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Alcee Hastings was appointed to be a federal judge in 1979. In 1981, he was accused of soliciting bribes and obstructing justice ... A special committee of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals began a .. three-year investigation ended with the panel concluding that Hastings did indeed commit perjury, tamper with evidence, and conspire to gain financially by accepting bribes. ... He was impeached by the United States House of Representatives and convicted by the Senate. He was kicked out of his judgeship in 1989. .... Four years later he ran for the U.S. House — a federal office —...

Apparently, the only activists and protesters who the media will label “terrorists,” “anarchists,” and “left wing” these days are those “who have been vocal critics of the city’s leadership.” Last summer, as celebrities, professional athletes, corporate America, media figures, ethnic race baiters, and the rich and famous jumped on board the Antifa and BLM riot train signaling their superior virtue while pledging their care and concern for George Floyd, cities were destroyed, businesses looted, ransacked and annihilated, and citizens and police were injured and killed. But those were called “mostly peaceful protests” by media across the country and in Sacramento,...

The most nausea-inducing moment of Sunday night’s Super Bowl came not during the public spanking of The Chiefs by the Bucs. It was during a tone-deaf, two-minute TV commercial starring New Jersey’s own Bruce Springsteen, in which the mega-wealthy musician and leftist sage revealed that his longtime working-class grift is as phony as his cowboy hat. In the commercial entitled “The Middle,” Bruce, is seen driving a 1980 Jeep CJ-5 to a chapel in Lebanon, Kansas, which he describes as “standing on the exact center of the lower 48.’’ He rhapsodizes about this geographical oddity — ignoring the fact that...

Pope Francis commemorates Abu Dhabi document, gives peace award to pro-abortion UN chiefPope Francis congratulated UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres Guterres for “all the efforts he has made for peace." Guterres has used the COVID-19 crisis as a means to promote access to abortion worldwide.VATICAN CITY, February 8, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – Delivering a completely irreligious address, Pope Francis has taken part in a video with the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar to mark the first International Day of Human Fraternity commemorating the Abu Dhabi document, which has been described as seeming to “overturn the doctrine of the Gospel.” The Pope then...

Video: Biden Press Secretary Jen Psaki gets upset because a reporter asked her when the laid off oil workers will get the green energy jobs that Biden had promised themA reporter asked Jen Psaki when the laid off oil workers will get the green jobs that Biden had promised them.Psaki refused to cite any specific date.She even seems to be mad that the reporter would ask such a question.I think it was a great question:https://twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/1358830482167848962Fox News's Peter Doocy is back and he's brought the receipts on energy to Jen Psaki.Needless to say, she didn't like that he pressed her on...

Violent crime in Minneapolis soared by over 20% last year, calling into question a litany of criminal justice reform measures proposed by local left-wing lawmakers. In total, the Minneapolis Police Department logged 5,422 violent crime incidents over the course of the year, an increase of 21% from the previous year and a substantial uptick from the city's five-year average of 4,496 violent crimes. Property crimes grew by 10%. The news comes after the city announced a tripling of the budget of the Office of Violence Prevention, a pseudo-police replacement agency staffed with unarmed caseworkers to intervene in conflict. Virtually all...

Explanation: Stars can be like artists. With interstellar gas as a canvas, a massive and tumultuous Wolf-Rayet star has created the picturesque ruffled half-circular filaments called WR32, on the image left. Additionally, the winds and radiation from a small cluster of stars, NGC 3324, have sculpted a 35 light year cavity on the upper right, with its right side appearing as a recognizable face in profile. This region's popular name is the Gabriela Mistral Nebula for the famous Chilean poet. Together, these interstellar clouds lie about 8,000 light-years away in the Great Carina Nebula, a complex stellar neighborhood harboring numerous...

The office of Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger confirmed to CNN on Monday that it has started an investigation into former President Donald Trump's attempts to overturn the state's election results, including a phone call the former President made to Raffensperger. During the call, Trump pushed Raffensperger to "find" votes to overturn the election results after his loss to then-President-elect Joe Biden, according to an audio recording later obtained by CNN. Raffensperger was adamant in defending the results of the presidential election as well as the integrity of the state's voting system.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Monday rejected Ghislaine Maxwell’s effort to keep under wraps an excerpt from a 2016 deposition that she fears could undermine her criminal trial on charges she aided the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and committed perjury. U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska said Maxwell had only a “minimal” privacy interest in the 20-line excerpt, because it concerned massages and not private sexual activity of consenting adults, and the public had a right to see her testimony. “There is no reason not to unseal this portion of testimony,” the Manhattan-based judge wrote. “While the...

