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Failed 2012 GOP presidential candidate, former Massachusetts governor, and current Senator from Utah, Mitt “Marches with Marxists” Romney is, arguably, the poster-child for much that ushered in President Trump’s presidency. Romney often gets a bad rap as being a milquetoast conservative and a weak, waffling grifter with his finger to the polls. He only seems like that if you accept that he’s a conservative. He may be that at home, but when it comes to the role of government in Americans’ lives, he’s not and never has been a conservative. Once you get that he’s just another progressive seeking to...

Seven train cars carrying crude oil derailed Tuesday and five caught fire, sending a large black plume of smoke into the sky north of Seattle close to the Canadian border, authorities said. The derailment in the downtown Custer area closed nearby streets and spurred evacuation orders during a large fire response, Whatcom County officials said on Twitter. Interstate 5 was temporarily closed in the area in both directions. Later Tuesday, the Whatcom County Sheriff’s Office tweeted that the fires were under control and the evacuation order had been lifted but roadblocks would remain in place. Fires at the site remained...

It’s the week before Christmas, traditionally the best week of the year to be in New York City. This is the week when tourists by the thousands flock to town, hundreds of restaurants are full and festive, the theater does peak business, the symphony and opera and ballet put on their most popular shows, concert venues are fully booked, hotel rooms are impossible to find, stores are packed, and beautiful Christmas lights are everywhere. Not this year. Don’t even think about coming here right now. Almost all of the best things are closed, by order of our political masters. The...

Sailors, we want to hear your voice! The Naval History and Heritage Command is hereby reviving the tradition of the New Year’s Deck Log Poetry contest. Let your poetic prowess be celebrated! The deck log is the official record maintained by all commissioned U.S. Navy vessels. While the contents of a deck log are generally fiercely regulated, the United States Navy has long held the tradition of the Midnight New Year’s Day Poem. The first entry of the New Year, written in verse, gives a brief glimpse into the minds of the sailors and shipboard life, and provides a human...

Cologne - The Federal Prosecutor's Office has brought charges against Muharrem D., who was arrested in May and charged with a serious arson attack on a Turkish grocery store in Waldkraiburg in Upper Bavaria. The prosecution announced on Monday in Karlsruhe. She accuses the 25-year-old of, among other things, serious arson, multiple attempted murder and dangerous bodily harm. Muharrem D. also planned an attack on the Cologne mosque D. is the son of parents of Turkish origin. He was arrested on May 8 and is said to have planned far more serious bomb attacks on the Ditib Central Mosque in...

BREAKING REPORT: HIDDEN in the 5,893 page bill that @realDonaldTrump is anticipated to VETO is a provision that says: "Nullifies the President's use of the Insurrection Act." https://twitter.com/ChuckCallesto/status/1341519068596199425/photo/1

"I am asking Congress to amend this bill and increase the ridiculously low $600 to $2,000, or $4,000 for a couple," Trump said in a video posted to Twitter......

Many employees at Howard University Hospital in Washington, D.C., have reservations about taking the COVID-19 vaccine, and CEO Anita Jenkins is trying to get workers to follow her lead by getting vaccinated, according to CNN. The hospital, a major healthcare provider for the Black community, received 725 doses of the Pfizer vaccine Dec. 15 and expects to receive a second shipment this week. As of Dec. 18, only about 600 of the hospital's 1,900 employees had signed up for the shots, according to Kaiser Health News. "There is a high level of mistrust and I get it," Ms. Jenkins told...

President Trump reads the list of items Congress put in the COVID "relief" bill. He is ticked. Says Americans and small businesses should be getting the $$$.

Harris County Commissioners approved a restructuring of how county toll road revenue can be used, which is concerning some people in northwest Harris County about how road projects will be funded. The measure approved creates a corporation to oversee duties performed by the Harris County Toll Road Authority. According to HCTRA, this measure would also change the grip the state has on where toll revenue can be spent by the county. A memo from Peter Key, HCTRA’s interim executive director, said HCTRA currently can only provide the issuance of revenue bonds for tolled infrastructure, and not non-toll transportation infrastructure challenges....

