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As I wrote elsewhere today, “As a rule, people who fight public disclosure tend to have something to hide.” I should add that when they conceal material even after being forced by a court order to disclose it, there’s even more reason to believe that there is something they are hiding.The July 2016 murder of DNC Staffer Seth Rich has drawn our attention for years, and been the subject of litigation and efforts to suppress inquiry. But finally, after denying it had anything on the case, the FBI has been compelled via an FOIA lawsuit to disclose its records, and...

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Five years ago, 63% of Americans mostly watched television through cable and satellite. Today, that percentage has dropped to fewer than half of all Americans, while the percentage of those primarily watching television via a streaming service on the internet has jumped 17 percentage points, from 20% in 2016 to 37% today. About one in 10 Americans watch their TV through a digital antenna, which replaced old-fashioned broadcast television several years ago.

The Biden Administration’s acting general counsel for the National Labor Relations Board Peter Sung Ohr ordered the votes of 800 poultry workers who didn’t want to be members or have the United Food and Commercial Workers union (UFCW) represent them to be trashed. He justified this ruling by saying “a prior agreement between the UFCW and the owners of the Delaware processing plant overrides the wishes of the affected employees.” Oscar Cruz Sosa, the employee who championed the vote to decertify the UFCW as the workers’ representative complained that “this Union doesn’t represent the workers. It exploits and abuses them....

From where we sit today, with a feckless president sliding into dementia, whose family has received billions from the Chinese and who may be caught in the web of blackmail for his, or his son’s, sexual predilections, China is in the catbird seat and we are doomed. Perhaps, though, China is not as all-powerful or impregnable as it appears. Totalitarian societies have serious structural problems and China is showing all of them. My initial premise is that there is no better system for wealth creation than the free market. Before leftists shackled America with punitive wealth transfer taxes and harmful...

Joe Biden's appearance at his virtual earth summit this week with world leaders has been a nonstop embarassment. According to the hostile Russian television propaganda outlet Ruptly.tv, via Twitter, Biden presented this prepossessing image in his public message to the world, through some post-event talk show host. Far as I know, the video doesn't appear to be manipulated. The Russkis just know a ridiculous shot when they see one and all they needed to do was spread it around.Bad as that looks, the worst of his appearance was in the content of his speeches and plans for us, all of...

You can’t weep your way into this heavenly place. You can’t study or work or will your way in. No, the only way to the throne-life is by way of a living sacrifice: “present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service” (Romans 12:1). Paul is speaking from experience. Here is a man who was rejected, tempted, persecuted, beaten, jailed, shipwrecked, stoned. Paul also had all the cares of the church laid on him. Now he’s saying to us, “Do you want to know how I came to be content in whatever condition I...

Almost 35 years ago, scientists made the then-radical proposal that colossal hydrogen bombs called novae go through a very long-term life cycle after erupting, fading to obscurity for hundreds of thousands of years and then building back up to become full-fledged novae once more. A new study is the first to fully model the work and incorporate all of the feedback factors now known to control these systems, backing up the original prediction while bringing new details to light. Published this week in the journal Nature Astronomy, the study confirms that the novae we observe flashing throughout the universe represent...

“If we have only hoped in Christ in this life, we are of all men most to be pitied” (1 Corinthians 15:19). Without Christ’s resurrection, our individual Christian lives would be pathetic exercises in futility. In ancient times the strongest swimmer among the sailors on a ship was called the archegos, a Greek word that means “front-runner” or “pioneer.” If as the ship approached shore, it got caught in waves so strong that a safe landing was doubtful, the archegos would fasten one end of a long rope to the ship, tie the other end around himself, jump into the...

Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland now holds sway over much of the policy relating to U.S. land use, including energy, mineral, and agricultural resources.The Chinese communists stand to gain huge advantages over this country through this arrangement.

