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Really liking the emerging face of the GOP these days. Good stuff. Click to view.

As Democratic senators begin mapping out how they will wield their limited procedural weapons in the fight over President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, they are grappling with a central question: How much legitimacy do they give his candidate?

Parents of students attending Jewish schools in New York City are being encouraged not to have their children tested for COVID-19 to prevent the schools from being shut down. On Thursday, this message made the rounds on WhatsApp, a popular messaging platform in Orthodox communities: “DO NOT test your child for covid,” the message began. “The city has released new guidelines that mandate CLOSURE of an ENTIRE SCHOOL if there are two positive tests in the school.” It went on to encourage parents to obscure suspected COVID-19 infections among their children. “If your child is sick please keep them home,...

The Supreme Court Thursday rejected the petition by scientists and academics against the COVID-19 lockdown. The judges ruled that “the petition’s underlying factual and legal infrastructure is no longer relevant," referring to the petition’s claims of inflated morbidity and mortality data, biases, and lack of transparency. The judges ruled the points were moot, as the government has already tightened measures and imposed full lockdown based on the same data. The Court said it cannot examine the substantive arguments presented by the petitioners, and therefore defers to the "competent bodies". Attorney Batya Sachs, who prepared the petition, responded to the ruling,...

Doctors worldwide have been studying all sorts of therapies to manage COVID-19 and reduce complications. Now, a team of scientists from Florida thinks it has figured out an optimal protocol and they say their COVID-19 treatment has a near-perfect success rate. “The ICAM protocol has the potential to trigger the reopening of the country,” Director of Pharmacy at AdventHealth Ocala Dr. Carlette Norwood-Williams told Fox 35. “We will know the next step after our outpatient study.” The scientists have not yet tested their combination of drugs in a clinical trial to prove beyond any doubt that the treatment is safe...

An excellent video covering the First Battle of Savo Island in the Guadalcanal Campaign. Not our Navy's finest hour, but we learned some hard lessons that would serve us well in the future.

A Pennsylvania sheriff who describes himself as a lifelong Democrat is backing President Trump amid nationwide unrest and calls to defund police. "I didn't leave the Democratic Party, it left me," Westmoreland County Sheriff James Albert said Saturday on "Fox & Friends Weekend." "The past few months with the goings-on in the news media with the protests, the riots, the looting, burning, assaults on law enforcement ... the silence of the Democratic Party was deafening," he said. After more than 40 years in law enforcement as a Democrat, Albert, 70, switched to the Republican Party on Monday. "I always considered...

Arab rioters and vandals targeted the Israeli town of Esh Kodesh in Samaria on Saturday, destroying property and hurling stones at residents. Fires were sparked at multiple locations around the town, causing damage to orchards owned by residents of Esh Kodesh. In addition, vandals uprooted trees and destroyed fences put up by local Jewish farmers. When residents rushed to the scene to put out the fires, they were stoned by Arab rioters and far-left activists, who had been lying in wait, apparently as part of a larger plan to lure residents out of Esh Kodesh. “This past year the orchards...

Could Trump flip Virginia to red in November? It’s certainly possible. Virginia has gone red in other elections and since the Democrats control there at the beginning of this year, they have overplayed their had on a number of issues, particularly gun control. Conservatives who live there are fired up, and many people who used to vote Democrat will be voting for Trump. He held a massive campaign event there on Friday night. President Trump took his stump speech into a key “purple” state Friday, telling Virginians their Gov. Ralph Northam represents the kind of governance they’ll get on a...

Taco Bell is unveiling a buzzy new menu item. To toast the relaunch of the toasted cheesy chalupa, a fan favorite, the fast-food chain is releasing a Pinot Noir to pair it with, the Bell's first exclusive house wine and first wine partnership. The limited-edition bottling from Queenston Mile Vineyard, in Canada's Niagara-on-the-Lake region... The pairing may not seem obvious. But when talks of a Taco Bell wine started, Queenston president Andrew Howard saw an opportunity to challenge the perception some have of wine as pretentious and inaccessible. "We intended this to be limited-edition, but given the coverage and the...

