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Now that we’ve reached the post-inauguration stage of our peaceful transition of power, one person in America needs a full audit of the election more than anyone -- President Asterisk. How can the Harris/Biden administration effectively govern when nearly half of their constituents question the election? There’s only so much the administration can do with executive orders -- orders which will be cancelled when the next president is elected. They need legislation to achieve permanence in their policies. That legislation is not possible without the consent of the governed -- unless they consider our consent an obsolete notion from an...

Britain's youngest convicted terrorist, who ran a neo-Nazi cell from his grandmother's house at the age of 13, has avoided custody. The defendant was 13 when he found instructions for making explosives, then began stashing terror material and sharing far-right extremist ideology in online chatrooms by the age of 14. He pleaded guilty to 12 offences - two of dissemination of terrorist documents and 10 of possession of terrorist material. The boy, from south-east Cornwall and who cannot be identified for legal reasons, was handed a 24-month youth rehabilitation order by Judge Mark Dennis QC at the Old Bailey on...

Here is a list of corporate gun control activists. Do not buy. https://newyorkcityguns.com/the-anti-gun-list-do-not-support-them-they-hate-you/

As Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial begins today, not enough attention has been paid to the fact that Chief Justice Roberts will not be presiding. Senate Democrat Richard Blumenthal, a lawyer, former federal prosecutor and member of the Judiciary Committee, believes the Chief Justice should preside. Elizabeth Warren adopts the far more aggressive position that the Chief Justice must preside as part of “his constitutional duty.” For good measure, she adds, “I can’t imagine why a Supreme Court justice would not do his duty.” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer presents yet a third constitutional argument. He claims that the Constitution...

It’s just the flu, bro. Great to see Tom Brady, the Trump supporter, enter the stadium without a mask, not wear a mask on the sideline, and also not wear a mask post-victory. Each instance of going maskless was against league rules. Champions don’t wear masks - don’t ever forget it. - This might be harsh but it was ridiculous to glorify the healthcare workers at the Suoerbowl. Especially in New York, there was no group of people who were more filled with cowardice. They wore hazmat suits and failed to even give basic care to the people of NY...

Monday of week 5 in Ordinary Time St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church – New York City, NYReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green.First readingGenesis 1:1-19 ©God saw that it was goodIn the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was a formless void, there was darkness over the deep, and God’s spirit hovered over the water. God said, ‘Let there be light’, and there was light. God saw that light was good, and God divided light from darkness. God called light ‘day’, and darkness he called ‘night.’ Evening came and morning came: the first day. God said,...

The Biden Administration is willfully and permanently undermining the economy and the future well-being of the citizenry as well as trampling on the Constitution with an unprecedented avalanche of executive orders, proposed legislation and untenable regulations. The current leader of the United States, safe in his plush bunker, is without a clue as he and his confederates in the ruling oligarchy are more interested in consolidating power and enriching themselves than they are in the long-term welfare of the nation and its citizenry. In their mad and childish dash to purge the nation of all things associated with Donald Trump,...

“The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated.” Although he never actually uttered those precise words, that quote often attributed to Mark Twain sprang to mind as I watched snarling Tazmanian Devils in broadcast and print media rejoicing over Friday’s abrupt cancellation of Lou Dobbs Tonight by the FOX Business Network. Braying hyenas like media critic Brian Stelter at CNN could hardly contain their glee. “Dobbs is going away,” Stelter declared, adding: “I think he was partly dismissed just ‘cause management had had enough of him. They were tired of his BS.” (Apparently viewers don’t share Stelter’s view, since...

President Joe Biden on Thursday ended US support for Saudi Arabia's devastating war in Yemen and dramatically increased the welcome to refugees, ushering in a major reset in American foreign policy. In his first major speech on foreign affairs as president, Biden also froze former president Donald Trump's plans to redeploy troops from Germany and vowed a tough approach against what he described as a rising authoritarian threat from China and Russia.

The fact that Democrat Sen. Pat Leahy—not Chief Justice John Roberts—will preside over former President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial this week should draw bipartisan condemnation as an assault on both democracy and the U.S. Constitution. The very Constitution, Democrats claim to be vindicating through this trial. Traveling the globe representing our nation, and in the years since then continuing as an official international observer for other nations’ elections, is enough to impart a profound reverence for our democratic republic—where people can rule themselves. It is a rare thing, a precious thing, and a fragile thing. You see this in the...

