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Senator-Elect Kelly Townsend and 28 other Republican legislators have already made their voices heard. Will others join in before it's too late? In 1960, two slates of electors were chosen. One was for the apparent winner of the state, Richard Nixon. The alternate elector slate was for John F. Kennedy. When the dust settled after legal battles and a contentious recount, it was the alternate electors who ultimately were selected to bring their votes before Congress. With seven states sending alternate elector slates this year, we may see a similar situation unfold. To do that, state legislators need to act....

Revisiting heroes and villains: Who am I to say what’s true or not true? Who therefore is guilty or innocent? Take the case of Julian Assange:The left loved him when he was leaking stuff that made Bush look bad, but when he leaked stuff making Hillary look compromised be became a tool of Putin and Trump. So when a whistleblower provided an audio tape to Project Veritas, warning the U.S. government of the damaging information a rogue former Wikileaks employee was about to release, well, who knows what to believe. It could all be completely true, completely fabricated or something...

When it comes to stocking stuffers, one product hits a perfect harmony: the PEZ dispenser. Part character, part candy, and all collectible, the trinket has delighted kids and collectors around the world for decades. And yet when Austrian confectioner Eduard Haas III invented PEZ, he set out to corner an entirely different market. By the 1920s, Haas already owned a successful baking goods business in Austria that he’d inherited from his father. Eduard Haas II founded the Ed. Haas Company in 1894 to sell the baking powder invented by his father, Eduard Haas I, and other ingredients. Eduard Haas III...

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange: “We have intelligence that the State Department Database Archive of 250,000 diplomatic cables…is being spread around and…within the next few days it will become public.” Assange: There is time “in case there are any individuals who haven't been warned that they should be warned.” Assange to State Department: Rogue former employee Daniel Domscheit-Berg intends to release classified State Department cables without redactions or other precautions. James O’Keefe: “There is an integrity to Assange’s conduct that cannot be denied, whether you welcomed his releases or not.” [WESTCHESTER COUNTY, N.Y.—Dec. 16, 2020] Project Veritas released today an exclusive...

Hunter Biden, President-elect Joe Biden's son, is undergoing a tax investigation by the U.S. Attorney's Office in Delaware concerning Hunter's lucrative work with Burisma, the Ukrainian gas company on whose board Hunter sat, despite a lack of energy experience and the ability to speak Russian or Ukrainian. The Media Research Center claims eight news stories, ignored or downplayed by the mainstream media, could have changed the election in favor of President Donald Trump. Over 80% of Joe Biden voters, according to the MRC, were unaware of at least one or more of the eight stories, and "36 percent of Biden...

Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo, a Democrat, issued lockdown orders to the state’s residents and posted a tweet on December 7. She told everyone to stay home and if they do go out, to wear a mask. She relayed the usual kind of we’re-all-in-this-together rhetoric in the post. It’s week two of our pause. I know it's been hard, but I want to thank every Rhode Islander who's following our guidance. Please, stay home except for essential activities & wear a mask anytime you’re with people you don’t live with. Together, we can turn our case numbers around. — Gina...

December 9, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – A doctor told CNN that nobody should be “surprised” to see reports of “multiple people dying” at long-term care facilities a day or two after having received the COVID vaccination. Dr. Kelly Moore, associate director of the Immunization Action Coalition, told CNN last week that the COVID-19 vaccines have not been tested on the “frail elderly.” "Since they haven't been studied in people in those populations, we don't know how well the vaccine will work for them. We know that most vaccines don't work nearly as well in a frail elderly person as they would...

SAN FERNANDO, Mexico — Miriam Rodríguez clutched a pistol in her purse as she ran past the morning crowds on the bridge to Texas. She stopped every few minutes to catch her breath and study the photo of her next target: the florist. She had been hunting him for a year, stalking him online, interrogating the criminals he worked with, even befriending unwitting relatives for tips on his whereabouts. Now she finally had one — a widow called to tell her that he was peddling flowers on the border. Ever since 2014, she had been tracking the people responsible for...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has come so close to firing FBI Director Christopher Wray in recent months that the White House counsel’s office has warned him not to do so because it could put him in potential legal jeopardy, according to a senior administration official with direct knowledge of the discussion and a U.S. official familiar with the discussion. White House lawyers “strongly” advised Trump against firing another FBI director out of concern that doing so would risk creating the perception that a “loyalty test” was being imposed on a position that traditionally has maintained independence from the White...

French President Emmanuel Macron has tested positive for the coronavirus and will self-isolate for the next week, the presidential Elysee Palace announced Thursday. “The President of the Republic has been diagnosed positive for COVID-19 today,” his office said in a statement. “This diagnosis was made following a PCR test performed at the onset of the first symptoms.” Macron “will continue to work and take care of his activities at a distance,” the statement added.

