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WASHINGTON, Sunday, Jan. 27. The rumor was rife to-day that Gen. SCOTT had received new intelligence relative to designs on the Capital, by secession invaders, which causes him much anxiety. If it is so, he keeps the secret admirably, for no facts in support of the rumor can be ascertained. Mayor BERRET scouts the idea of any danger of an attack on this city, and says he has no intelligence denoting it, which he is confident he should have if the purpose existed. I understand from reliable authority that the President denies that the Brooklyn has gone to Charleston, but...

Gov. Andrew Cuomo was roasted for blaming COVID-19 deaths on “incompetent government” — without mentioning his own administration’s controversial nursing-home policy that’s been accused of leading to more than 8,700 senior deaths. During a Tuesday appearance on MSBNC, Cuomo accused former President Donald Trump of mishandling the pandemic, saying: “Incompetent government kills people. More people died than needed to die in COVID. That’s the truth.”

Rhode Island was ranked one of the worst states in the country for business under President Joe Biden’s nominee for secretary of commerce, Fox News reported. Under Rhode Island Democratic Gov. Gina Raimondo, WalletHub ranked the state last on its 2019 “Best & Worst States To Start A Business” list and CNBC ranked it the 48th worst state for commerce on its 13th annual “America’s Top States For Business” guide in 2015, according to Fox News. The state faced an $800 million federal deficit at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, The Providence Journal reported in May 2020. Rhode Island’s...

A 2020 Joe Biden campaign ad described the pending election as an "opportunity to leave the dark, angry politics of the past behind us." After Biden's election, he, Democrats and media urge a "return to civility." But when did the Democrats practice the very civility to which they seek to return? Let's go to the videotape: When Barry Goldwater accepted the 1964 Republican nomination, California's Democratic Gov. Pat Brown said, "The stench of fascism is in the air." Former Rep. William Clay Sr., D-Mo., said President Ronald Reagan was "trying to replace the Bill of Rights with fascist precepts lifted...

Update: The Reddit subgroup WallStreetBets is back up this evening. What an amazing story! Reddit shut down its WallStreetBets subreddit page on Wednesday afternoon after rookie stock market investors in the general public joined together to purchase stock in targeted companies causing a major disruption in the stock market and resulting in several hedge funds to go bust. Of course, Reddit blamed “racism” and “hate speech” for removing the community. According to The Verge, Discord has banned the r/WallStreetBets server. Reddit’s WallStreetBets subreddit is the driver of an unprecedented rally of GameStop stock, and has received a great deal of...

A majority of Republicans – including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell – voted Wednesday that the impeachment trial of Donald Trump is unconstitutional. Senator Rand Paul forced a vote on the matter. In an op-ed written over the weekend, Paul (R-KY) called the impeachment process against the former President a “farce” and said it should be dismissed. “The Constitution says two things about impeachment — it is a tool to remove the officeholder, and it must be presided over by the chief justice of the Supreme Court,” he wrote. Neither of those elements exists in this case, as President Trump...

A Trump campaign advisor who promised to eat his shoe if Joe Biden won the election is now refusing to do so, making the false claim that former President Donald Trump won instead. Harlan Hill, a political consultant and commentator, made the bold promise to The Atlantic at Steve Bannon's election-night party on November 7, 2020. He said he was "one hundred percent" certain of Trump's victory and, when asked what he would do if Trump lost, he told the outlet: "I'll eat my shoe. We'll do it in a livestream." Following Biden's inauguration, Mediaite followed up on Hill's plans....

.. SELECTED PROVERBS . P R O V E R B S 6 – 2 4 New International Version, emphases added Abrdgd: the complete text is in your Bible . C L I C K : To read PROVERBS 6-24 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 6 6 Go to the ant, you...

Army officials are investigating comments on social media by a Fort Hood chaplain who questioned whether transgender people are mentally unfit to serve in the military. The chaplain, Army Maj. Andrew Calvert, wrote the comments under a Facebook post from Army Times, a civilian publication, about President Joe Biden's recent order to reverse the ban on transgender people serving in the armed forces. "How is rejecting reality (biology) not evidence that a person is mentally unfit (ill), and thus making that person unqualified to serve,” Maj. Calvert apparently wrote on Monday under the Army Times post. "There is little difference...

To suggest the media has been exhibiting a distinct tremulous excitement upon the arrival of Joe Biden’s administration is to traffic in understatement. These arrested adolescents have been singing the praises of a new era in truth and respect for the media...all while lying consistently and behaving in disrespectful fashion. What has become quickly evident is that as they are shouting praise for a new adherence to the facts those who are struggling with a Biden arrival are the media fact-checkers. The past 4 years had been scintillating for these referees of verite’. They had a bumper crop of material...

