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Democratic presidential contender Joe Biden this week reaffirmed his desire to have former first lady Michelle Obama be his running mate. “I sure would like Michelle [Obama] to be the vice president,” Biden said Tuesday at a campaign stop in Muscatine, Iowa. The comment came after the former vice president was asked if he would consider nominating former President Barack Obama to the Supreme Court. “Yeah, I would, but I don’t think he’d do it. He’d be a great Supreme Court justice,” Biden responded. The questioner followed up with the question, “Which Obama?” Biden responded: “They’re both incredibly qualified people...

A contractor for the Pentagon has been charged with providing classified U.S. intelligence to a Lebanese national connected with terrorist group Hezbollah, the Justice Department announced on Wednesday. The department alleges Mariam Taha Thompson, 61, began transmitting the classified intelligence around December 30, when Iraqi militiamen stormed the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad. Thompson is a linguist who at the time was working at a U.S. special forces base in Erbil in northern Iraq. The classified “files contained classified national defense information including true names, personal identification data, background information, and photographs of the human sources, as well as operations cables...

A 23-year-old woman, who was diagnosed as transgender and drugged at the age of 16, is suing a gender clinic in Britain for giving her hormone blockers as a child. Keira Bell was given puberty blockers at the age of 16 by the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust, a government-funded gender clinic in Britain. She feels her decision to be drugged should have been questioned instead of enabled by therapists at the facility

These remarks by @SenSchumer were inexcusable. Chief Justice Roberts was right to call him on his comments. I hope the Senator, whom I’ve long admired and consider a friend, apologizes and takes back his implicit threat. It’s beneath him and his office.

It seems that Dr. Ghebreyesus has considerations other than public health in mind, such as politics. In late January, the WHO declined to declare the coronavirus a global emergency. Then, when it finally got around to stating the obvious, it refused to name the microbe the "Wuhan coronavirus" (which is what everybody else had been calling it), opting in favor of the nonsensical but politically correct SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19. (It is entirely routine to name viruses after locations. For example, Ebola is named after a river in Africa.) On top of all that, Dr. Ghebreyesus praised China for its draconian...

Largely banished since the outbreak of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s, gay bathhouses could return to San Francisco under new legislation introduced to the Board of Supervisors. District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman, who represents the Castro neighborhood, introduced an ordinance Tuesday calling for the Department of Public Health to amend city standards established in the 1980s for adult sex venues that effectively shut down gay bathhouses. Mandelman said bathhouses were once the focal point of the gay community and health care advancements to help prevent the transmission of HIV has made the standards outdated. “In many ways they symbolized...

Missouri Republican Sen. Josh Hawley plans to introduce a Senate motion to censure Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer for attempting to intimidate Supreme Court Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh. Schumer told attendees at a Wednesday pro-choice rally in front of the Supreme Court that the two justices would “pay the price” if they ruled incorrectly in an upcoming abortion-related case. “I want to tell you Gorsuch and I want to tell you Kavanaugh,” he told the crowd. “You have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price. You won’t know what hit you if you go forward with...

While Bernie & Biden stole the spotlight on Super Tuesday, it is PRESIDENT TRUMP'S vote totals that we should really be paying attention to. Check out these shocking numbers that should scare the living hell out of every Democrat in America: If the tweet above doesn't load, here is the text version: Trump 2020 vs. Obama 2012 primary results: (Numbers on the left are Trump, numbers on the right are Obama) New Hampshire: 129,696 / 49,080 Oklahoma: 273,562 / 64,389 Massachusetts: 207,495 / 127,909 Tennessee: 324,119 / 80,705 Vermont: 33,863 / 40,247 Alabama: 690,381 / 241,167 Texas: 1,584,661 / 520,410...

by Joe Callen Democrat Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) continues to face intense backlash for threatening Supreme Court Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch on Wednesday as a member of the U.S. Senate has now announced he will introduce a measure to censure Schumer. Sen. Josh Hawley’s (R-MO) office released the following statement: Tonight U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) announced he will introduce a motion to censure U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) for inciting violence against U.S. Supreme Court Justices. In a pro-abortion rally in front of the Supreme Court today, Senator Schumer threatened Justices by name saying,...

The North Korean regime has so far refused to confirm any cases of the virus within the country, although South Korean media has reported that several people have already died. North Korea’s habitual lack of honesty has made gauging its concern difficult, but sources in Pyongyang who spoke to RFA’s Korean Service claimed that the 'Mt. Paektu Prize Sports Festival' and the 'February Spring Arts Festival', both of which are held on Kim’s birthday were canceled as preventative measures...... canceling the Mt. Paektu Prize Sports Festival is akin to canceling the Super Bowl in the United States, with the events...