It’s just the flu, bro. Covidiot news: https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3916081/posts Don’t travel or stop wearing masks even after getting vaccine. - https://news.yahoo.com/fauci-wont-seeing-kids-christmas-164100641.html Fauci says you shouldn’t see your kids over Christmas. - https://www.news.com.au/national/victoria/news/coronavirus-vaccine-how-long-immunity-lasts-multiple-jabs-likely-required/news-story/4492058ffb53d77fa02a72c4b986e5fe Multiple vaccine injections needed. - You can pay close attention to Covidiot news that I posted. Or you can fight for freedom and liberty and do whatever you want. Just remember that it is never selfish for Americans to fight for freedom. Do people call George Washington selfish?

On 11 December, 2020, the Supreme Court of the United States refused to hear the case Texas v. Pennsylvania. The court cited "lack of standing" as the reason. The vote has been reported to be 7-2 with Justice Thomas and Justice Alito dissenting. From the Supreme Court Website: The State of Texas’s motion for leave to file a bill of complaint is denied for lack of standing under Article III of the Constitution. Texas has not demonstrated a judicially cognizable interest in the manner in which another State conducts its elections. All other pending motions are dismissed as moot. Statement...

Protesters armed with paintball guns blocking a stretch of road in Portland after authorities planned to force out a family who lost their property to foreclosure have now allowed traffic to pass as part of a deal with the city. There were growing signs that the six-day, three-block long ‘occupation’ of the Red House in Portland was coming to an end even as it was learned that the Kinney family, who had owned the property for more than 60 years, had not paid their mortgage in years. The family claimed in court that they were no longer bound by the...

The NFL is discussing TV rights deals with its partners that could be for 10 years and far exceed $100 billion in total value, The Post has learned.Sources said the league and its current partners are working on frameworks for agreements that would keep the Sunday afternoon games on CBS and Fox, “Monday Night Football” on ESPN/ABC and “Sunday Night Football” on NBC. ESPN/ABC is expected to add Super Bowls when all is said and done.The deals are not completed and the NFL could change course, but this is where it is trending, according to sources. The NFL is the...

Before we flip the calendar the nation is beginning to see the delivery of the first batches of the vaccines to battle the coronavirus pandemic. In media circles this is not being regarded as the great news most would have expected. Despite calls in the press on the need to have a vaccine this development has led to rather subdued, and basically contrarian responses. The reasons are both rather clear, and completely disturbing.Over the weekend on CNN’s State Of The Union Bill Gates sat in with host Jake Tapper to discuss the future of this country regarding the pandemic. Gates...

And there's a reason they can't stop lying about it. The media and Democrats' playbook is always the same. Their radical big-government policies are not popular, so they hide the truth about them from the public. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were essentially kept in the basement while the media and other Democrats repeatedly attacked Trump. While Twitter and Facebook executives were helping and contributing to Biden, they were censoring Trump and his supporters, while burying negative stories on Biden. They never censored Biden, no matter how much he lied. Currently, Biden and Obama are telling their supporters to shut...

Hi folks, I extend to you good wishes from my dialysis chair. I have questions about those classic designed double edge safety razors. Who owns one? Which one do you have? Which company's blades work best for you?Do you have "a collection"? Lastly, are you one of those that have "a shave den"? I figured I would put this topic forward, as a diversion from all the craziness of today. Oh yes, you may include the other parts of "the shaving experience", i.e., brushes, creams, soaps, oils, bowls, mugs, scuttles.

According to an “intel source,” all your suspicions about the election were correct. Every one of us who voted for Trump believes that the only reason Biden appeared to walk away with more votes was because of massive election fraud. On Tuesday, during her morning show, Maria Bartiromo dropped what must be, in this crazy year, the mother of all bombshells. According to Bartiromo, an intel source told her that Trump won the election. It’s now up to the Supreme Court, said the source, to stop the clock from running so that the proper election result can be implemented, returning...

Mail and parcel delivery during the holiday season is taxing U.S. carriers, according to data. An estimated six million packages are being left stranded daily as they await pickup, according to ShipMatrix, a software company that helps retailers and others track shipments. Another 2.5 million packages are being picked up but not being delivered on time. CBS News.com reported FedEx, UPS, Amazon, U.S. Postal Service, and other shippers are all being slammed by the demand, heightened by on-line consumer activity during the COVID-19 pandemic. "Our entire industry is underwater because of the demand," said Satish Jindel, president of ShipMatrix, who...

The Chilean coup of 1973 offers hard lessons that many will not accept because these lessons do not appeal to superficial norms of fairness and tolerance. Almost nobody is more reviled by the international intelligentsia and media than the late Augusto Pinochet, the late 20th -century Chilean dictator. He holds a prominent position in the political left’s “rogues’ gallery” comprised of those who stood in opposition to their goals. His supposed “crimes” included conducting a military coup to illegitimately grab control of the Chilean government from a popularly elected president, rounding up and torturing huge numbers of innocent citizens (killing...