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... The amendment would reverse a staffing change made recently by the Democratic commissioner at the county Board of Elections. Regardless of the veto or its potential to be overridden, the [election] commissioner, Jackie Ortiz, said Thursday she would refuse to abide by the amendment affecting the board. ... The faction, which calls itself the Black and Asian Democratic Caucus, accused Ortiz of racial bias because her staffing plan called for eliminating two positions held by Black women. The amendment would restore those positions. The members of the caucus — legislators Ernest Flagler-Mitchell, Sabrina LeMar, Frank Keophetlasy, and Calvin Lee,...

To be a member of God’s true church, you must be known by the name of Jehovah Shammah—“The Lord is there” (Ezekiel 48:35). Others must be able to say of you, “It’s clear to me the Lord is with this person. Every time I see him, I sense the presence of Jesus. His life truly reflects the glory of God.” If we’re honest, we have to admit we don’t sense the Lord’s sweet presence in each other very often. Why? Christians spend their time involved in good religious activities—prayer groups, Bible studies, outreach ministries—and that’s all very commendable. But many...

"When He had made purification of sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high" (Heb. 1:3). Jesus Christ offered one sacrifice for all the sins of mankind, then sat down with the Father once He had accomplished it. The Bible makes it perfectly clear that the wages of sin is death (Rom. 6:23). Jesus Christ went to the cross, died the death we deserved, and consequently freed us from the penalty of sin by our faith in Him. The writer of Hebrews goes on to say that Christ "does not need daily, like those high...

The Daily Beast says that documents noting the federal probe into Hunter Biden were made public pre-election -- "but went largely unnoticed." Largely unnoticed? They weren't "largely unnoticed" by the real conservative press. I don't mean the Kapo Press like National Review or Fox News' "news" division, which of course joined the leftwing press as usual.* The money laundering probe only went "largely unnoticed" by the liberal media and the Kapo Press, and this was done deliberately and determinedly. It did not happen by oversight. It was due to a conscious, coordinated collusion between the entirety of the establishment press....

“At this point, no gatherings outside your immediate family that are — in a sense — podded together. And what I mean by that is that the people who you have been with, who haven’t had outside exposures,” Osterholm outlined. “So, if your son and daughter are coming home from college, they are not part of your pod. You know, either they quarantine for 10 to 14 days or they are not part of what happens at the holidays. Don’t get together with neighbors. No Christmas parties. There is not a safe Christmas party in this country right now unless...

The collapse took place around 9 a.m. at the site of the former Killen Generating Station along U.S. 52. Officials said the building was in the middle of a demolition when the awning of the plant collapsed. Adams County Sheriff Kim Rogers said, initially, five people were unaccounted for following the collapse. Three of the five people have since been located and taken to the hospital for treatment. Two were taken to the hospital early on, and a third was taken to an area hospital after being buried under the rubble for hours. The first two are expected to be...

Unless there is some sort of unforeseen miracle, millions of people could literally starve to death in 2021. We are facing a global food crisis that is unlike anything we have ever seen before in modern times, and 2021 is going to be the year when it starts to become extremely painful all over the globe. But don’t take my word for it. David Beasley is the head of the UN World Food Program, and so he is in a better position to assess the global hunger crisis than any of us. According to Beasley, 2021 “is literally going to...

Former Vice President Joe Biden announced Thursday he would bring former National Security Advisor Susan Rice back to the White House to head the Domestic Policy Council. Biden’s decision is puzzling, as Rice’s entire political career was focused on national security.

Colin Kaepernick has teamed up with Ben & Jerry’s for an interesting new ice cream flavor. Its name? Change the Whirled.

Participants in the 2018 pro-life observance 40 Days for Life gather near an abortion clinic in Green Bay, WisconsinOver the last five years, 127 abortion clinics closed, a report by the Abortion Care Network shows. Forty-one of the clinics closed in the last two years, the report said. Independent abortion clinics execute 58% of abortions in the United States, with Planned Parenthood performing an additional 37%. Physicians’ offices and hospitals perform the remaining 4%.“Meaningful access to abortion care in the United States depends on independent abortion care providers keeping their doors open,” the report reads. “Unfortunately, independent providers are also...

