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By now everyone with two working brain cells knows, or pretends not to know, that Democrats cheated on a colossal scale to get Whisperin' Joe into the White House. So it's safe to say that Republicans, having wised up to the Donks' stratagems and skullduggery, will capture both House and Senate in next year's midterms. Right? Yes. That is, assuming elections actually take place on November 8, 2022. Who doubts that Democrats, with a death grip on power now, are capable of anything to keep Pelosi and Schumer on top and Biden's cabal in the White House calling the shots?...

The curiously sketchy case against six accused people in the FBI organized plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer took another hit to the case credibility on Monday, as the lead FBI Special Agent was arrested on domestic violence charges. This latest issue comes less than a week after court filings showed twelve embedded FBI operatives were involved in the suspicious plot that culminated in the arrest of six individuals {Go Deep}. (Detroit News) – […] FBI Special Agent Richard Trask, 39, of Kalamazoo [pictured left on Instagram], was charged Monday with assault with intent to do great bodily harm,...

The woke ice cream company veers into anti-Semitism The left-wing ice cream company Ben & Jerry's announced on Monday that it will stop selling its ice cream in the West Bank and East Jerusalem—or, as the company termed them, Occupied Palestinian Territory. In a move that perfectly captures how left-wing activism is increasingly bleeding into naked anti-Semitism, Ben & Jerry's said that selling ice cream in the West Bank is "inconsistent with our values." Yikes. We're not clear how exactly removing Ben & Jerry's ice cream from grocery stores in the West Bank will benefit the Palestinians. The move appears...

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Summertime means it’s time to play ball! But what would it be like to play ball on various locations across our Solar System? Planetary scientist Dr. James O’Donoghue has put together a fun animation of how quickly an object falls on to the surfaces of places like the Sun, Earth, Ceres, Jupiter, the Moon, and Pluto. The animation shows a ball dropping from 1 kilometer to the surface of each object, assuming no air resistance. You can compare, for example, that it takes 2.7 seconds for a ball to drop that distance on the Sun, while it takes 14.3 seconds...

BEIJING, July 20 (Reuters) - China unveiled a maglev train capable of a top speed of 600 kph on Tuesday, state media said. The maximum speed would make the train, self-developed by China and manufactured in the coastal city of Qingdao, the fastest ground vehicle globally. Using electro-magnetic force, the maglev train "levitates" above the track with no contact between body and rail.

TOKYO -- The chief of the Tokyo 2020 organizing committee on Tuesday did not rule out a last-minute cancellation of the Olympics, as more athletes tested positive for COVID-19 and major sponsors ditched plans to attend Friday's opening ceremony. Asked at a news conference whether the global sporting showpiece might still be canceled, Toshiro Muto said he would keep an eye on infection numbers and liaise with other organizers if necessary. "We can't predict what will happen with the number of coronavirus cases. So we will continue discussions if there is a spike in cases," Muto said. "We have agreed...

McCrone said on August 1st people cannot access resturants, bars, etc.. without a vaccine passport. Meanwhile, French police are exempt from the mRNA gene therpay. Gee I wonder why?I would say things are heating up in Paris.Video of the fire at the link. https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1417436902450516009

Last week, the CEO of Black Rifle Coffee, Evan Hafer, gave a long-form interview to Jason Zengerle for the New York Times Magazine. I don’t know what he expected to achieve by the exercise, but I’m pretty certain that what he accomplished represented a significant deviation from the plan. The piece framed Black Rifle Coffee as a “Starbucks for conservatives” and promoted the piece by saying that the company was trying to distance itself from some of its customers. Note that Black Rifle Coffee retweeted this tweet and that usually means that the tweet met with the approval of the...

Anybody remember the bluster Joe Biden emitted when he 'confronted Russian President Vladimir Putin' over Russian hacking at his June 16 Geneva summit?“I made it very clear to him that the United States expects, when a ransomware operation is coming from his soil even though it’s not sponsored by the state, we expect them to act if we give them enough information to act on who that is,” Biden told reporters.Tough, tough, tough. And as far as public knowledge goes, it's not completely certain that the Russian state even organized the Russian criminal hacks. But they were held responsible, and...

