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In a 16 page draft copy of proposed rulemaking/guidance specifying “Objective Factors for Classifying Stablizing Braces”, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) has proposed entering into rulemaking to delineate the objective factors considered when “evaluating firearms with an attached stabilizing brace to determine whether they are considered firearms under the National Firearms Act (‘NFA’) and/or the Gun Control Act (‘GCA)” and the Department of Justice’s plan to “subsequently implement a separate process for current possessors of stabilizer-equipped firearms to choose to register such firearms in compliance with the NFA.”While the proposed rulemaking/guidance has not yet been published...

I know I’m not the brightest bulb on the tree, but I am getting the impression Democrats don’t want us to know the truth about the election.Let’s take a look at a couple stories lost in the holiday shuffle.Maricopa County Election Officials Ignore Subpoena on Dominion MachinesLast week, the Arizona State Senate served the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors with a subpoena, ordering Dominion voting machines in the county secured, a forensic audit and a scanned ballot audit.The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors ignored the subpoena. In fact, they are going to court to block the subpoena. Now why in...

The most valuable lessons of 'Home Alone' require a little living first. The film offers much more than just Kevin McCallister vs. The Wet Bandits.Finally, after putting in our time, we were released to the basement. Through what little childhood patience we possessed, me, my sister, and my cousins had satisfied The Rule in force at every family gathering at Grandma and Grandpa Lawson’s house: Before you can leave the table after dinner, you first have to sit quietly for at least 15 minutes or talk about “boring” things with the adults. That was The Rule — for all we...

Michigan’s Governor, Gretchen Whitmer (D), has used every tactic at her disposal to keep the State of Michigan in an almost terminal lockdown because of the COVID virus. But the Michigan State Legislature has started to unravel the convoluted web of her authority. In an early vote Friday morning, the Michigan House of Representatives voted to repeal the Emergency Powers of the Governor Act of 1945; the legislation used by Whitmer to claim authority to use public health orders to close down her state. The 1945 Emergency Powers law authorized the governor to declare a state of emergency but it...

A high-ranking member of the Arizona State Senate felt the sting of rebuke when the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors challenged his two-subpoena request for a scanned ballot audit and full forensic accounting of tabulation equipment. In the ongoing efforts to ensure election integrity, the Maricopa Supervisors shot down the latest demands by state Republicans. Adding insult to injury, by a four-to-one vote, the Board issued a complaint in court challenging the efforts of Republican Sen. Eddie Farnsworth, chairman of the state Senate Judiciary Committee.Article originally published at Liberty Nation.Farnsworth was asking for 2.1 million ballots to be verified. A...

.. NEHEMIAH REBUILDS JERUSALEM'S WALL . N E H E M I A H 2 – 1 3 New International Version, emphases added Abrdgd: the complete text is in your Bible . C L I C K : To read Nehemiah 2-13 in full To hear MAX McLEAN reading it To hear a DRAMATIZATION of it HIGHLY recommended by Maudeen! To watch an ANIMATION of Nehemiah 5 3 7 5 2 0 B. C. .. CHAPTER 2 11 I went to Jerusalem, and after staying there three days 12 I set out during the night with a few others. I...

There has been a lot of buzz and an equal amount of confusion surrounding members of the House and Senate objecting to electoral votes in contested states when they hold a joint session of Congress on January 6th. Many have pointed to Vice President Mike Pence magically stepping in, but he will not. This comes down to one event happening between now and then for this election to get corrected.Let’s start by clarifying the process. The two chambers meet on January 6th to officially count the sealed votes from electors. Currently, former Vice President Joe Biden is in the lead....

... Fetal Scalps and Back Flesh Grafted Onto Rats and MiceIn September, researchers at University of Pittsburgh published their work on the development of humanized mice and rats with “full-thickness human skin.” .... Full-thickness human skin from fetuses was grafted onto rodents while simultaneously co-engrafting the same fetus’s lymphoid tissues and hematopoietic stem cells from the liver, so that the rodent models were humanized with organs and skin from the same child. These “human Skin and Immune System (hSIS)-humanized” mouse and rat models are meant to aid the study of the immune system when the skin is infected. To make...

Leading French-Jewish groups, the Israeli Embassy in France, and numerous local politicians on Sunday condemned a storm of antisemitic attacks on social media against April Benayoum, a top contestant in the Miss France contest. Benayoum, who revealed during the competition that she has an Israeli father, was competing as Miss Provence and came in first runner-up in the contest on Saturday night. Her Israeli connection, however, prompted a vicious outbreak of antisemitism, with tweets calling for her exclusion because of her Jewish heritage and others such as “Hitler forgot to exterminate you, Miss Provence.” The Conseil Représentatif des Institutions juives...

While Dolly Parton doesn’t appear to have anything mean to say about anyone, her baby sister Stella is a different story. She savagely outed Capitol Hill politicians and televangelists for what she sees as turning their backs on Americans during the coronavirus pandemic. Dolly Parton Steps Up In A Big Way With COVID-19 It’s been a rough nine months. Many business have closed amid forced government shutdowns. This has shattered dreams and left some unemployed.

