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Journalist Glenn Greenwald and I agree little on political issues because he is a man of the Left. However he is also an honest man and a real journalist who is interested in bringing factual news to light. He has resigned from The Intercept, an organ he helped found, because of its failure to publish his story on the Bidens. It is very much worth reading: The publicly known facts, augmented by the recent emails, texts and on-the-record accounts, suggest serious sleaze by Joe Biden’s son Hunter in trying to peddle his influence with the Vice President for profit. But...

October 30, 2020Dear Madam Speaker: (Dear Mr. President:)Pursuant to section 502(d)(3) of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended, (the “1974 Act”) (19 U.S.C. 2462(d)(3)), I am hereby advising you of my intent to suspend the duty-free treatment accorded under the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) to certain eligible articles that are the product of Thailand, effective on December 30, 2020.After considering the criteria set forth in sections 501 and 502(c) of the 1974 Act (19 U.S.C. 2461 and 2462(c)), in particular section 502(c)(4) (19 U.S.C. 2462(c)(4)), I have determined that Thailand has not assured the United States that...

Coronavirus infections in Orange County were found to be seven times higher than previously thought, according to the results of a UC Irvine study released Wednesday. County officials hired UCI to do a serological study of a large cross-section of residents to check antibodies for COVID-19 to get a better handle on how prevalent the highly infectious disease has been in the community, according to Orange County CEO Frank Kim. Positivity rates are determined from polymerase chain reaction, or PCR, tests, which involve a health professional using a swab of the nasal cavity and are considered the most trustworthy when...

1. In Executive Order 11844 of March 24, 1975, the President designated Thailand as a beneficiary developing country for purposes of the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) (19 U.S.C. 2461 et seq.).2. Sections 502(d)(1) and 503(c)(1) of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended, (the “1974 Act”) (19 U.S.C. 2462(d)(1) and 2463(c)(1)) provide that the President may withdraw, suspend, or limit the application of the duty-free treatment accorded under the GSP with respect to any beneficiary developing country and any article upon consideration of the factors set forth in sections 501 and 502(c) of the 1974 Act (19 U.S.C. 2461...

A Trump supporter with an “Official Democrat Cemetery Vote Collector” hearse tailed a Biden campaign bus in Houston on Thursday, leading to the vehicle running at least one red light in an attempt to get away. The hearse, which sports a “Trump Keep America Great” logo on the driver’s door, and Thin Blue Line, Trump, and American flags, also trolls Democrats with such sayings as: -snip- “Collecting Democrat votes one dead stiff at a time.” “Dig ’em Deeper, Bury ’em Cheaper Funeral Parlor” “Clinton Foundation Suicide Limo Service – 1-800-HANG-URSELF” “Official Democrat Cemetery Vote Collector”

An influx of millions of mail-in ballots across Pennsylvania means that the state will probably not know the results of the presidential race on Election Night, Gov. Tom Wolf said Thursday as he urged patience while results are certified. The warning came as the governor and Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar revealed some 2.1 million mail-in ballots have been returned already, with the total expected to rise to around 3 million by the time the Nov. 3 election happens. “The fact is, counting the surge in mail in ballots is gonna take, we’re sure, more time than it used to,”...

A Biden-Harris presidency promises not just the usual Democratic fare (e.g., publicly financed abortions and free contraception). They hope for a country where prostitutes are more honored than mothers, where young boys can be castrated, where talk of sex differences is banned as hate speech, where laws sow suspicion between would-be lovers, and where children are encouraged to sexual play.

Never doubt nor underestimate the resolve of American patriots… Because when it matters most, no words are needed; each understands the mission at hand. Right now in every state, county, village, hamlet, city and street the MAGA community is independently rallying to the exact same standard. “Meet at the old mill, we ride at midnight“. This is the third in our 2020 series of CTH ground reports, and with Treepers in every state, your information is actually a great insight into the political landscape. Individual reports are obviously anecdotal; however, when they are compiled on a larger scale, and overlaid...

Rochester city officials said the attendance capacity has been reached for President Donald Trump's rally in Rochester on Friday. The rally is scheduled to take place at about 5 p.m. at the Rochester International Airport. Doors are set to open at 2 p.m. According to a news release from Jenna Bowman, the communications and engagement manager for the City of Rochester, city officials were notified that 250 people were provided tickets for the rally, and no more people are allowed on the event site per the agreement between the Republican National Convention and the City. -snip- The news release said...

