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This day in history in 1984 something happened that started a chain of events that culminated in a decision I speculate would never happen today.It was big news in the the big apple and all across the country. On December 22, 1984, Bernhard Goetz shot and wounded four young black men on a New York City subway train, saying they were about to rob him. The four teens were Barry Allen, Troy Canty, Darrell Cabey, and James Ramseur, all shot and wounded by Goetz after they accosted him on a New York City Subway train in Manhattan.Goetz was charged with...

Rush's sign off was chilling. He could barely get out his sentiments. That final "Thank you" was hard to listen to. All I can say is, "You're welcome, Rush."

In the midst of what my credit card company and many somber spam emails insist on calling this unprecedented time, I’ve found that it’s helpful to occasionally switch up the things you desperately miss from ordinary pre-pandemic existence. Friends, family, parties: those are a little tired as objects of longing, aren’t they? Most recently, I’ve chosen to obsessively fixate on something far more humble: the IKEA cafeteria, which remains closed due to COVID, the experience of eating therein and, above all, the weirdly good chocolate cake you can apparently only find in the store’s American restaurants.

Dec. 23—California residents have not greatly reduced their visits to stores and workplaces since Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered them to stay at home in early December, according to a Sacramento Bee review of mobility trend data collected by Google from cell phones.

When news broke that Mohammed Kinani's son’s killers, Blackwater private military contractors hired by the U.S. government in Baghdad, were pardoned Wednesday by President Trump, Kinani said it was like losing his 9-year-old boy all over again. "I don't know what I did to Blackwater,” Kinani told ABC News. "Did I know Blackwater before? No. Why did this happen to me?" President Donald Trump pardoned four private military contractors who were found guilty for murdering 17 Iraqi citizens, including two children, in an attack that also left over 20 injured. The decision was praised by the contractors' lawyers but has...

Georgia Democrats are reportedly asking Democrats in other states to "move" to Georgia for the Senate election. Are Georgia revenue officials checking to see if newly registered voters are paying Georgia taxes?

Lyrics: We’re beginning to plan a ‘COVID Christmas’ Now it’s Lockdown number two. If you’re ordering turkey for ten, You might want to think again... It might be best to use Deliveroo! We’re beginning to plan a ‘COVID Christmas’ That means no nativity. Well it wouldn’t be quite the same Seeing wise men by the manger wearing PPE! A drink in a pub or a friend they can hug Is the wish of Sarah and Ben. A job, a career and no lockdown next year Is the hope of Harry and Jen. And will we ever get to see our...

New allegations surfaced about the presidential elections in Pennsylvania. Allegedly Pennsylvania’s own election data ported straight from the government site found 191,725 ballot records were edited or fixed AFTER election day. Many of these ballots were absentee ballots with multiple sent dates that changed month-over-month as the data was “updated.” Initially, thousands of ballots had impossible and improbable send dates, but it appears those numbers were just a drop in the bucket. According to Here Is The Evidence: As laid out in the Texas lawsuit, Pennsylvania’s mail-in ballot anomalies at 118,426 affected ballots. The anomalies from this December 16th data...

Illinois sees worst population decline since World War IIEven subtracting COVID-19 deaths, Illinois still suffered its largest population drop in modern history in the first year of Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s fiscal policies, including 20 new tax and fee hikes, as well as his pandemic response.Illinois recorded a seventh straight year of population loss, but the drop was historic – 79,487 residents from July 2019 to July 2020, the most since World War II and the second largest of any state in raw numbers or percentage of population.Data released by the U.S. Census Bureau Dec. 22 shows only New York lost...

oe Biden’s official website lays out a sleuth of anti-gun policies they would like to push through. The most popular of these proposals is the push to ban assault rifles. Of course, they cannot actually want to ban assault rifles seeing as they are already banned. Automatic rifles were banned in the 80s during the Reagan administration. When they say assault rifles, they mean semi-automatic rifles. They also want a ban on high-capacity magazines. To gun owners, a high-capacity magazine might mean 45+ rounds in a magazine. 30 rounds are standard on many magazines, like those of the AR-15 and...

James Hunter pulled the trigger. But he had help. The pandering politicians, the woke eastsiders, the fawning reporters on the 6 o’clock news, the people who shouted into the bullhorns, the academics who consecrated a movement, the profane haters outside the Public Safety Building, the corporate titans and their leftist revolution, the people who spraypainted hashtags across a city, the pro-criminal policies of a morally bankrupt state, the blind leaders of the blind in pulpits and press conferences, the millionaire athletes in various leagues. They all helped pull the trigger.

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...