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Earlier this week Pennsylvania State Senator Doug Mastriano initiated a full forensic audit of the 2020 presidential election on several Pennsylvania counties. UPDATE: PA State Senator Doug Mastriano Initiates Full Forensic Audit – Says He Has the Votes on Committee for Subpoenas to Audit Several Pennsylvania Counties –VIDEOThis news obviously shocked the Democrat state leaders in Pennsylvania.Late Friday the Pennsylvania Department of State issued a directive prohibiting county election boards from cooperating with the Senate’s election audit. According to the directive from the Secretary of State’s office:▪️ Elections officials may not turn over election material to third parties.TRENDING: "Women's" GOP...

FILIPINO fisherman Randy Megu has often braved the storms that spring up in the South China Sea, but these days he has a greater fear: seeing a Chinese maritime enforcement vessel on the horizon. Five years after a landmark international arbitration court ruling repudiated China's claims to the waters where Megu fishes, the 48-year-old complains that his encounters with Chinese boats are more frequent than ever. "I was so scared," said Megu, describing how a Chinese vessel had tracked his wooden outrigger boat for three hours some 140 nautical miles (260 km) from the coast in May. He said other...

have explained that we know nothing about who created blockchain, but it allows every transaction to be traced. With a credit card, they can tell if you bought something. With Bitcoin, they can tell I gave you money first, and then you bought something. Central banks are moving to cryptocurrency because this will ensure 100% tax collection. The Bank of England was saying that parents will be able to control what their children spend money on. The problem is that the government will control what we too can spend on. Here is the BIS telling you the reality of the...

During an appearance on CNN on Friday, former Obama-era Office of Government Ethics chief Walter Shaub called the White House’s arrangement allowing Hunter Biden to sell his art “the perfect mechanism for funneling bribes” to the president.Shaub’s statement comes amid the development that the White House crafted a deal under which the price tags of Hunter Biden’s artwork sales, some listing as high as $500,000, will be obscured from the artist to prevent ethical violations.AdvertisementPer the contract, New York gallery owner Georges Bergès will set the prices for the art and also will conceal related records such as prospective bidders...

Senate Democrats are pressuring the Biden administration to cut construction of a critical missile program even as China and Russia drastically increase their firepower, according to a letter obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. Sens. Jeff Merkley (D., Ore.) and Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.), the authors of the letter, are urging national security adviser Jake Sullivan to alter the administration's stance on nuclear weapons in the 2022 defense budget. The letter comes as Democrats strive to shutter the advanced nuclear program in favor of technology that was first tested by the Lyndon B. Johnson administration. The senators' campaign puts them...

“In Christ: Chosen, Redeemed, and Sealed” (Ephesians 1:3-14) Picture in your mind a great treasure chest--a big, heavy box, with one of those curved lids on it, like you’d see in a pirate movie. The lid is closed, and there’s a large lock hanging on the front. Inside this treasure chest, so you’ve been told, are all sorts of wonderful things--gems, rubies, diamonds, gold and silver coins--a fortune beyond your wildest dreams. And all these valuable treasures are yours for the taking. The only thing is, you need the key. Without that key, the treasure chest will simply remain a...

Former President Donald Trump called on “RINO Republicans” to stop working on a $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure plan, warning that they are “just being played by the Radical Left Democrats.” “[T]hey will give you nothing!” Trump said in a statement issued late Friday.The compromise package — which was announced by President Biden last month and is still being crafted into legislation — includes $579 billion in new spending, with $300 billion allocated for transportation, and $250 billion for broadband, power and water infrastructure.While a bill could reach the Senate floor for a vote as soon as July 19, House Speaker...

Siding with hospital bureaucracy Texas law allows hospitals to unilaterally decide when to end treatment for a patient. This decision discounts the religious beliefs of patients and their families. Church Militant's Trey Blanton highlights the forces that are allowing passive euthanasia to persist in the Lone Star State... The Texas Advanced Directives Act allows hospitals to end treatment, even when there are still viable options for recovery, unless families can find a hospital willing to accept transfer within 10 days. .... "Experience has taught us, if we can learn anything based on the scores of families we've heard from, I...

A documentary about the man made famine in Ukraine where on Stalin's order millions of people were starved to death in 1932-33.

