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One hundred and forty-three years after it was first composed and performed, Advance Australia Fair is again being updated for what the Prime Minister says is in the "spirit of unity". From January 1, 2021 the second line of Australia's national anthem will change from, 'For we are young and free' to 'For we are one and free'. Governor-General David Hurley has agreed to the Commonwealth's recommendation to make an amendment to the anthem for the first time since 1984. In a statement, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said the change was being made for all Australians. "During the past year...

The Vaccine Before Christmas By Kevin A. Wilson (with apologies to Clement Clarke Moore) ‘Twas some days before Christmas—how many I’m not sure (The days ran together; everything was a blur). All the houses were locked down from COVID-19, With everyone wishing for the promised vaccine. The children were nestled and sleeping just fine. They were all tuckered out from their classes online. And mamma in her kerchief and I in my cap Had just sanitized our hands and hung up our masks. The year had been hard. We were due a vacation. But the thing wanted most? Emergency use...

Members of Operation Warp Speed, the Trump administration’s vaccine development initiative, admitted Wednesday the vaccine rollout process has been slower than expected. “We agree that that number [of doses administered] is lower than we hoped for,” said Moncef Slaoui, chief science adviser for OWS. “We know that it should be better, and we’re working hard to make it better.” Just over 2.6 million doses have been administered to healthcare workers and nursing home residents out of roughly 14 million doses that have been sent to states since Dec. 14. Trump administration officials blamed several factors for the delays, including inclement...

Millions of patriots have fight in them as the country confronts the greatest threat to the Republic since the Civil War. Historic elections fraud, centered on the presidential contests, involving gross criminality make it so. Whereas many patriots are ready to fight to restore the rule of law and our liberties, others express gloom and defeat. The fix is in, they claim. Should Trump retain the White House, perhaps there’s a chance to stave off scheming globalists, ruthless leftists, and jaded establishment factions, though that comes with a steep price: national convulsions. If Trump doesn’t secure a second term, then...

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Life seldom offers second chances. When opportunity knocks you can either answer the door or sit idly by as opportunity moves on to the next house, never to return. Opportunity is knocking on the doors of elected Republicans today. Will the door be answered? Do Republicans hear the knocking, or are their fingers in their ears, trying hard to not hear anything, reminiscent of Sergeant Schultz of Hogan’s Heroes? President Trump is the door knocker. He started knocking in June 2015 when he rode down the Trump Tower escalator promising to Make America Great Again. Some in the GOP answered...

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Coffee County Georgia officials sent out a letter in early December to Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. County officials told Raffensperger they were not able to duplicate the election night results on their Dominion voting machines. Since they couldn’t duplicate their numbers with the fancy new voting machines they went with their original numbers. On Wednesday morning a Coffee County official spoke before Georgia’s Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Elections. The woman told the subcommittee that when their county complained to Secretary of State Raffensperger about the voting machines and the recounts Secretary Raffensperger sent armed Secretary of State officials with...

The execution and aftermath of the 2020 election are nothing short of shameful. At this writing -- nearly two months after the election on Nov. 3 -- the public still does not have satisfactory answers about what took place during the counting of ballots on election night and the days immediately following. We clearly do not really know why counting suddenly stopped or paused in multiple battleground states on election night (unprecedented in the history of the country), or why the excuses that were offered at the time (for example, that a pipe had burst at the State Farm Center...

The more years you get behind you, the less happy you are to see one pass. But 2020? To hell with it: good riddance. There really wasn’t anything good about 2020, the whole thing was a joke at our expense. Even though it feels like 10 years ago, and was a complete joke, the year started off with impeachment. Remember that? Democrats manufactured charges against President Donald Trump, knowing full-well there was nothing to it, just so they could stain his record. Calling the bluff of Democrats, and in an extremely rare move, President Trump released the classified transcript of...

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Trump campaign attorney Jenna Ellis said that the rejections to hear campaign election lawsuits are a denial of his right to due process under the Constitution. “They need to recognize that President [Donald] Trump absolutely gets the same opportunities to argue his case that President George W. Bush did in 2000,” Ellis told Newsmax on Tuesday night. “And to treat him differently than every other sitting president in every other election is manifestly unfair according to due process and our Constitution.” But Ellis said that over the past several weeks, the court has partaken in “dereliction of duty and fidelity...

