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After about eight months of gridlock, Democrats and Republicans in Congress are nearing a deal on more COVID-19 stimulus checks, small-business loans and unemployment insurance aid. The final details of the relief package are being haggled over ahead of a government funding deadline at midnight Friday, but negotiators have shared the broad outlines with reporters. The deal is expected to include direct checks of either $600 or $700 for most Americans, a $300 weekly unemployment supplement and a large amount of forgivable small-business loans.

A group of House Republicans called on Nancy Pelosi to remove Rep. Eric Swalwell from the House Intelligence Committee following a report he was targeted by a suspected Chinese spy in a years-long political intelligence operation. The letter said: "Because of Rep. Swalwell’s position on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, his close interactions with Chinese intelligence services are an unacceptable national security risk. HPSCI handles some of the most sensitive information our government possesses — information critical to our national defense. As such, we urge you to immediately remove Rep. Swalwell from his position on the House Intelligence...

Minneapolis residents, like the droves of fleeing Californians, refuse to learn from experience. They vote for fools, get foolish policies, and act surprised when their voting habits produce utter garbage. An article from December 1st in the Minneapolis Star Tribune ran a headline declaring that a “Staggering” surge in violent carjackings continues across Minneapolis. This was entirely predictable and avoidable, but residents quoted in the piece wanted to support the police reform efforts after the George Floyd overdose. Well, they are living through police reform and don’t like it. This is further proof that however long the phrase “they want...

Key Points Doses of Pfizer’s vaccine were quarantined in California and Alabama after an “anomaly” in the transportation process caused the storage temperature to get too cold. Army Gen. Gustave Perna, who oversees logistics for Operation Warp Speed, said the doses “never left the truck.” Pfizer’s vaccine, which was developed with German drugmaker BioNTech, requires a storage temperature of around minus 70 degrees Celsius. ================================================================== watch now VIDEO03:33 New report shows label confusion led to wasted doses of Pfizer vaccine U.S. officials said Wednesday they quarantined several thousand doses of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine in California and Alabama this week after...

Peter Navaro, the Assistant to the President, Director of Trade and Manufacturing Policy, and the national Defense Production Act policy coordinator, just released a report on the 2020 election. ...... Snip...... In the report, Peter Navarro, also a White House Trade Adviser, outlines a “coordinated strategy to effectively stack the election deck against the Trump-Pence ticket” occurring in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) believes that there needs to be new leadership in the Democratic Party and has launched direct attacks at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.). The progressive firebrand argued that Democrats failed to develop a succession plan for the “next generation” of lawmakers after Pelosi, Schumer and other leaders in the party step down. “I do think that we need new leadership in the Democratic Party,” Ocasio-Cortez told The Intercept in an interview published Wednesday. “I think one of the things that I have struggled with—I think that a lot of...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said Thursday he has “no doubt” a Joe Biden administration will rejoin the 2015 nuclear deal negotiated by Barack Obama and remove sanctions on Iran’s economy while embracing appeasement across the Middle East. His assertion followed Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei who also backed the swift resumption of Iran’s commitments under the deal if it would finish U.S. sanctions, as Breitbart News reported. “I have no doubt that the heroic national resistance of Iran is going to compel the future U.S. government to bow … and the sanctions will be broken,” Rouhani said Thursday. The Washington Post...

Southern New Hampshire University will offer different tuition levels for its on-campus undergraduate programs next year that will be at least 50% less than its current rate.The offerings include $10,000- and $15,000-a-year options, compared to its current $31,000 cost, the college announced Wednesday.The college first announced its goal to offer $10,000 tuition options in April but hadn’t determined how campus academic programs would look starting in the fall of 2021.“We increasingly recognized that too many people were struggling with the cost of traditional residential higher Ed, and we feared students would be increasingly unable to attend or that they were...

A health worker in Alaska had a serious allergic reaction after getting Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine on Tuesday and was hospitalized, according to three people familiar with official reports of the person’s health. The person was still in the hospital on Wednesday morning, under observation.Government officials were scrambling on Wednesday to learn more about the case. The worker had no history of drug allergies but it was unclear whether he or she suffered from other types of allergies, according to one person familiar with the case.

I heard about a political cartoon on the radio this morning that I am trying to find --- unsuccessfully so far. It is Trump holding a weeping Statue of Liberty, and the caption reads something like 'I tried but I was only one man.' Anyone know where I can find this --- I want to share it far and wide. Thanks!!!

