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Political hell broke loose when America learned, just as the Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah was about to commence, that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg -- a decades-long liberal lion of the Supreme Court and erstwhile feminist trailblazer -- had succumbed to pancreatic cancer. In a presidential election year already marked by a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic unleashed upon the world by a geopolitical archfoe, a once-in-a-lifetime pansocietal conversation about race, and unprecedented political rancor fanning the flames of a grieving nation's cold civil war, the passing of "RBG" has upended anew the battle lines for November. Within hours of Ginsburg's passing, Senate...

A federal judge has stopped the 2020 census from finishing at the end of September and ordered the once-a-decade head count of every U.S. resident to continue for another month through the end of October, saying a shortened schedule likely would produce inaccurate results. U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh in California made her ruling late Thursday, two days after hearing arguments from attorneys for the Census Bureau, and attorneys for civil rights groups and local governments that had sued the Census Bureau in an effort to halt the 2020 census from stopping at the end of the month. Attorneys for...

FBI official William Barnett was assigned to lead the bureau's original investigation into Michael Flynn An FBI official who served on Robert Mueller’s team said he believed the special counsel’s prosecution of former White House national security adviser Michael Flynn was part of an attitude to “get Trump,” and that he did not wish to pursue a Trump-Russia collusion investigation as it was “not there" and considered it to be a "dead end."

On a recent episode of my podcast District of Conservation, environmentalist Mike Shellenberger shared what’s on his mind regarding the current state of environmentalism. An admitted moderate Democrat, the bestselling author of the summer breakout book, Apocalypse Never, discussed his findings from the book and why he’s speaking out.Unbeknownst to many, the Environmental Progress founder and president had a reckoning about climate alarmism and apologized for contributing to any past fear mongering. In a June 29th blog post entitled, On Behalf Of Environmentalists, I Apologize For The Climate Scare, he wrote: On behalf of environmentalists everywhere, I would like to formally apologize for the climate...

[Note: This piece is heavy on video content.] But…but…but…Jake Tapper and Rachel Maddow have assured us that voter fraud is a myth. They wouldn’t lie to us, would they? – Well, of course they would. That’s what they’re paid to do. Wake up. On Thursday, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced the arrest and indictment of a Democrat county commissioner and three fellow Democrats who had set up an illegal vote-harvesting operation in an effort to steal a Democrat Party primary election in 2018. AG Paxton further detailed that the four Democrats were subject to no fewer than 134 counts...

Michelle Rojas Tal is the granddaughter of a Holocaust survivor on her mom's side, and the daughter of a Puerto Rican non-Jewish father. She grew up in New York City, where she had pride in both heritages, and a full understanding that she was one of the Jewish people. She was 16 years old when the Twin Towers blew up across the river from her high school. While the events of 9/11 were a turning point in the young teenager's life, it was while in college that Michelle became an activist for Israel, when a professor claimed that the Israeli...

Special Dispatch to the New-York Times. CHICAGO, Monday, Sept. 24. The Prince had an agreeably busy visit here. Long JOHN WENTWORTH had notified everybody as to his movement, and consequently everybody saw him ride to visit the grain-elevator, the water-works and the Court-house. The Prince displayed himself on the balcony of his hotel at 1 1/2 o'clock on Saturday. The crowd which assembled to greet him was a motley one -- the rich in carriages and gorgeous apparel, and the poor on foot, clad in homespun. The Prince bowed from the centre and the two ends of the balcony, and...

It's getting scary out there, people. Everywhere you turn, Trump haters are venting their wrath against Trump supporters, as if supporting President Trump is an unforgivable sin. They're projecting and gaslighting -- blaming Trump and his supporters for everything they're doing. It's madness, but at long last, they might have awakened the sleeping giant they're trying to hunt down and destroy. MSNBC's Joy Reid tweeted, "Genuine question: what will be the relationship between the majority of Americans, and Trumpists after this long, national nightmare ends -- and it will eventually end -- do people anticipate simply letting bygones (be) bygones...

Is an unexpected October Surprise on the way? They think it's a bad thing, but I give The Nation credit for reportorial digging. The hard-left magazine has discovered that federal law enforcement agencies (though not the FBI) have been tracing whom the mobs in Portland have been communicating with. The apparent lead role in utilizing hi tech and classified electronic means is being played by the Department of Homeland Security's Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I&A), while the U.S. Marshals Service is dispatching street-level personnel. This bypasses the FBI, whose director, Christopher Wray, is on the record in sworn testimony,...

David Jay is the oldest of 12 cousins on one side of his family and the third-oldest of 24 cousins on the other. As a kid, family to Jay meant having a lot of people around, a feeling of community, and crucially, a sense of permanence, that these people would always be in his life. Later, as an adult living in collective housing, he could access the feeling of family with those around him, but the permanence was gone. His roommates started finding romantic partners, having children, and dispersing. Jay had always wanted his own family with kids—and had known,...

