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A Pennsylvania appeals court judge ordered state officials on Wednesday to halt any further steps toward certifying election results, a day after Gov. Tom Wolf said he had certified Democrat Joe Biden as the winner of the presidential election in Pennsylvania. Wolf’s administration quickly asked the state Supreme Court to block the ruling from taking effect, saying there was no “conceivable justification” for it. “Since the birth of our nation nearly 250 years ago, no court has ever issued an order purporting to interfere with a state’s ascertainment of its presidential electors – until today,” the administration said in its...

By now we’re supposed to be clear of our tryptophan-induced post-turkey coma, which, come to think of it, previews the comatose future of a prospective Biden Administration. With John Kerry holding a cabinet-level position, I suspect the first cabinet meeting might last until next Thanksgiving, or at least to Biden’s new favorite liturgical holiday, Psalm Sunday.

By Right now in China, 195 million students K-12 are learning in-person in Chinese public schools. Meanwhile, millions of American public school students are learning in a failed remote system that can’t even keep track of thousands of students who haven’t shown up for class all year. In 2018, 15-year-olds in dozens of countries participated in the triennial Program for International Student Assessment (PISA). The PISA test measures reading ability, math and science literacy, and other key skills. American scores are decidedly unimpressive, with students scoring in the middle of the pack for all categories. Most frighteningly, China beats the...

Sidney Powell, the attorney recently removed from the president's legal team, filed a lawsuit in Georgia this week alleging, without evidence, a vast conspiracy against Trump built on unproven claims of numerous instances of voter fraud in the state. The 104-page suit, filed in the U.S District Court in Atlanta on behalf of Trump electors and Republican officials, among others, is demanding numerous longshot remedies, including decertifying the state's election results, preventing the results from being transmitted to the electoral college and disqualifying Biden's electors in favor of Trump's electors. Like many suits before it, Powell’s case relies on affidavits...

2020 has been quite a year. Say what you will about the crash of ’29 or the unrest of ’68, this year’s COVID-19 pandemic and economic shutdown, along with an election campaign of revolting day-to-day events and a questionable outcome take the cake. Or would it be more fitting to say that 2020 trumps any previous annum in which we were not at war. War trumps everything else when it comes to unhappy years, so let’s be thankful that Trump never played that trump card. As bad as the year has been, I often joked that for me, 2020 was...

Fears that climate change will make the Earth uninhabitable are leading some Americans to decide against having kids, according to a report Friday. The first-of-its-kind study found that 96.5 percent of people surveyed said they were “very” or “extremely” concerned about the impact of global warming on the well-being of their potential offspring, the Guardian said. “I feel like I can’t in good conscience bring a child into this world and force them to try and survive what may be apocalyptic conditions,” a 27-year-old woman told researchers. Another participant in the study, published in the scientific journal Climatic Change, worried...

I was eleven years old in November 1960 when my father and I watched Richard Nixon concede the presidential election to John F. Kennedy. My father, a former FBI agent, shook his head. “Another victory for Mayor Daley of Chicago,” he said. “What does that mean?” I asked. “It means Mayor Daley stole the election,” he answered. “Then why doesn’t Nixon do something about it?” I asked indignantly. “Because it would tear the country apart, and no one wants that.” “Why not?” “It doesn’t work that way,” he replied. “Nixon is being a gentleman.” Of course, it wasn’t just my...

They’ll do whatever it takes. – How far will your government, medical apparatus and academia go to prevent you from getting real, truthful information related to COVID-19? Well, as we have repeatedly seen over the last 8 months, they will go as far as they need to go. Yesterday provided yet another clear and unambiguous example, courtesy of Johns Hopkins University: From the report at JustTheNews: Last week, Johns Hopkins University published a now-deleted article explaining a study examining the effects of the novel coronavirus on United States death totals using data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention....

The 26-minute video is an interview by Jake Hanrahan of the Popular Front, and a demonstration of the FGC-9. The video is on the way to becoming one of his more popular productions. As of November 23, 2020, it had over 70,000 views, basically on the first day. The video starts with commentators obsessing over “ghost guns” in the United States. This may be clever editing to keep Youtube censors off the track. The concern over untraceable guns in the United States is ludicrous. There are hundreds of millions of untraceable guns in the United States already.The premise of the...

It’s just the flu, bro. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/rep-elect-lauren-boebert-plans-thanksgiving-funeral-for-dead-turkey-in-defiance-of-colorado-guidelines Lauren Boebert is pro second amendment and anti lockdown. She called her Thanksgiving dinner a turkey funeral so that she could circumvent lockdown regulations. In 2022 can we primary every GOP politician that doesn’t think almost exactly like her? - I think Obamacare has hurt us more than we thought it would. The idea of lockdowns and mask mandates is all centered around the concept of medical socialism. The mantra that “we are all in this together” only grows when a nation has socialized medicine. The long term benefits for getting rid of Obamacare...

