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The Kyle Rittenhouse trial has been an absolute disaster for the prosecution by every possible sane standard. Yet, lead prosecutor Thomas Binger and his team press on, concocting the absurdest of 'logic' and grasping at outlandish legal straws in a desperate attempt to try to put someone who clearly seems like an innocent teenager in prison for life. So, is this all really about Kyle Rittenhouse, or is it about something else entirely? Fox News host Tucker Carlson had a chilling theory during Monday night's "Tucker Carlson Tonight" opening monologue: "You have no right to resist ... the next time...

Four students who were disciplined after a "joke" petition looking to restart slavery was shared on social media are suing the Kansas City school district for civil rights violations. The lawsuit, filed Friday, stated the students from Park Hill South High School said the posting in September began as a joke between a biracial student and a black student. The biracial student was expelled and three other students who commented on the petition were suspended for 180 days, according to the Associated Press. All of the students are in the ninth grade and members of the school's football team. The...

Jurors are set to begin deliberations at Kenosha gunman Kyle Rittenhouse’s murder trial Tuesday — deciding if the teen either walks or potentially gets as much as a mandatory life sentence. The 12-member jury will get to decide on five felony charges with sentences ranging from 12-1/2 years behind bars to life, with two also punishable by up to 60 years in prison. During closing arguments Monday, prosecutors called Rittenhouse — who was only 17 at the time — a “wannabe soldier” who walked off like a “hero in a Western” after killing two men and wounding a third.

The President of the Scottsdale Unified School Board in Arizona was removed from his position as president on Monday night, after it was discovered that Jann-Michael Greenburg had access to an invasive dossier that sought to compile “dirt” on Scottsdale parents who oppose mask mandates and anti-white Critical Race Theory.The dossier in question featured pictures of parents’ homes, their children, and even pictures of their license plates. Greenburg’s trove of information amounts to little more than spying on the part of a public official against his own constituents.

Do you believe that all of us have blind spots of some kind? That all of us are shaped, for better or worse, by our own upbringing and environment? That we sometimes see things through an imperfect lens? And can you point to many blind spots among those whose beliefs and ideologies you reject? If so, perhaps we can explore some of our own blind spots here, and in this case, by “we” I mean we who are white Americans. The truth be told, all of us, of all color and background, are much more inclined to see the blind...

In a sane era, no ethics review board would allow doctors to bribe young children to undergo a treatment with unknown dangers and minuscule benefits. But medical ethics are just one more casualty of the Covid pandemic, as Bill de Blasio cheerfully demonstrated at a recent press conference. New York’s mayor announced that children aged five and older would get $100 for being vaccinated against Covid—and then he made a direct pitch to those too young to appreciate the size of the city’s bribe. “It buys a whole lot of candy,” the mayor explained. Norms of science and medicine have...

WAR IN HEAVEN: MICHAEL AND THE DRAGON. REVELATION 12 New International Version Resources to CLICK: To read REVELATION 12 in full To hear MAX McLEAN reading it To hear a DRAMATIZATION of it To read J-F-B's COMMENTARY on it BIBLE TIMELINE 95 A.D. REVELATIONChapter 12, Verses 7-17 Then war broke out in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back. But he was not strong enough, and they lost their place in heaven. The great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole...

Growing up in a in a university town, I was exposed to a wide range of cultures. As faculty and graduate students came and went, there was a constant revolving door of people passing through. At the end of elementary school, a new student arrived in my class, her name was Nahla, and she was from Egypt. As a son of an Israeli father, I will never forget the discomfort that I felt being around her. I had nothing against her personally, and in fact recall resisting liking her. I understood from my much earlier years that Israel and Egypt...

Pray For The Peace of JerusalemIsaiah 64[a]Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down, that the mountains would tremble before you! 2 As when fire sets twigs ablaze and causes water to boil, come down to make your name known to your enemies and cause the nations to quake before you! 3 For when you did awesome things that we did not expect, you came down, and the mountains trembled before you. 4 Since ancient times no one has heard, no ear has perceived, no eye has seen any God besides you, who acts on behalf of those...

Tucker: How did Kamala Harris get so high up? Nov. 16, 2021 - 2:09 - 'Tucker Carlson Tonight' host dives into the vice president's past relationship with Montel Williams. And Willie Brown

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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...