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Super Bowl LV: Kansas City Chiefs v. Tampa Bay Buccaneers kicked off Sunday at the Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida. According to reports, 22,000 fans attended the Super Bowl on Sunday. The Bidens barged in and made a creepy video appearance before kickoff to lecture Americans about “social distancing.” Americans just can’t get on with their lives because the Democrats have to drone on and on about Covid every second of every day. Joe Biden and his handler wife Jill made a video message from their Delaware basement bunker that played on the jumbotron – as if people watching...

Hungary’s minister for families believes that “the demographic crisis of the Western world” is one of its greatest challenges, and that without serious action to support parents “Europe will be lost.” Discussing some of the wider issues around Hungary’s world-leading programme of support for people to have families — as an alternative to mass migration, which the country’s conservative government sees as undesirable due to the long-term impact on social cohesion and the national culture — Minister Novák dismissed any suggestion that the policies are “leftist” merely because they involve state support. “I would never declare our family policies leftist....

While the Biden administration is inclined to return to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) if Iran also returns to compliance, restoring the JCPOA will not end the growing diplomatic dispute between Washington and Tehran. American diplomats and their European counterparts seek a new round of talks to address other concerns about Iranian behavior, especially with regard to Iran’s growing ballistic missile program. Any nuclear weapons program has three main components: warhead design, enrichment, and delivery. The International Atomic Energy Agency found that Iran had previously worked on the first. The JCPOA addressed the second but, in their rush...

New Jersey’s main pizza war may be with New York, but the state’s saucy rivalry with Connecticut is getting richer and richer. Months after Gov. Phil Murphy and Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont got into a Twitter spat over who had the country’s best pizza, the two states took to Twitter to continue the beef this week. The latest skirmish in the Great New Jersey-Connecticut Pizza Conflict came as Connecticut lawmakers introduced a bill that would make pizza the official State Food.

Given the Left’s fascination with European authoritarianism, it wouldn’t be surprising to see the Biden administration soon following the lead of the UK by sending officials door-to-door to enforce his Covid mandates. The UK government is working on a plan to dispatch government officials to knock on the doors of those who have refused to take a coronavirus vaccine, in an effort to ‘coerce’ citizens into taking the shot, according to a report. The London Metro reports that Vaccines Minister Nadhim Zahawi told MPs he wanted to identify ‘at an individual level’ those who have been offered the vaccine but...

Former President Barack Obama's ethics chief, Walter Shaub, ripped President Biden for publicly commenting on son Hunter's forthcoming memoir, likening it to a "book promotion tour." "It is not acceptable for the President of the United States to be part of the book promotion tour. No," tweeted Shaub, a U.S. Office of Government Ethics former director under Obama. The tweet that was issued Sunday afternoon was deleted but not before the Washington Examiner viewed its contents. Shaub also said it was "wonderful" that Hunter Biden, 51, was sharing his experience with addiction because it could help Hunter and other people...

Your betters want to decide who you can and cannot vote for. You should be angry. So the petty little fascists in the Democratic Party have decided that their first order of business is telling you who you are allowed to vote for in the future. You see, they know better than you. That first order of business was not $2,000 checks, and if you feel like a sucker you should. It wasn’t opening schools — turns out that’s not a priority for Joe Biden. No, It’s a sham impeachment instead. There is little point in litigating whether Donald Trump...

The Duchess of Sussex has some 'very serious book deals on the table' after being approached by 'numerous publishing houses', sources have revealed. Meghan Markle, 39, is currently living in her $14 million Santa Barbara mansion with Prince Harry, 36, and their eighteen-month-old son Archie, having stepped back from royal duty last year. According to Vanity Fair's Katie Nicholl, the Duchess is considering writing a book and has been approached with 'lucrative offers from respectable publishing houses.'

It is a general rule that corrupt economies tend to operate on faith and not on fundamentals. And to be clear, it’s not so much about naive faith that the system is stable or functional. No, it’s more about the masses having faith that the corruption and instability will never be derailed. Most people are not as stupid as the establishment and central bankers think they are – Almost everyone knows the system is broken, they just refuse to consider the possibility that the fraud will be disrupted, or that it will be allowed to fail. The old mantra “too...

On Saturday, a Black Lives Matter march through the streets of Washington, D.C., involved protesters dressed in antifa black bloc and threatening to burn down the nation’s capital if their demands were not met.“If we don’t get it, burn it down!” the mob chanted, seemingly referring to $2,000 individual checks in the COVID-19 relief bill Democrats are spearheading in Congress.Chants of “If we don’t get it, burn it down” as the march continues in DC tonight #DC #DCProtests #WashingtonDC pic.twitter.com/YMxy90P4oj— Brendan Gutenschwager (@BGOnTheScene) February 7, 2021Protesters gathered at 2 p.m. for a “DC Queer and Trans Black History Month March...

