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“The future of human liberty…means the future of civilization.” “Only if the modern state can be held within a strictly limited agenda…can it be prevented from regimenting, conquering, and ultimately devouring the society which gave it birth.” “A man who is good from docility, and not from stern self-control, has no character.” “Contrary to age-old prejudices, the wealth of the rich is not the cause of the poverty of the poor, but helps to alleviate that poverty.” “Inflation itself is a form of taxation. It is perhaps the worst possible form, which usually bears hardest on those least able to...

At least 14 Venezuelans drowned this weekend attempting to escape the socialist country on a raft off the eastern state of Sucre, local authorities confirmed Monday. Venezuelan coast guards found 11 people dead Saturday around seven miles off the coast. Three others washed up on the beach Sunday. Their bodies were later transferred to the morgue of the Central Hospital of Cumaná in the state capital of Sucre. The victims are believed to have been trying to reach Trinidad and Tobago, presumably as an escape from the economic and humanitarian crisis in their homeland. In a statement confirming the tragic...

Sooo...amidst a constant mucousy clearing of his throat and some coughing, the so-called 'President-elect Joe Biden' just gave a speech about how the Electoral College has cast their votes, and that he had won those 306 votes. But we all know it's not ol' Touchy Feely that those EC votes were cast for, but for Commie Kamala. Joe-with-a-cold spent the majority of his (her) time on national television giving himself so many pats on the back about how wonderful Democracy (Communism) will be for everyone, I'm surprised he didn't faceplant from the effort. And, then of course, spent time wielding...

If your heart is motivated by the approval of others and this influences the way you live, your loyalties are divided. You will always be striving to please someone other than Jesus. A few years after the apostle Paul was converted, he went to the church in Jerusalem to try to join the disciples there. “But they were all afraid of him, and did not believe that he was a disciple” (Acts 9:26). The apostles knew Paul’s reputation as a persecutor. The churches in Judea had heard only that, “He who formerly persecuted us now preaches the faith which he...

As the chaplain blessed the treasonous casting of Michigan's Electoral College votes for Joe Biden "in Jesus' name," the air of my home office was blue. I was that mad! Then I realized that by affixing their John Hancocks to the official electoral vote certificates, despite President Trump's repeated warnings, they were signing their own fates as traitors. Tribunals may be in their future. But even as the DNC traitors were publicly outing themselves, so were the GOP heroes. In the states of Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada and Arizona, the GOP Electoral College voters also showed up and also affixed...

A video montage produced by the Media Research Center (MRC) shows just how desperate the mainstream media was in trying to cover up the Hunter Biden scandal. MRC put the video supercut together one week before the election as a means to highlight how the media was lying about there being “no evidence” that the former Vice President and his son “had done anything wrong.” Over a month later, it has been revealed that Hunter is the subject of a federal investigation into his “tax affairs” that began in 2018, a year before Biden announced his campaign for the presidency....

Nearly half of all U.S. voters overestimate the percentage increase of deaths in the country amid the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new Just the News Daily Poll with Scott Rasmussen. Just 19% of those surveyed accurately guessed that excess deaths in the U.S. have been within range of 10% this year, while 47% of voters though the number was higher – from 25% to 50% to "twice as many." The remaining 8% guessed there had been "no increase" in deaths this year...

(CNN, Aug 13 2019): When Attorney General William Barr said he was "appalled" and "angry" after Jeffrey Epstein's apparent suicide at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan, you'd almost have thought Barr himself bore no responsibility. He spoke of "serious irregularities" and "demanded" an investigation -- as if he were some outside observer incapable of simply ordering an investigation himself. Listening to him pour fire and brimstone on the rank-and-file who run the jail, you almost have to wonder: Has Barr taken a look at his org chart recently? Because the Metropolitan Correctional Center is part of the Bureau of...

Being discharged from the hospital after illness or surgery is only the beginning of recovery. As with many infrequently-spoken moments in healthcare, COVID-19 has revealed the long road to recovery for "long-haulers," those whose symptoms linger for months. As a new study reports, this isn’t a new finding specific to the virus. (Of course, any experienced physician might have told you that already.) Here is a general rule of thumb: every day of bed rest is worth three or more days of recovery. And you can modify those days if the patient is elderly, and more so when he/she is...

