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Utahns, overall, are split in their opinions of the kind of job U.S. Sens. Mike Lee and Mitt Romney are doing, a recent UtahPolicy.com poll finds. Neither Republican is up for re-election this year: Lee runs for a third, six-year term in 2022 and Romney faces his first re-election in 2024. But a dive into the demographics of the Y2 Analytics survey finished last month shows the challenges the two face within their own Republican Party -- or, rather, the challenge Romney faces. Unless a lot of Utah Republicans and conservatives change their minds about Romney -- and that likely...

RUSH: Last night officials with Dominion voter systems — now, this is the company out of Venezuela along with their software partner smart screen, smart scom, whatever it is, these are the people that claim that their system is fair and aboveboard and there’s nothing to these charges about their system being used to rig elections or any of that. They were all set to explain it all. They were gonna testify before the Pennsylvania House state government committee today. And then the House Republicans in Pennsylvania are gonna hold a press conference this morning to address Dominion’s failure to...

Donald Trump Jr. has tested positive for the coronavirus and is quarantining at his cabin.

The good news? Conservative Justices Brett Kavanaugh, Samuel Alito, Amy Coney Barrett and Clarence Thomas were all assigned to crucial battleground states such as Pennsylvania, Georgia, Wisconsin and Michigan.

Well-known late-term abortionist LeRoy Carhart has lost a contract with his third medical waste disposal company in two years. Created Equal announced the news this week, which they claimed as a victory for Project Weak Link — an effort to stop disposal companies from doing business with abortionists — writing: In June 2018, two companies canceled contracts to pick up aborted baby remains from third-trimester abortionist Leroy Carhart. Unfortunately, at that time, Bio-Haz Solutions, Inc. based in Nesquehoning, Pennsylvania, was hired by AbortionClinics.org (ACO), Carhart’s late-term abortion facility located in Bethesda, Maryland. On November 10, 2020, Created Equal confirmed that...

Tributes to victims of the transatlantic slave trade can be found in museums and through statues, but a new proposal is calling for a memorial that can neither be visited nor even seen. A virtual memorial of ribbons on maps of the Atlantic deep seabed could honor the estimated 1.8 million Africans who died at sea during the trans-oceanic slave trade, said a proposal published this month in the Journal of Marine Policy. “It would be on a map … they can’t visit it,” said Phillip Turner, a science policy consultant who worked on the paper as a doctoral student...

An ordinance restricting noise around the vivid pink abortion facility in Jackson, Mississippi, has been overturned after just one year. The ordinance had also put into place a “buffer zone,” within which protesting was prohibited. This week, the Jackson City Council voted unanimously in favor of the Mississippi Justice Institute, which had filed a lawsuit seeking to have the ordinance overturned. “We are pleased that the city of Jackson has decided to do the right thing and end this unconstitutional restriction on free expression,” said Aaron Rice, the director of the Institute, in a press release. “This is a major...

....Many public health officials, scientists, epidemiologists and other experts have been broadly supportive of these measures, with many arguing that they are necessary to avoid huge death rates, overwhelmed medical systems and destabilized societies. Yet the Great Barrington Declaration has, in the relatively brief period since its Oct. 4 publication, managed to snag several dozen thousand signatures from experts in those fields and others who believe the lockdowns are causing, in the words of the declaration, "irreparable damage." "Current lockdown policies are producing devastating effects on short and long-term public health," the document states. "The results ... include lower childhood...

The success of the social media platform Parler has both infuriated and confounded the mainstream media and Democrats, both of who have lobbied for and gotten the Powers That Be at Facebook and Twitter to tighten the reins on content posted at their sites by way of either suppressing stories and statements altogether or putting “warnings” on them, making them more difficult to share with readers and followers – all under the guise of wanting to “protect” readers from “fake news.” After Election Day, Tech Crunch reported that Parler rocketed to the top of Google Play’s and the Apple App...

(Reuters) - Georgia Governor Brian Kemp said on Friday that the law requires him to formalize the certification of election results, after the state’s top election official approved results showing Democratic President-elect Joe Biden beat Republican President Donald Trump in the state in the Nov. 3. election.

