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Pennsylvania was like most states at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, soon enough implementing a series of coronavirus lockdowns and related mandates that included shuttering “non-life-sustaining” businesses to curb the spread of the virus. The measures also included clamping down on gatherings of 25 people indoors and 250 people outdoors. Unfortunately, the restrictions led a group of plaintiffs including hair salons, drive-in movie theaters, as well as some Republican officeholders to file a lawsuit against Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf and his health secretary against measures they claimed were over-broad and infringed on their rights. And, in a bit of...

For pension beneficiaries across the country, the recent proposals by the Department of Labor are a positive step towards ensuring that accountability and fiscal responsibility take precedence over any other considerations. Two new rules are currently being weighed. The first, for which the department is currently in the process of sorting through public comment, concerns the role of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investments in ERISA-backed pension funds. The second takes aim at “proxy voting,” examining the outsized roles that proxy advisory firms have in investment decisions and examining whether their recommendations are always economically beneficial to pensioners.These rules rightly reaffirm a...

[Note: This piece is heavy on video content.] And speaking of gay prostitutes… – We’re coming full circle now. Remember Andrew Gillum, the married guy with two kids who almost managed to get elected governor of Florida in 2018, with the help from our dumpster fire news media? The same married guy with two kids who got caught passed out on the floor with a gay prostitute and all manner of illegal narcotics when police raided a cheap hotel room? The same guy who initially denied knowing the gay prostitute was in fact a gay prostitute and claimed to know...

New Hampshire is usually in the political spotlight only when our "first in the nation" primary comes around every four years. However, when the rest of the country is not watching, we hold other elections as well. This includes the general election that follows in the autumn, long after all the national news outlets and their reporters have packed up and left after the winter ritual earlier in the year. In the fall New Hampshire is not seen to be as critical and hardly garners more than a passing mention of our general election results given our meager four electoral...

And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. John 4:16 (King James Version) The Three DeBlasios on the Left Coast claim Global Warming is the cause of the deadly fires raging through their states while President Trump is correctly stating it is Forest mismanagement is to blame. The Three Stooges Newsome, Crazy Kate and Inseam have absolutely no proof whatsoever there has been any warming in their states and in fact over the last three years have had record...

More than a century before hashtags and messaging apps, the era of political bosses and patronage made New Jersey the punch line of jokes about voter fraud. Provincial anecdotes in Democrat county strongholds about the dead still voting and voting early and often have long come to epitomize the machine politics of a dark blue state where Democrat voters outnumber Republicans two to one and control 15 of 21 counties. Standalone electronic voting booths have been used in the state for decades. Unconnected to the internet, they are paperless and store votes until the polls close, after which the results...

The fact that there has been no 9/11-type attack in the U.S. for 19 years proves… what? That Islamic terrorist groups are not capable of mounting another such attack? That America’s security network is on much higher alert than in the innocent days before 9/11? Maybe so. But another, quite likely possibility is that Islamic radicals see no need for another large-scale attack. Why bother with spectacular, violent acts of jihad when incremental, under-the-radar, cultural jihad will serve the same purpose? Cultural jihad, which is also known as stealth jihad, is a long-term campaign to influence and even co-opt key...

It’s just the flu, bro. There has been a lot of discussion on these threads of different ways to ignore, stop or avoid the lockdown/mask rules. One way that seems particularly effective and appealing is partial compliance. Some great examples of partial compliance are: 1. wear your mask under your nose, or better yet as a chinstrap 2. always be polite and say yes when someone tells you some rule, but only do as they say partially or for a short time 3. If the required spacing is 6 feet then do 3 feet 4. act confidant when you blatantly...

An old Arab proverb explains much about the spygate strategy of infiltrating the Trump campaign and then administration. “If a camel gets his nose in the tent, the body will soon follow.” This is the proverbial “foot in the door” that allowed an in-power administration to use the full power of its judicial and intelligence agencies to spy on a political opponent, then to undermine a duly elected president. Weaponizing the federal government was nothing new for the Obama administration. The Obama/Brennan CIA spied on Senate intelligence committee members and Obama/Lerner used the IRS to target conservative groups. So far...

