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New York's dictatorial governor, Andrew Cuomo, may have met his match. The Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn is asking the Supreme Court of the United States to strike down Cuomo's Oct. 6 executive order shutting down "houses of worship " in areas of Brooklyn and Queens, while allowing "essential" businesses, like pet stores, groceries and big-box stores to stay open. Cuomo insists he's battling COVID-19. The Diocese says Cuomo's making a value judgment that going to Target is "essential" but taking communion isn't. Truth is, for devout communicants who are already suffering social isolation during the pandemic, finding the church...

Families need to be aware that Hallmark Channel’s “Countdown to Christmas” movie specials will be very different this year since the network will be including LGBTQ content and characters in its original movies for the first time ever. For example, The Christmas House, set to air Sunday, November 22, at 8:00 p.m. CST will include a gay couple. The cast features Johnathan Bennett and Brad Harder as gay dads-to-be through adoption. Hallmark Channel, owned by Crown Media Family Networks, announced its plans to start introducing gay and transgender storylines into its movies after receiving online complaints about the lack of...

“The words of a man's mouth are as deep waters, and the wellspring of wisdom as a flowing brook” (Proverbs 18:4).

BERLIN - German police fired water cannons Wednesday at demonstrators protesting coronavirus restrictions in Berlin’s government district, after crowds ignored calls to wear masks and keep their distance from one another in line with pandemic regulations. As the cannons soaked protesters outside the landmark Brandenburg Gate, police in riot gear moved through the crowd carrying away some participants. Some demonstrators threw fireworks and flares in response as police helicopters hovered overhead. The protests came as German lawmakers debated on a bill providing legal underpinning for the government to issue social distancing rules, require masks in public and close stores and...

Sen. Mike Lee: "As far as the president's arguments about the election and how they turned out inciting violence... the only violence that I'm aware of has occurred in connection with antifa -- antifa's response to pro-Trump peaceful rally attenders."

Ned Staebler Threatens GOP Canvassers Wayne County, Michigan reverses its decision not to certify the county vote. William Hartmann and Monica Palmer, the two Republicans on the Wayne County Board of Canvassers are threatened by fellow canvasser Ned Staebler, a radical leftist. Watch @NedStaebler a Wayne County Board Member of Canvassers rip apart @HartmannDude and @monicaspalmer the two members that refused to certify the ballots for the county pic.twitter.com/dKeid3fr6y — Icculus The Brave (@FirenzeMike) November 18, 2020 Democrat @NedStaebler threatening county officials when he didn’t get his way pic.twitter.com/VilOJ9JXa7 — Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) November 18, 2020 Local Detroit coverage...

Republican leaders, many of whom are in the back pockets of defense contractors, are crying foul at President Trump’s proposal to bring most of the troops out of Afghanistan by the end of his first term in office. A rapid withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan now would hurt our allies and delight the people who wish us harm,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said. SEARCH Big League Politics Big League Politics WHITE HOUSERepublican Leaders FLIP OUT Over President Trump’s Massive Troop Reduction in Afghanistan Trump is putting America first. Published 18 hours ago on Nov 17, 2020By Shane...

An emotional Gov. J.B. Pritzker clarified his family’s Thanksgiving plans on Tuesday, saying his wife and teenage daughter plan to remain in Florida “indefinitely” after a false social media post sparked “hateful, threatening messages” directed at the high school student. Pausing briefly to clear his throat before discussing the matter at his daily coronavirus briefing, the Democratic governor said the posts falsely portrayed his daughter as flouting COVID-19 restrictions at an outdoor restaurant with friends, igniting a firestorm directed at the girl even after the governor’s office had made it clear she was not in the photograph. “That was a...

The Texas electoral map looks pretty red except for those blue squares in Dallas and other cities. Yes, Texas is starting to look a lot like other states where people live in Democrat cities, competitive suburbs and rural areas dominated by the GOP.So what happens in blue cities? Crime goes up, and Dallas is no exception, as we see in these news reports: A new spike in violent crime drew response Monday from Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson and Police Chief U. Renee Hall.Since Wednesday, there have been at least 24 shootings with 29 victims and 11 deaths.The string of violence...

