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After issuing a temporary injunction against further certification of PA election results, the trial judge issued a memorandum of opinion, finding that PA's mail-in ballot law likely violate PA Constitution

Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the pub, the government has decided to effectively extend the lockdown that Prime Minister Boris Johnson promised faithfully would end on December 2nd. To escape any charges that he might have been lying through his teeth — Boris? A fat mendacious tosser? Surely not…? — the PM has cunningly arranged it so it’s not called a “lockdown” any more. Instead, Britain has been put under a series of regional lockdowns of differing severity known as “tiers”. Some of the restrictions are so draconian that they are actually even worse...

Baby Tyler, who has undergone surgery in his mother’s womb to correct a severe case of spina bifida, is expected to walk soon after being given “the best long-term outcome” by doctors. Spina bifida is a serious birth defect in which the spinal cord and spine are not fully formed. Affecting brain function, the condition can lead to bowel and bladder problems, club feet and even paralysis. In the case of Baby Tyler, doctors performed surgery prior to birth, in utero, at 26 weeks to counteract the potential negative consequences of the defect. Dr. Darrell Cass of the Cleveland Clinic...

An elderly Canadian woman was killed by her doctor because she would rather be dead than go through another COVID lockdown. When it looked like she would have to be confined to her room for two weeks, she asked for — and received — the lethal jab due to declining mental health and vitality. From the CTV story: Nancy Russell, described by her family as exceptionally social and spry, was one such person. Her family says she chose a medically-assisted death (MAID) after she declined so sharply during lockdown that she didn’t want to go through more isolation this winter…...

Franklin Graham, the son of the legendary evangelist Billy Graham, is a force to be reckoned with in his own right. He is, for example, the founder of Samaritan’s Purse which describes itself as “a nondenominational evangelical Christian organization providing spiritual and physical aid to hurting people around the world” going all the way back to 1970. Its outreach is incredible, the good work it does in the worst of catastrophes inspirational. Franklin Graham is also a passionate—Passionate with a Capital P—pro-lifer who keenly understands what is at stake January 5th in Georgia. Politically, yes, but also morally and biblically,...

As you can see, the less prevalent the disease is in reality, the more likely the test is to generate a false positive result, and the less useful the test is as a method for figuring out who actually has covid. And the less prevalent the disease is, the more prevalent it will seem to be in relation to reality. If decisions about covid continue to be made largely based on what PCR tests show, we might never be able to call off the pandemic! And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why PCR positive cases are a very poor indicator...

Courts have repeated thrown out President's Trump's lawsuits, often with contempt and scorn. As far as I know, not even a single fraudulent vote has yet been judicially identified and removed from Joe Biden's tallies. What I suggest instead is to go after Joe for state law felony voter corruption, while Joe Biden is still within the grasp of state law. Florida Statute 104.061(2) provides: (2) No person shall directly or indirectly give or promise anything of value to another intending thereby to buy that person’s or another’s vote or to corruptly influence that person or another in casting his...

Al Mohler, a theologian and president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, sounded the alarm on the Human Rights Campaign’s push November 27, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), America’s largest and most powerful LGBT lobby organizations, is pushing Joe Biden and Kamala Harris to target Christian educational institutions, demanding that a Biden Administration strip colleges that adhere to rules and positions opposing homosexuality of their accreditation. The HRC’s “Blueprint for Positive Change,” which offers 85 recommendations, proposes eliminating non-discrimination exemptions for religious colleges if they refuse to abandon the biblical position on marriage. Al Mohler, a theologian...

“To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.” -Goethe On this date in 1783, Johanna Catharina Höhn lost her head for infanticide … thanks to the vote of the man who wrote the most recognizable infanticide story in literature. Eleven years before, then-22-year-old Johann Wolfgang von Goethe had been a firsthand witness to the trial of another infanticide who ultimately lost her head. This case very likely inspired the character Gretchen in Goethe’s best-known work, Faust.

Visitors to China would be subject to several significant restrictions regarding their religious activities. BEIJING, China, November 28, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — Foreigners will be unable to speak freely about God in China, should a new communist bill be put into law. According to AsiaNews.it, visitors to China would be subject to several significant restrictions regarding their religious activities. A draft of the new law entitled “Foreign Religious Activities in the People’s Republic of China” was recently released by the State Administration for Religious Affairs (SARA). It forbids missionary work and even religious services conducted by foreigners for Chinese nationals. “To...

