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It’s just the flu, bro. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.click2houston.com/news/local/2020/09/16/after-hinting-at-reopening-plan-gov-abbott-to-hold-covid-19-press-conference-thursday/%3foutputType=amp Abbott might relax the Texas lockdown today - see link above. - Is it too much to ask for to want your government to not try to protect everyone from anything bad that can happen? Specifically, we have every leftist politician trying to protect everyone from the Coronavirus, not realizing the unintended negative consequences. The only real protection a national government needs to provide is a military. This government protection philosophy seems to have developed over the past 100 years and it is not a good trend. When the US decides to “protect” people...

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Special Dispatch to the New-York Times. CLIFTON HOUSE, NIAGARA FALLS, Sunday, Sept. 16 -- 11:20 P.M. Since the arrival of the Royal party, the Prince has enjoyed himself in an unaccustomed round of pleasurable excitements. At sunrise on Saturday the Royal standard was saluted by a Hamilton artillery company. At 10 o'clock a large yacht was set adrift in the rapids above the Falls, the Prince having expressed a desire to see something go over. The image of a man was placed at the helm, besides which no other passenger was allowed on board. A ride on horseback, a frolic...

According to a recent Hill-HarrisX poll of registered voters, President Donald Trump's approval rating just hit its highest mark since June. This may or may not hold after back-to-back alleged "bombshells" about what Trump knew about COVID-19 and about Trump allegedly disparaging fallen soldiers as "losers." But still, for Democrats, these new poll numbers are triggering yet another round of head-shaking. After all, the Democratic perception and characterization of Trump is that of a crass, ignorant, xenophobic, incompetent, mass-murdering racist. How, they ask, can someone who put the "d" in deplorable not find himself universally rejected? Or, as Peter Strzok,...

Next Monday is the last day of summer, Mr. Barr. – I note that this morning because back in August, Attorney General William Barr famously stated that John Durham’s investigation would bear some fruit before summer was over. Barr repeated that prediction in more than one interview, in fact. Well, we’re pushing it right up to the deadline, and Durham has produced diddly squat, to use a common flyover country colloquialism. No indictments, no arrests, no midnight raids of elderly people’s homes of the sort made popular when Robert Mueller and thus effectively ran the DOJ during from May 2017...

Political insanity can be defined as refusing to admit the reality of destructive violence. How crazy does the violence have to get before it costs the Harris-Biden campaign the election? (Nomenclature update: On Monday, Kamala Harrisreferred in public to something she called the “Harris administration.” In a speech the next day, Mr. Biden himself referred to “a Harris-Biden administration.” If that’s how they want it, fine by me. From now on, it’s “the Harris-Biden campaign.”) For weeks, analysts have been pondering whether the “law and order” issue elevated by President Trump and the Republican convention could have a material effect...

Real Coffee with Scott Adams is worth listening to regularly because Adams, like Trump, is an out-of-the-box thinker. During one of his recent shows, Adams framed Trump uniquely and insightfully. According to Adams, while Trump may falter on smaller decisions (why, oh why, did he waste time talking to Woodward?), his gift is his ability to do the impossible. In other words, when everyone says something can’t be done, Trump’s response is a version of “here, hold my beer” (or, as he’s a teetotaler, “hold my soda”). Tell Trump something’s impossible, and he goes makes it possible. I was not...

Everything the Biden/Harris Harris/Biden campaign does is fake. – Even the parades, as it turns out. Watch as “Dr.” Jill Biden and some staffer wave at a pretend “parade” that involves all of 3 cars: You just could never make this stuff up, folks. Skip Ad Saturday News Roundup: Adios Tik-Tok, Bye-Bye Bolton Book Advance, and America's Garbage News Media VDO.AI Obviously, they’re all non-essential employees. – Speaking of stuff you could never make up, New York City’s Big Doofus, communist Mayor Bill de Blasio, announced on Wednesday that he is going to put his entire staff – including himself...

Lower Saucon Township Council on Wednesday night debated a planned Republican rally but had no grounds to vote on whether a gun-toting St. Louis couple could address a crowd at the event in Town Hall Park. The Northampton County Republican Committee will gather at the park from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday. Mark and Patricia McCloskey, who became famous after they were photographed pointing weapons as Black Lives Matter protesters walking near their home, will discuss Second Amendment Rights and self-defense. Township residents raised concerns during the virtual meeting about guns at the park, the transmission of the coronavirus and...

