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I believe tomorrow is day 45. Will POTUS act on his EO?

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said the Democrat Party needs new leadership — a remark which comes after two years of rumors infighting among establishment Democrats and far-left progressives in the caucus as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) continue to hold a grip on ultimate direction of the party. Ocasio-Cortez made the observation during a Wednesday interview with The Intercept’s Jeremy Scahill as they discussed a variety of issues — from President-elect Joe Biden’s “corporate revolving door” transition team to the prospect of shifts in Democrat Party leadership.

The article, “The Separation: A Proposal for a Renewed America,” was apparently written under the pseudonym “Rebecca,” which the author indicates was taken from a series of letters written by Abraham Lincoln using the same pseudonym. The author surely knows that Lincoln was challenged to a duel by James Shields, the sitting senator from Illinois, as a result of the “Rebecca letters.” Lincoln accepted the challenge—he chose broadswords as the weapons, and actually took instructions from a military officer in preparation. Shields was an experienced Army man in his own right, considered an expert with the broadsword. But Lincoln designed...

French Laundry, an upscale restaurant in Napa, California, where Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom was caught violating his own coronavirus lockdown rules, got more than $2.4 million in loans from the Small Business Administration’s Paycheck Protection Program. The loans were reportedly used to retain the restaurant’s 160 employees

Fox News said it extended primetime host Laura Ingraham’s contract with the network, ensuring her 10 p.m. program, “The Ingraham Angle,” will remain in its lineup for the foreseeable future. Fox News characterized the new pact as a “multi-year deal.” Ingraham joined Fox News Channel full-time in October of 2017 after establishing herself with a long-running radio program. She previously served as a contributor to Fox News starting in 2007. “Laura’s one-of-a-kind expertise and powerful commentary has provided an important voice to millions of Americans as a staple of our primetime lineup and we are thrilled to feature her insightful...

Neighbors of Donald Trump’s infamous Mar-a-Lago golf club in Palm Beach, Florida are warning the president that he cannot live at the club after he leaves the White House, following an agreement he made with the town in 1993. In a letter to the town of Palm Beach and the US Secret Service sent this week, a lawyer representing a family that lives next to Mar-a-Lago reiterated that “Mar-a-Lago is a social club, and no one may reside on the property.” “To avoid an embarrassing situation for everyone and to give the president time to make other living arrangements in...

Insanity Wrap needs to know: What do you call someone who votes to #DefundThePolice but then dials 911 to report a crime that they want to legalize?Answer: You call her Lisa Herbold, and of course she has a seat on the Seattle City Council.Before we get to the sordid details, a quick preview of today’s Wrap.- Steve Schmidt, practicing Democrat, is more wrong than you’ll ever know - Now it’s disgraced former congresscritter Katie Hill demanding “you f-kers” show more unity - Paris government hires too many women, gets fined

The global spread of the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic sent international fossil fuel futures to record lows by March of this year. The virus also amplified tensions between Saudi Arabia and Russia over production cuts. With the two producers unable to reach an agreement, petroleum prices went into a tailspin. The crude oil downturn has created collateral damage from the United States through Latin America onwards into the Middle East. Some accounts noted that China appears to be the biggest winner of the price war. However, this does not fully explain why China is succeeding in manipulating global fossil fuel markets...

Former Vice President Joe Biden is opening doors to the world’s migrants and is promising to temporarily halt deportations and eliminate President Donald Trump’s reforms at the United States-Mexico border. In a press call this week, Acting Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Mark Morgan suggested that Biden’s rhetoric — where he has promised an amnesty for illegal aliens and to dismantle Trump’s legal wall — is contributing to illegal immigration at the southern border. Axios’s Stef Kight said, “cartels and human smugglers are fueling perceptions that our borders will once again be wide open, and that we will be reinstating...

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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