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We’ve learned by now that the purges happening on social media are not just aimed at extremists, as the left first claimed. They are gradually moving the goalposts to snare the rest of us conservatives too. Toward the beginning of the purges, the left claimed they were just banning people who incited or threatened violence. Then it moved to banning people who posted “false” memes (never mind that many of these memes were merely opinions or satire). Now the excuses are flying like crazy. Anything from questioning the results of the presidential election to promoting MAGA, which they’re claiming is...

The President’s son is said to be prepping a solo show with Berges, a high-profile art dealer currently representing clients such as Sylvester Stallone. The artistic endeavor follows Hunter Biden inking lucrative deals with a host of Chinese Communist Party-linked businesses, which many allege he still owns stakes in. Berges galleries have been praised on Sinovision – an outlet that has a “very close relationship” to the Chinese Communist Party’s Overseas Chinese Affairs Office. Berges has also been quoted by the program as floating opening galleries in Beijing and Shanghai.

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Two of Germany’s defense industry heavyweights, MBDA Deutschland and Rheinmetall have been awarded a federal contract to built and develop a laser weapon demonstrator that will be tested at sea. The project’s timeline is ambitious, with fabrication, assembly, and installation to be completed by the end of this year, with testing in “near-operational conditions,” and the first for a German Naval Frigate. In keeping with German timidity and reluctance towards all things defense-related, MBDA’s press release stressed the defensive nature of the weapon and laser’s minimal collateral damage potential.

House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA), in an interview with Fox News host Laura Ingraham, blasted Nancy Pelosi for portraying Republicans as the enemy. He went on to assert the devious characterization was a means to attack the Second Amendment. The House Speaker took aim at Republicans earlier this week, asserting fears amongst her caucus for their safety in the presence of GOP lawmakers had grown so much that they would have to increase funding for security details. “I do believe and I have said this all along, that we’ll probably need a supplemental for more security for members when...

Morning Joe's pretense of journalism hit an abysmal new low today as Mika Brzezinski pretended to question George Conway about the sex scandal engulfing John Weaver, a co-founder along with Conway of the Lincoln Project. Conway had been on the show to thump the tub for Trump's impeachment over the January 6 riot, and in making her goodbyes, Mika apologized for asking an eensy-weensy question about it, saying she'd be "remiss" if she didn't. Other than saying it was terrible and appalling, Conway utterly dodged the "question." Stammering and stumbling, he replied: CONWAY: I didn’t know John very well. I...

Mr. President, how can you place your left hand on the Bible, the Word of God? And then with your right hand sign laws into existence, that war against his word? How can you invoke the name of God and your oath and lay your hand upon His word, and then implement laws that will suppress the going forth of his word that will censor His Word? And those who advance it? Do you plan to enact laws that will disregard the distinction between male and female, men and women? Did not the warning of our first president involve that...

Jamie Ross Mon, February 1, 2021, 6:43 AM REUTERS REUTERS For years, actress and activist Evan Rachel Wood has spoken out about living as a survivor of sexual violence. Now, she’s decided to name her alleged abuser publicly—Brian Warner, better known as the shock-rock musician and actor Marilyn Manson.

So as some of you might know, over the last month or so I've been acquiring some new and somewhat obscure trombones to add to my collection. I’m totally pscyhed to now own a contrabass trombone, an alto trombone and a soprano trombone. Together with my tenors I've got the whole set! So after I figured out how to at least basically play them, I decided to do a multitrack recording with video of the old Herbie Hancock chestnut, Chameleon. Seems to work well for the horns. Enjoy.

My old Speccie comrade Toby Young has a nostalgic piece pining for the days of "Mid-Atlantic Man", a coinage of Tom Wolfe for the age when David Frost et al would be jetting back and forth from Heathrow to JFK on the Concorde every week. Toby calls them, rather less glamorously, "Nylons" - as in the boarding pass: "NY-LON." In my Broadway and BBC days, I did it myself for a while, although obviously not at the same dizzying heights as Frostie. All that's gone now - even if you have your own plane, as a private jet tycoon discussed...

Former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, during a panel discussion, said he believed that the country’s education system needed to reemphasize certain principles, including teaching “the good, the bad, the ugly.” During his live-streamed talk with the Office of Strategic Services Society on Thursday, Mattis said he believed that education in the U.S. should not gloss over uncomfortable topics, such as the effects of slavery, which still reverberate in contemporary society. “As I look at the way American history is taught in our public schools, in many of our universities, I’m not sure how much affection I would be building in...