The year 2020 is now commonly dubbed the annus horribilis -- "the horrible year." The last 10 months certainly have been awful. But then so was 1968, when both Martin Luther King Jr. and Bobby Kennedy were assassinated. The Tet Offensive escalated the Vietnam War and tore America apart. Race and anti-war riots rocked our major cities. Protesters fought with police at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. A new influenza virus, H3N2 (the "Hong Kong flu"), killed some 100,000 Americans. But an even worse 2020 saw the COVID-19 outbreak reach global pandemic proportions by March. Chinese officials mislead the...

There’s no hoarier cliché than to submit a column full of the predictions as your last column of the year, and since I like my clichés hoary, here’s a column full of my 2021 predictions as my last column of the year. I predict pain. Here are the specifics. 10. No Krakens. Sorry.Let’s get this out-of-the-way. I predict President Asterisk will be inaugurated in January despite the massive cheating and incompetence that stole the election from the American people. Yeah, I know it’s not fair or right, but that’s my assessment of what will happen, and if you want smoke...

A high school cheerleader had her college “dream” shattered when a black classmate arbitrarily posted a years-old video of her saying the N-word, her lawyer said this week — as the University of Tennessee faced backlash for pushing the teen out. Incoming freshman Mimi Groves, now 19, was kicked off the school cheer team and forced to withdraw earlier this year amid complaints from outraged alumni and students when fellow teen Jimmy Galligan posted the clip. The incident gained national attention when it was detailed in a New York Times story over the weekend. Groves’ lawyer accused the university of...

It’s just the flu, bro. https://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2020/12/30/why-picking-your-nose-isnt-just-gross-its-dangerous-in-the-time-of-coronavirus/ Fear porn: Nose picking is dangerous because of Coronavirus. The reality is that I will never give up one of the great pleasures in my life. - https://m.jpost.com/israel-news/88-year-old-dies-hours-after-covid-vaccination-in-second-such-incident-653721 These people who die of heart attacks right after receiving the COVID vaccine...I think these will be classified as COVID deaths. https://dnyuz.com/2020/12/29/nursing-home-patients-are-dying-of-loneliness/ Nursing home patients are dying of loneliness...I think these will be classified as COVID deaths. - Just a reminder - Coronavirus is an overblown hoax and all of the rules and protocols put in place to “protect” us are a pile of trash.

Former Vice President Joe Biden’s plan to “advance LGBTQ equality” includes a promise to decriminalize HIV exposure and transmission laws. “In 2018, 26 states in America had HIV exposure criminal laws,” President-elect Biden’s plan reads under the subhead, “Decriminalize HIV exposure and transmission laws.” “These laws perpetuate discrimination and stigma towards people with HIV/AIDS, and there is simply no ‘scientific basis’ for them,” the plan continues. “As President, Biden will support legislation like the REPEAL HIV Discrimination Act, which promotes best practice recommendations for states.” The REPEAL HIV Discrimination Act directs the Department of Justice (DOJ), the Department of Health...

Sunday, Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) called for term limits for federal government bureaucrats as a way to curb corruption and the growth of government during an appearance on FNC’s “The Next Revolution.” The Tennessee Republican U.S. Senator explained to Fox News Channel’s Steve Hilton such a move would be an effective way to “drain the swamp.” “It has been an incredible year, one that nobody anticipated,” she said. “And one of the things I think is so precise that you have just touched on is that Big Business, Big Government, Big Tech, Big Media — they all go hand in...

At least $150,000 in U.S. taxpayer money went to an Islamic organization with ties to terrorism through a humanitarian organization from 2014 to 2015, a large amount of which was approved by the then-Obama administration despite being informed the Islamic organization was a sanctioned entity, a Senate report shows. On Dec. 23, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) released a report of an investigation conducted by his staff into the relationship between World Vision, a non-profit humanitarian organization, and the Islamic Relief Agency (ISRA), an organization that has funded terrorist activities. World Vision is a non-profit organization founded in...

Chinese expat Alexis (Xiaozhe Huo) has won the second trial race for the Camel Trek Marathon at Dubai’s Al Marmoom racetrack. A total of 11 expatriates from nine countries participated in the race. Organised by the Hamdan Bin Mohammed Heritage Centre (HHC), the annual Camel Trek Marathon is now open to expats in the UAE. German national Linda Krockenberger and Russian-Armenian expat Nonna Akopian clinched the second and third spots, respectively. Alexis said: “It was not just (a) physical race ... but also psychological. You need to have clarity of mind, avoid fear and be courageous in achieving your goal....