The former National Security Adviser, H. R. McMaster, appeared recently on Fox News, where he was interviewed by Bret Baier. He had words of warning for Joe Biden, urging him not to rejoin the Iran deal – JCPOA – because it did not sufficiently curb Iran’s nuclear program, did not deal at all with Iran’s ballistic missiles, and did nothing to curb Iran’s regional aggression that threatened Israel and several Gulf Arab states. The story is here: “Former Trump advisor: Israel may act against Iran before Biden admin.,” by Cody Levine, Jerusalem Post, November 12, 2020:Former National Security Advisor...

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The usual suspects in the media, i.e. both the Democrat operatives posing as “journalists” as well as anti-Trump Republican operatives posing as the same, are insisting that President Donald J. Trump has yet to supply any “proof” to substantiate his thesis that there has been voter fraud in the 2020 Presidential election race. Before proceeding, let me put the reader on notice that I have long since stopped trying to convince partisan ideologues who lean even remotely leftward to recognize the error of their ways, to say nothing of the egregiousness of the errors of their anti-Trump biases. What follows...

Recent weeks have witnessed once again radical Islamist attacks in Europe, ostensibly, aimed to intimidate and stifle free speech in multicultural Europe. This time, the targets were France and Austria. For Vienna, it was a traumatic experience; the city is not used to such violence. Austria has not been a targeted by Islamic terrorist in recent times. The motive of the Islamist killers, like that in France, was apparently outrage over cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad. The killers in both countries pledged their loyalty to the Islamic State. The original excuse for the Islamist perpetrator of the heinous murder...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=me2wQWjgpBY Back in the late 70s early 80's the world was on fire and a weird thing happened, a rebellion of sorts, from the right and the left and definitely from the ground up. Post yer punk faves here

The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has assessed that North Korea’s intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) re-entry vehicles are likely to “perform adequately” if flown on a normal trajectory to mainland United States, according to an American think tank report Tuesday. Concurrently, the U.S. Navy intercepted and destroyed an ICBM target using a ship-launched missile over the Pacific Ocean, northeast of Hawaii, announced the Missile Defense Agency Tuesday, part of the Pentagon’s move to build and test a layered missile defense system for the U.S. mainland. The "2021 Index of U.S. Military Strength," an annual report released by the Washington-based Heritage...

On election night, Trump’s decisive win in Florida was a bellwether to punters in the betting markets. The Trump campaign also seemed to outperform Election Day voting in states like Michigan and Pennsylvania, especially given the turnout seen in Florida. A shy Trump vote did exist, especially in the suburbs among women, and the GOP was morphing into a working-class, increasingly multiracial party. Betting odds swung in Trump’s favor, peaking at around 85 percent. That’s when things went south for the Trump campaign. In a yet unexplained move, states including Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin stopped releasing vote counts on election...

From 1984 through 2016, spanning presidential elections, seventeen US counties in several states ad voted for the winning presidential candidate in an astounding 148 of 153 times including 100% five times for five different presidents: 1984 Reagan 1996 Clinton 2000 Bush 2012 Obama 2016 Trump In 2020, amid widespread accusations of Democrat cheating, these bellwethers wer not even close — checking in at a mind-blowing 6%! Only 1 of 17 went for Biden this year!

Francis Woos Top Pro-Abortion GlobalistJeffrey Sachs to address Economy of Francesco on 'letting life flourish' VATICAN CITY (ChurchMilitant.com) - Pope Francis has invited the world's foremost proponent of abortion and population control to address his "Economy of Francesco" conference on the theme of "letting life flourish." Jeffrey Sachs with Pope Francis Economist Jeffrey Sachs, a liberal Jew who is president of the United Nations (U.N.) Sustainable Development Solutions Network, will speak at the start of the Assisi conference from Nov. 19–21, which is now being held online due to the Wuhan virus pandemic.A special press office set up for the...

As is their right, a segment of Americans appear to protest the presidential contest by not voting for any candidate while voting down ballot, for example on the Senate race. The number of protest "no votes" appears to be significant enough to impact a close election.This is a fascinating article, and I am very focused on the Biden-only ballot numbers. Why not have 500,000 or 1,000,000 Biden only ballots to secure an election? I believe that all involved are smart and know that numbers on that scale would create major concerns due to the new vote totals. So, then, how...

A new poll suggests that a plurality of Americans want President Donald Trump to concede the presidential election “right away,” but the figure of 46% falls short of a majority. The new Politico/Morning Consult poll of nearly 2,000 registered voters was conducted Nov. 13 to 16.