Only problem is the dopey crowd who talk and make noise throughout much of it. However, they quiet down somewhat as it moves on.A Random Girl Steps Up To A Karaoke Machine and Floors Everyone19,573,169 views | Aug 12, 2012 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=023CWTfHiWs

UFC fighter Chris Weidman snapped his leg in half during a fight against Uriah Hall on Saturday night and had to be transported out of the arena on a stretcher.Weidman, a former UFC middleweight champion, “appeared to suffer the same gruesome leg injury in a loss to Uriah Hall that Anderson Silva suffered during a fight against Weidman nearly eight years ago,” ESPN reported. “Hall (17-9) defeated Weidman (15-6) via TKO just 17 seconds into their 185-pound contest at UFC 261, when Weidman’s lower right leg snapped after Hall checked his very first leg kick.”WATCH (warning: c ontains graphic footage):

California has banned selling gasoline cars in the state after 2035, and Britain is aiming for 2030 For growing numbers of people, the car era as we’ve known it, as an expression of identity, will fade away, except for a passionate minority that wants to keep their hands on the wheel. When GM’s very first car, the Chevrolet Classic 6, appeared on Detroit’s streets in 1912, it ran on gasoline. Some 112 years later, in 2034, the very last GM car that runs on gasoline is scheduled to roll off the assembly line. Starting in 2035, GM intends to make...

There are a few threads on this but I can't make heads or tails out of what is happening. Certainly, we aren't going to get the scoop from MSM (which I'm not even paying attention to). From what I understand, all the Maricopa ballots are in some sort of sports arena in which various groups in different colored shirts (like on an aircraft carrier) are going through the ballots. From all indications, these are the "good guys" doing an independent audit. I'm hearing anything from 2 to 45 days to go through all these ballots. I'm leaning towards 45 days...

The confrontation between the police and the black man was heated by the police response to the question … do they kill him as they did? Ma’Khia Bryant? The incident happened in Washington, DC. The video shows a police officer being heckled by an unknown bystander who asks him if he’s going to kill him “like Ma’Khia Bryant.” The officer responds, “Are you gonna try and stab somebody like her?” The Twitter user who originally posted the video complains that it’s a Black police officer who retorted, “Are you going to stab, someone like her.” Video below: Twitter LinkIt’s unclear...

Joe Biden says he has a strict rule about his phone: No matter what's happening, he always answers a call from one of his grandchildren. Biden said on the campaign trail that he kept up with them every day of the pandemic with calls and texts, and now the ritual has carried over to his life in the White House. He checks in on his grandchildren with almost religious devotion, often reaching out multiple times a week, according to two people familiar with the first family's habits. "No topic is off limits," one of them said, even if "sometimes the...

Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein were once White House guests of former President Bill Clinton, new pictures prove. The images were published by The Sun, days after Maxwell’s last court appearance on sex trafficking charges in Manhattan, related to her alleged procurement of underage rape victims for the convicted pedophile.The disgusting duo were invited to the White House in 1993, after Epstein reportedly donated money to have the Oval Office refurbished.They toured the East Room and the presidential residence during a reception, the paper reported.The pictures expand the timeline of Clinton’s involvement with Epstein and Maxwell.Prior to their surfacing, some...

The Mayor of Portland says he is determined to reclaim the city from the 'anarchistic mob' that has inflicted 'criminal intimidation and violence' on its streets over the past year. Mayor Ted Wheeler called on the pubic to help him identify the people responsible for the rioting and destruction Portland so he could 'unmask them, arrest them and prosecute them.' In a news conference on Friday addressing continuing violence in the city, Wheeler praised BLM leaders for showing 'the courage to stand up to this mob' and said that all Portland residents should do the same. 'Together we can make...

Just Some Guy discusses Eve Ewing's comments of her being a black woman writing the black superhero comic, Ironheart and its socio-political implications (aka BLM), taking her down with his usual sharp wit. (For the record, Just Some Guy is black)

For a long time, Americans were hungry for doomsday coverage of the coronavirus pandemic, and establishment media outlets were happy to oblige.The phenomenon led to “doomscrolling,” which Dr. Ariane Ling, a psychologist and assistant professor at New York University’s Langone Health, described as “the act of endlessly scrolling down one’s news apps, Twitter and social media and reading bad news.”“In the efforts to make information accessible to all, many major news resources like [The New York Times] are offering coverage of COVID for free,” Ling told Healthline in July. “This creates both less barriers to being informed, but it also...