Today, I have signed into law S. 3051, the “America’s Conservation Enhancement Act” (the “Act”). Section 104(b)(2)(A) of the Act would require a Task Force established within the executive branch to engage with foreign governments to achieve certain specified ends. This provision interferes with my exclusive authority under Article II of the Constitution to conduct the Nation’s foreign affairs. Accordingly, my Administration will treat it as advisory and non-binding. DONALD J. TRUMP

Why do peanuts float in a regular coke and sink in a diet coke. Go ahead and try it..... I used to eat a lot of natural foods until I learned that most people die of natural causes. How important does a person have to be before they are considered assassinated instead of just murdered? Why do you have to "put your two cents in"... but it's only a "penny for your thoughts"? Where's that extra penny going? (taxes) Once you're in heaven, do you get stuck wearing the clothes you were buried in for eternity? What disease did cured...

On Friday, October 30, 2020, the President signed into law: H.R. 561, the “Protecting Business Opportunities for Veterans Act of 2019,” which clarifies the performance expectations for certain businesses receiving contracts under the Veterans First Contracting Program (“Veterans First”) authorities; H.R. 1952, the “Intercountry Adoption Information Act of 2019,” which directs the Department of State to include additional information in its annual report to the Congress on intercountry adoptions; H.R. 2359, the “Whole Veteran Act,” which requires the Department of Veterans Affairs to submit to the Congress a report on the Department’s advancement of whole health transformation; H.R. 3399, which...

I was born in Cuba in 1958, and I remember the struggles my family went through in order to emigrate (legally) to the United States. Being an independent thinker and a freedom lover was a threat to the intolerable Castro regime. As soon as my father requested an American resident visa, the Cuban government turned on us. My dad was fired from his job as a building superintendent and mandated to forced labor in the sugar-cane fields of Cuba. It took Castro eight years to finally approve our departure from Cuba, but during those long eight years, I grew up...

Going into the final weekend before the election, the polling trends are all going one direction (with a few outliers) and the data trends are all going the other. Which is correct?We have seen in recent days some truly remarkable (Incredible? Ridiculous?) polls. With a “shades of Andrew Gillum is up by 11 the week before the election” Wisconsin poll, having Joe Biden up by 17 (!!), it’s clear that pollsters are either saucing the polls or on the sauce. (In 2016 Wisconsin was the subject of the absolute worst polling, with the average error being six points). Many of...

Democrat presidential nominee former Vice President Joe Biden and his ex-boss former President Barack Obama are scheduled to hold two joint-appearance rallies in Flint and Detroit, Michigan on Saturday. However the public is not invited and the locations of the drive-in rallies have not been disclosed.

Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have enthusiastically embraced the woke ideology of systemic racism, have largely adopted Senator Bernie Sanders’s socialist plan to massively expand our education system and direct it from the federal center, and have promised a series of culture-war initiatives from the Left that will further undermine principles such as due process, religious liberty, traditional understandings of family and sexuality, and the right of parents to direct the education and socialization of their children. In short, one side will oppose the woke revolution while the other will defend and advance it. It’s tough to imagine a starker...

In the first 3 years of the Trump Administration, the United States economy experienced a reversal of several trends previously underway during the prior expansion. In the 7.5 years through 2016, the United States economy experienced a historically weak economic recovery, rising inequality, and increased, though slowly falling, poverty. In contrast, in the 3 years before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Americans experienced unprecedented gains in personal income and wealth, as pro-growth policies raised living standards while ameliorating the gap in wealth inequality for the first time since 1992.Over the past 13 years, two of the sharpest economic contractions...

Embattled Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx said Thursday she understands the “angst and fear” Chicagoans feel after two devastating rounds of looting and a 50% surge in homicides and shootings, but her “social agenda” is not responsible. Foxx said “everything is on the table,” including the possibility of reversing or modifying her controversial decision to raise the felony threshold for shoplifting offenses — from $300 to $1,000. Ald. Brendan Reilly (42nd), whose downtown ward was devastated by two rounds of looting, bolted from the Democratic Party this week to endorse Republican Pat O’Brien. Reilly complained about Foxx’s failure to...

It sounds like a sci-fi movie, or the weirdest series of Big Brother ever. Eight volunteers wearing snazzy red jumpsuits seal themselves into a hi-tech glasshouse that’s meant to perfectly replicate Earth’s ecosystems. They end up starving, gasping for air and at each other’s throats – while the world’s media looks on. But the Biosphere 2 experiment really did happen. Running from 1991 to 1993, it is remembered as a failure, if it is remembered at all – a hubristic, pseudo-scientific experiment that was never going to accomplish its mission. However, as the new documentary Spaceship Earth shows, the escapade...

“Our new generations walk through our cities like strangers, they have no idea what even Easter or Christmas truly mean, or what all those stories in those beautiful stained glasses or churches tell." - Thierry Baudet "A civilization that forgets its past is condemning its future." - Santiago Abascal As Christianity has declined, European politics has secularized. Christian democratic parties have lost their distinctive religious identities and become generic liberal or conservative parties. At the same time, secular Green and Socialist parties have increased their percentage of the vote. But in recent years, this political secularization has enjoyed a notable,...