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The U.S. Army has replaced the chaotic reception recruits entering basic training have long received from shouting drill sergeants with a training event designed to create a bond with their teammates and leaders.

WASHINGTON—A handful of moderate and institutionalist Senate Republicans were thrust into the spotlight Friday after Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death prompted Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) to say that he would seek to confirm President Trump’s nominee to replace her on the Supreme Court. The Senate’s Republicans control 53 votes compared with 47 for the Democrats, giving them enough power to muscle through a Trump nominee. Because Vice President Mike Pence can break any ties, Democrats would need to peel off four Republicans to block Mr. Trump’s pick, a difficult goal to meet given the small number of...

‘Given the proximity of the Presidential election, however, I don’t believe the senate should vote on the nominee priority the election in fairness to the American people

US Circuit Judge & former FL Supreme Court Justice Barbara Lagoa is at the top of Trump's list to fill Justice Ginsburg's seat. Source who spoke to WH: “Justice Lagoa is perfect. [Trump] president wants a conservative jurist and he wants to win the biggest battleground." 1/3 2. Geography aside, Lagoa also has some demographic advantages: she's a Cuban-American from Miami (Hialeah), a crucial voting bloc for Trump. Source: "How do Democrats in the Senate vote against a Latina?” 2nd source: “Lagoa is at the top of the list. She checks a lot of boxes.”

Former CNN host Reza Aslan joined several other verified Twitter accounts in threatening violence if Senate Republicans attempt to fill the Supreme Court seat of the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. “Over our dead bodies. Literally,” Aslan wrote in response to a tweet saying Sen. Mitch McConnell intends to fill Ginsberg's seat, shortly after it was announced Friday that she had died at the age of 87. https://twitter.com/rezaaslan/status/1307133898154020864?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1307133898154020864%7Ctwgr%5Eshare_3&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonexaminer.com%2Fnews%2Fover-our-dead-bodies-liberals-threatens-to-burn-it-all-down-if-gop-replace-ginsburg-before-election-day Aslan also tweeted, “If they even TRY to replace RBG we burn the entire f---ing thing down.” “If McConnell jams someone through, which he will, there will be riots,” Washington Post and...

Eleven days to the debate, and Dementia Joe Biden is firing up his base, addressing rallies that sometimes draw packed crowds of as many as six or even seven of his adoring supporters, I mean reporters. We now join Joe Biden in mid-babble out on the campaign trail this week: “’Cause if you could take care, if you were a quartermaster, you can sure in hell take care runnin’ a, you know, a department store, uh, thing, you know, where, in the second floor of the ladies’ department or whatever, you know what I mean?” Actually no, I don’t know...

Child Abuse: Francis’ Transvestite Sister Endorses “Trans Children” The Argentine Carmelite Sister Monica Astorga Cremona, a transvestite activist, believes that children may live as transvestites. During a 2016 campaign, she held up a text which says: “Childhood trans without violence or discrimination - Join us!“ A photo of this was published in November 2017 by Hermán Rossi, a local politician, on FaceBook.com. Francis praised Astorga in August for her connivence with transvestite male prostitutes. Astorga started in 2006 in Neuquen Province, Argentina. Cardinal Bergoglio visited the place in 2009 and approved it. She cooperates with the organisation “Vidas Escondidas” (Hidden...

The Department of Justice (DOJ) is exploring whether federal charges could be imposed on officials in Portland, Oregon, where violent and deadly riots have continued mostly unchecked for more than three months, Fox News reported. The outlet reported that while the exploration was part of the agency’s oversight of the city’s response to the ongoing unrest, DOJ could not confirm that it was investigating Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan (D) for allowing an area of her city to be walled off and occupied: The spokeswoman also did not confirm whether DOJ officials were focusing on specific city officials. The office of...

America has been suffering silently for months while the radical left has been rampaging through American cities, smashing windows, destroying businesses, setting fires, and worse. Now that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has passed away, people on the left are threatening a new wave of destruction if Trump and Republicans even try to replace her. The rhetoric on Twitter was way over the top. Here are a few choice examples I decided to screen-cap in case they mysteriously disappear. Note how many of these comments are from verified, blue check-mark, accounts.

