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Islamic terror has been trending down for five years. Some American officials said this would never happen. America has failed to properly fight terrorism, said former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton, so it "has spread, gaining countless new adherents." Others said fundamentalism's demand for religious obedience over individual freedom means "peace is not possible." Muslims will never embrace Enlightenment ideals like individual freedom and separation of church and state. But Faisal Saeed Al Mutar, of the group Ideas Beyond Borders, calls that view "ignorant." He says Middle Eastern young people are moving away from fundamentalism. Surveys do show Middle Eastern youth...

Voters in Georgia will determine control of the U.S. Senate and the fate of President-elect Joe Biden’s agenda as polls in the state closed amid record-breaking turnout and intense national interest under the specter of President Donald Trump’s push to overturn his Nov. 3 loss. There may be no quick answers on Tuesday night’s high-stakes Senate races in Georgia. In remarks to Fox News, Georgia-based GOP consultant Chip Lake said vote tallies for Republican incumbent Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue may track the same slow path as in the presidential election in November. Newsmax late on Tuesday projected that...

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Democrats and their allies in the press spent the last four years accusing President Donald Trump of being soft on Russia. And worse: some called the president a Russian asset, a traitor, Putin's patsy and much, much more. It was all nonsense, because behind the rhetoric was the stark reality that Trump, and his administration, have actually been tougher on Russia than many of his predecessors. Now, with the president on the way out, one lone voice in the anti-Trump press – CNN, specifically – has spoken the truth out loud. On CNN's "New Day" on New Year's morning, the...

This period drama came up on my recommended list on Amazon Prime video free for members. A greatly simplified plot is a boy, Leo Colston, who is a charity case at a public school, public being the UK definition, spends the summer at the estate of his wealthy school friend. As he is entering the journey into manhood he falls under the spell of the stunning Miss Marian Maudsley. The title of the movie comes from the role he plays passing along messages between Miss Maudsley and a farmer, Ted Burgess, neighboring the estate. Mr. Burgess and Miss Maudsley are...

Once again, votes are not supposed to vanish or move around. If you’ve been reading my posts, you know that it’s a strong (very strong) indicator of fraud when votes suddenly vanish from a candidate’s tally. There’s currently unrefuted evidence that this happened to Trump in both Georgia and Pennsylvania. Now, there’s evidence (which still needs to be corroborated) that it happened to David Perdue in his race against the Democrat nonentity, Jon Ossoff. I’ve written twice about the vanishing vote problem (here and here). Here’s the recap: Voting is an additive process. Every ballot cast adds one vote for...

The VA is rationing vaccines to veterans while Congress and its staffers are jumping to the head of the line to get theirs. The road distance between the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Washington D.C. and the U.S. Capitol is less than four miles. As far as Congress caring for combat disabled veterans and our fellow veterans who have had a rough go, impoverishing themselves or destroying their health through substance abuse, the distance might as well be measured in light years. As a point of comparison, a light year is six trillion miles. Just before official Washington stood down...

That's all that's going on. The people caught the oligarchs by surprise four years ago. That's not to happen again. They have now seized back (by whatever means necessary) both the Executive and Legislative powers. "Warm in their seats, they were loath to leave them, or hold them any longer at the will of the people." - John Adams For more detail, read. It's all there.

The problem with the first term of Donald J. Trump, arguably, is that he did not have the wholehearted support of congressional Republicans. The proof, notwithstanding GOP majorities in House and Senate, the first two years of the Trump presidency, when the anti-Trump conspirators of the retired Obama regime, with the active support of media, foisted the 22-month-long Mueller probe that was based on the falsehood propagated by the Oust Trump Conspiracy. Where was the congressman or senator to explain the conspiracy to remove President Trump in terms of the insight of Machiavelli, in Chapter 6 of The Prince: [T]he...

A World Health Organization (WHO) team due to investigate the origins of Covid-19 in the city of Wuhan has been denied entry to China. Two members were already en route, with the WHO saying the problem was a lack of visa clearances. However, China has challenged this, saying details of the visit, including dates, were still being arranged. The long-awaited probe was agreed upon by Beijing after many months of negotiations with the WHO. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said he was "very disappointed" that China had not yet finalised the permissions for the team's arrivals "given that two members...

