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It may fall on Congress to determine who has won the closest House race in 36 years. The race in Iowa’s 2nd District was decided by just six votes after a recount, with Republican state Sen. Mariannette Miller-Meeks appearing to defeat former Democratic state Sen. Rita Hart in the open-seat race. State election officials certified the results Monday, and on Wednesday, Hart announced she plans to appeal to the House to consider ballots not included in the recount. The overturning of state-certified results by the House is rare and last happened after the 1984 elections. Hart could have challenged the...

Slanted is the third book by Sharyl Attkisson. As with her other two, it is a refreshing read. It is nice to know that there are still independent journalists who put fact over opinion, and she is one of those. To no one's surprise, she talks about the shift in the news, from a focus on reporting the facts to pushing a narrative on the American people. American Thinker had the privilege of interviewing her. The emphasis of the book is on "the Narrative," a phrase describing how powerful interests shape the news and information online. This strategy includes discouraging...

“He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live” (Proverbs 4:4 KJV).

Most Republicans who voted for Trump sleep well at night, with a clear conscience. Their bottom line was trying to keep a political party out of power which is the sworn enemy of Judeo-Christian culture, economic freedom, the original intent of the Constitution and its corollary of limited government. Now just a little past Nov 3rd we are left with a bitter taste in our mouths -- a Republican victory that seemed ever so close has now evaporated in the haze of millions of mail-in votes. What disheartened Republicans must realize now, is that in a very short period of...

A whistleblower told the Amistad Project that, in October, as many as 280,000 ballots that were transported from New York to Lancaster, Pennsylvania had “disappeared.” Phill Kline, a former district attorney and Kansas attorney general who is director of the Amistad Project of the Thomas More Society, said during a Tuesday news conference that he had received evidence that between “130,000 to 280,000 completed ballots for the 2020 general election were shipped from Bethpage, New York to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where those ballots and the trailer in which they were shipped disappeared” on Oct. 21.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has said President Donald Trump's veto would hold up a $908 billion bipartisan stimulus bill from passing. In a statement circulated to media outlets on Wednesday, McConnell said that only his much smaller proposal reflects "what the President is ready to sign into law." "At the risk of repeating something we all know, making law will require not just the Senate's approval, but also the signature of the President of the United States," McConnell's statement read. The $908 billion bill, which was backed on Wednesday by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck...

The novel coronavirus was circulating undetected in the United States for weeks in December—about a full month before the first confirmed case in the country, according to a new study that has been published in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases. The eye-opening research arrived at its conclusion after the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found evidence of coronavirus antibodies in blood collected in December 2019. The samples had been gathered originally to test for exposure to mosquito-borne illnesses like the West Nile virus. After analyzing blood donations collected by the American Red Cross from individuals in nine states...

Donald Trump has doubled down on his threat to veto a $740bn (£549bn) defence bill that does not include a repeal of protections for internet companies. Congressional negotiators reached a compromise deal on Thursday regarding the National Defense Authorisation Act (NDAA), which addresses pay for service members, troop levels and weapons procurement. The bill is expected to go to the House and Senate floors next week, where it will likely pass, before going to Mr Trump for final sign-off. But shortly before midnight on Thursday Mr Trump, in an angry late-night Twitter tirade, vowed to veto the legislation over its...

During the COVID pandemic, much science is at play, treated either as gospel or hate speech, enough for science professionals to lose their jobs or be suspended from social media platforms if their views are inconvenient to the establishment’s narrative. The all-knowing, all-caring, anointed guru of all things COVID, Dr Anthony Fauci, has been wrong at least as often as he has been right, with a predictive value of a coin flip. Yet any scientific utterance from him is treated in the media as a scientific law, on par with gravity, as long he speaks convenient science. The CDC and...

Americans cherish religious freedom. And the COVID-19 crisis has reminded people of faith, especially how much they value this critical First Amendment right. For me, a Christian, the past eight months of lockdowns have underscored the importance of in-person worship or, rather, the importance of fellowship in nurturing one’s spiritual life. As David Mathis, a pastor and executive editor of Desiring God, says, “Worshipping Jesus together may be the single most important thing we do. It plays an indispensable role in rekindling our spiritual fire and keeping it burning. Corporate worship brings together God’s word, prayer, and fellowship, and so...

