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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...

Pray For the Peace of JerusalemLambs, Sheep, and Shepherds.Isaiah 16:1-5 Send lambs as tribute to the ruler of the land, from Sela, across the desert, to the mount of Daughter Zion. 2 Like fluttering birds pushed from the nest, so are the women of Moab at the fords of the Arnon. 3 “Make up your mind,” Moab says. “Render a decision. Make your shadow like night— at high noon. Hide the fugitives, do not betray the refugees. 4 Let the Moabite fugitives stay with you; be their shelter from the destroyer.” The oppressor will come to an end, and destruction...

California governor hires Clinton mouthpiece Dee Dee Myers, previews Democrat platform for 2024. “He’s really smart. He’s a big and creative thinker, and I find that very energizing, to think about what’s possible.” That was Dee Dee Myers, upon her appointment as chief economic and business adviser to California Gov. Gavin Newsom. Myers is the author of Why Women Should Rule the World, but best known as press secretary for President Bill Clinton. Californians have reason to wonder about “creative thinker” as an accurate description of the governor. On the other hand for Myers, “what’s possible” is Gov. Newsom as...

Lawsuit represents second Pennsylvania educator who recently sued former employers alleging First Amendment retaliation It appears school district officials Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, have a bit of a problem with public school educators who share conservative views on their personal social media accounts. The College Fix recently noted the story of Principal Amy Sacks of the Perkiomen Valley School District who was fired for posting conservative memes on her Facebook account. Sacks is suing for First and Fourteenth Amendment violations, as well as for political retaliation. Now, just a few miles away in the neighboring North Penn School District, a longtime...

It was once said of a famously vulnerable Senate candidate that, with respect to the opposition research that could be used against her in a campaign, “there’s a haystack of needles.” In other words, there was a wealth of material. This appears to be the case as well with Raphael Warnock, the candidate around whom Democratic voters consolidated during the Nov. 3 special Senate election in Georgia. We have written previously on the problems Warnock faced due to his warm feelings for Fidel Castro and his anti-Israel, pro-terrorist radicalism. We have mentioned his warm embrace of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright...

Ceremonies honoring the Wright brothers’ first flight will be held today for the first time ever as a joint ceremony between Ohio and North Carolina. Dayton’s Orville and Wilbur Wright sent a telegram from Kitty Hawk, North Carolina Dec. 17, 1903, writing of their success that day. In celebration of First Flight, various events and programming Thursday will be broadcast via livestream throughout the day from Ohio’s National Aviation Heritage Area, Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park, Wright Patterson Air Force Base and North Carolina’s First Flight Society, First Flight Foundation, Wright Brothers National Memorial and Outer Banks Forever....

More than a dozen House Republicans reached out to President Trump to urge him to veto a $1.4 trillion omnibus spending bill being hammered out in Congress, slamming it as an example of “swamp politics,” according to a report. The letter, sent to the White House on Wednesday and obtained by Fox News, calls it a “take-it-or-leave-it bill, negotiated behind closed doors” that “expands government, spends at record levels well above 2011 base cap levels, and funds unnecessary or even harmful federal programs.” Negotiations on the omnibus bill are expected to continue Thursday as Congress faces a midnight Friday deadline...

The two Republican candidates for the Senate seats in Georgia need to file suit now in every court in Georgia and Federal. They need to file a separate law suit for every issue they can think of such as the 85,000 new registered voters when only voters from the general election are allowed to vote in the runoff. Or the use of drop boxes which are passed the 120 day allowed period. Also, the use of the Dominion Voting System which has been demonstrated to be totally unreliable. Regarding the new registered voters, they need to ask these voters not...

The FBI "asked me to facilitate a bribe for her" amounting to $18 million on behalf of foreign government, he says Overstock CEO Dr. Patrick Byrne claimed the had FBI approached him to bribe Hillary Clinton in 2016 as part of a covert sting operation on behalf of former President Obama. Byrne recently explained in a “SteelTruth” interview with Ann Vandersteel how the FBI recruited him to help them carry out their sting operation against Clinton. “I bribed Hillary Clinton with $18 million. I facilitated a bribe for Hillary Clinton on January 14th 2016 right here in this town on...

Well, that didn’t take long. A border crisis is brewing before President-elect Joe Biden takes office. Migrant caravans are forming in Honduras, where residents were hit with a pair of devastating hurricanes last month, adding to the economic hardship caused by COVID-19. Faced with ruin, many Hondurans have ­decided to defy local travel bans and head north. “People are no longer scared of the coronavirus,” one caravan ­organizer told Bloomberg. “They’re going hungry, they’ve lost everything, and some towns are still flooded.” The organizer added that migrants are savvy about shifts in US border policy: “When there is a change...