Well, it's finally happened. After years of effort and warnings and threats, with Oklahoma becoming compliant, the Federal Government has officially declared that all 50 States are now compliant with REAL ID. So now, to obtain State Identification Cards and Driver's License Cards, all 50 States have the same minimum requirements and standards. For all our Republican States - Democrat States divisions right now, at least we have this in common - and right now we could use everything possible in common.

The World Health Organization supported China’s campaign to vaccinate certain people against coronavirus in July while clinical trials were still under way, a Chinese health official said on Friday, although some experts have expressed concern about the move. China launched its emergency programme in July, having communicated with the WHO in late June, according to Zheng Zhongwei, a National Health Commission official. Hundreds of thousands essential workers and other limited groups of people considered at high risk of infection have been given the vaccine, even though its efficacy and safety had not been fully established as Phase 3 clinical trials...

Amy Coney Barrett is a working mother with seven kids including two adopted children from Haiti. On Saturday afternoon video was taken of Amy Coney Barrett leaving home with her husband and seven children.

Trey Gowdy responded to Joe Biden and Democrats upset about President Trump selecting a nominee to the Supreme Court by saying “win an election.” Gowdy, in an interview with “Fox & Friends,” was responding to suggestions that the replacement for Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s seat should be nominated after the election. “If I win this election,” Biden said, “President Trump’s nominee should be withdrawn and, as the new president, I should be the one to nominate Justice Ginsburg’s successor.” Gowdy disagrees. “If you don’t like who the Supreme Court nominees are, then win an election,” he told Democrats. “You should have...

JACKSON CO., Or.- Today, a grand jury indicted the man Medford police are charging with lighting a vehicle on fire near Emigrant Lake the same day the Almeda fire sparked. 45-year-old Vance Nguyen is in Jackson County jail on a first-degree arson charge. Today Nguyen appeared before a judge and pled “not guilty.” Police arrested Nguyen after investigating a vehicle that was set on fire near Emigrant Lake. Greensprings firefighters says they found the vehicle in flames, with a propane tank on the top of it. They tell us the direction of the wind that day prevented it from spreading...

Less than six weeks before the election, one of the most profound disappointments among some of Joe Biden’s supporters is that he doesn’t even seem to be trying. If some Democrats are correct, crushing “The Donald” should have been easy. After all (according to them), Trump is an impeached, sex-offending, tax-evading, white supremacist, coronavirus-mismanaging, sexist, racist, Islamophobic, homophobic, mysogynistic, sexist liar who is wildly unpopular. And Biden has long showed a hefty advantage in the polls. If all of that’s true, then Biden need do little more than show up, and winning should be a piece of cake — a...

(snip) BROOKS: ".... Yes, I was in a call, a conference call, with a bunch of scholars and political observers yesterday, and we all said, how scared are you, from one to five? And we were pretty much at 4.5. Some people were at nine and 10. I have never been more pessimistic about where this country is than I am right now, I mean, in my whole life. We have had a bad few years with the social fabric fraying. We have had a president ripping us to top from the — ripping us apart from the top.... And...

Former Governor Sarah Palin calls out Murkowski.

President Donald Trump is holding a campaign rally at Harrisburg International Airport Saturday evening, but people were lined up hours before. The rally will be held at a hangar near the main terminal of the Lower Swatara Township airport. Doors open at 4 p.m., and the president is slated to arrive at 7 p.m. People were standing in long lines Saturday morning.

A Tennessee woman broke a Guinness World Record by hugging a tree in a Chattanooga park for 10 hours and 5 minutes. Adrienne Long spent 10 hours and 5 minutes with her arms wrapped around a walnut tree at Heritage Park in Chattanooga's Brainerd neighborhood to break the previous tree-hugging record, which stood at 8 hours, 15 minutes.Long's friend Sarah Medley, owner of Studio 59 Aveda Salon and Spa, organized activities for Long and spectators including dance, yoga and guided meditation during the attempt. The attempt was live-streamed on the World Record Tree Hug page on Facebook. Long's feat raised...