Red Card for the Ancient Rite, and the Game Is Getting NastyA few days after its publication, it is still too early to gauge the effects of the motu proprio “Traditionis Custodes” with which Pope Francis has practically banned the Mass in the ancient rite: that is, whether the new provisions will help to make the Church more united, or on the contrary divide it even more.Given the reactions, the most probable hypothesis is the latter, as Professor Pietro De Marco also suggests in his scathing commentary already published on Settimo Cielo.The unity of the Church was also the objective...

In a heated interview on CNN's New Day this morning, Joseph D. McBride, the lawyer for Capitol breach defendant Richard 'Bigo' Barnett—famously seen with his feet on a desk in Nancy Pelosi's office—condemned the conditions of detention for the defendants, labeling them "D.C. Guantanamo Bay," and repeatedly accused the authorities of "torture." Snide and smirking substitute host John Avlon took repeated shots at McBride, claiming that McBride's various arguments "make absolutely no sense," and are "utterly unbased in fact." In a parting shot, Avlon sanctimoniously said, "I had hoped you would have a more of a fact-based conversation with anything...

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A common tactic of the left is to highlight the worst extremists and compare them to regular conservatives. Murderers, rapists, violent racists – no one is too heinous to dredge up the comparisons. The left is getting sneakier about it too. The MSM stopped using the word terrorist recently, now referring to them as "extremists," for two reasons. The first is to make terrorists look less evil, since they want to make the right's opposition to terrorism look like racism, and the second reason is to lump the right in more easily with terrorists by also referring to people on...

Back in September last year, Kamala Harris said that President Donald Trump’s word alone on any potential coronavirus vaccine is not enough. Asked by CNN’s Dana Bash on whether she would get a vaccine that was approved and distributed before the election, Harris replied, “Well, I think that’s going to be an issue for all of us.” “I will say that I would not trust Donald Trump and it would have to be a credible source of information that talks about the efficacy and the reliability of whatever he’s talking about,” she continued in the clip from an exclusive interview...

“Traditionis Custodes.” The commentary of Pietro De Marco(s.m.) Published as received. The author of this scathing commentary on the motu proprio Traditionis custodes of Pope Francis, Professor Pietro De Marco, former professor of religion at the University of Florence and at the Theological Faculty of Central Italy, is a recognized expert on liturgy.It was precisely on the previous motu proprio of Benedict XVI now abrogated by Francis that in 2013 he published a book with another liturgist, Andrea Grillo, as a critic: “Ecclesia universa o introversa? Dibattito sul motu proprio ‘Summorum Pontificum’,” San Paolo Edizioni.*ON THE MOTU PROPRIO “TRADITIONIS CUSTODES”by...

WASHINGTON, Friday, July 19. I left our advance camp at 10 o'clock this morning. All the columns had come together, and were encamped one mile this side of Centreville, and four from Bull's Run. No movement was intended to-day. The roads and works of the rebels were to be reconnoitered, and an advance movement will be made to-morrow. The rebel batteries will not be attacked in front if they can be turned. This city is full of absurd rumors about the Bull's Run affair. Nothing whatever was attempted after the ceasing of the fire of our batteries. The Sixty-ninth and...

Monday, FNC host Tucker Carlson decried the media effort to promote vaccinations by blaming the continued spread of COVID-19 on those that have not yet gotten vaccinations. Carlson also responded to comments from former FNC correspondent Carl Cameron criticizing Fox News for its primetime personalities’ willingness to question the vaccinations.

Well, that was fast. According to the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), the Covid recession is over, lasting just two months. That is the shortest recession in US history. But read the fine print: “The Covid-19 recession ended in April 2020, the National Bureau of Economic Research said Monday.” Like the Case-Shiller house price index, this measure of recession is lagged. So, it tells us good news … from April 2020 PRIOR to President Biden and the Pelosi/Schumer “Stimulypto” Congress. So, if there is a link between economic recessions and Federal Reserve monetary policy, why is The Fed continuing...

A reader wrote in to ask, “How are the Democrats/left controlling social media and the news? I truly don’t understand how this is happening and would appreciate your thoughts.”Focused Like a Laser Beam — 100% About PowerIt did seem to happen almost overnight, didn’t it? It was as if all the chess pieces were in place to take over most popular methods of communication. But this has been at work in media for a long time, just as it has been on college campuses and in corporations that suddenly appear “woke,” arranged by people who want nothing less than to...