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The U.S. government stands to lose more than $400 billion from the federal student loan program, an internal analysis shows, approaching the size of losses incurred by banks during the subprime-mortgage crisis. The Education Department, with the help of two private consultants, looked at $1.37 trillion in student loans held by the government at the start of the year. Their conclusion: Borrowers will pay back $935 billion in principal and interest. That would leave taxpayers on the hook for $435 billion, according to documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. The analysis was based on government accounting standards and didn’t...

White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany mocked a CNN reporter who kept shouting questions about President Trump admitting he had lost, saying she doesn’t call on “activists” before walking away from the podium. REPORTER: “When will you admit you lost the election?” MCENANY: “Thank you everyone for the very good and substantive questions today.” REPORTER: “Do you understand that? He lost.” MCENANY: “Thank you. I don’t call on activists.”

Cary C Charlson phone call fragment of Sidney Powell former Federal prosecutor on Newsmax talking about how they're going to file federal lawsuits by the end of next week after Thanksgiving. Why the FBI is not securing the voting equipment from Dominion and allowing them to move their office and Destroy evidence is just crazy.

"Peace" was recently achieved between Armenia and Azerbaijan, who had been fighting for nearly two months, after the Christian nation agreed to cede its ancestral lands in Artsakh to its Muslim neighbor. From a temporal and myopic point of view, such a settlement may seem like progress; from a long point of view, it is a regress and reflective of the continuum of Armenian-Islamic history and relations: in exchange for peace, Christians have always been forced to cede territory to Muslims. After all, the heart of the Muslim world — the Middle East, North Africa, and Asia Minor — were...

I confess to having been utterly naïve. I had wondered why on Earth the business community would prefer a frail and corrupt president Biden over a pro-business president Trump. Trump has a track record of economic growth and stands for lower regulations and taxes, fairer international trade, and a stronger military. Biden wants to increase taxes and regs and put in place a number of new initiatives like the Green New Deal that might bankrupt the economy. But Wall Street, the tech industry, and many more backed Biden, while even many GOP congressmen seemed lukewarm to Trump. The choice for...

This concludes my report on an interview with Rep. Elise Stefanik yesterday afternoon. I posted the first installment here, including my daughter Eliana’s 2014 NR profile of her just before she became the youngest woman elected to Congress at the time. I mentioned to Rep. Stefanik how much I admired women standing up to run for office on our side because of the abuse to which they subject themselves. Unlike their Democratic counterparts, the abuse won’t be offset by features glamorizing them in the fashion magazines. We’re not holding our breath for Stefanik’s 2020 class to be featured by Glamour...

When President Trump refused to concede the election to Joe Biden in the immediate aftermath of Nov. 3, we argued that he had the right to mount legal challenges if he believed there had been irregularities, mistakes, fraud, or all three. Democratic objections and outrage were as hypocritical as they were inevitable, coming as they did from a corps that refused to accept the 2016 election result not for days, weeks, or even months, but for four years. But although fair-minded people know there are legitimate procedures for litigation, and that these should be allowed to play out, there is...

The Weekly Gardening Thread is a weekly gathering of folks that love soil, seeds and plants of all kinds. From complete newbies that are looking to start that first potted plant, to gardeners with some acreage, to Master Gardener level and beyond, we would love to hear from you. If you have specific question about a plant/problem you are having, please remember to state the Growing Zone where you are located. This thread is non-political respite. No matter what, you won’t be flamed, and the only dumb question is the one that isn’t asked. It is impossible to hijack the...

“Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the LORD pondereth the hearts . . . The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death” (Proverbs 21:2 KJV).

Brian Kemp also rallies behind future voter ID enhancements after certifying election results for Biden. After certifying his state's election results, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp is now urging his state to conduct an audit comparing the signatures of voter applications and mail-in ballot envelops to those on the approved voter file to determine if fraud occurred. Kemp, a Republican, made the appeal to Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger during a news conference on Friday. “It’s important to note that this audit only looked at ballots, not the signatures on the absentee applications or the signatures on the ballot envelopes," the...

