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Some positive activity in the political war to keep alive our legacy of liberty. Mark Meadows, former chief of staff to President Trump, filed an amicus curiae brief in the Supreme Court, January 7, in support of the former president's claim that his official papers should be covered by executive privilege and not released to the Jan. 6 House Select Committee. The matter is now on appeal before the Supreme Court as a result of the ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upholding the decision by President Biden that executive privilege is not...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson takes questions in parliament, London, on Wednesday, January 12. The session comes after Johnson was accused of a breach of lockdown rules on Monday night, with a leaked email showing that one of his top officials invited more than 100 Downing Street staff to a party on May 20, 2020. The Metropolitan Police has said it is in contact with the government over 'widespread reporting relating to alleged breaches' of COVID-19 rules at the time. ...

We celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day on the third Monday of January -- this year, Jan. 17. On Aug. 28, 1963, King delivered one of the great speeches in American history, popularly known as the "I Have a Dream" speech. It is a speech that must be dusted off and studied anew today, because it contains the very message that our nation sorely needs to hear and digest now. A message that has been tragically lost and buried and replaced with great and destructive distortions. Two things jump out when reading through that speech. One is how this...

Burial of Native American dead at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, 1891.Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (reproduction no. LC-USZ62-44458) When people are disarmed, they are at the mercy of those who have disarmed them. History is full of instances where mercy was in short supply.The desperate fight, which became a massacre at Wounded Knee, on December 29, 1890, was one of the better recorded of such events. From Britannica.com:Forsyth was clear in his terms: the Miniconjou must surrender all their weapons. Big Foot was hesitant, but he surrendered a few guns as a token of peace. Forsyth was not satisfied and...

The inner-city predator has been a problem for decades, but never before has the predator received the affirmation of the criminal justice system. The inner-city predator has been a problem for decades, but never before has the predator received the affirmation of the criminal justice system. The criminal justice system and the mainstream media have conditioned us to see the predators themselves as victims of social forces. They are people deprived of opportunity and incapable of making decent choices. The predators are the true victim. The prey are simply collateral damage. There is no such thing as individuals making choices...

Fox News announced on Jan. 10 that Jesse Watters would become the permanent host of their 7 p.m. hour in two weeks. No one was more disgusted than CNN, where Erin Burnett has been thumped by Fox in that hour by a rotating cast of substitute hosts for the last year. Brian Stelter tweeted, "Jesse Watters is a logical choice for Fox's 7pm time slot -- the evening schedule is now full of flame throwers -- from Watters through to Greg Gutfeld." Oliver Darcy joined in: "The installment of Watters into the 7pm time slot cements a strategy Fox initiated...

Sen. Cruz’s questioning to elicit that information was followed by the January 6 Kangaroo court...er, committee’s bizarre statement about Ray Epps. On Tuesday, Sen. Ted Cruz reminded people why they’ve appreciated his contributions to the conservative cause. Jill Sanborn, the executive assistant director for the FBI’s national security branch, appeared before the Senate to answer questions about the FBI’s role in events on January 6. Cruz grilled her with a series of questions to determine whether the FBI played a part in the events of the day, including questions about Ray Epps, a very visible presence on the day. Sanborn,...

resident Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris traveled to Georgia Tuesday to push their party's bill to federalize U.S. election procedures on terms favorable to Democrats. "We are going right to the belly of the beast, or ground zero, for voter suppression, voter subversion and obstruction," senior White House official Cedric Richmond told Politico. Led by Stacey Abrams, who refused to accept the results of the 2018 Georgia gubernatorial election (she lost), Democrats have used the unsupported notion of widespread voter suppression as the foundation for two bills -- the "For the People Act" in the House and the...

Glenn Youngkin recently was elected Virginia's governor partly because he promised to ban teaching of CRT. CRT stands for critical race theory, which argues that every American institution upholds white supremacy. Before Youngkin's surprise victory, the media mocked him for complaining about CRT. NBC's Nicolle Wallace said it isn't even taught in public schools. "That is like us banning the ghosts!" she laughed. She is wrong. In my new video, journalist Asra Nomani reveals some rather creepy CRT lessons that are taught in many schools. Nomani filed Freedom of Information Act requests that forced school districts to reveal how they...

Remember that starting Saturday you will need these three things before heading out:1. Proof of Vaccination (12 years +) 2. Proof of Vaccination and Photo ID (18 years +) 3. Mask— Mayor Muriel Bowser (@MayorBowser) January 11, 2022

As the nation marked a year since the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol, Sen. Rob Portman said this to cleveland.com reporter Sabrina Eaton: “We need to seek places where we can find that common ground to begin to rebuild the sense of American consensus.” Yes, we need to find that common American ground again. Ohio, in particular, needs to recapture its patriotic consensus. That is why, Sen. Portman, if you are serious about wanting to rebuild our “American consensus,” we ask that you reconsider your retirement and seek a third term in the U.S. Senate. Otherwise, the ugliness...

