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I’m a strong supporter of the idea that a theoretical President Badfinger should decree that $50,000 in student loan debt just vanishes for everyone tried of the hassle of paying back what they owe. Chuck Schumer, who apparently never saw that “I’m Just a Bill” cartoon on Saturday morning in the ‘70s, thinks the desiccated old weirdo could do it if he is actually inaugurated. I just hope our newly Roberts-irrelevant Supreme Court doesn’t nix such a constitutional atrocity should the stars align and Mr. Stumbles tries it. It’s not that I want to reward the knuckleheads who spent way...

Federal prosecutors marched deeper into House Speaker Michael Madigan’s inner circle Wednesday, charging longtime confidant Michael McClain and ex-ComEd CEO Anne Pramaggiore in a bribery scheme designed to curry favor with the powerful Southwest Side Democrat. Also named in the 50-page indictment are ex-top ComEd lobbyist John Hooker and Jay Doherty, the former president of the City Club, who was accused of helping to funnel hundreds of thousands of dollars to three people with ties to Madigan’s 13th Ward. All four are charged in a document that also makes frequent references to ex-ComEd executive Fidel Marquez, who has already pleaded...

The Special Air Service’s troubled 2 Squadron — in which Australia’s most decorated soldier, Ben Roberts-Smith, served — will be disbanded after being singled out amid the damning findings of the Afghanistan war crimes inquiry. The heavily redacted Brereton report does not detail offences by soldiers from the squadron, known as the Bushrangers, but at least two of its Afghanistan veterans are likely to face prosecution as alleged war criminals. Chief of Army Rick Burr told SASR members in Perth on Thursday that 2 Squadron — one of four in the regiment — would be “struck off” the Australian Army’s...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump is trying to turn America’s free and fair election into a muddled mess of misinformation, specious legal claims and baseless attacks on the underpinnings of the nation’s democracy. The resulting chaos and confusion that has created isn’t the byproduct of Trump’s strategy following his defeat to Democrat Joe Biden. The chaos and confusion is the strategy. Trump’s blizzard of attacks on the election are allowing him to sow discontent and doubt among his most loyal supporters, leaving many with the false impression that he is the victim of fraudulent voting. That won’t keep Trump in...

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Three Republican members of Michigan’s House of Representatives introduced a resolution for impeachment against Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer Wednesday, following the state’s plan to enforce new coronavirus-related restrictions. “The four articles of impeachment against Gov. Whitmer include failing to respect the separation of powers by exercising power granted to the legislative branch, violating the constitutional rights of the people of Michigan, issuing executive orders against the interests of the people and state, and using state resources to reward political allies,” he added..... “We’re not the party that impeaches someone because we’re upset with policies that they’ve enacted,” he told local...

In November 2019, a George Mason University professor stumbled upon a Bible and an accompanying CD in her classroom. The professor collected the items and immediately reported the items to the school’s Bias Incident Reporting Team, which classified the episode as “discrimination” and “harassment” against “religion.” The professor accompanied her report with photographs of the Bible, and the items were collected by the Bias Team. The incident was one of 12 filed with the school’s bias reporting website between January 1, 2019 and January 1, 2020 and obtained by The College Fix through an open records law request. The documents...

Powell said that Trump received more votes than Dems expected and Dominion machines weren’t programmed to flip enough votes to Biden November 18, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – Sidney Powell, a current member of Trump’s legal team and a former federal prosecutor, discussed Dominion’s history of rigging elections in foreign countries with Newsmax’s Greg Kelly on his Nov. 17 show Greg Kelly Reports. “[T]he election could not have been more rigged than it was,” Powell said. Youtube: Major developments in key states | Sidn...“We know Dominion has a long history of rigging elections. That’s what it was created to do to begin...

The coronavirus crash has completely impoverished New York City’s huge illegal-migrant population, so it needs a bailout from billionaires, says a far left group of open border activists. The advocacy group, Make the Road NY, wants to raise $5.5 billion from 120 New York billionaires to provide roughly $750 per week in aid for up to 1.2 million illegal migrants and their dependents. Numerous Democratic legislators back the campaign. The New York Times gave the draft legislation a boost on November 15, with an excellent video report that showcased some of the unemployed, illegal migrants who were trying to earn...

Sen. Rand Paul called out his “haters” Wednesday after he drew social media criticism for saying that contracting COVID-19 led people to have greater immunity than a vaccine would. “Why does the left accept immune theory when it comes to vaccines, but not when discussing naturally acquired immunity?” Paul asked in a tweet Tuesday. The tweet was preceded by another social media post in which he said natural immunity to COVID-19 was “99.9982% percent effective.” “Sad that Twitter haters argue that accepting the science of immunity means a person lacks compassion,” Paul said. “I have friends who are seriously ill...

