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he Plaza Hotel. Three-hundred-fifty guests. The groom’s college rabbi flying into New York from Senegal. By the first week of March, the florist was booked, the kosher catering was ordered, and the band was arranged. Josh and Sarah Weissmann would be married in April with all the pomp and circumstance that the 23-year-olds—but mostly their parents—could dream up, and surely, nothing would stand in their way. Josh Weissmann had just one small concern: “I get very nervous with large events,” he said. “I’d never been to the Plaza … I had to go there multiple times to accustom myself with...

On November 18, 1920, Soviet Russia became the first country to legalize abortion, marking the beginning of the legal killing of children in-utero worldwide. Russian history is a complex tale of political conflicts and tense governmental regimes, but the country’s deep-seated abortion culture is worthy of exploration. The consequences of a government distorting its people’s perceptions of human dignity through abortion legislation have made themselves apparent in various ways, such as in Russia’s falling birth rate and plunging population. In 2003, the BBC reported there were 13 abortions in Russia for every 10 live births. The United Nations reported in...

Senate bill introduced to transfer 32 million acres to black farmers.

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp said Friday that will "follow the law" and sign the paperwork that officially grants the state's 16 electoral votes to President-elect Joe Biden. State law requires Kemp, a Republican, to award Georgia's electoral votes to the certified winner of the presidential election. A federal judge on Thursday rejected a last-ditch lawsuit that tried to block certification, and Biden's victory was certified Friday afternoon by Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. "Earlier today, Secretary Raffensperger presented the certified results of the 2020 general election to my office," Kemp said at a news conference. "Following Judge Grimsberg's ruling...

(Nov. 4, 2013) — On Sunday, CDR Charles F. Kerchner, Jr. (Ret.) published a post on his blog entitled “A Constitutional Storm and Crisis is Coming — Congress Must Act!” after which The Post & Email contacted him to discover his thoughts and motivation for the title and the video. THE POST & EMAIL: What made you title your piece “A Constitutional Storm and Crisis…”? CDR KERCHNER: I see the country falling apart, and I think it’s on purpose. The Cloward-Piven Strategy is being played out. Obamacare is falling apart in front of our eyes, and it’s just going to...

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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,...