted out on Thursday. "The partisan impeachment we've seen is over." On Thursday, House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) and the Democrat's lead impeachment manager kicked off the impeachment trial by formally reading two article of impeachment the House passed against the president last month, abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.Chief Justice John Roberts was sworn in to preside over the Senate trial,...

But Warren slapped the peace pipe out of his hands and crossed her arms, a sign of rejection in her culture. "No peace pipe. You have angered the Great Spirit. Leave at once, paleface." A crestfallen Sanders backed away slowly to go ask his grandkids about eBay's return policy.

The anti-President Donald Trump Women’s March is taking place Saturday in Washington, DC. The march, one of hundreds taking place across the country, is expected to have the smallest turnout since the movement’s 2017 start. One of the marchers’ main goals: remove Donald Trump from office. As reported in the Washington Post: [Saturday] begins with marching and, they hope, ends with President Trump being voted out of office. “Trump and his administration are bent on silencing us. If it were up to him, there would be no Women’s March,” said Rachel O’Leary Carmona, chief operating officer of the national Women’s...

What’s not to love about whizzkids streamlining your responsibilities for running services, optimising efficiency and keeping citizens safe into a bunch of fun apps? There’s no concrete definition of a smart city, but high-tech versions promise to use cameras and sensors to monitor everyone and everything, from bins to bridges, and use the resulting data to help the city run smoothly. One high-profile proposal by Google’s sister company... to give 12 acres of Toronto a smart makeover is facing a massive backlash. In September, an independent report called the plans “frustratingly abstract”; in turn US tech investor Roger McNamee warned...

OAN has an in-depth special about FISA abuse against POTUS's people.

Oprah Winfrey said Friday that Russell Simmons attempted to pressure her about her involvement with a documentary in which several women detail sexual abuse allegations against the rap mogul, but his efforts were not what prompted her to leave the project. “He did reach out multiple times and attempted to pressure me,” Winfrey told The Associated Press through a spokesperson on Friday. It was not anything Simmons said that prompted Winfrey to withdraw from the “On the Record” film, according to Winfrey, but rather inconsistencies in the story of one of Simmons’ accusers, Drew Dixon, that she felt needed to...

According to Politico, the “bombshells” keep falling in the impeachment farce, this time courtesy of the indicted Lev Parnas. Bombshells “keep falling on my head/And just like the guy whose feet are too big for his bed/Nothing seems to fit.” How come all the things that Parnas asserts “had to happen” didn’t have to happen before the aid flowed? Oh, well. What we seem to have here, beginning with the foul Russia hoax, is impeachment forever. This episode brings us more of the same, but less. Mollie Hemingway notes the template (below). Mollie ✔ @MZHemingway If you realize media/Democrats' impeachment...

Price Controls, Water Controls Living in Italy, expat Americans were shocked to learn that they couldn’t drive their cars into Verona on certain days if their licenses ended in odd numbers and on other days if their licenses ended in even numbers. Caught driving on the wrong day, the penalty was stiff. It was the bureaucrats’ way of dealing with pollution that affected air quality, soot deposits on marble statues, and buildings in town. In Modesto, California, the city deals with water shortages, whether real or imagined, by giving citations and fines to odd-numbered addresses that water lawns on Tuesdays...

Today's Quotefall Puzzle features a quote by Joe Huffman. Click puzzle (or click here) for full size rendition, then use your browser's print command to print puzzle. Joe Huffman is a popular blogger who writes about explosives, guns, politics, and sex in North Central Idaho. All hints, along with the answer, are provided in the first reply comment below, using filtered font to prevent accidental spoilers. Please refrain from disclosing the full answer in comments to prevent spoilers.To solve the puzzle: Enter the letters in the top half (letter columns) of the puzzle into the white squares on the bottom half (answer...

He put the fat in fatwa. A morbidly obese ISIS fanatic dubbed “Jabba the Jihadi” has been captured by Iraqi forces — who loaded him onto a flatbed truck because he couldn’t fit in a police car. The 560-pound mufti Abu Abdul Bari, also known as Shifa al-Nima, was nabbed Thursday by an elite SWAT team of the Nineveh regiment in the city of Mosul, according to Stars and Stripes. The jumbo jihadist was known for “provocative speeches against the security forces” and is considered one of the top leaders of “ISIS gangs,” Iraqi security officials said in a statement....

I remain convinced it will take a massive amount of voter fraud to unseat this president. I'm also convinced they will try...hard. Their future depends on it. Donald Trump is at the head of a political crusade, a movement, one of the greatest in our history. Although Donald Trump is at the center, it is not completely about him. It is primarily a push to return to constitutional principles, away from the skulking and stealth of creeping communism and secularism. It is about smoke-filled rooms of evil oligarchs, from both political camps, demanding we live as they say, not as...