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U.S.—As a potential SCOTUS replacement hearing looms, leftists are at their breaking point. So, they threatened to burn everything down. But oops! They already burned it all down. So, they are now frantically rebuilding the buildings, towns, low-income housing, black-owned businesses, and stores they destroyed in the previous riots so they can burn them all down again. The gangs of looters and rioters rushed stores and returned everything they stole, rebuilt the buildings they'd burned down, and replaced all the windows they'd smashed.

11/08/16:DEMS: 4,217,456 REPS: 3,301,182 OTHERS: 1,204,339 6/02/20:DEMS: 4,092,693 REPS: 3,290,944 OTHERS: 1,215,657 9/14/20:DEMS: 4,130,407 REPS: 3,389,510 OTHERS: 1,250,636 9/21/20:DEMS: 4,138,254 REPS: 3,405,240 OTHERS: 1,256,926 Change from 11/08/16 to 9/21/20:DEMS: -79,202REPS: +104,058OTHERS: +52,587 Change from 9/14/20 to 9/21/20:DEMS: +7,847REPS: +15,730OTHERS: +6,290

I wrote earlier about trying to express my reasons to my dad in a calm and intellectual manner. I actually thought I had been calm and well-reasoned. I thought I might even be making progress. Today I found out he put a Trump sign in his yard. I got pissed. Really pissed. And I sent him and my mom a text message. Hands shaking, tears in eyes. This is what it said: Due to the signs in the yard, the kids and I will not be down. The current occupant of the White House is preaching hate and violence, endangering...

FEINSTEIN on ending filibuster and expanding SCOTUS: “I don't believe in doing that. I think the filibuster serves a purpose. It is not often used, it's often less used now than when I first came, and I think it's part of the Senate that differentiates itself.”

Interesting, no voting machines for the 2020 election in Middlesex County, NJ. Doing whatever they can to force mail in ballots. Election day is going to be a disaster and rife with fraud. Ways To Vote ​Return your ballot through the United State Postal Service (must be postmarked by November 3, 2020)​ Submit your ballot in one of the Middlesex County Board of Elections’ drop boxes before 8pm on Tuesday, November 3, 2020 (locations below) Drop it off directly to the Board of Elections’ Office in East Brunswick before 8pm on Tuesday, November 3, 2020 Submit your completed and sealed...

As crews were cleaning 22 tons of trash from Mexico City’s drainage system, they came across what is being described as a “giant rat.” The rat, which turned out to be a Halloween prop that was in a warehouse, apparently washed away during storms, somehow disappearing into a labyrinth of drains underground. People who saw the giant rat could not figure out how it squeezed through a drain in the first place due to its size but everyone marveled at how much it looked like a real rodent. Some even said if they had seen it on a street, they...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A federal judge ruled Monday that absentee ballots in battleground Wisconsin can be counted up to six days after the Nov. 3 presidential election as long as they are postmarked by Election Day. The highly anticipated ruling, unless overturned, means that the outcome of the presidential race in Wisconsin likely will not be known for days after polls close. Under current law, the deadline for returning an absentee ballot to have it counted is 8 p.m. on Election Day. Democrats and their allies sued to extend the deadline in the key swing state. U.S. District Judge...

There have been 14 shootings in Durham since the beginning of September. In several of those shootings, more than one person was shot, and the among the victims are teens and children. CBS 17 obtained surveillance video of the drive-by triple shooting that happened in the 1000 block of Fairview Street on Monday, September 14. The video shows a silver SUV drive-by and fired more than 15 gunshots at a crowd of people standing outside about 6 p.m. All of the people outside fall to the ground to try to avoid getting hit, but three people were shot. A 26-year-old...

New Fr. Altman video quotes Fulton Sheen, Pius X: Liberal Catholics are wolves in sheep’s clothing Father James Altman, the priest behind the viral video about how Catholics can’t be Democrats, said he received ‘incomprehensible thanks’ from the laity for his first video. LA CROSSE, Wisconsin, September 21, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) ― The priest who warned Catholics that they could go to hell for supporting the Democratic Party has doubled down by telling his detractors that they’ll face the saints one day.  “Anyone can, however erroneously, complain about my manner, tone, or ‘divisiveness’ in the video, but good luck,” Father James...

