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So they're shelving the bolshevikization of the economy, but will instead "aggressively" focus on the bolshevikization of elections instead. I hope -- pray, really -- that Republicans have forty-one votes to filibuster that nightmare. But who knows what the "reasonable" Republicans might decide to in the service of Collegiality. And I have to tell you: I think the "rules change" discussed here is a suspension of the filibuster rule for a vote on a federal takeover of state election laws. "Schumer is still holding out hope for action on voting rights this year, multiple sources tell us. They are hoping...

SEATTLE (AP) — The CEO of a Seattle-based affiliate of Planned Parenthood has been removed from her position after controversy following a donor’s use of a racist term in a meeting. Chris Charbonneau was ousted last week as head of Planned Parenthood Great Northwest, Hawaii, Alaska, Indiana, Kentucky, the Seattle Times reported. The organization said a donor used a racist term to refer to Black people this fall and Charbonneau repeated the word while discussing the meeting with another staffer. Charbonneau and the board have differing accounts of how she reacted to the donor’s use of the word, which the...

Philadelphia health officials have called on residents to avoid hosting inter-household holiday gatherings this year to prevent the spread of coronavirus. Fox News 29 reports: On Monday, health officials stated that the city has seen COVID-19 infections rate double in the past few weeks, and hospitalizations increase by about 50%. The city announced a new vaccine mandate impacting indoor dining establishments would be implemented on Jan. 3 in response to the rising case counts. They followed up Monday’s mandate announcement with new guidance for holiday gatherings.

Thanks to The Godfather, this image is implanted in our collective consciousness. Obviously, Manchin is holding some serious cards regarding the passage of the “Build Back Better” raid on the treasury that Democrats in Congress are drooling over. Will enough pressure be put on Manchin to go against his earlier negative comments on the measure? Suffice to say that the senator understands arithmetic and already knows that, in last year’s election, Donald Trump beat Biden in West Virginia by better than two to one. Beyond basic political calculations, the rising specter of inflation is asserting itself as a problem to...

The NFL caught RED HANDED funding RADICAL groups that call to ABOLISH THE POLICE and PRISONS! [13 minute video report]

CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago Public Schools and the Chicago Teachers Union have reached a $9.25 million settlement in two long-running federal lawsuits stemming from the layoffs of hundreds of Black educators at underperforming schools. About $5.25 million of the settlement would be distributed among 413 current and former union members under the terms of the deal, which is subject to court approval and up for a vote at Wednesday’s Chicago Board of Education meeting. Attorneys for the teachers and paraprofessionals are seeking about $3.6 million in fees and $400,000 in court costs, according to the board. CPS and CTU representatives...

Speaking maskless at a holiday fundraiser celebration for the Democratic National Committee last night, December 14, President Joseph Biden (D) admitted to the assembled a fundamental totalitarian voting principle which Democrats across the US, and now in the White House, have used for years, "The struggle is no longer just who gets to vote or make it easy for eligible people to vote. It's about who gets to count the vote - whether your vote counts at all," Biden told a crowd of a few hundred donors and party officials at a gathering at the Hotel Washington. (bold added)Biden says...

THIRD WEEK OF ADVENT LUKE 7:18B-23 Friends, in today’s Gospel, John the Baptist summons two of his disciples to ask if Jesus is “the one . . . or are we to look for another?” When this inquiry is conveyed to Jesus, the Lord does not respond theoretically, but rather by pointing to things that are happening. “Go and tell John what you have seen and heard: the blind regain their sight, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, the poor have good news proclaimed to them.” Was Jesus doing all of this in...

Philadelphia Councilwoman Cindy Bass wants to outlaw bullet-proof glass in retail stores because it "encourages loitering, public urination and potential drug sales." Her rationale seems weak. Store owners install bullet-proof glass to protect themselves from armed robbers. Bass argues that "this glass is an indignity for everyone who enters the store. It conveys the message that anyone could be a thief. For every armed robber who is thwarted hundreds of honest people are so psychologically damaged that they can't help themselves from urinating in the street, idly loitering in the area, and make drug deals." Bass went on to complain...

BOSTON (AP) — Soon after losing his trucking job amid the pandemic, Freddie Davis got another blow: His landlord in Miami was almost doubling the rent on his Miami apartment. Davis girded for what he feared would come next. In September he was evicted — just over a month after a federal eviction moratorium ended. He’s now languishing in a hotel, aided by a nonprofit that helps homeless people. The 51-year-old desperately wants to find a new apartment. But it’s proving impossible on his $1,000-a-month disability check. “We live in America, and the thing is, people like me, we got...

