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"You're an Irish Catholic kid from Syracuse, from St. Ann's school, right?" asked Hugh Hewitt. "Yes," said Terry McAuliffe in that Jan. 29, 2007, radio interview. At that time, McAuliffe had just recently become chairman of Sen. Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign. He would later go on to serve as governor of Virginia from 2014 to 2018, and is now seeking that office again. Back in January 2007, McAuliffe had also published an autobiography, "What a Party! My Life Among Democrats: Presidents, Candidates, Donors, Activists, Alligators and Other Wild Animals," in which he discussed, among other things, his education in...

Scientists believe they can explain why some people who catch Covid develop chilblain-like lesions on their toes and even fingers. Covid toe appears to be a side effect of the body switching into attack mode to fight off the virus. The researchers say they have pinpointed the parts of the immune system that appear to be involved. The findings, in the British Journal of Dermatology, may help with treatments to ease the symptoms. The affected skin - usually the toes, but sometimes the fingers - can look red or purple. Some people develop painful raised bumps or areas of rough...

While voters across Texas submitted voter registration applications on Monday, Oct. 4, ahead of the Nov. 2 statewide election, 82-year-old Elmira Hicks worried she would not be able to have her vote counted. The Oakwood, Texas, native said she hasn't been able to renew her driver’s license for more than a year because she has been unable to present the required birth certificate needed to verify her identity. In the Lone Star State, election laws require voters to present a driver's license, passport, military identification card, citizenship certificate, state election identification certificate or a personal identification card to cast a...

Going back to the first term of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933, the party of first-term presidents gained seats in House midterm congressional elections only twice. Karl Rove reminded readers a few months ago in his Wall Street Journal column that, since World War II, the average loss of House seats of the party of each first-term president in congressional midterms is 28. The largest loss was 63 in the first midterm elections in Barack 0bama's first term. This was after Democrats rammed through the Affordable Care Act without a single Republican vote. Given that Republicans need to pick...

The ABC, CBS and NBC evening news shows ignored climate activist James Murdoch using his company to invest millions of dollars in leftist media this year that promote grotesque content. Murdoch invested in at least two media companies through his Lupa Systems company that have a reputation for spewing crazy left-wing talking points. The Hollywood Reporter released a story June 29 that the estranged son of News Corporation Executive Chairman Rupert Murdoch was part of a whopping $75 million fundraising haul by the leftist digital media firm Brut. The French company, which reportedly makes “‘socially conscious’ news,” posts leftist extremist...

Europe’s power crunch is roiling energy markets Wednesday as Dutch and U.K. natural gas futures jumped 60% in just two days, hitting record highs along with soaring power prices. Front-month Dutch natgas futures rose an astonishing 40% today to a record 162.125 euros per megawatt-hour after a 20% move higher on Tuesday. U.K. natgas futures surged 39% today, hitting 40 dollars. “This is just ridiculous,” Tom Marzec-Manser, an analyst at ICIS, told Bloomberg. “Almost impossible to even justify or qualify how and why it’s moving so fast and so high.” E.U. politicians are in panic mode to protect consumers and...

In the last few years, Facebook has become Public Enemy No. 1 in the media's imagination, and Mark Zuckerberg is suddenly the creepy James Bond villain. Celebrated PBS filmmaker Ken Burns even ranted on a podcast that Zuckerberg was an "enemy of the state" who should be in jail. After Facebook went down for six hours on Oct. 4, CBS late-night "comedian" Stephen Colbert joked, "Facebook did not say what might be causing the outage. Now, I'm no computer expert, but my theory is: A just God?" It does not matter one iota that Facebook employees donated 90% of their...

Meanwhile, in Michigan:Joe Biden Responds to ‘F*ck Joe Biden’ Signs in Michigan: ’81 Million Americans Voted for Me’No doubt at least half the 81 million voted in Michigan, twice. And Governor Gretchen Whitmer intends to make sure it stays that way: Governor Gretchen Whitmer Vetoed Four Election Bills, saying the bills “suppressed voting rights” and “calculated disinformation to discredit the 2020 election.” And for ultimate pandering effect, she signed the veto at the annual NAACP dinner in Detroit to a standing ovation from attendees. So brave, our freshly made-over Governor.“I will always protect our civil rights and stand up for...

