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Here's a serious question. Have we passed that Rubicon in America beyond which it is no longer possible to pretend the American government is legitimately representing the people? I know that question is on a lot of Americans' minds these days, and I think it speaks volumes about our brewing crisis that none of our elected leaders has even attempted to acknowledge, let alone address, the growing unease outside the capital. People are arming up right now in record numbers not because of hunting season; they're buying weapons because their instincts tell them America is on the brink. But if...

A lot of things worry me about a Joe Biden-Kamala Harris administration, but nothing troubles me more than that it will accommodate the left's disturbing march toward selective suppression of free speech. Much of the war against this sacred liberty occurs at the level of our culture, but when a leftist-friendly administration is in power, our efforts to combat this culturally will be more difficult. As a result of structural and technological changes in our society, threats to free speech no longer come from the government alone, and so, our constitutional guarantees against encroachments are now inadequate. There has been...

To the Democrats that wish to "change my mind", Do you really believe that you can "re-align" a mind that has already been "aligned"? I am a "Goldwater Republican". I am "one of those there Nativists." I believe that the American citizen comes first, at home, in peace and in war. I believe that the legal immigrants who come and have come here, should assimilate to the American culture, and not bring the crap they left behind. They are "HERE", and not "THERE". I do recognize the desire to hold on to "who you are and where you came from",...

In-person voting on Election Day presented unique health risks for our states’ electorates, we were told. So much so, in fact, that many states went to extraordinary lengths to minimize, or even eliminate, such voting. Therefore, consider the examples of three such states – one red state (Florida), one purple state (Pennsylvania), and one blue state (New Jersey). Let’s examine the degree of mail-in balloting that occurred in each state, and the subsequent results of new cases of COVID-19 in those states since the election. In-person voting was held in both Florida and Pennsylvania, but both states offered mail-in voting...

WASHINGTON — President Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election are unprecedented in American history and an even more audacious use of brute political force to gain the White House than when Congress gave Rutherford B. Hayes the presidency during Reconstruction.... Those theories figured in a rambling news conference that Rudolph W. Giuliani, the president’s personal lawyer, held with other members of his legal team on Thursday. The group threw out a series of disconnected arguments to try to make the case that Mr. Trump really won. The arguments included blaming mail-in ballots that they said were prone to fraud...

As of Nov. 20, at least 35,236 medical practitioners and 12,115 medical and public health scientists have joined more than 638,920 members of the general public in signing the petition, which was created on Oct. 4 and co-authored by Harvard professor of medicine Dr. Martin Kulldorff, Oxford professor Dr. Sunetra Gupta, and Stanford Medical School professor Dr. Jay Bhattacharya. “As infectious disease epidemiologists and public health scientists, we have grave concerns about the damaging physical and mental health impacts of the prevailing COVID-19 policies, and recommend an approach we call Focused Protection,” reads the petition, which is titled the Great...

...But Stop the Tires 2020 creator Jeremy Rewoldt has backed away from calls for a work stoppage, saying, “Now is not the time.” Rewoldt discusses in a vlog how the overwhelming growth of the Facebook group took him by surprise and thrust him into a position of leadership he had not anticipated.

Matt Braynard of the Voter Integrity Fund just completed an unreturned absentee analysis. Among those who did request an absentee ballot and vote but the state did not record receiving it State/Did request an absentee ballot and returned it but the state did not record receiving it/Percent of sample: AZ/355/50.01% GA/257/44.08% Michigan/242/32.61% Pennsylvania/463/41.86% Wisconsin/325/20.00% ------------------------------------------------- Analysis 2 Infrequent voters in precincts with high turnout. State says they voted early or by absentee ballot but they told us they did not cast a ballot. State/counts/% of sample AZ/21/0.94% GA/24/0.85% NV/25/2.22% MI/18/2.80% PA/22/0.70% WI/23/0.66% They have recorded the calls and are following...

Pence expressed confidence in the nation’s ability to curb the transmission of COVID-19,assuring Americans that the Trump administration has “a plan in place.”...“America has never been more prepared to combat this virus than we are today,” Pence said......... But to be very clear, President Trump has been clear that we do not support another national lockdown and do not believe it is necessary. Dr. Fauci reflected again we are not calling for a national lockdown, and we won’t.” “There is light at the end of the tunnel,” added Alex Azar, health and human services secretary, referring to the future distribution...

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) will not back down on his opposition to yet another lockdown — a move he denounced as “arbitrary.” Speaking with FOX Business on Thursday, Sen. Paul said the second wave of COVID-19 lockdowns are distracting from the gains that have been made with the vaccines. He ultimately hoped that the courts would intervene. “Let’s hope, in this case, the court will intervene,” Paul said. “I’ve been calling my governor for months ‘DWP,’ drunk with power, because he’s taken this power without any consent from the legislature.” “…the edicts that are coming from the governor, and from...