138,000 Points Suddenly Awarded To Losing Team At Halftime February 7th, 2021TAMPA, FL—Though they had been trailing in the Super Bowl throughout most of the first quarter, the Kansas City Chiefs were suddenly awarded 138,000 points at halftime, sources confirmed Sunday evening."After closer examination, we discovered several more points scored by the Chiefs that we had missed initially," said one official. "Sometimes these things show up in the instant replay footage."After receiving the exciting news, the halftime show transitioned into a victory celebration for the winning team. "We hope this small irregularity doesn't undermine your faith in our officiating," said...

A Critique of Joseph Atwill’s “Caesar’s Messiah”By James M. RochfordWe hesitate to write a critique of Joseph Atwill’s recent claim that Jesus never existed, arguing that the Romans invented the entire life, ministry, and teaching of Jesus (A recent online headline reads, “Ancient Confession Found: ‘We Invented Jesus’”). We hesitate to write this critique only because we worry that this will give backhanded merit to Atwill’s claims. It’s kind of like writing an argument for why Santa Claus doesn’t exist: even engaging in the debate almost gives the illusion that there is a debate. After all, even atheistic critics like...

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Over the weekend, I met with a couple of Mexican friends passing through Dallas. They were on their way to visit their daughter in Houston.To say the least, they painted a dire picture of COVID in Mexico, from access to the vaccine to hospital beds.It confirmed something that I read at Mexico Pulse News last week:Mexico's National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi) reported on Wednesday, Jan. 27, that 44.9 percent more people died of covid-related issues from January through August of 2020 than initially reported by the Mexican government, adding another layer of discord to the nation's dismal handling...

Donald Trump Jr. will go to Wyoming to campaign against Republican Rep. Liz Cheney after she voted to impeach his father. 'I hear it's lovely during primary season,' he told Politico's Playbook. Cheney has been under fire from conservatives since she voted to impeach Donald Trump even as establishment Republicans - such as Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell - have defended her for voting her conscious.

I just noted this update to the AP Style Manual — "2021 Impeachment Topical Guide."[T]here was no widespread fraud in the election, as has been confirmed by a range of election officials across the country and by former Attorney General William Barr. Nearly all the legal challenges to the election put forth by Trump and his allies were dismissed — a fact Democrats mention in their brief for the trial.In terms of fact-checkers, this lacks context. Yes, many courts dismissed the many motions of the Trump legal team filed. But what the AP fails to disclose is that these dismissals...

“House Democrats are expected to unveil their plan to send up to $3,600 per child to families with children, a vast but temporary expansion of relief to households that experts have projected could lift millions from poverty. The proposal, a copy of which was obtained by NBC News, will add more detail to President Joe Biden’s call for expanding the Child Tax Credit as part of his $1.9 trillion Covid-19 relief legislation. The plan provides for $3,600 over a year for children under 6 and $3,000 for children under 18, to be distributed in monthly installments by the Internal Revenue...

We have a STREAKER!!! The spin move was electric! pic.twitter.com/60Qvrc8NgP — Ryan Lacey (@rlacey23) February 8, 202 Must Be A Leftist The Super Bowl got very interesting in the fourth quarter as a “streaker” ran out on the field before being tackled by security. The man was wearing a pink swimsuit with black shorts with his bottom hanging out. He was able to run free for a few seconds before being brought down by a group of officers in the end zone. The man in the video has yet to be identified, but it appears he did this after getting...

Peter Navarro with Maria Bartiromo this morning MARIA BARTIROMO — Before an executive order reaches the president’s desk, it must first be vetted. It’s vetted by the Department of Justice, which begs the question — how were 17 of these executive orders ready to go, and waiting for President Biden to sign minutes after inauguration, on day one? “Sure, Maria. In my term, 4 years at the White House, I probably drafted over 50 of these orders. What you have to do is make sure you have the statutory authority to do what you’re going to do, right. And the...

DC Police officers and the family of slain Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick are at Super Bowl LV as guests of the National Football League. ESPN's Adam Schefter broke the news that has now been confirmed by DC Police in a picture the department sent to WUSA9 of three officers at the game. The three DC Police officers at the Super Bowl are Mike Fanone, Daniel Hodges and Lila Morris, according to Schefter's tweet. Sicknick was killed at the Capitol riot on Jan. 6 after he was hit in the head with a fire hydrant during the attack. He had...