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"Xenophobia" has been a constant Biden theme... Within moments [of President Trump's "travel ban" last January] ... Biden went on the attack. "This is no time for Donald Trump's record of hysterical xenophobia and fear mongering to lead the way instead of science," he said. There was nothing "xenophobic" about Trump's travel ban. It was imposed on arrivals from the country where the disease first appeared. The ban, therefore, saved lives, and it would have saved even more if it had been stricter, announced sooner, and had been more rigorously enforced.... [If Biden] had been president then, the disease would...

The Chinese regime’s highest court issued a detailed interpretation of a criminal procedure law on Feb. 4, stipulating that trial in absentia can be applied to defendants who “seriously endanger national security” and are based outside China, according to Chinese media reports. “Trial in absentia” refers to criminal proceedings in which a defendant is not physically present to attend said proceedings. China observers worry that the move is aimed at intimidating Chinese dissidents who live abroad. In 2018, China’s rubber-stamp legislature, the National People’s Congress, enacted amendments to its criminal procedure law to allow more courts to try people in...

Micheal Franzese-former NY Crime family member explains the Goverment vs the Mob.

It hasn’t been a very good week for the New York Times. Predictably, they “updated” a story regarding the death of the United States Capitol Police Officer, which stated that he was murdered by Trump supporters with a fire extinguisher. Of course, this change came after the left had unsuccessfully tried to use the story as part of the Impeachment Trial against Donald Trump. The New York Times has retracted or changed numerous stories that were built on lies and misinformation during the course of the Trump Administration, yet somehow people still trust the flow of propaganda that comes from...

A Maine church is asking the Supreme Court to put Maine Gov. Janet Mills’s strict pandemic-related restrictions on places of worship on hold while it appeals an unfavorable ruling from a lower court, arguing the high court has already forced some lower courts to comply with its recent rulings loosening such restrictions. The emergency application in the case, known as Calvary Chapel of Bangor v. Mills, asks the high court to stop the Democratic governor’s clampdown on churches, which the church’s lawyers describe as “the most severe restrictions in the nation on places of worship,” and would deal with a...

It is “extremely unlikely” that the virus causing Covid-19 leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), but for the World Health Organization there’s more to the story. According to WHO mouthpiece Peter Ben Emerek, the issue does not even warrant further study. “Phew. That’s China off the hook, then,” wrote Miranda Devine of the New York Post. Contrary to Emerek, a food safety and nutrition specialist, not a virologist, the WIV warrants plenty of further study. Consider, for example, recent revelations from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. “Two Canadian government scientists escorted from the National Microbiology Laboratory amidst an...

Some Utah Republicans are rumbling in disgust over Republican Sen. Mitt Romney’s vote to convict former President Donald Trump during Trump’s Senate impeachment trial.“I’ve gotten phone calls and emails, and I’m seeing a lot of chat on Facebook that people want to do a measure of censure against Sen. Romney like we’ve seen against Liz Cheney in Wyoming, and the senator down in Louisiana,“ said Bob McEntee, a member of the Utah Republican Party’s State Central Committee.Brandon Beckham, a GOP State Central Committee member who supported censuring Romney over his 2020 vote, said he “absolutely will” vote to censure Romney...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- UPS is suspending at operations Monday night at its global air hub in Louisville for inclement weather, a first since the hub was established around 2000. The company released a statement: At UPS, we are always safety first in meeting our service commitments. That’s why, with 6-10” of snow and ice expected in today in Louisville, we are taking the unusual step of suspending Worldport sort operations and cancelling domestic inbound flights on Monday night, Feb. 15.Sort operations also are cancelled Monday night at the company’s regional hub in Dallas due to severe weather conditions in...

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Click here to read the full articlePres­i­dent Don­ald Trump was so enthu­si­as­tic about the planned Air Force One redesign with its new paint job that he placed a scale mod­el inside the Oval Office – and he took it with him to his Mar-a-Lago club when he left the White House.Trump made much fan­fare of his actions to rene­go­ti­ate the redesign of the next gen­er­a­tion air­craft, threat­en­ing to can­cel a con­tract with Boe­ing after he took office and nego­ti­at­ing changes.He said his efforts saved tax­pay­er mon­ey. He also took a styl­is­tic inter­est, involv­ing him­self in the paint job and scrap­ping...

Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s cover-up of nursing home deaths from COVID-19 hid nearly 1,900 fatalities in New York City alone — with new figures sending the tally at one Queens facility skyrocketing more than 1,000 percent. A Post analysis of the latest state Health Department data shows that 5,443 nursing home residents have been killed by the coronavirus in the Big Apple. That statistic includes 1,885 seniors who died in hospitals and weren’t included in the official DOH count of nursing home deaths until the Cuomo administration finally began releasing their numbers, under duress, in the wake of a damning report...

MANILA (Reuters) - The United States is providing the Philippines with military aid that amounts to "loose change" compared to other Asian countries, a top government spokesman said on Monday, supporting demands by President Rodrigo Duterte for Washington to pay more. Duterte said last week the United States should pay more if it wants to maintain the two-decade old Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA), which he unilaterally cancelled last year in an angry response to an ally being denied a U.S. visa.

Although our Founders correctly recognized that the overriding responsibility of the president is to secure our liberties by “protect[ing] and defend[ing] the Constitution,” in this modern era most Americans likely would consider that the most important job of the president is to serve as “commander-in-chief” of the armed forces, and thereby protect the nation’s security. If so, the new Biden administration is establishing a rather odd vision for how the Department of Defense will meet its responsibilities in this regard. The national defense priorities of this administration, as revealed in public documents issued already by the president and his chosen...

Democratic California Rep. Eric Swalwell on Monday called for “a white nationalism task force” at the Department of Justice to look into radicalization.

The American Center for Law and Justice is suing the federal government to obtain information about Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell's ties to a Chinese spy. Lawsuits already have been filed against the National Security Agency, the office of the director of national intelligence and the State Department. And preparations are under way to bring the FBI into court. "President Biden’s Deep State agencies are already refusing to cooperate with us to expose government corruption, even with our national security at risk," the ACLJ said. "We’ve spent years warning you about the Deep State’s shredding of the Constitution. The actions of...

As Virginians, we must affirm what has made our nation the greatest nation in the history of the world. I will lead the affirmation. God sent me!

On Sunday night, Claudia Conway’s highly anticipated American Idol audition aired during the Season 19 premiere. The 16-year-old has been in the news a lot over the past several months, and has racked up over a million TikTok followers. Claudia has taken breaks from social media in the past, but she returned to Twitter this weekend to talk about her experience on Idol. She also posted plenty of honest thoughts on Instagram and TikTok. In the days leading up to her audition airing, Claudia posted on TikTok that she was “not happy” about it. She added that she was “nervous...

Nearly half of the wind turbines in the state of Texas froze in recent winter weather, hurting state power supplies, according to state authorities. The Austin American-Statesman reported Sunday: ..... The outlet noted that the loss of power was largely offset by the fact that the remaining turbines were spinning quickly because of strong winter storm winds. Millions of electricity customers across Texas suffered blackouts, partly due to the problems with the turbines, as the Washington Post reported: ..... The problems in Texas echo difficulties with renewable energy that California experienced during a heat wave in September, when there were...

New Maryland bill would rename 'Indian Head Highway' to 'President Barack Obama Highway' © Getty Images State senators in Maryland recently introduced legislation that seeks to rename Indian Head Highway after former President Obama. Senate Bill 213, introduced by Democratic state Sens. Arthur Ellis and Obie Patterson, would require the Maryland State Highway Administration to designate the highway, also known by some as Maryland Route 210, as “the President Barack Obama Highway.” The change would cost roughly $12,500 to cover the costs for the design, construction and installation of the signs for the highway, which runs through parts of Maryland...

This is an alternate history scenario that didn't really happen. Consider it something like a concept for a new video game. The included backstory is purely speculative fiction. Welcome to the new Totalitarian States of AmericaIt’s time to understand and accept what’s happened. The time for argument and discussion is over. And complaining about it is about as relvant as French citzins bemoaning how the Nazis are tracking mud up and down the Avenue des Champs-Élysées. The Democrats and their collaborators will do as they please, because they can. They now have the power to subdue anyone, or any group...