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While 2020 has been brutal on the whole, it’s been an unusually fruitful year for apps. In part, that’s because of the coronavirus pandemic, which has upended the ways we live and work for the foreseeable future. We’ve seen a glut of new and upgraded tools for working from home, of course, along with more apps to help us preserve our mental well-being. To avoid the obvious, this list of 2020’s best apps won’t include the likes of Zoom and Slack—the stuff you already know about. But our mix does include some lesser-known ways to make those apps even better....

...'cause you know, Adam came before Eve...

What would our nation look like if every day, every American -- of every background and ethnicity -- were to wake up with the conviction that they are 100 percent responsible for the circumstances of their lives? No blame, no victimhood, no excuses saying that what is happening to them is because of someone else. It touches, I believe, the heart of Christianity. At any given moment, you may not have control of what is outside of you. But you have control over what is inside of you. Change what is inside first, and then you will change what is...

Something very troubling happened yesterday in Oregon. We back the blue, but will they back us? Like most conservatives, I support the police and the vital role they serve in a civilized society. But like many conservatives, watching them stand down on orders from blue-state mayors during months of riots was jarring. (They even stood down during a Back the Blue rally in Denver when speakers were attacked.) Many of us asked how the police could obey such orders and allow criminals to have free rein in our streets — criminals whose victims, I might add, included over 2,000 police...

During his campaign for the 2020 election, the most popular President in American history got into an argument with a blue collar worker, called an elderly man at a public meeting fat, then challenged him to a push up contest, forgot what state he was in, and confused his wife with his sister. During his campaign for the 2020 election, the most popular President in American history said he was proud of his cocaine-addicted, adulterous son, and how could he not be? Few people indeed can make millions of dollars simply by riding on Air Force Two. During his campaign...

America's scientists are essentially miracle workers. Within mere months, they have developed highly effective vaccines for COVID-19. By year's end, millions of Americans will have received their first doses. We should begin to see death rates from COVID drop precipitously in the coming weeks as more and more Americans gain immunity from the virus. Yet never has there been a larger gap between America's scientists and America's public health professionals. Science is supposed to guide the decision-making for both groups. Yet public health professionals have consistently failed to utilize science as their lodestar, instead sacrificing their credibility on the altar...

President-elect Joe Biden’s digital team has taken issue with Twitter's decision to block Biden from inheriting President Trump’s followers on the platform – a practice at odds with previous presidential transitions. "In 2016, the Trump admin absorbed all of President Obama's Twitter followers on @POTUS and @WhiteHouse -- at Team 44's urging," Biden Digital Director Rob Flaherty said on Twitter Tuesday. "In 2020, Twitter has informed us that as of right now the Biden administration will have to start from zero."

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...