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Leaders in the House of Representatives announced on Friday a rules package for the 117th Congress that includes a proposal to use (“gender-inclusive language”) and eliminate gendered terms such as “‘father, mother, son, daughter,” and more.Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Rules Committee Chairman James McGovern (D-Mass.) ( announced) on Friday that the rules package includes changes that would “honor all gender identities by changing pronouns and familial relationships in the House rules to be gender neutral.”

A security camera at State Farm Arena in Georgia appears to have caught poll workers scanning the same batch of ballots multiple times. Can someone explain this? Yeah, no, I’ve heard that one. They hand counted and so the multiple scans wouldn’t have made it into the final vote total. SO WHAT? Do you not understand the implications? The intent? The fact that this is just a few videos from a few locations, but there were plenty of places without video? Who did the hand counts? What does it say about THE PROCESS and the INTENTIONS of Democrats in the...

As I reflect back on my life it is interesting to remember how many times I came to a crossroads and had to make a difficult life choice. I feel like Lt. Colonel Frank Slade in Scent of a Woman when he contemplated facing the crossroads in his life. He said, “I always knew what the right path was. Without exception. I knew. But I never took it. You know why? It was too damn hard.” I think that all of us can relate to his observation. Sometimes in life we just waffle. Other groups this year also came to...

Here is a fundamental question: If Biden thinks government has the power to change the climate (it doesn't), why hasn't government been able to prevent hurricanes and other natural disasters? COVID-19 is being used by politicians -- nearly all of them Democrats -- to erode our liberties. If given the power to dictate what we drive, the type of house we can live in and other freedoms we have long taken for granted, government will not be able to resist adding even more demands in the name of saving the planet. At the 2016 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland,...

Beloved, I have been thinking a lot about the Days of Noah of late in light of our nation's EXPONENTIAL moral deterioration as a people (Prov. 14:34; 16:25; Matt. 7:24-27; 24, 2 Tim. 3:1-5). The more I observe, view, and study our day (in light of the last 20 years) it is so crystal clear that we are indeed in the vanguard of the Days of Noah as our Lord Jesus foretold (Gen. 6; Matt 24; 2 Tim. 3:1-5; 2 Thess. 2:3-12; Rev. 6-19)! This message this morning is for those who want to truly see, know, and understand our...

(Georgia) election data indicates 17,650 votes were switched from President Donald Trump to Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, data scientists testified on Wednesday during a state Senate hearing.A team led by Lynda McLaughlin, along with data scientists Justin Mealey and Dave Lobue, presented the results before the ( Georgia Senate Judiciary Subcommittee) on Elections.[snip] Lobue is a data scientist with over a decade of experience in a number of industries.“What we have here is we actually have fraud that we can prove in this election, there was fraud in Georgia’s election, we can prove it with data,” Mealey said. “The...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), James Lankford (R-Okla.), Steve Daines (R-Mont.), John Kennedy (R-La.), Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), and Mike Braun (R-Ind.), and Senators-Elect Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.), Roger Marshall (R-Kan.), Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.), and Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) issued the following statement in advance of the Electoral College certification process on January 6, 2021: "America is a Republic whose leaders are chosen in democratic elections. Those elections, in turn, must comply with the Constitution and with federal and state law. "When the voters fairly decide an election, pursuant to the rule of law, the losing candidate...

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is leading a coalition of Republican senators who plan to challenge the results of the 2020 presidential results. The group is calling for a "10-day audit" of the results after "unprecedented allegations of voter fraud, violations and lax enforcement of election law, and other voting irregularities." “Voter fraud has posed a persistent challenge in our elections, although its breadth and scope are disputed. By any measure, the allegations of fraud and irregularities in the 2020 election exceed any in our lifetimes," the coalition said in a statement. Those allegations have cast a doubt on whether or...

A coalition of GOP senators and senators-elect, led by Sen. Ted Cruz, will object to the Jan. 6 certification of the presidential election results when a joint session of Congress meets next week unless there is an emergency 10-day audit of the results by an electoral commission. Cruz -- along with Sens. Ron Johnson, R-Wis.; James Lankford, R-Okla.; Steve Daines, R-Mont.; John Kennedy, R-La.; Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., and Mike Braun, R-Ind.; as well as Sens.-elect Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo.; Roger Marshall, R-Kansas; Bill Hagerty, R-Tenn., and Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala. -- say that the election "featured unprecedented allegations of voter fraud and...