Aficionados of the CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory may recall an episode from early in the series in which one of the main characters, Leonard, struggles in his effort to assess his budding romance with another primary character, Penny. Leonard eventually decides to use the famous thought experiment of Austrian-Irish physicist Erwin Schrödinger -- commonly known as “Schrödinger’s Cat” -- to explain the paradox created when particles interact and the “wave function” created by the interaction has not yet collapsed into reality. According to Schrodinger, the cat could be both alive and dead at while the experiment was being...

It has been an awful year as COVID-19 has spread across the globe infecting and killing millions of people. One of the few bright spots in 2020 has been the rapid development of a vaccine. Currently, there are multiple viable candidates poised to offer a serious glimmer of hope in record time. With any luck, these candidates will bring about a swift, successful end to the global pandemic and associated lockdowns. This success in vaccine development is a testament to the eradication of regulatory barriers at the U.S. at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and across the globe. Governments...

"I'm just not much of a cuddler," said the actor James Woods, playing the titular character in the 2003 TV biopic "Rudy: The Rudy Giuliani Story." This "cuddler" clip from the film went viral on Twitter this week, and for good reason. It depicts Giuliani courting his future second ex-wife, Donna Hanover (played by Penelope Ann Miller), on a moonlit walk on the beach with an obviously green-screened "ocean" in the background. Dated production values aside, the clip is jarring because it harks back to a time — which may be hard to believe for anyone under 30 — when...

Anyone who can look at this fact and not acknowledge voter fraud is either extremely bad at math or a purely partisan hack with no sense of honor. It is impossible for more mail-in ballots to come in than were sent out unless there was a massive and undeniable voter fraud scheme in play. That’s the takeaway from evidence posted by Pennsylvania Senator Doug Mastriano on Friday.

Editor's Note: This piece was coauthored by Gerard Robinson. During the 2020 election, school choice finally received the national attention it deserves as one of the top civil rights issues of our times. To build on that momentum, advocates for the public funding of parents to choose a K-12 education for their children in public, private, or religious schools need to educate lawmakers and the public about the educational, social, cultural, and economic benefits of school choice. With respect to the last benefit, a new analysis of the fiscal and economic impact of Georgia’s K-12 tax credit scholarship program provides...

WASHINGTON - The oldest prisoner at the Guantanamo Bay detention center went to his latest review board hearing with a degree of hope, something that has been scarce during his 16 years locked up without charges at the U.S. base in Cuba. Saifullah Paracha, a 73-year-old Pakistani with diabetes and a heart condition, had two things going for him that he didn’t have at previous hearings: a favorable legal development and the election of Joe Biden. President Donald Trump had effectively ended the Obama administration’s practice of reviewing the cases of men held at Guantanamo and releasing them if imprisonment...

WASHINGTON - The Justice Department is quietly amending its execution protocols, no longer requiring federal death sentences to be carried out by lethal injection and clearing the way to use other methods like firing squads and poison gas. The amended rule, published Friday in the Federal Register, allows the U.S. government to conduct executions by lethal injection or use “any other manner prescribed by the law of the state in which the sentence was imposed.” A number of states allow other methods of execution, including electrocution, inhaling nitrogen gas or death by firing squad. It remains unclear whether the Justice...

As director of the U.S. Census Bureau from 1998 to 2001, Kenneth Prewitt oversaw the first decennial count of the new century. When the enormous job of data collection was finally done, he arrived at a stark conclusion: The government should stop asking every American to report their race. “The race question is incoherent because race is incoherent,” said Prof. Prewitt, now a professor of public affairs at Columbia University. “We pay a price for not having a more subtle, nuanced set of numbers than what we currently have.” Prof. Prewitt and many other demographers and sociologists say that the...

“Evil men understand not judgment: but they that seek the LORD understand all things” (Proverbs 28:5).

The judge who ordered Pennsylvania to not certify the results of the 2020 election wrote in an opinion on Friday that the Republicans who filed the related lawsuit will likely win the case. Pennsylvania Commonwealth Judge Patricia McCullough made the assessment as part of an opinion explaining her rationale for blocking Pennsylvania’s election certification. A group of Republican lawmakers and candidates sued the Keystone State earlier this week, arguing that the state legislature’s mail-in voting law—Act 77—violated the commonwealth’s constitution. “Petitioners appear to have established a likelihood to succeed on the merits because petitioners have asserted the Constitution does not...