A frat party at Santa Clara University attracted hordes of unmasked, un-distanced college students in parkas and winter garb, prompting school officials to create harsher mandates for those unwilling to abide by county health regulations. At least 75 people were in attendance at the Jan. 23 daytime function, reported the school's student newspaper The Santa Clara, which first broke the news. The event was meant to attract prospective "rushees" to California Phi, a fraternity unaffiliated with the university, the paper reported. If not, a Cal Phi leader told the paper, the fraternity could get shuttered. (The party was themed "Aspen...

"The coverings need to be at least two or more layers of breathable fabric secured to the head with ties, ear loops or elastic bands," CNN reports. The Center for Disease Control has issued a new coronavirus order requiring DOUBLE masks to be worn for all forms of public transportation in the United States. From CNN: The CDC announced an order late Friday that will require people to wear a face mask while using any form of public transportation, including buses, trains, taxis, airplanes, boats, subways or ride-share vehicles while traveling into, within and out of the US. The order...

On Sunday, a group with close ties to Seattle Antifa took control of a hotel in Olympia, Washington. They forced guests and staff to shelter-in-place and made threats with knives, hatchets, and other weapons. At least one hotel staff member was injured during the seige.“Oly Housing Now,” a makeshift political organization that advocates “direct action” in order to meet their goals, had rented 17 rooms from the Red Lion Hotel for homeless people in the area. But they went in with dozens of agitators and turned the “humanitarian” event into a show of force. Reports from local journalists indicate many...

There has been a huge rise in nearly all grain prices over the past year. The price for Soybeans started 2020 at around $8.50 per bushel. It now trades around $14.00 per bushel. Corn prices started 2020 at around $3.80 per bushel. It now trades around $4.80 per bushel. With both of these grains in thousands of food products, there is going to be a huge rise in food inflation. For many decades there has been a race between the birth rate and our ability to produce more food to feed a hungry global population. In the 1940s, a yield...

Published on January 26, 2021 Written by The American Journal of Medicine The American Journal of Medicine now (Jan. 2021) now recommends Hydroxychloroquine, Azithromycin, and Zinc for the treatment of Covid 19 outpatients. The irony is this is the treatment that former US President, Donald Trump promoted last year. The timing, right after the election, is interesting. Select extracts are below: Abstract Approximately 9 months of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavius-2 (SARS-CoV-2 [COVID-19]) spreading across the globe has led to widespread COVID-19 acute hospitalizations and death. … This article outlines key pathophysiological principles that relate to the patient with...

Huawei was recently busted in Europe for waging an aggressive online social media campaign which utilized a small army of fake accounts in order to sway European officials over telecommunications policy. In particular the "covert pro-Huawei influence campaign" sought to convince Belgium lawmaker's to see it China's way at a moment the United States is targeting its building 5G networks in the West.The New York Times details that in one documented instance, a now former contract employee wrote a pro-Huawei article arguing that the company shouldn't be punished based on new draft legislation being considered in Belgium. It then went...

'Captain Tom' has been treated for pneumonia over the past few weeks and tested positive last week Tom Moore, the 100-year-old British World War II veteran who captivated the nation by raising more than $40 million toward COVID-19 relief last year, was admitted to the hospital on Sunday with the virus. Hannah Ingram-Moore announced in a statement that her father, known as "Captain Tom," was taken to Bedford Hospital in the U.K. after he was having trouble breathing. She said he has been treated for pneumonia over the past few weeks and tested positive for COVID-19 last week. "The medical...

Perla, 46, a Nicaraguan political dissident, has been living with her daughter and grandchildren in a squalid migrant tent camp in the Mexican border city of Matamoros for a year and half. "It's been really difficult. You don't know what can happen to you here," she told CBS News in Spanish. "We try to make the most of it, but we have to deal with the rain, the sun and the bathrooms that are not clean." For nine months, Angela, 24, and her family have been stranded in Reynosa, another Mexican border town and hotspot for turf wars between warring...

Recent MSM attacks claim Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) is not a Ranger because he did not serve with the 75th Ranger Regiment. As a combat soldier who served more than 42 years in commissioned service, has been a Ranger for more than fifty years and served with the 75th Ranger Regiment, I can tell you that smear of Senator Cotton is false.Predictably the left-wing Salon, the Washington Post, Rolling Stone, Snopes, Military.com and other MSM outlets falsely smeared Sen. Cotton and maligned his exceptional military record. The authors of these articles, only one of which served in the military (USMC)...