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Enjoy this Christmas, we desperately need it, and with all we’ve been through this year, we deserve it. This year sucked, 2020 was a complete bust. But it is Christmas Eve, next week will be for a look back at the bad, let’s focus on the good today. We have a vaccine, several actually, for the plague of the 21st century, at least so far (I said I’d focus on the good, but I have to be realistic too). The idea of a vaccine within a year was unheard of before this year, laughable really. But it happened. And while...

President Donald Trump on Dec. 23 retweeted his own joke from 2014 concerning aliens and the vast sums of money the United States doles out to foreign nations. “I hope we never find life on other planets because there’s no doubt that the U.S. Government will start sending them money!” the June 4, 2014, message reads. The president shared the missive a day after he surprised lawmakers in Washington with a threat to veto a pandemic relief and government spending bill unless lawmakers strip out several foreign aid items, including $10 million for gender programs in Pakistan. “Congress found plenty...

After Nov. 3, the meaning of some words and concepts abruptly changed. Have you noticed how new realities have replaced old ones? Media cross-examination of the president is now an out-of-date idea. The time for gotcha questions has come and gone. Why ask a president whether he is a traitor or a crook when you can focus on his favorite flavor of milkshake or compliment him on his socks? The old pre-election truth was that new vaccines take years to develop. The new postelection truth is that it's no big deal to bring out new vaccines in nine months. Impeaching...

Progressivism seeks to replace the U.S.'s founding principles with a new set of doctrines. Undergirding the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution is a set of philosophical principles that are under assault by Progressives. These founding principles, derived mostly from the Federalist Papers, provide the lens through which we read and understand the Constitution. Without this lens, the meaning of the Constitution and American law becomes putty in the hands of every special interest group. Progressivism seeks to replace the founding principles with a new set of doctrines based on the tenets of social justice — a system which...

Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) on Wednesday blasted President Trump’s latest pardons of political allies such as former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and political adviser Roger Stone as “rotten to the core.” Sasse issued his statement Wednesday evening, specifically mentioning Manafort and Stone. “This is rotten to the core,” he said in a terse one-liner. The statement by Sasse said that “felons like Manafort and Stone” had “flagrantly and repeatedly violated the law and harmed Americans.” Sasse was the first GOP senator out of the gate to criticize the pardons. Others are likely to follow. Trump also pardoned Charles Kushner,...

The report White House advisor Peter Navarro recently compiled as a private citizen should be required reading for Democrats who insist there is “no evidence” of widespread voter fraud. Americans increasingly live in two parallel universes, and this is a shame. One side takes it as Gospel that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris won an overwhelming victory on November 3 and will take the oath of office on January 20. Another half of the population – according to a recent Rasmussen poll – believes that Donald Trump won the highest number of votes in history for the re-election of a...

It’s just the flu, bro. Universal Basic Income, UBI, is a goal of the commie Dems. These repeated COVID relief bills act as a way to get UBI. Again, as any good Dem knows, never let a crisis go to waste. The longer people stay on the COVID free money, the harder it will be for politicians to end the free money. Long after COVID’s death toll is less than that of the common cold, we may still see people receiving their COVID money. - Conspiracy theory alert (JonPreston might have an opinion here - perhaps I will ping him...

This song is the personal testimony of Anna the prophetess, the daughter of Penhanuel, of the tribe of Aser, of the people of Israel (Luke 2:36-38)! It is in the time of great Roman oppression and Anna has experienced and observed the despair of her people and the mighty oppressive power of Rome and her armies for many years. Notice in the lyrics of this song that Almighty God; her Lord and Savior; is ALWAYS observing her and taking care of her! She is ALWAYS in His ETERNAL presence and watchful eye. He always is hearing her prayers and sees...

Live stream of Norad Santa Tracker 2020 Covid did not stop Santa he on his sleigh right now. Merry Christmas Freepers.

