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BOSTON - A friendly feast shared by the plucky Pilgrims and their native neighbors? That’s yesterday’s Thanksgiving story. Students in many U.S. schools are now learning a more complex lesson that includes conflict, injustice and a new focus on the people who lived on the land for hundreds of years before European settlers arrived and named it New England. Inspired by the nation’s reckoning with systemic racism, schools are scrapping and rewriting lessons that treated Native Americans as a footnote in a story about white settlers. Instead of making Pilgrim hats, students are hearing what scholars call “hard history” -...

Elite New York Democrats attending a Brooklyn private party did not adhere to the state’s coronavirus restrictions, photographs show. The event was a private birthday party for Carl Scissura, who is the head of the New York Building Congress, a trade organization, the New York Daily News reported Thursday. Other attendees included former Brooklyn Democratic Party Chairman Frank Seddio and Deputy Brooklyn Borough President Ingrid Lewis-Martin, the publication reported. Photographs of the event showed that very few people wore masks, though the party attendees stood in close proximity to one another as they chatted. One photograph showed both Seddio and...

Fr. Kevin Robinson is back in the news as his lawsuit against the governor of New Jersey moves forward on appeal. His lawsuit, one that I have sympathy for, has received nation-wide attention. He is seeking the right to preside over religious services despite the governor’s Covid-19 lockdown orders. At the bottom of the thread is a video of his Fox News interview with Tucker Carlson explaining the issues. While the cause behind the lawsuit is a worthy one, it is unfortunate that Fr. Robinson is the poster boy for this one. Fr. Robinson is a priest of the SSPX,...

Massachusetts police are looking for a man they say spat at two women hikers who weren’t wearing face masks — and who then told them he had COVID-19. The man angrily approached the women as they hiked along the Hudson Overlook on the Midstate Trail in Ashburnham on Nov. 15, police said. He was caught on video spitting at the woman who was filming the encounter. “I have COVID,” the man can be heard saying. “I’ve been tested positive.” The man then spits a second time at the woman. “Are you OK?” she asks. “No!” the man replies. Police have...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - More than 100 former Republican national security officials demanded on Monday that party leaders denounce President Donald Trump’s refusal to concede the presidential election, calling it a dangerous and anti-democratic assault on U.S. institutions. Comprising some of the most senior national security officials in the Republican administrations of Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush and Trump, the group decried the failure of most congressional Republicans to condemn Trump’s unwillingness to acknowledge Democratic President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in the Nov. 3 election. The group - Former Republican National Security Officials for Biden - which formed...

On Friday, Trump campaign lawyer Sidney Powell told The Blaze’s Glenn Beck “our forces” have confiscated a voting company server in Germany linked to alleged pro-Joe Biden fraud committed by Dominion Voting Systems. Both the military and the voting company in question have denied this claim. On Saturday, Powell said Georgia Republican Gov. Brian Kemp and his secretary of state are “in on the Dominion scam” and they ought to be investigated for “financial benefit received about that time.” On Sunday, President Donald Trump lawyers Rudy Giuliani and Jenna Ellis released an official statement disassociating Powell from the campaign’s efforts....

More than two million people flocked to US airports this weekend ahead of Thanksgiving — despite health officials urging Americans to nix their travel holiday travel plans. There were 1,019,836 passengers who passed through airport security checkpoints Friday, followed by another 984,369 on Saturday, according to the Transportation Security Administration. The figure was still only around 42 percent of the number of travelers who were screened last year on the same dates, data shows. But the weekend was one of the busiest for airports since the pandemic began. Friday’s traffic marked the second-highest number of people traveling in the skies...

Every camera phone these days has a feature that can flip the focus from “selfie” to the outside world for a more conventional shot. All of it done with a quick touch to our screen. That’s as good a high tech explanation as any, of projection in the psychological sense. Apart from deliberate projection, which is regularly used as a political tactic as per Saul Alinsky, there is the more classic and unconscious projection that happens among true believers of the same ilk. Take a look at what happens when one of those believers is caught telling the truth about...

The Saudi foreign minister denied such a meeting taking place Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu traveled overnight by a civilian jet to Saudi Arabia reportedly for a secret meeting with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, which would mark the first known encounter between senior Israeli and Saudi officials. A Gulfstream IV private jet left Tel Aviv on Sunday at 7:30 p.m. local time and flew directly to the seaside resort town of Neom, according to FlightRadar. Netanyahu headed back to Israel after two hours on the ground, arriving in Tel Aviv half past midnight. Israeli chief spy and the head...

