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Social media giants blocking or restricting conservative voices, from President Trump on down, is rampant. In contrast, at their recent Senate committee appearances, Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey struggled to name a single liberal voice that Facebook or Twitter had censored. But even that total imbalance in censorship isn't enough to satisfy the left's thirst to suppress conservatives. On Morning Joe, playing off Barack Obama's 60 Minutes interview in which he blamed social media in part for "truth decay," Mika Brzezinski talked to The Atlantic's editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg about his own interview with Obama, where he bemoaned social media's supposedly...

Lorne Michaels did not have a lot of sympathy during the late John Belushi’s drug-fueled escapades. SNIPE “He’d been out with [Rolling Stones rocker] Ronnie Wood and he was a mess,” Michaels says in the documentary. “He was coughing, he looked terrible and the doctor says, ‘John can’t go on,’ and I was somewhere between rage and very little sympathy.” “So I said, ‘What happens if he does it?’ He says, ‘Well, he could die?’ And I said, ‘What are the odds of that?’ And he said, ’50/50,’ and I said, ‘I can live with that,’” Michaels continues.

GOP plaintiffs moved to dismiss pending lawsuits in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan and Georgia Monday morning that targeted ballots in Democratic counties and attempted to block the states from certifying their election results, marking a noticeable shift in Republicans’ post-election legal strategy days after the Trump campaign and GOP suffered a series of failures in court Friday. ================================================================================ Key Facts Three Wisconsin voters, backed by conservative group True the Vote, voluntarily dismissed a lawsuit that sought to block the state from certifying votes in several Democratic-leaning counties, claiming their votes had been diluted because of alleged voter fraud and “illegal” votes...

San Francisco CrossFit helped broaden the appeal of a type of training that was considered unconventional in the fitness industry when it opened 15 years ago. Now the popular business has become another victim to the pandemic. CrossFit held a final training session on Sunday then closed for good. Longtime members of the facility said the loss is much bigger than just a gym. They said they will miss the community and the relationships that they’ve built over the years. “It’s really sad. I mean we’ve been here for 15 years. As you can see, you know, there’s a huge...

As the country remains closely divided, the winner of the next election will likely come from the party that best heeds the lessons of Election 2020.What does the leader of Britain’s Labour Party have to teach American politicians in the wake of an election? Quite a lot, as it turns out — and no, I don’t mean former Labour leader Neil Kinnock. Indeed, Joe Biden learned far too much from him 33 years ago.The Labour Party’s recent attempts to rehabilitate its image after four consecutive defeats — and an election wipeout last December under leftist leader Jeremy Corbyn — provide...

Credibility is a real problem when it comes to messaging from elected leaders, bureaucrats and media as we head into another ominous phase of the coronavirus pandemic. Repeatedly we are told to shelter in place and wear a mask. We are told to avoid congregating in large groups. Experts, pundits, journalists and politicians tell us that any deviance from the guidelines is not only selfish but also potentially deadly. Indeed, President Trump has been deemed culpable in the deaths of thousands for not modeling good coronavirus behavior.

In a sit-down interview with CBS’s “60 Minutes,” which aired on Sunday, former President Barack Obama took a shot at President Donald Trump by comparing him to a dictator. Obama suggested there has been a “sense” during Trump’s presidency that he would “do anything to stay in power,” including killing people and suppressing journalists. He added that Joe Biden, who has been declared the 2020 presidential victor by the media, needs to signal to the world that is no longer the case.

The left wing of the Democratic party is already openly pushing President-elect Joe Biden toward controversial progressive wish-list policy items rather than the pressing needs of the American people during an unprecedented public health and economic crisis. Elizabeth Warren tweeted last Thursday that upon taking office “Biden-Harris can cancel billions of dollars in student loan debt, giving tens of millions of Americans an immediate financial boost and helping to close the racial wealth gap. This is the single most effective executive action available for a massive economic stimulus.” Rather than reaching across the aisle to craft an equitable, bipartisan stimulus...

(Photos Courtesy of Korchnoi Pasaribu) ========================================================================= A stunning ocular photoshoot has been shared on social media featuring an indigenous Indonesian island tribe full of people with startling blue eyes. The members of the Buton Island tribe have what is known as Waardenburg syndrome, a rare genetic condition that affects pigmentation and that can cause congenital hearing loss. Korchnoi Pasaribu, a geologist from Jakarta, Indonesia, captured the sapphire gazes of several tribe members on camera on Sept. 17. His pictures created quite the internet buzz, going viral on Instagram and drawing attention to the unique and distinctive Buton tribe. Epoch Times...