Residents of a Washington county where 31 people have tested positive for coronavirus and nine people have died are being advised to work from home to avoid possible exposure to the killer strain. Public health officials in King County, which includes Seattle and is home to over 2.2 million people, have urged local businesses to allow employees to telecommute for the next three weeks in an effort to curb the COVID-19 outbreak. They are also recommending that higher-risk groups - including people over the age of 60, pregnant women and people with underlying health conditions or weakened immune systems -...

Conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh sees evidence that his 2008-spawned “Operation Chaos” strategy is alive and well and at work in multiple Super Tuesday primary states...“Operation Chaos is more widespread than simply in North Carolina,” said Rush. As evidence, Limbaugh cited a report from a Washington Post columnist, who tweeted: “I was at an event last night where an experienced TX analyst said the 5% of the TX Dem early vote was from people who had voted in the Republican primary in the past four statewide elections.”

There are many compelling reasons to conclude that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, is not nearly as deadly as is currently feared. But COVID-19 panic has set in nonetheless. You can’t find hand sanitizer in stores, and N95 face masks are being sold online for exorbitant prices, never mind that neither is the best way to protect against the virus (yes, just wash your hands). The public is behaving as if this epidemic is the next Spanish flu, which is frankly understandable given that initial reports have staked COVID-19 mortality at about 2–3 percent, quite similar to the 1918...

Full title: California health official tells citizens to "start working on not touching your face," as she proceeds to lick her finger. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57cwUMbeBHA

In this informative video, Reid Henrichs of Valor Ridge discusses "instructors" who compromise on the Bill of Rights and their descent into irrelevancy. If they have a problem with me or what I say in this video, they are more than welcome to come to Valor Ridge and meet me and I can show them just how incompetent, unskilled, and ignorant they are when it comes to firearms via some simple marksmanship tests and tasks. But I doubt they have the courage or motivation to truly see what they really are. 5 minute video

First ladies don’t kiss and tell. A racy “New York” magazine cover showing Melania Trump smooching a Big Apple firefighter in the wake of 9/11 has been unearthed nearly two decades later. At the time of the photo shoot in 2002 — meant to be reminiscent of the iconic V-J Day smooch between a sailor and a nurse in 1945 — Trump was a little-known model named Melania Knauss who had been hired to pose on the cover of the publication’s Valentine’s Day “Singles” issue, according to New York. Knauss — who at the time was dating Donald Trump, then...

Some passengers on Princess Cruises' Grand Princess ship were told on Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to stay in their rooms before receiving coronavirus screenings, the company said in a statement. The order came after a passenger on the Grand Princess' prior cruise died on Wednesday of COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. snip... The Grand Princess is now nearing the end of a 15-day cruise that began in San Francisco and is scheduled to end there on Thursday. Princess Cruises said in a statement that it was working closely with the CDC and following...

Numbers on the left are Trump, numbers on the right are Obama) New Hampshire: 129,696 / 49,080 Oklahoma: 273,562 / 64,389 Massachusetts: 207,495 / 127,909 Tennessee: 324,119 / 80,705 Vermont: 33,863 / 40,247 Alabama: 690,381 / 241,167 Texas: 1,584,661 / 520,410 (w/ 66% in) North Carolina: 704,328 / 766,077 (w/ 69% in) Trump is absolutely trouncing Obama's 2012 numbers, which paints a very clear picture of the energy behind Trump in the 2020 election.

The annual CPAC conference is considered by many to be a reflection of the trends and topics of importance in populist conservative circles.WASHINGTON, D.C. — Catholics attending Mass at the Conservative Political Action Conference convention, held outside Washington, DC, this weekend, told CNA their decision to support President Donald Trump’s bid for reelection is mostly because of his administration’s record on abortion. CNA spoke to several people who attended one of the daily Masses offered during the event Feb. 26-29. Several said they could not consider voting for Democratic candidates because of the party's absolute support for abortion, even while...

ROME - On any given day, Pope Francis’s point-man for migrants has a stacked inbox on his desk: From coordinating the launch of a papal document on the Amazon region to urging bishops’ conferences across Europe to help asylum seekers. Yet Jesuit Cardinal Michael Czerny, Under-Secretary of the Migrant sand Refugees Section of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development - an office that answers directly to the pope - has something else keeping him up at night: “The challenge of seeking to engage with truth in spite of the falsehoods that spread so rapidly in modern social media.” “A...