Watch the speech from Dr. Peter McCullough.He is on fire. And he is spot on. His summary of the data are precise and detailed.Please take the time to watch that video.And help any way you can to put a STOP to this disasterous vaccine mandate.[Link is to to new McCullough speech]

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I spend a lot of time at this site ridiculing the unfalsifiable hyperbole and altered data that pass for “science” in the field of climate change. But climate change is just one of many areas where people who have little idea what real science consists of nevertheless claim the mantle of science to order others around. Right now the response to Covid-19, the Chinese Virus, competes with the response to climate change for the most egregious misuse of the imprimatur of “science” to justify political goals. As background for this post, I refer to the Manhattan Contrarian definition of “science,”...

Road rages can often turn out to be quite dangerous especially for elderlies. Senior citizens are at a huge risk of getting their cars stolen by young thieves who can easily overpower the elderly or by younger people who can try and attack them. However, not all senior citizens are easy targets because this incident that happened is proof that sometimes people pick the wrong person to mess with. We have a received a footage showing an 82-year-old man fighting off a immigrant who tried to attack him in his car. The elderly man was defending from the younger man...

When Terry McAuliffe said, “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach,” he was expressing a view with roots going back to the origin of public schools. Last week, Terry McAuliffe, a Democrat candidate for Governor of Virginia, expressed his discontent with parents who want to have a say in the education of their children. In his second debate with Republican candidate Glenn Youngkin, McAuliffe said, “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.” His angst over parental involvement seems to have struck some as new and unusual. The historic roots of...

Is the Day of the Lord at hand? Tragically, many say that it is not; for many are unregenerate, blinded by the god of this world, and know not His RIGHTEOUS Word (Prov. 1:25-31, 2 Cor. 4:2-4, 1 Thess. 4:13-18; 5:1-3). All things today are moving EXPONENTIALLY toward this Day, yet it is a total fairy tale to billions! Dear friends, it will be at the end of the church age at the Rapture that the global EXPONENTIAL ACCUNMINATED lawlessness of man will reach its zenith in rebellion and lawlessness and run straight into the Day of the Lord and...

The Constitution is our rock and, when the government blatantly violates it, it’s up to Americans to stand up and say, “No.” I’ll sometimes receive a text message containing links to a Twitter page with some sort of amusing picture or video. Yielding to the morbid curiosity that draws our eyes to a car wreck, I’ll scroll down to read what people on Twitter are saying. This is always a mistake. It’s an ugly business, wading into that venomous current of rage and loathing. Sometimes the temptation to respond to a particularly clueless post is almost overwhelming but then I’ll...

Remember the media cheers for Sen. John McCain when he stopped the effort to repeal Obamacare? McCain was a Republican frustrating a Republican policy goal, which was enough to earn the highest praise in some media circles. "It was a stunning moment," The New York Times reported, "a flash of the maverick John McCain, unafraid of going his own way despite the pleas of his fellow Republicans." That was four years ago, and Donald Trump was president. Fast-forward to today, with Joe Biden in the White House and Democrats desperately trying to pass a massive spending bill that has been...

Will Christian persecution be a reality in America and in the future? Well, my dear friends, it is already here and growing, Think not? Listen and watch Jan Markell's insightful discussion on this very topic! Jan Markell, Pastor Tom Hughes, and Pastor Mark Henry discuss the coming persecution of Christians in America as the Left calls for a purge. They also discuss Hughes’ chapter in the “Lawless” book about the caving of the evangelical church and its embrace of all things that are unsound.

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It should be no surprise to anyone that our Democrats do not want those hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens flowing over our southern border to be vaxxed. They are vital to their plan. “Representative Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-IA) introduced H.R. 1897, the Requiring Every Alien Receive a COVID-19 Test (REACT) Act, on March 16, 2021. Under the resolution, the Department of Homeland Security would be required to test all migrants illegally crossing the border for COVID-19 if the department plans on releasing them into America.” Naturally the Democrats blocked any vote on the bill even though, despite Fauci’s psychopathic claims...

Parents and politicians are slamming the Department of Justice’s decision to bring in the FBI to investigate a spike in “threats against school administrators, board members, teachers, and staff,” saying the Biden administration is likening their protests of “woke” policies such as Critical Race Theory — as well as mandatory mask wearing — to “domestic terrorism.” “Dear @TheJusticeDept Merrick Garland and @FBI Director Christopher Wray,” Asra Nomani, vice president of investigations and strategy at Parents Defending Education, posted on Twitter. “This is what a domestic terrorist looks like? You are criminalizing parenting, and you owe the people of America a...