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Senate Democrats in Washington state have once again passed a bill that creates a pathway to early release for a variety of incarcerated people serving long sentences or even life without parole, including those sentenced for aggravated murder and murder in the first degree. The bill doubles the membership of the Clemency and Pardons Board, and requires certain representation on the board to ensure equity. The board would consider petitions for early release for incarcerated people who have served 15, 20, or 25 years of their sentence, depending on the crime they’re serving time for. “This bill is about understanding...

Just as the investigation into the “terror attack” of January 6 was in full swing in the autumn of 2021, court proceedings in the alleged 2020 plot to kidnap of Governor Gretchen Whitmer began in Michigan. When 13 men allegedly tied to militia groups were arrested on October 7 of this year on federal and state charges for planning to kidnap Whitmer from her Michigan vacation cottage, Team Biden and Whitmer herself made the most of the timely political gift. “There is a through line from President Trump’s dog whistles and tolerance of hate, vengeance, and lawlessness to plots such...

WASHINGTON, Wednesday, Feb. 5. In expectation that a vote would be had to-day in the Bright case, the galleries of the Senate Chamber were filled at an early hour, and all the available space in the Chamber was occupied by those entitled to the privilege of the floor. The interest in the proceedings was intense, and for five hours the vast concourse sat with enchained attention, awaiting the final issue. Speeches were delivered by several Senators, and Mr. BRIGHT himself, who made a most ingenious and impressive defence, in a more temperate spirit than was to have been expected. It...

Apparently, nobody told Chris Wallace that rats are supposed to jump from sinking ships, not onto them. After leaving Fox News for the nascent CNN+ streaming service (and watching ratings soar for his old show, Fox News Sunday, once he was gone), Wallace now finds himself abandoned by the person who lured him away, Jeff Zucker. Radar Online reports:

For those times when you’ve got someplace to be, and you’ve also got a craving for kimchi. Just about every train station platform in Japan has a vending machine or two on it, stocked with all sorts of tempting options. Some of the most common are canned coffees and teas, often in both hot and cold varieties, but today we’re visiting a vending machine that’s a little different. OK, so the machine itself is the standard type. The inventory, though, is anything but, because this vending machine is stocked with kimchi! You can find this unique machine at Keikyu Kawasaki...

Pray For The Peace of JerusalemEphesians 6The Armor of God 10 Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. 11 Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes. 12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. 13 Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your...

In the moments before the Ottawa police's Friday morning briefing on the ongoing anti-vaccine mandate protest on Parliament Hill, officers — both in uniform and plain clothes — and media alike awaited the arrival of the chief and deputy chiefs. Meanwhile, a few folks were passing around a news release on tougher police measures coming in the days ahead, including one man who was not with the police services, but with the chief's office, CBC was told. That man was Matthew Barnes, a senior consultant for Navigator — an elite and expensive crisis management firm. Police chief Peter Sloly's office...

A Navy SEAL candidate died Friday and another was hospitalized in San Diego after completing a training phase known as "Hell Week." Naval Special Warfare Command said in a statement that the cause of the SEAL candidate's death is currently unknown and is under investigation. The injured candidate is in stable condition at Naval Medical Center San Diego. The sailors, who were not named, were not "actively" training when they began suffering symptoms, according to the statement. NBC first reported on the incident. They began suffering symptoms "several hours" after the sailors' Basic Underwater Demolition SEAL (BUD/S) class had completed...

The very first thing that Joe Biden did -- on day one -- was to sign an executive order (EO) establishing the concepts contained in Critical Theory, Critical Race Theory and Queer Theory as key elements of and the official policy of the Biden administration.

The Talk Shows February 6th, 2022 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Guest anchor Dana Perino: National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan; Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.); Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.); Neil Sean. Panel: Return of the Wallass idiots: Juan Williams; Gillian Turner; Josh Holmes. MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Hosted by Chuck U. Toad: National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan; former Pence Chief of Staff Marc Short; Richard Engel, from Ukraine. Panel: Al Cárdenas; Helene Cooper; Jeh Johnson; Amy Walter—just another easily forgotten group of angry Leftists slinging anti-American balderdash. FACE THE NATION (CBS): Margaret...

The public should be skeptical of everything they see from government or the media. Several people from the Biden administration are claiming that Putin is planning a false flag operation in Ukraine. I have no idea whether that is true or not, but neither do the journalists repeating the story. Shouldn’t the public be skeptical of everything the government and others tell us? After all: We were told in Afghanistan that the Biden administration had no idea that the Taliban was advancing so fast and that our embassy would survive. We were told that all Americans and Afghan helpers would...

