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As the nation tires of quarantines, boredom and loneliness, the same politicians who find glee in slapping wrists and dooming small businesses regularly break the rules, in letter and in spirit, when they want to. California Gov. Gavin Newsom, dining maskless and indoors with lobbyists at the tony French Laundry restaurant the same week he warned against Thanksgiving gatherings. Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, having her hair done and joining in a riotous Joe Biden victory celebration in violation of her own restrictions — then having the gall to call her actions “essential ­activities.” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, unmasked at a...

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CHICAGO — A former Hammond resident claims in a federal lawsuit she was repeatedly raped as a young student more than four decades ago by the son of the then-pastor and president of the CHICAGO — A former Hammond resident claims in a federal lawsuit she was repeatedly raped as a young student more than four decades ago by the son of the then-pastor and president of the First Baptist Church of Hammond and Hyles-Anderson College. Nanette Miles, who agreed to be named publicly for this article, said then-youth director David Hyles, who was son of then-Pastor Jack Hyles, called...

"This is evidence of voter fraud. Binders one through 20." Video released by Stop the Steal on Twitter shows a collection of 20 “binders full of evidence” of voter fraud collected in the days since the November 3 election, with Trump campaign representatives saying they have even more binders filled to capacity. The evidence will be presented by the Trump campaign tomorrow in Nevada. In candid video that appears to have been recorded in an office or hotel room, the person holding the camera first asks, “Um, hey Jesse what is all this stuff?” The other person responds, flatly, “This...

A Georgia election official is testifying that her “poll pads” were connected to the internet and on Election Day, she had to give Dominion remote access to her “poll pads” so they could fix a bug.

The Georgia Secretary of State's office now acknowledges that Republicans were not present while votes were counted in Georgia. After Thursday’s bombshell security footage that showed vote counting observers being sent home, only for vote counters to pull black suitcases full of votes from underneath a table and begin processing them in the early hours in the morning, the Georgia Secretary of State’s office conceded that “ballots were counted unlawfully and in secret.” David Shafer, Chair of the Georgia Republican Party, posted the security camera video from Thursday’s hearing on his Twitter account and wrote, “Not sure why Twitter has...

Stealing the elderly and mentally disabled vote is a well-documented and fraudulent election practice taking place across the nation. Specifically, voting “handlers” have been known to register to vote on behalf of these vulnerable citizens or force them to vote for the candidate they are representing. On November 2, 2020, in Otsego, Minnesota, a retired construction worker, developer, and land investor made one such declaration. In a sworn affidavit, this person witnessed “a busload of Severely Mentally Handicapped People who were forced by handlers to vote for Joe Biden.” In great detail, the witness describes being at the Sherburne County...

In February Random House will publish Gates' book "How to Avoid a Climate Disaster."

***THE CHEAP KNOCKOFF FRIDAY SILLINESS THREAD*** Satisfaction guaranteed or no money back!Release the Kraken History is full of examples of people who messed with the wrong folks. After the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor America opened up a can whoop a** that actually became radioactive at one point.When Communist dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu spoke from his palatial palace to an assembled crowd in Romania he found out the hard way they were not liking it.Bin Laden thought he was going to get brownie points in Heaven for attacking America. He ended up getting roasted brown in Hell instead.79% of Trump voters believe...

Chief Justice John Roberts declined to read a question submitted by Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., during President Trump’s impeachment tria Video...

President-elect Joe Biden says he will ask Americans to wear their face masks for 100 days after he takes office in January. Biden told CNN’s Jake Tapper on Thursday that he hopes the mandate would help reduce the spread of COVID-19 in the U.S. “On the first day I’m inaugurated, I’m going to ask the public for 100 days to mask. Just 100 days to mask, not forever, just 100 days,” Biden said. “I think we’ll see a significant reduction.” Biden previously said wearing a mask is a “patriotic duty” and that it shouldn’t be politicized. Biden has acknowledged he...

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I'm looking for books on American history that I can give to my ten year son. He's interested in the American Revolutionary War but he's interested in other topics as well. I'm concerned about ordering something from Amazon or elsewhere that might contain nonsense about transgender Founding Fathers or Muslim pioneers who took part in the Constitutional Convention. Any suggestions?

A group of Trump supporters filed a lawsuit in federal court alleging widespread voter fraud and challenging the Arizona election results. The plaintiffs claim that due to rampant fraud largely connected with the state’s electronic voting system, the Court should order the Arizona election results to be de-certified and stop Gov. Doug Ducey and the secretary of state from transmitting those results to the Electoral College. “The scheme and artifice to defraud was for the purpose of illegally and fraudulently manipulating the vote count to manufacture an election of Joe Biden as President of the United States, and also of...

Ok. I actually am old enough to remember the greatest crime in the last 100 years or so, I'm talking about the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy. I remember being at school and the teacher coming back in and telling us that our parents were coming to pick us up, then riding in the car on the way home and my mom crying in the front seat. I remember Oswald getting shot and the funeral, it's a very fuzzy memory but sadly, I did live it. It would be a few years before I saw the Zapruder film and witnessed...

HOUSTON - Authorities are investigating a possible human smuggling operation at a southwest Houston home. Houston police say they have rescued two dozen people from a home on the 4800 block of Raven Ridge. Police say they received a call about a man running down the street in his underwear yelling that he was kidnapped. The caller told police that he was kidnapped and was able to get away.

LOOK UP ON DEC. 21: During the upcoming winter solstice, Jupiter and Saturn will line up to create what is known as the "Christmas Star" or "Star of Bethlehem" -- something not seen in nearly 800 years

A former political advisor to Gov. Gavin Newsom and well-known Democratic strategist was arrested in October on charges of domestic violence and child abuse, including an alleged attempt to “suffocate” a 4-year-old child with a pillow, according to the Napa County Sheriff’s Office. Napa County Assistant Dist. Atty. Paul Gero said his office filed a two-count felony complaint Thursday against Nathan Ballard, 51, alleging domestic violence and child abuse following his Oct. 18 arrest. Ballard, who worked as Newsom’s communications director when Newsom was mayor of San Francisco, said in a recent Marin Magazine profile on Newsom and his wife,...

Very sadly for our Nation, it looks like Senator @JimInhofe will not be putting the Section 230 termination clause into the Defense Bill. So bad for our National Security and Election Integrity. Last chance to ever get it done. I will VETO!

Video shows poll workers pulling out suitcases of ballots | Georgia election hearing