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Two weeks after the University of Pennsylvania made a $100 million contribution to the School District of Philadelphia, it’s unlikely the cash infusion will inspire copycat donations from major higher education peers in the city. When the Ivy League school made its announcement, City Councilmember Helen Gym and others voiced hope that other universities with large landholdings, like Temple or Drexel, might also pony up. “I certainly hope that some of our strongest civic institutions can see beyond their individual acts of charity and generosity,” she wrote in a statement. “When universities and our major nonprofits, who have long been...

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Note to MSNBC's Kasie Hunt: perhaps you might want to check your own tweets for self-contradictions before you post them. Such was the case on Friday when Hunt foolishly tweeted that Joe Biden stonewalled on a question about if he had talked to Mitch McConnell and in the very next sentence praised Biden for his supposed honesty. The inevitable smackdown was both brutal as well as hilarious. Among the most cutting of the responses came from Glenn Greenwald who pointed out just how honest Biden really is.

Previous work on the subject has explored the applicability of ultraviolet, visible and infrared (IR) lasers under nanosecond pulses for toner removal. This article expands on this work by testing a wider range of ultrafast and long-pulsed lasers. For election fraud, the significance of this comes from being combined with scanners that are also ballot marking devices. If those ballot markers contain a laser (ie laser printer) it needs to be verified that those lasers cannot be used for toner removal, to remove Trump votes and remark the paper ballot for Biden.

A seemingly key witness to vote tampering at the Georgia hearing is purposely bumped from testifying against the wishes of the Trump campaign.

The State of Oregon continues to defend a state program that distributes federal coronavirus relief funds to black people only — after two separate lawsuits challenged the program as a violation of the U.S. Constitution. The Oregon state legislature created the Oregon Cares Fund this summer — with nightly Black Lives Matter riots raging in Portland — to allocate $62 million in funds from the federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act to black residents (out of $200 million in total funds). The Oregon Cares Fund website states: "The Fund is a targeted investment in the Black community...

Churches need to stop being at the mercy of the liberal mindset, the government, or even their own congregations and start being at the mercy of God. Clergy long ago spoke the truth to their flock, during the revolutionary war, and after. They would not only minister to the families, they would be involved in the daily lives of the people. They would fight next to them in battle, walk with them many hard miles in cold harsh winters. They did not sit comfortably by while their flock suffered. Pastors would guide and direct their churches. They would instruct them...

Walter E. Williams, a prominent conservative economist, author and political commentator who expressed profoundly skeptical views of government efforts to aid his fellow African-Americans and other minority groups, died on Tuesday on the campus of George Mason University in Virginia, where he had taught for 40 years. He was 84.His daughter, Devon Williams, said he died suddenly in his car after he had finished teaching a class. She said he had chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and hypertension.As a public intellectual, Mr. Williams moved easily between the classroom and public forums that gave him wide reach. He wrote a syndicated column,...

Apparently, President Trump refusing to concede defeat to Joe Biden and fighting the results in the courts and in the legislatures is an affront to our system of government. But when a major law firm with extensive ties to the Democrat party and which was a major player in bankrolling Christopher Steele in his production of the infamous and fake Steele Dossier and the dissemination of that fraud to a credulous American press corps steps in to try to take a lawfully won Congressional seat from a Republican candidate, well, that’s just fine. At issue are two very close House...

Video at link. Remember, Pompeo told state governors they were being targeted by the Chinese

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela's congressional election on Sunday will almost certainly give President Nicolás Maduro control over the country's last major independent institution, but will do little to improve his image at home and abroad. Maduro, who already has the loyalty of the courts, the military, prosecutors and other institutions, seeks to load the National Assembly with members of his United Socialist Party of Venezuela. Critics say he's guaranteed that by rigging the system to smother the last remnants of democracy in Venezuela. An opposition coalition led by U.S.-backed politician Juan Guaidó is boycotting the vote. The European Union,...