The new Biden Administration has largely been focused on fulfilling its election promises in its first month in power. After reversing an extensive list of Trump policies via executive orders, Biden is now focusing on the Middle East. In stark contrast to his predecessor, Joe Biden’s administration is taking a reserved and diplomatic approach towards the ongoing crisis in the Middle East region. While the new administration is yet to fully address Iranian Sanctions or the JCPOA-agreement, it has stepped up the pressure on some Arab countries by temporarily blocking U.S. arms sales to Saudi Arabia and the UAE. In...

Lots of articles posted here on FR make reference to Biden's "handlers." Yet I haven't read an article identifying these folks. Any ideas? ID them by name if you can.

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In a report by Task Force One Navy released last week, the Navy is recommending that the service go farther than an existing mandate to rename warships and facilities named for Confederate leaders, and should also “identify assets named after racist, derogatory or culturally insensitive persons, events or language” and rename them.Task Force One Navy, or TF1N, was formed last summer to address racism, sexism, and other forms of bias within the service. In its final report published Wednesday, the task force said, “Certain Navy ship names have been highlighted by Congress and in the media for connections to confederate...

On Wednesday morning, November 3rd President Trump was ahead of Joe Biden in the swing state of Michigan by over 100,000 votes.This appeared to be another solid win for President Trump in a swing state he won in 2016. The ballot counting in Detroit, Michigan on election night took place at the TCF Center, formerly known as Cobo Hall.Then late at night, a string of suspicious events changed the momentum for the Trump Team. GOP observers later testified that at 3:30 AM in the morning vehicles drove into the TCF Center and delivered fraudulent ballots for Joe Biden.The Gateway Pundit...

Digressions. Mix-ups. Mistakes. Joseph R. Biden Jr. has a choppy speaking style that could undermine his message at a time when he needs to stand strong for our country. After Marine One landed at the White House at 9:39 a.m., Biden took a single question on impeachment before walking into the residence side of the White House. When a reporter asked if former President Trump should lose his political rights, the confused Biden seems to answer a totally different question. Biden responded: “He got an offer to come and testify. He decided not to. We’ll let the Senate work that...

DAVID ISMAY, the Baker administration’s undersecretary for climate change, got into hot water with the governor on Friday after a video surfaced in which he appeared to say Massachusetts residents are going to be squeezed financially as the state tries to reduce emissions. In a panel discussion with the Vermont Climate Council on January 25 that is available on YouTube, Ismay said the numbers facing the state are daunting. He said 60 percent of the state’s emissions come from residential heating and passenger vehicles. To meet the state’s goal of net zero emissions by 2050, Ismay said, 3 million homes...

Our first two vaccines have greater than 90% efficacy; Novavax reports 89.3%, Johnson and Johnson’s reports 66%. Should we care? What do those numbers mean to you and me when we worry about the protection the vaccine affords us? Quick note, the data has only been provided as a press release; the FDA documents are pending. Novavax is unlike the two current vaccines. It features a COVID-19 spike protein (the portion of the virus attaching to the cell) made by recombinant technology in insect cells. In contrast, the two mRNA vaccines use your cell's manufacturing system to make the spike...

Disclaimer: We hear your feedback and noticed the comments below. We want to be clear, this is not an attack on Mike Lindell. We 100% support Mike’s efforts to expose the historic electoral fraud from the 2020 election. We also believe his efforts are courageous. Mike put it all on the line. This was intended as a handy guide to the substance that was delivered in “Absolute Proof.” You can decide for yourself.Let me state up front that I admire and like Mike Lindell. He is a good, decent man with an honest heart. But those qualities do not excuse...

Mom who served time over the death of her baby boy is accused of leaving her… Dr. Fauci says we risk creating more powerful COVID-19 variants if we… Arizona Republic logoArizona Senate fails in attempt to hold Maricopa County supervisors in contempt over election audit The Arizona Senate on Monday failed in an attempt to hold the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors in contempt as lawmakers seek to conduct their own audit of the presidential election results. Breaking with the Republican caucus and casting the crucial vote against the measure, which could have led to the arrest of board members,...

I have long been curious about the pride that’s taken in the trophies, plaques, awards and degrees that decorate the shelves and walls in liberal society. I find it impossible to reconcile the joy those recipients carry. Such awards apparently gain importance when presented at a glamorous event or through an extended media campaign. Could there be a genetic flaw that makes these people proud of getting awards or trophies they didn’t earn? Like Al Gore, Barack Obama got a Nobel Prize for doing nothing. Obama was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize shortly after becoming President; not for anything he...