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I love coincidences! And right now, we are surrounded by so many, we can pick ’em like daisies and make a lovely bouquet.If Joe Biden … the man who thought he was running for the Senate and couldn’t draw flies to a manure factory … actually won, it would be the result of the most amazing run of coincidences in modern world history. The Lucky Coincidences of Dominion and FriendsSure, it is mere coincidence that the president of Smartmatic, the subsidiary of Dominion Voting Systems, the software and hardware responsible for tabulating ballots in swing states and beyond, is now...

Fox News host Mark Levin opened Sunday’s “Life, Liberty & Levin” with a blistering takedown of former President Obama who, on “60 Minutes” earlier in the day, criticized President Trump for charging widespread election fraud and refusing to concede the election, telling host Scott Pelley that Trump is “delegitimizing democracy” by doing so. Obama condescendingly said, in part, as reported by Fox News: “It is one more step in delegitimizing not just the incoming Biden administration, but democracy generally. And that’s a dangerous path. There’s been this sense over the last several years that literally anything goes and is justified...

Longtime GOP adviser Karl Rove will oversee Senate Republicans’ fundraising effort as they fight to keep their majority with the two runoff elections in Georgia, according to a report. The former adviser to President George W. Bush will serve as national finance chairman of the Georgia Battleground Fund, a joint fundraising effort organized by the National Republican Senatorial Committee, Politico reported Monday. Rove, who now serves as a Fox News commentator, will be joined by an array of high-profile GOP names, including former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, former Vice President Dan Quayle and former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley.

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The Buffalo Bills closed as a 2.5-point underdog to the Arizona Cardinals at BetMGM. Keep that number in mind. The Bills seemingly had a straight-up win when Stefon Diggs caught a touchdown with 34 seconds left. That gave Buffalo a 30-26 lead. Then Kyler Murray and DeAndre Hopkins did the unthinkable, hooking up on a Hail Mary with 2 seconds left. That gave the Cardinals a 32-30 lead, with the extra point pending.

Retired Army Col. Douglas Macgregor, newly-appointed as a senior adviser at the Pentagon, has a track record of making controversial statements. But his most provocative of all might be a proposal to do away with the U.S. Marine Corps. In a 2012 opinion piece for Time Magazine, Macgregor, a decorated veteran of the Gulf War, argued that the Corps was living on its past glories and was unsuited for combat on today's battlefield, with the possible exception for pushover enemies. He went further, too, suggesting the acronym "USMC" should really stand for "Under-utilized Superfluous Military Capability." "Most of today's Marine...

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) fired a warning shot Monday against withdrawing more U.S. troops from Afghanistan, even as the Pentagon is preparing an order to do so. McConnell, speaking from the Senate floor, warned that only a "small minority" in Congress would support a rapid drawdown and warned that a rapid withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan "would hurt our allies and delight, delight, the people who wish us harm." "The consequences of a premature American exit would likely be even worse than President Obama's withdrawal from Iraq back in 2011. ... It would be reminiscent of the...

ohn Pavlovitz, who pastors North Raleigh Community Church in North Carolina, writes a heartfelt letter to white evangelicals: Dear White Evangelicals, I need to tell you something: People have had it with you. They’re done. They want nothing to do with you any longer, and here’s why: They see your hypocrisy, your inconsistency, your incredibly selective mercy, and your thinly veiled supremacy. For eight years they watched you relentlessly demonize a black President; a man faithfully married for 26 years; a doting father and husband without a hint of moral scandal or the slightest whiff of infidelity. They watched you...

Whoopi Goldberg said Monday on ABC’s “The View” that Republican lawmakers inaction on ensuring a peaceful transition of power or passing another coronavirus stimulus showed the party “doesn’t care if you drop dead because you can’t breathe.” On coronavirus vaccines, Goldberg said, “He wants credit for having this happen during his watch. He says to historians, ‘Please remember these great discoveries which will end the plague all took place on my watch.’ Should we also remind him how many people died between January and March when he did absolutely nothing on his watch and said it didn’t exist and that...

Arrrggghhh! I needed a music break from the news. Hope the moderators excuse this vanity in News/Activism.The link provides a subjective list of the top 10 songs (actually 20+) with pedal steel guitar accompaniment.Four of my favorite made this list - see below. So how about it Freepers? Care to add your favorites to the list? Bonus points if you can name the pedal steel guitar player. Daily Double Bonus points if you have a favorite song with resophonic guitar/ Dobro accompaniment.

Black Lives Matter protesters attacked a man who reportedly exited a San Francisco East Bay suburban restaurant. The protesters pushed the man into a street with moving traffic and knocked him to the ground. Police appeared to ignore the episode. “He’s the craziest f**king white man,” one of the protesters yells in a video tweeted by independent journalists Andy Ngo and Kitty Shackleford. The video shows sparks or burning embers on one of the protesters.

