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On November 9, 2012, Cook County Illinois created a special tax on guns. On November 18, 2015, the County board added a tax on ammunition. At the time, this correspondent believed the tax to be unconstitutional on its face. So did the Illinois Advocacy Group for Second Amendment rights, Guns Save Lives. They filed a lawsuit, challenging the tax law, on December 17, 2015. The lower courts in Illinois did not agree. They did not find a problem with the taxes. Guns Save Lives appealed to the Illinois Supreme Court. The case was decided on October 21, 2021. The decision...

Ex-Marine films expose, estabishes website to go after pedophiles, especially rich, well-connected pedos.

Dr. Linda Wastila, Professor at the University of Maryland Baltimore School of Pharmacy, gave her testimony during a three-hour panel discussion hosted by U.S. Senator Ron Johnson on 3 November in Washington D.C. The expert panel included doctors and medical researchers who treat Covid injection injuries and they were joined by patients who have experienced adverse events to Covid injections.Prof. Wastila has conducted policy and epidemiological research focusing on intended and unintended outcomes of clinical and policy interventions involving medications and their safety over the past 30 years. She and several colleagues, including Dr. Peter Doshi, formed a group –...

The Biden administration has been a disaster in every regard. This is one reason why poll numbers for resident Joe Biden keep falling. He is now languishing at an embarrassing approval rating of only 38%. Americans do not like what resident Biden has delivered in his first ten months in office. The results have been catastrophic and include an open southern border with millions of people from dozens of nations streaming into our country. Biden has also delivered a military withdrawal debacle in Afghanistan that left behind hundreds of American citizens. In the last ten months, Americans have witnessed rampant...

A voting error was just fixed in New Jersey and GOP candidate Jack Ciattarelli is back up in the race after briefly trailing to incumbent Democratic Governor Phil Murphy. “The early vote was double-counted in Hudson County,” National Political Correspondent for NBC News and MSNBC Steve Kornacki reported. “It has now been fixed, bringing Murphy’s total down by 10,732 and Ciattarelli’s by 2,842. Ciattarelli goes back up in the statewide tally: Ciattarelli (R): 1,177,803 (49.6%) Murphy (D) 1,177,108 (49.6%).” As reported at Becker News earlier, there have been other anomalies in the New Jersey governor’s race. A disturbing phenomenon was...

ransomnote: The funeral director notes that hospitals have small freezers which have a maximum morgue capacity of 6-10 infants, and they are normall not full. He now sees far more than can fit in the freezers so the newborn and/or full-term babies have overflowed traditional capacity and are now being put into storage with adults. One hospital has approximately 30 such infants, which he's never seen before. During an interview with Resistance GB, Wesley, who has been a funeral director for over three years, speaks about his experience throughout the so-called “pandemic” and what he’s been seeing in the morgues...

Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) on Sunday likened the claim that the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol was a “false flag operation” to individuals who say the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks were an “inside job.” Asked by host Chris Wallace on “Fox News Sunday” if there is any truth to arguments that the Jan. 6 attack was a “false flag operation” — specifically that liberal individuals from the “deep state” created the riots to set up conservatives and Trump supporters — Cheney said, “None at all” before comparing the assertions to ones made in the aftermath of the Sept. 11...

We are just a year away from critical mid-term elections. Finding a path to ensuring election integrity is a must to build trust in any result. But, unfortunately, any attempt to do so risks headlines like the following: "A damaging blow to voting rights." "Restrictive voting laws new Jim Crow." "The Supreme Court Kills the Voting Rights Act." Such headlines dominate mainstream liberal coverage whenever voting is in any way restricted. In our crazy COVID world, Democrats seem comfortable with mail-in ballots flying everywhere forever, last-minute voter registration, extended early and late voting, and the elimination of voter ID. It's...

LOS ANGELES -- Jennifer Siebel Newsom, the wife of Gov. Gavin Newsom, took to Twitter late Sunday to post, then delete a message urging people to "stop hating" while her husband has been out of the public eye since canceling plans to attend last month's climate summit in Scotland, according to a screenshot.......When the initial announcement was made Oct. 29, his office said Newsom planned to participate virtually in the United Nations climate summit. But he did not. His last public appearance was Oct. 27, when he received a coronavirus booster shot.

In an angry conversation on his final day as president, Donald Trump told the chairwoman of the Republican National Committee he was leaving the GOP and creating his own political party -- and that he didn't care if the move would destroy the Republican Party, according to a new book by ABC News Chief Washington Correspondent Jonathan Karl. Trump only backed down when Republican leaders threatened to take actions that would have cost Trump millions of dollars, Karl writes his upcoming book, "Betrayal: The Final Act of the Trump Show." The book gives a detailed account of Trump's stated intention...

