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Not so long ago, resident Joe Biden was being talked of as a transformative president, a second Franklin D. Roosevelt in terms of the domestic agenda he would enact. And there was substance to the claim. Early in his presidency, Biden had passed a $1.9 trillion stimulus package. While his majorities in both houses of Congress were razor-thin, they proved sufficient to push through a $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill. Clusters of Republicans backed the Biden infrastructure bill. A follow-on $3.5 trillion Build Back Better social spending bill to rival New Deal and Great Society measures has broad support -- though...

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The modern military takes on a lot of duties. There’s meeting diversity quotas. There’s Critical Race Theory training. And there’s helping the environment. Also, thrown in there are some requirements to protect the country. Well, the Pentagon has announced a new policy that will help the U.S. military meet some of those goals: They’re now switching all weapons to swords and bows. “We have a deadly enemy out there,” announced General “Sparkles” McKenzie, “and it’s called carbon. The problem with modern-day weapons is that they take a lot of carbon to make. But if we get some nice bespoke...

UPDATE 11/15/2021 11:30 EST:After an hour of discussion of jury instructions on the morning of November 15, 2021, Judge Bruce Schroeder responded to a motion to Dismiss the weapons possession charge, charge number six, by the defense.Judge Schroeder allowed the prosecutors an opportunity to measure the rifle which had been possessed by Kyle Rittenhouse. Given the opportunity, they did not measure it but agreed the rifle was of legal length and was not a short-barreled rifle under the law.Judge Schroeder then dismissed the weapons charge, as the possession of an ordinary rifle by the defendant (Kyle Rittenhouse) was not prohibited...

There could be a verdict in the Rittenhouse trial as early as today. Closing arguments (and antics, in the case of the prosecutor, see picture below) were made yesterday.Assistant District Attorney Thomas Binger argued that Rittenhouse provoked the attack, thereby forfeiting his right to self-defense. Rittenhouse instigated the first shooting by pointing his weapon at people, and caused the subsequent encounters by creating an “active shooter” situation in which protesters felt an urgency to disarm him.While making that claim Binger demonstrated by picking up Kyle’s rifle and aiming it at the spectator section of the courtroom, with his finger on...

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During the 1980 presidential campaign, there was but one debate between the incumbent president, Democrat Jimmy Carter, and his Republican opponent, Ronald Reagan. Carter insisted on excluding third-party independent John B. Anderson from participating. Finally, just 13 days before the election, Carter got his way. It was disastrous for him but a blessing for our country. In the closing moments of this single debate on Oct. 28, Reagan looked into the camera and asked the American people a question: "Are you better off today than you were four years ago?" Voters of all stripes, stunned by Carter's weak-kneed foreign policy...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives introduced legislation on Monday that would decriminalize marijuana at the federal level and eliminate legal hazards facing many cannabis-related businesses while regulating its use like alcohol. Representative Nancy Mace of South Carolina, who is spear-heading the legislative effort, described the bill as a "compromise" with less onerous regulations than measures proposed earlier by other lawmakers including Democrats. The legislation's path in the Democratic-controlled House was uncertain. Mace, a first-term lawmaker, said the measure has five Republican co-sponsors. Adult use of cannabis is legal in 18 U.S. states and allowed medically...

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WASHINGTON, Friday, Nov. 15. The volunteer service now numbers four hundred and eighty thousand men, leaving but twenty thousand more enlistments to reach the number authorized by Congress. The following letter has been received by Secretary CHASE from Collector BARNEY: CUSTOM-HOUSE, NEW-YORK, COLLECTOR's OFFICE, Nov. 15, 1861. SIR: I have the honor to transmit herewith, a memorial which has been addressed to me by some of the wealthiest and most respectable importers of this City, praying for a restoration of the warehouse system as it existed prior to August 5, 1861. I most cheerfully comply with their request, that I...

Biden proposes 20-year ban on new oil drilling near Native American site in New Mexico President Joe Biden announced Monday a proposal for a 20-year ban on new oil and gas drilling near Chaco Canyon in northwest New Mexico -- one of the oldest Native American sites in the US -- White House officials said. In the coming weeks, the Department of Interior's Bureau of Land Management will start the agency process to effectively bar new oil and gas leasing on federal lands within a 10-mile radius around Chaco Culture National Historical Park. The park is one of just 24...

