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The results of our reader survey about adding a regular mid-week TWiP are in and have been tabulated by the Des Moines Register and the Iowa Democratic Party. While adding a mid-week TWiP won the popular vote, it lost both the electoral college and new and “transparent” party allocation rules, so for now we’re going with the status quo, and only doing a mid-week edition on weeks like this. And what main theme emerges this week? Probably that Trump had the best week of his presidency. You might say the MAGA-man had a mega-week.

      DOING WELL WHAT OTHERS MAY NOT SEE In the New Testament scriptures, the Apostle Paul talks about the importance of striving for excellence. He writes, "Whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things." (Philippians 4:8) Allow me to share with you a story about striving for excellence. . On one of the arches of a magnificent cathedral in Europe is sculptured a face of great beauty. Yet it can be...

“At first,” says Kansas City Chiefs Kicker Harrison Butker in an interview with EWTN, “it pushed me away. I was like…ah this is just, this is just not me. It doesn’t go with the world….it’s just like kind of old school traditional stuff. But then I think that also attracted me because it was so different from the world.” He’s talking about the traditional Latin Mass (TLM), a liturgy which the 23-year-old Butker not only attends, but at which he also regularly serves at the altar. “It’s opened my eyes to the tradition of the Faith. You know, with Saint...

China's Communist Party has infiltrated various levels of America's infrastructure and is working to destroy the values of the United States, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said during a speech Saturday, while also warning state governors to be wary of China's infiltration. “We can’t ignore China’s actions and strategic intentions," he said while addressing the National Governors Association winter meeting. "The Chinese government has been methodical in the way it's analyzed our system... it's assessed our vulnerabilities and it's decided to exploit our freedoms, to gain an advantage over us at the federal level, the state level and the local...

Following confirmation that the memorial service for Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna, and seven others who lost their lives in a helicopter crash almost two weeks ago will be held at the Staples Center, there has been increased speculation about a private ceremony as well. The New York Times theorized that such a ceremony might take place at Our Lady Queen of Angels Catholic Church in Newport Beach, California, as Kobe, a practicing Catholic, belonged to the church. He had reportedly even gone there with Gianna to "reflect and pray" in the early hours of January 26, following which they...

A 35-year-old Washington, D.C., man visited an urgent care clinic on Jan. 19, a few days after returning from Wuhan, China. After undergoing testing, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention determined that he had contracted the 2019-nCoV coronavirus—the first such case in the United States. Since surfacing in Wuhan in December, the 2019-nCoV coronavirus has spread to nearly 30 countries, killing 565 and infecting more than 28,000 worldwide. As of this writing, 12 cases have been confirmed in the U.S. Note that these numbers are changing almost every hour. As cases began to emerge within American borders, the Trump...

At 107 years old, Joe Newman is the oldest resident at his independent living facility in Sarasota, Florida. "Sure, I have aches and pains," Newman told TODAY. "But I dance as fast as anybody else in this place." And he drive as fast, too. The spirited senior has become well-known locally for taking spins in his cherry red Mercedes 320 hardtop coupe, which he bought from his podiatrist when he was 103. "The first time I saw it, my heart beat faster," he said. For fun, Newman enjoys cruising around town with his fiancée, Anita Sampson, who turns 100...

CLEARWATER, Fla. (WTSP) — He wanted to split up — and she wasn’t happy about it, according to an arrest affidavit from the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office. Clearwater police say when the man told his wife of nine years he thought they should separate, 69-year-old Pamela Carr pulled out a Taser and stunned him several times. According to the affidavit, she admitted to zapping him but claimed it was self-defense. Officers didn’t buy that. Carr was arrested, charged with aggravated domestic battery and released on a $1,000 bond.

On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said that the State of the Union Address was President Trump’s “most effective speech as president.” And that running on a strong economy is the president’s “best campaign.” Brooks stated, “I actually thought it was his most effective speech as president. He had some of the stuff he has always had, which is, these bogus stories of crimes that immigrants have committed. But if you go back to his campaign in 2016, it was an American carnage campaign. It was all crime. It was all fear. It was all division....

A member of the Thai security forces was killed in a raid into a shopping mall to try to stop a soldier who went a shooting rampage, bringing the total death toll to 21, the health minister said Saturday night, according to Reuters. The killings began when the soldier opened fire in a house before moving to an army camp and then to the mall in Nakhon Ratchasima in northeastern Thailand. Gunfire later broke out at the mall as security forces tried to dislodge...

The parents of a 14-year-old Pakistani Christian girl, who was abducted, forcibly converted to Islam and married off to her abductor, will approach the Supreme Court after a lower court ruled that marriage with an underage girl is valid as per the Sharia law if she has had her first menstrual cycle. Huma was 14 when she was abducted in October last year and forced to marry her abductor Abdul Jabbar after being converted to Islam, according to her parents Younis and Nagheena Masih. Their counsel Tabassum Yousuf on Friday said they would seek justice from the Supreme Court after...

RUSH LIMBAUGH Decorated Leader of the Information War Carrying the flag, tending the flame, leading the fight, long before The Great Awakening went public. THANK YOU!Rush, imagine how many are praying for your recovery right now! Q is the result of the sacrifices and commitment of countless patriots to win back our captured country from the Deep State and achieve the transformation President Trump promised in this campaign video. President Trump has said the awakening of the public is key to this transformation. Q describes this awakening as follows: "The Great Awakening ('Freedom of Thought’), was designed and created...

Russia's state TV Channel One has broadcast conspiracy theories blaming U.S. President Donald Trump or "international corporations" for the coronavirus. The report was broadcast on the main evening news show watched by millions on February 5.

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The Complete Witness: Proof of Bribery & Collusion

MSNBC Admits: “Nancy Pelosi tearing up the speech...wasn’t the best idea”

This just went up on YouTube a few minutes ago. I watched the whole thing on Facebook, which has tens of thousands of views already. Really up-to-the-minute. Anyone watching FR already knows most of what Amir is saying about the virus. He gets it. As most folks on this site do. Also comments on the so-called Deal of the Century, which is really a plan for Israel, not any kind of give-and-take in the usual, historical sense of these agreements; military action in Syria; the new and possibly temporary friendliness of Sudan; the present position of Russia; and more. Economic...

It became very clear during the Club’s manipulation of the Iowa caucus that candidate Pete Buttigieg was the primary Club weapon to eliminate Bernie Sanders. It was anonymous complaints from Team Buttigieg that scrapped the publication of the DMR final Iowa poll showing Bernie leading. It was the Team Buttigieg network that operated the mysterious “Shadow” vote-counting “APP” that stopped working; and in all of the subsequent activity it was/is clear the Club boardroom is working to elevate Buttigieg. This is why Buttigieg could confidently declare victory amid the chaos.

As we've heard about increasing numbers of sealed indictments over the last couple of years, a lot of people (myself included) have been asking, "WHEN is the justice going to begin?" Different reasons have been advanced: waiting for IG's report, waiting for Durham's report, waiting until all the i's are dotted, etc. And there's probably a lot of truth to those. However, when I heard Trump's speech on the day after acquittal, he mentioned the number of federal judges appointed -- now 191 confirmed. And that got me to thinking... maybe Trump had to restore the judiciary first, to handle...