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Ghislaine Maxwell, the alleged madame of the late American intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein, is searching for a dismissal of her intercourse abuse case over claims that the grand jury that indicted her was “too white”

Regardless of where you fall on the political spectrum, it’s clear that we’re in the midst of a critical college debt crisis. The average college graduate now enters the workforce with the burden of more than $30,000 in debt, with some outliers leaving with $100,000 or more.With a 6 percent interest rate (or higher), they’re immediately faced with an ongoing payment requirement that leaves them unable to save, unable to buy a house, and unable to accumulate wealth over time.Many politicians have proposed what they claim is an easy, sensible fix: semi-universal loan forgiveness, or an immediate repayment program to...

For four years, we were informed by our establishment media that President Donald Trump's behavior was "not normal." The abnormality of Trump's behavior became a near rallying cry for the self-appointed heroes of journalism, who spent every waking hour poring over his bizarre tweets and his bloviating self-absorption. The media dedicated themselves to preventing Trump's supposed normalization. Now, the media inform us, we have been graced by the most normal normal person to have ever normalled: President Joe Biden. Biden, they proclaim, is utterly boring, nondescript, barely worthy of coverage. His administration, too, is paradigmatically normal. Yascha Mounk of The...

This Bill Whittle video (about 15 minutes) addresses the issue of the mistake a lot of people (including him and a host of other conservatives) made when, back around 2004-2007 made a wholesale switch to FaceBook and YouTube.And they, like millions of us, clicked on the "Agree" button in the Terms of Service, never realizing how it would be leveraged by them.

In December just before Christmas, Jason Vanderbrink, president of the ammunition manufacturing companies Federal, CCI, Speer, and Remington released a video statement on YouTube (see above, very interesting to say the least) that was meant to reassure buyers that efforts were underway to address the shortage of ammunition on retail shelves. Vanderbrink was quick to the point stating, “I’m tired of the hate mail,” and “I’m tired of people showing up at our factories.” He quickly added that there has been a lot of misinformation on the Internet that his companies haven’t done enough to meet the demand.

From the moment Joe Biden assumed the presidency, immigration has been at the top of his agenda. One of his first acts was to sign a series of executive orders that reversed the Trump administration’s policies on things like border wall funding, travel bans and sanctuary laws.

The Navy spent three years and considerable sums of money testing the "Pais Effect" and may have transferred the program to another agency. n our continuing investigation into the bizarre inventions of Dr. Salvatore Cezar Pais, an enigmatic aerospace engineer who works for the U.S. Navy, The War Zone has just obtained a wide range of documents detailing experiments that the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD) conducted to test the core concepts and technologies underlying his seemingly out of this world "UFO patents." These same patents were vouched for by the head of the Navy's aerospace research enterprise...

The Violence Policy Center (VPC) on Monday released a 39-page report about the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), the National Rifle Association (NRA) and the gun industry as a whole. The gun control group takes issue with the NSSF and NRA "targeting" blacks and Latinos as first-time gun owners. "In its marketing efforts to communities of color, the gun industry frequently focuses on the self-defense use of firearms, despite the fact that guns are rarely used to stop crimes or kill criminals and are far more likely to be used in homicides, suicides, or fatal unintentional shootings," the report stated....

When officer Rusten Sheskey shot Jacob Blake seven times in the back last year, the media wasted no time establishing the standard narrative: another unarmed African-American shot by racist police. In a CNN segment on August 25, anchor Jake Tapper said, “Video shows police shoot unarmed black man.” The Washington Post, CNN, PBS, Buzzfeed, Vogue, and several other outlets referred to Blake as “unarmed.” The day after the shooting, David A. Graham, a staff writer at The Atlantic, asserted, “It’s nearly impossible to imagine any way that his shooting was justified.” Democratic politicians and celebrities jumped on the story, too....

Joe "China" Biden took office, and suddenly, Democratic Party governors begin loosening their China virus lockdowns. Joe's in charge, don'cha know, so the virus is on its way out. Heck, even the World Health Organization finally admits that the settings commonly used for COVID tests produce far too many false positives, thus inflating the number of cases and contributing to the panic engendered by months of media exaggeration and fear-mongering.Meanwhile, journalism continues to fail us in digging into what is going on with COVID, ignoring an area of inquiry that could enlighten us about the real effects of the virus...

