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President Donald Trump on Christmas Eve repeated his concerns over Big Tech censorship a day after he vetoed a defense-spending bill over Congress’s failure to remove liability protections for Silicon Valley’s social media companies. “Twitter is going wild with their flags, trying hard to suppress even the truth. Just shows how dangerous they are, purposely stifling free speech. Very dangerous for our Country. Does Congress know that this is how Communism starts?” Trump said in a Twitter post on Thursday night. “Cancel Culture at its worst. End Section 230!” he said. Trump and his administration have repeatedly underscored the risks...

An overeager dad dressed in a full-on Buddy the Elf costume — from the 2003 Will Ferrell movie — to pick up his daughter after school, and her mortified reaction was priceless. “Oh, my goodness, it’s Alayna!” Gregory Sumsion shouted at his high-schooler while wearing the yellow and green outfit and curly wig. “I know her! I know her!” he continued as he approached his shocked daughter, who exclaimed, “Why am I related to you?!” as her nearby mother captured the whole thing for TikTok. The video has been viewed nearly 6 million times. “I want to sing you a...

Congresswoman-elect Lauren Boebert — ‘Guided by the Constitution and my responsibility to constituents, I will object to the Electoral College results on January 6th.’ Guided by the US Constitution and my responsibility to my constituents, I will object to the Electoral College results on January 6th.— Lauren Boebert (@laurenboebert) December 24, 2020 Rip that omnibus bill up, Mr. President! pic.twitter.com/mShvRMPlxo— Lauren Boebert (@laurenboebert) December 24, 2020

WASHINGTON — As she asked the U.S. Supreme Court this month to overturn President Donald Trump’s election loss, the attorney Sidney Powell cited testimony from a secret witness presented as a former intelligence contractor with insights on a foreign conspiracy to subvert democracy. Powell told courts that the witness is an expert who could show that overseas corporations helped shift votes to President-elect Joe Biden. The witness’s identity must be concealed from the public, Powell has said, to protect her “reputation, professional career and personal safety.” The Washington Post identified the witness by determining that portions of her affidavit match,...

Washington (CNN) Hours before President Donald Trump retweeted a message for his vice president to "act" in stopping the ratification of the Electoral College, he met for more than an hour in the Oval Office with Mike Pence, whom he has complained recently isn't doing enough to support his bid to overturn the election. The discussion was "entirely unrelated" to the eventual tweet, one person familiar with the matter said, though would not specify whether the issue of the January 6 ratification in Congress arose. The two men went separate ways for the holiday. As Trump enters the holiday stretch...

I may not have done this correctly, but it's Christmas so I blame the eggnog if this is incorrectly formatted. This is a YouTube video, I guess a vanity, about VP Biden having a double. He obviously has gone to some trouble to put together a narrative of Biden being swapped out for a doppelganger. I can think of several reasons why this might be desirable by the Biden's supporters. There was a series on TV a few years ago about a Russian couple that was inserted into out society as a travel agent. It was a fun series, the...

WASHINGTON—Several Pennsylvania state senators, all Republicans, met with the president in the Oval Office on Dec. 23 to discuss election fraud issues in their state. Among them was Sen. Doug Mastriano, who said afterwards that he’s “never seen anyone more resolved or determined” as Trump, “because truth is on his side.” “The mood was determined. We need to find out what the heck happened here,” Mastriano told The Epoch Times. He said the group took Trump through the various concerns they had, including a dump of 570,000 votes in the middle of the night for Democratic nominee Joe Biden, during...

To the Robinson Family: Thank you for the wonderful gift you provide us all year. Freerepublic.com keeps our extended family of conservatives together. Without your generosity and commitment the site would not exist. Merry Christmas Jim. Please know that you and the entire Robinson family are loved. God bless you all.

I saved at least 8 Republican Senators, including Mitch, from losing in the last Rigged (for President) Election. Now they (almost all) sit back and watch me fight against a crooked and vicious foe, the Radical Left Democrats. I will NEVER FORGET!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 24, 2020

Before one sets out to analyze the astronomical charts for the skies on any date (widely available now in computer programs), in relation to candidates for the star of Bethlehem, one must determine a plausible date or range of dates for Jesus’ birth. Historians estimate it based on when Herod the Great died: placing it within the two previous years. The most accepted date for Herod’s death is 4 BC. Christians who have written about this have, therefore, previously mostly concentrated on celestial events in the years 7-5 BC, based on the assumption of Herod’s death in 4 BC. Historians...

