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“Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee” (Proverbs 9:8 KJV).

"It is said that the people are revolting." "You said it! They stink on ice!" Substitute "deplorables" for "people" and you have the attitude of not only "the resistance" in western Pennsylvania desperately trying but failing to convert Trump supporters but of Campbell Robertson in his New York Times article which chronicled the futility of their efforts. It is obvious upon reading the article that liberal political conversion therapy is just not working.You get the sense of the futile nature of their task by reading the Thursday article title, "In Trump Country, the Resistance Meets the Steel Curtain," as well as the...

Two words leaped to mind just before Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, announced that he would vote to convict President Donald Trump on one article of impeachment: frog's legs. Frog's legs were on the menu as then-president-elect and Romney dined at Jean-Georges, a high-ticket eatery inside the (where else?) Trump Hotel in November 2016. After having refused to endorse Trump and calling him unworthy of the Oval Office, Romney nonetheless publicly auditioned for the prestigious secretary of state post. It was a public humiliation for Romney, the GOP 2012 nominee, who had to eat swamp meat and his own words while...

Today’s CG is from The Arkansas Gazette. WXI TEW KP RAJAMQ RAIN RINN AM IRAUAMTWAMQ KBE WEKBZRIN WXTM AM QEKSAMQ SAWX WXIU. —ZIEMTEV ZTEBHX You can find this little fun word game, to combat early dementia and senility in us baby boomers, in several daily publications. The way it works is a letter stands for another letter. For example: AXYDLBAAXR is LONGFELLOW (does not apply to today's cryptogram). Beware, the game is very addictive. If this is your first time, don't be intimidated. PLEASE DO NOT post the answer in general comments, but DO post your time and any tips...

The Talk Shows February 9th, 2020 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Democratic presidential candidates Pete Buttigieg, NOPE*. MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Buttigieg; Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, Two NOPEs*.FACE THE NATION (CBS): Buttigieg, Sanders, Same two NOPEs*; Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.; China's ambassador to the United States, Cui Tiankai.THIS WEEK (ABC): Democratic presidential candidates Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren and Buttigieg, THREE NOPEs*.STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Buttigieg, Sanders, Same earlier Two NOPEs*; Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez. SUNDAY MORNING FUTURES (FNC): Department of Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf. *NOPE...

It’s pearl-clutching Democrats who got massacred by Trump impeachment trial: Goodwin Pearls clutched, hair on fire, heads exploding — pick your favorite image to describe the left’s latest reaction to President Trump. Once again, the end is near, he’s gone too far, this time we got him. His outrage against all that is good and pure was to pink-slip star impeachment witnesses Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman and EU Ambassador Gordon Sondland. “Friday Night Massacre” screamed the usual suspects, a not-very-subtle reference to Richard Nixon’s “Saturday Night Massacre.” The difference, unmentioned, is that Trump was already acquitted, whereas the Nixon impeachment...

This was the week everything broke. First the DesMoines Register poll, an important bellwether for the crucial Iowa Caucuses, broke. Then the vote-counting process in Iowa broke. Then Democrats at the State of the Union broke. More fantastically, though, after the historic address to Congress, the elite media broke. When President Trump gave his State of the Union speech we were told it would be “low key.” Instead, it was a show for the ages, replete celebrations of heroes like Tuskegee airman, General Charles McGee, and Army Staff Sgt. Christopher Hake who was killed during his second tour of Iraq.

The Democrats’ impeachment saga not only ended Wednesday with a double acquittal but a $100 million windfall for President Trump’s reelection campaign efforts, the Republican National Committee (RNC) revealed Saturday. The RNC, Trump's campaign and their joint fundraising committee have raked in $117 million in online donations since House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced the impeachment inquiry on Sept. 24, 2019, thanks to an influx of new small-dollar donors who wanted to stand by the president. "We've seen through our record-breaking fundraising that the Democrat's bogus impeachment galvanized President Trump's supporters across the country to contribute financially to his re-election efforts,”...

Appearing with Judge Jeanine Pirro on Fox News, Senator Lindsey Graham gave us another dose of big talk Saturday. The Senator who has done a lot of talking and accomplished pretty much nothing in terms of investigating anything for an entire year as Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee was once again spouting off on investigating pretty much everybody. At one point in the clip below, you will hear him even promise Pirro’s audience that “half the people involved in the Russia investigation” will end up in jail. Here’s the thing about this: He’s running out of time. Senate investigations...

Snip~ He led #TeamTrump to victory in the U.S. Senate and managed to destroy Joe and Hunter Biden in the process – all without breaking a sweat. Sekulow is President Trump’s lead counsel. The two have a very close relationship and unlike many lawyers who have gotten the boot by President Trump, Mr. Sekulow has stood the test of time.