What I Saw At The Freedom Convoy In Downtown Victoria Posted on February 5, 2022 AuthorNewsComment(0) Spread the love Yesterday, I (O’Leary for News) wrote about the way, when elites go progressive, anarchy starts to come from the top more than the bottom.True, rioters are not usually elite unless they are college students or teachers. But it takes an elite to tell the police to just stand down. The elite can much more easily protect themselves from the risks of violence than the middle class or working class can. So Wokism is good strategy for arbitrary rule. So are useless...

“From a macroeconomic perspective, it would certainly be helpful if consumer demand were to cool off,” said Michael R. Strain, an economist at the American Enterprise Institute, a right-leaning think tank. “Rooting for low-income households to have less savings is not great, but I think it’s important to remember low-income households are the ones who are hurt the most by inflation. It doesn’t sit well thinking, ‘Boy, it’d be great if households burned through their excess savings.’ But we’re not in a normal period.” A Bank of America report in November noted that price increases for some goods, especially in...

After one year of the Biden presidency, it is clear that his administration is focused on weakening and even removing the constitutional underpinnings of America. The same underpinnings that our Founding Fathers put in place to safeguard us from human nature.The question is— are we surprised to see where we are as a country? I’m not. When I look around at our culture, I see darkness. A culture made up of people who have little regard for biblical morality.The prophet Isaiah warned about where we are today when he wrote, “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil,...

Or will the prime minister's crackdown send a dire warning to the watching world? On Wednesday in Ottawa, a police officer stepped into a bar to deliver a message from the Canadian government to the truckers protesting Canada's vaccine mandates. In the course of his videotaped delivery, among other things, he said: Remove your trucks yourselves now ... or ... you will be forfeiting the trucks to the Crown and those associated with those trucks will be arrested. One trucker responded to the officer, "Just remove the mandates, and we'll leave." Apparently, that was an option the police were not...

I like political leaders who speak plainly about the dangers of communism. I recall Ronald Reagan calling the communists in Russia an evil empire for the way they oppressed their people and the peoples of Eastern Europe in the 1980s. I liked the way he called Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall. Reagan was the leader of the free world calling out the communists for oppressing their people. Reagan called a spade a spade. Our current leaders do not speak so clearly. When he was running for President, Joe Biden said this about Communist China, “I want China to...

The United States government, Big Tech and Cancel Culture have combined into a triple threat to the American Constitutional Republic American by laying siege to the Bill of Rights, particularly the right to freedom of speech. Examples abound. GoFundMe has interfered with the use of millions of dollars raised on its platform by the “Freedom Convoy” of Canadian truckers. YouTube has banned Dan Bongino from its platform for voicing opinions about Covid-19 which are not the same as those from the Centers of Disease Control. Spotify has begun posting disclaimers on Joe Rogan podcast episodes that discuss Covid-19, with Cancel...

It is a basic principle of psychological warfare and propaganda that the assignment of a name that sticks to somebody or something can make or break that person or entity. A fictional example from the Game of Thrones series exemplifies this. If you're a slave in Meereen, and somebody called the "Mother of Dragons" and "Breaker of Chains" is outside your masters' walls with an army, you'll probably pick up anything you can use as a weapon to join a slave revolt. If we look at a real historical example, serfs who had previously been willing to do almost anything...

Of this we can be sure: Justin Trudeau and his friends will be at it until the people of the world rise and give them the boot. “Every word he says he is a lie. A nose as long as the trucker‘s convoy.” Dr. Jordan B. Peterson When thousands of truckers drove toward Ottawa in protest against the vaccine mandates, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau described them as “the small fringe minority” holding “unacceptable views.” As the movement gained momentum and the truckers were joined and cheered on by scores of their compatriots objecting to Canada’s regime of Covid oppression,...

As early as 1932, according to the records of Hermann Rauschning (1887–1982), a leading NSDAP man in Danzig/Gdansk, Hitler stated: "This devilish 'Thou shall, thou shall!' And that stupid 'Thou shall not!' We must clean our blood from it, from this curse of Mount Sinai! ... The day will come when against these commandments I will erect the tables of a new law. And history will recognize our movement as the great battle for the liberation of mankind, liberation from the curse of Sinai. ... That is it what we are fighting: this masochistic attitude of self-torturing, this curse of...