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The Jefferson fiasco underscores how activist school leaders and alumni, from California to Massachusetts, are conspiring to recklessly overhaul school policies, education standards, and curriculum this year.FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va. – After a crusade by educational arsonists targeting the nation’s No. 1 high school, America’s meritocracy is about to go up in flames. The Fairfax County School Board is set to vote Thursday night to gut the race-blind, merit-based admissions testing process at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology. T.J. is a state-chartered magnet school legislated to serve academically gifted and advanced students. The school board plans to replace...

The forensic report that revealed problematic issues with the voting machines used in the presidential election was yet another story that the establishment media would rather you didn’t hear. Despite the revelation of potentially severe flaws in the software created by Dominion Voting Systems, corporate media outlets opted to ignore the story. This begged the obvious question: What were they afraid of?Article originally published at Liberty Nation.Forensic Report Uncovers Problems With Dominion MachinesAllied Security Operations Group’s (ASOG) forensic team examined the machines used to tally votes in Antrim County, MI after it was discovered that 6,000 votes had been switched...

During the last 41 years, the regime of the Islamic Republic of Iran has led Iranians and the peoples of other nations in the region to war, destruction, poverty, and unemployment, such that the Iranians’ livelihood is now diminishing at a very fast rate. Negative economic growth, staggering liquidity growth, rising inflation, the rial’s devaluation, rising unemployment, closure of production units, water scarcity, environmental degradation, forest fires, government corruption, embezzlement, looting, and plundering of the nation’s wealth has caused the destruction and shattering of people’s lives. The people in the Middle East region also must face hardship every day from...

Very few people in Big Eva love the spotlight as much as Beth Moore. She loves making vague statements leveling unsubstantiated accusations against the church. After several months of soothing the conscience of Joe Biden voters, Big Eva is circling the wagons to rally against the biggest threat to Christianity in America, “Christian Nationalism.” Erick Erickson and David “Vichy” French have both chimed in their support of an absolute heretic, while claiming Christ, because Trump Derangement Syndrome is a very ecumenical cult.Fill in the blank. The greatest threat to the church in America is _________. Marxism, the scamdemic, effeminacy, lukewarmness,...

A prominent Black Lives Matter leader has been arrested on assault and battery charges after he was filmed punching an 80-year-old woman in the face. 32-year-old leftist Ernst Jean-Jacques Jr. is accused of attacking the elderly woman while she was rallying for President Donald Trump in Swampscott, Massachusetts, on Saturday.

The most important reason that changing the roster of states would probably not affect politics that much is that our states and congressional districts are mostly “rotten boroughs,” to use the old British parliamentary phrase. In theory senators represent the citizens of their states and members of the House represent the people of their congressional districts. In practice they represent individual and corporate donors and political allies and future employers, who may live anywhere in the United States—or in some cases abroad. Joe Biden was the senator from the credit card industry, based in Delaware. The donors to American politicians...

The MFM suppressed a whole lot of things prior to the election and some of them (Hunter Biden being owned by China) would certainly have altered the outcome. But there are many more things we now learn belatedly. For instance; Hydroxychloroquine does work on COVID REPORT: @realDonaldTrump WAS RIGHT ALL ALONG!#AmericanMedicalAssociation QUIETLY REVERSED Position On #Hydroxychloroquine In LATE Oct. They RESCINDED THEIR REQUEST THAT DOCTORS STOP PRESCRIBING #HCQ! Now Admit Benefits FAR OUTWEIGH The Extremely Low Risk! https://t.co/IvaJzShl5e pic.twitter.com/uFKOln8zDF— John Basham 🇺🇲 (@JohnBasham) December 16, 2020Were you wondering where the regular seasonal flu went? It went here Adam, did you...

Now that it appears as if Joe Biden will be assisted into the Oval Office, Democrats and their allies are looking to exact revenge on President Donald Trump and anyone who fought for him. That’s the only way to explain the City of Detroit’s complaint to a federal judge this week against former federal prosecutor Sidney Powell. The Democrat-controlled city is apparently not happy with Powell after she filed one of her infamous “Kraken” lawsuits against the city alleging massive and election irregularities. Law&Crime has more: The City of Detroit wants Sidney Powell and her self-styled “Kraken” team to face...

By refusing to hear the Texas case against allowing Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Georgia to ignore the Constitutional requirement that only state legislatures control federal election laws, the supreme court (I used lower case intentionally) has ruled the Constitution dead and meaningless as it pertains to elections. This means that none of us has to respect the intended meaning of "January 2oth". The court says there is no longer a need to assume that law exist in this country or whatever it is without a government interested in anything other than enslaving us.I would like to suggest to President Trump...