Joe Biden will offer his post-pandemic economic plan on Monday as the stock market rose with the news of another potential COVID vaccine and President Donald Trump continues to insist he won the election. Biden and running mate Kamala Harris will speak on their plan to revive the pandemic-battered U.S. economy as stocked soared after drugmaker Moderna said its COVID-19 vaccine is 94.5 percent effective based on preliminary data. His remarks come as talks are stalled between the Trump White House and Democrats on Capitol Hill about another COVID relief package and several states have started to institute new restrictions...

Rush Limbaugh was saying some months ago that the American Left wants to put a stop to all elections. Could this all be about getting rid of the vote altogether? An analogy: Is the Papacy of Pope Francis so extreme that the Catholics will revert back to a more-nearly BVI or JPII papacy? But will it even matter, at all? The sloppiness of Francis' pronouncements are so extreme, the real goal could have been delegimization of the Papacy as an institution. Both the St. Gallen Mafia and the American Democrats are intellectually sloppy to an extreme. But the greedy oligarch...

Georgia officials awarded a contract for 30,000 new voting machines to Dominion Voting on Monday, scrapping the state’s 17-year-old electronic voting equipment and replacing it with touchscreens that print out paper ballots.The $107 million contract will switch Georgia from its longtime elections company, Election Systems & Software, following complaints about malfunctioning machines and unverifiable results during the November midterm election.....................................................SNIP...............................................One of Dominion’s lobbyists, Jared Thomas, has worked on Kemp’s political campaigns since he first won a state Senate seat in 2002. He also worked previously for Kemp in the Secretary of State’s Office. Another Dominion lobbyist, Barry Herron, was vice...

Eating just one egg a day increases your risk of developing type 2 diabetes by 60 per cent, according to a new study. Australian researchers who studied a sample of 8,545 Chinese adults found a positively correlation between higher egg consumption and high blood sugar levels in Chinese adults. Eggs are versatile and nutritious and are promoted as a 'healthy fast food' in the UK, but have proved the ultimate conundrum for diabetes researchers. Previous studies have indicated that eating eggs can actually keep diabetes at bay, adding a confusing mix of scientific literature to the debate. This new research...

New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez falsely claimed that Democrats lost the House majority during virtual town hall Thursday evening. A constituent asked Ocasio-Cortez about her thoughts on Democrats shrinking their majority in the House and expressed her frustration. “Why did we lose so many seats, and what needs to be done to get them back next term?” the moderator asked on behalf on the constituent. “So, you know, of course, the loss of the House majority is just extraordinarily upsetting to all of us. It’s upsetting to all of us who are invested in having a Democratic majority so...

Trump team lawyer, and Executive Director of the American Center for Law and Justice, Jordan Sekulow tweeted an exclusive article from the Buffalo Chronicle that suggests the alleged boss of the Philly mob, Skinny Joey’ Merlino, may be ready to flip on Democratic Party operatives in exchange for a full expungement of his decades-long criminal record. – 100 Percent Fed Up In addition to tweeting the link to the Buffalo Chronicle article, Sekulow tweeted: “Follow all leads #Elections2020” From the Buffalo Chronicle – An associate says that Merlino might just be willing to flip on Joe Biden and the Pennsylvania...

Erstwhile funnyman David Letterman, who continued to grow more bitter — on-air — toward all things conservatives as his “Late Night” on CBS went along, earlier this month was funnier than as I’ve seen my fellow-Hoosier in years. So funny in fact that one of his jokes, in particular, brought tears of laughter to my eyes: “The press,” he said — and here comes the punchline — “educates and informs people.” [Insert ROFL emoji.] Therefore, he observed, “people don’t need to be aware of every single thing that’s going on.” [Insert second ROFL emoji.] Letterman’s comments came during an interview...

Comedian-actor and Democratic activist Kumail Nanjiani is claiming that President Donald Trump is “going to kill as many people as he possibly can on his way out,” ignoring the progress the White House has made in finding a vaccine for the Chinese coronavirus. The star of HBO’s Silicon Valley tweeted the accusation in response to a Politico report in which Dr. Anthony Fauci suggested that the president’s continued electoral fight could harm the country’s coronavirus response. “Transitions are very important,” Fauci reportedly said, adding that it is critical to ensure a smooth “passing of the baton without stopping running.

Nathan Apodaca has finally become a homeowner. The 37-year-old TikTok star, who also goes by the name Doggface, recently purchased a house in his hometown in Idaho Falls, Idaho, according to TMZ. The house contains five bedrooms and three bathrooms; Apodaca reportedly paid $320,000 in cash and will receive the keys to his new place some time next week.