In “The Hunchback of Notre Dame,” Victor Hugo told the tale of Esmerelda, a gypsy dancer falsely accused of attempted murder, set to be hanged by an unjust state. Quasimodo, the titular hunchback, swings down from the cathedral of Notre Dame and saves her, carrying her off while crying “Sanctuary!” In fact, throughout European history, churches provided places of safe haven for accused criminals; the claim of “sanctuary” is made to this day by people seeking refuge from the law. It's strange, however, to see the language of sanctuary adopted to protect precisely the sort of activity abhorred by anyone...

The House of Representatives late Tuesday evening voted 222-208 to refer Trump’s Chief of Staff Mark Meadows to the Justice Department for potential criminal charges.Representatives passed the contempt measure 222-208 with RINOs Cheney and Kinzinger voting with the Democrats.

President Joe Biden's hopes for the Senate to pass his Build Back Better bill by Christmas appeared to be dead on Wednesday as Chuck Schumer prepared to punt the matter into the new year after failing to reach an agreement with Joe Manchin. Schumer will, instead, shift the chamber's focus to trying to pass voting rights legislation, NBC News reported, as talks with Manchin continue. The West Virginia senator wants to cut the Child Tax Credit, which most Democrats want to keep in Biden's signature legislation. 'Manchin has talked with Biden and they are still miles apart,' a person familiar...

As Lira Implodes, Turkey Proposes Huge Fines For “Hoarding” On one hand Turkey’s currency is crashing because the country’s ruthless despot refuses to allow higher interest rates (in hopes the ensuing hyperinflationary collapse will cover his pillaging of Turkey’s wealth as he will simply blame “foreign financial terrorists” for what has been the biggest heist of Turkey’s wealth in modern history). And sure enough, the TRY fell another 2.75% today to a fresh all time low ahead of tomorrow’s insane rate cut by the Turkish central bank which will send the lira plunging even more in the coming days and...

More than 1,500 previously classified JFK assassination files have today been made public, including documents about killer Lee Harvey Oswald's contact with a KGB agent two months before the shooting. The files were released at noon on Wednesday by the National Archives, after months of delays by Biden who had promised to make them public but then stalled, claiming COVID backlogs was the reason. They include memos detailing anonymous phone calls to the US embassy in Canberra, Australia, a year before the shooting, where the caller said the Soviet Government was plotting to kill Kennedy, and details of Oswald's meeting...

Oops, he did it again. After leaking fake Donald Trump, Jr. emails, fabricating the transcript of a 2019 phone call between former President Donald Trump and Ukraine’s president, and lying about his interactions with the so-called whistleblower behind House Democrats’ first impeachment of Trump, Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., is now running the same con against a fellow lawmaker. During a hearing Monday night on the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, Adam Schiff claimed to have proof that a member of Congress texted former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows to instruct former Vice President Mike...

12 Marvelous Quotes on the Bill of Rights On this very day in 1791—December 15—a young United States of America formally adopted the first ten amendments to its Constitution that we call the Bill of Rights. Americans over the age of 60 will likely remember the hilarious TV game show that ran for 25 years (1965-1980) called Hollywood Squares. On the show, host Peter Marshall (still living at age 95) once directed this question to comedian Paul Lynde: “Pride, anger, covetousness, lust, gluttony, envy and sloth are collectively known as what?”Sustained laughter ensued when Lynde replied, “The Bill of Rights.”...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Wednesday decried recent crime waves, including organized retail theft, in San Francisco and elsewhere in the U.S. as "outrageous" and decried "an attitude of lawlessness" she said is behind it. Pelosi, D-Calif., made the comments when asked about recent comments from San Francisco Mayor London Breed, who is pushing a renewed effort to "change course on how we public safety" and crack down on crime. "It's absolutely outrageous. Obviously it cannot continue," Pelosi said. "But the fact is that there is an attitude of lawlessness in our country that springs from I don't know where… and...

Threading the NeedlesThe Escalation of InhumanityCan we not see here the utter breakdown of the hyper-papalism that makes the pope a mortal god, a divine oracle, who gets to rewrite liturgy, theology, morals, and even the record of history in pursuit of ideology?- Peter Kwasniewski "I understand your anger at those who haven't gotten vaccinated. ... We've been patient. But our patience is wearing thin. ... We must increase vaccinations among the unvaccinated with new vaccination requirements. ... The safest thing for your child aged 12 and over, is to get them vaccinated."- Joe "Beijing" Biden (incendiary address to the...

Biden declares 2022 victory at DNC event tonight VIDEO AT LINK................... ‘The struggle is about who gets to count the vote’ False bravado on display… Biden says the struggle is no longer about who gets to vote, it’s about “who gets to count the vote” pic.twitter.com/riZ0GFqsGf — Jewish Deplorable (@TrumpJew2) December 15, 2021