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Bolton book should be included in an Omarosa, Stormi et al full Series, that should be entitled ‘The President Who Made Me Rich’ The common sense, lawyerly-minded Mark Levin has totally upset the apple cart of ‘Roads to Riches’ John Bolton in a single Tweet: “Question to Romney, Collins, & Murkowski: if John Bolton had evidence of an actual quid pro quo or impeachable offense, why didn’t he immediately report it to Congress or criminal authorities or ethics officials; or why didn’t he go public immediately with a press conference?”

Beleaguered Northern Rail could be renationalised as early as this week after running into severe financial difficulties. The franchise's operator Arriva is expected to hand back control to the Government this week. Northern Rail, which stretches from Newcastle and Hull in the east to Liverpool, Blackpool and Carlisle in the west, has been dragged down by strikes, delays and the botched introduction of a new timetable. Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said earlier this month that the service offered by the operator, which carries 101million passengers per year, was 'completely unacceptable'. He promised that he would make a decision over what...

...Mr Johnson recognises that the Brexit vote was for many people in what has been dubbed “left behind Britain” not so much a shout of defiance against the EU as a cry for help ...Mr Johnson is attempting to redefine his Conservative party and the country it governs. The party of Margaret Thatcher — whose 1980s reforms put rocket boosters under London and the financial services sector and spawned a global wave of privatisations that stretched from Latin America to Russia — is seen by many in the north, the midlands and Wales as ruthlessly in love with the free...

Duplicitous nature of Adam Schiff and his smirky band of Impeachers, keep trying, but fail to bring down President Trump Duplicity as described by Miriam-Webster: “its original meaning in English has to do with a kind of deception in which you intentionally hide your true feelings or intentions behind false words or actions.” Duplicity. A term often used by Head Impeacher Adam Schiff. Now, as I have at various times pointed out, Adam Schiff is essentially the poster boy for the principle of projection—accusing others of doing the thing he is doing.

No defendant being impeached in any trial should be subjected to this level of legal uncertainty It is remarkable to contemplate that even something as basic as the standard of proof required to convict President Trump cannot be agreed on between the House Managers and the President’s legal team. What then should be the standard of proof necessary for the House Managers to establish to convict the President of the alleged crimes for which he has been impeached: abuse of power and obstruction of justice? Should it be the criminal standard—proof beyond all reasonable doubt. or the civil standard—proof that...

When it comes to the 2020 presidential election, Democrats are nervous wrecks and Republican excitement has grown. That’s according to a new poll by The Associated Press as Americans look ahead to a high-stakes election that is 10 months away but still very much top of mind. While emotions could change in the coming months, the findings give Democrats one more worry to add to the list: Will anxiety or enthusiasm be a bigger motivator come November? On the verge of the first votes being cast in a primary contest with no clear leader , 66% of Democrats report anxiety...

President Donald Trump’s rallies continue to attract a broad coalition. While Democrats are trying to out-compete one another by moving further and further to the left, alienating many voters in the process, Trump pitched the GOP as a big tent party last night. And that shows in his audience. Trump’s campaign manager Brad Parscale polls the audience at all of Trump’s rallies, and during last night’s rally in Wildwood, New Jersey, the figures showed Trump attracting Democrats and the previously politically-apathetic. “10.4% of attendees didn’t vote in 2016,” Parsale wrote in a tweet. And 26.3% were Democrats. While New Jersey...

I do not want to be a ‘Concern Troll’, but is anyone here concerned that Biden told that Iowa State Rep that he didn’t need the guy to vote for him in November, he needed him to vote for him in the Primary

Remember not long ago when New York City had so much crime, violence, and disorder that it was labeled unlivable? I do. City residents were under siege by street thugs, hustlers, prostitutes, and drug dealers. Businesses fled to neighboring states. Why? Because the city officials and liberal politicians of that time created the deplorable conditions with their failed urban policies that abandoned societal behavioral norms, implementing soft on crime policies, all in the name of feel-good social engineering bluster. These failed experiments disregarded human behavior while sound empirical research and study told them not to do it.  Fortunately, in 1994...

“Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.” – Mark TwainRemember back in the olden days when Democrats both loathed and feared John Bolton? House Intelligence Chairman Adam B. Schiff of California…said at the time that Bolton’s arrival signaled the departure of serious and sober thinking in Trump’s circle of security advisers. “It’s hard to escape the disquieting conclusion that the mass exodus of the ‘adults’ from this Administration is putting our nation’s security at risk,” Schiff tweeted. “Ambassador Bolton’s hawkish and conspiratorial thinking will only make matters dangerously worse.” – Roll Call That was then;...

