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A conservative voting group has filed a lawsuit to stop some of Wisconsin's largest cities from using about $6 million in grant money to help run elections, alleging the initiative violates federal election law. Wisconsin's five largest cities were granted $6.3 million earlier this year by the Center for Tech and Civic Life, a non-profit, in order to run safe elections despite budget shortfalls and other concerns related to the coronavirus pandemic. Under the Center's "Wisconsin Safe Voting Plan", the cities of Kenosha, Madison, Green Bay, Milwaukee and Racine will receive funding to run their elections. On Thursday, a conservative...

With the fight brewing over a new Supreme Court justice, it’s helpful to understand the danger American faces because of Ginsburgian judicial activism. One of the best examples of Ginsburg’s philosophy is Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., 550 U.S. 618 (2007), in which Ginsburg wrote the dissent, not the opinion.* The facts of the case are simple, which highlights the difference between judicial restraint and judicial activism. Ledbetter involved that part of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 making it illegal to pay different salaries based solely on sex. Like all EEOC matters, the...

When Hunter Biden took that $3.5 million in money transfers from Yelena Baturina, Russia's richest woman, the media lapsed into sudden incuriosity, very bizarre, given that it spent four years yelling about President Trump and his supposed "Russian collusion." Here was real Russian collusion and the blue-checks went blue-screen. Miranda Devine at the New York Post has some excellent observations on that here. The corruption watchers in the U.S. government, though, didn't -- bells and alarms went off -- which is why a record of this activity, obtainable by the Senate in its damning interim report, is there at all. According to the New York Post:...

...the item is now believed to be a rocket booster from NASA’s Surveyor 2 mission which crash landed on the Moon in 1966... Of course, there’s still a chance that 2020 SO is actually an asteroid, in which case it would be considered a minimoon while in direct orbit around the Earth. However, an old rocket booster finding would merely be considered ‘space junk’ and join the 57,000-plus pieces of human debris currently being tracked by various entities. One astronomer’s space ‘trash’ is a vintage space collector’s treasure? You decide. You can watch more on NASA’s Surveyor missions below:...

Fascist Bishops Quashing faithful clerics Catholics are all-too-aware of heavy-handed bishops bearing down on their priests, telling them not to weigh in on politicians and their policies that run contrary to the Faith. Just a week ago, Bp. William Callahan of La Crosse, Wisconsin blasted Fr. James Altman for his tone in a recent homily on how Catholics cannot be Democrats.  As if Fr. Altman's manner of speaking was the issue — it was not! Perhaps, Pennsylvania bishops Lawrence Persico of Erie, or Joseph Bambera of Scranton — both registered Democrats — shouted out a call to Callahan to sit on Father Altman. "God forbid a mere priest tell us...

When asked about Meghan and Harry’s inappropriate intervention in the U.S. election, Trump responded in kind: “I’m not a fan of hers and I would say this, and she’s probably heard that… but I wish a lot of luck to Harry, because he’s gonna need it.” Markle and her husband, once beloved to Britons, recorded a video clearly aimed at vilifying Trump. They said yesterday: “As we approach this November, it’s vital that we reject hate speech, misinformation and online negativity. When the bad outweighs the good, for many, whether we realize it or not, it erodes our ability to...

Environmentalists and wind energy opportunists (entrepreneurs who take advantage of overly generous tax credits and multiple other subsidies) want you to believe wind energy is as pure “green” as newly driven snow is white, and as cheap as Taco Bell. They never tell you about the costs – or the environmental destruction – that they have hidden from you for decades. But neither do most governments, news media or social media.Ars Technica science editor John Timmer says wind hardware prices are dropping, even as new turbine designs are increasing the typical power generated by each turbine. Timmer did admit that “wind is...

A Black man was executed by the federal government Thursday for a crime he committed at age 19, even though his attorney said prosecutors used inflammatory racial stereotypes during the trial 20 years ago to land her client on death row.

Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney on Thursday joined Republican and Democratic legislators in criticizing President Donald Trump's comment about whether he would commit to a peaceful transfer of power if he loses the Nov. 3 presidential election. Trump told reporters on Wednesday that he would “have to see what happens" when asked about whether he’d commit to a peaceful transfer of power. Thursday morning, Cheney responded to the comment in a tweet: "The peaceful transfer of power is enshrined in our Constitution and fundamental to the survival of our Republic. America’s leaders swear an oath to the Constitution. We will uphold...

Since Labor Day President Trump has entertained over 187,000 supporters at his rallies and speeches. During the same period former Obama Vice President Joe Biden has entertained around 84 supporters at his events.

We normally don’t write about random people on Twitter, but Dr. Bueno here has been getting ratio’d all day now and has only added to her thread, so we don’t think she’s concerned about the comments. In short, she wants a refund or voucher from Airbnb because her rental in Maine was in view of Trump yard signs and other white nationalist symbols, which she later explains could include the American flag. These made her immediately terrified for her life, and she wants Airbnb to understand the trauma Trump signs cause a black person. Disappointed @airBnb doesn’t understand the trauma...

The Bail Project has come under fire, after it was revealed that their employee, Holly Zoller, was the renter and driver of a U-Haul that provided shields and other supplies to antifa rioters before the chaos in Louisville yesterday.

2 HOURS AGO · PUBLIC I get so tired of these sleazy know-nothing "reporters" like the New York Times clown Tiffany Hsu. The CDC data is clear. I did not make it up. It states that 6% of the now over 200,000 of those who died of the coronavirus died just from the virus, while 94% had comorbidities -- that is, 94% had life-threatening underlying issues such as severe heart disease, diabetes, etc. (The list of comorbidities is also provided by the CDC.) Obviously, 200,000 individuals did not die solely or even primarily from the coronavirus, but some subset of...

In case you didn't notice, our country is completely falling apart. There are so many problems that they are hard to list out at this point, but the biggest, by far, is the increasing animosity between Americans of different political persuasions. People think those on the other side are evil and need to be destroyed. There have always been views like that on the fringes, but the fringes have made huge advances and are now dominating our discourse. And it's not just discourse. We are seeing actual political violence on a scale not seen since the late 1960s. Most Americans...

A federal investigation into irregularities with mail-in ballots at the Luzerne County Bureau of Elections has turned up nine discarded ballots that were cast for President Donald Trump, U.S. Attorney David J. Freed said Thursday. In a prepared statement issued by his office, Freed said FBI agents and Pennsylvania State Police who began investigating “potential issues” with a number of ballots earlier this week determined military ballots had been discarded. “Investigators have recovered nine ballots at this time,” Freed said. “Some of those ballots can be attributed to specific voters and some cannot. All nine ballots were cast for presidential...

Haven’t see. The Friday Silliness post in a while..... thought we could have a lighthearted kick off with a name that theme tune for 2020...... Only criteria is that the tune must have appropriate lyrics to fit your 2020 experience..... My vote is for “Bad Moon Rising “ by Credence Clearwater Revival.... Have fun Freepers!!!!! Name that tune!

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." FBI agent William J. Barnett made the comments during an interview on Sept. 17 at the Justice Department, before Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri Jeffrey Jensen, who was tapped by Attorney General Bill Barr to review the case...

(CNN)Dr. Anthony Fauci said Thursday that even an effective Covid-19 vaccine won't replace the need for other public health measures, such as wearing a mask, social distancing and washing hands. Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said the vaccine will not be 100% effective and taken by 100% of the population -- which means there still will be room for Covid-19 to spread. Fauci said he's being "practical" when he says, "I think if we can get 75 to 80% of the population vaccinated, I think that would be a really good accomplishment." "It...

Why is Joe Biden always putting a "lid" on his campaign? If you're not familiar with the press lingo, a "lid" is a note to your press pool that you plan no further public events on your schedule. Biden tends to put a "lid" on it at 9 or 10 in the morning, saying his press corps has nothing to cover. On Sept. 23, they called a "lid" at 9:30 a.m. -- the ninth time they've done it this month. Is it due to never-ending debate prep? Biden denied that, saying he's just getting ready to prepare. Since March, Biden...

Bouncing around local media, the NBC, CBS and FOX stations are really going pedal to the metal on the Ginsburg thing This was completely the opposite of how they treated Antonin Scalia.