Senator Pat Toomey (R-PA) said Sunday on CNN’s”State of the Union” that former President Donald Trump’s impeachment was “clearly constitutional.” Anchor Jake Tapper said, “Just days after the Capitol riot, you came on the show, you said President Trump conducted impeachable offenses, he should resign, he could face criminal liability. Some of your colleagues have said he should be acquitted in the Senate trial on Tuesday. Are you going to vote to hold him accountable?”

Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters has denied encouraging supporters to confront and harass members of the Trump administration. Waters was asked whether she ever 'glorified or encouraged' violence against Republicans. 'As a matter of fact, if you look at the words that I used, the strongest thing I said was tell them they're not welcome,' Waters claimed during an interview Sunday on MSNBC.

Impeachment prosecutors are planning to prove that Donald Trump incited the January 6 Capitol riots with a dramatic video juxtaposing chaotic scenes at the insurrection with the former president's remarks. One year after his first impeachment, Trump finds himself the target of an unprecedented second trial beginning Tuesday in the Senate. The lead prosecutor, Democratic Rep Jamie Raskin of Maryland, offered a preview of the trial in an interview with the New York Times published Sunday.

India has, on paper a least, seemed to enjoy quite a reprieve from the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Official reports list just under 11 million cases and fewer than 160,000 deaths so far in a country of almost 1.4 billion people. At slightly over 100 deaths per million, the densely-populated sub-continent is well outside the top 100 and far, far from the 1,400 deaths per million experienced by the United States.As it happens, India has also taken arguably among the strictest top-down approaches in the world to combating the spread of the virus among its population. In video clips...

Whatever your view on President Trump's responsibility for the events of January 6th, it was still stunning to hear Rep. Hakeem Jeffries of New York City on Jonathan Capehart's MSNBC Sunday Show this morning, argue that the Senate should interpret Trump's declining to testify as "incriminating." Asked by Capehart whether President Trump should testify, Jeffries responded: "He should testify and defend himself. But because he has clearly refused to do so, in my view, there should be an adverse impact, an inference drawn that anything he would have had to say would have actually not been exonerating. It would have...

The niece of Vice President Kamala Harris, Meena Harris, led other leftists on Twitter on Sunday night in mask-shaming Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady. When Sports Illustrated tweeted a video of Brady arriving at Raymond James Stadium before the Super Bowl, at which he won his record seventh big game against the Kansas City Chiefs’ Patrick Mahomes, the vice president’s niece sounded off in a tweet questioning why Brady was not wearing a mask. “What’s Tom doing without a damn mask?” Meena Harris tweeted. LinkHarris has caused serious ethics concerns for the Biden White House and for the transition...

H.R.1 packs into one 791-page bill every bad idea about how to run elections and mandates that the states must adopt the very things that made the election of 2020 such a mess. It includes all of the greatest hits of 2020: Mandatory mail ballots, ballots without postmarks, late ballots, voting in precincts where you do not live.... The Senate companion bill, S.1, might be even worse. In 2020, states such as Nevada and New Jersey sent ballots through the mail to anyone on their registration lists despite having voter rolls full of errors. The Public Interest Legal Foundation documented...

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Football fans have blasted a historian's woke op-ed which claims that the Tampa Bay Buccaneers' name is problematic for 'romanticizing' cutthroat pirates. Jamie L.H. Goodall, a staff historian at the U.S. Army Center of Military History, published her Washington Post op-ed on Friday ahead of Super Bowl LV, in which the Buccaneers faced off against the Kansas City Chiefs for the NFL championship. 'While this celebration of piracy seems like innocent fun and pride in a local culture, there is danger in romanticizing ruthless cutthroats who created a crisis in world trade when they captured and plundered thousands of ships...

<p>Melodramatic and patronizing corporate TV ads are as big a part of the Super Bowl as a Tom Brady appearance, though New Jersey music legend Bruce Springsteen’s obnoxious Jeep ad about the “ReUnited of America” took patronizing to a whole new level.</p>