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> Tucker: Used to be, there was a time as they say, that most sane people believed that bombing American citizens with military drone strikes in this country because you don’t like their politics, a little over the top. Maybe a little too far. Maybe not the unity that we were looking for. But things have changed. Supporters of Donald Trump it turns out were so dangerous that maybe they do deserve hellfire missiles raining down on their homes. Watch. >> We had a policy carried out under the Bush years and the Obama years of attacking terrorism at its...

Tuesday during Fox News Channels’ impeachment trial coverage, anchor Chris Wallace praised Democratic House impeachment managers’ opening argument for former President Donald Trump’s impeachment. “I thought it was a very powerful opening,” Wallace said. “It had a lot of substance to it. It had a lot of technological slickness to it. The video of the events of January 6. The use of graphics to make the point about what’s in the Constitution. The historical precedent. I thought what was particularly in a legal, as opposed to the emotional side, in a very strict legal argument. I thought Joe Neguse, the...

The gunman who killed a nurse and injured four other people inside of a Minnesota health clinic Tuesday had a vendetta against doctors because they refused to give him painkillers and had recently been given a permit for a legal firearm, a report said. Gregory Ulrich, who killed at least one nurse at the Allina Health Clinic in Buffalo outside of Minneapolis, had a particular grudge against one doctor and even affixed a sign in front of his mobile home calling the professional a “quack,” former roommate Raymond Zastra told FOX 9. “He didn’t like the doctors because they wouldn’t...

Aunt Jemima is making her last batch of pancakes. Quaker Oats said Tuesday that its Aunt Jemima brand pancake mix and syrup will be renamed Pearl Milling Company. Aunt Jemima products will continue to be sold until June, when the packaging will officially change over. Quaker Oats, a division of PepsiCo Inc., had announced last June that it would retire the Aunt Jemima brand, saying the character’s origins are “based on a racial stereotype.” The smiling Aunt Jemima logo was inspired by the 19th century “mammy” minstrel character, a Black woman content to serve her white masters. A former slave,...

Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) on Tuesday panned the arguments made by former President Trump's legal team, saying that House Democrats made a more compelling case that the impeachment proceeding is constitutional. "I said I'd be an impartial juror. Anyone listening to those arguments — the House managers were focused. They were organized. They relied upon both precedent, the constitution and legal scholars. They made a compelling reason. President Trump's team were disorganized," he said.

Protesters attend a rally to have airline and airport workers considered essential and eligible for a Covid vaccine. Photograph: Étienne Laurent/EPA He was hailed as a national hero in the early months of the pandemic, but Newsom’s job rating has plunged in recent weeks Criticism has come from all sides. Legislators have been divided over his decision to lift regional stay-at-home orders a week after the state surpassed 3m coronavirus cases. Health workers have been dismayed that some of his recent health directives have diverged from established and emerging scientific research. He has bickered with teachers unions and parents...

Fox Corporation agreed to a new multiyear contract with Fox News Media CEO Suzanne Scott, who has held the position for almost three years, the company announced on Tuesday. Scott, the first woman to serve as Fox News’s CEO, signed the deal with Fox Corp. that extends her contract, Fox Corp. CEO and Executive Chairman Lachlan Murdoch said in a release, adding that Scott is “the ideal person to continue to lead and grow with” the network. “Suzanne’s stellar leadership and business acumen is evident across Fox News Media,” Murdoch said in a statement. “Her investments in the people and...

[Catholic Caucus] PopeWatch: Morally Confused Phil Lawler at Catholic Culture gives us the latest example of the moral confusion of our Pope:Last week, in his own address to the tribunal judges of the Roman Rota, Pope Francis observed that a marital union “cannot be extinguished in its entirety with the declaration of nullity” when there are children involved. The Church—the tribunal—must be mindful of the welfare of those children.So far, so good. But now watch how the Pope illustrates his point:… how can one explain to children that—for example—their mother, abandoned by their father and often not willing to establish...

Woman shot and killed by Adams County deputies was unarmed, family says (Only a link can be called)

OANN CEO Robert Herring offers Lou Dobbs a new home on the competing cable news network. One America News Network CEO Robert Herring seemingly offered a job to former-Fox Business host, Lou Dobbs, after his former network fired him following a lawsuit from Smartmatic, one of the voting machine companies accused of being complicit in widespread fraud in the 2020 election. “One America News would like Lou Dobbs to get in contact with us,” wrote Herring. “We may have a position available for you in which you wouldn’t be censored for speaking the truth!” Dobbs’ show was cancelled by Fox...