An open letter circulating at Harvard University demands the school create a "system of accountability" for hiring former Trump administration officials or inviting them to speak on campus, the Harvard Crimson reported Thursday. Inviting Trump White House alumni to teach or speak on campus would legitimize the "subversion of democratic principles," the letter states. Consequently, it asks school officials to create "accountability guidelines" to vet those who worked in the Trump administration. The letter also requests that the school share the guidelines with students before the year's end. Harvard traditionally employs both Republicans and Democrats who leave the White House...

An appeals court in Portugal has ruled that the PCR process is not a reliable test for Sars-Cov-2, and therefore any enforced quarantine based on those test results is unlawful. Further, the ruling suggested that any forced quarantine applied to healthy people could be a violation of their fundamental right to liberty. Most importantly, the judges ruled that a single positive PCR test cannot be used as an effective diagnosis of infection. The specifics of the case concern four tourists entering the country from Germany – all of whom are anonymous in the transcript of the case – who were...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli media reported Monday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu flew to Saudi Arabia for a clandestine meeting with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, which would mark the first known encounter between senior Israeli and Saudi officials. The reported meeting was the latest move by the Trump Administration to promote normalized ties between Israel and the broader Arab world and reflected the shared concern of all three nations about Iran. The Israeli news site Walla, followed quickly by other Hebrew-language media, cited an unnamed Israeli official as saying that Netanyahu and Yossi Cohen, head of Israel’s Mossad spy...

Five NBA players traveled to the Vatican to meet with Pope Francis on Monday.

After four years of attacking President Donald Trump as “illegitimate,” “fascist,” “Nazi,” “tyrant,” “dictator,” “racist,” “anti-Semitic,” “Russian stooge,” “traitor,” “grifter,” “xenophobe,” “sexist,” “homophobe,” “ignorant,” “fat” and “lazy,” former Vice-President Joe Biden, the presumptive president-elect, now says, “Let’s heal.” In his “victory speech,” Biden said: “And to those who voted for President Trump, I understand your disappointment tonight. “I’ve lost a couple of elections myself. But now, let’s give each other a chance. “It’s time to put away the harsh rhetoric. To lower the temperature. To see each other again. To listen to each other again. “To make progress, we must...

In Douglass’s abiding vision, America was the proper home for black Americans, their only realistic alternative, and also the locus of their highest ideals.Mark Twain copied a friend’s remark into his notebook: “I am not an American; I am the American.” To be the American, the exemplary or representative American, is a claim very few Americans could plausibly make. Twain could. Benjamin Franklin could and did. Abraham Lincoln could but didn’t, although admirers made the claim for him. Surely some number of others could, too. But among all Americans past or present, no one could make such a claim more...

Federal Election Commission (FEC) Chairman Trey Trainor has dropped a bomb by revealing that evidence has emerged that proves that fraud "took place" during the presidential race. During a new interview with “Just the News AM,” Trainor said that affidavits from the Trump campaign show that voter fraud did, in fact, occur during the November general election.

Dana Nessel is the face of the modern day Democrat Party — lawless, unhinged, ignorant and angry as hell.Earlier this month Nessel sent a cease and desist letter to a reporter Shane Trejo demanding he erase his #DetroitLeaks video that exposed voter fraud training in Detroit, Michigan before the November 3rd election.Now Nessel is threatening to criminally charge GOP state lawmakers who met with President Trump in Washington DC on the stolen election.Jonathan Hurley reported:On Friday afternoon, leaders of Michigan’s Republican-controlled state legislature met with Trump in the White House at his invitation. My column today explores the difficulty in...

In order to stop the spread, governors have made some new policies that we all need to comply with. It's very important we all take these very seriously.

Here’s a blast from the past! Back in 2006 when the great Lou Dobbs was at CNN the former news channel ran a segment on Smartmatic voting machines. According to this CNN report, Smartmatic was based in Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela and was sold to Sequoia. But the top officials for Smartmatic were still in Venezuela. CNN was worried this could interfere with our democracy. Amazing!

Democrat Rep. Rashida Tlaib did not appear to welcome reports that Joe Biden will likely nominate Tony Blinken for secretary of state, according to multiple reports.Blinken, who got his start at the State Department under the Clinton administration, served under President Obama as former deputy secretary of state.Breaking News: President-elect Joe Biden is expected to nominate Antony Blinken, a defender of global alliances and a close adviser, as secretary of state. https://t.co/IzeynG9AUH— The New York Times (@nytimes) November 23, 2020“So long as he doesn't suppress my First Amendment right to speak out against Netanyahu's racist and inhumane policies,” she said...