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Krystal Ball @krystalball Biden has picked Retired General Lloyd Austin as Secretary of Defense. He went straight from the military to the board of Raytheon. https://politico.com/news/2020/12/07/lloyd-austin-biden-secretary-defense-frontrunner-contender-443479

Academic says Trump trade war cut off spies China influenced American policies for decades through a covert network of “old friends” — sympathizers and agents — who had penetrated the highest levels of the U.S. government and financial institutions before the Trump administration, according to an academic linked to the Chinese government. Di Dongsheng, a professor and associate dean of the School of International Studies at Renmin University in Beijing, also suggested in a Nov. 28 speech that China’s Communist Party helped Hunter Biden, a son of presumptive President-elect Joseph R. Biden, obtain Chinese business deals. On influencing the United...

This is a 15 second video posted last night by White House Deputy Chief of Staff Scavino. Hopefully, it's linked to the President's recent comments. https://twitter.com/i/status/1335766418231603200

Approximately 566,958 people voted absentee in Wayne County, where Detroit is located, in the 2020 general election. 2060 appear to have been dead.The Secretary of State published the data of who those specific people were, their home address, and their birthdate.The Gateway Pundit took that data, and ran it through a simple “deceased suppression” service provided for a fee by the Lorton Data Services company.The result was that 2,060 names came back as people who are recorded as having both been dead, and having submitted an absentee ballot.There may be errors in the data. There could be people with the...

How did @GoyaFoods, CEO Bob Unanue (ooh-NON-new-a) respond to AOC's threatened boycott of his delicious foods? Well, he named her "employee of the month" for helping increase sales. Interesting man, & unafraid to speak of faith, family & patriotism:

Speaker David RalstonEarlier today President Trump reached out to the Georgia House Speaker David Ralston and Speaker Pro-Tem Jan Jones on Monday urging the two Republican leaders to endorse and sign a petition to force a Georgia special session.RINO Governor Brian Kemp is unwilling to stand up against the massive voter fraud in the state.Breaking…@realDonaldTrump just talked for 15 mins. with GA House Speaker David Ralston and Speaker Pro-Tem @JanJonesGA about endorsing and signing the petition to force a GA special session. @GaHouseHub needs 91 out of 108 GOP votes; Senate needs 29 of 34–who are the Quislings?— John Fredericks...

On November 16, several members of the MI State legislature sent a letter to Michigan’s Democrat Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson requesting that a full, independent audit of the accusations prior to the certification of the vote. This was after reviewing hundreds of sworn affidavits by GOP and Independent poll challengers and evidence of vote switching by Dominion voting machines in Antrim County, Michigan. The radical Secretary of State, who has a problem with telling the truth, ignored their request.On November 23, Matthew DePerno of DePerno Law Offices, LLC filed a lawsuit on behalf of Central Lake resident William Bailey,...

SYDNEY: Australia locked in plans on Tuesday to make Facebook Inc and Google pay its media outlets for news content, a world-first move aimed at protecting independent journalism that has drawn strong opposition from the internet giants. Under laws to be introduced to parliament on Wednesday, Treasurer Josh Frydenberg said the Big Tech firms will have to negotiate how much they pay local publishers and broadcasters for content that appears on their platforms. If they cannot strike a deal, a government-appointed arbitrator will decide how much they will need to pay. "This is a huge reform, this is a world...

[Catholic Caucus] Viganò: Francis Uses Covid-19 "To Humiliate God"Like on Easter, Francis uses Covid-19 again to cancel Christmas and the December 8 veneration of the Immaculate on the Piazza di Spagna, Archbishop Viganò writes in a December 7 statement.For him, the "so-called ‘church’ of Bergoglio" closes churches and arrogates to itself a right to deny God public worship and to deprive the faithful of the Sacraments "through a wretched connivance with civil power.”Therefore - Viganò believes - the Bergoglio church "humiliates the Most Holy Trinity" by lowering it to the level of idols and demons with sacrilegious rituals of a...

Last week, a video was released from Georgia purporting to show partisan observers being told to leave the room, after which the remaining workers took out containers of votes and began to scan them. Gov. Kemp took it seriously enough to call for a signature audit in response. In what was a less than shocking development, those involved then decided to investigate themselves and have assured us that nothing untoward happened. That was enough for the media to start shouting from the roof-tops that the video had been “debunked.”Conservative commentator and Fox News personality Mollie Hemingway isn’t buying it. RedState’s...

A question that I have not yet seen posed directly, nor has there been any suggestion of an answer — obviously — is whether the FBI in Atlanta, working with the US Attorney in the Northern District of Georgia, has taken an interest in the individuals who were in the room where the surveillance video was recorded.My view of what has been happening in Georgia is that the “sound and fury” has all been behind the lawsuits filed by Lin Wood and Sidney Powell, while the Trump Campaign has more quietly pursued an “election contest” lawsuit filed last Friday in...

