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snip "No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of President more than once," the 22nd Amendment says. "The operative word here might be 'elected,'" MacKinnon wrote. "If Obama were selected as Clinton’s running mate, and she had to leave office for any reason, then Obama would succeed her. At least one constitutional expert is on record saying...

Andrew Ng’s startup Landing AI has created a new workplace monitoring tool that issues an alert when anyone is less than the desired distance from a colleague. Six feet apart: On Thursday, the startup released a blog post with a new demo video showing off a new social distancing detector. On the left is a feed of people walking around on the street. On the right, a bird’s-eye diagram represents each one as a dot and turns them bright red when they move too close to someone else. The company says the tool is meant to be used in work...

Have you been insulted enough today? Have you been stripped of your consitutional rights and had them thrown back in your face today? If not, you might "enjoy" the video at the following link.Twitter link:https://twitter.com/DailyCaller/status/1257018522070388753

U.S.—This is a little concerning: if you search Google for "Biden allegations" you're immediately redirected to a search results page full of articles about the accusations made against Brett Kavanaugh during his confirmation process. "Did you mean 'Kavanaugh allegations?'" the top of the search results page reads, helpfully reminding you that you are searching for allegations against the wrong party. Furthermore, all searches for "Tara Reade" are autocorrected to "Christine Blasey Ford." If you keep trying to search for the Biden allegations, Google assumes you're a hate group and bans you from the site entirely. Google has assured everyone this...

Comrades, I’m very excited today, because the large-scale online survey sina.com that was done for us showed that our next generation is quite promising and our party’s cause will be carried on. In answering the question, “Will you shoot at women, children and prisoners of war,” more than 80 percent of the respondents answered in the affirmative, exceeding by far our expectations. Today I’d like to focus on why we asked sina.com to conduct this online survey among our people. My speech today is a sequel to my speech last time, during which I started with a discussion of the...

...This, as more than 30 million Americans have filed for unemployment benefits over the past six weeks after state-imposed shutdown orders required “non-essential businesses” to close. That debate continued on “Fox News Sunday,” with liberal pundit Marie Harf, a former adviser to then-Secretary of State John Kerry, suggesting that allowing some small businesses to open was essentially meaningless. In response to a statement from host Chris Wallace that, while 66,000 people have died from coronavirus tens of millions have lost their jobs, Harf appeared to suggest that reopening small businesses wasn’t going to produce much in terms of bolstering the...

CNN anchor Jake Tapper asked Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer if President Trump's praise of armed protesters who stormed the Michigan state Capitol in Lansing were comparable to his remarks after the deadly white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017. "These protesters came after President Trump tweeted 'Liberate Michigan,'" Tapper said before mentioning comments made by Halie Soifer, the executive director of the Jewish democratic council of America. "What kind of depraved elected official calls a heavily-armed militia classified as an antigovernment extremist group blocking a governor's office 'very good people'? Soifer, a Michigan native, asked on Friday. "The same...

Joe Biden would do what? When the history of the COVID-19 outbreak is finally penned, there will be those who told the truth about it and those who didn’t. There will be those who acknowledge that China, more or less, accidentally or on purpose, with malignancy or negligence in their souls, released a virus more deadly than any pathogen in recent history. That China was able to tell its lies to the watching world, manipulate the facts in their own scenario, and megaphone their propaganda to the majority of the globe, was not merely the design of their own ill...

James S. Brady Press Briefing Room2:11 P.M. EDTMS. MCENANY:  So, good afternoon.  I have an announcement for you on hospital funding as appropriated in the third phase of coronavirus relief.The Trump administration will distribute a total of $12 billion in Provider Relief Fund payments to 395 hospitals across the country that have been hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic.  These hospitals have collectively cared for over 70 percent of the 184,000 Americans that required hospital inpatient care.  Ten billion of the twelve billion will go towards hospitals treating 100 or more COVID-19 admissions.  HHS is distributing an additional $2...

But these arguments . . . are based on a flawed understanding of how flu deaths are counted, which may leave us with a distorted view of how coronavirus compares with it. . . . it occurred to me that, in four years of emergency medicine residency and over three and a half years as an attending physician, I had almost never seen anyone die of the flu. I could only remember one tragic pediatric case. The question remains. Can we accurately compare the toll of the flu to the toll of the coronavirus pandemic? To do this, we have...

Vatican Urges Catholics to Share Ramadan Historian of jihad slams Holy See's surrender to Islam VATICAN CITY (ChurchMilitant.com) - The Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue is encouraging Christians to join in the Islamic iftar 'ritual' meal on the occasion of the Muslim festival of Ramadan.  In a Ramadan greeting to "Muslim brothers and sisters" Friday, the Vatican dicastery called upon Christians and Muslims to "protect together" mosques and churches and quoted the prophet Isaiah 56:7 affirming that "a place of worship of any religion therefore is 'a house of prayer.'" Pope Francis and Sheikh Al-Tayyeb in Abu Dhabi "For us, your Christian...

