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The Supreme Court announced at 7:28 p.m. Friday that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died of complications from pancreatic cancer. NPR reported that the 87-year-old liberal lioness dictated this statement to her granddaughter as she lost strength in her final days: “My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed.” 1) Trump will probably nominate a woman in the next few days. 2) A Senate vote on Trump’s nominee seems most likely to occur during the lame-duck session, after the election. 3) This vacancy gives Trump the opportunity to reframe the presidential race...

In the months since the COVID-19 panic began health authorities around the world have told the public to “get tested” to help track the spread of SARS-CoV-2. However, as fear and hysteria subside, the scientific community and public at large are calling into question the efficacy of the test used to determine a patients status...The most common test is a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) lab test. This incredibly sensitive technique was developed by Berkeley scientist Kary Mullis, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1993. The test is designed to detect the presence of a virus by amplifying...

A group of current and former employees working to denounce racism and sexism at the Guggenheim Museum is led by “disgruntled” white women who are “intimidating” employees of color to join their cause, sources told The Post. The group, A Better Guggenheim, claims it is holding the museum “accountable for systemic racism and a toxic work environment.” Members, including a leader who was furloughed and was not hired back, want to force the resignation of the institution’s top executives.

Completely deranged and unhinged. Notified that Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died.

In June 1983, I arrived in Judge Roger Robb’s chambers to begin a clerkship on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. But Robb had suffered a stroke. He was gone from chambers for many months. So Judges Robert Bork, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Spottswood Robinson and Antonin Scalia got together and agreed to keep my co-clerk, Terry Ross, and me occupied. They each gave us multiple cases to research, brief and help with their opinions before Judge George MacKinnon returned from a long vacation and “adopted” us until his closest friend on the court, Robb, recovered...

The Proud Boys advertised a fake rally in West Philadelphia’s Clark Park on Saturday, causing Antifa to flood the streets. When the Proud Boys did not show up, they attacked conservative independent media instead. As the Gateway Pundit reported earlier in the day, the militant leftists attacked two conservatives who were filming the protest. They also attacked a vehicle they believed to belong to the conservatives, but actually belonged to someone who was there in support of their cause. There was a frightened dog inside while they smashed the windows out with hammers....

Newsdump Update: US Sends More Troops, Armored Vehicles To Syria Following Recent Incident With Russian Military Police Six Bradley fighting vehicles and 100 soldiers sent into northeast Syria...... Fantasy news out there nowadays along with the real news that I like to post here...We led off with the story in Syria where Russian and American soldiers have played cat and mouse games and even "bumper cars".... The Republicans are backed by the energy industry in the US and folks like Ted Cruz and Tom Cotton pushing for sanctions on Russia and even a Democrat mixed in Jean Shaheen. She must...

This weekend, the nation will honor the legacy of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died at age 87; soon thereafter, former Vice President Joe Biden's campaign must seize the moment and stake out a landmark candidate to replace the beloved jurist. The nominee must be someone who advances the cause of racial and gender justice and quells Republican efforts to bum-rush a replacement. What it means is that the Biden campaign cannot simply propose to nominate a woman of traditional qualifications for the court. If it is to make history, then it must spotlight a woman who...

In the coming weeks, as the struggle to confirm a Supreme Court nominee fires up, we will be inundated with facts about past confirmation timetables and other “precedents.” Advocates will try to elevate past practices to matters of principle, and maybe even to matters of morality. I think all of these arguments should be ignored. The only rule that applies, and it’s a reasonable one, is that Supreme Court nominees get confirmed when the president’s party has secured enough support from the electorate to muster the 50 Senate votes needed to confirm. Voters didn’t give Democrats enough Senate votes to...

“For Your Progress and Joy in the Faith” (Philippians 1:12-14, 19-30) Today we begin four weeks in a row of readings from Paul’s Epistle to the Philippians. Four chapters over four weeks, starting with much of chapter 1 today. The epistle as a whole is not very long--you can read it in less than 15 minutes--so you might want to consider reading Philippians a number of times over the coming weeks. You won’t regret it. Paul’s letter to the Philippians: What do we know about Philippi and Paul’s relationship with the congregation there? A little background is in order. Philippi...

liberals have sounded the jungle drums: trump will be dragged from the oval office should he refuse to vacate on january 20, 2021. there is not much of a preamble, but presumably, this is only if trump is not elected to a second term. however, what if there is an electoral college or ussc electoral college issue stalemate? we already see that the liberals are willing to sacrifice the constitutional institutions of the electoral college and the ussc upon the altar of social justice (the contemporary equivalent term for political correctness these days). in theory, if the electoral college cannot...

