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Racial relations are a complicated and controversial topic, so many are uncomfortable and even afraid to discuss it. I consider myself an exception, given my "suitable background": I am a European-American, based on my geographical place of birth; I am a Middle Eastern American, based on my historical homeland; and I am also an African-American, based on the origin of my species, Homo sapiens sapiens! I came from a third-world country where I experienced racist hostility toward my ethnicity and fought back in various ways until I immigrated to the United States. Therefore, the issue of race relations is not...

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Just rename it Eric Swalwell Honeypot U and everything will be solved. – Welp, looks like Johns Hopkins University is going to be getting a new name sometime in the near future. It turns out the founder of the renowned university – yes, his name was Johns Hopkins – was a slave owner back in the 19th century, which came as a surprise to current leaders of the University since the legend about Mr. Hopkins always held that he was an early and avid abolitionist: Those leaders penned a letter to the current school community and printed by the New...

If you pay close attention, it sure looks as though something is up. I realize that conservatives have endlessly been disappointed by the failure of major scandals to result in serious investigations and revelations, much less criminal trials and convictions. That's the new normal in corrupt 21st-century America. Maybe I am playing Charlie Brown to Lucy Van Pelt holding the football, but hope springs eternal that the brilliant self-correcting mechanisms designed by the Founders can operate as intended. Maybe, with prospect of apocalypse of the Great Reset looming, lips are loosening and action finally is being taken before it is...

Senator Cotton makes a really strong point. – Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton urged Attorney General William Barr to appoint a special counsel to handle the investigation into Hunter Biden’s taxes, money laundering and other influence peddling activities around the world. Cotton notes that the circumstances create a clear and blatant conflict of interest where the Big Guy, China Joe Potato Head Biden is concerned, and that conflict of interest cries out for the appointment of a special counsel related to the case. From a piece at JustTheNews: “I know the Biden campaign released details of a tax fraud investigation in...

It’s just the flu, bro. https://twitter.com/grahamneary/status/1337035542043701248?s=21 Ireland not showing excess dates. In fact, many months are less than historical mean death number, except for April. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/index.htm The USA shows excess deaths, unlike Ireland. Excess deaths are tricky to read as most places show excess deaths in April when COVID attacked the most vulnerable, coupled with poor treatment (ie. too much use of ventilators). The most vulnerable people are already dead, or are immune now because they survived. Death rates always go up in the winter so we may see more deaths overall in the winter, but this is normal. And...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton alleges that attorneys general who flooded their states with fraudulent mail-in ballots broke the law. BY ANDREW MIILLER • DECEMBER 11 United States President Donald Trump just announced that his administration is joining a lawsuit asking the Supreme Court to block four swing states from casting electoral votes for Joe Biden. “We will be INTERVENING in the Texas (plus many other states) case,” he posted to Twitter on December 9. “This is the big one. Our Country needs a victory!” The lawsuit is led by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who petitioned the U.S. Supreme...

Election fraud is a huge problem. But America has a problem even bigger than that. Now the ball is finally at the Supreme Court. At the heart of the issue is whether the election, at least in the states in question, violated the constitutional rights of the voters — or whether the election generally violated the Constitution of the United States. Elections and constitutional rights are highly interconnected. In democracy, elections are the mechanism where voters choose officials to whom they give power to legislate and to interpret and enforce their laws. They are pivotal to the quality of a...

As the world awaits a coronavirus vaccine, experts in Italy and the US are warning of another potential long-term consequence of COVID-19: erectile dysfunction. During a recent interview with the US broadcaster NBC, American physician Dena Grayson said there was growing concern that COVID-19 could cause long-term difficulty getting an erection. "We know that it causes issues in the vasculature," Grayson said. "So this is something that is of real concern - not just that this virus can kill, but can actually cause long-term, lifelong potential complications." A study out of Italy in July found that erectile dysfunction was both...

Conservative commentator Dinesh D’Souza recalled an unusual question the president asked him when he visited the White House in early 2020. “What do you think I should do?” asked the president referring to his career after leaving the White House. D’Souza didn’t hesitate to suggest the president -- who had been tormented by the mainstream media for four years -- launch his own independent news network. He envisioned the president breaking the chokehold Big Media has exerted on news cycles broadcasting 24/7 ((i.e. ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, NPR, etc.). The president responded with: “You mean give up real estate?” That...

