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Steve Schmidt, former advisor to Sen. John McCain and cofounder of the Lincoln Project, predicted that the January 6 Capitol insurrection is “likely to kill a lot more Americans than were killed in the 9/11 attacks.” “The fact is that as bad as the 9/11 terrorist attacks were they also had the salutary effect of uniting the country,” Schmidt contended. “The 1/6 insurrection shook the very foundations of our democracy and provoked a profound disunity that continues taking a bloody toll on America and the world.” Schmidt went on to blame the 1/6 event for “the despair that has induced...

With the Virginia gubernatorial race heating up and gaining national attention, former President Donald Trump is weighing in, and it's a doozy.

The ballots cast in Arizona’s largest county in the 2020 election will be counted for a third time on orders from the state’s Senate. Nearly 2.1 million ballots submitted in Maricopa County for the presidential contest were tabulated, as normal, by election officials. They were recounted by hand by audit teams hired by the Arizona Senate in a process that was completed late last month. Now the Senate will do its own recount that will provide a number to compare to those from the county and from the auditors. “Maricopa County says there’s 2,089,563 ballots. We did the hand count,...

DALLAS - Outgoing Texas GOP chair and former congressman Allen West insists that former President Trump’s endorsement of Gov. Greg Abbott "doesn’t hurt" his 2022 primary challenge against the two-term Republican governor. "It has no relevance to me as I prepare to run for governor of Texas," West told Fox News ahead of his speech this weekend at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Dallas, Texas. Abbott is facing primary challenges from the right from West, former state Sen. Don Huffines, and political commentator Chad Prather. Huffines addresses the crowd of conservative activists and leaders at CPAC on Saturday,...

Democrats outright expect journalists to "be on their side" and feel "horrified" when they're pressed by journalists, a White House reporter says. A "prominent White House reporter" made the remark while speaking anonymously to journalist Julia Ioffe for an article on the dramatic shift in coverage of the Trump and Biden administrations, notably the expectation from the latter of positive framing. "Democrats in general have a much thinner skin," the reporter said. "This is not unique to Trump but Republicans never expect a fair shake, so if you cover them fairly, you can have a good working relationship with them....

Video, another Waters type exposing what us sane people are up against.

The USA has been a beacon of freedom, the rule of law, the industrial giant, and the supreme military power for good over the last hundred years plus. Tens of millions of Americans who voted for Joe Biden have absolutely no idea that America’s presidential elections are also critical to billions of people worldwide. The events that transpired and were exposed during Donald Trump’s presidency have shattered many of the positive opinions held by most of the world about Americans, not because of Trump, but because of his opponents. Not even during the Civil War or the Black movements in...

Montana wildlife officials shot and killed a grizzly bear early Friday morning that was believed to have dragged a woman from her tent in Montana earlier this week and killed her. The bear was killed less than two miles from Ovando, a Montana town of fewer than 100 people and the place the woman was killed Tuesday morning. “Last night, the Powell County Sheriff’s Office took a report from a resident who came home and found her door ripped off and large claw marks were present,” the sheriff’s office said on Facebook Friday. “A short time later a male grizzly...

Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time Matthew 10:24-33 Friends, Jesus instructs his disciples in today’s Gospel, “Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul; rather, be afraid of the one who can destroy both body and soul in Gehenna.” What is the greatest fear we have? Undoubtedly, the fear of losing our own lives; we fear the death of the body. But Jesus is telling us not to worry about those paper tigers that can only affect the body and its goods. When I am in love with God, when I am “fearing” him...

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...