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Discussed on Rush today: =========== The Sovietization of California -------------- By Dennis Prager December 22, 2020 6 min read I am writing this column upon returning home to California after five days in Florida. For the first time since my first trip to Los Angeles in 1974 and moving there two years later, I dreaded going to California. That first trip, as a 25-year-old New Yorker, I experienced the palpable excitement looking at the American Airlines flight board at JFK airport and seeing "Los Angeles." For most Americans, the very name "California" elicited excitement, wonder, even envy of Californians, and...

Fox News betrayed conservatives and continues a downward spiral. One American News and Newsmax have filled the gap. Newsmax CEO Chris Ruddy predicts they will soon overtake Fox News in total audience. The Gateway Pundit has previously reported on Fox’s ratings drop: (From November 30th) Neil Cavuto drew 2.192 million viewers in August. By November he was attracting only 1.3 million. The Five also suffered a big loss, going from 3.772 million in August to 2.883 million in November–minus 889,000 viewers. Bret Baier suffered a significant decline of 1,139,000 –3.256 million in August to 2.117 million in November. Martha MacCallum...

Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI), once thought to be a rising star in the Democratic Party, has been repeatedly shunned for her populist, anti-war, and pro-reality convictions that no longer align with her progressive comrades. More recently, Gabbard has been attacked relentlessly by leftists on Twitter for daring to protect women’s sports in the transgender athlete debate. Many sports, including track, cycling, martial arts, and wrestling, have started to see total domination by transwomen allowed to compete against biological females. So Gabbard proposed a bill, the Protect Women’s Sports Act, to grant Title IX protections for female athletes based on biological sex,...

Part 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKNLLnA-TMU Pt 1 The Christmas Star Part 1 is study that combines historical, Biblical and scientific evidence to arrive at the most likely date for the Birth of Messiah. The shepherds actions confirm the time of year. The true identity of the Wise Men is elucidated and reveals why Herod & Jerusalem were alarmed. Pt 2 The Christmas Star Part 2 is a culmination of Biblical, historical and astronomical evidence for what happened in the skies around Messiah’s birth. Was the Star a nova or supernova, a comet or something else? The behavior of the Star itself gives...

Solomon was blessed with much Wisdom and knowledge which allowed him to discover many things about the world around him. Solomon is credited with writing the book of Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, the Song of Solomon, and 2 Psalms 72 & 127. Throughout his writings Solomon shared the Wisdom and knowledge God had blessed him with. He was so admired by all the Kings and Queens of other countries that they sought out his Wisdom and paid tribute to him. Like Solomon, we too can better understand the world God created for us if we truly desire to. It has always...

I don't want to link directly, and it's not exactly holiday reading, Raw Story's hit piece on President Trump. After all, why bring trash into one's home through your computer monitor "for Christmas", amIright?Dr. Brandy X. Lee's article, titled Here's why it is necessary to speak out about Trump's psychological dangerousness and lack of mental capacity, was published Dec. 23, 2020, as a Christmas stocking stuffer for Dems.I think a quote can help you glean where Lee's article is headed: "Yes, a forensic psychiatrist works at the interface of psychiatry and the law, which is what I have done for...

A law school professor called for “vote reparations” for black people to make elections fairer by giving them twice the voting power of other citizens. "Vote reparations would empower us to replace oppressive institutions with life-affirming structures of economic, social, and political equality," Brandon Hasbrouck, an assistant professor at the Washington and Lee University School of Law, wrote in the Nation last week. "And if our elected representatives did not prioritize this transformational work, we could vote them out." Hasbrouck, who teaches race relations law and a class on critical race theory, argued that the “core problem” of the United...

I have been under bizarre “gag” order issued by Atlanta judge prohibiting me from responding to accusations in lawsuit filed by lawyers with whom I formerly shared office space. Lawsuit used to attack me in left wing rags. Mother Jones, AJC & soon NY Times. Connect the dots. https://t.co/lpOGHUYw7R— Lin Wood (@LLinWood) December 23, 2020

U.S. Senate candidate Rev. Raphael Warnock’s wife told a police officer in March that her husband is "a great actor" and "phenomenal at putting on a really good show" after Warnock denied her allegations that he deliberately ran over her foot. The comments could be heard on police body camera footage obtained by Tucker Carlson Tonight. They centered around a domestic dispute between Warnock and his wife in early March. Warnock tells the officer in the footage that he and his wife had an argument that morning over divorce papers while their two kids were present. He says that his...

