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“The self-respecting small home owners and shop owners are the unprotected and undefended victims of every race riot.” -Ayn Rand If there is one word that will eventually come to describe the summer of 2020, it will be “riots.” We have seen the violent, riotous instincts of Democrats on full display as Antifa thugs attack conservatives and BLM Marxists smash shop windows and loot the contents of every business they come across. Both conservatives and liberals have been all over the media talking about these riots. Conservatives insist that the so-called “peaceful protesters” are really violent mobs of looters and...

President-elect Joe Biden’s transition team appeared to delete an old campaign ad that criticized Pete Buttigieg for his lack of experience — after the former Indiana mayor was nominated to serve as transportation secretary, according to a report. The ad ran in February before the New Hampshire primary election and contrasted Biden’s long career as a senator and as vice president in the Obama administration with Buttigieg’s time as mayor of South Bend, Ind. — a city of 100,000, Fox News reported.

NPR was roasted on social media Wednesday after fawning over Pete Buttigieg, President-elect Joe Biden's pick for transportation secretary, after famously refusing to cover the Hunter Biden scandal. "Pete Buttigieg, President-elect Biden's pick for transportation secretary, said he has ‘a personal love of transportation,’ recounting train trips on Amtrak while in college, and said he proposed to his now-husband, Chasten, in an airport terminal," NPR Politics sent from its verified account.

(NASA, ESA, STScI, M.H. Wong/UC Berkeley, and L.A. Sromovsky & P.M. Fry/University of Wisconsin-Madison) Jupiter may have the most famous storm in the Solar System, but that doesn't mean it gets all the fun - and Neptune has just presented scientists with a doozy. Although storm vortices aren't unusual on the distant ice giant, this is the first time one has been observed turning back towards the polar region after migrating towards the equator. Astronomers still aren't sure how, or why, it managed to change course, but figuring it out could tell us more about Neptune's atmospheric dynamics. Neptune is...

The media has normalized an anti-religious bigotry that threatens to remove faithful Christians, be they Catholic or anything else, from public service.In a series of articles by its editorial board, media columnist Margaret Sullivan, and former Voice of America Director Amanda Bennett, the Washington Post has mounted a coordinated attack on Robert R. Reilly, the new nominee for VOA director, claiming he is an existential threat to the organization’s mission to provide independent reporting to foreign audiences.The reason they deem Reilly disqualified to serve as VOA director isn’t about a lack of credentials. He was director from 2001 to 2002...

Ever since ACB joined the Supreme Court, there's been a dramatic reversal of the treatment of religious worship in the coronavirus era. Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn v. New York was the first real pushback, but the SCOTUS majority is using it to carve out more territory for religious freedom in two cases, one involving the High Plains Harvest Church in Colorado, and the other involving a Catholic church and Orthodox synagogue in New Jersey. The Colorado case is interesting because one of the arguments involved the different treatment accorded to Black Lives Matter riots. In addition to these...

Today’s Scripture: Romans 8:13 “If by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.” We have died not only to sin’s guilt but also to its reigning power in our lives. Although sin as an active principle is still with us, it can no longer reign supreme in our lives. We’re united to Christ, and his Spirit has come to reside in us. We’ve been delivered from Satan’s power and given a new heart (Ezekiel 36:26; Acts 26:18). However, as believers we experience a tension that’s like a tug-of-war. Paul described it in Galatians...

The government will help farmers mitigate climate change by paying them to “put their land in conservation” and plant cover crops, said President-elect Biden, providing some details on his campaign call to offset greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture. The sector accounts for roughly 10% of emissions nationwide.

Stop the modern-day carpetbaggers! The fate of our Nation rests upon a knife-edge. The DemocRATs retain control of the House and will likely take over the Presidency unless by some miracle the fraud is unwound. Control of the Senate now rests with the runoff election in Georgia. If the DemocRATs manage to get a Senate majority, it is game over. You have seen the calls in the press for DemocRAT voters to flock to Georgia in order to steal the Senate races in that state. “New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman and a Democrat activist urged party members to move...

this is a hypothetical scenario, about how a civil war might start, which has been lurking in the back of my mind lately. i do not think it is the worst case scenario but it is still very scary and so of course i hope none of it happens. however by way of illustration i include some financial details along with the larger context of a situation which imho could in theory unravel relatively quickly-- basically before most people and institutions can react to protect their investments. now through jan. 17th - trump continues to test the boundaries, but gains...

