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A ham-handed attack.Politico’s Playbook is a daily feature, sent by email to a large list of subscribers, heavily concentrated among professional political insiders. Companies “sponsor” it -- reportedly costing $60,000 a week in 2018 – in hopes of goodwill from the movers and shakers that read it. Friday’s Playbook (online here) was, as a friend wrote, “a ham handed effort to suggest to Republicans that he won’t win the White House, since he has not built up a strong team of advisors and treats aides badly. It’s pretty obvious Dems fear him, as Politico is one of their many mouthpieces....

Jane Ward, Sexuality Studies Professor at the University of California-Riverside, was recently featured in an Insider article in which she stated, "It really looks like straight men and women don't like each other very much, that women spend so much time complaining about men, and we still have so much evidence of misogyny. From an LGBT perspective, [being straight] looks actually very tragic." The article, titled “Why heterosexual relationships are so bad for us, according to a sex researcher,” cites an increase in relationship problems among straight couples since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent lockdown --...

Dear Bishop Stika: Pope St. Pius V, our father in God, the Pope of the Battle of Lepanto, would have deposed and laicized you, and turned you over to the secular authorities to be tried and executed for sodomy, you hideous, slack-jawed, mouth-breathing faggot. Quote me. Please. In one of his very first acts as pope, Pope St. Pius V in Cum Primum on April 1, ARSH 1566 ordered that sodomites be executed by the secular authorities. Two years later, he declared in a Constitution: “That horrible crime, on account of which corrupt and obscene cities were destroyed by fire...

House Democrats' bill to erect a permanent “Attack On The Capitol” exhibit on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol The National Pulse ^ | Natalie Winters / FR Posted on 5/5/2021, 9:39:40 PM by cuz1961 House Democrats introduced a bill to erect a permanent “Attack On The Capitol” exhibit on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol. The bill specifies that the project must be installed in a “prominent location” and retain a “permanent” status. Property “damaged during the attack,” photographs, and a plaque honoring the “sacrifice of heroes, including United States Capitol Police Officers Brian Sicknick” are among the exhibit...

According to the Census, the recorded number of people voting in 2020 was tallied at 154,628,000. On the other hand, official results place the number of actual ballots cast slightly north of 158 million. According to a website called The Election Wizard, newly released census data contains an “anomaly” when it comes to squaring it with the reported electoral results: US Census data released last week called into question the official vote tally from the 2020 election. As part of the Census, the government collects data on citizens who self-report as having voted in presidential elections. The collected data shows...

At least 163 Palestinians and six Israeli police officers have been hurt in clashes in Jerusalem, Palestinian medics and Israeli police say. Most were injured at the Al-Aqsa Mosque, where Israeli police fired rubber bullets and stun grenades as Palestinians threw stones and bottles. Tensions have been rising over the potential eviction of Palestinians from land claimed by Jewish settlers.

Following a program devoted to a discussion of the “other side” of vaccination, Tucker Carlson came in for a slew of slams, one of which, by Brian Stelter for CNN Business, was titled “Tucker Carlson’s Fox News colleagues call out his dangerous antivaccine rhetoric.” Carlson’s actual program on reactions, adverse events, various complications including deaths was based on VAERS, a data reporting service. Trending on Twitter, 7 May, was this: VAERS and Yellow Card databases show unverified reports of COVID-19 vaccine-related side effects and deaths that can be submitted by anyone, according to the CDC and fact checkers. VAERS, a...

If you haven't already heard, the North Carolina House voted this week to pass the Convention of States Resolution! The team in the Tar Heel State has been working tirelessly towards this victory, and we wanted to give you an on-the-ground report. The days leading up to vote on the House floor were chaotic (to say the least). The North Carolina team endured a series of events that would send them on an emotional roller coaster. The vote was scheduled and called off several times, but the volunteers met each obstacle with courage and conviction. They had invested so much...

Don Lemon started his program by discussing comments made by Tennessee State Rep. Justin Lafferty, R-Knoxville, about the Three-Fifths Compromise. Then, he devoted a segment in the second hour of Wednesday’s “CNN Tonight” to the subject. Lemon told his audience, incorrectly, that the Constitution “explicitly counted [slaves] as three-fifths of a free person, or three-fifths of a man, so that the slave states would be able to accrue more political power without having to count a slave as a full person.” In fact, the Three-Fifths Compromise denied slave-owning states their request to count 100% of their slaves in the Census....

