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Our government has appointed itself as judge, jury, and executioner of its own alleged misconduct. Unsurprisingly, it has found itself innocent. This is an inherently corrupt system and the way to change it is to “impeach” our government using a constitutional convention. The Supreme Court’s decision denying the most recent Trump election lawsuit, recalls the case of Corinna Mullen. Her brutal murder went unsolved for years until an investigator found one slip of paper. That document revealed that his predecessor had requested that the state crime lab return evidence without testing it. The evidence was later lost or “disappeared.” It...

I am just old enough to remember a racist south. It is where I was born. The place where I lived was transforming around me as I grew up. We got “woke” before it was a thing. I was too immature to see it at the time and only came to understand what happened after many years of reflection on those events. Some of the last vestiges of the Jim Crow south remained in my small community. Schools were still segregated when I started school. Only Whites were allowed to sit in the lower level of the movie theater. African-Americans...

A few years back, Jim Caviezel spoke at a number of venues to discuss his new movie, Paul, Apostle of Christ. Rather than shying away from his Christianity or attempting to filter his words through the lens of pop culture's censorship, he passionately urged his listeners to become "proud warriors, animated by their faith" in fighting, and even dying, for the preservation of human freedom. When he spoke of freedom, he was clear to articulate that God's gift to His children is not the freedom to do recklessly whatever we wish, but rather the freedom to choose wisely how we...

Data released this week from the Tokyo Metropolitan Board of Education released showed that 44.6% of Tokyo’s 177 full-time high schools request “real hair certificates.” Students with hair that don’t adhere to the “straight and black” standard are asked to submit proof that their hair is natural. Some schools reportedly ask for childhood photos as evidence. The certificates must also be signed by a guardian. In filing this form, schools can “prevent any misunderstanding about a student’s natural hair,” the Tokyo board stated. Japan’s school rules have repeatedly come under fire for being too strict, with guidelines often cited as...

A man is being held on $10,000 bail after he allegedly kicked a police officer. Christopher M. Thompson, 42, of Rathdrum, is charged with battery upon an officer, a felony. He is also charged with resisting and being intoxicated on a roadway, both misdemeanors. Police responded Wednesday night to a report that a man who appeared intoxicated was wandering outside a Coeur d’Alene motel. Management reportedly wanted the man, later identified as Thompson, trespassed from the premises. Thompson was staggering in the middle of the road near the intersection of 20th Street and Lakeside Avenue when police contacted him, according...

If you’ve a memory longer than a nanosecond you might recall that in 2016 when he was nominated by then-President Obama to the Supreme Court to fill the vacancy created by Justice Antonin Scalia’s death, Merrick Garland was widely touted as a “moderate.” President Biden has now nominated him for the slot of Attorney General, and the confirmation vote is scheduled for this coming week. How do you define moderate? His confirmation hearings reveal to me that Garland is certainly not one: Last summer, 220 cities were besieged by gangs that attacked homes, businesses, federal buildings, and local law enforcement....

Rioters vandalized several buildings in downtown Portland, Ore., on Saturday night in one of the largest protests in weeks, according to reports. Around 150 people marched through Portland’s Pearl District in what’s called a "direct action" event, smashing windows of businesses like Starbucks, Chipotle, Umpqua Bank and Urban Pantry and tagging them with graffiti, KION-TV in Portland reported. One vandal wrote "banks suck" on Umpqua Bank’s façade, a Portland Tribune reporter tweeted. The marchers were protesting the Biden administration’s immigration policy and the federal agency Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The White House received progressive pushback this month when it...

Things are finally getting real for New York’s thug Governor. – In the world of the American left, no story is considered to be real until it is carried by the New York Times. Yes, that really is the demented little world your leftwing friends live in. So long as the Times is ignoring any story – like Hunter Biden’s laptop, for example – liberals, in their demented minds, believe that gives them a pass on believing it’s real. This is why your leftwing friends still don’t acknowledge the unarguable fact that high officials in the Obama/Biden administration – including...

Where does the conspiracy theory come from?The belief that Trump will be sworn in on March 4 is rooted in theories promoted by the obscure sovereign citizen movement. The sovereign citizen movement is a highly-fragmented grouping of Americans who believe taxes, US currency, and even the US government to be illegitimate. A minority of them believe that laws do not apply to them at all, resulting in the FBI designating some members as "domestic terrorists" and "anti-government extremists." A central tenet of the movement is that the 14th Amendment, ratified in 1868, converted "sovereign citizens" into "federal citizens." This belief...

This seems like a big deal, doesn’t it? – If we had a functioning news media based on real standards of journalism in this country, this would not be news at all, since President Trump told us weeks ago that he had offered to call in National Guard troops to help Capitol Police control the Capitol grounds on January 6, but was turned down by Nancy Pelosi. The entirety of the corrupt national news media ignored Trump for the simple fact that statement did not conform to their preferred narrative that the Capitol riot was in fact an attempted insurrection...