GIS Dashboard In response to this ongoing public health emergency, we developed an online dashboard (static snapshot shown below) to visualize and track the reported cases on a daily timescale; the complete set of data is downloadable as a google sheet. The case data visualized is collected from various sources, including WHO, U.S. CDC, ECDC China CDC (CCDC), NHC and DXY. DXY is a Chinese website that aggregates NHC and local CCDC situation reports in near real-time, providing more current regional case estimates than the national level reporting organizations are capable of, and is thus used for all the mainland...

"You OK?" the appraiser said as the man went down to the ground, heels over head. "Don't fall. I'm not done." An Air Force veteran fell backward to the ground in disbelief after learning a watch he purchased for $345.97 nearly a half-century ago could go for several hundred thousand dollars. The man, featured this week in PBS's popular show “Antiques Roadshow,” showed his virtually unworn 1971 Rolex Oyster Cosmograph to appraiser Peter Planes. The veteran, who has not been identified, explained he was stationed in southeast Asia in the 1970s when he became fascinated by Rolex watches after seeing...

BetMGM didn’t want to move the Super Bowl LIV line. But money talks. And it was a lot of money that moved the betting line. Jeff Stoneback, director of trading operations for MGM Resorts International, said a bettor put $550,000 on the Chiefs as a 1-point favorite to win $500,000. And with that, MGM moved the line to the Chiefs being a 1.5-point favorite over the San Francisco 49ers. “That forced us to move it,” Stoneback said.

Morning "When thou hearest the sound of a going in the tops of the mulberry trees, then thou shalt bestir thyself." 2 Samuel 5:24 The members of Christ's Church should be very prayerful, always seeking the unction of the Holy One to rest upon their hearts, that the kingdom of Christ may come, and that his "will be done on earth, even as it is in heaven;" but there are times when God seems especially to favour Zion, such seasons ought to be to them like "the sound of a going in the tops of the mulberry trees." We ought...

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Wednesday released a plan to fight disinformation and to hold tech companies accountable for their actions in light of the 2016 election. “Disinformation and online foreign interference erode our democracy, and DONALD TRUMP HAS INVITED BOTH [emphasis added],” Warren said in a Tweet Wednesday. “Anyone who seeks to challenge and defeat Donald Trump in the 2020 election must be fully prepared to take this on – and I’ve got a plan to do it.” Warren proposed to combat disinformation by holding big tech companies like Facebook, Twitter and Google responsible for spreading misinformation...

U.S. life expectancy has improved for the first time in four years, thanks to a sharp decline in the cancer death rate and to a drop in fatal drug overdoses. The new increase is small, but marks at least a temporary halt to the trend. (Jan. 30)

House Democrats on Wednesday introduced a plan to invest $760 billion over five years into maintaining and rebuilding U.S. infrastructure. The plan (pdf), called the “Moving Forward Framework,” aims to invest the money into roads, bridges, transit systems, railways, airports, ports, inland waterways, wastewater and drinking water systems, brownfields, and broadband. The framework aims to “create an estimated 10 million jobs, while reducing carbon pollution, dramatically improving safety, and spurring economic activity.” It is not a formal bill but serves to guide House committees seeking to eventually introduce legislation related to the country’s infrastructure. A factsheet (pdf) overview of the...

Sunday, February 2, 2020 NFC: San Francisco 49ers vs. AFC: Kansas City Chiefs 6:30 pm Eastern on FOX Hard Rock Stadium, Miami Gardens, Florida

There is a combustible dynamic going on within the Democratic Party right now and it is centered directly along the fault line between the mainstream segment of the party represented by Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton, and the radical left of the party represented by Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. And the fuse may be lit in Milwaukee. The Democratic National Convention to nominate their presidential candidate is being held in Milwaukee this year — Wisconsin being a state they desperately need to flip back from President Trump. As the party apparatus, which clearly includes much of the mainstream media,...

Russia has closed its border with China in a desperate bid to prevent the spread of the deadly coronavirus that has so far killed 170 people. The drastic measure was announced on Thursday after every corner of China was confirmed to have cases of the highly contagious disease. Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said the drastic measure was necessary because the country 'had to do everything it could to protect its people'. He said it would come into effect immediately. As well as shutting off the Far East border, Russia has limited all railway links with China from January 31, leaving...