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The majority opinion was written by Justice Brian Hagedorn who analogized the Trump election contest to challenging a play in a football game after the contest was over and the score went final. The opinion is pure sophistry that Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, himself, would find it difficult to top. After putting forward this ridiculous opinion, Justice Hagedorn added a concurring opinion agreeing with his own decision! What made this unusual move doubly bizarre is that Hagedorn preceded to relate that numerous mistakes and errors were made by election officials and Wisconsin laws were broken in the process....

A 27-year-old father of two from the UK died of cancer — months after he had to beg for an MRI scan amid a slowdown during the coronavirus crisis. Sherwin Hall, of Leeds, West Yorkshire, died on Dec. 3, following an illness that began more than a year earlier. Hall first began experiencing groin pain in September 2019 that subsided and re-emerged in January — and was given antibiotics both times, he wrote on a GoFundMe page back in May. He thought he was feeling better, but then the pain returned “with a vengeance” in March, when he experienced pain...

In newly leaked audio, President-elect Joe Biden is heard admitting the GOP managed to “beat the living hell” out of Democrats over their efforts to “defund the police,” and suggested they avoid discussing police reforms before the crucial Georgia Senate runoffs. Biden’s remarks came speaking at a virtual meeting between him, Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, and several prominent civil rights leaders. ... The reality here is that Biden doesn’t want Democrats to stop talking about the push to “defund the police” specifically, he would just rather they keep it quiet until after the Georgia Senate runoffs. In other words, he...

Arizona’s eleven Republican Presidential Electors have convened to cast their votes for President Donald to be reelected.In doing so, Arizona became the fourth swing state casting procedural ballots for Trump while the states continue to be contested.The Arizona GOP said in a statement that “as the legal proceedings arising from the November 3 presidential election continue to work their way through our nation’s judicial system, the Arizona Republicans who pledged to choose President Trump and Vice President Pence in the Electoral College convened on December 14 to cast their votes and send them to Congress where they are to be...

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The Electoral College has met to confirm Joe Biden as the president-elect. Despite President Trump's lawsuits challenging the results of the Nov. 3 election against Biden, 538 electors from all 50 states and Washington, D.C., convened Monday, and by Monday evening, they had given Biden the 270 votes he needed to claim the White House. Biden was expected to end the meeting with 306 electoral votes to Trump's 232, reflecting the popular votes from each of the jurisdictions. The gathering garnered more attention this cycle after key Republicans, such as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, made it the deadline for...

Oracle Corp. co-founder Larry Ellison said he has moved his primary residence to Hawaii, becoming the latest Silicon Valley executive to depart the state where they built their fortunes. Ellison, the world’s 11th-wealthiest person, notified his staff Monday of the move. Recode first reported the executive’s decision, which followed Oracle’s announcement Friday that it had shifted the company’s headquarters to Austin, Texas, from Redwood City, California. “I’ve received a number of inquiries about whether or not I will be moving to Texas,” Ellison wrote in a memo to Oracle’s employees. “The answer is no. I’ve moved to the State of...

Iran handed a nine-year jail sentence to a British-Iranian anthropologist for studying child marriage and female genital mutilation and ordered him to pay a fine of over $700,000 in cash, the semiofficial Tasnim news agency reported Sunday. Kameel Ahmady was sentenced by Iran’s Revolutionary Court on charges of cooperation with institutions seeking to topple Iran’s Islamic government, promoting homosexuality, cooperating with hostile media, visiting Israel as a reporter for the BBC, and engaging in “subversive” research. Ahmady was detained in August 2019 on suspicion of being affiliated with institutes that have ties with foreign intelligence services but was released on...

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger on Monday announced a signature audit in Cobb County. “We stand ready to answer each and every question out there,” Raffensperger said. “Every Georgian should have faith in our elections.”

An Iranian teenager has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for photoshopping her appearance on Instagram to look like an Angelina Jolie zombie. Sahar Tabar, 19, whose real name is Fatemeh Khishvand, was arrested last year on charges of including blasphemy, inciting violence, gaining income through inappropriate means and encouraging corruption among the young. She had amassed nearly half a million followers on Instagram at the time of her arrest, the Guardian reported. Many of the photos and videos shared resemble Hollywood star Angelina Jolie. At one point Tabar called on Jolie to campaign for her release, saying: “The...