In the 490-page workplace vaccine mandate document released by resident Joe Biden’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) last week, the phrase “grave danger” appears 212 times. Meaning that at least every other page or so, the lawyers who wrote this monstrosity of unconstitutional tyrannical overreach were careful to assure readers, over and over again, that Covid-19 poses not just a workplace risk, but a “grave danger” to workers’ lives. “The problems addressed by this ETS for COVID-19 are national in scope,” the document reads. “As explained in Grave Danger (Section III.A. of this preamble), employees face a grave danger...

Shhh … hear that? It’s silence at CNN. Deafening silence. With all the noise about race – CRT, antiracism, blah, blah, blah – there was none of the usual jubilation over the history-making of the first black lieutenant governor-elect of Virginia, Winsome Sears. No TV profile with movie music weaving through the sentimental story-telling. No specials with Tom Hanks voiceovers. Nothing. Wait! I hear something. It’s Van Jones. Yep, here we go … he’s about to comment on the Youngkin-Sears win. “The stakes are high. When this election is over in Virginia, we will know … have we seen the...

The current rate of greenhouse gas pollution is so high that Earth has about 11 years to rein in emissions if countries want to avoid the worst damage from climate change in the future, a new study concludes. Despite dipping in 2020 because of the global pandemic, greenhouse gas emissions are on track to return to pre-pandemic levels, according to the annual Global Carbon Budget report. The findings, currently under review before publication, underscore that the urgency of cutting emissions is even greater than previously thought if the world is to avoid a rise in average global temperatures that is...

I grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and spent most of my life in heavily Democrat enclaves. That is why I know that, when you boil things down to their essentials, most Democrat women and many Democrat men are single-issue voters and that issue is abortion. You can delicately bring them around to agree with you on subjects such as taxes, borders, national security, and keeping porn out of grade schools but abortion is, as Nancy Pelosi said, “sacred ground.” That’s why they’re panicked about the Texas abortion law and why Saturday Night Live did the single most...

Saving the rainforests will not stop global warming -- and here’s why Apparently, at COP26, world leaders agreed a deal to end deforestation of rainforests, ostensibly to stop global warming. This deal relies on implicit arguments that are nonsensical. What’s happening to the rainforests is a classic example of how the official narrative ignores logic and reality. But it's far from clear that the deal currently being touted at COP26 is actually a good thing at all, either for the countries involved or the planet's ecosystem, still less as a way of stopping global warming. If it works the same...

Traditional Fascism was defined as an authoritarian government working hand-in-glove with corporations to achieve totalitarian objectives. A centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, using severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition.That governmental system didn’t work in the long-term because the underlying principles driving free people rejected government authoritarianism. Fascist governments collapsed and the corporate beneficiaries were nulled and scorned. Then along came a new approach to achieve the same objective.The World Economic Forum (WEF) was created to use the same fundamental associations of government and corporations. Only this time the corporations organized to tell the...

"Julian Reichelt is dethroned." So cheered the Berliner Zeitung a few days ago after it was revealed that Bild, Europe's largest newspaper, had been forced to sack its editor — and one of Germany's most popular journalists — following allegations made in a Ben Smith New York Times article of affairs with junior colleagues. The piece also suggested that Axel Springer SE, the German publishing giant that owns Bild, is out of touch with today's woke and metoo values. Moreover, a few weeks earlier, Springer announced it was going to purchase Politico, the U.S. politics website, for about $1B —...

Malaysia’s latest catalogue of its greenhouse gas emissions to the United Nations reads like a report from a parallel universe. The 285-page document suggests that Malaysia’s trees are absorbing carbon four times faster than similar forests in neighboring Indonesia. The surprising claim has allowed the country to subtract over 243 million tons of carbon dioxide from its 2016 inventory — slashing 73 percent of emissions from its bottom line. Across the world, many countries underreport their greenhouse gas emissions in their reports to the United Nations, a Washington Post investigation has found. An examination of 196 country reports reveals a...

If there is one truism of modern American politics, it’s that good fortune is a fleeting thing. Almost a year to the day after Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election, his Democratic party was dealt a body blow on election day 2021. ..... In short, this White House has not had a good story to tell for months and in Virginia and New Jersey they paid the price. But if there is one silver lining for Democrats, it’s that midterm elections are a year away and there is time to right the ship. For all the...

Looking at election 2021, all I can say is wow! Virginia was a big deal, but conservatives made gains in state legislatures, city councils, and school boards across the country. And these gains occurred even in blue states that Biden won by a landslide just one year ago. How quickly have fortunes changed. Biden remorse is for real. But what lessons have the Dems taken away from their electoral drubbing? The smart ones are soiling themselves. The not so smart ones — that would be Bernie and the Squad — have analyzed the results and determined that they lost because...