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President Donald Trump refused Wednesday to commit to a peaceful transition of power if he loses the 2020 election to Democratic nominee Joe Biden. “Well, we’ll have to see what happens. You know that. I’ve been complaining very strongly about the ballots. And the ballots are a disaster,” Trump said at a news conference at the White House. Minutes later, the president abruptly left the briefing room, telling the press, “I have to leave to take an emergency phone call.”

Normally, we’d scoff at a “pounce” narrative, but in this case it’s justified — across the aisle and the political/media spectrum, too. Thanks to Senate Democrats’ attacks on Amy Coney Barrett in her 2017 appellate confirmation hearing, their hostility to practicing Catholics on the bench practically invites another fight over faith in the upcoming hearings. Dave Weigel reports that both sides have to strategize over Catholicism, and that battle has a long, long history: By Saturday, the president will announce a female, Catholic nominee for the Supreme Court. The favorite is Amy Coney Barrett, who became a conservative star...

You can dismiss this if you like on grounds that it has a Jim Acosta byline. Or because it might be a byproduct of bureaucratic infighting, with sources making up nonsense and feeding it to Acosta to make Birx — and/or Atlas — look bad.But bear this in mind: Given the reporting over the last few weeks, right now it seems like there’s not a single person in the federal government’s medical bureaucracy who’s happy in their job. If they’re not coping with Trump pushing misinformation to the public about a vaccine timeline, they’re being browbeaten by Trump or...

After Wednesday’s failed House attempt to override Gov. Tom Wolf’s veto of a bipartisan-backed bill designed to give local school officials the final say on holding sports and setting crowd limits, some were left scratching their heads. How could a bill that passed the House by a 155-47 fall short of the 135 votes needed to override the governor’s veto? The answer: 24 of the Democratic legislators who voted “yes” on the bill originally apparently had a change of heart. One of the bill’s original supporters, Rep Mark Rozzi, D-Berks County, was absent on Wednesday. House Majority Leader Kerry Benninghoff,...

This is an extension of the Hapgood theory originally detailed in his Earth's Shifting Crust, forward by (the) Albert Einstein. I just became acquainted with this work by Chan Thomas entitled The Adam And Eve Story, which follows the Hapgood theory, but with an emphasis on human history that Hapgood did not focus upon. The archive.org has links to the full text in assorted fromats.

A jarring new report from The Atlantic claims that the Trump campaign is discussing potential strategies to circumvent the results of the 2020 election, should Joe Biden defeat Donald Trump, by first alleging the existence of rampant fraud and then appointing electors in battleground states where Republicans maintain a legislative majority, whom Trump would ask to bypass the state’s popular vote and instead to choose electors loyal to the GOP and the sitting president.

AG Daniel Cameron: Evidence shows that officers both knocked and announced their presence at the apartment. The officers’ statements about their announcement are corroborated by an independent witness https://twitter.com/i/status/1308835050021105668

Pelosi: Christ would not want Trump honored at National Catholic Prayer Breakfast This seems pretty rich from the leader of the party of abortion on demand and limits on freedom of religious expression by business owners.According to the Washington Examiner: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday bashed Catholic supporters of President Trump ahead of his appearance at the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast.Speaking at an event hosted by the liberal nun activist Sister Simone Campbell, Pelosi expressed “dismay” that the NCPB invited Trump to deliver the keynote address at its annual event.“What would Christ do? We always say that,” Pelosi said....

This is one hopeful scenario whereas we wont have to worry about waiting another week after Trump won by a comfortable margin to wait for the unopened mail in ballots to be counted. What needs to happen on election night is up to 90 to 95 percent of registered voters show up or have mailed in their ballots, especially in swing states. To the extent where the amount of mail in ballots yet counted will surpass the amount of voters in many districts. This is typical of some blue districts where they have been known to have more registered voters...