November 28, 2020 (LifeSiteNews.com) — Eight lesbian couples who used sperm donors to have children are fighting the state of Indiana to have both partners be recognized as “parents” on birth certificates. Now, the U.S. Supreme Court might be positioning itself to hear the Indiana concerning these couples. According to SCOTUSblog, the pending petition Box v. Henderson asks, “Whether a state, consistent with the 14th Amendment due process and equal protection clauses, may adopt a biology-based birth-certificate system that includes a rebuttable presumption that a birth mother’s husband — but not wife — is the child’s biological parent.” Typically, when...

Each year I like to remind our supporters to recall what life was like for the Pilgrims who arrived on these shores in December of 1620. As the Plimoth Plantation describes: Many of the colonists fell ill. They were probably suffering from scurvy and pneumonia caused by a lack of shelter in the cold, wet weather. Although the Pilgrims were not starving, their sea-diet was very high in salt, which weakened their bodies on the long journey and during that first winter. As many as two or three people died each day during their first two months on land....

Today, Lambda Legal and Sirianni Youtz Spoonemore Hamburger PLLC filed a federal lawsuit challenging Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois’s (“BCBSIL”) administration of a blanket exclusion of gender-affirming care in an employer-provided health insurance plan provided by Catholic Health Initiatives Franciscan. The lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington in Tacoma on behalf of a 15-year-old transgender boy, “C.P.,” and his parents, and argues the exclusion is in direct violation of the nondiscrimination provisions under Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act. “My son needs the medical care that will allow him...

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Nov. 26 (Xinhua) -- Taliban birthplace Kandahar in Afghanistan has been the scene of bloody militancy and counter-militancy as at least 15 armed insurgents have been killed and 19 others including 11 police wounded in a bomb blast and a fighting. According to an army statement released here Thursday, 15 militants have been killed and four others injured and the Taliban offensive to gain ground in Panjwayi district, Kandahar province has been repulsed. Taliban militants attacked the security checkpoints in Yarokala area of the restive Panjwayi district on Wednesday and the security forces backed by fighting planes struck...

Submitted by RealClearEducation, authored by Samuel Abrams, professor of politics at Sarah Lawrence College and a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. This article is part of a series of opinion essays on the topic of free speech on campus, coinciding with the launch of the 2020 College Free Speech Rankings...When it comes to making news about protests and action for liberal causes, schools in New England seem to dominate the news. We’ve seen violence and protests surrounding visits from Charles Murray and Ryszard Legutko at Middlebury College. Brown University spent hundreds of millions of dollars in response to...

A huge blast went off in Mogadishu on Friday, killing at least seven people, hours after U.S. acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller made an unannounced visit to the Somali capital. Witnesses said a suicide bomber blew himself up at Gelato Devino, a popular ice cream shop along the road to the airport. Amin Ambulance, one of Mogadishu’s ambulance services, said at least seven people had been killed in the attack. Somali police said another 10 people had been wounded. The al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab extremist group claimed responsibility for the attack, according to the SITE Intelligence Group. Al-Shabab frequently carries out...

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel is threatening to criminally prosecute anyone who questions the legitimacy of the recent election. The AG is particularly irked that "rather than bring their accusations of fraud to me so I can dismiss them, too many people are filing their own lawsuits. Election fraud is a crime. I am the state's top prosecutor. I am the one who decides whether there is sufficient evidence to warrant going forward with a case. If I were to allow these 'end runs' bypassing my authority to go unpunished they will become rampant." State Sen. Julie Matuzak (D) agreed...

The bull market in hot urban retail and commercial real estate markets lasted for pretty much the entire post-crisis recovery period. But COVID has turned things around, and as people flee to the suburbs, it's worth taking a look at how valuations have declined.While urban real-estate markets have taken a hit as people flee to the suburbs and more space, it's worth taking a look at how much space costs in different cities around the world. While foreign cities are of course cheaper than the top American metropolises, the numbers in some cases might surprise you.Why $300K? On the one...

An Iranian diplomat will go on trial in Belgium today accused of plotting to bomb a 2018 Paris conference attended by five British MPs and Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani. Assadollah Assadi, 48, is accused of smuggling a bomb made from 'Mother of Satan' explosives to Europe from Tehran in a diplomatic bag that was exempt from airport security checks ahead of the event. Prosecutors say he then handed the bag off to accomplices who were supposed to plant it at a summit held by Iranian opposition leaders in the French capital. Speakers at the rally included British MPs Bob Blackman,...

Got a text from AuntB this morning, and am passing this on to FR... Folks at freerepublic were so kind. I can't get WiFi in motel, no computer. Can you post an update on the thread that I was on. Just check Aunt posts. Btw.. GoFundMe shut me and several friends who are fire victims as not a worthy cause... They are trying to kill us...