Wow. All of the focus on clear election fraud sure has distracted country from Jeffrey Epstein case. Man oh man. Epstein case could bring down Biden, Gates, Roberts, Clinton & others. Maybe even Obama. Sure wish Epstein was alive. https://twitter.com/LLinWood/status/1338577239970082822

"It shouldn't take mayors and governors begging the federal government for help. Congress and the sitting administration needs to do their job. The American people need help right now."

The Ohio High School Athletic Association released an update to their Coronavirus regulations December 1, with predictable rules such as the wearing of masks while in community areas and during team travel, and temperature testing before competition. However, it also included some seemingly contradictory rules such as the elimination of athlete handshakes pre-and post-match. Officials are also no longer allowed to indicate the winner of the match by raising the wrestler’s hand. Fist bumping other wrestlers, coaches, or officials is also prohibited. Dr. Karissa Niehoff, executive director of the National Federation of State High School Associations, wrote in May about...

The Dow Jones Industrial Average briefly hit an intraday record high on Monday before diving into negative territory as investors grew increasingly concerned that tightening restrictions in New York City and elsewhere could weigh down the economy. The Dow hit an intraday record high of 30,325 after the first hour of trading but slumped through the rest of the day as positive news on the vaccine rollout was offset by news that further restrictions will crimp business in the weeks before Christmas. New York City Mayor Bill di Blasio said that the city could need to go into ‘full shutdown’...

To those who cares about faith, family, and freedom, Joe Biden’s announcement that he will nominate Xavier Becerra to be his head of the Department of Health and Human Services should set off alarms. Here are three things you need to know about this nomination.1. Xavier Becerra is the kind of person the Constitution was written to protect you from. By all accounts, Becerra is a nice man. He isn’t dangerous because he lacks civility, he’s dangerous because his view of civil liberties is offensive to the Constitution.As Attorney General of California, he has tried to pressure pro-life doctors and...

It is okay “for Catholics to bludgeon the Little Sisters of the Poor provided they carry a rosary,” Dr. Donohue noted wryly in an essay Monday pointing out that for leftist media, the only good Catholic is a bad Catholic. “CNN ran a piece December 13 noting that Joe Biden goes to church, prays, and carries a rosary,” Donohue observes, joining other puff pieces on Biden’s Catholicism by America magazine, NPR, and the Washington Post. What all the left-wing media love about Biden’s particular strain of Catholicism is his unapologetic rejection of the Church’s core moral teachings about life and...

A study published in Sports Medicine found that testosterone blockers taken by biological men who want to live as women do not significantly diminish their strength and gives them an advantage when competing against biological women in sports. The study found that elite male athletes are around 10 to 13 percent faster than female athletes and the difference in sports like bowling cricket balls, hitting long drives, and weightlifting is even greater — 29 percent to 52 percent. “Performance differences larger than 20 percent are generally present when considering sports and activities that involve extensive upper body contributions,” the study...

... In a December 2017 sermon, Warnock blasted Republican senators who passed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, which even the New York Times admitted benefited most Americans. “While others were sleeping, members of the United States Senate declared war, launched a vicious and evil attack on the most vulnerable people in America,” Warnock said in the sermon, likening them to Herod, who ordered the killing of male children two and younger in the region of Bethlehem in an effort to kill Jesus Christ, as detailed in the Book of Matthew. “Herod is on the loose. Herod is...

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is aware of active exploitation of SolarWinds Orion Platform software versions 2019.4 HF 5 through 2020.2.1 HF 1, released between March 2020 and June 2020. CISA encourages affected organizations to read the SolarWinds and FireEye advisories for more information and FireEye’s GitHub page for detection countermeasures:

The “Black National Anthem” was sung during the Michigan Electoral College proceedings — following the actual national anthem. The song is called “Lift Every Voice and Sing” and was dubbed the “Negro National Anthem” by the NAACP in 1919. Please remain standing for the National Anthem — and the Black National Anthem…” they announced before having two women sing the song. The affront to the National Anthem came as Democrats used armed police to prevent Republican electors from entering the State Capitol.