President Trump abruptly exited his news conference Wednesday at the White House, saying he had an “emergency” phone call as reporters continued to press him with questions on the Breonna Taylor case. "I have to leave for an emergency phone call," Trump said before leaving the briefing. "I'll be back. I'll see you tomorrow"

An unemployed Los Angeles director decided to make a PSA urging blacks to vote in the presidential election. Unfortunately her Get Your Booty To the Poll campaign, featuring scantily clad women gyrating around a dance pole, seems to have backfired.

As the chief legal officers of our states, attorneys general possess a tremendous power to shape public opinion and make official decisions that can affect the outcomes of cases. Regardless of party affiliation, when it comes to exercising the prosecutorial function of our offices, there are certain rules that every attorney general agrees to — and certain lines that should never be crossed. We should never weaponize our office for political gain, regardless of the situation, even when the sitting president of the United States is a citizen of the state we serve. Unfortunately, some of my colleagues across the...

"In this episode of Common Sense, Rudy Giuliani sits down with Governor Mike Huckabee. This interview is a can't miss!"

A judge ruled Wednesday that Eric Trump must testify in response to a subpoena from the New York attorney general’s office as part of an investigation into whether the Trump organization improperly valued real estate assets in statements. Eric Trump, the president’s middle son and a top executive at the organization, has until Oct. 7 — less than a month before the general election — to testify, Judge Arthur Engoron ruled after a hearing in Manhattan Supreme Court. Trump’s lawyers had requested to delay his deposition until after the election so he could campaign for his father. New York Attorney...

Explanation: Yes, but have you ever seen the space station do this? If you know when and where to look, watching the bright International Space Station (ISS) drift across your night sky is a fascinating sight -- but not very unusual. Images of the ISS crossing in front of the half-degree Moon or Sun do exist, but are somewhat rare as they take planning, timing, and patience to acquire. Catching the ISS crossing in front of minuscule Mars, though, is on another level. Using online software, the featured photographer learned that the unusual transit would be visible only momentarily along...

The order directs the California Air Resources Board to develop a phase-out plan that would require 100 percent zero-emissions personal use and dryage vehicles by 2035 and as many medium-duty and heavy-duty vehicle applications deemed feasible by 2045. “Pull away from the gas pumps,” Newsom said. “Let us no longer be victims of geopolitical dictators that manipulate global supply chains and global markets.”

MEMORIAL OF SAINT PIUS OF PIETRELCINA LUKE 9:1-6 Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus sends his disciples on mission: He summoned the Twelve . . . and he sent them to proclaim the Kingdom of God and to heal the sick.” As members of the Mystical Body, we share the mission of evangelization. In accord with the subjectivism of our culture, many Christians think of their spiritual lives in an individualist way, as the cultivation of their personal friendship with God. But this overlooks something that the New Testament authors took for granted—namely, that Christians exist not for themselves but for...

(CNN)When Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg returns for the final time to the Supreme Court on Wednesday, an army of more than a hundred of her former clerks will meet the casket and accompany it up the stone steps leading to the great hall where the liberal icon presided for almost 30 years. The Supreme Court, built on precedent and rooted in tradition, will honor Ginsburg in a private ceremony and then a public viewing, but her former clerks, standing guard, won't leave the casket.

Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody reportedly sent a letter to the FBI and Florida Department of Law Enforcement requesting a criminal investigation into a recent report that failed Democrat presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg, a billionaire, has raised more than $16 million to help convicted felons pay off their debts in an attempt to boost Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden in the state. “The letter said that Moody’s office had reviewed Bloomberg’s pledge and referred the matter to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the FBI for a criminal investigation,” CBS 12 reported. “Moody’s letter references Florida’s statute against paying...

I have recently become the custodian of an WWII Army 1911. During a cleaning< I noticed that it has a light crack in the slide on the left side by at the ejection cutout. I'm considering taking to a Gunsmith for a professional opinion, but I'd like to hear Freeper's opinions or experiences with this before I shoot it or waste the time of the Gunsmith.