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WASHINGTON - The pool reports shared by White House correspondents can be as mundane as a grocery list and about as informative - the who, what and when of the president's daily comings and goings, as recounted by a reporter who travels with the president for a day and relays it all to the rest of the press corps. At least that's the way it used to be. In the Trump era - or more precisely in the waning days of the Trump administration - press pool reports have taken on a more cutting edge. "The president has nothing on...

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Friday Silliness ThreadSpecial End of America editionIt’s been a great 250 years or so. Americas have sent men to the moon and probes to the far reaches of the Solar System. At the smallest scale American alchemy created new transuranic elements and some awesome bombs! Our culture dominates the landscape worldwide! American achievement is simply too vast to list even a fraction of all the great things Americans have done. Sadly if this stolen election succeeds then we all know they will steal the Senate election in Georgia.They have to become the law in order to continue to stay above...

SAN DIEGO (KGTV) - With President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris projected to take the White House, Harris will have to resign her seat in the U.S. Senate. The power to fill that seat would fall to Governor Gavin Newsom, and the political jockeying for his pick is well underway. “This is one of the best jobs in American politics, one of the most prominent jobs in American politics and every California political leader wants it,” said UC San Diego political science chair Thad Kousser. Kousser expects Newsom will want to make history with the diversity of his...

November 19, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – In a Nov. 18 video posted to YouTube, President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer and former mayor of New York City Rudy Giuliani detailed several anomalies in this year’s election that he says constitutes evidence of widespread voter fraud, including the shady background of the voting machine software used to calculate votes and the problems with huge numbers of mail-in ballots. Speaking first about the Dominion software employed in many voting districts to calculate votes, Giuliani expressed shock that the actual counting does not take place in the United States. “There have been many surprises, but...

(CNS News) -- Bishop Joseph Strickland, head of the Diocese of Tyler, Texas, publicly called on Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden to "repent" from his support of abortion and gay "marriage" for "his own salvation" and the good of the country. Biden, a Catholic, supports myriad practices and policies that are contrary to the teachings of the Catholic Church, such as abortion on demand, same-sex marriage, transgender females (biological males) in women's sports and locker rooms, and gay adoption. Tweeter: As a bishop I beg Mr Biden...Publicly calling him to repent shows that Bishop Strickland cares for Biden's immortal soul....

Assuming Joe Biden is chosen as president next month by the Electoral College, he will pose a problem for the bishops. Indeed, the head of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), Archbishop José Gomez, indicated this week that the bishops are already beset by Biden. If Biden were a Protestant, it would not complicate matters for the bishops, but he is a baptized Catholic. At the USCCB meeting this week, Gomez said there were some policies, such as immigration, where Biden’s “faith commitments will move him to support some good policies.” But there are other issues, such as...

Sen. Elizabeth Warren celebrated Wednesday when Massachusetts lawmakers voted to legalize the killing of unborn babies for basically any reason up to birth in their state.A pro-abortion amendment to the state budget passed the House last week and the Senate on Wednesday. Among other things, it would expand late-term abortions and allow young girls to abort their unborn babies with their parents’ knowledge or consent.Warren, a pro-abortion Democrat from Massachusetts who ran for president earlier this year, said she was “proud” of her state for expanding abortions, the New Boston Post reports.“I’m proud of the Massachusetts House and Senate for...

Massachusetts Democrats rammed through a radical pro-abortion amendment Wednesday in the state Senate that would expand late-term abortions and allow young girls to abort their unborn babies with a parent’s knowledge.State House News Service reports the amendment to the state budget passed in a 33-7 vote and soon could be headed to Gov. Charlie Baker’s desk. The state House passed the measure last week.The pro-abortion amendment is similar to the ROE Act, an unpopular bill that languished in committee for more than a year. Using a new strategy to expand abortions and appease pro-abortion lobbying groups, Democrats now are trying...

In two terrifying seconds, a Manhattan subway rider’s worst nightmare became a mass transit miracle. A deranged homeless man with a running start shoved an unsuspecting woman in front of an oncoming subway train Thursday in the Union Square station, with the helpless victim improbably landing in the roadbed between the tracks and emerging intact after two of the 70,000-pound cars passed over her. Video of the attack shows an unhinged Aditya Vemulapati, 24, pacing up and down the platform, sizing up the victim and then violently pushing the woman from behind with both hands in the instant before a...

