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I explore the irrational reactions to Justice Ginsburg's death, and explain why RBG's was not a life well-lived.

More than 70 years ago, Betty Smith wrote A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. The novel follows the life of Francie Nolan as she grows up in a poor immigrant family during the early 1900s. Published in 1943, it particularly spotlights the struggles and strengths of women, from ostracizingunmarried pregnancy women to musings of future voting rights. Both the men and women of the novel have moral shortcomings, but the author depicts them as utterly human with beautiful aspirations. Brooklyn itself is also a character. The reader sees it through the eyes of young Francie, a place filled with wonderful diversity...

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said President Trump should nominate a Supreme Court justice to replace the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the high court next week."We have a responsibility to do our job," Cruz told Fox News's Sean Hannity on Friday evening. "We cannot let Election Day come and go and with a 4-4 court ... we risk a constitutional crisis. I believe that the president next week should nominate a successor to the court ... and I think that it is critical that the Senate takes up and confirms that successor."Cruz added that there would be "enormous pressure...

Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death didn’t just leave a vacant seat on the Supreme Court. It left a court evenly divided Supreme Court between four leftist justices and four strict constructionist justices. With his usual acumen and clarity, Ted Cruz explains why an evenly divided court is a recipe for a civil breakdown. We can all understand the reasonableness of having an uneven number of Supreme Court justices: It substantially diminishes the likelihood of a stalemate. However, Ginsburg’s death means that, as we head into the most contentious election process in American history, the Court has eight justices. Worse, the justices...

Of course, this caused angry outbursts from the already violent and destructive far left mob. Within hours angry leftists posted Mitch McConnell’s address online and on social media This is the modern day left. They immediately reacted to the news with threats of violence. And after months of leftist rioting we all know those are not empty threats. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/wp-content/uploads/mcconnell-home-protest.jpg

Former President Obama called on the Senate not to fill the Supreme Court vacancy created by the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Friday, urging Republicans to live up to the standard they set in 2016 when they refused to give a hearing to his final nominee, Merrick Garland.

Over the past two months I have asked you to join our family in praying for the recovery of my nephew Bill's wife. Jessica has a serious form of cancer that only a miracle could give her a chance of surviving. With your prayers and ours, we got that miracle and she has progressed to a point where chemo therapy, which was not even seen as being helpful, has been started. Now Jessica is experiencing strong waves of pain from her treatments and needs our prayers again. Please pray with us that she can manage this burden until she is...

When Lady Gaga’s not making avant-garde dance music or doing her best impression of the alien from Independence Day during award shows, she’s usually saying something extraterrestrial and avant-garde about LGBTQ rights or social justice. With President Trump up for re-election and within the context of the current Marxist revolution disguised as a civil rights movement raging on U.S. streets, Gaga’s turning her radical leftist pronouncements up to eleven. Now she’s promoting dangerous critical race theory tenets, telling a major music publication about the blood guilt of white supremacy that all Americans are born with.

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The ship Galena, which went ashore in the late gale, has returned to this city for repairs. The brig West Indian, which went to sea, wast lost at Pass a L'Outre, together with ten lives. Several lighthouses on the Mississippi Coast were blown down by the gale.

In 1987, Newsweek ran a cover story by Evan Thomas against George H. W. Bush called “Fighting the ‘Wimp Factor.’” Thomas essentially declared that this World War II fighter pilot was a weakling. (Like ol’ Daddy Bush or not, the man was jumping out of airplanes with a parachute just a couple of years before his death at 92!). Newsweek claimed Bush “lacked the inner fortitude to lead the free world.” Of course, Thomas would praise Bush’s “courage” in reneging on his “Read My Lips—No New Taxes” pledge, but that’s how Washington elites define courage…the willingness to abandon your principles...

Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers. Ephesians 4:29 (King James Version) While the 2020 piles higher and deeper it is time to win the election. Rather than fighting with the animals in the street it is time to go to the streets day to day night to night. If they are going to pull the mail in voting tactics then it is time to exploit its one weakness which is thirty days or in this case forty-five days of...

Kiddie sex is possibly the most controversial topic any movie can examine. Slip anything into your movie about sex involving a child (whether the child is being molested by someone older, or is doing it with another child) and you guarantee plenty of censorship and angry chatter about censorship, not to mention pretentious eggheads trying to make the case that people are taking this way too seriously and kiddie sex totally isn't what the movie's about. Sometimes those pretentious eggheads are right, and the detractors really are focusing too much on one little scene or insinuation to the exclusion of...

The Weekly Gardening Thread is a weekly gathering of folks that love soil, seeds and plants of all kinds. From complete newbies that are looking to start that first potted plant, to gardeners with some acreage, to Master Gardener level and beyond, we would love to hear from you. If you have specific question about a plant/problem you are having, please remember to state the Growing Zone where you are located. This thread is non-political respite. No matter what, you won’t be flamed, and the only dumb question is the one that isn’t asked. It is impossible to hijack the...

Yahoo, Google, Twitter, and Facebook, as well as other social media sites, are extremely biased against conservatives, Republicans, and President Trump. A Pew Research Center survey conducted in June finds that about three-quarters of U.S. adults say it is very (37%) or somewhat (36%) likely that social media sites intentionally censor political viewpoints that they find objectionable. Just 25% believe this is not likely the case. Americans are divided over whether social media companies should label posts on their sites as inaccurate or misleading, with most being skeptical that these sites can accurately determine what content should be flagged. Take...

President Trump has the right nominee at the right moment in American history. When Ruth Bader Ginsburg died Friday evening, she did so with a message for posterity which, for all the history that Ginsburg might have made as a woman on the Supreme Court, was pristine in its self-description of her time on the Court. “My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed,” she said. The arrogance of that was par for Ginsburg’s course. The fact that Republican women haven’t been represented on the Supreme Court since Sandra Day O’Connor...

Michelle Obama says as Black Americans, she and former President Obama "never could've gotten away with some of the stuff that's going on now" in the White House because their "community wouldn't have accepted that." The former first lady opened up about race in an episode of her eponymous Spotify podcast released this week. Speaking with her mother, Marian Robinson, and her brother, Craig Robinson, in a show focused on parenting, Obama recalled the time as a child when her older sibling got stopped by the police. "You were riding down the street and you got stopped by the police,...

President Trump announced the Abraham Accords earlier this week, marking the beginning of an historic and lasting peace to the Middle East. This was a result of years of effort on his part, planning a comprehensive strategy and carefully putting it into effect. To that end, he was able to use three tactics to bring about his desired result. Play the Energy CardIn the Middle East, he who controls the energy makes the rules. Not so long ago, it was Arabic countries of the Middle East, mainly in the Persian Gulf (including the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain) that controlled...

A video clip shows a grandmother confronting a teacher over the phone about how she told a student she didn’t have a right to an opinion because she was “white” and “blonde.” The footage starts with the grandmother explaining to the teacher that her granddaughter is crying and hasn’t been to school because of this “BLM crap.” She then accuses the teacher of telling her granddaughter that she had no right to express an opinion on the issue because she’s British, white and has blonde hair. After being told there is an audio recording of the exchange, the teacher responds,...

Keene’s Aria DiMezzo is the first transgender person to win the GOP’s nomination for Cheshire County sheriff after running unopposed in Tuesday’s primary. DiMezzo, associated with the Free Keene movement of libertarian activists, said Friday she is looking forward to debating incumbent Sheriff Eli Rivera, the popular Democrat who is running for his fifth term. “I’m hoping he will debate me; that would be the highlight of this,” she said. DiMezzo first ran in 2018 as a libertarian against Rivera and longtime Republican candidate Earl Nelson, though she ran under her previous male name because she did not have her...