Facebook and Twitter have rejected a request by Speaker Nancy Pelosi to remove a video posted by President Trump that was edited to make it appear as though she were ripping a copy of his State of the Union address as he honored a Tuskegee airman and other guests. The decision highlighted the tension between critics who want social media platforms to crack down on the spread of misinformation and others who argue that political speech should be given wide latitude, even if it’s deceptive or false. The debate has accelerated during the 2020 presidential campaign, as Democrats in Congress...

I've tried in my career as a conservative commentator to rarely use the word "evil." Disagreements over policies and agendas don't make your opponent "evil." As a matter of fact, most reasonable, common-sense Americans want compromise. But what if I were to report that Democrats are extreme, radical Stepford wives trying to destroy America, American exceptionalism, capitalism, the U.S. Constitution and the middle class? Some of you might say, "Wayne, you're exaggerating." Nope. I'm not. I'm going to play the role of Paul Revere. I'm going to expose a bill in Congress championed by congressional Democrats called H.R. 5383: the...

Rep. Ilhan Omar is once again sparking questions of why she is serving in the United States Congress and being paid by American taxpayers. The Minnesota Democrat was trashing the U.S., to enthusiastic applause, at a Democracy Now! and Rising Majority event in Washington, D.C. on Friday. **SNIP** The two progressive members of the so-called “squad” blamed America for all of the world’s ills and the far-left activists in the audience ate it all up. “We’re having a conversation about cross-border negotiations happening for workers because all of our destinies are tied together. When you see a Somali refugee, or...

It’s tempting to jump on the bandwagon and attack Massachusetts Senator by proxy Mitt Romney of Utah, but what does it get you? Nothing. I was initially disgusted by his decision to vote guilty on the first article of impeachment, then I realized I simply didn’t care what he does or thinks about anything. And seeking retribution for something that ultimately doesn’t matter actually takes away from a very powerful weapon the GOP has against the Democrats: their demand for purity. Democrats are the party of absolute uniformity, demanding conformity from its members. Pro-life Democrats are silenced until they can...

LAS VEGAS - The week of chaos that followed the Iowa caucuses has prompted growing concern about problems in the next state to use that presidential nominating process, Nevada. Voters and campaigns have become increasingly mistrustful of the caucus format since the Iowa vote and are worried that further trouble could throw the Democrats’ 2020 primary process into complete disarray. In Nevada, those fears have only deepened since the state’s Democratic Party was forced to make abrupt changes to its caucus process because it had planned to use an iPad app developed by the same company that developed the mobile...

SHANGHAI - For weeks after the first reports of a mysterious new virus in Wuhan, millions of people poured out of the central Chinese city, cramming onto buses, trains and planes as the first wave of China’s great Lunar New Year migration broke across the nation. Some carried with them the new virus that has since claimed over 8 00 lives and sickened more than 37,000 people. Officials finally began to seal the borders on Jan. 23. But it was too late. Speaking to reporters a few days after the the city was put under quarantine, the mayor estimated that...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., who holds a bachelor's degree in economics from Boston University, had to correct herself Saturday evening after mixing up two "very different" economists during a lengthy Instagram discussion. "UGGGH TYPO,” the freshman congresswoman wrote after confusing John Maynard Keynes, an early 20th-century British economist who theorized that government spending was linked to economic growth, with Milton Friedman, a free-market American economist and 1976 Nobel Prize winner, according to The Washington Examiner. Ocasio-Cortez mistakenly combined their names into "Milton Keynes." “I was just reading today about how in 1930, famed economist Milton Keynes predicted that by 2030...

Payments withheld over readmissions, complications ROSA SALTER RODRIGUEZ | The Journal Gazette Several Fort Wayne-area hospitals are having their Medicare payments cut because patients suffered complications or had to be readmitted, according to study results published by Kaiser Health News. Lutheran Hospital, Dupont Hospital and Parkview Medical Center and other hospitals in the Parkview system all made the 2020 list. Hospitals can be penalized 1% for the federal fiscal year from October to September for complications, including hospital-acquired infections. Penalties for excess readmissions range up to 3% per patient. No local hospital came close to that. The penalties are part...

Anxiety is coursing through the Democratic Party as President Donald Trump emerges from his impeachment proceedings as a potent threat for reelection, with party leaders and activists uncertain about how to beat the incumbent and worried about a nominating race that remains crowded and is growing more acrimonious. While Democrats see Trump as a corrosive figure and a threat to the nation, they also see the president and his well-funded campaign tailoring a reelection bid around the strong economy and visceral appeals to his ardent supporters. Trump's robust political standing came into view this past week, as he claimed vindication...

Forty-five minutes after Joe Biden’s first campaign event was supposed to start on Saturday, his crowd had grown restless. The former vice president wasn’t at the Rex Theatre in downtown Manchester and those crammed inside were wondering just how much longer they’d have to suck in the heated air before they get to see him speak. In the rafters, a chant broke out. “We Want Joe!” the voices said, overpowering the soundtrack of classic rock and commercial motown that had been playing on blast to keep the crowd from completely dozing off. But no one picked it up. Instead, after...