Last week 50 Republican congressmen sent a letter to Attorney General William Barr asking that the DoJ investigate the groups responsible for the rioting in our cities, and use existing federal law to prosecute those “participating in, inciting, organizing, or funding” those riots. It’s about time. Our pro-family organization, MassResistance, been involved with on-the-ground activism for over 25 years. We tend to notice things from that perspective. As we’ve watched what has been taking place, a number of obvious questions came to mind: How can there be any doubt that this an interstate operation? In city after city, the tactics,...

Mayor John Cooper has requested from Gov. Bill Lee an additional $82.6 million in COVID-19 relief to help aid Nashville’s tourism industry, music venues, small-businesses and to help expand the city’s social resources. In a letter last week outlining the city’s needs as Nashville continues to be rocked by the ongoing pandemic, Cooper reminds Lee the state’s economic recovery begins in Nashville — “right now.” The Nashville Convention and Visitors Corp. last month estimated Nashville businesses have so far lost $2.45 billion in visitor spending due to COVID-19 and are losing more than $100 million per week as the pandemic...

This election could be close, and as such, resources will be very, very important to candidates across the country. Unfortunately, when there is an important and close election, that not only leads to ridiculous fundraising emails from campaigns (Lord knows there are enough of those from all sides), it also brings out the grifters – opportunists who rip off an unsuspecting public under the guise of helping a candidate or cause. Don’t fall for it. If you want to help a candidate, and have the money to do so, give directly to that candidate or that candidate’s party. If you...

As the saying goes, the difference between the New York Times and the old Soviet Pravda is that Pravda readers knew they were being lied to. To circumvent the Soviet mainstream media, dissidents created what they called the "samizdat," their word for the clandestine copying and distribution of literature banned by the state. To circumvent our mainstream media, conservatives have created their own samizdat, an unorganized network of blogs, public forums, news-aggregators, online publications, talk radio shows, citizen-journalists, and legal monitors such as Judicial Watch, a truth force that one Second Amendment blogger aptly called "a coalition of willing Lilliputians."...

In a speech before the Indian parliament on Tuesday, Indian Defense Minister Rajnath Singh asserted that the border dispute with China remains "unresolved" for now, and blamed China for "violating" the border agreement with India. Chinese experts warned on Tuesday that such a hard-line attitude may see border tensions extend into winter. Chinese analysts noted that Singh is trying to ensure domestic support and defense budgets from parliament, especially amid the unprecedented economic recession, so he won't admit that it was India which took the initiative to violate the agreement and unilaterally change the status quo. But the Indian defense...

Like all progressive groups, The Satanic Temple came out in support of Black Lives Matter. The Satanic Temple, which distinguishes itself from its rival, The Church of Satan, through its rigorously progressive politics while accusing The Church of Satan of libertarianism, put out a statement by co-founder Lucien Greaves that blasted President Trump and accused the police of randomly killing black people that could have come from any random leftist organization. “I watched with dismay as, in reaction to the election of Donald Trump, the least qualified, least dignified, least competent president in all of U.S. history,” complained Greaves, whose...

In 2017, the liberal Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University found that 93 percent of CNN's coverage of the Trump administration was negative. The center found similarly negative Trump coverage at other major news outlets. The election year 2020 has only accelerated that asymmetrical bias -- to the point that major newspapers and network and cable news organizations are now fused with the Joe Biden campaign. Sometimes stories are covered only in terms of political agendas. Take COVID-19. The media assure us that the Trump administration's handling of the pandemic has been a disaster. But...

Saints WR Emmanuel Sanders says Drew Brees cried HARD during his apology to the team in the wake of his controversial anthem comments ... and now, Sanders says N.O. players have moved on. The 33-year-old revealed on ESPN's "First Take" on Wednesday that he was initially pissed back in June when Brees said anthem kneelers were "disrespecting the flag."

As the Democrat presidential campaign degenerates into “Weekend at Gropey’s,” a question arises: Assuming the Dems and their media minions somehow drag that rickety, basement-dwelling weirdo across the finish line, how do they get rid of him post-inauguration? Clearly, he would be a figurehead as Dr. Demento – sorry, Dr. Jill – and Kamala Harris joust for control before a backdrop of scheming pinko puppetmasters. But sooner or later, probably sooner, the Dem elite is going to try to put him out to pasture. How could they pull it off? And can they? Let’s see… A few caveats: I think...

(CNN) Joe Biden's presidential campaign has made character its centerpiece, as the Democratic nominee casts the 2020 presidential race as a test of the "soul of the nation" against President Donald Trump. But he has also released a stream of policy proposals outlining what he would try to accomplish in office. And that platform is likely to be a focus Thursday night as Biden appears on CNN for a town hall in which he'll face questions from voters. Biden won the Democratic primary advocating more moderate policies than many of his competitors. He has since embraced some proposals from former...

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