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No one is ‘president-elect’ until a joint session of Congress meets to certify the Electoral College vote giving elected representatives of the people one last chance to interject. On January 6th, 2021 a joint session of Congress will meet on Capitol Hill to certify the votes of the Electors to the Electoral College from each state in the Union. But there is a provision that the Framers put in place to help safeguard from nefarious powers that would seek to steal elections at the ballot box. The state Electors having already cast their votes on December 14, 2020, in their...

Prepared with his signature whiteboard, Republican strategist Karl Rove assessed the accuracy of Stacey Abrams’s claims about the state of the Senate runoff races in Georgia, arguing she’s “either misleading or she’s uninformed.” On Monday, the former gubernatorial candidate said there’s an upward trend for Democrats so far. "This is a state that is almost evenly divided. The presidential election was decided by fewer than 12,000 votes. But what's at stake isn't divisive, what's at stake is relief for our communities," she said.Abrams said that 1.2 million Georgians have requested absentee ballots. Of that 1.2 million, she said 85,000 of...

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A San Francisco district is planning to rename a school named after Abraham Lincoln because the former president did not demonstrate that 'black lives mattered to him'. The president, who is often held up as an American hero for abolishing slavery, is just one of 44 historical figures soon to have their names scratched off schools within the San Francisco Unified School District. Other names include George Washington, Herbert Hoover and Senator Dianne Feinstein, whose name will be stripped from the Dianne Feinstein Elementary School for allowing the Confederate flag to fly outside City Hall back in 1984 when she...

After a brief stint of allowing indoor dining with reduced capacity, New York City has once again limited restaurants to outside service, takeout, and delivery in response to rising COVID-19 rates. While eating alfresco was lovely during the summer, now that it’s cold out, it’s a bit of a different story — one that involves more preparation and much warmer clothes. You could go the extreme route and put on a wearable sleeping bag, like Strategist writer Kayla Levy, or for something a little less noticeable, take a hint from winter athletes, who rely on base layers to stay warm...

https://www.scoopwhoop.com/culture/water-cannons-vs-langar-10-images-of-hope-from-the-ongoing-farmers-protest/ The ongoing farmers protests against the farm laws is one of the biggest protests we've seen in recent times. Various images showcased a large contingent of police officials at different entry points using lathis, water cannons etc at farmers to stop them from entering the capital. However, these farmers since Friday have been allowed to enter New Delhi and permitted to hold protests at Nirankari ground in Burari. They have not only maintained peace but have showcased gestures that have rekindled our faith in humanity and made us believe that these farmers truly have a heart of gold.

This past Sunday morning, Beth Moore tweeted, “I do not believe these are days for mincing words. I’m 63 1/2 years old & I have never seen anything in these United States of America I found more astonishingly seductive & dangerous to the saints of God than Trumpism. This Christian nationalism is not of God. Move back from it.” Was she right in raising these concerns? Before we can respond, let’s put aside the question of whether you are a Beth Moore fan or not. To some, she is a beloved and faithful teacher of the Word. To others, she...

“We are the gold standard. They’re back there in Hollywood making movies right now because of us. Because they believe in us and what we’re doing. I’m on the phone with every f—ing studio at night, insurance companies, producers and they’re looking at us and using us to make their movies. We are creating thousands of jobs, you motherf—ers. I don’t ever want to see it again. Ever!”

Matt's a regular at his neighborhood Chick-fil-A. "I can tell by his voice when he pulls up,” one employee said. "I’m a creature of habit,” said Stoudt. Well, that's the understatement of the year. Matt has eaten at Chick-fil-A every day since July 13, not counting Sundays and Thanksgiving. “'Cause they were closed,” said Stoudt. He found out a guy in California ate Chick-fil-A 114 days in a row, earning the "unofficial" record. "I called my wife and said 'hey, I wanna do it.' She laughed at me and thought I was ridiculous,” said Stoudt. Oh, it was ridiculous. “Today...

(The University of Queensland) =============================================================== Like watching a movie in reverse, physicists have just demonstrated a new technique for the time-reversal of a wave of optical light. That doesn't mean that they have actually reversed the flow of time; rather, they have found a way to induce an optical wave to retrace a forward path in reverse, returning to its point of origin. It's the first time that time reversal of optical waves has been achieved with full control over all of the degrees of freedom of light simultaneously. This would be a massive achievement in and of itself, but...

