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David Hogg ✔ @davidhogg111 This is a tweet for for the founders of the gun violence prevention movement started centuries ago by almost entirely black, brown and indigenous lgbtq women and non binary people that never got on the news or in most history books. We may not know all your names but thank you. 3,327 8:07 PM - Jan 26, 2020

The more we talk about freedom (of speech, of assembly, to carry guns, religion) in the world today occupied and controlled by everything progressive, the more we hear the chains rattling I wrote before about the 2006 Oscar winner for the best Foreign Language Film, “Das Leben des Anderen” (The Lives of Others), a German drama that describes in painful detail life in the communist East Berlin of 1984, before the fall of the Berlin Wall, how ordinary and not so ordinary citizens were spied upon by their government, using agents of the infamous Stasi, the German Democratic Republic’s secret...

This is the kind of thing that insures President Trump will be re-elected in November–or would, if anyone watched CNN. It is hard to imagine a less attractive 80 seconds of television. What is it about liberals (and formerly conservative never-Trumpers like Rick Wilson) that makes them so smug and self-satisfied? Especially given that, as in this case, they are generally people of so little accomplishment. Anyway, here it is: President Trump has tweeted this, so a great many people will see it. Well done, CNN! https://twitter.com/SteveKrak/status/1221988232528826369?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1221988232528826369&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.powerlineblog.com%2Farchives%2F2020%2F01%2Finsuring-trumps-re-election.php

Nor were the golden bullet pens Pelosi’s first flight of fancy on speaking in bullets The public at large should be clued in about prayerful Nancy Pelosi’s overriding obsession with bullets. In fact, the off-the-rails Democrat Speaker of the House now speaks to the Nation in bullets. “Instead of lasting “forever”, Nancy Pelosi’s signed “souvenir impeachment pens” ran out of ink today.

Hillary Clinton has returned to the political stage at the Sundance film festival and says she believes she could beat Donald Trump if she were to run again in November. In a wide-ranging interview with Variety about her new Hulu docu-series she was asked if she felt the urge to beat the president. 'Yeah. I certainly feel the urge because I feel the 2016 election was a really odd time and an odd outcome,' Clinton replied. 'The more we learn, the more that seems to be the case. But I'm going to support the people who are running now and...

Republican Sen. Pat Toomey is discussing an idea for the ongoing impeachment trial of President Donald Trump that would allow each party to call one witness to testify. According to The Washington Post, the lawmaker from Pennsylvania has brought up his "one-for-one" proposal with Republican colleagues, including Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah. Romney is one of a handful of senators who is on the fence about calling witnesses for the trial. Most Republicans are publicly opposed to having witnesses testify and would like the trial, which kicked off more than a week ago, to come to a swift end.

The idea of a campus “safe space”—a university-sanctioned oasis where students can go to destress and feel at ease—has had its share of ridicule. And it’s not hard to see why: It is often hard to distinguish between a college safe space and a preschool daycare. For example, in April 2019, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill hosted a “Week of Balance” for students. The week’s events were packed full of therapeutic activities including “coloring and origami therapy,” “sweet treats,” “yoga and crafting,” and engaging in a “cathartic primal scream” followed by an ice cream outing. But safe...

The Chinese partners of US citizens have been banned from a rescue flight to evacuate Americans from the city of Wuhan amid a deadly outbreak of coronavirus. A charter flight is scheduled to fly from the Wuhan Tianhe International Airport to San Francisco International Airport on Tuesday. The US consulate in Wuhan began reaching out to all Americans registered as living in the city last week to offer them a seat on the plane. There are roughly 1,000 Americans in the city. Benjamin Wilson, who is from Louisiana but living in the epicenter of the disease with his Chinese wife...

SUBTITLE: As face masks sell out, people say "information is so hidden" and "we don't know the whole picture". Subtle changes are seeping into daily life in Bangkok. Thermal scanners now stand at the doors of luxury malls and attendants pump disinfectant into the hands of visitors as they stream in. With 14 cases, Thailand now has the highest confirmed number of coronavirus infections outside China and people are starting to worry. "It's spreading so fast and the information is so hidden, we don't know the whole picture," young mother Cathy told me. Even her four-year-old son obediently wears a...

“He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy. Happy is the man that feareth alway: but he that hardeneth his heart shall fall into mischief” (Proverbs 28:13-14).