President Donald Trump told a Fox News reporter that he believes “the case” for election fraud “has been made” before the American people, and now it will be a process of prosecuting this case, apparently in state legislatures, courtrooms, and potentially before the Supreme Court of the United States.The Fox News reporter asked the president, “Are you looking to try to change the outcome of the election, or try to make a case to the American people that it wasn’t a fair election?”“Well I think case has already been made, if you look at the polls,” said the President, interjecting....

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s political alliance claimed a sweeping victory Monday in congressional elections boycotted by the most influential opposition politicians and widely criticized internationally as being fraudulent. The win gives Maduro control of the last major branch of government outside his grasp. It plays out in the waning days of the Trump administration, which leaves office with Maduro firmly entrenched despite its efforts to bring about his departure through diplomacy and sanctions. “We have recovered the National Assembly with the majority vote of the Venezuelan people,” Maduro said in a televised address. “It’s a great victory without a doubt...

More and more, the modern entertainment culture is pushing abortions on women as a normal, acceptable solution to any problems or fears they may be facing. Pregnant to a guy who is irresponsible? Have an abortion. Worried about parenting a baby while finishing school? Have an abortion. Want to travel the world or advance in your career? Have an abortion. Worried about all the uncertainties and difficulties of raising a child with special needs? Have a “compassionate” abortion. Movies, TV shows, women’s magazines, celebrities and politicians are peddling this message, trying to push out of people’s minds the violent final...

Democratic senate candidate Raphael Warnock refused to say during a debate Sunday whether he supports “court packing,” or adding seats to the Supreme Court. “As I move all across the state … people aren’t asking me about the courts and whether we should expand the courts,” Warnock said at the debate against Georgia Sen. Kelly Loeffler, a Republican. “I know that’s an interesting question for people inside the beltway to discuss, but they are wondering when in the world they are going to get some COVID-19 relief,” added Warnock, a pastor at Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church. Asked again by a...

It is impossible to have watched the election-related hearings in Arizona, Michigan, and Georgia, as well as to have read the signed affidavits in the lawsuits filed by the Trump campaign and Sidney Powell in those three states, without concluding that there was massive election fraud last month. Thirty-six members of the House Freedom Caucus want Attorney General William Barr to release the findings of the Justice Department’s investigation into vote fraud (the one in which apparently none of the hundreds of people who signed the aforementioned affidavits were interviewed), as reported by The Daily Signal. Meanwhile, here is the...

Sen. Kelly Loeffler criticized her Democrat opponent for using the Bible to justify the killing of unborn babies in abortions Sunday during a Georgia election debate. The pro-life Republican senator is facing a high-stakes race against Raphael Warnock in January. The two runoff races in Georgia will determine if Republicans maintain their majority in the U.S. Senate. During the debate Sunday hosted by the Atlanta Press Club, Loeffler slammed Warnock, a pastor, as a “radical liberal” who supports abortion on demand, ABC News reports. “I’m not going to stand by and let Georgians not know who my opponent is, how...

House Democrats, led by Speaker Nancy Pelosi, are moving forward with plans to end the Hyde Amendment and force taxpayers to pay for the killing of unborn babies in elective abortions. The decades-old amendment prohibits federal tax dollars from being used for abortions in Medicaid. Since the late 1970s, the Hyde Amendment has had strong bipartisan support from Congress and the American people. Pro-life leaders estimate it has saved about 2.4 million babies’ lives. Four years ago, however, Democrat Party leaders abandoned Americans’ priorities in favor of those of the abortion industry and adopted a platform calling for taxpayer-funded abortion...

Pollster Patrick Basham explained during an interview with Fox News’s Mark Levin why he believes Joe Biden’s supposed election victory, while “not statistically impossible,” is “statistically implausible.” Basham said during the interview that aired Sunday that he looked at numerous “non-polling metrics,” which have a “100 percent accuracy rate in terms of predicting the winner of the presidential election,” to come to his conclusion. “Something very strange has happened because the numbers just don’t add up,” he said referring to the election results. Some of the “dozen or more” metrics include “party registration trends, how the candidates did in their...

On this date in 1683 the English politician and philosopher Algernon Sidney (or Sydney) was beheaded to uphold (so he conceived it) “the common rights of mankind, the laws of this land, and the true Protestant religion, against corrupt principles, arbitrary power, and Popery.” He was one of the 17th century’s great philosophers of republicanism, and his Discourses Concerning Government was more influential in his lifetime than the work of his contemporary (and fellow-Whig*) John Locke. Although the pen might be mightier than the sword, Sydney himself did not eschew the more literal form of combat and entered a triumphant...