"To which of the angels has He ever said, 'Sit at My right hand, until I make Thine enemies a footstool for Thy feet'? Are they not all ministering spirits, sent out to render service for the sake of those who will inherit salvation?" (Heb. 1:13-14). The destiny of Jesus Christ is that ultimately everything in the universe will be subject to Him. "At the name of Jesus every knee [will] bow, of those who are in heaven, and on earth, and under the earth" (Phil. 2:10). That great promise confirms that Jesus Christ is destined to be the ruler...

“But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus” (Ephesians 2:4-6). As Christians, we believe in the resurrection of Jesus Christ. It is resurrection love when God’s Spirit goes into the streets and reaches the destitute sinner, changing him. Today many people are living on the streets — some are homeless, some addicts, some prostitutes —...

Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf has described 2020 as a "terrible" year and says the national coronavirus strategy has failed. ... "I think we have failed. We have a large number who have died and that is terrible," the king says in the programme. "The people of Sweden have suffered tremendously in difficult conditions. One thinks of all the family members who have happened to be unable to say goodbye to their deceased family members. I think it is a tough and traumatic experience not to be able to say a warm goodbye." When asked if he was afraid of...

On July 6, 1854 the first meeting of the new Republican Party took place in Ripon, Wisconsin. Ten thousand people turned out. The party’s inaugural organizing convention was on February 22, 1856. Within four years of that date it would successfully run Abraham Lincoln for President and gain the White House. America in the 1850’s was a nation torn apart by a single issue, slavery. A low-level guerilla war over the issue was ongoing in Kansas and Missouri. Abolitionists like John Brown were advocating arming slaves in the South and igniting a race war. The two major parties of the...

You can tell someone is smarting from an inferiority complex when he insists on being addressed as “Dr.” on the basis of holding an academic doctorate rather than being a physician. Ph.D. holders who have genuine accomplishments don’t make you call them “Doctor,” which is why you never hear about “Dr. Paul Krugman” and “Dr. George Will.” None of the professors I knew at Yale, even the ones who were eminent in their fields, insisted on the title, and I think most of them would have scoffed if someone had addressed them as “Dr.” The only reason you ever hear...

GUADALUPE CANYON, Ariz. - Work crews ignite dynamite blasts in the remote and rugged southeast corner of Arizona, forever reshaping the landscape as they pulverize mountaintops in a rush to build more of President Donald Trump’s border wall before his term ends next month. Each blast in Guadalupe Canyon releases puffs of dust as workers level land to make way for 30-foot-tall (9-meter-tall) steel columns near the New Mexico line. Heavy machines crawl over roads gouged into rocky slopes while one tap-tap-taps open holes for posts on U.S. Bureau of Land Management property. Trump has expedited border wall construction in...

William Safire December 17, 1929 – September 27, 2009)[2] was an American author, columnist, journalist, and presidential speechwriter. He was perhaps best known as a long-time syndicated political columnist for the New York Times and the author of "On Language" in the New York Times Magazine, a column on popular etymology, new or unusual usages, and other language-related topics from its inception. After Safire wrote a column in which he insulted a first lady, a White House aide remarked that if the president were not the president, he would have responded in what way?

Twitter has declared that it will remove all posts that suggest there are any “adverse impacts or effects of receiving vaccinations,” despite reports already emerging of health workers getting sick from taking Pfizer’s coronavirus shot. Twitter announced that beginning next week it will memory-hole any posts that “invoke a deliberate conspiracy” or “advance harmful, false, or misleading narratives” about vaccines. “Using a combination of technology and human review, we will begin enforcing this updated policy on December 21, and expanding our actions during the following weeks,” the company proclaimed. Twitter added that it will be monitoring posts about vaccinations “in...

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said Wednesday that the US economy urgently needs more relief from Congress as COVID-19 cases surge. Democratic and Republican leaders are wrangling over details for stimulus legislation ahead of a Friday government funding deadline. “The case for fiscal policy right now is very, very strong and I think that’s widely understood,” Powell said following a Federal Reserve meeting, the New York Times reports.

Can a supreme court justice be removed? The Constitution states that Justices "shall hold their Offices during good Behaviour." This means that the Justices hold office as long as they choose and can only be removed from office by impeachment. How many votes does it take to impeach a Supreme Court justice? If a majority of the members of the United States House of Representatives vote to impeach, the impeachment is referred to the United States Senate for trial. A conviction requires a two-thirds vote in the Senate.