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Former Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean said on this week’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The Sunday Show” that there were “similarities” between former President Donald Trump and Nazi Germany dictator Adolf Hitler. Dean said, “The truth is we’re not going to get everything we want, and Clyburn was exactly right. We need to focus on the half-full glass and go get some more. I’ve been in politics most of my life. You don’t get everything you want the first time. You get what you can get and go back and get the rest. You keep going and keep going and...

After a four-year wait, Sarah Palin's libel case against The New York Times will move forward with jury selection scheduled to begin Monday. U.S. District Court Judge Jed Rakoff has announced that date in a federal courthouse in Manhattan, blocking off an estimated two weeks for the trial. "This trial is not only entertaining, it will address an important principle: you don't get to make up nasty stuff about somebody you don't like and print it anyway," the New York Post's Kyle Smith wrote in an editorial after the announcement the case will go to trial.

In an interview on Dec. 17, 2021, Vice Pres. Kamala Harris said, “We didn’t see Delta coming…. We didn’t see Omicron coming.” A few days after that, a reporter asked Biden, “How did you get it wrong?” Biden laughed and replied, “Nobody saw it coming. Nobody in the whole world. Who saw it coming?” *When the Biden administration stopped construction on the border wall between the U.S. and Mexico and started talking about giving immigrants free healthcare, a free education, etc., they didn’t see an immigration crisis coming. *When the Biden administration stopped construction on the Keystone Pipeline and drilling...

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - The death of a 13-year-old student who apparently overdosed on fentanyl at his Connecticut school has drawn renewed pleas for schools to stock the opioid antidote naloxone, as well as for training of both staffers and children on how to recognize and respond to overdoses. The seventh grader was hospitalized Jan. 13 after falling ill at a Hartford school that did not have naloxone on hand. City officials vowed Wednesday to put the antidote in all city schools, as part of a wider drug use and overdose prevention strategy. “Naloxone should be available in all schools,...

A manhunt was underway in Harris County, Texas, early Sunday after a sheriff's deputy was shot dead during an apparent traffic stop in the southwest region of Houston, officials said. The victim was identified as Cpl. Charles Galloway, 47, a 12-year veteran of the force. "This has got to stop," Constable Ted Heap said during a news conference at Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday warned of a “swift” and “severe” united response from the U.S. and European allies if a "single additional Russian force" enters Ukraine. Asked by co-anchor Dana Bash on CNN’s “State of the Union” about potential aggressions by Russia and if they would lead to sanctions, Blinken emphasized that any incursion by Moscow, despite the size, would be met with a strong response.

Federal law enforcement will be monitoring the anti-vaccine mandate rally, "Defeat the Mandates: An American Homecoming," which is taking place at the national mall on Sunday for any signs of violence.The event, which is billed as a peaceful protest, will begin with protesters marching from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial, ......"This demonstration, as with most protest activity, is a soft target," a Jan. 14 Capitol Police bulletin warned, Yahoo News reported. "Extremists have become more comfortable with violence as a means to achieve political goals. The threat of a lone wolf or smaller-scale attack on a soft target...

Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” accused Sens. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) of working with the Republicans to “sabotage” President Joe Biden’s agenda. Anchor Dana Bash said, “We are one year into the Biden presidency. Those two key priorities are stalled in the Senate because Senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema won’t get on board. How frustrated are you?”

Miss the days when a White House press secretary would take press questions directly instead of “circling back?” Well, at least directness in the White House press briefing room can lead to other opportunities, as Sarah Huckabee Sanders is finding out. According to Arkansas-centric Talk Business and Politics, Sanders — who’s running for governor of the Razorback State — took in over $1.6 million in the fourth quarter, far more than any of her competitors. Sanders was a fixture as former President Donald Trump’s press secretary between 2017 and 2019, where she did battle against the mainstream media. (She’ll likely...

In March 2011, then-Vice President Joe Biden gave a much-ballyhooed speech at Moscow State University arguing the Obama-Biden reboot of U.S.-Russia relations had achieved great success, even singling out as an example the U.S. aluminum giant Alcoa for its new business ties inside Vladimir Putin's country. "The reset is working," Biden crowed. "Working for all of us. Working for Russia. And I would presumptuously suggest working for the world." That reset didn't last long. Putin's forces would invade the Crimea region of Ukraine in 2014 in an act of aggression that haunts Biden to this day. This week, now-President Biden...