While the state did offer an option for voters to pick up their ballots at a county elections office, there is no clear process in the database to identify if the thousands of voters who have no “ballot mailed date” did this or not.Pennsylvania, arguably the most important swing state in the 2020 general election, has some irregularities in its mail-in ballot voting records contributing to public unease over its election results. While the media has called the Coal State for former Vice President Joe Biden, President Donald J. Trump and his campaign have pursued legal action in the state...

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With coronavirus again surging across California, officials are faced with a narrowing number of options to slow the spread.Weekly coronavirus cases have doubled in the last month around the state, and Los Angeles County recorded more than 6,800 cases over the weekend, an alarming spike that has officials talking about more restrictions.

A federal lawsuit in Wisconsin that drew nationwide attention was dismissed on Nov. 16. Three voters filed the suit last week, seeking to exclude election results in three of the state’s counties. They alleged there was “sufficient evidence that illegal votes were counted” in Milwaukee, Dane, and Menominee counties “to change or place in doubt the results” of the presidential election. But the voters early Monday requested the suit be dismissed. Court filings did not give a reason why Michael Langenhorst, Michael LeMay, and Stephen Fifrick made the decision. Attorneys for the men said they couldn’t comment. Two of the...

Former President Barack Obama said in an interview with National Public Radio (NPR) that President Donald Trump’s refusal to concede even before the official elections results have been certified is “hurting the American people.” In the interview aired on various NPR programs, host Michel Martin claimed that not only is Trump not conceding, but he is interfering with the transition from a Trump administration to a Biden administration.

Would have given authorities power to have police restrain and inject refusniks. A law in Denmark that would have given authorities the power to forcibly inject people with a coronavirus vaccine has been abandoned after nine days of public protests. The ‘epidemic law’ would have handed the Danish government the power to enact mandatory quarantine measures against anyone infected with a dangerous disease, but it was the part about vaccinations that caused the biggest uproar. ... The Danish Health Authority would be able to define groups of people who must be vaccinated in order to contain and eliminate a dangerous...

Harris County Public Health (HCPH) announced they will be conducting a survey to test randomly selected residences in the area for COVID-19 antibodies. To better grasp how many residents have already been infected with the coronavirus, HCPH has put together an outreach team ready to deploy to various county areas to administer the test from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Nov. 15 to Dec. 15, according to a press release. Some of the goals HCPH has for the survey include: Understanding how COVID-19 transmission and infection rates differ among communities. Determining the effectiveness of containment strategies that have been utilized...

Pterosaurs with these types of beaks are better known at the time period from North Africa, so it would be reasonable to assume a likeness to the North African Alanqa. Credit: Attributed to Davide Bonadonna ======================================================================= Paleontologists have made a surprising discovery while searching through 100-year-old fossil collections from the UK – a new mystery species of pterosaur, unlike anything seen before. Lead author of the project, University of Portsmouth PhD student Roy Smith, discovered the mystery creature amongst fossil collections housed in the Sedgwick Museum of Cambridge and the Booth Museum at Brighton that were assembled when phosphate mining...

I hope the Million Maga March spreads to as many towns and cities in America as possible. Do others agree? Why focus everything on The Swamp when the Trump heartland is elsewhere? Compared with Donald Trump nearly every Democrat leader is a war hungry Hawk (not Tulsi Gabbard, the only Democrat in Congress who did not vote for the impeachment) and a Nanny State idiot. As an Australian born man who suffers terribly in a Nanny State where locking down freedom is king, I want America to continue to be a beacon of freedom. Peacefully.

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An astonishing 2.2 million more Americans were working in October than in December, and 1.5 million fewer were unemployed.Good news about the economy continued to pour in during Election Week. Predictably, the nation’s establishment press, obsessed with its self-appointed insistence that Joe Biden is the nation’s president-elect, virtually ignored it.On Nov. 6, the government’s October jobs report revealed that the nation’s unemployment rate dropped a full point to a seasonally adjusted 6.9 percent, while nonfarm payroll employment increased by 638,000. The reported unemployment rate smashed expectations that it would only drop to 7.6 percent, while the employment increase beat expectations...