If you claim to hate racism and then claim that all white people are racists, you just might be a Democrat. And 21 more indications of donkey-brain. If you believe it’s okay to kill your own baby in your womb, but that hunting should be banned, you just might be a Democrat. If you think invasive species are an existential threat to the United States, but that illegal aliens always enrich us with their presence, you just might be a Democrat. If you think smoking cigarettes should be banned, but smoking marijuana should be legalized, you just might be a...

It’s just the flu, bro. The Democrats are just getting started with Coronavirus-facilitated voter fraud. It will be difficult to win all the elections we should win until absentee ballot rules are changed. The tougher the GOP candidate and the better the candidate, like Trump, the more they feel justified in committing fraud. - The following was sent to me by a Freeper Flubro: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kelby-krabbenhoft-sanford-health-ceo-face-mask/ The head of one of the largest regional health systems in the Midwest has told his employees that he has recovered from COVID-19 and is back in the office — without a mask. “For me...

President Trump and Fox News enjoyed a mutually beneficial relationship, until, loyalty already fraying, Fox betrayed Trump on election evening by prematurely calling Arizona for Biden. Only stalwart reporters such as Mark Levin, Judge Jeanine Pirro, Lou Dobbs, and Sean Hannity remain by Trump’s side. Republican elected officials who retained power are mostly mute. Although the predicted Blue Wave never materialized as Republicans flipped House seats and Senate control is so close it will only be decided after the results of a Georgia runoff election are known, feckless state governors and attorneys general overseeing election preparations stood idly by as...

USA Today has a "fact-checking" team that is run and weaponized by Facebook to limit or censor social media posts. But amazingly, the standard employed isn't whether something is factual or nonfactual. It seems to be whether someone is a Democrat or not. "Fact-checker" Abby Patkin penned a Dec. 2 article revolving around the claim that "Several Democratic politicians are urging social distancing and issuing stay-at-home advisories while hosting or attending gatherings themselves." Patkin threw a penalty flag at the conservative Facebook page "Occupy Democrats Logic," which included a Nov. 13 tweet from former One America News host Liz Wheeler...

White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany on lockdown hypocrisy from Democrat politicians

Project Veritas' expose of CNN's behind-the-scenes conference calls shows that the network's slogan should be "We won't fully report so you can't knowledgeably decide." James O'Keefe of Project Veritas, in the ultimate trolling coup of the year, monitored and recorded CNN's morning conference call with CNN President Jeff Zucker and other company executives and reporters for some two months. O'Keefe has released the first batch of audiotapes from those calls, which confirm the network's anti-Donald Trump, pro-Joe Biden bias. Exposing CNN's liberal bias is no bombshell, as it is self-evident to any objective viewer, but it is deliciously affirming to...

The Senate will vote next week on whether to block President Trump's arms sale to the United Arab Emirates, setting up a foreign policy showdown in the final days of the administration. Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) said he expects to bring up the votes next week, which he is able to do without support from GOP leadership because of the rules governing arms sale resolutions. “It’s ready, it has privilege on the floor. We are gathering support for it and I would think sometime next week,” Menendez said, asked about timing. Sens. Menendez, Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Chris Murphy (D-Conn.)...

Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva will not instruct his deputies to enforce a new statewide stay-at-home order announced Thursday that could force businesses to temporarily shut down as coronavirus cases continue to soar. "I want to stay away from business [sic] that are trying to comply, they bent over backwards to modify their operations to conform to these orders and then they have the rug yanked out from under them, that's a disservice, I don't want to make them more miserable," he told Fox affiliate, KTTV-TV, according to a tweet. LinkUnder Gov. Gavin Newsom's order, many businesses and activities...

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Sorry for linking to video only. I caught this by serendipity. Things other than the election are still going on, and this hearing had a few interesting moments.C-SPAN all-caps real-time "transcription" converted to all lowercase for readability.C-SPAN description: The Senate Homeland Security Committee held a hearing on congressional oversight of the FBI�s Crossfire Hurricane investigation into possible ties between the 2016 Trump campaign and Russian officials. The hearing also focused on perceived bias of media organizations and social media platforms against conservative viewpoints. Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) chaired the hearing that featured testimony from investigative journalists Sharyl Attkisson and Lee...