Essential Facts About Covid-19 - This is a long article but ought to be read in totality as it confirms what many of us have suspected all along: we are being played. Big time, by big players.A brief synopsis:the average death rate for people who contract Covid-19 is well below 1% and is much closer to that of the seasonal flu than figures that were commonly reported by the press. (ed. and yet there has never been anything close to a “lockdown” for any type of seasonal flu outbreaks)the average years of life lost from each Covid-19 death are significantly...

Simply put, they hate Trump because he represents ordinary Americans — those who are not part of the political and corporate elite, who lack the advantages and connections of the Deep State, who are not media, academics, or celebs. President Trump puts ordinary Americans first, and it drives the elite nuts. The elite have spent so many years enjoying their advantages, including the psychological advantage of despising ordinary people, that they panicked when someone tried to take it all away from them. They can't go on living without that warm, reassuring sense of superiority. Contempt for average Americans was palpable...

The clause has been mentioned rarely in Supreme Court jurisprudence and is usually consigned to the dead zone of "political questions." But now it's appropriate. The papers filed by Texas and its allies in Texas v. Pennsylvania do not invoke the Guarantee Clause of the Constitution: "The United States shall guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government" (Art IV, Sec. 4). The clause has been mentioned rarely in Supreme Court jurisprudence and is usually consigned to the dead zone of "political questions," which means that it is for the political branches, not the courts to...

VALDOSTA, Ga. - Convinced that the presidential election had been stolen from Donald Trump, the young couple from Blairsville, Georgia at first resolved to skip the state’s Jan. 5 runoffs for two U.S. Senate seats. What’s the point, they figured, of voting in another rigged election? Then they thought better of it, setting aside their anger for the more pressing concern of keeping one of the two houses of Congress under Republican control. “Everybody is going to vote,” said Kayla Frank, 25. Frank and her partner - 28-year-old C.J. Townsend - had joined thousands of Trump supporters at a rally...

On the precipice of the 2020 presidential election, the American ruling class pulled off every stunt imaginable for its preferred candidate, Joe Biden. Presidential debate moderators deliberately refused to delve into the realm of foreign policy, an area in which Uncle Joe has been wrong on every major issue for four decades. Media elites dutifully praised the Supreme Court's unwise failure to intervene and clarify that state legislatures, not governors or state courts, retain sole power over changing election law. The most anodyne of questioning about the unprecedented proliferation of inherently destabilizing mail-in balloting was roundly denounced as "voter suppression."...

Question:I have come across a statement which a 7th Day Adventist claims. They say Jesus and the Archangel Michael is one and the same person. Their reading is in Daniel and also revelation with the war in heaven, I think its chapter 12. I find this hard to believe. What are your views in this?Answer:No, Jesus is DEFINITELY not Michael. I am a bit surprised to hear a 7th Day Adventist making this heretical claim. This would be no surprise at all coming from a Jehovah’s Witness, as they believe that Jesus is not God, but a very high and...

A group of state legislators and voters asked the Supreme Court on Thursday for permission to join Texas’s lawsuit challenging 2020 election results in four states. Among the members listed in the request (pdf) are those who had previously filed lawsuits seeking to de-certify election results either in state or federal courts. These include several voters and Pennsylvania state legislators Daryl D. Metcalfe, Chris E. Dush, and Thomas R. Sankey III, whose lawsuit was dismissed by a state judge.

In poker parlance, the D.C. crowd is bluffing that Joe Biden won the 2020 election, and it's daring the American people to call it out. This is just an observation (because I'm not looking forward to gulag life), but I think the only thing keeping Trump voters from burning the whole corrupt system down right now is that nobody knows whom or what to attack. That should be a pretty sobering consideration for an establishment class that thinks it just stole the 2020 presidential election fair and square. If there were a ship out in the harbor loaded up with...

chickensoup is looking for a good dog. The dog from BC didn't work out. Could not get it across the border, never mind across the country. I am looking for an English Shepherdish sort of dog. Older, 2 to 6 or 7. Well trained calm and healthy. A dog who needs a home because of change in circumstances. I can provide a dog dream home on 30 acres off road, pleasant company, not isolated, a number of friends and family to provide attention, great food and vet care. A puppy is too much energy, a cheerful shepherd-y sort of guy...

South Dakota Sen. John Thune, the No. 2 Senate Republican, said he thought Paul — who has provoked government shutdowns before — was using the time-crunch for maximum leverage to remove the provision on troop withdrawals. “I think he’s just trying to figure out ways to derail the bill. And … when you’re in the U.S Senate that’s your prerogative. But most of our people would like to get it done" this week, Thune said. “His thing is just to delay this and use all the time so it pushes the vote on (the defense bill) into next week, which...