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The War Is Not Over. And Never Will Be Until Only Legal Votes Are Counted.

Vice President-elect Kamala Harris posted a video on Twitter Tuesday thanking her supporters and promising that she and President-elect Joe Biden would confront the “four existential threats” facing the nation — coronavirus, the economic downturn caused by the pandemic, racial injustice and climate change.

A D.C. Council member’s car was stolen after she left it running while making a stop at a bakery in Northwest Thursday. News4’s Jackie Bensen reports. (Video at site)

The painter Hunter Biden, whose oeuvre I’m sure you’re familiar with, is reportedly getting ready to debut his artworks to the world. According to Page Six, Biden may soon be represented by the Georges Bergès Gallery in New York City, with a solo show planned for sometime next year.Oh, sorry, did you not know Hunter Biden does paintings? According to the New York Times, which profiled him earlier this year, his ink-blowing practice “is literally keeping [him] sane” these days. President-elect Joe Biden’s youngest son has a tumultuous history: His business dealings, particularly in China and Ukraine, have attracted scrutiny....

PHILADELPHIA -- Slice pizza shop in Philadelphia is putting a spin on the traditional 7 Fishes feast. And they are turning it into their latest pizza creation. South Philly welcomes Curiosity Doughnut popup The pizza has tuna, crab meat, anchovies, sardines, clams, shrimp, and mussels. While the 7 Fishes tradition takes place on Christmas Eve, the shop is offering this unique pizza all through December.

New text messages released Thursday show FBI officials spied on a Fox News executive over the course of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation that targeted President Donald Trump as a secret Russian agent who illegally stole the election from Hillary Clinton in 2016. The FBI surveilled and recorded a phone call between former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos and an unnamed vice president at Fox News, according to a text message sent to fired former FBI official Peter Strzok just weeks before Trump was inaugurated as president in 2017.Agents were targeting former Trump campaign foreign policy advisor George Papadopoulos,...

On Tuesday, the state government of Mecklenburg Pomerania passed the stricter Corona ordinance. From today, stricter rules will apply. Prime Minister Manuela Schwesig (SPD) said on Tuesday evening that there would be no New Year's Eve parties. Fireworks should not be lit in public spaces. The only exception is so-called children's fireworks.

Any retrospective analysis of lockdown policies—the effectiveness which is seriously disputed—must be weighed against the loss of life and human suffering they caused. In California and other parts of the country, Americans are headed back to lockdown or otherwise facing renewed restrictions on their day-to-day lives amid another spike of COVID-19. Yet a new Gallup poll shows these lockdowns come as people are already struggling with their mental health. “Americans' latest assessment of their mental health is worse than it has been at any point in the last two decades,” Gallup reports. The new polling found that 34 percent of...

Paris, the City of Lights, is apparently too woke for its own good. The city has been fined 90,000 euros because they over-diversified. The mayor, Anne Hidalgo, went a little overboard in this gender equality thing and hired a staff composed of 69 percent women. Unfortunately for her, there’s a law that says she can only have 60 percent of one gender in management positions. By “gender” we assume it still means either a man or a woman, so with fewer men serving in her office than required by law, she got slapped with a fine. A 2012 national decree...

Bezos, the richest man in the world, benefitted from pandemic conditions More than 4,000 warehouse workers at Amazon, the e-commerce giant founded by the world's richest man, depend on food stamps to make ends meet in nine states, according to new U.S. Government Accountability Office data this week. The report said 70% of food stamp recipients who work at the United States' second-largest employer and other chain retailers like Walmart work full time. Amazon -- whose workers are pictured smiling in ads to match the company's curved arrow logo -- markets its jobs to high school graduates, according to Bloomberg....

This is not the time for flights of spiritual fantasy. Either the charismatic prophets who declared unanimously that Donald Trump would be reelected to a second consecutive term were right or they were wrong. Either there is going to be some last minute, seemingly miraculous intervention that overturns the vote of the electoral college, or Trump will not serve a second consecutive term. There is no middle ground. There is no third option. There is no reality in which Trump actually did win but in fact didn’t win. Or in which he’s the president in God’s sight but not in...

Republicans have fired a legal salvo against lax absentee ballot procedures in Georgia as the GOP seeks to make sure that all legal votes are counted — and illegal ones are left out.The party has filed 3 lawsuits in federal court in advance of the January 5 Senate runoff elections, challenging signature verification procedures as well as the use of drop boxes to collect absentee ballots.The suits have been filed despite hundreds of thousands of votes already cast in early voting and mail-in ballots.Politico:The net result of the suits, which are backed by a combination of local, state and national...

