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Eleven people were shot, three of them fatally, Monday in Chicago, including a man who was killed in a shooting during a robbery in Bridgeport on the South Side. In the day’s first reported shooting, a 33-year-old man was wounded in Austin on the West Side. The man was sitting in a parked car about 1:20 a.m. in the 1000 block of North Mason Avenue when shots were fired, police said. He was transported to Stroger Hospital in fair condition. Thirty-eight people were shot, six of them killed, last weekend citywide.

Dr. Dean Winslow, infectious disease specialist at Stanford Health Care “The recently described SARS-CoV-2 variant has several substitutions both in the envelope spike protein and outside of that region that make this variant more transmissible between people. However, it does not appear to be more virulent or cause more severe disease. While it has not been specifically studied, these changes are not predicted to adversely affect the ability of the currently fielded vaccines to provide protection.”

COVID 19- RELIEF BILL. I can't believe you voted in favor of that farce of a bill! If that's the best you people can do y'll ought to get out of D.C. It's a disgrace that reflects badly on you. After your non-support of President Trump when the election had so many irregularities and now this, I regret very much voting for you. I regret going door to door in your behalf. I KNOW THEY DON'T CARE BUT IT MADE ME FEEL BETTER.

An incredible one hour interview with Lin Wood by Epoch Times. 57 minutes long. This powerful -- by the fireside interview -- is Lin Wood as I imagine him to be in his finest hours of the court room. I found his comments absolutely riveting -- a modern day John Adams lays out the stakes for America in the next several days. MUST SEE. Some of the topics: Who will decide: courts? legislature? congress? The communist infiltration of this country. The different kinds of lawsuits being filed. The tyranny of Covid 19 restrictions. Why the people will not let this...

The criminals and traitors have to be made afraid to ever do this again. The radical left and corrupt big city Democrats, on the one hand, allied with the mega billionaire tech, social media, and, to some extent, "ordinary," billionaire elites, on the other. The Bolshevik revolutionaries and their army of thugs and rent seekers, on the one hand, the globalist super rich, on the other. The Marxists and the most materially fortunate and successful in America. Weird. The richest capitalists on the planet and those who would destroy capitalism. Lenin and the Tsar. Very, very weird. One would think...

President Trump is apparently infuriated by Mike Pence, who the President thinks is “not fighting hard enough” for him and election integrity. In a report from Axios, White House sources reveal that President Trump is notably angry with many of his supposed “allies” who are not fighting the good fight to defend election integrity, most notably Vice President Pence. The President allegedly brought up an ad from the Never Trump group, the Lincoln Project, which claims that Pence is “backing away” from him. According to the sources, Trump believes Pence is “not fighting hard enough” – in the Vice President’s...

Pray For the Peace of JerusalemLambs, Sheep, and Shepherds.Isaiah 65New Heavens and a New Earth 17 “See, I will create new heavens and a new earth. The former things will not be remembered, nor will they come to mind. 18 But be glad and rejoice forever in what I will create, for I will create Jerusalem to be a delight and its people a joy. 19 I will rejoice over Jerusalem and take delight in my people; the sound of weeping and of crying will be heard in it no more. 20 “Never again will there be in it an...

Big Tech is building an espionage center against the United States. The presumptive next president of the United States is promising to overhaul America’s relationship with Cuba. “I’d try to reverse the failed Trump policies that inflicted harm on Cubans and their families,” Joe Biden told nbc in September. That means Biden wants to reinstate Obama-era policies of greater engagement with the Communist dictatorship. Joe Biden was vice president when his boss, Barack Obama, reestablished diplomatic relations with Cuba. With the help of Pope Francis, the Obama administration relaxed travel restrictions and expanded commercial ties between the U.S. and Cuba....

... At least one member of the Senate and one from the House must object to a set of electors before debate can take place. Hice said each state will be called alphabetically, and when a state, such as Arizona, where a challenge is planned, comes up, the House and Senate would each then dismiss to their respective chambers for two hours of debate, where Republicans would then make their case. After that, votes would be taken by state delegation, not member-by-member, and if enough votes were were cast to overturn the election results, then an alternate slate of electors...

It’s just the flu, bro. This COVID stimulus bill is a pile of trash. My view is always no stimulus ever so I would always be disgusted by any stimulus check. But this stimulus is even more offensive than most as we are giving big money to Burma and Sudan (billions going to foreign countries who are largely unaffected by COVID). I can’t find a source for the foreign money but I saw it all over twitter so it must be true. https://www.cnet.com/personal-finance/biden-will-propose-another-covid-19-stimulus-check-when-he-takes-office/ And Biden wants another COVID bill if he takes office.