U.S. troops suspect that Iran may attempt to take revenge on President Donald Trump for the death of Quds Force General Qassem Soleimani on the anniversary of the airstrike that killed Soleimani. This week, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani sent a cryptic warning to Trump, gloating about Trump’s loss in the 2020 election and warning that the American president’s life “will end” in “a few days.”In a speech during a cabinet meeting on Wednesday, Rouhani warned, “As I said after the martyrdom of Martyr Soleimani, I emphasise again that if you cut off Martyr Soleimani’s hand, we will cut off your...

L. Lin Wood, an attorney who purports to be trying to help President Trump prove the election was stolen, made some outrageous, nay, insane statements on Twitter on New Year’s Day, saying that Vice President Mike Pence is a traitor and predicting that the VP will “sing like a bird” when he faces a firing squad.The latest conspiracy theory to make the rounds (so far as I can tell) is that Pence has been surreptitiously leading the Deep State effort to remove Trump as the lawful president. The “evidence” revolves around a lawsuit filed by Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) and...

Every day, states report on how many new hospitalizations they had for covid patients. During September and October, as cases were rising, we could reliably predict how many people would be hospitalized based on the number of new diagnoses. Clinically, we know that after someone is diagnosed, it usually takes a few days before they get sick enough to be hospitalized.... But as we entered November, something began to change. For instance, on Nov. 1, the Covid Tracking Project’s seven-day average showed about 80,000 new cases – which we would predict should lead to about 2,800 new hospitalizations a week...

The election was two months ago, and I'm still waiting to hear about a Democrat who beat a GOP candidate in a competitive election. On the contrary, none of the Democrats who won in 2020 have a reason to send Joe Biden "a thank you" card.There are many reasons to be skeptical about this election, but the lack of "coattails" tops my list. This is from Victoria Taft:Stories about President Trump's weak coattails were legion before the election. His likability was questioned and still is, but, what ho! Look what actually happened.After the usual midterm 2018 thrashing for the president...

Fasten your seatbelts for the new year, New York: With Democrats now boasting veto-proof supermajorities in both the Assembly and the state Senate, and several Democratic socialists joining the ranks, the left is emboldened — and that spells big trouble. “We recognize the mandate we’ve been given by voters,” Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins warned in November. “We will assert ourselves accordingly.” Yikes! ... Progressives feel no need to justify tax hikes, of course: Their enduring goal is to redistribute wealth, even if it makes everyone equally poor. (Recall Mayor Bill de Blasio’s assurance that the city has “plenty of...

In the aftermath of the election, the Democrats who control the election machinery in the disputed states have gone out of their way to avoid scrutiny. Americans have been inundated with stories of shredded mail-in envelopes, lost thumb drives, wiped computers, and slow-walked requests for documents that states are required to preserve for post-election reviews. No state, however, has acted with such heavy-handed desperation as Georgia when it comes to hiding ballots. We've already reported here twice about the Georgia ballots, but the story keeps developing, and there's always more to tell.On Wednesday, Susan Knox and Sally Grubbs testified before...

Anybody have any experience by using a flour/plaster of paris or flour/baking soda method to get rid of mice or kindred rodent invaders?Our kitty is pretty good, but she is still not getting them all. I do not want to risk harming Miss Kitteth with poison or glue traps. Is there a better ratio that 1 to 1?Anybody else have experience to fine tune?

The Kentucky home of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was vandalized just days after he refused to allow the upper chamber to vote on boosting stimulus checks to $2,000. ‘WERES MY MONEY’ was spray painted on the front door to McConnell’s home in the Highlands section of Louisville on Saturday. On the window adjacent to the front porch, graffiti is seen which says: ‘MITCH KILLS THE POOR.’ The vandalism was first reported by WDRB-TV. DailyMail.com has reached out to the Louisville Metro Police Department seeking comment. The spray painted message was found more than 24 hours after vandals struck the...

...Georgia election officials scanned the same batch of ballots five different times in a row in Fulton County, Georgia at State Farm Arena on November 3, 2020....

My garbage collection guys should be put inn charge of vaccine rollout. They can't possibly screw it up worse than the health folks...

January 2 2021 Memorial of Saints Basil the Great and Gregory Nazianzen, Bishops and Doctors of the Church Iglesia de Santa María Magdalena – Mondéjar, Spain Reading I1 Jn 2:22-28Beloved: Who is the liar? Whoever denies that Jesus is the Christ. Whoever denies the Father and the Son, this is the antichrist. Anyone who denies the Son does not have the Father, but whoever confesses the Son has the Father as well.Let what you heard from the beginning remain in you. If what you heard from the beginning remains in you, then you will remain in the Son and in...