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump Big voter fraud information coming out concerning Georgia. Stay tuned! 8:58 AM · Nov 21, 2020

On Friday Tucker Carlson gave a half hearted retraction to his hit commentary on Sidney Powell about not providing evidence of election fraud in the system. And at the same time stated he has seen no evidence and those at the WHITE HOUSE have seen no evidence ... I disagree with that and Tucker you are a “journalist” and you like to lecture others in the main stream media about how "journalists" investigate. How about you and FOX use some of your billions earned and “investigate” like journalists do and help the small legal team put together the "evidence."

Has COVID-19 cured the flu? Not exactly. In any given year, influenza claims approximately 250 lives in the state of Washington. 2020 is different, of course, because COVID-19 is here. In fact, this year’s flu season, which started in the beginning of October, has yielded zero flu deaths and zero lab-confirmed cases. Zero lab-confirmed influenza deaths have been reported for the 2020-2021 season to date. One WA influenza specimens reported to CDC, public health laboratories and commercial laboratories. Zero influenza-like illness outbreaks in long term care facilities have been reported for the 2020-2021 season to date. Does that mean the...

While Barack Obama was president, gun sales across the nation surged, largely because of citizen concerns over gun-control measures. But sales back then were nothing compared to the more than 17 million weapons purchased already this year. The demand has emptied the shelves of some gun stores and ammunition is scarce. "And, of course, a shortage and skyrocketing costs for factory-loaded ammunition forced many Americans to investigate alternative options in panic hoarding bullets." The report notes that requests for information about reloading ammunition for 9 mm weapons tripled over the past few months. "Reloading, also called handloading, is the process...

Dominion voting machines, which have drawn scrutiny over security concerns during the November 3 elections, ironically made their entrance into use in Georgia this year after concerns were raised about the sanctity of past elections. Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said in an undated press release that he had selected Dominion Voting Systems’ new verified paper ballot system to be in operation for the March 24, 2020 presidential primary. “Elections security is my top priority,” Raffensperger said at the time. The glitch-prone software was used in all 159 of Georgia counties, The Tennessee Star reported Tuesday. Dominion classified their...

Scientists working with data from the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys’ Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) have discovered a “fossil galaxy” hidden in the depths of our own Milky Way. Astronomers named it Heracles... The remnants of Heracles account for about one third of the Milky Way’s spherical halo. But if stars and gas from Heracles make up such a large percentage of the galactic halo, why didn’t we see it before? The answer lies in its location deep inside the Milky Way. APOGEE has measured spectra for more than half a million stars all across the Milky Way,...

Sheriffs in 5 Southern California counties with a total population of 17.25 million people – equivalent to the fifth most populous state – are defying that state’s governor. They will not arrest people for violating the statewide curfew that Governor Gavin Newsom has imposed starting today, apparently on the belief that the virus wakes up, and goes out at 10 PM. ... Some city police departments are also demurring: ... Newsom has lost all credibility for restricting activity in the name of suppressing the spread of Covid. He was caught and exposed flouting his own ridiculous strictures on eating in...

Joe Biden is out of his mind. 78-year-old Joe Biden met with 80-year-old Nancy Pelosi on Friday.

Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law. 1 John 3:4 It is time to freeze this rat’s nest of an election and find out what really happened. The way it is now if the votes are certified and the election called for either candidate the entire country is going to question the legality of the vote. Right now, an overwhelming majority of this country believes there was some if not massive voter fraud making the results null and void even for a majority of America now and into the future. What needs...

Audio Interview: The Trump Campaign's legal team's lead attorney joins Larry O'Connor in an exclusive interview. She tells Larry she is willing to stake her personal and professional reputation on the allegations she has made. She says the legal team has pictures of votes being manipulated in real time. She answers pointed questions about her allegations regarding the computerized voting systems on election night. She says Republicans have benefitted from these systems as well. She also says she would LOVE Dominion to sue her over her allegations so she can conduct civil discovery. She also responds to the charges made...