Babies in Ireland may be surviving late-term abortions and being abandoned to die under the nation’s new abortion law, according to a new study.Published in the journal BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, the study provides a horrific glimpse at how unborn babies are being legally aborted in Ireland.“In Ireland, several babies have already been born alive after abortion and left to die, admits a new study,” David Quinn, director of The Iona Institute, wrote Tuesday on Twitter. “This will cause absolutely no controversy, no heart-rending national debate, no questioning of what we have wrought.”Ireland voted to repeal...

Dr. Michael Osterholm, a member of former Vice President Joe Biden’s coronavirus task force, predicted on Thursday that hospitals will be “collapsing in the next two to three weeks” due to spikes in coronavirus cases across the country. As many push the President Donald Trump administration to provide information regarding coronavirus cases to the Biden transition team, Osterholm emphasized the importance of someone in his position knowing “current information on the number of cases.”

Original anthem protester Colin Kaepernick is demanding that Pennsylvania authorities release Mumia Abu-Jamal, who was convicted of killing Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner in 1981. Abu-Jamal, who is serving a life sentence at State Correctional Institution Mahanoy, in Frackville, Pennsylvania, has been a cause célèbre for leftists for decades. Now it appears that the convict has added the former San Francisco 49ers, second-string quarterback, to his list of supporters. Kaepernick discussed Abu-Jamal during a video conference on Monday, according to NewsBusters.

President Trump’s daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, could become the next Trump on a ballot as she is reportedly considering a 2022 Senate run in her home state of North Carolina, according to a New York Times report on Thursday. Three allies of Lara Trump told the Times that she has been telling associates she could run in two years to replace Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.), who plans to retire at the end of his term. The upcoming Senate race is likely to be tight after North Carolina became more of a battleground state in this year’s election. President Trump held onto...

While explained to her Twitter followers why she wears a mask, left-wing actress Rosanna Arquette accused President Donald Trump of using the coronavirus “as a weapon of mass destruction.” In her latest screed, Rosanna Arquette claimed that she wears a mask because she cares about people — even those with whom she disagrees politically — but then insisted that Trump is akin to a mass murderer. “I wear a mask to protect others from possibly getting covid (if I’ve been exposed and don’t know it) even to protect people I don’t agree with on any level politically. covid is killing...

Seventy-three percent of Joe Biden’s 126,649 vote margin gain in Pennsylvania, compared to Hillary Clinton’s performance in 2016, came from the seven counties and one city in Pennsylvania that received more than $18 million from the Mark Zuckerberg-funded Center for Technology and Civic Life (CTCL) “safe elections” project. The CTCL provided more than $18 million in “safe elections” grants between September 1 and October 31 to at least seven counties and one city in Pennsylvania: $10 million to the City of Philadelphia, $2.5 million to Chester County (suburban Philadelphia), $2.2 million to Delaware County (suburban Philadelphia), $2.05 million to Allegheny...

The share of black voters in Georgia’s 2020 election hit its lowest point since 2006 despite the overall number of black voters increasing in the state, per data analysis from the New York Times. Black voters represented 27.3 percent of this year’s Georgia electorate, a decrease from 27.7 percent in 2016, and a decrease from 30 percent in 2012, when President Barack Obama was running:

President-elect Joe Biden said he would not seek to order a nation-wide shutdown even as coronavirus infections spread nationwide and deaths hit 250,000. 'Everybody asks that question every single time,' Biden said, flashing some annoyance when asked if he would order businesses around the country to close as the pandemic raged. He referenced his own earlier comments on the subject, and said: 'The answer was I would follow the science. I am not going to shutdown the economy, period.'

Two investigations into Donald Trump’s taxes are now honing in on tax write-offs on consulting fees made by the Trump Organization after the president's daughter Ivanka received about $748,000 in such payments. At the moment there are two separate New York state fraud investigations, one criminal and one civil, into Trump and his businesses. Both probes have now been expanded and have issued subpoenas to the Trump Organization in recent weeks for records on those consulting fees and tax deductions, according to a New York Times report published Thursday.

Cristina B., whose social media pictures show her at Valencia’s Las Fallas festival or at sports competitions, was arrested last week for belonging to a terrorist organization after she tried to cross into the conflict zone in Syria to join ISIS forces, according to police sources Up until January 2017, Cristina B. was like any other young woman in Cullera, a small town in the Spanish region of Valencia. On social media, the 24-year-old was seen dressed as a fallera, wearing an elaborate traditional dress used during Valencia’s famous Las Fallas festival. There are also pictures of her in sports...