Last night, President Donald Trump (I never tire of typing those three glorious words) released a 4-minute video in which he promised to veto the atrocious, $3.3 trillion spending bill sent over to his desk on Tuesday. Congress has already fled Washington, DC in the hopes the President would ignore its mendacity and betrayal of the American public and just sign the bill under the assumption that he plans to concede the election and allow his presidency to wind down. The President, as has been his habit for the past four years, has other plans. Below is a video clip...

The states’ and federal government’s plans to distribute vaccines by race is a worrying sign that leftists are hastening America’s balkanization. On May 22, 2019, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams gave a speech at the Center for American Progress. Ms. Abrams spoke out strongly in her defense of Identity Politics, stating that “Identity Politics is exactly who we are and exactly how we won,” and arguing that Identity Politics “brought new folks to the process.” That is untrue. America is based on the idea of pluralism, the notion that, regardless of our race, religion, creed, or national origin, we would...

[Note: this piece contains heavy video content.] After a week in the dumpster with technical issues, DBDailyUpdate is back up and running this morning thanks to the sterling efforts of an excellent firm that provides an array of fully-managed hosting services. I have retained their services going forward, so the days of me struggling to try to get these problems figured out myself are over. I had previously considered just taking the rest of this terrible year off, but let’s face it: There’s just too much going on for that to really happen. So, enough small talk: Let’s go to...

As of the November elections, the nation is at war. It’s a 21sup>st-century war, so it’s very different. Because it’s new, the scope and magnitude aren’t easily understood. It hasn’t been declared. It may never be. Hence, for many millions of Americans, perceptions are clouded or lagging. In human affairs, with change, this often occurs. It’s the second American civil war, and its origins predate the November elections fraud, which seems on track to steal the presidency from the rightful winner, Donald J. Trump. The genesis of this civil war is the ideo-cultural war that has waxed and waned across...

House Democratic leaders are trying to keep the espionage scandal surrounding Intelligence Committee member Rep. Eric Swalwell under tight control. But it's going to be an uphill battle. Republicans are pushing harder and harder to learn more about Swalwell's relationship with Chinese spy Christine Fang. And the Democrats' strongest ally -- The New York Times, which has averted its eyes and so far refused to publish even one word about the matter -- can't hold out forever. Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is demanding the FBI brief all members of the Intelligence Committee on what the bureau knows about the relationship...

Smartmatic's history in Venezuela, flipping votes amid conflicts of interest, suggests some problems here, too. American Thinker published my article about Smartmatic voting systems in Venezuela on Sept. 5, 2017, titled How the Venezuelan Elections Were Rigged. The other day Andrea Widburg published an article citing the “irregularities” that were experienced in the Nov. 3, 2020 elections with Dominion Voting Systems that use Smartmatic software. What happened in Venezuela is highly relevant to what is happening here and now, so this is how it happened there: On July 30, 2017, President Nicolas Maduro conjured up a vote to replace the...

Canada's government has blocked a Chinese company from acquiring a Toronto-based firm that runs a gold mine in the Arctic due to national security reasons, the company said Tuesday. A statement from Shandong Gold Mining Co., which is owned by the Chinese government, said that a review required by law under Canada's Investment Canada Act had resulted in a decision denying the acquisition of TMAC Resources Inc. "for the purpose of safeguarding national security." Bloomberg reported that TMAC owns the Hope Bay gold mine in Nunavut, a property that would have been part of a $150 million purchase by Shandong....

With his meaningful spoken words of yesterday...POTUS, Donald J. Trump proves once again...that he, and he alone, is the real true, honest, loving Champion, leader of "all" Americans and the nation Republic. He stands as the clear leader of "America First" freedom & liberty across this great country and, in fact, the entire world itself!!! May God, Almighty forever shine his blessings and protection on this very special, effective,guiding and love America man!!!

Election integrity demands indisputable separation of fact from fiction. Cheating and then claiming, "I won!" does not make a person a winner. Fraud — whether organized or disorganized, isolated or widespread, individual or coordinated — disqualifies results. When flags are thrown and violations confirmed, penalties are assessed and downs replayed. Occasionally, violators may be rejected or time added back to the clock. Confirmed chicanery requires vacated victories and reassignment of crowns. Election totals fuel widespread declarations and serve as the basis for future ratified actions. But if tallies are tainted, the claims are based on false data, and consequential actions...

This year is on track to be the deadliest in U.S. history with a total of more than 3 million deaths expected by the end of December, due in large part to the coronavirus pandemic, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The Associated Press reported Tuesday that preliminary numbers suggest the U.S. will have at least 3.2 million deaths by the end of 2020, about 400,000 more than in 2019...