Barack and Michelle Obama are the most admired people in the world, according to a survey by the opinion research institute YouGov. Billionaire Microsoft founder Bill Gates is now ranked the second most admired man, after sitting in first place last year. Chinese leader and party leader Xi Jinping follows as the third most admired man, according to the survey results. The most admired woman in the world remains Michelle Obama, with actress Angelina Jolie now in second place and the British Queen Elizabeth II in third place. Last year, US presenter Oprah Winfrey came second, Angelina Jolie third. YouGov...

Hurricanes are often assigned unsuitable names. Katrina, Camille, Josephine, Eloise, Fabian…Noel (my name, for heaven’s sake) wrought much havoc; some have even been forced into ignominious retirement, essentially thrown onto the stormy scrap heap of history. Why are such noble names doomed to live in hurricane infamy when there are plenty of other more menacing monikers available? The World Metrological Association keeps six lists of 21 male and female names that are rotated every six years, and they are overweighed with uncommon, yet pleasant names that hardly promote the kind of “run for your lives” mindset hurricanes often warrant. However,...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Democrats in of the House of Representatives will introduce a bill next week to limit the tenure of U.S. Supreme Court justices to 18 years from current lifetime appointments, in a bid to reduce partisan warring over vacancies and preserve the court’s legitimacy. The new bill, seen by Reuters, would allow every president to nominate two justices per four-year term and comes amid heightened political tensions as Republican President Donald Trump prepares to announce his third pick for the Supreme Court after the death on Sept. 18 of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, with just 40 days...

In the last 48 hours we have discovered the following related to Spygate/Obamagate: – The release of a series of text messages between multiple FBI personnel revealing that they knew the spying on the Trump campaign and efforts to frame General Mike Flynn were highly illegal and that they were so concerned about their own situations that they went out and purchased personal liability insurance policies in January, 2017; Skip Ad EPIC: Jim Jordan Pummels a Dissembling Anthony Fauci in Friday Hearing VDO.AI – The revelation that the sub-source for Christopher Steele’s fake Dossier on Donald Trump was in fact...

Allum Bokhari, the senior technology correspondent at Breitbart News, has performed an extraordinarily valuable service by giving us his new book #Deleted: Big Tech’s Battle to Erase the Trump Movement and Steal the Election. While the social media giants’ efforts to suppress all dissent from their far-left, anti-American agenda have been going on for years, few people are aware of the full depth and breadth of this sinister initiative, or of how it is much more than just a bias toward the left, but a carefully planned and coordinated endeavor that, if left unchecked, will do nothing less than relegate...

Black Lives Matter and Antifa have a pattern: Whenever they don’t like something, they violently take to the streets to show their displeasure. Significantly, their protests are not localized. In cities across America, residents are being trained that, if they cross the mob, the mob will destroy them. Over five years, with accelerated speed in 2020, state and urban governments across America, by embracing the mob’s “defund the police” policy, have ceded their streets to the mob. This cannot continue. It is destabilizing America, especially now that the mob makes implicit and explicit threats of future violence if Americans don’t...

Illinois taxpayers, who already have one of the nation’s highest total tax burdens, could see a 20% income tax hike if voters don’t approve of Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s “fair tax” constitutional amendment in November. Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton said on a conference call Thursday that the state would have to raise income taxes by $4 billion, more than the income tax amendment would have brought in before the Pritzker administration’s shutdown orders ground the state’s economy to a crawl amid the pandemic. “To adequately address the budget crisis under our current tax system, lawmakers will be forced to consider raising...

A former iron workers union president was sentenced to 42 months in prison Wednesday for ordering and participating in the violent extortion of non-union workers at a construction site. Jeffrey Veach, 57, the former president of an Indiana chapter of the International Association of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental, and Reinforcing Iron Workers (BSOIW) was charged for his role in the incident in 2018, according to the Department of Justice (DOJ). He and co-defendant Thomas Williamson, a business agent for BSOIW, each pleaded guilty in January to one count of extortion conspiracy, the DOJ said. “Under the pretext of serving their union,...

Gov. Phil Murphy has forced us into voting by mail this year, and ordered that there will be limited polling locations on election day with NO voting machines, except for voters with disabilities. Everyone else who goes to the polls on Election Day will have to vote on a paper provisional ballot, that is not counted until AFTER all the mail-in ballots are counted. We must send a message to Governor Murphy that no matter how he changes the rules to help the Democrats, we will win! How do we accomplish this task? Vote early for the Republican Team, COLUMN...

It’s just the flu, bro. Yesterday we showed that fictitious diseases could easily kill over one million Americans. Through the same pattern of extensive testing and a small (but not zero) false positive rate we will continue to get large numbers of cases. These “cases” will die along the same patterns as humans generally die - old and sick people will make up most of these “victims”. Approximately 1% of any population dies each year. That means if you have one hundred fake Coronavirus cases about one of these people will die because they were going to die anyway. Push...