When Democrat Terry McAuliffe said he didn’t want parents to have influence over their children’s education, it wasn’t a gaffe; he meant it. The new totalitarians cannot abide by freedom, especially freedom of education which ensures parents have influence over their children’s education and, therefore, future. The allies of the new totalitarians, however, agree with McAuliffe and other Bolsheviks. The real reason is because education shapes and molds people; if the educational juggernaut has complete control over education, they have complete control over the next generation, and, therefore, complete control over the future of American society. Education, as envisioned by...

There is a real possibility that the European Union (EU) will endure major fuel shortages this winter. Record-high electricity prices are currently the norm with no end in sight. Russian president Vladimir Putin astutely understands that the EU heavily relies on Russian natural gas, which the Nord Stream 1 and now 2 (NS2) natural gas pipeline will provide. This $11 billion line to the German coast spanning 764 miles under the Baltic Sea will double the capacity of Russian natural gas and be used as a geopolitical leverage point against Ukraine, Poland, NATO, the EU, and most of all Germany,...

I was blessed to be greatly influenced by a wonderful physician. He was truly a giant, but some would not know that, and he would even perhaps deny it. He was divisive, to be sure — either loved or hated, never in between, but always respected. He put the patient first at all costs. He would relate walking by a hospital room, with a patient alone on a bedpan, shouting for help, with no one to help her. Because of this, he was on the cutting edge of the outpatient surgery center movement, due to better costs but also better...

While Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) is warning Democrats might try to change the filibuster rules to advance voting rights legislation, a video from over a decade ago shows the New York senator warning against eliminating the procedural hurdle. On Monday, the Nathan Brand, the Republican National Committee’s deputy communications director, 2005 video surfaced of Schumer warning against eliminating the legislative filibuster, which requires 60 votes to overcome and advance legislation. “The ideologues in the Senate want to turn what the Founding Fathers called the ‘cooling saucer of democracy’ into the rubber-stamp of dictatorship. We will not let them,”...

The New York Times doesn’t often defend its journalistic practices before a jury. But later this month, the “Gray Lady” will indeed do so as the influential newspaper has a trial date with Sarah Palin. Very much under the radar, jury selection in the four-year-old case begins on Jan. 24. The former vice presidential candidate alleges being defamed by a 2017 editorial linking one of her political action committee ads to a 2011 mass shooting that severely wounded then-Arizona Congresswoman Gabby Giffords. James Bennet, the author of the editorial, picked up on the use of crosshairs in the advertisement and...

After finding evidence that the "man of God" and "moral conscience of our nation," the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., participated in the rape of a parishioner, engaged in numerous sex orgies, received cash payments from known communists, and admitted that he was a Marxist, King biographer and Pulitzer Prize–winning author David Garrow wrote of King, "There is no question that a profoundly painful reckoning and reconsideration inescapably awaits." *snip* To have been a Christian minister, it is illuminating that King's ideology is anathema to Christianity, manliness, and American freedom. Consider this: after attempting to integrate an all-White hotel...

"Ted Cruz (not my favorite senator at the moment) may have read some of the widely-deserved criticism a bunch of us have been hurling at him, because he appears to be trying to get to the bottom of the FBI’s involvement in the Jan. 6 riots. (“Appears” is an important word here, because, most likely, no action will follow his eloquent questioning.) Cruz interrogated the FBI Executive Assistant Director of the National Security Branch, Jill Sandborn, about the role the FBI played. Her responses do not inspire confidence that the federal government wasn’t inciting violence that day. “How many FBI...

"The city of Boulder, Colorado, issued a warning to residents Monday, urging them to cut back on home energy use throughout the winter as energy costs skyrocket. On average, Boulder households are expected to pay $98 per month for natural gas-powered heating, a 37% jump compared to the $71 per month they paid last year, according to the city. The warning posted by city officials explained that nationwide supply challenges are to blame for the higher consumer costs. “Turn down your thermostat and dress in layers: It’s not just up to your furnace to keep you warm,” the city wrote...

"Senator Cruz challenged Jill Sanborn, executive assistant director of the National Security Branch of the FBI, asking what roll the FBI played in the Jan. 6. In a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday, the Department of Justice took questions from Senators about their programs to combat domestic terrorism. Senator Cruz challenged Jill Sanborn, executive assistant director of the National Security Branch of the FBI, asking what role the FBI played in the Jan. 6. He asked her outright "How many FBI agents or confidential informations actively participated in the events of January 6?" Sanborn declined to answer, saying she...