How the time flys 20 years ago TODAY I was introduced to Free Republic by a friend and have been checking in every day since. From Sore-Loserman to the current Deplorables.Only site where you find the REAL news .Keep up the good work. MAGA!!

One of the things I like to analyze in political events is evidence of strategy. For instance, when Nancy Pelosi says the California wildfires mean that “Mother Earth is angry,” I think that is just reactive -- and primitive, because Mother Earth goddesses go way back. But when President Trump (or Jared Kushner) comes up with almost one peace deal a week -- first Israel-UAE, then Serbia-Kosovo, and now Israel-Bahrain -- and lo and behold, as if on cue, Swedish politicians start nominating him for Nobel Peace Prizes -- my strategy detector goes crazy. And now the Black Swan guy,...

Joe Biden just can't get his story straight on his green energy promises. In Pittsburgh, in front of union workers last month, he declared: "I am not banning fracking. Let me say that again. I am not banning fracking. No matter how many times Donald Trump lies about me." But that is far from what he was saying earlier this year. During a March Democratic primary debate exchange between Sen. Bernie Sanders and Biden, Sanders started by saying: "I'm talking about stopping fracking as soon as we possibly can. I'm talking about telling the fossil fuel industry that they are...

“A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife” (Proverbs 15:18).

The Protestant Inquisition: "Reformation" Intolerance and Persecution Dave ArmstrongMarch 07, 2007 "Disclaimer and statement of intent: Unfortunately, the religious "scandal score" needs to be evened up now and then, and the lesser-known "skeletons in the closet" need to be rescued from obscurity, surveyed, and exposed. I take no pleasure in "dredging up" these unsavory occurrences, but it is necessary for honest, fair historical appraisal. This does not mean that I have forsaken ecumenism, or that I wish to bash Protestants, or that I deny corresponding Catholic shortcomings." "Historical facts are what they are, and most Protestants (and Catholics) are unaware...

JOHNSTOWN, Pennsylvania -- Ken Miller walked into one of the four storefronts on the right flank of the Richland Shopping Center, asked if this was where he could change his voter registration, sat down with a purpose and began to fill out the form. "It is time to go," he said flatly as he checked his Pennsylvania driver's license number to place on the form. Miller did not vote for Donald Trump in 2016; he didn't vote for Hillary Clinton either. He is a retired insurance manager and does not like what he sees coming from the party he has...

Big Cat Rescue CEO Carole Baskin is set to make her primetime debut on Monday's new episode of Dancing With the Stars, but the family of her missing ex-husband, Don Lewis, are throwing a damper on the event. Becoming a worldwide superstar overnight with the release of the Netflix documentary Tiger King earlier this year, Baskin has been the subject of great controversy since being introduced to the world. It is believed by many viewers of the series that Baskin is somehow behind Lewis' disappearance, but as of now, there's no evidence to suggest that she was involved. Still hoping...

It’s not very often in politics that you experience the thrill of principled vindication, but apparently as an ex-congressman, it can still be had. Six years ago, I shocked the Washington establishment by running against “Chamber of Commerce Republicans.” It was tough to convince many well-meaning conservatives in Washington and in my own district of what I meant. They were too used to the Reagan era, when the Chamber was a rock-solid champion of American business and the free enterprise system it needs to flourish. It was difficult for some conservatives to stomach just how far the Chamber and the...

President Donald Trump on Monday vowed that any attack by Iran would be met with a response '1,000 times greater in magnitude,' after reports that Iran planned to avenge the killing of top general Qasem Soleimani. A US media report, quoting unnamed officials, said that an alleged Iranian plot to assassinate the US ambassador to South Africa was planned before the presidential election in November. 'According to press reports, Iran may be planning an assassination, or other attack, against the United States in retaliation for the killing of terrorist leader Soleimani,' Trump tweeted. 'Any attack by Iran, in any form,...

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