If Joe Biden gives a State of the Union address sometime this March, it will be late, based on precedence, but still in accordance with an 87-year tradition. All of which brings up the question: if Joe Biden does not deliver or cannot deliver a State of the Union address, is he truly the president? In 38 days, he has not held a full press conference. Each of us who frequent Townhall.com and read the articles has known for quite a while that poor old Joe lacks the cognitive capability to handle the job. He is a mere puppet to...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit yesterday vacated a 2020 decision that blocked California's ban on magazines that hold more than 10 rounds. A federal judge in 2019 concluded that the law, which prohibits possession as well as manufacture and sale, was inconsistent with the Second Amendment. Last year a three-judge 9th Circuit panel agreed. Now the full court will rehear Duncan v. Becerra, raising the possibility that the ban will be upheld after all. California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, the defendant in the lawsuit, welcomed that development. "Large-capacity magazines have been used in many horrific mass...

Today, we reach Vol. 50 of these studies. Therefore, I must thank: Lord Jesus Christ, Townhall editors and management, loyal readers – including those who send me inspiring personal Gmails, and husband David for his thoughtful edits.Over the last year, readers have asked, “Where is Vol. 1?” The topic was Melchizedek, but not headlined “Vol. 1” when posted on RedState in Sept. 2019. Then, last year, when the first study was transferred to Townhall and chronologically inserted into my archive, it was distanced from Vol. 2, dated Feb. 2, 2020. Now, to “celebrate” Vol. 50, I felt called to again...

The Jack Benny ProgramSelected episodes...Jack Goes To A Gym (to impress his pretty new secretary)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZxWMvJrPbsHow Jack Met Mary (based on the true story of how he met his real wife, at a department store)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvfgG9BckI8Christmas Shopping (old cheapskate Benny, as always, out to save a penny)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u17Xo0dqJ34Jack at the Supermarket(Again, Jack out penny-saving)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqbmnZ7sgZMJack Renews His Driver’s Licensehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPmpJGmlVCcJack Goes To The Cafeteria(cheapskate Jack takes a guest on his show out to eat)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPh6AAGqPjk

The event, “When Black Athletes Protest,” was subjected to racist audio and video... guests and panelists were subjected to “a song featuring violent, racial slurs; a video depicting graphic self-harm; and audio of an explicit sexual nature.” Like the first attack, university police are investigating the incident. They are working with the Pa. State Police and FBI... IATS was able to trace the IP addresses of the attackers, that were found to be based in foreign countries. In response to the attack, university administration will be reviewing security and policies of all virtual events. A Feb. 13 Poetry and Sip...

Story at a Glance: Tech giants with deep ties to the U.S. national security state — Microsoft, Oracle and the MITRE Corporation — have partnered with healthcare companies to create the Vaccination Credential Initiative (VCI) to advance the implementation of digital COVID-19 vaccination records. The initiative is essentially built on a common framework of digital vaccination “wallets” called SMART Health Cards that are meant to “work across organizational and jurisdictional boundaries” as part of a new global vaccination-record infrastructure. SMART Health Cards are expected to include a person’s complete name, gender, birth date, mobile phone number and email address in...

The Talk Shows February 28th, 2021 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Anchored by Chris Wallass: Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.); Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.); White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki; Caleb Anderson, 12-year-old recruited by Georgia Tech. Panel: Ben Domenech; Jane Harman; Susan Page, USA Today. MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Hosted by Chuck U. Toad: Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases; Canadian PM Justin Trudeau; Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio). Panel: O. Kay Henderson, Radio Iowa; Carol Lee; Eugene Robinson; Bret Stephens. FACE THE NATION (CBS): Margaret Brennan...

This is part deux of my series on the communist takeover of the United States. Part one, last week's column, centered on the real new president: Barack Obama. I do believe the new president is, in fact, the old president. This is the third term of Obama. The first time around, Obama tried his best to destroy America, American exceptionalism, our Judeo-Christian values, our capitalist economic system, our health care system (17.7% of the U.S. economy in 2019) and the great American middle class. Obama gave it his best shot. He crippled America, but he couldn't quite finish the job....

Almost everything you are being told to believe by the mainstream media is a lie. The legacy media has long since chosen sides and will brazenly cover up anything that could reflect poorly on Democrats, yet will assiduously traffic in any and all innuendo, hearsay, and slander that they feel will harm Republicans/conservatives/Trump supporters. They gleefully promulgate prevarication in their unending quest to damage Democrats’ political opponents. Hatred-addled late night television hosts compete to see who can spout the most ignorant inanities. Colleges and universities no longer care about providing their students a well-rounded, classical education. They care only of...

Who's really Latino? For millions of Americans, the issues around racial, cultural and ethnic identity are complicated. There are broad debates about how best to describe Americans of Spanish-speaking, Latin American descent (is it Hispanic? Latinx?), and endless choices reflect self-identification preferences. Claiming Hispanic, Latino or Latinx identity is a matter of personal choice. As the Pew Research Center said in a 2020 report: "Who is Hispanic? Anyone who says they are." But a recent controversy illustrates the tension between identifying as part of a group and being accused of appropriating an ethnic or racial community. Until January, Natasha Lycia...