Today, several crew members provided internal documentation indicating that Carnival is sending as many as 7,000 termination letters to Carnival officers and crew members. As many as eight captains (masters), five staff captains, five guest service managers, six executive chefs and six hotel directors are among the top ship employees who are being laid off. Carnival sent these letters via e-mails to officers and crew members who are at home on vacation or otherwise at home awaiting a vessel assignment if and when the CDC permits cruising from U.S. ports. Carnival terminated the jobs of as many as one hundred...

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s plan to increase the capital gains tax could lead to a large-scale sell-off of stocks, according to economic analyses. As part of his $4 trillion tax plan, Biden has proposed increasing the top tax rate for capital gains for the highest earners to 39.6% from 23.8%, the largest real increase in capital gains rates in history. Economic analyses show that capital gains tax hikes cause a burst of stock-selling in advance of the increase, as investors look to lock in the lower existing tax rates before they rise. A research paper by Tim Dowd, a...

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) touted her intersectional oppression in a recent interview with the New York Times, lamenting that she constantly has to “deal with the hate of anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant, anti-blackness, but also with sexism” in the United States. Omar made the remark when asked about a controversial passage in her autobiographical book — This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman — in which she wrote: “I am, by nature, a starter of fires. My work has been to figure out where I’m going to burn down everything around me by adding the fuel of...

...for crimes committed during protests. Governor Ron DeSantis announced a new bill Monday that would increase charges for those who participate in a violent or disorderly assembly. DeSantis made the announcement at the Polk County Sheriff’s Office. The bill is called the “Combating Violence, Disorder and Looting and Law Enforcement Protection Act." A violent or disorderly assembly would be defined as when seven ore more people are involved in an assembly that causes damage to property or injury to people.

McConnell has been around so long people think they know him. But they don’t, and that is by design. When you are the apex predator of U.S. politics. . .

A truly great song for the season isn't about the calendar, or the weather. It's about the seasons of life and love: Spring Is Here Why doesn't my heart go dancing? But then: The Things We Did Last Summer I'll remember all winter long... Of course, if you're not a young man whose fancy turns to love, spring fever may pass you by, and, if you're in late middle age, the summer may be no more likelier a prompter of romance than mid-November. Yet there is one great seasonal signifier that almost everyone responds to. You don't have to be...

Actor Jim Caviezel, who played Jesus in 2004’s “The Passion of the Christ,” said writer/director Mel Gibson has written a forthcoming sequel. “Mel Gibson just sent me the third picture, the third draft. It’s coming,” he told Breitbart. “It’s called ‘The Passion of the Christ: Resurrection.’ It’s going to be the biggest film in world history.”

Pompeo Warns Pope on China Concordat Sino-Vatican deal compared to treaty with Third Reich WASHINGTON (ChurchMilitant.com) - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is warning Pope Francis that the Vatican risks endangering its moral authority if it renews its controversial secret deal with China. Persecuted Chinese Catholics feel betrayed by Pope Francis "No regime suppresses faith on a larger scale than the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)," Pompeo announced Sunday, after urging the Vatican to "stand with fellow Catholics and the people of Hong Kong" in a tweet Saturday. The Twitter outburst from Pompeo's government account follows his strongly-worded column published Friday...

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell pushed back Monday against Democratic allegations of hypocrisy over holding a vote this year on Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s replacement, arguing that historical precedent is on his side. Democrats are accusing McConnell and other Republicans of a double standard when it comes to the Supreme Court, citing McConnell’s 2016 decision to block President Barack Obama’s nominee Merrick Garland because it was an election year. But McConnell and Senate Republicans claim that 2016 was different because the White House and Senate were controlled by different parties... “Apart from that one strange exception, no Senate has failed to...

Colorado Sen. Cory Gardner released a statement about his position on the U.S. Supreme Court vacancy left by the late-Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Gardner had avoided answering questions from journalists until Monday evening. “When a President exercises constitutional authority to nominate a judge for the Supreme Court vacancy, the Senate must decide how to best fulfill its constitutional duty of advice and consent. I have and will continue to support judicial nominees who will protect our Constitution, not legislate from the bench, and uphold the law. Should a qualified nominee who meets this criteria be put forward, I will vote...

@BillKristol NEW: Republican Voters Against Trump (@RVAT2020) begins a six-figure ad buy in Nebraska's crucial 2nd Congressional District, featuring testimonials from lifelong conservative residents of the district on why they're voting for Biden. Here's one of them: https://mobile.twitter.com/BillKristol/status/1308156055042568197