Television ratings for Game 2 of the Eastern Conference Finals continued a trend downward for the NBA this season, with the Miami Heat's win over the Boston Celtics averaging just 3.48 million viewers. As noted by Jon Lewis of Sports Media Watch, that was a 21 percent drop from last season's East finals Game 2 between the Toronto Raptors and Milwaukee Bucks -- and the least-watched East finals Game 2 since 2003. [cut] "This continues a troubling trend for NBA playoff viewership, and the sports-starved audience that the league believed would be there when they returned from the pandemic has...

In talking with an elderly couple about all the places they need to change their address, they said they already voted. Said they got a card in mail to come vote early in the usual place. Early voting in Texas starts Oct 13!

Under no circumstances should a nomination go forward in the United States Senate. Our full statement: https://mobile.twitter.com/ProjectLincoln/status/1307468813718319104 By the way, didn’t John Wilkes Booth have a “Lincoln Project” too?

[Barf Alert] Black sisters urge US Catholics, church leaders to do more to end racism Sr. Beulah Martin, a member of the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament, center right, of Powhatan, Va., waves in Baltimore's historic St. Francis Xavier Church July 22, 2019, at a Mass honoring jubilarians during a joint conference of black priests, women religious, deacons and seminarians. (CNS/Catholic Review/Kevin J. Parks) Washington — The National Black Sisters' Conference issued a "clarion warning" to U.S. Catholics saying church members and leaders have not done enough to speak out against the sin of racism. "In this moment of dual...

President Donald Trump said Saturday evening that he will choose a candidate to fill the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Supreme Court seat next week and his candidate will be a woman. "I will be putting forth a nominee next week. It will be a woman," Trump said during a rally in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Trump told rallygoers that Ginsburg's "landmark rulings, fierce devotion to justice and her courageous battle against cancer inspire all Americans," offering prayers to the justice's family. The President also noted her friendship with the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, saying it's "a powerful reminder...

I live in Arizona but I listen to WFLA in Tampa on impart because KFYI runs an hour delay. Anyways, I hear this ad called "Vote Like A Madre" The ad says to pinky swear your kids to vote for people to fight climate change. They don't endorse a party or candidates but we know climate change is a dog whistle for leftists. They say in the ad to decorate your pinky nail and post pictures on social media with the hashtag #votelikeamadre. I think a great idea would be to get all the freeper gals to decorate their pinky...

After criticism of the clinical trials data of the Russian Covid-19 vaccine 'Sputnik V' by global scientists, the developers of the vaccine have defended the data presented by them in medical journal Lancet and promised to provide access to health records of certain volunteers. In a letter to the Lancet's editorial board, which published on medical journal's website on Friday (18 September) evening, the Sputnik V developers emphasised that all the data presented in the article published earlier in the journal were obtained in "experiments and double checked", reports Russian News Agency TASS.

New details have emerged about 2016’s "October Surprise," during which the FBI found emails belonging to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on disgraced New York Rep. Anthony Weiner’s laptop, with the FBI official who found the emails speaking out for the first time. FBI agent John Robertson, who worked in its New York office’s child sex crimes unit and was later cited (though not named) in Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s 2018 report on the handling of the investigation of Clinton's unauthorized private email server, spoke with the Washington Post’s Devin Barrett for his upcoming book, October Surprise:...

A team of scientists has produced evidence that the pandemic virus is ‘uniquely adapted to infect humans’, raising fresh questions over whether its origins were natural or could have occurred in a laboratory. Professor Nikolai Petrovsky, a top vaccine researcher who headed the Australian team, said the virus was ‘not typical of a normal zoonotic [animal to human] infection’ since it appeared with the ‘exceptional’ ability to enter human bodies from day one. He said the virus should have emerged from an animal through ‘a freak event of nature’ but the possibility that it had leaked from a laboratory could...