For cultured meat—which has gone by many names including lab-grown meat, clean meat, or slaughter-free meat—the question has not been “if” but “when.” The development of growing animal cells into edible meat has continued, only the timeline was uncertain. Back in 2016, an Israeli company called SuperMeat even took a guess, suggesting their lab-grown chicken would be available by July 2021. Turns out they weren’t far off, but they also weren’t the first ones to get there. This weekend, Eat Just—which until recently was best known for its plant-based Just Egg—will become the first company in the world to have...

Fact checks on the United States' COVID vaccine timeline expose how outlets like NBC, The New York Times, and The Washington Post are willing to attack American aspirations to score political points.Long gone are the days of Snopes assuring readers there isn’t a million dollars waiting in a Nigerian bank account for them. Distant are the happier times when fact-checks assured us there was no hook-handed hitchhiker killing our grandparents on the local highway. Today, we see an alliance between corporate media and corporate tech titans to squelch debate, silence conservatives, and literally censor regular Americans, dissenting scientists, newspaper competitors,...

This is a time that could create heroes. The last bulwark against this travesty is congress. The Supreme court has totally abdicated it's duty, and Robert's name in the literature that follows such proceedings will treat him as a nonentity, or worse. Congress must act to reverse the election! Members of Congress who stand against this travesty will be heroes. Their names will be remembered, and they will deserve our support forever.

U.S. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) blocked a bill that would prevent data brokers from selling or otherwise trading in the personal identifying information of federal judges spurred by the attempted assassination of U.S. District Court Judge Esther Salas. Rand sought to amend the bill — dubbed Daniel Anderl Judicial Security and Privacy Act after Salas’s son, who was slain during the attack — to include similar protections for members of Congress. Mark Anderl, Salas’s husband, was wounded in the attack but has since recovered. “I really think that this is important that we protect addresses for our judges, but it’s...

On the heels of her buddy Steve Schmidt joining the Democrat party, Nicolle Wallace apparently decided today to expose the depths of her seething disdain for conservatives. On her MSNBC show Wednesday afternoon, Wallace alluded to Amy Coney Barrett as a "real right-wing lunatic."Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

Alabama: Red velvet cake Alaska: M&Ms Arizona: Hot chocolate Arkansas: Cheesecake California: Peppermint chocolate chip cookies Colorado: Gingerbread cake Connecticut: Cheesecake Delaware: Chocolate chip cookies Florida: Cheesecake Georgia: Red velvet pound cake Hawaii: Oreo cheesecake Idaho: Candy canes Illinois: Chocolate Santas Indiana: Pudding Iowa: Oreo balls Kansas: Cinnamon rolls Kentucky: Pudding Louisiana: Pudding Maine: Chocolate truffles Maryland: Gingerbread cake Massachusetts: Christmas trifle Michigan: Cheesecake Minnesota: Peppermint kiss cookies Mississippi: Red velvet cake Missouri: Vegan Christmas cookies Montana: Yule log cake Nebraska: York Peppermint Patties Nevada: Cheesecake New Hampshire: Gingerbread men New Jersey: Chocolate Santas New Mexico: Cheesecake New York: Cheesecake...

Executive Summary This report assesses the fairness and integrity of the 2020 Presidential Election by examining six dimensions of alleged election irregularities across six key battleground states. Evidence used to conduct this assessment includes more than 50 lawsuits and judicial rulings, thousands of affidavits and declarations,1 testimony in a variety of state venues, published analyses by think tanks and legal centers, videos and photos, public comments, and extensive press coverage. The matrix below indicates that significant irregularities occurred across all six battleground states and across all six dimensions of election irregularities. This finding lends credence to the claim that the...

The Trump administration has relaxed a regulation restricting water flow from showerheads, a pet peeve of President Donald Trump, who complained that he wanted more water to make his hair “perfect.” Since 1992, federal law has dictated that showerheads shouldn’t spew more than 2.5 gallons (9.5 liters) of water a minute. As newer shower fixtures came out with multiple nozzles, the Obama administration updated the ruling, stating that 2.5 gallons was still the limit regardless of how many nozzles were running. The new ruling, issued on Tuesday, now says each showerhead can emit 2.5 gallons a minute. “So showerheads -...

In this satirical compilation, Paul Watson illustrates the extent to which society has surrendered their minds and wills to mass conformity without resistance to the point of mass madness. Don't miss it!

Vice president-elect Kamala Harris sat down for her first solo interview since the election. Harris, California’s junior senator since 2017, will be the first woman to ascend to the vice presidency. “I feel a very big sense of responsibility,” Harris said. “As I said recently, that I will be the first, but I will not be the last. I was raised by a mother who said that to me all the time. ‘Kamala, you may be the first to do many things. Make sure you are not the last.” Harris’ husband, entertainment attorney Doug Emhoff, will also be the first...