Shortly after word reached England that the Spanish Armada had embarked, the philosopher Thomas Hobbes, born in 1588, tells us that the terror induced in his mother labor pains that resulted in his premature birth. He memorably remarked that “fear and I were born twins together.” Hobbes’ words will doubtless resonate in spades with anyone who was born in 2020. The present year is the Year of Fear. It is the year of raw, wildly irrational fear. For sure, the inexhaustible fear-mongering on the part of opportunistic political partisans in the Government-Media-Industrial-Complex has exacerbated, exponentially exacerbated, the fears of tens...

An apologist with Ravi Zacharias International Ministries is calling for repentance and "reparations" in response to how accusations of misconduct and other scandals were handled. In a five-page letter addressed to RZIM leadership, Max Baker-Hytch, a senior tutor with the ministry's Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics and a lecturer at Wycliffe Hall in England, wrote that he was troubled by how the organization responded to the misrepresentation of the deceased apologist's academic credentials and sexting allegations involving Lori Anne Thompson, a Canadian woman, both of which were first reported in 2017. The letter also mentioned more recent allegations that Zacharias...

The most common religious identity among young adults in the U.S. is "none," and the majority of Americans don’t believe it’s necessary for a person to believe in God to be moral and have good values, a new survey has found. Released Tuesday, AEI’s Survey Center on American Life investigating contemporary religion in the U.S. found that among young adults (age 18 to 29), the most common religious identity today is none. More than one in three (34%) young adults are religiously unaffiliated.Nearly nine in 10 (87%) Americans report they believe in God, but just over half (53%) report they...

Included were Hamas singer, alleged Taliban financier, named ‘93 WTC bombing conspirator. The Rohingya people are a stateless people inhabiting the southwestern shore of Myanmar, formerly Burma. For the past three-plus decades, the Rohingya’s illegal status – combined with militant separatist movements (mujahideen) that have arisen from the mostly Muslim group – made it a target of numerous government crackdowns, causing the Rohingya population to flee the area, many into bordering Bangladesh, claiming refugee status. This month, Basmah, a US-based Islamic extremist organization, exploited the plight of the Rohingya by conducting a fundraiser in the Rohingya’s name, featuring various speakers...

(i) the extent to which any foreign interference that targeted election infrastructure materially affected the security or integrity of that infrastructure, the tabulation of votes, or the timely transmission of election results;

'The short unclas version (in non lawyer language) is that US and UK were cooperating on a case to seize his corrupt assets overseas...' ================================================================ A newly declassified memo indicated that US diplomats in Ukraine warned then-Vice President Joe Biden‘s office about the evidence of corruption surrounding Burisma founder Mykola Zlochevsky in late December 2015. “I assume all have the DoJ background on Zlochevsky,” wrote then-US Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt, as reported by Just the News’s John Solomon. “The short unclas version (in non lawyer language) is that US and UK were cooperating on a case to seize his...

Conservative radio legend Rush Limbaugh provided listeners with a health update on Tuesday after being diagnosed with Stage 4 lung cancer in February. "Every day remains a gift," Limbaugh said. "You know, I wake up every morning, and I thank God that I did." He told listeners that in the future he will likely need to take some days off for “rest or for whatever medical challenges present themselves.” “But the fact that I’m able to get back here and be with you is a genuine blessing, and I appreciate it and I appreciate your understanding throughout all of this,”...

Black Lives Matter supporters on Tuesday protested for the 22nd consecutive day outside the residence of Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti to demand that his name be dropped from consideration for a Cabinet pick within Joe Biden’s administration.

Lockdowns have drastic consequences. Small businesses are closing for good at an alarming rate. Almost 100,000 were gone for good as of September, according to Yelp survey. The impact on children and young adults is also enormous. Children are out of school, and a recent study shows the loss of learning is significant.More heartbreaking are increases in mental health issues, abuse, and suicide. A few recent high-profile suicides among young teens, including one eleven-year-old on camera during a distance-learning session, drive the problem home. Opioid deaths are also increasing in over 40 states.We are told this is the cost of...

How history will view these self-proclaimed conservatives and protectors of principle. Of all the bizarrerie over the last four years, the Republican NeverTrump (RNT) phenomenon is the strangest. Pundits, commentators, and writers who self-identified as Republican and conservative did not see Donald Trump’s historic upset victory as a cause for celebration. Instead, they saw it as a disaster to be mourned and attacked with more vitriol than they ever expended on Barack Obama, not just one of the most progressive presidents ever elected, but a failure both at home and abroad. Many factors explain this mystery, but one stands out:...