As a result of a challenge I received on another forum (Christianity Today forums) I was able to link the name of Chairman Xi to the mystery number of the beast. X is the 24th letter and I is the 9th letter. 24 x 9 = 216 = 6 x 6 x 6 I received the challenge because I had already mentioned the parallels in the prophecy (Rev 13) and the present circumstances, but my closest guess as to how Xi got the number was that he was 66 years, 6 months old a year ago when the virus escaped...

Following the news today Attorney Lin Wood responded to the development. Lin Wood @LLinWood Bill Barr is a Patriot. His letter to @realDonaldTrump was excellent. I believe Barr will announce major moves before 12/23 but does not want to stay to prosecute. He has done his job & served country well. New AG & assistants will prosecute the massive number of cases coming. 5:16 PM · Dec 14, 2020·Twitter for iPhone

WASHINGTON — The Electoral College voted Monday. The ballots were cast throughout the day by individual electors in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, and they mirror their state’s popular vote. Shortly before 5:30 p.m. ET, California electors cast their 55 votes for Biden, pushing him over 270 electoral votes to 302. Biden plans to address the nation on Monday night, where he will emphasize that “the integrity of our elections remains intact.” Once electors have formally recorded their votes for president and vice president, the next major event in the Electoral College process is a joint session...

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Tribal casinos across Southern California remained open this week, even as many businesses in the region were forced to shutter or pare back services due to new stay-at-home orders from the state.

There’s nothing angelic about Amazon’s new wearable technology. Halo, Amazon’s new AI health bracelet, offers body composition analysis, tone of voice analysis, sleep & activity tracking. Presumably, this new tech is another convenient application to bring awareness to users of such things as too much body fat or if their tone is a bit too abrasive or “condescending.” While some individuals may benefit from both of these nudges, a recent review of Halo by the Washington Post (the unabashed purveyor of the loss of civil liberties) forcibly admits that Halo is the “most invasive tech we’ve ever tested.” Authors Geoffrey...

The Democratic Party obviously enjoys this privilege; look at the protective shield they placed around Joe and Hunter Biden. But Hollywood gets Iron Dome-levels of protection, especially when homophobic rape threats are hurled. Yeah, you read that right. Debra Messing will probably not lose any acting jobs over this, but wishing that President Trump gets raped in prison is pretty unhinged. You all know that. It’s truly despicable, but the irony is thick here. "Let me be clear: I said nothing about LGBTQI/queer LOVE. Rape is an act of violence. Trump has perpetrated violence on hundreds of millions of people....

Attorney General Bill Barr used the force of his office to instruct prosecutors investigating Hunter Biden not to take any steps that might cause the probe to be publicly revealed in the run-up to the election. The directive, reported in the Wall Street Journal, was in keeping with existing Justice Department policy against taking investigatory steps close to an election that might interfere with it. Barr and his team took steps to 'insulate' the investigations, according to the report, even as President Donald Trump repeatedly demanded a probe of his political rival's son. The revelation, coming after Trump raged publicly...

We are two Americas: Biden’s America and Trump’s America. These two Americas have nothing of importance in common with each other, and no common ground to stand on. There is not a single moral or political principle upon which these two Americas agree. Sure, everybody wants “freedom,” “justice,” “equality,” “democracy,” and a host of other glittering ideals. So have most dictators, Communists, and war criminals in modern history. Lenin, Stalin, and Mao gave stirring speeches in favor of all of them. The reality is that in the United States, we have long since ceased to do anything more than pay...

Health and Human Services chief Alex Azar predicted that all of the nation’s nursing home residents could be vaccinated against the coronavirus as soon as Christmas on Sunday — as the first doses of the vaccine began shipping from Pfizer’s Michigan manufacturing plant. “The vaccines are going out as soon as they receive the vaccine. This is according to the governors telling us to ship to them,” Azar said on CBS News’ “Face the Nation.” “We can have every nursing home patient vaccinated in the United States by Christmas. It’s really a remarkable, remarkable prospect for all of us who...

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) ordered an audit of voter signatures on absentee ballots in Cobb County on Monday, a move that will have no effect on the outcome of the presidential election in Georgia. According to Raffensperger, allegations that the signature-matching process in Cobb County had not been done properly were received by his office. Raffensperger said at a press conference he may also order a statewide audit, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. The audit in Cobb County will take two weeks, the paper reported, and may be able to show if signatures on absentee ballot-envelopes match signatures...