While Dolly Parton doesn’t appear to have anything mean to say about anyone, her baby sister Stella is a different story. She savagely outed Capitol Hill politicians and televangelists for what she sees as turning their backs on Americans during the coronavirus pandemic. Dolly Parton Steps Up In A Big Way With COVID-19 It’s been a rough nine months. Many business have closed amid forced government shutdowns. This has shattered dreams and left some unemployed.

President Trump sent out a massive update on the Pennsylvania fraud. He tweeted about a “very big illegal ballot drop that can’t be accounted for” in Pennsylvania: He tweeted about a “very big illegal ballot drop that can’t be accounted for” in Pennsylvania: President Trump led by nearly 700,000 votes on election night. In a previous Gateway Pundit article, we reported on ballots being driven from New York To Pennsylvania: ** The first driver said that there were 24 gaylords filled with trays of ballots heading for Harrisburg PA on his tractor trailer route on October 21. Colonel Tony Shaffer...

Given the "plunge" in stocks (Nasdaq is down less than 1%) and headlines blaring of COVID "mutations", @KizzyPhd decided to 'clarify' some science before all hell breaks loose (which judging by the London exodus, it already did) for no good reason. She begins...Live view of our neutralization assay team scrambling to make yet another virus variant every time the media publishes about a new single amino acid change without context. 😒 pic.twitter.com/wtOHaNHZz6 — KizzyPhD (@KizzyPhD) December 21, 2020@KizzyPhD offers some context:You are going to read and hear about a million and one variant viruses, because viruses mutate by nature. It’s...

Jimmy Carter, America’s oldest living former president, is eager and awaiting the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine when his time comes. “After consulting with his doctors, President Carter is looking forward to receiving the COVID-19 vaccine when it is available to him,” a spokesperson said in a statement Friday, via Carter's eponymous humanitarian organization, The Carter Center. The ex-president, now 96, is in a high-risk category for complications from COVID-19 due to his age. He has had a number of health issues in recent years, including several falls and surgery for bleeding on his brain.

He worked for Terrytoons, Hanna-Barbera and Filmation and drew Spider-Man, Thor and Superfriends cartoons. Doug Crane, who drew Spider-Man, She-Ra and He-Man cartoons and worked on films including Heavy Metal and Beavis and Butt-Head Do America during his six-decade career in animation, has died. He was 85. Crane died Thursday in Stuart, Florida, after a short battle with cancer, his daughter Rose-Ellen reported. His wife of 61 years, Maureen, an inker/painter whom he had met at Terrytoons in 1956 on his and her first day there, died two days earlier. A Clio Award recipient, Crane also worked for Hanna-Barbera, Paramount,...

A viable quantum internet — a network in which information stored in qubits is shared over long distances through entanglement — would transform the fields of data storage, precision sensing and computing, ushering in a new era of communication. This month, scientists at Fermilab, a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science national laboratory, and their partners took a significant step in the direction of realizing a quantum internet. In a paper published in PRX Quantum, the team presents for the first time a demonstration of a sustained, long-distance (44 kilometers of fiber) teleportation of qubits of photons (quanta of...

The Senate and House will meet in a joint session on Jan. 6, a day the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg labeled the date of “ultimate significance” in our electoral process, to count the recently cast electoral votes. What happens that day will determine the outcome of the presidential election.The ProcedureThe Electoral Count Act provides that after the electors in each state and the District of Columbia vote on Dec. 14, they must sign a certificate of their votes that is then sealed and sent to the president of the Senate.At 1:00 p.m. on Jan. 6, a joint...

Sen. William Ligon, R-White Oak, lead a special subcommittee of the Georgia Senate Judiciary Committee last week “to take the testimony of elections improprieties and to evaluate the election process to ensure the integrity of Georgia’s voting system.” A recently released report from Georgia senators studying the Nov. 3 election found evidence of illegal activity carried out by workers at State Farm Arena. “The events at the State Farm Arena are particularly disturbing because they demonstrated intent on the part of election workers to exclude the public from viewing the counting of ballots, an intentional disregard for the law. The...

All across the country, millions of Americans are on the hunt for ammunition, either for self-defense, target practice, shooting sports or hunting. Sporting goods stores and small mom and pop businesses have had to severely limit how many rounds of ammo a person can buy at one time. Some have even went so far as to limit ammo solely to those who are purchasing a new firearm because of the shortage.Rumors have swirled through the Second Amendment community, particularly online, about Vista Outdoors, the parent company of Federal, Remington, CCI, and Speer Ammunition. Some have said that Vista Outdoors has...

Astronomers hunting for radio signals from alien civilizations have detected an "intriguing signal" from the direction of Proxima Centauri, the nearest star system to the sun, The Guardian reported. The researchers are still preparing a paper on the discovery, and the data have not been made public, according to The Guardian. But the signal is reportedly a narrow beam of 980 MHz radio waves detected in April and May 2019 at the Parkes telescope in Australia. The Parkes telescope is part of the US$100 million Breakthrough Listen project to hunt for radio signals from technological sources beyond the solar system....