It is quite interesting to see how exactly Bolivians defeated the vaccine mandate set out by their authorities. The protests and roadblocks have finally yielded favorable outcomes in the country.The government of socialist President Luis Arce abolished the necessity of proof of coronavirus vaccination to access any public institution or place of business on Jan. 19.Jeyson Auza, the minister of health, issued the statement.On December 28, representatives from the Movement for Socialism (MAS) released the original “supreme decrees” 4640 and 4641, which sparked widespread protests and legal challenges in the provinces of Santa Cruz, La Paz, Cochabamba, El Alto, and...

Prominent Democrat, Publicly Critical of Joe Biden Border Policy, Gets a Visit from FBI Jackboots January 20, 2022 The political motives behind this FBI effort are, yet again, brutally transparent. The FBI are for Joe Biden what the Russian FSB is for Vladimir Putin. That’s what they are. That’s all they are. That’s what they do. How many dozens of examples does it take before people realize the FBI are criminal enforcers targeting any voices who rise in opposition to the DC system? Seriously, when is enough, enough? This should be a bipartisan issue. Democrat Representative Henry Cuellar represents Texas’...

This week ice pancakes were found along Chicago's shoreline of Lake Michigan. Ice pancakes, much like their namesake, look exactly like you think they would -- round flat discs made of ice. They are common in the Arctic but typically only start making an appearance in the Lower 48 states once the temperatures get well below freezing for several days. "A signature feature of pancake ice is raised edges or ridges on the perimeter, caused by the pancakes bumping into each other from the ocean waves,"

Here is the text of the speech I'll deliver on Jan 23 at our rally in DCSteve Kirsch2 hr ago 361130 Rally info DEFEAT THE MANDATES...today! This event is a “let’s come together in unity to say the mandates must end.” I’m pleased to announce that Comedian JP Sears will be the moderator for the event. Here is the official website. Assemble at 10:30am at the Washington Monument for a walk to the Lincoln Memorial…Read more5 days ago · 395 likes · 313 comments · Steve KirschIntro: Steve Kirsch is a former high tech executive from Silicon Valley who left...

A judge is allowing California to proceed with plans to allow earlier potential prison release dates for repeat offenders with serious and violent criminal histories under the state’s "three strikes" law. Sacramento Superior Court Judge Shama Mesiwala lifted the temporary restraining order she imposed last month. That order temporarily blocked California corrections officials from acting on emergency regulations allowing them to increase good conduct credits for second-strike inmates serving time for nonviolent offenses who are housed at minimum-security prisons and camps. Their daily credits can now increase from half off their sentences to two-thirds off their sentences. The ruling "clears...

Seán Ono Lennon @seanonolennon I find it astonishing how many ppl use my deceased father to insult me simply because they disagree with my opinion. I can’t imagine doing that to anyone let alone a complete stranger. Amazing how scumbags so often think they are morally superior. Quote Tweet Counter Kleptocracy @TheBidenBridge · 11h Replying to @seanonolennon @tisha4souls and 2 others you are helping the fascists your father is ashamed of you 10:40 PM · Jan 22, 2022·Twitter for iPhone

Biden’s situation presents the unnamed committee who actually runs the presidency with a huge and delicate problem. It can’t last.It’s not often that I agree with Joe Biden, but he said something in his nasty, brutish, and long press conference last week with which, if properly understood, I agree. Don’t get me wrong. The press conference as a whole was a “total disaster.” Notwithstanding the sycophantic performance of the court eunuchs in the regime media, everybody understands this. (But speaking of “court eunuchs,” what’s the female equivalent? It was Jennifer Rubin, who actually gave Biden an “A-” for the presser,...

It can't happen here? It is happening here! By Patricia McCarthy Sinclair Lewis's novel of 1935, It Can't Happen Here, was published amid the rise of fascism in Europe. The book is about the political career of fictional Buzz Windrip, who is elected president in 1936, defeating FDR with a campaign promising a return to traditional values and drastic social and economic reforms (he promises every American $5K). Once elected, he becomes a totalitarian tyrant, complete with his own paramilitary force called the Minute Men! Windrip is Lewis's version of an American Hitler and/or Mussolini. But consider the parallels with...

In the battle over voting rights, an idea is starting to move around in Republican circles: designated police forces designed to hunt down voter fraud. On the basis of available evidence, this is a solution in search of a problem. It is another example of what comes from former president Donald Trump’s false claims about the 2020 election. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) has put a proposal for such a force in his new budget. In Georgia, former U.S. senator David Perdue, who is running as a Trumpian candidate in the GOP primary for governor against incumbent Gov. Brian Kemp...

Six in 10 voters would back someone other than President Biden if the 2024 presidential election were today, according to a Fox News national survey released Sunday. That makes his current reelection prospects dimmer than they ever were for his most recent predecessors, Donald Trump and Barack Obama.