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Attorney general says he believes the investigation into the son of President-elect Joe Biden is ‘being handled responsibly and professionally.

Here, life has felt incredibly normal. It's also revealed how abnormal the lifestyle I followed in Virginia really was.OCALA, Fla. — Last Sunday I plopped a steaming hashbrown casserole and a bowl of freshly sliced oranges down on one of a row of endless folding tables covered in those flimsy plastic tablecloths you get at the dollar store. The casseroles were outnumbered only by the pans of homemade cinnamon rolls, and the fruit section was meager: it was a good Southern Baptist potluck. Church ladies buzzed around, removing tin foil from tin pans and putting serving spoons in each dish,...

Bill Barr says he will not name a special counsel to investigate Trump’s (unfounded) claims of election fraud: “If I thought a special counsel at this stage was the right tool, I would name one, but I haven’t and I’m not going to.” https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1341052958511919106/video/1

Bach Christmas Cantatas 1-3, over an hour of beautiful music. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98UjjwzJBFE

A leading German virologist on Monday downplayed fears about the new mutation of the coronavirus spreading through the UK – and questioned Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s claim that the strain is 70 percent more infectious, according to reports. “I wonder whether a scientist gave an estimate, perhaps asked what he would say if he had to give a figure, and then it takes on a life of its own,” Christian Drosten said, the Daily Mail reported.

SACRAMENTO, CA—California has leveraged one of its recent emergency declarations to declare Christmas caroling a felony. Christmas caroling is now punishable by 25 years in prison, as it's detrimental to the public health. In addition to being a potential super-spreader of COVID, Governor Gavin Newsom says he "hates singing" and wishes people would just "cut it out with all the jolliness and joy." "Dangerous gangs of outlaws going door to door singing loudly -- this must stop," said Gavin Newsom. "The SCIENCE! says we must wear masks when singing and sing only beneath a standard speaking voice, and these deranged...

Rep. Kathleen Rice has secured a seat on the powerful House Energy and Commerce Committee, beating out colleague Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) in a secret ballot vote. Politico reported last week that both Rice and Ocasio-Cortez were waging a battle to secure the seat “with both touting the support of the New York delegation, circulating separate letters with their home state’s endorsement.” Confidence was exuding from AOC as she discussed the contest, noting she was the candidate with the state’s backing. “I’m the only member to have the full region’s endorsement for New York state,” Ocasio-Cortez declared. “She (Rice) has a...

Yes, the Supreme Court is still a possibility, but even then the likely requirement for them to correct the election is the same for Congress, so it's a moot point. 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....

Usually, three brushes with the law can invoke serious punishment. Not for Caroline Biden, 33, who is the niece of presumptive President-elect Joe Biden. On Dec. 3, she pleaded to a charge of driving under the influence and driving without a license after she slammed her car into a tree in Pennsylvania in August 2019. According to the New York Post, the official record of her case says she faced “confinement” that could range from 20 days to six months. But Biden, 33, won’t actually be locked up, the Post reported. She instead faces five-plus months of probation, according to...

Pizza company, Pizza Punks, are selling special kits this December where you can 'punk up your pizza' by using Christmas dinner ingredients as your toppings. f there are two things that we know to be true, it's that pizza is delicious and so is Christmas dinner. These, my friends, are foods of the gods, so why not combine the two and create the ultimate festive pizza?! Sounds interesting, right? Well, it turns out that this is something one pizza company have already done. Pizza Punks, which has pizzerias located in Glasgow, Belfast and Newcastle, have launched an Xmas Pizza Party...

United States President-elect Joe Biden plans to publicly receive a Covid-19 vaccine injection on Monday (Dec 21) in an effort to boost confidence in its safety ahead of its wide distribution next year. Mr Biden has vowed to make the fight against the coronavirus, which has killed more than 300,000 Americans and infected more than 17 million, his top priority when he takes office on Jan 20. At age 78, he is in the high-risk group for the highly contagious respiratory disease. Republican President Donald Trump, who lost the Nov 3 election to his Democratic rival, frequently downplayed the severity...

THE EWTN FAMILY CHRISTMAS SPECIAL - today at 2 pm on EWTN! Link to Christmas specials programming on EWTN

Last week a massive data leak from China revealed the names of almost 2 million Communist Party members around the world, many of who had infiltrated some of the world’s largest Western companies. Now, the Department of Justice (DOJ) accused China-based Xinjiang Jin, who reportedly was Zoom’s chief liaison with Chinese law enforcement and intelligence, of sharing user data at the request of the communist Chinese government.

Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Brian Hagedorn, a conservative, explained his ruling against a contest-of-election lawsuit brought in the state by President Donald Trump’s campaign.In an interview with The New York Times on Friday, Hagedorn said he found nothing in the law or the evidence presented in the case that would have allowed Trump to win the lawsuit.A narrowly divided Wisconsin Supreme Court on Dec. 14 rejected Trump’s lawsuit challenging the election results in the battleground state about an hour before the Electoral College cast Wisconsin’s 10 votes for Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden. In the 4-3 ruling, the court’s three...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The $900 billion economic relief package that emerged from Congress over the weekend will deliver vital aid to millions of households and businesses that have been struggling for months to survive. Yet with the economy still in the grip of a pandemic that has increasingly tightened curbs on business activity, more federal support will likely be needed soon. And it’s unclear whether or when the government might provide it.

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 number of votes that could have been counted in that length of time was sufficient to change the results of the presidential election and the senatorial contests,” the report from the state Senate’s Election Law Study Subcommittee reads....

President Donald Trump on Monday morning announced that there will be “big news” in Pennsylvania as he challenges the election results in the commonwealth.“Big news coming out of Pennsylvania,” Trump wrote, without elaborating. “Very big illegal ballot drop that cannot be accounted for. Rigged Election!”It’s not clear if the president was referring to the appeal that his campaign filed on Sunday in the U.S. Supreme Court, previously revealed information by third parties, or a new development. The Epoch Times reached out to Trump’s campaign for comment, but hasn’t yet received a response.Trump’s campaign’s case (pdf) is attempting to reverse three...

COVID, Woke Science—and DeathIn this brave new world of ours, will we be pruning back the elderly altogether by credentialed “ethicists,” whether because of their longevity or race?Since March, the Left has proclaimed itself the guardian of science in dealing with the COVID-19 epidemic. Its champions are the World Health Organization, the Centers for Disease Control and Dr. Fauci. All in the past have rendered valuable service to the public, and often life-saving aid.Yet the mixture of COVID-19, the first national quarantine, and Trump Derangement Syndrome have combined to give us reason to question their judgment. These authorities variously have...

LONDON - Trucks waiting to get out of Britain backed up for miles and people were left stranded at airports Monday as countries around the world imposed stringent travel restrictions on the U.K. because of a new and seemingly more contagious strain of the coronavirus in England.A growing number of countries halted air travel from Britain, while France banned British trucks for 48 hours while the new variant is assessed.British Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the strain is “out of control” around London and southeastern England, though experts have said it is not clear whether it is more lethal, and...

If the state senator was in the field working, she certainly was not ‘indefinitely confined’ under the meaning and intent of state statute. So, did she break the law? How many others did?MADISON, Wis. — Outgoing Wisconsin state Sen. Patty Schachtner, a full-time county medical examiner, earlier this year claimed to be “indefinitely confined,” receiving the special status accorded under state election law. The Democrat and her husband signed a statement claiming they were confined to their home “because of age, physical illness or infirmity” in seeking an absentee ballot to be automatically sent to their Somerset home. It begs...