White House press secretary Jen Psaki defended Tuesday President Joe Biden’s executive order that opens up women’s sports to men who say they are transgender. “The president’s belief is that trans rights are human rights, and that’s why he signed that executive order,” Psaki said when asked by a reporter to react to the issue in regard to competing in high school and college sports for scholarships.

Bill Gates has quietly made himself the largest owner of farmland in the United States. For a man obsessed with monopoly control, the opportunity to also dominate food production must seem irresistible. "Gates has a Napoleonic concept of himself, an appetite that derives from power and unalloyed success, with no leavening hard experience, no reverses.” — Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, presiding judge in the Gates/Microsoft antitrust-fraud case The global lockdowns that Bill Gates helped orchestrate and cheerlead have bankrupted more than 100,000 businesses in the U.S. alone and plunged a billion people into poverty and deadly food insecurity that, among...

French officials, intellectuals, and journalists are warning that progressive American ideas are contaminating their society.They specifically cite progressive ideas on race, gender, and post-colonialism as undermining their way of life, The New York Times reported Tuesday.French President Emmanuel Macron defines the threat as "Certain social science theories entirely imported from the United States."

CNN anchor Jake Tapper alleged that Republicans are responsible for stopping “insane lies” that have resulted in “MAGA terrorism.” Tapper, who works in the field of media, in which his colleagues have repeatedly spread ‘insane lies,’ made the comments during his ‘State of the Union’ show this weekend. “If there is no accountability and no attempt by the Republican Party to stop these insane lies that have taken root in their party,” he said, “this is not going to be the end of MAGA terrorism, this will only be the beginning.” This isn’t the first time Tapper has referred to...

State lawmakers are set to consider a bipartisan bill that would allow Disneyland, Six Flags Magic Mountain and other theme parks to reopen ahead of the current California guidelines.

German bishops’ new Synodal Path working doc demands female ‘ordination,’ ‘new council’‘For theology, too, there is no one central perspective, no one truth of the religious, moral and political world, and no one form of thought that can lay claim to ultimate authority.’February 9, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — German bishops and laity on the so-called Synodal Path are pushing for an expanded role for women in the Church, including preaching during Mass and even female ordination, according to a working document recently published in an unofficial but accurate English translation. The document also demands elections for leadership positions, as well as...

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg wants the United States to lead the world on high-speed rail, a goal that's easier said than done. American transportation investments been car-dominated since hundreds of billions were spent to build the Interstate Highway System in the 20th century. But Buttigieg, echoing his boss, President Joe Biden (who is sometimes called "Amtrak Joe," thanks to his habit of riding the train between his home state of Delaware and Washington) has spoken recently of upgrading American rail. "We gotta take things to the next level," Buttigieg said on MSNBC last week. "I think we have a real...

China has delivered a warning to the new U.S. administration not to meddle in the sensitive South China Sea region, where President Joe Biden has ordered his first naval moves since assuming the commander-in-chief title just weeks ago. The U.S. Navy's Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group joined the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group on Tuesday for rare dual aircraft carrier exercises involving the massive Nimitz-class warships alongside accompanying vessels and aircraft. It was the first time two aircraft carriers trained together in the South China Sea since July, and the first time the two groups involved joined forces since June, when...

In order to effectively understand Democrats and their political collaborators, one must be able to discern between what they say, and what they actually mean. To this end, I’ve acquired a translation device that can process political propaganda and convert it into the truth that they'd rather you not know.. My first translation project comes from a NYT article published by Kevin Roose on Feb 2, 2021. Let’s take a look at what’s really going inside the minds of these totalitarian wannabees. How the Biden Administration Can Help Solve Our Reality Crisis [obvious lack of credibility] Last month, millions of...

The California High-Speed Rail Authority is asking Gov. Gavin Newsom and state legislators to release about $4.1 billion in state bond funds to ensure that there is enough money to complete construction that’s now underway on the bullet-train route in Madera, Fresno, Kings, Tulare and Kern counties. If the governor, the state Assembly and the state Senate ultimately concur this spring, the money would come from Proposition 1A, a $9.9 billion high-speed rail bond approved by California voters in 2008. The rail authority’s board unanimously approved the request in a Zoom video meeting Tuesday. Still pending in the state’s 3rd...