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Still reeling from the left-wing backlash to his recent criticism of “defund the police,” former president Barack Obama (D) appeared on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show on Tuesday where he appeared to strike a conciliatory note by praising the activists behind the movement, calling them courageous and media savvy. But he also doubled down on his criticism of the actual slogan, saying that it can alienate potential Black Lives Matter allies.

She is the teacher who was overheard leading students in an assignment of local current events with the suggestion "now how does that play out with racism". Now she is reporting that the kids in distance "learning" are logging into the school district electronic meeting space for 5 minutes, so they can be seen for "attendance", but then they wander off to play on YouTube, "doing memes", or whatever else the school district allows them to do.(Her personal lifestyle isn't known, but she lives with another older woman and has short hair and a dangly earring. These are the people...

MSNBC medical analyst Dr. Vin Gupta told viewers Tuesday that they likely should not travel or stop wearing masks until this coming summer, even after getting vaccinated against the coronavirus. "Just because you get vaccinated with that second dose does not mean you should be participating in things like traveling in the middle of an out-of-control pandemic, or that you’re liberated from masks," he said. "Everything still applies UNTIL ALL OF US get the two-dose regimen. We don’t think that’s going to happen until June, July.

I’m a lineman. That’s the term The Director gave to people like me. “You are like linemen. Your job is to protect the quarterback.” I don’t know why she likes to use football analogies. I guess she thinks we’ll feel better about our jobs if we imagine we are NFL players. We don’t kneel to support some political cause though. We kneel because it makes us smaller targets and smaller targets are hard for the Reps to hit. Some of us who actually played football wanted to point out to The Director that not every lineman was there to protect...

Are you one of the many Americans wondering "is Joe Biden mentally fit for the presidency?" Perhaps you have seen articles online stating, to some extent, that Joe Biden is senile and is absolutely not fit to be president. Those articles maybe point out a gaffe or two, note his most recent misstep or incompetent blunder, and quickly draw the conclusion that the answer to "is Joe Biden mentally fit for office?" is "No. Absolutely not. He is senile and deteriorating rapidly." I agree with those articles. Personally, I am certain that the answer to "is Joe Biden mentally fit?"...

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The good news is it’s still entirely possible for Donald Trump to be reelected. The bad news is that it is likely to come down to the RINOs. * * * But there is now also a hugely encouraging fact: on Monday Trump won his most significant battle yet when seven swing states sent pro-Trump electors to Washington. Now, someone must decide whether to accept the Biden slate of electors for those states, which also were sent on Monday, or the Trump slates.

Reckless Courts Codify ChaosRepublican cowardice, a missing Justice Department, and feckless judges—not a few lawsuits—are the true dangers to our democracy.Flagrant election cheating in several swing states, it seems, is of no interest to the self-appointed watchdogs of American democracy or even to those specifically tasked with investigating such unlawfulness.The U.S. Department of Justice, despite its preachy corporate motto, is thus far blind to it. Journalists and professional pundits on both sides of the aisle downplay talk of what has happened as “baseless conspiracy theories” pushed by cult-like Trump loyalists. Most Senate Republicans are eager to move on while ignoring...

Former President George W. Bush is reuniting with his one-time top political strategist to help support the Republican incumbent senators running in Georgia's twin Senate runoff elections, where the GOP’s majority in the chamber is up for grabs.

Rand Paul: “The fraud happened. The election in many ways was stolen.” Video: https://mobile.twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1339253599868694531

The Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday held its final hearing of the session for one of President Donald Trump’s appeals court nominees, eliciting worries from Democrats about the lame duck consideration.

BOSTON (CBS) – If there is one thing New Englanders know, its weather can change on a dime, and so can the forecast. If you read my little afternoon blog Monday or perhaps flipped on WBZ-TV and watched Eric Fisher, you heard things like… -Light and fluffy snowfall for everyone -Sharp cutoff to the snow shield north of Boston -Highest snow totals to the south of Boston That was SO MONDAY… Today those statements read more like this… -Light and fluffy snow NORTHWEST OF BOSTON, heavier and wetter along the coast and southeast with some mixing on the Cape and...