Attendees of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Dallas have been handed cards outlining a 7-point-plan to reinstate Donald Trump as president 'in days, not years.

Consumer Affairs Minister Alberto Garzón has reignited the debate about Spain’s love of meat by asking Spaniards to consume less “carne” to protect their personal health as well as the future of the planet. “I am worried. I am worried about the planet,” Garzón said in a video posted on Twitter on July 7th, pleading with Spaniards to cut down their meat consumption to improve their personal well-being and that of the planet’s. “Without a planet we have no life, we have no salaries and we have no economy. And we are bringing this upon ourselves. One thing we can...

From time to time I will Look through my old quiet time journals. It helps me see how my walk has been. Sometimes I was down and discouraged, sometimes I was bold and grateful. My journal is a picture to the footprints in the sands of my past. This is an entry from December 12, 2008. I called it,"The Voice Of The Lord" If we were to truly hear the Lord's voice, it would be very powerful yet very calming at the same time. Those who walk in opposition to Him will tremble in fear at the powerful sound...

So how can the administration convince the vaccine hesitant? Dr. Leana Wen, a CNN medical analyst and former head of Planned Parenthood, is suggesting making the lives of the unvaccinated more difficult in an effort to force compliance. “What we really need to do at this point is to make vaccination the easy choice. It needs to be hard for people to remain unvaccinated,” she said on CNN. “Right now, it’s kind of the opposite. It’s fine, it’s easy if you’re unvaccinated. You can do everything you wanted to do anyway. But at some point, these mandates by workplaces, by...

This is a very cool billboard add in Tokyo. I'm posting a short version from the twitterverse. There are longer versions making the rounds.

Well, we once again have new data that shreds the anti-gun Left and their narrative about firearm-related violence during the COVID pandemic. Some nine million Americans became new gun owners. That’s huge. Gun sales are through the roof. Once again, Joe Biden and the Democrats show they’re expert gun salespersons. With the Biden administration aiming to tweak the ATF regulation of pistol stabilizing braces, you can bet the rush to stock up has only intensified. This rule would put 10-40 million Americans in legal jeopardy. There is no grandfather clause. All firearms targeted with this new regulation must either be...

Two of the state’s largest health systems — and employers — are requiring all staff to get a COVID-19 vaccine. Saint Alphonsus and St. Luke’s health systems both announced Thursday that all of their Idaho employees will need to get the COVID-19 vaccine. The move also applies to contractors they work with. St. Al’s locations in Oregon are exempt because of that state’s law banning mandatory vaccines for healthcare workers. Both health systems, which include hospitals, clinics and other medical facilities, will waive the requirement for health or religious reasons. Employees must apply for, and receive, an exemption. The two...

A Michigan festival almost turned disastrous when a carnival park ride started swaying and threatened to tip over.

Hundreds of people are sharing a Facebook post written by Lisbon Appeal Court judge Florbela Sebastião e Silva in reaction to the decisions now emanating from the government. Judge Florbela’s words show that the anger growing in Portugal is not exclusive to the working classes (meaning here the people trying to work, not low-income citizens): it is spreading through every corner of society. This is her message, coming as citizens everywhere start to query the sense in doing as they are being ordered: “ I am aware that most people do not have authoritative legal knowledge and, if they have...

At times there is no imagining just how stupid people on the left can be but they keep trying to push the envelope. To wit- the mind numbingly idiotic assertion that Jan 6 was worse than 9-11. Huffington Post reporter S.V. Dáte said Jan 6 was "1000 percent" worse than 9-11. 1000 percent worse. https://t.co/0jS4r1S2uk — S.V. Dáte (@svdate) May 25, 2021Matthew Dowd, the so-called "GOP strategist" who will say anything for face time on MSNBC said 9-11 pales in comparison to Jan 6. "To me, though there was less loss of life on Jan. 6 – Jan. 6 was...

A Baltimore police officer allegedly hid the body of his teenage stepson in a wall of his home's loft before trying to grab gun away from cop during his arrest. Eric G Banks Jr, an officer with the Baltimore Police Department who had already been suspended from the force, is facing a number of charges including assault and resisting arrest for the encounter with Anne Arundel County police. Officers received a complainant from the mother of Dasan Jones, 15, regarding a child custody dispute with the boy's stepfather, Banks, at 4.56pm on Tuesday, the department said in a press release.