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This headline caught my eye: UAE minister: Iran’s aggression made Arab world look at Israel ‘with fresh eyes’ The United Arab Emirates didn’t need peace with Israel to counter Iran, a top UAE official said Friday, but he said Iran’s aggressive policies over three decades alarmed many Arab countries and made them look at their relationship with Israel “with fresh eyes.” It strikes me that the racist, terrorist arm of the Democratic party [SAY THEIR NAME! BLM/ANTIFA!] might force that same type of uneasy alliance between Democrats and Trump if they’re not careful. Because even if there is a lot...

Walking the streets of lower Manhattan for the first time in a long time, I was talking with a friend a few days ago. Over the course of 20 blocks or so, I would occasionally play with my facemask, to get a little extra air. Not take it off, not to pull it down, but pull it outward. I suspect that when I did that, my nose could have become exposed. The point of this story is, a woman coming toward us, but still quite far, started screaming at me. At first, I had no idea what was going on....

On Thursday, in his continued effort to get his case dismissed, Michael Flynn filed a third brief supporting the original dismissal claim. This made waves because it included texts between FBI analysts in which they admitted that they knew the investigation against Michael Flynn was unfounded and driven by partisan animus. The text messages might have revealed more than that: One texter confessed that those involved bought professional liability insurance after becoming afraid that news might leak about their conduct. They might have committed insurance fraud if they didn’t let the insurance companies know they had already committed wrongful acts....

Now we know why the Democrat/media Axis of Propaganda felt the need to run its hoax alleging President Trump made disparaging remarks about members of the U.S. military. – They had to project that sin onto the President – using nothing but anonymous, and thus probably non-existent sources – because they knew this video of Creepy Joe McWifeMolester would eventually surface: “Clap for that, you stupid bastards.” Biden was Vice President at the time of this and other off-color remarks he made during this particular speech in 2016, and to be fair, he sounds like he had had a few...

[Note: This piece is heavy on video content.] Time to hook him back up to that IV in the basement. – The Democrat Party’s Unfrozen Caveman Candidate needed a long nap on Friday so his elder-abusing handlers called a lid on the day by 11:00 ET. It marked the 10th day in the first 25 days of September on which the elderly, declining Biden became so tired after a public outing that he had to retreat back to his basement lair. Because Gropey Joe McNastyFinger was not able, Jill Biden got the assignment of making the campaign’s speech of the...

Image by Northrup Grumman, from military.com, scaled and cropped by Dean Weingarten In my 30+ year career in Army Research, Development, Testing and Evaluation, (RDT&E), there was some exposure and support of laser weapons. A principle concern with lasers is how the interact with the atmosphere. That is where my old outfit came in.Lasers have been used in weapons systems since shortly after their development, for ranging and sensing, and information technology. I am writing about weapons that burn, shoot down, and blow things up.My team supported a laser weapons test about 1975 as I recall. This correspondent was not...

“Today, we are profoundly honored by their (Bay of Pigs veterans) presence. We’re joined by these 20 incredible veterans — Brigade 2506 — and their families. Could I ask you to stand, please? …I appreciate you being here.  This is tremendous. It’s an honor. You’ve been honoring me for four years, and now I’m honoring you, and that’s a nice way to do it…The courageous veterans here today bear witness to how socialism, radical mobs, and violent communists ruin a nation.  Now, the Democratic Party is unleashing socialism right within our own beautiful country... We will honor your courage with...

"New York Times" columnist Thomas Friedman said in an interview with CNN host Anderson Cooper on Thursday that if you are not frightened right now, you are not paying attention. "It's terrifying because the Republican Party has become basically a political brothel, that rents itself out by the night to ever will energize its base," Friedman told Cooper. "Whether it was Sarah Palin or the Tea Party, and now Trump. This is a party that went into its convention with no platform. No platform. Basically said whatever Trump wants, we want." (snip) FRIEDMAN: Backed by a party without spine, amplified...

If you suspect that Joe Biden is suffering from dementia and that the very common symptoms known as "sundowning" are part of his illness, then his "mystifying" campaign schedule starts to make sense. The schedule that "mystified" National Review a few days ago: As of late, Biden's team has regularly put a "lid" on his day by noon — or even earlier. And, when it does not, the events that Biden attends seem to have been designed to be either easily cancelable or easily replaceable. The lid has been placed on his schedule earlier in recent days, and yesterday, it...

