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Ninth Circuit District Judge Delivers Another Superbly Written Court Order, iStock-1055138108 On 23 September 2020, Judge Roger T. Benitez issued another impressive order in a case involving the Second Amendment. A number of California residents, firearm businesses, special interest groups, foundations, and a political action committee have organized to sue California AG Xavier Becerra et al, to challenge the constitutionality of California's complex net of regulations for the ownership and use of various firearms the state deems to be “assault weapons”. The lawsuit has been winding its way through the federal legal system in the Ninth Circuit. In Miller v....

Joe Biden claims that he's the candidate to hold China to account and put U.S. interests first. Just nine days prior to the election, not everyone in the Democratic Party appears to have gotten the memo. Nor the memo, that is, that no patriotic official should be providing service, paid or voluntary, to the interests of communist China. Whatever one thinks of President Trump, the reality of Chinese President Xi Jinping's global strategy is now clear. The truth is that Xi seeks to replace the U.S.-led liberal international order with a feudal mercantile order of Beijing-led authoritarianism. It is a...

Based on our current trajectory, it seems inevitable: there’s going to be a cultural revolution one way or another. We will either continue with our precarious shift to the left, thereby going over the edge, so to speak. Or we will recover our moral bearings and save our country from collapse. We will be woke or we will be awakened. But either way, there will be a revolution. The center can no longer hold. In his article in the September edition of Commentary Magazine, titled “Yes, This Is a Revolution,” Abe Greenwald wrote, “The battle for the survival of the...

The word of the day is “verify” — it’s all over the alt-left media, as they brazenly attempt to cover up the burgeoning scandal of Hunter Biden’s laptop and all the payoffs, dirty deals and shakedowns contained therein. As usual, the Democrat stenographers with press passes speak as one — they can’t run with this Hunter Biden laptop information until it’s “verified.” It’s quite a phenomenon, this process of “verification.” Here’s how it works: If a story damaging to President Trump is concocted out of thin air, no matter how far-fetched or dodgy, absolutely no “verification” is required. (Nor are...

It’s just the flu, bro. There is so much debate over the Coronavirus and how lethal it is as a justification for lockdowns, but this is the wrong question. I suggest that even if the virus was much more lethal and much more contagious that the federal government intervention should definitely have been minimal. A federal government that stayed within its constitutional limits could legitimately do these things during a virus outbreak: 1.Stop the inflow of infected people or people from certain countries at the border 2.Modified the work patterns of federal employees Things it should not have done were:...

Former Secretary of State and Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton said the thought of President Trump winning reelection makes her "literally sick to my stomach" on a podcast released Monday "I can't entertain the idea of him winning, so let's just preface it by that," Clinton told journalist Kara Swisher while a guest on her podcast. "Well, because it makes me literally sick to my stomach to think that we'd have four more years of this abuse and destruction of our institutions, and damaging of our norms and our values, and lessening of our leadership, and the list goes on."

Two recent reports, when combined, paint a dark pathway for America in the coming weeks, a nation set on fire by multiple contentious court battles and widespread daily protests. The 79 Days Report, by the Claremont Institute and the Texas Policy Foundation, illuminates possible election legal battles on the horizon and how they might play out in the courts. The bottom line? The litigation will be time consuming and combative. There’s no fast forward button to speed up the process. It concludes: On election night, the winner will not be known “due to millions of uncounted mail-in ballots in 6...

The electronic warfare system is known as “Belladonna”, a poisonous plant that gets its name from Renaissance women who used its extract for tinctures to dilate the pupils of their eyes, ostensibly to make them more attractive. While Belladonna translates to “beautiful woman” in English, in Russian it has a second meaning: it is the name of a Russian electronic jamming system now credited with knocking out at least nine Turkish Bayraktar armed drones used by Azerbaijan to target Armenia. If true – and no one has denied it – the system is now operating around the sensitive Russian military...

“Anyone who is still clinging to the notion that the mainstream press isn’t a wholly owned subsidiary of the Democratic Party needs to watch the exchange between premier journalist Christiane Amanpour and Republican National Committee spokeswoman Liz Harrington.” - Issues and Insights   Set aside for a moment the MSM’s refusal to mention the Hunter Biden laptop story due to “lack of verification.” The critical exchange in Armanpour’s interview entails whose “job” it is to provide such verification: mind you, that “job” was once assumed to be the Fourth Estate’s primary role in society – regardless of which party...