South Lawn5:24 P.M. EDTTHE PRESIDENT:  So I’ll be going to Camp David for a working weekend.  We’re going to be spending a lot of time with meetings and phone calls and some foreign leaders.  So we look forward to that, and we’ll be back very soon.  I guess we’re doing something pretty big on Sunday night at the Lincoln Memorial.  That’ll be very nice.  But we’ll be back soon and I think some of you will be traveling out around the area where I’m going.  But we’ll be at Camp David for a working weekend.Q    The North Korean leader...

Blue Room4:47 P.M.  EDTTHE PRESIDENT:  Thank you very much.  It’s a great honor to have you all.  I know your stories.  I got to read about your stories.  In some cases, I knew your story without having to read about it — from Staten Island.  So, thank you all very much.  It’s a great honor to have you.This afternoon, we’re going to recognize several individuals who have responded to the invisible enemy with courage, determination, and grace.  Terrific people.  In recent weeks, our nation has endured extraordinary hardships and loss, and we mourn with one heart for every life...

This is a huge story that has not been widely followed up on. Has any reporter asked Dr. Fauci about it? If not, why not? Just kidding, we all know the answer. Many links in the original: Back in October 2014, the US government had placed a federal moratorium on gain-of-function (GOF) research – altering natural pathogens to make them more deadly and infectious – as a result of rising fears about a possible pandemic caused by an accidental or deliberate release of these genetically engineered monster germs. This was in part due to lab accidents at the US Centers...

White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx told Fox News on Saturday night that the U.S. significantly underestimated the number of asymptomatic cases that existed of the coronavirus. “I think we’re learning every day about the virus and how it interacts with us as human hosts. And that’s been very important to constantly be triangulating data,” Birx said. “I think we underestimated very early on the number of asymptomatic cases. And I think we’re really beginning to understand there are people that get infected that those symptoms are so low-grade that they don’t even know that they’re infected.”

In the wake of the spread of communist China’s coronavirus and the multi-trillion-dollar bailouts that have stemmed from it, let us as Americans be absolutely clear that fiscally responsible conservative states should not be forced to bailout broke Democratic states. Doing so would not only be morally wrong, it would be akin to highway robbery. Americans are undeniably compassionate and generous, especially in the wake of emergencies. The September 11th attacks and Hurricane Katrina, among countless other examples, serve as proof positive of this uniquely American spirit. Sadly, during times of crisis, we also hear of unscrupulous scam artists who...

As we observe National Hurricane Preparedness Week, I call on Americans in hurricane-prone regions to take appropriate measures to help mitigate the devastation that these storms can produce. Through proper preparation, we can bolster our resilience against any challenge we face from these incredibly powerful storms. Accurate forecasting is crucial for communities across our country, which need advance notice to protect lives and property from hurricanes. My Administration remains dedicated to enhancing our hurricane tracking and prediction capabilities. As we have entered a new era of supercomputing, we have been able to increase our computing capacity and ensure the United...

WASHINGTON - Anxious for an economic recovery, President Donald Trump prepared to field Americans' questions about decisions by some states to allow nonessential businesses to reopen while other states are on virtual lockdown due to the coronavirus. After more than a month of being cooped up at the White House, Trump was returning from a weekend at the Camp David presidential retreat in Maryland and planned to participate in a “virtual” town hall, hosted Sunday night by Fox News Channel, from inside the Lincoln Memorial. “Hopefully our Country will soon mend,” Trump tweeted. Federal guidelines that encouraged people to stay...

This year, National Mental Health Awareness Month coincides with one of the most complex and challenging periods in our Nation’s recent history — combatting the coronavirus pandemic. Not only has the virus caused immense physical suffering and loss for many people, it has also resulted in mental and emotional hardship. The stress and worry over the health and safety of family and friends, forced isolation, and financial distress can all result in anxiety, depression, substance misuse and abuse, and, tragically, even suicide. There is no question this is a difficult and unprecedented time for Americans. Yet, we know that there...

Journalists have just given voters a terrific reason to re-elect Trump...to watch their hilarious angst. Jeremy Barr in Saturday's Hollywood Reporter has chronicled the whining by the press at the prospect of being forced to cover four more years of Donald Trump in the Oval Office. It is obvious, though they lamely try to hide it to no avail, that most of the Washington press corps suffers from extreme Trump Derangement Syndrome and the idea of continuing to cover Trump for another term has sent them into complete despair. So for many voters, casting their ballots for Trump would be...