Muslims quote Scripture to encourage ‘Doormat Christianity,’ submission to IslamOne of the least known tactics used by Muslims to disarm Christians has been to insist that Christianity is against warfare and violence in general.Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.).December 5, 2020 (American Thinker) — Past and present, one of the least known — and, until the modern era, largely futile — tactics used by Muslims to disarm Christians has been to insist that Christianity is against warfare and violence in general. The most recent Muslim to take on this mantle of Christian theologian is none other than Somalia-born Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.)....

Amazon, owned by billionaire Jeff Bezos, is praising a President Bill Clinton-appointed federal judge’s decision that requires President Trump’s administration to give two-year work permits to illegal aliens enrolled in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. As Breitbart News reported, Judge Nicholas Garaufis of the United States District Court in Brooklyn, New York, blocked Trump’s reforms to the DACA program that shortened the length of work permits given to many of the nearly 800,000 illegal aliens enrolled. Garaufis’s decision mandates that the Trump administration resume giving two-year work permits to DACA illegal aliens at a time when 24.5...

VALDOSTA, Georgia — President Donald Trump said Saturday during a campaign rally for the Georgia Senate runoff elections that no one has “fought harder for me” than Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA). The president praised the junior Georgia senator’s fight for Trump’s America First agenda. “When Kelly came in, I didn’t know what to think. There was nobody that fought harder for me,” the president said. The president also described Loeffler as a “trooper.” The president also noted that Loeffler had attacked Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) for prolonging the impeachment trial against Trump. “She is so tough and smart; she even...

Nearly 400 incidents relating to the praising of terrorism or provocations relating to terrorism have been reported in schools across France from November 4th to the 30th. The French Ministry of National Education reported 393 such incidents, stating that most were related to provocations, protests, or apologies for terrorism. From the death of 47-year-old history and geography teacher Samuel Paty — who was beheaded on October 16th in the street by a Chechen refugee after showing his class cartoons of the Islamic prophet Mohammed — to November 3rd, 400 incidents were also reported, 20 Minutes reports. Of the total number...

“And you will be hated by all for My name’s sake" Mark 13:13This is what Jesus said would happen to those who follow Him. We have been in the midst of what is a Worldwide persecution of Christians. Many think America is immune, and for years we had it easy, but the time has come, and it is already here when even Christians are being persecuted for His names sake. For no tother reason than Satan's minions have the power, and like their father the devil, they hate everything about Christ Jesus."Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and...

If you are following the news regarding the ongoing election results controversy, you will have noted some very powerful testimony offered by whistleblowers appearing before state legislatures around the country. The picture painted of rampant abuse of the electoral process, an almost complete lack of security surrounding votes cast and arrogance on the part of officials supervising the polling places is shocking in the extreme. Perhaps what you may not have noticed is that no such hearings are taking place in Pennsylvania. That’s because the entire legislature in Harrisburg adjourned on the 30th of November. The members went home. They...

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4 [basically the same as today (Sunday), tomorrow, and next few days] Bright Jupiter and Saturn are closer together now (1.8° apart).Jupiter and Saturn are closing toward their record-breaking conjunction on December 21st, when they will appear only 0.1° apart. That’s about the width of a toothpick at arm’s length!https://skyandtelescope.org/observing/this-weeks-sky-at-a-glance-december-4-12-2/

(December 5, 2020) | Saturday, Sen. William Ligon (R – Brunswick), Sen. Greg Dolezal (R – Cumming), Sen. Brandon Beach (R – Alpharetta) and Sen. Burt Jones (R – Jackson) drafted a Petition calling for and convening a Special Session. The petition serves as notification to Governor Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger that an emergency exists such that a session of the General Assembly is being called for and convened on Tuesday, December 8, 2020, at 10:00 A.M. in order to attend to such emergency and for all purposes provided for pursuant to Article II, Section 1...

As he publishes a dramatic memoir covering nearly 40 years of service to the U.S., former CIA chief John Brennan talks about Netanyahu, Biden – and voting Communist John Brennan’s first encounter with Israel left a distinctly unfavorable impression. On a cold winter night in December 1975, the 20-year-old, who had just visited Jordan, arrived at the Allenby Bridge to enter Israel as a tourist. Brennan, an American student at the American University in Cairo, wanted to see the Holy Land and learn about Israel and the region in depth. At passport control he asked an Israeli soldier who was...