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December's Ratings Collapse for Fox News continues to be a disaster, particularly in daytime. Going from record ratings in November, to massive ratings collapse by Wednesday 12/9. Here are the current Fox News ratings losses according to Nielsen. Sandra -78% Fox/Friendless -75% Cavuto -75% Perino -74% Hemmer -73% Outnumbered -70% MacCallum -64% Baier -63% The Five -54% Ingraham -48% Carlson -46% Hannity -45%

Their youths were stolen by Adolf Hitler and the Nazis — and now some New York Holocaust survivors say they’ve had another precious year ripped away by the COVID-19 pandemic. Chanukah begins Thursday, and the light-filled holiday won’t be as bright as other years, when Holocaust survivors gathered close and sang with family and watched the young ones open presents. This year, some of New York’s thousands of Holocaust survivors will go it alone, lighting lonely menorahs nightly in their apartments. Others will get together with family, but maintain a safe distance, so as not to be killed by a...

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) said he learned “humanity” from the deceased Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA), who pleaded guilty in 1969 after he left the scene of an accident that resulted in a woman drowning. Cuomo received the Edward M. Kennedy Institute Aware for Inspired Leadership, he announced Wednesday:

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Gov. Tom Wolf announced new steps Thursday to combat the surge in coronavirus cases, including measures to prohibit indoor dining in restaurants, the closure of casinos and theaters and a temporary halt to scholastic sports. In a news conference, Wolf said he is imposing other limits on all businesses serving the public, capping retailers, barber shops and salons and other businesses to 50% of indoor occupancy limits. Gyms and fitness centers can offer outdoor classes but cannot offer indoor operations. Indoor gatherings are limited to 10 people, the governor’s office said, but churches and other houses of worship are exempt...

These are the moments that make Twitter bearable. Ted Cruz decided to take a swing at Eric Swalwell and his alleged connection to a Chinese intelligence operative whom many have begun to refer to as #FangBang. Ok, so it’s just this editor who has done that but it rhymes and makes us laugh so why not? Ted’s was better, of course:

Coleman was previously arrested on suspicion of DUI in August by police in Laguna Beach, and court records indicate she was charged with DUI and having a blood alcohol content over .08% in that incident.

Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul on Thursday blocked swift passage of a $740 billion defense bill over language intended to stop President Trump’s drawdown of troops in Afghanistan. Trump says he will veto the bill for not including repeal of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which gives immunity to social media companies, but the bill passed the House on Tuesday in a veto-proof 335-78 vote. “This bill creates 535 commanders in chief,” Paul said on the Senate floor. The libertarian Republicans said “it’s hypocrisy” for hawkish lawmakers to support presidential power to initiate conflicts, but not to end them....

Earlier this year, Dr. Kory gave testimony on the use of steroids in COVID treatment that revolutionized the standard of care. This week’s testimony is even more game-changing, but Dems want to demonize him. Unlike some of the ‘experts’ who pull a professional opinion out of their ass, or build computer models that have no likeness to reality, this guy has been on the ground, leading treatment efforts within his field of specialty. He defied the ‘conventional wisdom’ of all the ‘official’ voices by showing studies and data that supported the implementation of steroids in the treatment of patients. His...

Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) and Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) have introduced a bipartisan bill that would strip legal immunities from tech companies that censor users without their consent. The Break Up Big Tech Act would remove Section 230 protections — critical to the business model of the Silicon Valley Masters of the Universe — from platforms that “moderate or censor content without an opt-in from users.” According to a press release on Rep. Gabbard’s website, the bill would also remove 230 immunities from companies that engage in the following practices: Selling and displaying personalized as well as contextual advertising without...

Virginia will be under a nightly curfew from midnight until 5 a.m., and social gatherings will be limited to 10 people under new public restrictions meant to stem the surge of COVID-19 expected to go into effect Monday. Gov. Ralph Northam announced the new restrictions Thursday afternoon, citing an untamed spike of COVID-19 cases in the state in the middle of the busy holiday season.

While promising to crack down on election misinformation on its platform and labeling a large number of President Donald Trump’s posts, Twitter allowed misinformation about Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) to spread virally across its platform freely. Social media giant Twitter has promised to make many efforts to prevent the spread of misinformation on its platform. In recent months the site has blocked users from sharing links to lawyer Sidney Powell’s lawsuit relating to widespread voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election, announcing plans to send users warnings if they attempt to “like” tweets that Twitter determines constitute misinformation, and repeatedly...

Radical Islamists have killed at least 30 Christians, raped 10 young women and girls, and kidnapped fifteen others in a spate of recent attacks in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the Christian Post reported Wednesday. Between November 20 and December 3, jihadis carried out violent raids on five villages in North Kivu province, northeastern DRC. Armed with guns, machetes, clubs, swords, and axes, the Islamists surrounded churches in each of the five villages and proceeded to assault the Christians inside. “There was a throng of Christians flooding the streets in a helpless situation, as well as radical Muslim extremists...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi blasted her Republican counterpart, Rep. Kevin McCarthy, for calling for Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell to be removed from the Intelligence Committee in the wake of reporting that he had a years-long friendship with an alleged Chinese spy.

Pennsylvania officials on Thursday filed a blistering brief at the Supreme Court rebuking the Texas lawsuit seeking to overturn President Donald Trump's defeat in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, casting the move as using a "cacophony of bogus claims" to support a "seditious abuse of the judicial process." "Texas seeks to invalidate elections in four states for yielding results with which it disagrees. Its request for this Court to exercise its original jurisdiction and then anoint Texas's preferred candidate for President is legally indefensible and is an affront to principles of constitutional democracy," wrote Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro. The...

There were a number of new filings today including the defendants response, motions in support, and motions in opposition. Instead of posting them in individual threads, I thought it better to offer the following in a table format. This is the updated list of SCOTUS motions in Texas vs PA, GA, MI, and WI. Towards the bottom is the Response of Commonwealth. Filed ByDescriptionDocumentTexas v PA, et alMotion for leave to file a bill of complaint filed.sourcePresident TrumpTo IntervenesourceMissouri +16 statesIn support of TexassourceCarter Phillips etc alIn Support of DefendantssourceConstitutional AttorneysIn Support of PlaintiffsourceArizonaIn Support of PlaintiffsourceMissouri et alTo IntervenesourceOhioIn...

Tom Kirsch is President Trump’s nominee to fill the seat on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals vacated by Justice Barrett. Kirsch is well qualified for the judgeship, and her nomination has received approval from the Senate Judiciary Committee. However, some Senate Democrats are opposing Kirsch because he is White. For example, Sen. Blumenthal says the Seventh Circuit lacks “diversity,” and that if Kirsch is confirmed, the court will continue to be all-White. The NAACP, in opposing Kirsch, goes so far as to call the Seventh Circuit “a segregated court.” The charge is absurd. There are nine judges on the...

Months after eliminating a popular challenge to its rule in Hong Kong, China is turning to an even higher-stakes target: self-governing Taiwan. The island has been bracing for conflict with China for decades, and in some respects, that battle has now begun. It’s not the final, titanic clash that Taiwan has long feared, with Chinese troops storming the beaches. Instead, the People’s Liberation Army, China’s two-million-strong military, has launched a form of “gray zone” warfare. In this irregular type of conflict, which stops short of an actual shooting war, the aim is to subdue the foe through exhaustion. Beijing is...

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Biden's staff is saying Kamala's staff are leaking negative information against Biden. So it begins!