William Hartmann felt like he was stuck in a “Mission Impossible” movie when he left a Wayne County Board of Canvassers meeting in Detroit in November. Law enforcement advised him not to return home and instead escorted him, with just the clothes on his back, to a friend’s house for safety. “I was scared,” Hartmann told The Epoch Times. “[The police] actually had people stationed outside in different locations, watching, in case anything happened. They were there for three or four days.” Hartmann said he didn’t venture outside for a week. “I was afraid that somebody might recognize me when...

The soldier was seen in a video walking backward instead of responding to a Molotov cocktail attack. The IDF on Monday removed a soldier from his combat position following an incident in which he responded passively to an attack against him. The Golani soldier failed to act when a firebomb was hurled at him near the settlement of Kedumim on Saturday night. The incident became public after a video taken by the security camera circulated online. It shows the perpetrator get out of a car, approach the soldier and hurl a firebomb at him. In response, the soldier walks backward...

BUDAPEST: A Hungarian court sentenced a Syrian man to life imprisonment Thursday for terrorism and crimes against humanity including the beheading of an imam in Syria in 2015. ... “His task was to make a ‘death list’ of ‘enemies of Islam’,” the court statement said. “He was personally involved in the execution of several people, including the beheading of a tribal leader.” ... the defendant commanded a small Daesh unit in Homs province in 2015 tasked with terrorizing and executing civilians and religious leaders who refused to side with the group. Prosecutors said he personally took part in the beheading...

Can you feel it? Fatigue. While many patriots are still gun-ho, many are plumb bone weary. After the surge of enthusiastic patriotism on Election Day followed by the gut punch of massive fraud on 11/4 and the stiff-upper-lip rallying-yet-afraid-to-hope-too-much during the month of November, many patriots are exhausted from the emotional roller-coaster. Exhausted and impatient. "C'mon! Let's do this already," is a tweet I often see. "Isn't the storm upon us yet!?! I'm sick of stashing away canned goods and bottled water." Don't get me wrong: We all still support President Trump 150% but headlines come, headlines go. Tweets come,...

Acting Secretary of Defense Christopher C. Miller travelled to Afghanistan on Tuesday, December 22. Due to security concerns surrounding this trip, it was not announced in advance. While in Afghanistan, the Acting Secretary met with the President of Afghanistan, Ashraf Ghani at the Presidential Palace in Kabul to discuss the ongoing U.S. military support to the Afghanistan National Defense and Security Forces amidst a historic opportunity to achieve peace in the country.

Police arrested four people, two of them illegal immigrants, in the Paris no-go suburbs of Seine-Saint-Denis on suspicion of assaulting a Jewish family which was celebrating Hanukkah. The incident took place in the commune of Aubervilliers, Seine-Saint-Denis, on Thursday at around 8:40 pm when the Jewish family was in their vehicle listening to Hebrew music and “messages of peace”. According to a report by broadcaster France Bleu, a group of people yelling antisemitic slurs approached the family, proceeding to shake the car and throw glass bottles at the vehicle. Two fo the four suspects are said to be illegal adult...

<p>Finland’s Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto has admitted that the country has repatriated Islamic State members from a prison camp in Syria with the assistance of Germany.</p><p>Finland facilitated the return of two Islamic State women and six children from the al-Hol prison camp in Northern Syria where Kurdish forces have kept members of the terrorist organisation in custody.</p>

President @realDonaldTrump calls on Congress to increase stimulus relief payment to $2k per person and throw out the rest of the Bill

Trump Sued For ‘Racism’ In Trying To Overturn ElectionThe NAACP is accusing President Trump and the Republican Party of violating the Ku Klux Klan Act with their efforts to overturn election results in key battleground states. In an amended lawsuit filed Monday night, the civil rights organization added the Reconstruction-era law to their case against the president’s campaign that was filed last month. “Defendants’ efforts to disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of voters — targeting cities with large Black populations, including Detroit, Michigan, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Atlanta, Georgia — repeat the worst abuses in our nation’s history, where Black...

The US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) had recommended placing India also on the CPC Pakistan is marketing Hindu and Christian women as "concubines" and "forced brides" to China, according to the top US diplomat for religious freedom, Samuel Brownback. One of the sources of "forced brides" for Chinese men are "religious minorities, Christian and Hindu women, being marketed as concubines and as forced as brides into China", Brownback told reporters on Tuesday. That was happening "because there's not effective support and there's discrimination against religious minorities that make them more vulnerable," he said. He mentioned this as one...