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Source: pixabay/sathyatripodiThe international pro-life movement has taken an unprecedented step forward in defense of the right to life of the unborn. With the signing of the Geneva Consensus Declaration today, 32 governments have come together to unambiguously state: “there is no international right to abortion.” Joining forces for a groundbreaking virtual-signing event, these governments represent a consolidated resistance movement against pressure from United Nations bureaucracy and other bodies to promote a “human right” to abortion, which has ramped up significantly during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Declaration states that there is no “international obligation on the part of States to finance or facilitate...

Preliminary Q3 GDP is due on Thursday. I have heard estimates it will come in at a whopping 30% to 35% (annualized), making it one of if not THE biggest quarterly GDP in US history.

With regard to COVID, we are awash in unreliable or even intentionally misleading empirical claims. A neurosurgeon from D.C. who understands statistics analyzes a popular claim that is being made on behalf of mask mandates. I encountered a Washington Post figure making its way through social media, suggesting that not wearing masks is conclusively the reason for COVID spread:

A Turkish government minister has called French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo “b*stards” and “sons of b*tches” over a new satirical cartoon showing President Erdogan in his underwear. The frontpage cartoon of the magazine, which features Erdogan in his underwear looking at the bare bottom of a woman in an Islamic veil and bears the caption “in private he is very funny”, has earned the anger of the Turkish leader, who has now threatened legal action. On Wednesday, the Turkish presidency’s communications directorate released a statement on the subject of the cartoon, according to Le Monde, saying: “The necessary legal and...

It's difficult to out-Oz Dr. Oz, America's Quack, who has raked in giant piles of money by promoting pseudoscience on his TV show. But at least one person comes perilously close: Dr. Mark Hyman. Hyman is the "Dr. Oz" of nutrition. He embraces legitimate science if and only if it suits his bottom line. Otherwise, he's promoting junk science and magical thinking. To get an idea of the sort of nonsense that he spews, his website features an interview with the Food Babe, as well as his infuriatingly stupid quote, "Food isn't like medicine, it is medicine." The comma splice...

Hello audience. In this email, a person named Bob Fenet asked Jim Biden, Joe Biden’s brother, “What does this do to the situation ?” — Jim Biden forwarded this question to his nephew Robert Biden (also known as Hunter Biden), Joe Biden’s son. Bob Fenet’s real name is Bob Fu. He is an undercover Chinese Communist party spy. The situation he asked Jim Biden about in the email referred to an article that was published in the Wall street journal. The title of the article is “China’s Hunt for Critic Guo Wengui Roils U.S.”. The article was used to discredit...

By Rod Thomson The polls are the polls and no one other than the paid pollsters with obvious vested interests can tell you if they are accurate. They suggest Trump is down a couple of percentage points in Florida. That is highly doubtful for several concrete, number-driven reasons. First, let’s understand the difference between polls and other data. The best polls ask registered voters who voted in the last two elections — labeling them likely voters — who they will vote for this year. In 2016, pollsters missed a few percentage points of Trump voters because those voters lied to...

Cuomo, Phil Murphy, Dr. Rachel Levine and other Democrat governors are saying to not have large or even small Thanksgiving this year as Coronavirus cases continue to soar. But during the 2009 H1N1 swine flu pandemic they saw things differently and you were allowed to enjoy the holiday season. Sleepy Joe having Thanksgiving with 15 strangers during H1N1 after Brack called for a national emergency. Sleepy Joe giving the blessing. From: DR. JILL BIDEN NOVEMBER 24, 2009 AT 11:50 AM ET On October 24, and the CDC said more than 1,000 had died from the flu. President Obama declared a...

(h/t foldspace) Q is the result of the sacrifices and commitment of countless patriots to win back our captured country from the Deep State and achieve the transformation President Trump promised in this campaign video. President Trump has said the awakening of the public is key to this transformation.Q describes this awakening as follows: "The Great Awakening ('Freedom of Thought’), was designed and created not only as a backchannel to the public (away from the longstanding 'mind’ control of the corrupt & heavily biased media) to endure future events through transparency and regeneration of individual thought (breaking the chains of...

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden jokingly introduced himself as Sen. Kamala Harris' running mate during the beginning of his stump speech in Atlanta on Tuesday. "Folks, my name is Joe Biden, and I'm Jill Biden's husband and I'm Kamala's running mate," he quipped during his second campaign stop in Georgia. "Y'all think I'm kidding don't you?"

“Mr. Dorsey, who the hell elected you and put you in charge of what the media are allowed to report and what the American people are allowed to hear, and why do you persist in behaving as a Democratic super PAC silencing views to the contrary of your political beliefs?” Cruz asked Dorsey during a heated exchange on Wednesday. “We’re not doing that,” Dorsey responded. “This is why I opened this hearing with calls for more transparency. We realized we need to earn trust more, we realized that more accountability is needed to show our intentions and to show...

April 19 was the day America lost the fight against COVID-19. It was on that day that two hospital workers in Denver stood in front of a truck with people heading to the Capitol to protest the state’s stay-at-home order. Suddenly there was clarity. You were either with the hospital workers or the protestors in the truck. That was it; no in-between, no confusion. The lines had been drawn. COVID was — like every other issue in this Year of Our Lord 2020 — absolutely partisan. This, of course, was not by accident. Partisan leaders on each side recognized the...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Illinois Senate Republicans urged Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Wednesday to release the specific data he is using to impose restrictions on indoor dining and bar service in an effort to slow the spread of the coronavirus. Senate Minority Leader Bill Brady called for a public hearing for Pritzker would lay out the numbers he says show that the autumn surge in COVID-19 is fueled by close contact among restaurant and bar patrons.

Trump Pence Make America Great Again 2020 PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP DELIVERS REMARKS AT A MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN VICTORY RALLY IN FAYETTEVILLE, NC Join President Donald J. Trump in Fayetteville, NC on Thursday, October 29th at 6:30 PM EDT! Get your tickets here. Details about the event below: Thursday, October 29th at 6:30 PM EDT Fayetteville Regional Airport 400 Airport Road Fayetteville, NC 28306 Doors Open: 3:00 PM (EDT) Event Begins: 6:30 PM (EDT) Get your tickets here. GET YOUR TICKETS All attendees will be given a temperature check, masks which they are instructed to wear, and access to...

WILMINGTON, DE—The Biden campaign has revealed plans for an oval basement, should the former vice president win the election. If Biden is elected, he'll work out of the comfort of the new Oval Basement underneath the White House. The old Oval Office will be used by Kamala Harris to run the administration while Biden naps and is held there for safekeeping. "We'll be converting the White House basement into a cozy, laid-back Oval Basement just for Joe," said one aide. "It'll have a bed, couches, and, heck, who knows: maybe a dartboard and a ping-pong table." The presidential candidate also...

Appearing Tuesday on the Fox Business Network’s Cavuto: Coast to Coast, Fox Business journalist Charles Gasparino said there is intense speculation on Wall Street that CNN may be for sale and could be snapped up by Amazon CEO and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos. A transcript is as follows: NEIL CAVUTO: Let’s go to Charles Gasparino right now. He’s focusing on a number of things right now, including the quest for CNN that has some very interesting players. CHARLES GASPARINO: Put this in the genre of “heard on the street.” I used to write the column back in the day...

Four years ago, Pennsylvania allowed patients suffering from any of 17 serious medical conditions to relieve their symptoms with marijuana. But there was a catch: If they used cannabis as a medicine, they could no longer legally drive. Last week, the Pennsylvania House of Representatives approved a bill that would eliminate that legal disability by requiring evidence of impairment to convict medical marijuana patients of driving under the influence. That reform points the way to an overdue reevaluation of DUI laws that irrationally and unfairly punish cannabis consumers who pose no threat to public safety. Thirty-three states have legalized medical...

A Libt...I mean, Leftist, recently suggested that California should bestow largesse on impoverished Mississippi. As PF Whalen writes in this article, "California had a reported government debt of over $1.5 trillion as of 2017..." ---------------------------------- California is a mess; no secret there. But the degree of decline that befalls it, and the quickness with which that decline is moving, seems to be largely ignored; particularly by Californians themselves. The nation’s most populous state, and arguably its most naturally beautiful, is falling apart virtually everywhere we look. Yet state and local governments not only insist on moving forward with leftist policies,...

If Americans want to protect the free flow and exchange of ideas and dismantle digital totalitarianism in our country, we must act now. In our divided nation, there is a rare consensus from both the left and the right: some of our technology companies have become too powerful. They know too much about us, and we know too little of their inner workings. They know where we are, where we are going, what we are doing, and some can even listen to what we are talking about. They control what information to distribute, how fast, and to whom. They dictate...

Everyone expects a ****show [ed] from a Senate hearing, but who could have guessed that Jack Dorsey wouldn’t come prepared to answer the most basic questions about why some dubious information gets banned and other dubious information remains free as a bird? It’s only the core critique of Twitter’s attempt to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop story, after all. And it’s *been* the core critique of the platform ever since they began their policy of appending advisories to propaganda pushed by certain world leaders (Trump) but not others (literally everyone else). If Trump tweets nonsense about the fraudulence of mail-in...