This was recently added: He has a stutter, which was more prominent in his childhood and his early twenties.[28] He says he has helped to reduce it by spending many hours reciting poetry in front of a mirror,[22]:99 but it sometimes resurfaces "on occasions such as when he is very tired".[29] It has been suggested that this has affected his performance in Democratic debates during his 2020 campaign for the presidency.[30]

In a statement announcing Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death September 18, 2020, Chief Justice John Roberts said, “Our nation has lost a jurist of historic stature. We at the Supreme Court have lost a cherished colleague. Today we mourn, but with confidence that future generations will remember Ruth Bader Ginsburg as we knew her – a tireless and resolute champion of justice.” Ginsburg was a champion of something, but it wasn’t justice for the unborn. Sure, the left’s superhero was a tireless and relentless liberal judge, but she won’t go down in history as the saint Democrats suggest,...

Over all, there are some really valid points here. Not one politician has died from the virus, lost their job, or had their business looted. Or, missed a haircut. Or wears a mask unless on camera Y’all know you’re being played right? ***************************** Remember how we panicked when we couldn’t find any toilet paper? What are we going to do when we can’t find a cop? ***************************** NYC just defunded the very people that ran into the burning Towers on 9/11. Think about it!!!! ***************************** If we all started wearing masks with “Trump 2020” on them, how long before experts...

This will be a weekly post. Count is now 218 judges confirmed. 2 Trade Court judges 161 District Court judges 53 Circuit Court judges 2 Supreme Court justices The Senate this week also confirmed a judge to the Court of Federal Claims (Article I judge, serves 15 years). President Trump is expected to appoint Amy Coney Barrett later today to fill the Supreme Court vacancy resulting from the death last week of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. A Barrett confirmation would then leave a vacancy on the 7th Circuit. Should Trump appoint a replacement and the Senate confirm, that would be...

President Trump on Wednesday said he felt like a wartime president as his administration seeks to reduce the spread of the coronavirus and ease the economic impact of the pandemic. “I view it in a sense, a wartime president,” Trump told reporters at the White House when asked if he viewed the United States as being on wartime footing.

U.S. Attorney William McSwain of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania blames Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner for the rise in violence in the City of Brotherly Love. Krasner’s policies, McSwain announced, “create a culture of lawlessness; they leave criminals emboldened; and they have inevitable consequences.” Indeed, since Krasner took office in 2018, homicides are up 49 percent and shootings have climbed by 59 percent. If the trend holds, Philadelphia will tally more than 450 homicides in 2020—the highest count in nearly 30 years. Crime is spiking precisely because Krasner isn’t holding serious offenders accountable. An analysis by my group, the...

The small number of mishandled military ballots at a Pennsylvania elections board that sparked a federal inquiry and allegations from the Trump campaign that Democrats were "trying to steal the election" were actually "incorrectly" tossed by a temp, a county official said Friday. In a press release, Luzerne County County Manager David Pedri said a "temporary seasonal independent contractor" who started work sorting mail at the Elections Bureau on Sept. 14th had "incorrectly" thrown out a small number of military and overseas ballots.

A photo showing two New Jersey high school students apparently mocking the police death of George Floyd has been circulating on social media. The photo shows one shirtless student wearing a red “Make American Great Again” hat and a police badge on a chain pinning his knee to the back of the neck of another teen on the ground in an ape mask, NJ.com reported. Floyd died May 25 after a Minneapolis police officer knelt on his neck for nearly eight minutes. Multiple parents have confirmed to NJ.com that the unmasked student in the photo attends Hunterdon Central Regional High...

America needs a leader “That’s gonna work his ass off,” an upbeat President Trump boasted Friday night, earning laughs at a Virginia campaign rally by chiding “Sleepy Joe” for routinely calling it a day early. Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden frequently calls early “lids” that indicate to reporters no more campaign events are planned, Trump joked. The president told a roaring crowd in Newport News that he, by contrast, powers through jam-packed days of events. “I got a guy, he stays in his basement all day long and I’m doing this,” Trump said during the hour-long speech, which followed earlier...

President Trump on Friday unveiled his "Platinum Plan" at an event in Atlanta, which is aimed at investing $500 billion in Black communities. Trump did not disclose how the plan would be funded but that it would boost lending to Black-owned businesses, reduce taxes, and also include education, healthcare, and criminal justice reforms. He also said the plan would make Juneteenth, a holiday celebrated by Black Americans that marks the end of slavery in the U.S., a national holiday. He said that the plan would focus on the prosecution of the Ku Klux Klan and antifa as well as designating...