One word we haven’t heard about Iran lately is “hard-liners.” That may be due to the fact that the Iran lobby in the US has not received its talking points and marching orders. In the old days of the lead-up to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action or Iran deal, we were presented with a narrative of “a deal or war.” This bizarre and false story claimed that those who opposed a “deal” want war. No other country in the world requires a “deal” to stop it from deploying nuclear threats. Snip----- And what does Tehran want? Even Tehran doesn’t...

My head hurts, so today, just some random synapses generated by random comments from yesterday’s post: First, Deputy Dogge’s Box turtle…Reminded me of this shot I have been saving of a place called “Blue Grotto” on Malta. Why on earth it’s not called “Turtle Island” is anybody’s guess. And this post from pointman-doppelganger… Made me reflect that somewhere Monica Lewinsky is kicking herself for having such low esteem and life’s goals.And CoolBrew’s Orange wo-man bad meme…reminded me of a Kayleigh McEnany v. Jen Psaki meme from a few days ago that I didn’t save and can’t find, but it was...

SOURCE — LEW ROCKWELL Latent Deaths Predicted Among The Elderly After Immunization With mRNA Vaccine Dr. Dolores Cahill, professor of molecular genetics, School of Medicine at University College Dublin, and chairwoman of Irish Freedom Party, Dolores Cahill PhD speaking about mRNA vaccines Partial Transcript Then the real adverse events will happen, against whatever is the real mRNA in the vaccines, and when the person vaccinated comes across (this coronavirus) sometime later …. what happened in the animal studies, 20% or 50% or 100% of the animals died. Among people over 80, maybe about 2.5% will experience severe side effects, adverse...

The new AT age -- "After Trump" -- began on either Election Day, Nov. 3, or on Inauguration Day, Jan. 20. But either way, reality as we had known it for four years has been abruptly reinvented. Pfizer had hinted that a vaccine could be ready in late October. Then, mysteriously, it wasn't. Then, stranger still, it appeared -- a few days after Election Day. Suddenly, after Joe Biden's inauguration, Illinois, Michigan and other blue states eased some of their lockdown restrictions to get their economies back on track despite little change in COVID-19 rates. During the Trump Age, the...

New bill would decriminalize, support sex workers in New York A new bill that would decriminalize sex work in New York — while still holding pimps and buyers accountable — is set to be introduced in the state Senate this week, The Post has learned. Sen. Liz Krueger (D-Manhattan), who is slated to announce the bill Monday morning, created the legislation with the assistance of sex trade survivors and advocates who want to make sure workers are given help instead of a jail cell.

John Kerry Says Sudden Job Losses in Oil & Gas Are Not Biden's Fault

Axiom Space revealed the three private citizens who paid $55 million each to go to the International Space Station They are American real estate investor Larry Connor, Canadian investor Mark Pathy and Israeli businessman Eytan Stibbe The mission will be led by a veteran NASA astronaut and is set to launch in January next year The first customers of commercial space travel have been revealed, and each paid a jaw-dropping amount for their trip to the International Space Station (ISS) early next year. Axiom Space, the Houston, Texas-based aerospace company that arranged the trip, said the first fully private astronaut...

Too ‘fat’ to fight?: Ironically the M1 Abrams tank has become more logistically complicated as it has become better armed and better protected, resulting in a platform that some would argue is of dubious combat effectiveness. The Challenge There is an argument to be made that the United Sates’s main battle tank, the venerable M1 Abrams, is the best-protected, most effective, and certainly one of the most combat-tested tanks in the world.

Something happened related to the stock market yesterday that has everyone up in a frenzy this morning. I don’t really understand it all, but it involves Reddit, something called sub-Reddit and a group of day traders who assemble there, abusive hedge fund managers, short-selling, big tech oligarchs, NASDAQ and GameStop stock, which went way up during the day, but was driven back down in after hours trading. Naturally, at the end of the day, the Big Tech oligarchs took sides with the big-money hedge fund oligarchs and shut down the day-trader sub-Reddit group for allegedly saying bad things. Because that’s...

It’s just the flu, bro. https://nypost.com/2021/01/26/china-using-anal-swabs-to-detect-covid-19-report/ China using Coronavirus-detecting anal swabs because a person’s anus belongs to the state. - https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3929405/posts Rand Paul says the left will never let us stop wearing masks.