Troy Fire Chief Matt Simmons has watched Ohio’s COVID response and the statewide statistics since Ohio began responding to the virus. “We had the local health department come in and talk with us back in the beginning. What they were saying was pretty grim,” said Simmons. Fast-forward to November and according to the state website, COVID cases have gone up exponentially in previous weeks and hospitalizations for COVID patients have climbed to all-time highs. But the statistics that Chief Simmons keeps mulling over are that Miami County (where Troy is located) has seen overdose calls increase by 137%, while suicide...

One America News (OAN) CEO Robert Herring called out presumptive President-Elect Joe Biden for acting “like he’s going to be president when he knows the Dem cheating has been uncovered,” Thursday. “Why is Biden still trying to act like he’s going to be president when he knows the Dem cheating has been uncovered?” tweeted Herring. “He should be working on a way to clear all the charges he faces.”

Explanation: This may be the best global Mars map made with a telescope based on planet Earth. The image data were captured by a team of observers over six long nights at the Pic du Midi mountaintop observatory between October 8 and November 1, when the fourth rock from the Sun had not wandered far from its 2020 opposition and its biggest and brightest appearance in Earth's night sky. The large telescope used, 1 meter in diameter with a 17 meter focal length, was also used in support of NASA's Apollo lunar landing missions. After about 30 hours of processing,...

In 1973, abortion became a federal right because of the Supreme Court’s ruling in the Roe v. Wade. Since then, there have been approximately 65 million preborn children — and that means there are tens of millions of bodies which need to be disposed of by the abortion industry. What happens to all of them? Jonathon Van Maren, a writer, public speaker, and pro-life activist, raised this question in an op-ed for The Stream. He wrote: During a panel on abortion victim photography, someone asked us for a question we could ask that would highlight the magnitude of what abortion...

Kyle Rittenhouse, the Illinois teenager charged with killing two men during the Jacob Blake protests in Wisconsin this summer, made bail on Friday and walked out of jail, officials said. "Kyle Rittenhouse's bond was posted this afternoon at about 2:00 pm which was set up through his attorney," Kenosha County Sheriff's Sgt. David Wright said in a statement. "He is no longer in custody at the Kenosha County Jail."

Back in 2014, I worked freelance for a public relations firm in New York City. It was there that I met an unusual woman. I didn’t know many lawyers or Texans, but I knew better than to chalk up her qualities to either her profession or her home. It’s rare that I encounter someone who I’m afraid to argue with, because of her sheer brain power and towering personal rectitude. But this was such a person. This woman had quite a career behind her. An evangelical Christian, she’d been a federal prosecutor — and quit, outraged at the corruption she...

Two of Donald Trump’s least-favorite critics — comedienne Rosie O’Donnell and the president’s tell-all niece, Mary Trump — have recently become friends and are now joining forces to criticize him together. The two will be featured speakers on Tuesday at an online panel titled, “A Fireside chat with Mary L. Trump and Rosie O’Donnell — Trump, the Transition of Power & the next 60+ days until Inauguration.” The panel is being hosted by Lesbians Who Tech, a community of LGBTQ women who work “in and around tech (and the people who support them,” as their website explains. O’Donnell and Trump...

Columbia Engineering researchers decided to investigate whether this was true, whether these forests are really as sensitive to water stress as what the models have been showing. In a study published today in Science Advances, they report their discovery that these models have been largely over-estimating water stress in tropical forests. The team found that, while models show that increases in air dryness greatly diminish photosynthesis rates in certain regions of the Amazon rainforest, the observational data results show the opposite: in certain very wet regions, the forests instead even increase photosynthesis rates in response to drier air.

Yeah, funny how all talk about the stimulus to help people just suddenly ended. The media is not talking about it either. NO ONE at the top cares about any of us. We are so stupid for worrying about who is in office anywhere and start doing something about all of this. Really.

Trump railed against voting by mail during the election campaign, saying that it led to fraud. He repeated his claims for election fraud in a speech where he declared victory in the presidential race on November 4th “We’ll be going to the US Supreme Court.” He also appeared to conflate voters casting ballots with election officials counting those ballots. “We want all voting to stop,” the president said. “We don’t want them to find any ballots at 4 o’clock in the morning and add them to the list.” President Trump’s campaign returned to the Supreme Court on Wednesday to try...