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I am a first-generation American, son of two immigrants. My parents came as youngsters to the U.S. as exiles due to fear of what the future would hold in Cuba after Fidel Castro's revolution. Their beloved country, Cuba, seemed to be so toxic that the only option would be to uproot to a foreign land. What contemplations went through my grandparents' mind? What fears did they harbor but not convey to their children? I never met my grandparents, so I didn't have the opportunity to ask them. I believe that their decision to leave Cuba was based on the most...

The Supreme Court convened Monday to deliberate on a petition filed on behalf of seven Arab terrorists who face the loss of their Israeli residency due to their involvement in anti-Israeli terrorism. Bereaved families and their supporters gathered outside of the hearing to protest the petition, calling on the court to reject the appeal. Maurice Hirsch of Palestinian Media Watch, who also serves as an attorney for bereaved families who lost relatives to Arab terrorism, spoke with Arutz Sheva about the bid to strip the terrorists of their Israeli residency. “I’m here today in the Supreme Court of Israel to...

Will we look back on Bolivia's latest election results and concur that its citizens are still attracted to the dictatorial impulse of their leaders? During his 1961 inaugural address, President John F. Kennedy made it abundantly clear that he was concerned that the countries to the south of the United States not fall prey to communism. SNIP ot only have communist inroads been made south of the border, but jihadist attacks have increased. Thus, "[d]uring the 2000s and early 2010s, Iran made notable inroads throughout Latin America. Tehran capitalized on shifting power dynamics in an increasingly multipolar world and a...

The Unbelievable Saga of Hunter Biden's Laptop and the Biden Crime Family - Please copy and repost! The following compendium reflects my CURRENT understanding of the context and the events surrounding the saga of Hunter Biden's laptop and the Biden Crime Family: Joe Biden and his first wife, Neilia, had three children: Hunter, Beau and Naomi. In 1972, Neilia and Naomi died in a car accident when Neilia pulled out in front of a semi-trailer truck . Joe Biden always, but inaccurately, explains she was hit by a "drunk driver", but the trucker was not even ticketed. Joe eventually married...

“If you elect me, your taxes are going to be raised, not cut.” "And here’s how it works. I’m going to raise taxes.” “You’re going to get a tax raise.” — Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, misleadingly quoted in a Trump television ad, released Oct. 19 The Trump presidential campaign is the master of the mischievous clip job. Time after time, the president’s campaign has released ads that snip and clip Biden’s speeches and remarks to make the former vice president appear to say the opposite of what he was saying.... But Biden is not planning to raise everyone’s taxes...

Some Saturday Night Live viewers were left less than impressed with a sketch featuring Adele that poked fun at sex tourism in Africa. The singer, 32, hosted the most recent episode of the sketch show and received praise for her comedic skills. However, some were unhappy with a sketch that made fun of wealthy westerners travelling to Africa for sex, with Adele and SNL castmember Kate McKinnon portraying women advertising 'holidays' in Africa.

The Chronicle of Higher Education recently released a report decrying the politicization of public higher education governance, entitled The New Order: How the Nation’s Partisan Divisions Consumed Public-College Boards and Warped Higher Education. The report says more about the tunnel vision that pervades the liberal media and academic establishment than it does about the real state of politics in academia. Politicization is indeed a major governance problem, as the report suggests. However, it is not, as the authors claim, a recent phenomenon resulting from Republican dominance in state politics, the Tea Party movement, and the surge in conservative populism. It...

Women could be sentenced to death for abortion if Amy Coney Barrett is confirmed, according to one Vanity Fair writer. The Senate plans to vote to confirm Judge Barrett to the Supreme Court on October 26. In anticipation, Vanity Fair condemned President Trump’s nominee for seeing “a scenario in which abortion should be punishable by death.” In a recent piece riddled with errors, politics correspondent Bess Levin went so far as to argue that Barrett’s confirmation means that women will be “executed” for “choosing what to do with their own bodies.”“The defining feature of Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court confirmation hearing was her...

By now, this whole matter could have been put to bed. If the feds want to speak with the whistleblower, why not Hunter himself? It's Habeas corpus time, people.

“Our loyalty is not just to Rome of 2020, but to Roma aeterna, the Rome of all time. Our love is not just for the Pontiff, but for the papacy as instituted by Jesus Christ in existence for two millennia, and no clever deviltry should make us think that one can be legitimately used against the other. Our loyalty is to the Church, which exists not just in space but in time—to Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today and forever.” It’s raining spiritually again. The Pope has scandalized faithful Catholics and delighted progressives of every stripe by expressing support...