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(FOX) — Parler has terminated CEO John Matze, according to a memo Matze sent to staffers that has been obtained by Fox News. “On January 29, 2021, the Parler board controlled by Rebekah Mercer decided to immediately terminate my position as CEO of Parler. I did not participate in this decision,” Matze wrote. “I understand that those who now control the company have made some communications to employees and other third parties that have unfortunately created confusion and prompted me to make this public statement.”

DEFENSE SECRETARY LLYOD Austin on Wednesday ordered a military-wide "stand down" to address the kind of extremism within the ranks that was thrust into the public view on Jan. 6 when supporters of President Donald Trump – including some active-duty war veterans – forcefully stormed the U.S. Capitol. The dearth of details about the stand-down highlights the apparent lack of understanding overall on the issue of extremism among military leaders. Pentagon spokesman John Kirby on Wednesday afternoon told reporters that commanders would have 60 days to schedule events for "needed discussions" about extremism.

The full State Senate could vote as early as next Monday on a resolution to hold the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors in contempt for failing to comply with two legislative subpoenas issued last month related to the 2020 General Election, the chairman of the Arizona Senate Judiciary Committee announced Tuesday. “The resolution is being introduced and is expected to have its First Read on Wednesday,” Sen. Warren Petersen told Arizona Daily Independent. “It could be on the Senate Floor as soon as Monday.” The resolution can pass with only a simple majority of the votes, which is 16...

by Jason SamsonSocialist Democrat Alexandria Cortez came out as a sexual abuse survivor in an emotional Instagram video on Monday night. Then she berated Republicans and shared her horrific experience in the US Capitol as a mob of Trump supporters stormed her hall and threatened her. She says she was forced to hide in the bathroom in the “near-death experience” and that the terrorists were screaming, “Where is she!?”The story, as it was initially related by AOC, suggested that she was about to be assassinated by rioters in her office in a video that has been viewed over 6 million...

On this date in 1537, an Irish lord and his five uncles were hanged and beheaded at Tyburn for revolting against Henry VIII: the last act in an entire cycle of executions. Thomas FitzGerald‘s father, the king’s Lord-Deputy of Ireland, had been summoned to London to answer the complaints of his rivals and there committed to the Tower. Said rivals then cunningly circulated reports that dad had been beheaded, inducing the hot-headed (and finely-appareled) heir Thomas to renounce his allegiance and rebel with a dramatic retinue of 140 silk-bedizened gentlemen. The Earl of Kildare hadn’t really been executed at all:...

In shocking comments made in an interview with Catholic News Service Monday, Pope Francis said journalists seem to be “always wanting to communicate scandal, to communicate ugly things.” The Pope even went after what he called “traditionalists” Catholics in the United States, suggesting that they need healing. ...

I assume it’s overkill to continue listing the evidence against death row inmate Kevin Cooper, duly convicted of committing a quadruple murder back in 1983. The blinding proof of his guilt was covered in last week’s column. To review, this included shoeprint evidence, footprint evidence, cigarette and tobacco evidence, blood evidence and DNA evidence, proving that this violent rapist and mental hospital escapee: — hid out in a house next to Doug and Peggy Ryen’s Chino Hills, California, home for two days after escaping from prison; — used a hatchet and hunting knife taken from his hideout to hack to...

THE GOD PARTICLE "God of Wonders" Biometric wonderments describes the vastness of my ability to transcend time and space for Eternity(IAM) "IS" My slide rule and plumb line while understanding is interscoped through the prism I call wisdom faceted in knowledge weighed intrinsically upon truth as it bears all in an eternal manner and sphere therefore the outcome is always miraculous and in this mystery you shall find my name EL ELYON . . . Judges 13:16-18 16And the angel of the LORD replied, “Even if I stay, I will not eat your food. But if you prepare a burnt...

New data from phase 3 trials of monoclonal antibodies for patients with recent COVID-19 diagnoses, or at high risk for SARS-CoV-2 infection, could move the needle on clinician acceptance of the treatments, experts say. Two monoclonal antibody formulations, Eli Lilly's bamlanivimab and Regeneron's cocktail of two antibodies, casirivimab and imdevimab, received emergency use authorizations from the US Food and Drug Administration in November to treat mild to moderate COVID-19 in outpatients. But current recommendations from the Infectious Diseases Society of America's COVID-19 treatment and guideline panel, based on data from a phase 2 trial of bamlanivimab, suggest against the routine...