“The Word: Tabernacled and Received” (John 1:1-18) On this great festival of the Nativity of Our Lord, Christmas Day, the Holy Gospel every year is St. John’s profound prologue that opens his gospel. And today, as we look at this text, I want to zero in on three portions of this prologue, under the theme, “The Word: Tabernacled and Received.” First, the Word. And that literally is the first thing John writes about in his gospel, namely, the Word. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the...

Many have called the Holy Land the “fifth Gospel” because there you can experience all of the principal events of the liturgical year in a little over a week. There are special Masses to be celebrated at each of the holy sites that take precedence over whatever else is in the liturgical calendar. In the empty tomb, you celebrate Easter Sunday every day of the year; on Calvary, the Triumph of the Cross; in Nazareth, the Annunciation; on Mount Tabor, the Transfiguration; and in Bethlehem, Christmas. It’s unforgettable to celebrate Christmas in May, June and September and Easter in December,...

Do you get this message on your home screen as well? What the heck, nobody leaves you, or me, alone anymore?

REIMS, France — The Church in France is under pressure, according to the president of the French Catholic bishops’ conference. But for Archbishop Éric de Moulins-Beaufort, that is no cause for despair. “The Church in France is being jostled in many ways; it is reacting, which proves that it is alive,” he told CNA in an email interview. The archbishop of Reims, in northeastern France’s Grand Est region, has had a busy past few months. In October, he was among the bishops offering comfort to Catholics after an attacker shouting “Allahu Akbar” stabbed three people to death at the Basilica...

On a pastoral visit to Sicily in 1993, Pope John Paul II called Livatino a “martyr of justice and indirectly of faith.” VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis has recognized the martyrdom of Rosario Livatino, a judge who was brutally killed by the mafia on his commute to work at a courthouse in Sicily thirty years ago. The Vatican Congregation for the Causes of Saints announced Dec. 22 that the pope had approved a decree of Livatino’s martyrdom “in hatred of the faith,” paving the way for the judge’s beatification. Before his murder at the age of 37 on Sept. 21,...

The Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research(KSTAR), a superconducting fusion device also known as the Korean artificial sun, set the new world record as it succeeded in maintaining the high temperature plasma for 20 seconds with an ion temperature over 100 million degrees. To re-create fusion reactions that occur in the sun on Earth, hydrogen isotopes must be placed inside a fusion device like KSTAR to create a plasma state where ions and electrons are separated, and ions must be heated and maintained at high temperatures. So far, there have been other fusion devices that have briefly managed plasma at temperatures...

Twitter can be a scary place at times. Sometimes, false news about death seems to take up the social media platform. This time, Bill Clinton became the victim of a death hoax as ‘Bill Clinton dead’ trended all over Twitter. Recently, death hoaxes have been sweeping the internet. Many stars in the past had to face the same. Right from celebrities like David Vlas to Drake, celebrities have fallen prey to such trends. Recently, Clinton has been on the receiving end of this.

Santa came a bit early for Western New York gym owner Robbie Dinero in the form of a preliminary injunction from a state judge that allows him to reopen his gym at full capacity. The oral ruling Wednesday by State Supreme Court Judge Judge Paul B. Wojtaszek said the state’s order closing gyms was arbitrary and capricious, attorney Paul Cambria said, WGRZ-TV reported. Dinero’s Athletes Unleashed gym, located in the Buffalo suburb of Orchard Park, will now be able to open at 100 percent capacity. “It was unsupported by anything the state submitted,” Cambria said, according to WBEN-AM. “Would it...

This is one of the greatest, most unexpected and underrated Christmas song of all time.

Merry Christmas to President Trump, the First Lady, and the Trump family! God bless you! And thank you for fighting for our country! We Levinites stand with you!(Feel free to leave your holiday message to the Trumps below!) — Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) December 24, 2020