---SNIP--- OnlyFans, a subscription service for pornography, now has an official Pennsylvania Health Department endorsement. In other recommendations, however, the health department sounds cautious about the physical consequences of random sex in a way the left has jeered and fought for decades. “If you usually meet your sex partners online,” says the PDH, “consider taking a break from in-person dates.” Instead, the health department is asking people to use “video dates, sexting, subscription-based fan platforms, or chat rooms.”

Identity politics seems to be sticking around. Important election results seemed to refute the notion that Americans vote for their ethnic or racial identity. Hispanic voters trended significantly toward the supposedly anti-Hispanic Donald Trump, and Californians, while voting 63% for Joe Biden, rejected racial quotas and preferences in a referendum by an even larger margin than in the 1990s. But Joe Biden, even as the Supreme Court rejected the last pro-Trump lawsuit and the Electoral College confirmed his 306-232 majority, seemed to be playing identity politics with his major appointments. "Identity-based groups," The New York Times is reporting, "continue to...

Twitter Screenshot (@HotepJesus)This is rather inexcusable. The University Medical Center in El Paso, Texas, decided to televise COVID-19 vaccines for staff members. I am sure the leaders’ intentions were good. Showing medical workers taking the vaccine helps to increase confidence in the process and may encourage those hesitant to receive it.However, if you watch this video of this vaccination, the syringe is clearly empty. The black plunger is fully depressed when the person administering it correctly pulls back on it. The vaccine is an intramuscular, or “IM,” injection. When you give someone an IM injection, you pull back slightly to...

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2020/10/23/how-the-president-could-invoke-martial-law/ Throughout 2020, America has faced a global pandemic, civil unrest after the death of George Floyd and a contentious election. As a result, an influx of fear about the possibility of the invocation of martial law or unchecked military intervention is circulating around the internet among scholars and civilians alike. “The fear is certainly understandable, because as I’m sure you know, martial law isn’t described or confined or limited, proscribed in any way by the Constitution or laws,” Bill Banks, a Syracuse professor with an expertise in constitutional and national security law, told Military Times. “If someone has declared...

.. "PRAISE THE LORD IN THIS MANNER". 1st CHRONICLES 1 6 New International Version, emphases added Abrdgd: the complete text is in your Bible . C L I C K : To read 1st CHRONICLES 16 in full To hear MAX McLEAN reading it To hear a DRAMATIZATION of it To see an ANIMATION of 1st Chronicles 1 0 1 1 B. C. . CHAPTER 16 7 That day David first appointed Asaph and his associates to give praise to the Lord in this manner: 8 Give praise to the Lord, . proclaim his name; . make known among the...

Although it’s seemingly good news that there’s a Wuhan virus vaccine available, not everyone is embracing it. After all, they’ve seen the medical establishment, from Fauci on down, make one mistake after another during this difficult year. Worse, many in the medical establishment are proving to be insane as only leftists can be. The latest example is the once prestigious and reliable New England Medical Journal, which published an article declaring biological sex irrelevant.In the latest issue of the NEMJ, two doctors and a lawyer have written that it’s time to do away with putting a newborn baby’s biological sex...

Jon Ossoff, a Democrat Georgia Senate candidate, believes federal immigration officials should provide workplace protections for illegal immigrants, which includes enforcement of a minimum wage. Ossoff made the argument at a campaign event over the weekend. The Democrat was asked by a woman taking advantage of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program what he would do to protect her and her family. “Dreamers, DACA recipients are every bit as American as any of us, and I will have your back in the U.S. Senate,” replied Ossoff. ... In a video posted to his timeline, Jon Ossoff then makes...

IMPORTANT FROM THE FEDERAL CAPITAL. Speech of Hon. Benjamin Wade, of Ohio, in the Senate. His Exposition of the Principles and Intentions of the Republican Party. PEACEABLE SECESSION AN IMPOSSIBILITY. More Conciliatory Propositions in the House. Probable Break-up of the Special Committee. The Secession Movement in South Carolina. MEETING OF THE STATE CONVENTION. Organization and Adjournment to Charleston. WASHINGTON, Monday, Dec. 17. The Senate was densely packed to-day to hear Mr. WADE, as it was supposed that he would speak in some degree for the incoming Administration. Not only were the immense galleries crowded, but all the lobbies and ante-rooms...