“We have the oldest written constitution still in force in the world, and it starts out with three words, ‘We, the people.’”... It is absolutely necessary to investigate vote counting irregularities and ballot fraud in states with a high incidence because honest elections are the only source of legitimacy of the United States government. Because that legitimacy only comes from the people, it would be a fundamental betrayal of who we are—a sort of national suicide—to allow massive vote counting irregularities and ballot fraud in multiple states to stand. The American people have already endured two major efforts at a...

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The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced on Thursday that it has arrested illegal immigrants who are in breach of their promise to voluntarily leave the country after opting against a normal deportation. ICE Acting Director Tony Pham announced that “Operation Broken Promise,” a 21-day targeted enforcement operation, has since Nov. 2 resulted in the arrest of 154 people who were granted voluntary departure but still haven’t left the country after the agreed time. He said that 133, or 86 percent of those arrested, had criminal convictions or pending charges. “Aliens who are in the country illegally receive due...

Image screenshot from The Nations Gun Show website, cropped and scaled by Dean Weingarten Showmasters, who run the Nations Gun Show in Chantilly, Virginia; John Crump; and Sonny's Guns and Transfers, who frequently utilize the show, have filed a lawsuit against Governor Northam and M. Norman Oliver as the State Health Commissioner, in order to prevent their shutting down one of the largest gun shows in the nation next weekend, 20, 21 and 22 November 2020.The restrictions were issued on Friday, 13 November, becoming effective on 16 November. The lawsuit was filed on Tuesday, 17 November. The Nations Gun Show...

We asked the Trump campaign attorney for proof of her bombshell claims. She gave us nothing. On Thursday, Rudy Giuliani and a number of President Trump's other lawyers held a press conference on the topic of voter fraud. If you didn't actually see it, you've probably heard about it by now. Giuliani, along with former federal prosecutor called Sidney Powell and a number of others, alleged that the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump. To demonstrate that, they exhibited some of what they found after two weeks of investigating. The presentation went on for 90 minutes with many different...

Professor Daniel Ravicher of the University of Miami Law School says that he may be fired over pro-Trump social media posts that he published in the days following the presidential election. The dean of the law school reportedly told Ravicher that he must apologize and retract his comments if he wants to return to teach in the spring. According to a report by the College Fix, University of Miami Law School Professor Daniel Ravicher may be fired over a series of social media posts that he published after the election. “Heading to Walmart to get what I need to protect...

President Donald Trump and his allies are taking increasingly frantic steps to subvert the results of the 2020 election, including summoning state legislators to the White House as part of a longshot bid to overturn Joe Biden’s victory. Among other last-ditch tactics: personally calling local election officials who are trying to rescind their certification votes in Michigan, suggesting in a legal challenge that Pennsylvania set aside the popular vote there and pressuring county officials in Arizona to delay certifying vote tallies. Election law experts see it as the last, dying gasps of the Trump campaign and say Biden is certain...

What Is “The Great Reset”? According to an article on The Hill, “The Great Reset” is a plan “by the planet’s most powerful business leaders, government officials and activists [who] announced a proposal to ‘reset’ the global economy. Instead of traditional capitalism, the high-profile group said the world should adopt more socialistic policies, such as wealth taxes, additional regulations and massive Green New Deal-like government programs.” And how does the global oligarchy intend to carry out “The Great Reset”? They’re seizing the global pandemic as the perfect opportunity to roll out this plan. While most of the ordinary citizenry are...

WASHINGTON - President-elect Joe Biden turned 78 on Friday. In exactly two months, he’ll take the reins of a politically fractured nation facing the worst public health crisis in a century, high unemployment and a reckoning on racial injustice. As he wrestles with those issues, Biden will be attempting to accomplish another feat: Demonstrate to Americans that age is but a number and he’s up to the job. Biden will be sworn in as the oldest president in the nation’s history, displacing Ronald Reagan, who left the White House in 1989 when he was 77 years and 349 days old....

A man pleaded guilty on Thursday to helping set ablaze a Minneapolis police precinct during a George Floyd protest in May, a report said. Bryce Williams, 26, of Minnesota, copped to a charge of conspiracy to commit arson in connection to the May 28 fire at the Third Precinct, the Star Tribune reported. Williams helped torch a Molotov cocktail, which was then tossed inside the precinct by another man, the charges say. He also tossed a box onto an existing fire outside the precinct’s entrance, according to the charges. Protesters had been targeting the Third Precinct, where the four since-fired...