The stubborn fact that male and female each have an objective nature will ultimately be the end of contemporary gender theory, and it looks like the lesbians are the canary in that coal mine.“[L]esbian as a category” is vanishing, warns lesbian journalist Katie Herzog over at Andrew Sullivan’s Weekly Dish. She laments that being an out and proud lesbian is no longer cool and notes how women who like women are increasingly “coming out as nonbinary or as men” instead.Herzog noted this just days before “Juno” and “The Umbrella Academy” star Ellen Page announced on December 1 that she is...

Sodium-ion batteries are poised to replace lithium-ion batteries for large-scale electrical energy storage. They offer several advantages over lithium-ion batteries, particularly due to the widespread abundance of sodium. However, it is difficult to develop sodium cathodes, materials through which electrons can enter a battery. Many candidate materials are unstable or cannot withstand high voltages. Mammal bone structures consist of an inner porous, spongy bone that allows the storage and transport of bone marrow, surrounded by a hard, compact bone, which offers mechanical and structural integrity under severe stress. Following this design architecture, the group created a porous system of Na3V2(PO4)3...

President Trump is right – he’s actually understating it. All across this great country, people are talking about the 2020 election being stolen by senile Joe Biden and his gang of corrupt Anti-American goons. This morning President Trump tweeted:

Update below.It’s like a scene from a dystopian movie. Antifa and Black Lives Matter™ radicals take over and squat in a Portland house belonging to someone else. Neighbors sound the alarm. Police come months later to force them to leave. Antifa takes over the street in front of the house. All hell breaks loose and cops are attacked.This is the backstory to what’s happening right now on the ground in a neighborhood that Portland antifa radicals have essentially taken over since yesterday. They’ve blocked the street, erected walls, and now essentially hold a neighborhood hostage.At 5 a.m. on Tuesday, Portland...

The US topped 15 million cases of COVID-19 this week but that number is likely exponentially higher — by as much as seven times, a top Centers for Disease Control and Prevention official said on Thursday. Aron Hall, co-lead of the agency’s epidemiology task force, offered the startling statistic during a virtual hearing over Pfizer/BioNTech’s coronavirus vaccine.

.The Intervening States Satisfy the Requirements for Intervention As of Right.Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 24(a) provides: “On timely motion, the court must permit anyone to intervene who ... (2) claims an interest relating to the property or transaction that is the subject of the action, and is so situated that disposing of the action may as a practical matter impair or impede the movant’s ability to protect its interest, unless existing parties adequately represent that interest.” Fed. R. Civ. P. 24(a)(2). The Intervening States satisfy the standards to intervene in this action as of right. First, the Intervening States’...

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WPTA21) - The U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana moved closer to a position on the federal bench on Thursday. Thomas Kirsch received a vote of approval from the Senate Judiciary committee. His nomination by Pres. Donald Trump now moves to the full Senate for consideration. If confirmed, Kirsch will succeed Judge Amy Coney Barrett, who was elevated to the U.S. Supreme Court. The vacancy is on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals. The confirmation would also then open the top spot at the local U.S. Attorney's Office. That position could change hands regardless of...

The citizens of The United States fought a Revolutionary War to give themselves the responsibility of choosing their own leaders. It is a responsibility. Too many Americans think that electing a President is just a game that is played every four years. This kind of thinking is a great disservice to the men who spent years discussing, investigating and thinking about how a country should be. Voting isn’t just about flipping a coin to decide who our chief executive will be. Voting is a rigorous means of improving our citizens. Voting is a rigorous way to improve everything about our...

Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody on Wednesday joined 16 other states in backing a last-chance effort by Texas to get the U.S. Supreme Court to block election results in four swing states where the vote went in favor of President-elect Joe Biden. “The integrity and resolution of the 2020 election is of paramount importance,” Moody wrote in a statement as Florida joined a friend-of-the-court brief urging the Supreme Court to allow Texas to move forward with the case. “The United States Supreme Court should weigh the legal arguments of the Texas motion and all pending matters so that Americans can...