Everyone should be able to agree that we don't need more racism in America. On that basis alone, this proposal should be dead on arrival in Congress.Sen. Mike Lee took on fellow Republicans and the corporate Democrat press last week by blocking a bill that aims to establish a Smithsonian museum focused on Americans who identify as Latino. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, and Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., are cosponsors of the legislation, along with 234 House Democrats and 61 House Republicans. So Democrats are just stuffing the measure as an earmark into the current budget omnibus monstrosity. Republicans and Democrats...

Image: Wikimedia Commons.Like the M16 and many other rifle arms since the early 1900s (and a few pistols, most notably Israel’s Desert Eagle), the AK-47 is gas operated.Here's What You Need to Remember: There is a relevant cultural and historical legacy at work here. American arms are informed by a history and a legacy in which a colonial farmer could shoot down a squirrel or a British officer with a rifled musket from a hundred yards. Russian arms, meanwhile, are informed by a history of a lot of peasant soldiers slogging through the mud to engage. No wonder, then, that...

As in-person early voting began Monday for the January 5 run off election for two U.S. Senate seats in Georgia, significant changes for absentee ballot signature verification and drop boxes put into place by Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and the State Election Board ahead of the November 3 presidential election without the state legislature’s approval are still in place. Local county registrars began mailing approved absentee ballots to voters for the January 5 run off elections more than three weeks ago on November 18, according to Georgia’s election calendar. Neither (1) the use of drop boxes for voters to...

Portland Fire and Rescue officials are looking to question a person seen in surveillance footage apparently setting fire to a local restaurant. The suspected arsonist acted after the restaurant owner criticized vandalism in the area committed by Antifa. On November 23, a suspected arsonist set fire to Reo’s Ribs located in Portland’s Hollywood District, Breitbart News reported. When firefighters arrived on the scene, they observed smoke pouring out of the rear of the building and flames both on the interior and exterior.

This is the prayer that Jesus prayed to His Father God, recorded in the Book of John, Chapters 13:1, 17:9-26, just before the Passover Festival and before He would lay down His life to save the world. Lord Jesus, as at this time we worship and praise You for coming into the world, we also highly lift up and magnify Your Holy Name, the Name Above All Names, for obediently becoming that Perfect, acceptable ultimate Sacrifice so that anyone who believes on You will be saved. Thank You!!!!!

The American media bid farewell to Donald Trump long before the official announcement of the results of the vote. According to journalists, Trump should go to his Florida estate in Mar-a-Lago, where he should stay "irrevocably." The United States have a new president through the work of the electoral college. As expected, many started talking about the electoral college being an anachronism inherited from the Founding Fathers. Tellingly, Hillary Clinton put her two cents in it too, who congratulated Joe Biden and Kamala Harris on victory. Political scientist Yevgeny Satanovsky said in an interview with Tsargrad, that the outcome of...

It’s hard to say the word “innovation” and not think of California. Technology has paced the state’s growth in everything from agriculture and oil to housing, entertainment, and aerospace. California has always been the harbinger of the American future, the promise of ever-greater economic and social progress. Yet increasingly, many of today’s innovators are fleeing the state. This past week, one half of the company arguably most symbolic of tech development in the state—Hewlett Packard Enterprises—one part of the now broken-up old Hewlett Packard and focused on lucrative areas like cloud computing and IT infrastructure—decided to leave for Houston. Within...

Freudian slip or does the Joe Biden era already feel a little old? A CNN reporter accidentally referred to the president-elect as “Joebama” during a live shot Tuesday, combining his name with that of the man he served as vice president and from whose administration much of his staff and cabinet picks are derived. “President-elect Joebama — uh, Joe Biden, rather — did finish speaking here just a short time ago,” said veteran journalist Jeff Zeleny, catching and correcting his own mistake.