It’s just the flu, bro. https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3957225/posts Great article above discussing how coronavirus isn’t just the flu, bro. In fact, they are accurately claiming that Coronavirus is now a fraction of the flu. Deaths, cases, and hospitalizations are all currently much less than the flu during a mild flu season. If Coronavirus is now a fraction of a mild flu season, what’s all the fuss about? - https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/07/opinions/us-covid-vaccine-hesitation-brazil-jones/index.html Headline - Covid vaccine hesitancy is an insult to countries in need. The logical progression from this CNN article is that it is racist to refuse the vaccine - look for that article...

Last month, the world celebrated Earth Day. Earth Day is an annual event that was created to promote environmentalism. It was first held on April 22, 1970 and is now celebrated globally by over 1 billion people in more than 193 countries. In the years since the creation of Earth Day, we've seen the topic of environmentalism become extremely politicized on the left.But conservatives, like the rest of the country, support a cleaner environment. We’re just interested in mainstream practical ways to accomplish it – ways that build on core strengths of our nation including personal responsibility and free-markets.Instead of...

- Beijing has considered the military potential of SARS coronaviruses since 2015 - Scientists examined manipulation of diseases 'in a way never seen before' - Foreign affairs committee's Tom Tugendhat says evidence is a 'major concern'Chinese scientists have been preparing for a Third World War fought with biological and genetic weapons including coronavirus for the last six years, according to a document obtained by US investigators.The bombshell paper insists they will be 'the core weapon for victory' in such a conflict, even outlining the perfect conditions to release a bioweapon, and documenting the impact it would have on 'the enemy's...

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Israeli authorities faced more violence last night after a recent spate of shootings and as tensions soar over the threatened eviction of dozens of Palestinians from East Jerusalem. Israeli troops shot and killed two Palestinians and seriously wounded a third after they opened fire with makeshift submachine guns on a base in the occupied West Bank on Friday morning, Israel’s police said. No Israelis were injured. That came two days after Israeli student Yehuda Guetta, 19, died in a hospital from injuries sustained in a drive-by shooting Sunday as he was standing at a bus station near the West Bank...

Decades ago my sister Maureen often used to call the Republican Party "The Stupid Party." Today, the Party of Lincoln - the Party of Reagan - is again proving her right. Instead of concentrating on retaking the House next year and regaining control of the Senate, the GOP is looking backwards and engaging in intra-party squabbles. Instead of uniting to attack - and stop - President Biden's plans to turn the U.S. into the United Socialist States of America, the GOP is still fighting over the results of the 2020 election. The party's leaders aren't able to take advantage of...

Washington (AFP) - The Trump administration secretly obtained the phone records of Washington Post journalists who reported on allegations of Russian meddling in the 2016 election, the newspaper reported Friday, prompting concerns over freedom of speech. The Justice Department sent letters to three reporters -- Ellen Nakashima and Greg Miller, and former Post reporter Adam Entous -- saying that it had received work, cell or home phone records "for the period from April 15, 2017 to July 31, 2017," according to the Post. The letters did not specify why the records were seized. But, near the end of that period,...

Anyone who wants to succeed Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) in leadership should be careful what they wish for, because her current post is traditionally a dead end. The chair of the House Republican Conference, the No. 3 spot in the hierarchy, has served to either end political careers or force lawmakers to abandon the leadership ladder to reinvent their résumé in other offices. No Republican has ascended directly upward in leadership ranks since Rep. Dick Armey (R-Tex.), after a brief stint as conference chairman, did so more than 26 years ago following a wave election that swept the GOP into...

Sir Nick Faldo has married his fourth wife, a former topless dancer who herself has six ex-husbands, reports say. The golfing legend, 58, and Lindsey De Marco, 57, announced their engagement in August, posting a picture showing off her glitzy ring and captioned with a thread of emojis. Lindsay has now changed her name to 'Lindz Faldo' in a sign the couple have quietly got married.

I’ve never been someone to mince words, especially when it comes to defending what I love. I love the American conservative movement. My life has been invested in it, going back to when I was 8 years old going door-to-door handing out literature for Barry Goldwater in 1964. I love the grounded principles and the fighters I’ve come to know over the last 40 years. We may not always agree on certain aspects of the movement, but being a big gathering is what makes conservatism beautiful. So I’m quite frankly appalled at the treatment of Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming...