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Conservative activists will gather at the Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC) annual convention on February 25–28. This year's event will be held in Orlando, Florida. This is the first time in 50 years that CPAC's annual meeting was not in the Washington, D.C. area. This is because of strict coronavirus guidelines in Maryland and D.C.Here is a list of CPAC speakers to date. At this point, neither Donald Trump nor Mike Pence is scheduled to speak, but it is hard to think they won't be there. One shouldn't count Eric Trump out, either.This year's meeting will be an important indication...

In the late 1970s, the U.S. experienced an economic condition known as stagflation. This meant the economy was not growing, yet prices were rapidly rising. One measure of just how bad things were was the Misery Index. This was found by adding the inflation rate to the unemployment rate. Biden’s stated economic policies will significantly raise the Misery Index. Most economists would probably say that a misery index of 7 or less is desirable. During the late 70s it hit nearly 20. That meant there were years when the inflation rate or the unemployment rate exceeded 10%. Before the pandemic,...

We have been subjected to so many bizarre food trends and food combinations in the past year that we are quite immune to weird foods now. At least that's what we thought until we saw this new food video that evoked the same nauseous feeling again after a long time. And it wasn't just us, almost everyone who watched it on the internet went through the same ordeal. A woman posted a video making nachos in the form of a cone and called it 'Ultimate Nacho Hack', which gave us the ultimate nightmare! Facebook user Taylor Watson shared a strange...

This is a video.State by State, Trump has a huge lead, Massive vote comes in for Biden, Thereafter incoming votes always show exactly the same percentage split between Biden and Trump. IMPOSSIBLE! Veryeffective.ML/NJ

This is the text of a lecture delivered by the author as part of the Benson Center Lecture Series at the University of Colorado, Boulder, on February 8th, 2021.I am a black American intellectual living in an age of persistent racial inequality in my country. As a black man I feel compelled to represent the interests of “my people.” (But that reference is not unambiguous!) As an intellectual, I feel that I must seek out the truth and speak such truths as I am given to know. As an American, at this critical moment of “racial reckoning,” I feel that...

When will the pandemic end? It's the question hanging over just about everything since Covid-19 took over the world last year. The answer can be measured in vaccinations. Bloomberg has built the biggest database of Covid-19 shots given around the world, with more than 119 million doses administered worldwide. US experts like Dr Anthony Fauci have suggested it will take 70 per cent to 85 per cent coverage of the population for things to return to normal. Bloomberg's Vaccine Tracker shows that some countries are making far more rapid progress than others, using 75 per cent coverage with a two-dose...

A plurality of Democrats and liberals say the government should allow Fortune 500 CEOs to import white-collar visa workers for the good career jobs needed by U.S. college graduates, according to a February 9 poll by Rasmussen Reports. In contrast, Republicans and swing-voters overwhelmingly prefer that CEO hire American graduates before importing more visa workers, according to the January 31 to February 4 survey of 1,250 likely voters. U.S. companies now employ at least 1 million foreign graduates instead of American gradautes. The poll asked, “Should Congress increase the number of foreign workers taking higher-skill U.S. jobs or does the...

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer Thursday did not rule out bringing legislation to bar former President Donald Trump from office if he is not convicted at the ongoing Senate impeachment trial. Democratic senators have discussed in recent weeks that if they cannot secure the 67 votes needed to convict Trump — and bar him from holding office in a subsequent simple-majority vote — that they might invoke the 14th Amendment of the Constitution to do the same. Schumer, D‑N. Y., was asked about the possibility in a press conference ahead of the impeachment trial proceedings Thursday. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/schumer-leaves-door-open-to-14th-amendment-measure-to-bar-trump-from-office

When Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez drove Amazon's "second headquarters" out of New York City, the winner of the much publicized competition to host a multi-billion-dollar office project with many thousands of high-paying jobs was Arlington, Virginia, right across the river from Washington, D.C., where Amazon's founder owns the local fishwrap, the Washington Post. In return, Amazon planned to build a showy complex of buildings on a riverside plot of land that should be visible from many of the hottest tourist sites in the nation's capital. As usually is the case with expensive and showy real estate projects, glossy renderings of what the...

Video presentation by David Icke on the COVID-19 "Vaccine". Video...

There was a time not too long ago when only the "fringe" got banned on social media. Today, just having a contrarian perspective to the mainstream narrative, even if that perspective is grounded in truth, is enough to get people canceled. Freedom-loving news show “The Highwire with Del Bigtree” has been banned on Facebook-owned Instagram and all of their content has been deleted. This, according to those involved with the show, came without warning or explanation. The show, which is funded by the Informed Consent Action Network, focuses on issues of freedom with an emphasis on medical liberties. They have...

The headlines today indicate that more and more is going to come out on Cuomo's Nursing Home fiasco. He clearly was negligent, to the point that trial lawyers are going to organize multi billion law suits against the state. Will be to Cuomo's interest to pay them out as quickly as possible. I don't think, he can avoid the fall out that will occur. I'm wondering if our beloved president Donald Trump, might contemplate running for the office of New York Governor? What do fellow readers here think about the prospect?

Earlier this week, Lucasfilm severed ties with "The Mandalorian" actress Gina Carano after a hyperbolic social media post in which she compared current political imperiousness and cancel culture in the United States -- and the treatment of "wrong-thinking" Americans who hold views at odds with those of ruling class elites -- to the 1930s-era treatment of German Jewry by the then-ascendant Nazi regime. "Most people today don't realize that to get to the point where Nazi soldiers could easily round up thousands of Jews, the government first made their own neighbors hate them simply for being Jews," Carano wrote in...

SAN DIEGO - The Biden administration on Friday announced plans for tens of thousands of asylum-seekers waiting in Mexico for their next immigration court hearings to be allowed into the United States while their cases proceed. The first of an estimated 25,000 asylum-seekers in Mexico with active cases will be allowed in the United States on Feb. 19, authorities said. They plan to start slowly with two border crossings each processing up to 300 people a day and a third crossing taking fewer. Administration officials declined to name them out of fear they may encourage a rush of people to...

As Congress continues to work on another COVID relief bill, a group of Democratic Senators this week introduced an amendment that would provide $5 billion in aid to farmers of color. "The Emergency Relief for Farmers of Color Act" would provide 4-billion dollars in direct relief payments to black, indigenous and Hispanic farmers to help them pay off outstanding USDA farm loan debts and related taxes. It would designate another $1 billion to fund support activities at USDA to quote "help root out systemic racism." The bill also includes a provision that would provide up to 160-acres to existing and...

House impeachment manager Rep Jamie Raskin falsely claimed that Trump supporters took part in the “burning of a church” and “impaled” police officers during his speech in the Senate yesterday. “That’s before the second Million MAGA March – a rally that ended in serious violence, and even the burning of a church,” said Raskin. That statement is manifestly false. Trump supporters never set fire to a church. Impeachment Manager Jamie Raskin claims that the Million MAGA March in December burned a church… "That's before the second Million MAGA March – a rally that ended in serious violence, and even the...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Interior Department will start consultations with Native American tribal leaders next month on COVID-19, economic security, racial justice and climate change, part of efforts by President Joe Biden to get more tribal input in federal policy deliberations. The Interior Department, which oversees the country’s tribal and federal lands, will be led by New Mexico Representative Deb Haaland, who would become the first Native American to head a cabinet-level agency if she is confirmed by Congress. Some tribes felt sidelined after major decisions by former President Donald Trump’s administration, such as approving the Dakota Access Pipeline and...

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis on Wednesday did not mince words on a congested conference call with Biden and federal health authorities who are seeking to prohibit domestic travel to and from the Sunshine State. DeSantis and Biden exchanged salvos of biting barbs after the criminal president said the federal government had authority to “restrict movement” of the people. ---snip--- DeSantis’s initial reply was brief and blunt: “I will not comply,” he said, and then cited the CDC’s own statistics showing a nationwide decline in active Covid-19 cases. Florida had arrested the spread of Covid-19, DeSantis argued, and accused Biden of...

Developed in the early 1960s, the M79 grenade launcher saw use in the Vietnam War – and for those who carried the weapon, it was either instant love or lasting hatred. The weapon was simple to use. Much like a shotgun, it was a break-open, shoulder-fire weapon that could fire a 40mm grenade. It utilized a “high-low propulsion” launching system that reduced the recoil, yet allowed shooters to launch a grenade upwards of 400 yards, which was far further than a hand grenade could be thrown. The rifled barrel gave the round a right-hand spin, which also ensured accuracy.

“‘Thine, O Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, indeed everything that is in the heavens and the earth; Thine is the dominion, O Lord, and Thou dost exalt Thyself as head over all’” (1 Chronicles 29:11). God has unlimited power and ultimate control over everything. There is no limit to God’s power. Revelation 19:6 says, “The Lord our God, the Almighty, reigns.” In fact, one Hebrew name for God is El Shaddai (El means “God”; Shaddai means “almighty”). Another word for “almighty” is “omnipotent.” God can do anything effortlessly. It...