This month is the 30th anniversary of me arriving in the Persian Gulf for Operation Desert Shield, which became Operation Desert Storm, which finally became the Operation Desert Something that counts for the third star on my perfect attendance ribbon. And this milestone arrives coming just as our military ceases to be a serious organization. Look, I’m no Audie Buttigieg terrifying the Taliban from my workstation, or a Dick Blumenthal giving Charlie what for during the Tet Offensive from Fort Connecticut. I just showed up a couple times. Thirty years ago right now, I showed up in a place called...

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Of the many threats from climate change, sea-level rise will most certainly be among the most impactful, making hundreds of thousands of square miles of coastline uninhabitable and potentially displacing over 100 million people worldwide by the end of the century. This threat is a top concern for national security experts because forced migration poses significant risks to international security and stability. The magnitude of this threat depends heavily on how much the oceans rise in the coming decades. But because of the complex dynamics of massive ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica, exact estimates remain elusive, ranging from just...

Who founded BLM? Susan Rosenberg, 65, ex terrorist of May 19th Communist Organization (MCO) is one of the top members of BLM, and being high in the hierarchy she is in the finance part. Her involvement is documented in this link: https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2020/10/30/roots_of_antifa_this_idea_has_violent_consequences_125818.html https://kekpe.pe/i/5fe3203375f8b.jpeg She is of course, friends with Michael Novick, founder of Antifa USA. The main donors of Thousand Island Currents, the fiscal sponsor of the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation are: https://kekpe.pe/i/5fe31d8324858.png MacArthur Foundation David and Lucile Packard Foundation Wallace Global Fund Foundation for a Just Society The Libra Foundation NoVo Foundation (Novo Foundation receives money from...

For the last two months, we've been wardriving antifa rioters, letting them associate with mobile honeypots to access internet, so we could look at their traffic. The results were extremely interesting. We were able to map roughly 8632 individuals engaged at all levels of antifa activity, from rioting and planning, to handling funds for riot gear and legal fees. These networks were used to make social network maps, with k=3 to identify those individuals with the densest inter-connectivity within the broader network. These represent the most socially connected individuals in Portland's antifa community; this indicates who is most valuable to...

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A top employee of Dominion Voting Systems, who has gone into hiding after becoming the subject of conspiracy theories on the right since the election, is suing the Trump campaign, a number of campaign surrogates and pro-Trump media outlets, alleging defamation. Eric Coomer, director of product strategy and security for the Denver-based company, has been baselessly accused of using his position to mastermind a high-tech plot to steal the election for President-elect Joe Biden. Biden's victory has been certified in the states by officials of both parties with no evidence of widespread fraud or irregularities. Coomer's suit, filed Tuesday in...

ATLANTA - In the first week of early voting for Georgia’s Senate runoff election, Casie Yoder parked at a polling location in Cobb County and loaded miniature hand sanitizer bottles, knitted hats, hand warmers and face masks into a collapsible wagon cart.Her goal: to help voters stay in line in frigid temperatures and cast their ballots in a pair of high-stakes runoff contests that will determine which political party controls the Senate next year. The runoffs will also test whether Democrats can again pull together the diverse coalition that propelled President-elect Joe Biden to victory in Georgia in November and...

For those who haven't heard this, Van Jones explains how the swamps worst nightmare could materialize with Trump not conceding. Video : Van Jones - TED

WASHINGTON - The U.S. cybersecurity agency said on Wednesday that a sprawling cyber espionage campaign made public earlier this month is affecting state and local governments, although it released few additional details. The hacking campaign, which used U.S. tech company SolarWinds as a springboard to penetrate federal government networks, was “impacting enterprise networks across federal, state, and local governments, as well as critical infrastructure entities and other private sector organizations,” the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) said in a statement posted to its website. The CISA said last week that U.S. government agencies, critical infrastructure entities, and private groups...

WASHINGTON - Federal immigration officials deported about 14,500 migrant family members in fiscal year 2020, returning more parents and children in a single year than they did during the first three years of President Donald Trump's term combined, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's annual report released Wednesday. A top federal official said the deportations rose because El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala agreed to more quickly help with the repatriation of their citizens in the past fiscal year, which ran from October 2019 through September 2020. Officials had deported a total of more than 10,700 parents and children -...