Before the text messages threatening to kill his family, Drew Pavlou gathered a small group of students on a busy walkway at the University of Queensland to protest the Chinese government’s repression of Uighur Muslims and crackdown on Hong Kong. “Hey-hey, ho-ho — Xi Jinping has got to go!” As he denounced the Communist leader, hundreds of counter-demonstrators massed around a colonnade at the campus in Brisbane, Australia. Some were students from China; others appeared older. They yelled pro-Beijing slogans and played the Chinese national anthem over loudspeakers. *** Things quickly turned violent. A man in the crowd rushed at...

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Election software company Smartmatic is threatening to sue a number of networks for defamation, just days after serving a legal notice to attorney Sidney Powell. Smartmatic sent legal notices to media companies Newsmax, OANN, and Fox. In a press release, the company’s CEO says the networks “have no evidence” of their claims that Smartmatic is potentially involved in election fraud. He says “This campaign was designed to defame Smartmatic and undermine legitimately conducted elections.” The company is demanding retractions. Newsmax issued a statement about their coverage on Smartmatic and Dominion Voting Systems: “Newsmax would like to clarify its news coverage...

The Democrats will raise the cry "Voter Supression!" every time any attempt is made to enforce the idea of Voter ID where the voter has to obtain picture ID from DMV or other "government" source. (We won't get into proving citizenship, which is another no-no.) I propose an alternative: election bureaus snap a picture of the voter at the time of registration or re-registration. At the polls, the "front desk" will pull up that picture when the voter presents himself/herself.

....... terrifying for white people -- and that's what this is about -- that people of color are threatening them so deeply that they are willing to dismiss democratic tenets? And I'm just repeating what I said earlier because I have no other explanation, Joe. There's nothing else there. We could put the 10 smartest scholars in the room. That's it -- I'm saying the quiet part out loud. It's no other explanation, and that's what we have to deal with in this country right now. .We're a divided country, and it's about race. I don't care what anybody else...

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) announced early Tuesday morning that the Senate will return to Washington on Dec. 29 to respond to a potential veto from President Trump of a mammoth defense bill. McConnell, speaking from the Senate floor, said that he had struck a deal with Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) for the chamber to return for a rare post-Christmas session during which he said they will "process" a veto override, if it's passed by the House.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., appears frustrated with efforts by President Donald Trump and his supporters to overturn the election, telling her leadership team during COVID relief talks she will take matters into her own hands if need be."I'm counting down the hours till he's gone," Pelosi said, according to a report in (Politico). "I plan to pull him out of there by his hair, his little hands, and his feet."

Gun sales in the United States have soared in 2020 following a year of radical-left violence against the backdrop of a global pandemic. Americans purchased 21 million firearms this year, according to the latest figures. The number marks a staggering increase of 73 percent over the number purchased in 2019.

Real? Deep Fake? Joe Biden tells African-Americans America is doomed unless blacks start working with Hispanics when Whites become a minority in America in 2040. "This country is doomed, it is doomed, not just because of African-Americans..." Joe Biden Audio (26 secs)

The 5,593-page government funding bill that includes the COVID-19 stimulus legislation also includes a section outlining the reincarnation and succession of the Dalai Lama. The legislation includes some notable sections that are not directly related to government funding or the pandemic.Section 342 of the bill outlines a "statement of policy regarding the succession or reincarnation of the Dalai Lama." Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, currently resides in exile in India after escaping from Tibet in 1959 amid a revolt against Chinese governance. Tibet was occupied by China in 1951 and incorporated as part of the East Asian nation.

Fox News contributor Karl Rove on Tuesday criticized former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn and lawyer Sidney Powell for the “idiotic” ideas they are pushing to President Donald Trump on overturning the results of the 2020 election. Anchor John Roberts said, “I want to ask you about these meetings that the president has been having a close group of allies about what to do regarding what happens on January 6… that some members of the House may oppose the seating of electors from their states. And then there’s other things that have been kicked around, too, which the president denies,...