THE RESISTANCE: North Dakota Legislators Plan To Nullify Biden’s Executive Orders At State LevelNew legislation would mandate that the State of North Dakota ignore executive orders coming from the Biden administration that are unconstitutional Republican legislators in North Dakota are taking a pro-active – and constitutional – step to push back against unconstitutional executive orders coming out of the Biden administration, and they are doing so with the power of the US Constitution in their corner. A new bill introduced in the North Dakota State Legislature (HB1164), would instruct the state’s Attorney General to review the constitutionality of each of...

On the evening of Friday, December 18, Sidney Powell, Mike Flynn, a sharp female attorney on Sydney’s team (whom I will call “Alyssa”), and myself decided to call an SUV and get driven to the entrance that serves the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, which is on the grounds of (and connects to) the White House. We had a vague plan regarding how we were going to get through all the rings of Capitol Police, Secret Service, and Marines without any invitation: Sidney and Mike were the center of global attention, and we were going to try to use that to...

AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine does more than prevent people from falling seriously ill — it appears to reduce transmission of the virus and offers strong protection for three months on just a single dose, researchers said Wednesday in an encouraging turn in the campaign to suppress the outbreak. The preliminary findings from Oxford University, a co-developer of the vaccine, could vindicate the British government’s controversial strategy of delaying the second shot for up to 12 weeks so that more people can be quickly given a first dose. Up to now, the recommended time between doses has been four weeks. The research...

Tarring Trump supporters for the January riots is too convenient and simple. Having been to half a dozen Trump rallies and following closely online, this is clearly not the nature of Trump supporters. Seems to me fringe groups might be involved but that the instigators and participants in illegal, violent acts were not Trump supporters, Are there any credible summaries detailing who was involved and arrested? ...to dispel the conclusion that these were real Trump supporters.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) will support House Republican Conference Chair Liz Cheney (R-WY) to remain in her leadership post after the congresswoman voted to impeach former President Donald Trump, according to Punchbowl News. The report comes as House Republicans are set to meet Wednesday regarding Cheney’s future as House Republican Conference chair.

Pessimistic technology reporter Kevin Roose has a piece in Tuesday's New York Times with the disconcerting yet accurately representative headline, "How the Biden Administration Can Help Solve Our Reality Crisis." Pegged to the twin anxieties over right-wing conspiracy theories and violence, Roose's article contains one of the most blink-inducing paragraphs I have ever encountered in a respected journal: Several experts I spoke with recommended that the Biden administration put together a cross-agency task force to tackle disinformation and domestic extremism, which would be led by something like a "reality czar." Cue scores of snorting noises on Twitter about our new...

Researchers for the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) have concluded that “there has been little evidence that schools have contributed meaningfully to increased community transmission.” In other words, schools are not super spreaders of COVID-19. There's barely any spread from children in the schools that have been open at all. CDC guidelines are now recommending that students return to in-person classes where proper safety protocols are in place. But public school teachers unions care nothing about science. They could not care less that a whole generation of children is being left behind educationally and suffering serious psychological damage from social...

An attorney for former President Donald Trump said he won’t bring up claims about election fraud while defending the former president during the upcoming impeachment trial. “There are plenty of questions about how the election was conducted throughout the country, but that’s for a different forum, and I don’t believe that’s important to litigate in the Senate trial because you don’t need it,” attorney Bruce Castor told KYW Newsradio Philadelphia. “President Trump has plenty to win with what he has.” Castor also pushed back against reports that Trump parted ways with his initial legal team about whether they would advance...

Forgotten in the wake of January 6 In the furor over the January 6 riot, which Sen. Mitt Romney called an “insurrection incited by the president of the United States,” a more serious assault on the Capitol has been overlooked. For those who weren’t around or may have forgotten, here’s what went down on the evening of November 7, 1983. “Listen carefully, I’m only going to tell you this one time,” a caller from the “Armed Resistance Unit,” told the operator at the Capitol switchboard. “There is a bomb in the Capitol building. It will go off in five minutes....

The second impeachment trial of Donald Trump will begin next week. But there’s more at stake in the proceedings than Trump’s legacy. The overwhelming majority of Republicans are determined to resist impeachment regardless of their personal feelings about Trump. Perhaps some still think a conviction would be worth it if it would definitively end his political career. But even they may understand that it would be political malpractice and a breach of faith with their voters to join with the Democrats seeking Trump’s scalp. But Trump’s future is not what is really at stake in the debate about the events...

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has spoken at length about her experience during the Capitol Hill riot on Jan. 6. From her live Instagram videos, it has seemed like she was on the front line, facing down Trump supporting rioters in the halls outside her office. But it turns out, Ocasio-Cortez wasn't in the Capitol at the time of the assault on Congress, she was in her office another building entirely. Ocasio-Cortez's congressional office is in the Cannon House Office Building, according to her website, her Washington, DC address is 229 Cannon HOB. The Cannon HOB is accessible to the Capitol...