An Iranian news agency has claimed a CIA chief who helped plan the assassination of general Qassem Soleimani was killed in a plane crash yesterday in Afghanistan. The highly dubious report comes after the Pentagon yesterday denied its E-11A communications jet had been shot down by the Taliban, but stated it had crashed in the Dih Yak district. The US gave no details of casualties but Iranian media and Kremlin-linked news sites have claimed that among the dead was Michael D'Andrea, a CIA boss credited with hunting down Osama bin Laden, known as the 'Dark Prince' and 'Ayatollah Mike.' Iranian...

I guess I should say something. For five years my office at AEI was right next to John Bolton. Lately I’ve been having fun with this photo suggesting I can do “hearsay” with the best of Adam Schiff’s witnesses (that is, “making stuff up”). I can’t say I got to know Bolton very well, but as early risers we were often the first people in the office before well before 7 am on many days, so I’d sometimes stop to chat over coffee and we’d joke about things. And he was helpful to me several times when I needed some...

I’m taking the day off to go skiing as the Sundance herds continue to muck around town. I feel a bit safer from the coronavirus up in the clean mountain air.There will be hot cocoa, as I understand it is loaded with antioxidants; and whipped cream.So I leave today’s heavy lifting and trolling in your capable hands. Don’t do anything they wouldn’t do on a Ukrainian bot farm.Posted from: MOTUS A.D.

Environmental organizations are urging the board members of a major lobbying group for California restaurants to reconsider their support for a lawsuit against Berkeley over the city's ban on natural gas in new buildings.

A French climate alliance of charity groups and local authorities launched an unprecedented legal action Tuesday against Total, hoping to make the French energy company drastically reduce its greenhouse gas emissions. Activists from the non-governmental organizations and over a dozen local governments say it’s the first time a French multinational has been taken to court over the fight against climate change. They want Total, one of France’s top companies, to be more vigilant about the environment and align itself to the goals of the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement in fighting climate change. This climate alliance accused Total of failing to...

What are they teaching in New York City preschools? At one taxpayer-funded Brooklyn nursery, it isn’t numbers, letters or nap time — but ­racism and victimhood, plus transgender and “queer’’ rights, with a heavy dose of political indoctrination in the mix. “I was kind of horrified,’’ the father of a preschooler told me. “They say they’re trying to reduce racism and discrimination. To me, they’re perpetuating it, fomenting a sense of victimhood that 4-year-olds would never consider on their own.’’ In an e-mail to parents and caregivers on Jan. 16, teacher Rosy Clark lays out lessons based on the Black...

1:19 On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “The Story,” Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) stated that if the Senate agrees to hear additional witnesses and grant the subpoenas that Democrats have asked for, then the Senate’s impeachment trial will end up lasting “through April or May.” Kennedy said, “If we make the decision to hear from more witnesses and to grant the subpoenas that our Democratic friends are asking for, I think we’ll be here through April or May.” He continued, “I’ve seen the articles that you might be referencing, Martha, that there’s been a change in momentum. I...

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., has been a loud and constant voice for socialist policies throughout his 30 years in Washington, D.C., a self-proclaimed champion of the collective good. But in researching my new book, "Profiles in Corruption: Abuse of Power by America’s Political Elite," I discovered that while Sanders may talk about the common good, his public service has made him and his family quite wealthy. Perhaps no one has benefited more from Sanders’s career in politics than his wife Jane. When Bernie was first elected mayor of Burlington, Vermont, he appointed his then-girlfriend, Jane Driscoll, to head his administration’s...

LIVONIA, Mich. - Ask Victor Burch about the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, and he will rattle off a string of issues of more pressing concern to him, starting with making a living as a barber in this northwestern suburb of Detroit. “You’ve got elderly who need help. You’ve got veterans who need help. You’ve got poor people who need help. Impeachment doesn’t really help a person who is struggling,” said Burch, 40, who took up cutting hair after he lost his job at a plastics factory in the 2007-2009 financial crisis. Burch, an undecided African-American voter, added: “Close...

The next step in the impeachment of the president needs to be considered in both its legal and political aspects.The legal issue is easily determined, is evident from the first few days of proceedings, and remains a foregone conclusion. It was obvious from the endlessly repetitive and absurdly overstated arguments of the House managers, Representatives Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) in particular, that they had no legal case. There was no evidence that the president committed a high crime or misdemeanor as the Constitution requires for a president to be removed from office in such a proceeding. What was...