November 16, 2021 Tuesday of week 33 in Ordinary Time St. Margaret of Scotland, Chicago, IL Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green.First reading2 Maccabees 6:18-31 ©'I will make a good death, eagerly and generously, for the holy laws'Eleazar, one of the foremost teachers of the Law, a man already advanced in years and of most noble appearance, was being forced to open his mouth wide to swallow pig’s flesh. But he, resolving to die with honour rather than to live disgraced, went to the block of his own accord, spitting the stuff out, the plain duty of anyone with the courage...

PITTSBURGH -- On the morning of Election Day in western Pennsylvania, Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf mentioned on a local radio show that his wife had submitted his mail-in ballot for him -- a direct violation of Pennsylvania election law punishable by up to a year in prison, a $1,000 fine or possibly both. Had the progressive Democrat signed the voting bill that passed this summer, HB 1300, any member of his household could have dropped it off for him. Moreover, it would have established early in-person voting and required signature verification of mail-in ballots. When he vetoed the bill, Wolf...

Resign. It’s the only way out. The dark winter is coming and the diabolical bills you’ve passed will be the end of your career. You’ve flouted fiduciary responsibility for the people’s money and enslaved them with debt. Already, the spending bills you passed as Covid relief, that largely helped every other nation but your own, every other people but your own, are driving inflation to unsustainable levels, the likes of which only Venezuela has seen and because of the same policies. The infrastructure bill that put in place communistic programs and restrictive laws while offering only one third of it...

Former President Donald Trump, while endorsing a handful of Michigan politicians on Monday, said the state “needs a new legislature.” Trump released statements Monday endorsing three Republicans for office in 2022, Mike Detmer and John Gibbs -- who are both challenging other Republicans -- as well as Rachelle Smit, a small-town clerk in Allegan County. In his endorsement of Smit, who is the current township clerk for Martin, in southwest Michigan, Trump said “Michigan needs a new legislature. The cowards there now are too spineless to investigate Election Fraud." Smit plans to run for the Michigan House of Representatives in...

Surely there must be a liberty loving, constitutional conservative in that state for the GOP to be competitive? Sort of like a Rand Paul . Interesting fact is that Pat Leahy was the only Dem to be elected to U.S. Senate from there. So will the seat go to the Dem or someone claiming their independent/socialist and whoever Bernie endorses? Does Bernie have that much clout? Guess we'll find out. I like to think some kind of appealing Republican can emerge...

Chinese dissenter and artist Ai Weiwei warned that political correctness has begun to show shades of similarities to Mao Zedong’s infamous Cultural Revolution in China. Weiwei sat down for an interview Friday with PBS reporter Margaret Hoover on "Firing Line" to discuss authoritarianism in China. During the discussion, Hoover noted a quote from his book when he referenced former President Donald Trump.

Last week in an interview on Newsmax, I said: "During the AIDS crisis, can you imagine if gay men and intravenous drug users, who were the vast majority of the people with AIDS, had they been pariahs the way the non-vaccinated are? But it would have been inconceivable. And it should have been inconceivable; they should not have been made pariahs. But this (banning those not vaccinated from bars, restaurants, salons, etc.) is kosher, this is OK." The reason I raised the comparison of gay men and IV drug users as pariahs to the current-day unvaccinated is that I took...

If you have been following the news at all for the past several weeks, you know that the latest gigantic UN “climate” conference, going by the name COP (Conference of Parties) 26, has been taking place in Glasgow, Scotland. Mercifully, it ended yesterday, Saturday, November 13. All of those hundreds of private jets have now flown home. Every time one of these UN confabs takes place, you have to hold your breath fearing that some tremendously damaging result will emerge. But, reviewing the final outcome of this latest conference, my comment is that we climate realists have gotten about the...

If you see Joe Biden’s picture on a gas pump these days, it’s not a tribute to his amazingly successful energy policy. The stickers — with Biden pointing to the $3.50 a gallon gas price and saying “I did that!” — are part of a Republican guerrilla campaign to undermine the Democratic administration. They’ve gone viral online. And it’s cheap and easy. A 100-pack of the stickers is going for just six bucks on Amazon. Read More You might see the derisive stickers up in New Hampshire, the swing state Biden is set to visit on Tuesday to promote his...