China recently rolled out anal test kits for Coronavirus. The new protocol was recently introduced via Chinese state-run media outlets, prompting widespread discussion and, in some cases, outrage. “Some Chinese doctors say the science is there. Recovering patients, they say, have continued to test positive through samples from the lower digestive tract days after nasal and throat swabs came back negative,” The Washington Post notes. The method, however, has not been well-received by many Chines citizens. 80 percent of users on Weibo, a Chinese social media platform, responded to a poll saying they “could not accept” the invasive method. “Everyone...

On Dec. 14, 2020, with the initiation of COVID-19 vaccine distribution, the nation saw its first glimmer of hope during the pandemic. However, that sense of hope is not necessarily shared by a vital segment of the population: noncitizens.

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In a true shocker, as soon as Joe Biden took office and resumed the hundreds of millions in annual taxpayer kickbacks to the World Health Organization, the latter organization decided, after a year of false reporting, that maybe they should report positive COVID tests accurately.Essentially, they admitted that a huge number of positive results of people with no symptoms were false and the people with them weren’t contagious.Most of us normal people, who aren’t scientists or doctors, have the common sense to understand that people who are coughing and sneezing are contagious whether or not they wear a mask. We...

Hedge fund Melvin Capital closed out its short position in videogame retailer GameStop Corp., CNBC reported Wednesday. Fund manager Gabe Plotkin told CNBC's Andrew Ross Sorkin that the position was closed out Tuesday afternoon following a huge loss. Shares of GameStop have soared more than 600% in January after retail investors, organized via Reddit's WallStreetBets forum and other platforms, sought to push up a handful of heavily shorted stocks. Hedge funds Citadel and Point72 infused nearly $3 billion into Melvin Capital to shore up the fund, news reports said earlier this week. Plotkin told CNBC that speculation the fund would...

Congressman Clyburn says if passed, the national hymn would have a special place alongside the existing US anthem, ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’. United States congressman James Clyburn has filed a bill to make ‘Lift Every Voice and Sing’ the country’s new national hymn in a move the Democrat says, “would be an act of bringing the country together”. ‘Lift Every Voice and Sing’, popularly known as the Black national anthem, has had a place of honour in the Black musical canon for more than a century. Clyburn, the House majority whip, put forward the proposal on 13 January, calling for the...

In the last two months, I’ve spoken to many conservatives who no longer trust society’s institutions and who say they are giving up on civic participation. Their skepticism derives from election results that warrant investigation, inexplicable pandemic regulations and their uneven application, acceptance of violent crime in major cities, economic and cultural persecution of Trump-era public servants, and a hopelessly biased media. Their fears are justified, their despair is understandable, but their actions are misguided. Some vow to never cast another ballot. Others say they’ve performed their last volunteer hours. Those who want to remain politically active will do so...

.. SELECTED PROVERBS . P R O V E R B S 1 - 4 New International Version, emphases added Abrdgd: the complete text is in your Bible . C L I C K : To read PROVERBS in full To hear MAX McLEAN reading it To hear a DRAMATIZATION of it HIGHLY recommended by Maudeen! To see an ANIMATION of the Proverbs 9 5 0 B. C. . HOW THESE PROVERBS WERE "SELECTED" They can be illustrated—that's it! There's nothing "special" that differentiates them from all the others. . PROVERBS 1 8 Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction...

What were Senate Republicans voting on Tuesday when they opposed the impeachment trial of Donald Trump? Not whether Trump stays in office — he's already left. Not how he's remembered by history — 400,000 dead from the coronavirus have already decided that question. Instead, the fate they were deciding was their own. Sadly, most showed they still aren't ready to begin reclaiming the party from the conspiracists. Just five GOP senators joined Democrats to vote down Republican Sen. Rand Paul's motion that the impeachment proceedings were unconstitutional because Trump's term has finished. At least 17 Republicans will have to join...

When pressed to denounce violent far-left group Antifa, Joe Biden pronounced, they’re “an idea not an organization.” The day Biden was inaugurated, Antifa repaid him for the favor by trashing the Democrat Party headquarters in Portland. Antifa has rampaged with relative impunity throughout the country, but nowhere more so than in Portland – an “idea” which has enjoyed more than 220 days of uncontested rioting in the last year. Despite this, Biden has pronounced that the domestic terror threat of our times is right-wing “white supremacy,” citing the Jan. 6 Capitol Hill incident. In their race to banana republic status,...