Congress will convene for a joint session Wednesday to tally electoral votes from the 2020 presidential election in one of the last formalities before President-elect Joe Biden takes office on Jan. 20. But the normally routine proceedings promise to be a tense affair this time around as dozens of GOP lawmakers have vowed to challenge the election results. The Electoral College voted last month 306 to 232 to elect Biden as the 46th president of the United States, but Congress needs to record those votes before he can be sworn in on Inauguration Day.

More and more, the answer is looking like "nothing and nobody." Here's a question: since the U.S. Constitution provides for the legislatures of each respective state to choose their representing electors to the Electoral College, with the U.S. as a constitutional republic, not a democracy...what happens when, internal to the state, that process breaks down? Whether by state executives violating their own state law to change the conduct of the election to countermand the legislatively approved laws or by those same legislatively approved laws being usurped by judges, the final result is an inaccurate count of the votes cast. Here's...

Iran requested the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) to issue a “red notice” for the arrest of President Trump and 47 other U.S. officials on Tuesday due to the killing of top Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani last year. Iranian judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Esmaili labeled Trump as “the main culprit” in Soleimani’s killing, which he called a “terrorist crime,” the semiofficial Mehr News Agency reported, according to NPR. Other U.S. officials included in the request are U.S. military commanders and officials in the region and at the Pentagon. The request represented the second time Iran has asked for assistance in arresting...

Is it too late to save our republic? My generation believed in the United States. We believed in its respect for the individual, in its Constitution, in its status as the only benign superpower in history. In other words, we believed in American exceptionalism. "Traditional American values are worthy of a passionate defense," said author and TV commentator Monica Crowley. Referring to these values as "the American project," Charles Murray, author of Coming Apart, defined it as the continuing effort "to demonstrate that human beings can be left free as individuals and families to live their lives as they see...

Pray For the Peace of JerusalemLambs, Sheep, and Shepherds.Micah 4:8As for you, watchtower of the flock, stronghold[a] of Daughter Zion, the former dominion will be restored to you; kingship will come to Daughter Jerusalem.”New International Version (NIV)(End of Scripture Passage) There Have Been Some Interesting Theories About This Verse, which link Passover to The Nativity.New International Version (NIV) Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.Religion Forum threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind.

It’s just the flu, bro. Half of the GOP and all of the Dems are in favor of continuing modified voting procedures as a result of COVID. COVID will be with us for years and the rules around COVID will be with us even longer. This will lead to so many lost GOP elections. We must call out these fearbro GOP members, who have many supporters right here on Freerepublic. Freerepublic is the GOP base so calling out fearbros here on Freerepublic is often helpful. - https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/rep-dan-crenshaw-says-houston-tx-businesses-should-not-comply-with-new-coronavirus-restrictions Good to see Congressman Dan Crenshaw is encouraging Houston businesses to not comply...

While the bellwether day-and-date HBO Max release of Wonder Woman 1984 left audiences divided, there can be no question that the sequel’s storyline reinforced writer/director Patty Jenkins’s vision for Gal Gadot’s version of the DC Comics heroine, reflecting ideals of compassion and mercy with pathological nuance. However, shockingly vicious imagery from an early concept photo displayed by the character’s first directorial steward, Zack Snyder, presents a stark contrast to her current ethos of unbridled optimism.

With control for the United States Senate up for grabs, veteran GOP strategist Karl Rove, a Fox News contributor, joined Fox News Radio's "Guy Benson Show" where he laid out the pathways for incumbent Republican Senators Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue. -snip- Rove predicts that Republicans are slightly favored to win both runoffs, and that election day turnout for Republicans is key, saying, "I think the Republicans are likely to hold on to it narrowly because I think the turnout is going to be higher than a million, and at a million if the Republicans are getting the 62 percent...

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Republican Texas Senator John Cornyn says he won’t object to certifying President-elect Joe Biden’s electoral votes on Wednesday. -snip- “Every lawsuit filed by the Trump campaign has failed to change the outcome,” Cornyn writes. “And multiple states have conducted recounts to confirm the results — in Georgia, three times. So, unless substantial, new evidence is present during the challenges to each state’s ballots, I will not object to the certification of that state’s election results based on unproven allegations.”