Democratic vice-presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris (Calif) thinks “it is improper for persons actively engaged in running for office to be investigated while the voting is underway. In fact, I believe there is something in the Constitution that prohibits any incumbent office holder, of which I am one, from being held to account for any statement or action carried out while in office. This makes the Durham investigation especially problematic because many of the primary suspects either are or were acting at the behest of Democratic public officials. And any release of information prior to November third risks biasing the...

The FBI and Secret Service are investigating a package containing the highly-toxic poison ricin that was mailed to President Trump last week, CNN is reporting. The package was intercepted by law enforcement, the report said. Two tests were done to confirm the presence of ricin in the package, law enforcement sources told the network.

‘Passion of the Christ’ lead actor blasts ‘collaborator’ bishops destroying Church Catholic actor Jim Caviezel, best known for playing Jesus in the 2004 film, unloaded on 'lukewarm' Christians in a recent Fox News interview. September 18, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — Catholic actor Jim Caviezel, best known for playing Jesus in the 2004 film The Passion of the Christ, blasted “lukewarm” Christians in a Fox News interview, saying it’s “a bloody shame” one can’t tell the difference “between a priest, a bishop, or a politician.” “I got to play Jesus, some of us love Peter or Paul, but there are many of...

More than half of American voters strongly or somewhat support breaking up Silicon Valley tech giants to promote competition, according to a poll published Thursday. Only 26% of voters oppose or strongly oppose splitting up the country’s largest tech companies, while 19% of those surveyed didn’t offer a view, a poll from progressive think tank Data for Progress showed. The poll, which surveyed 1,200 likely voters in September, comes as the House lawmakers conclude their nearly yearlong probe into the industry’s supposed anticompetitive behavior. In the same poll, roughly 60% of respondents expressed support for a prompt on smartphones asking...

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'Fake Catholic': Trump ambassador to Catholics blasts Biden for positions on abortion and gay marriage One of the Trump campaign’s ambassadors to Catholics on Thursday blasted former Vice President Joe Biden as being a “fake Catholic.”Taylor Marshall, a popular traditionalist Catholic commentator, criticized Biden for his stances on abortion, religious liberty, and gay marriage during a campaign event streamed from his personal YouTube channel. President Trump, by contrast, Marshall said, “honors God” through his presidency.Marshall, citing a recent interview with Archbishop Carlo Vigano, quoted the controversial former papal nuncio’s prediction that “the right hand of the Lord will deliver the...

Joe Biden launched what his campaign is calling the ‘invisible campaign‘ last week in Michigan. This could be why he’s waving at no one when he deplanes. Or he’s waving at the ghost voters he’ll likely use for ballot harvesting. Either way, this video is ridiculously funny because of the woman laughing and giving the play by play analysis . It’s absolute PERFECTION. I’m rolling on the floor laughing! WATCH NOW....

...FBI Director Christopher Wray doesn’t necessarily find himself in the same company as Jong-Fast, but he’s also apparently not a believer in the notion that antifa groups pose any sort of serious threat. In fact, he’s not even necessarily a believer that antifa groups really exist. Instead, Wray indicated during a House Homeland Security Committee hearing on Thursday that antifa is more of a ideological view of the world.... To the extent it is an ideology, however, Texas GOP Rep. Dan Crenshaw thought Wray was “downplaying” the effects of it. “I’ve heard many members of this body, of this committee,...

The best is yet to come. Remember the memorial service for Democrat Senator Paul Wellstone after he was killed in a plane crash in 2002? Democrats did what they always do, and turned the memorial into a partisan hatefest, which backfired spectacularly.

Left-wing ActBlue raised a record amount of money from Friday evening until Saturday morning following the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. According to ActBlue’s website, which keeps track of donations, Democrat candidates and causes raised nearly $31 million over a 12-hour period, which spanned from 9:00 p.m. Eastern to 9:00 a.m. Eastern on Saturday. The online web tracker for donations was estimating $100,000 per minute for some time in the hours following Ginsburg’s death but slowly trickled. In the hour after Ginsburg’s death was made public, the group reported at least $1.5 million in donations:

Friday during HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher announced the news Ruth Bader Ginsburg had passed away, which means an opening on the U.S. Supreme Court just weeks before the November elections.