White House chief of staff Mark Meadows said on Wednesday he couldn't "guarantee" the federal government would avoid a shutdown in December. While he did not rule out a shutdown, Meadows said both parties were trying to reach an agreement to finance government agencies and keep them open. "Obviously, we want to keep the government funded," Meadows said, according to a Capitol Hill pool report. He called it "a high priority." The Trump administration and Congress must approve a dozen spending bills to fund most government agencies by December 11, and those negotiations are ongoing. Both parties are still attempting...

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops announced Tuesday that it will form a task force to address policy by President-elect Joe Biden that contradicts Catholic teaching. The task force will be headed by Detroit Archbishop Allen H. Vigneron of Detroit, according to the Catholic News Service, and will be specifically focused on addressing Biden’s actions as the first Catholic president since John F. Kennedy, as Biden supports policies explicitly opposed to Catholic teaching, such as abortion. USCCB president Archbishop José H. Gomez of Los Angeles announced the formation of the working group Tuesday at an annual conference of American...

A little boy named Zechariah recently had a very special day. Late last month Zechariah celebrated his seventh birthday. Many children have birthdays every day, but Zechariah’s is extra special as he is able to celebrate his birthday because his courageous mom Rebekah connected with Heartbeat International’s Abortion Pill Rescue® Network after she took the abortion pill and experienced regret. Rebekah was a young woman leaving an abusive marriage who had moved with her young son back in with her parents when she discovered she was unexpectedly pregnant with her second child. She faced the very real prospect of homelessness,...

Oh, I'm sure it happens all the time but this one is different. This was a well coordinated attack. The felonies are-a-flyin'. So, would it be election board members, counters, governors?

Despite the coronavirus shutdowns and limited legislative sessions, 13 states still made protections for unborn babies a priority in 2020. A new report from Americans United for Life recently highlighted the life-saving laws and resolutions that state lawmakers passed this year – doing what they could to end the human rights abuse of abortion against unborn babies in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis. According to Americans United for Life, 13 states passed 19 pro-life laws in 2020, including measures to require abortion facilities to give mothers accurate information and to protect underage girls from secret abortions without a parent’s...

The youngest U.S. district judge nominated by President Trump was confirmed by the Senate on Wednesday evening to serve in the Tampa division of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida. But the nomination of Washington, D.C., attorney Kathryn Kimball Mizelle, a 33-year-old Lakeland native, has made waves in the legal community. The American Bar Association sent a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee in September saying that, despite her credentials, Mizelle’s lack of trial experience renders her unqualified to be appointed to the federal judiciary. snip Mizelle is close to Justice Clarence Thomas, has expressed admiration...

Senate candidate Raphael Warnock has the backing of the nation’s largest abortion group, Planned Parenthood. A pastor and a pro-abortion Democrat, Warnock is challenging Sen. Kelly Loeffler, a pro-life Republican, in a high-stakes runoff race in Georgia. Neither Loeffler nor Warnock received more than 50 percent of votes Nov. 3, pushing the race into a runoff election in January. Because Republicans hold a narrow majority in the U.S. Senate, Loeffler’s seat is key to stopping Democrats from expanding late-term abortions and forcing taxpayers to pay for unborn babies’ abortion deaths. Earlier this year, Planned Parenthood expressed confidence that Warnock would...

Hungary’s leadership is standing by its decision to block the whole seven-year budget for the European Union over the inclusion of new powers which would, they claim, allow the political persecution of member states that don’t follow the Brussels globalist playbook on matters like mass migration. The Hungarian and Polish governments used their veto powers to block the seven-year Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) — in other words, the EU’s budget — on Monday, having failed to prevent new clauses and rules being inserted at earlier stages of the negotiation process. While the comparatively small central European nations lacked the political...

The IIF said global debt would break new records in the coming months to reach $277 trillion by the end of the year. Among advanced nations, debt surged above 432% of GDP in the third quarter — a 50 percentage points increase from 2019. In emerging markets, debt levels rose to over 248% of GDP, with Lebanon, China, Malaysia and Turkey experiencing the biggest rises in non-financial-sector debt.

November 19 2020 Św Jan Kantego (St. John Cantius) parish, Warsaw-Żoliborz Thirty Third Thursday in Ordinary TimeLectionary: 500Reading 1 RV 5:1-10 I, John, saw a scroll in the right hand of the one who sat on the throne. It had writing on both sides and was sealed with seven seals. Then I saw a mighty angel who proclaimed in a loud voice, “Who is worthy to open the scroll and break its seals?” But no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll or to examine it. I shed many tears because...