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Its is Douglas MacArthurs 143rd birthday. Was he the 1950's equivalent of Donald Trump? The times when he showed great leadership were many. He modernised Wrest Point, asking when he had recently begun the task post World War One, "Why are we still preparing for the War Of 1812?" He resisted Australians who wanted to betray their own country in WW2 and surrender half the continent to Japan above the Brisbane line because he knew the all conquering Japanese were over extended and could be beaten. He did that aged in his 60s with island hopping strategic brilliance. In his...

"...Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff announced a 2024 Senate bid on Thursday, launching a campaign for Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s seat in what is shaping up to be a competitive Democratic primary....."

A jaw-dropping article published by The Wall Street Journal in December 2020 has resurfaced. In it, American physicians admitted to ventilating patients who did not need it as a step in their protocol. It was done not as a treatment that was likely to benefit the patient, but rather as a fruitless and callous way of attempting to stop the spread of covid-19.Doctors are treating a new flood of critically ill coronavirus patients with treatments from before the pandemic, to keep more patients alive and send them home sooner.Before the pandemic, between about 30% to more than 40% of ventilator...

My former OANN colleague Christina Bobb has shared.. Despite Congress’ failure to act, Pennsylvania could well go down as the worst case of election theft in our country’s history. When election officials halted the count on election night, President Trump was ahead by 700,000 votes. But three days later, they declared that Brain-Dead Biden had won. President Trump was winning by the greatest margin on election night, that I believe Democrats were convinced they couldn’t catch him. So, Democrats stopped the counting, blocked Republicans from even entering the building, and then somehow counted an alleged 1.4 additional million ballots without...

South Africa now questioning the Vaccine…BREAKING:Calls to suspend covid 19 vaccines in South Africa because of safety concerns hits mainstream news‘Let’s stop jabbing the people’‘We know the pharmaceutical industry has a long history of criminal behaviour. We are here to protect the public’Share far & wide 🔥 pic.twitter.com/ft37FIguZu— Dr Aseem Malhotra (@DrAseemMalhotra) January 25, 2023New program has started called Stop the Shot.

During the week of January 16, CNN’s average primetime viewership cratered to only 444,000 viewers. Between Ukraine, the roil over House committee seats, and all the classified documents His Fraudulency Joe Biden scattered throughout the world, there was no shortage of news that week. After all, Fox News attracted an average of 1.996 million primetime viewers during that same week, nearly five times as many as CNNLOL. Even MSNBC attracted nearly a million, with 943,000 average primetime viewers.

With the recent passage of AB 2098, California took a highly controversial step in barring doctors from offering “false information” on Covid-19 and related subjects. The law is an extension of Democratic efforts to block or censor “misinformation” and “disinformation” in society from social media to medicine. However, this effort involves direct government action. As will come as little surprise to many on this blog, I opposed the measure as unconstitutionally vague and a threat to free speech. Nevertheless, Judge Fred Slaughter (C.D. Cal.) in McDonald v. Lawson held that this statute was likely constitutional and rejected a motion for...

A Pumpkin Patch, A Typewriter, And Richard Nixon: The Hiss-Chambers Espionage Case. Episode 1 - Introduction And Alger Hiss Thirty-eight part video lecture series detailing the Alger Hiss - Whittaker Chambers espionage case.

A Mississippi school district has agreed to change its religious speech policy that forbade a third grader from wearing a mask bearing the words “Jesus Loves Me.” In October 2020 when mask mandates in schools were widespread, the principal of a school in the Simpson County School District in Pinola, Mississippi, told third grader Lydia Booth she could no longer wear her mask expressing her Christian views, according to the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), a religious freedom legal organization. Two days later, the administration issued a policy prohibiting messages on masks that were “political, religious, sexual or inappropriate symbols, gestures...

– NASA Day of Remembrance – Each January NASA pauses to honor members of the NASA family who lost their lives while furthering the cause of exploration and discovery, including the crews of Apollo 1 and space shuttles Challenger and Columbia. In 2023, the Day of Remembrance will be observed on Jan. 26, and will also mark the upcoming 20th anniversary of the loss of the Space Shuttle Columbia on Feb. 1, 2003.– Day of Remembrance Video –NASA Remembers Fallen Heroes– Remembering Columbia – The seven-member crew of the STS-107 mission was just 16 minutes from landing on the morning...

They knew: why didn't the unvaccinated do more to warn us? The unvaccinated knew what we didn't. Some of them said too little. Most said nothing at all. A lot of blood is now on their hands.As the world struggles to come to terms with the devastating effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, one question that continues to surface is why the unvaccinated didn't do more to warn us about the potential dangers of being injected.While well intending citizens lined up, did the right thing, and received their COVID19 vaccinations -- now seeming to do more harm than good -- their...

I first encountered unabashed pride in being American when I came to the United States in 1951. I sailed across the Atlantic alone. Perhaps someone along the way told me tht I was going to the United States; however, as a seven or eight-year-old I knew nothing about the nation that had granted me refuge. Upon disembarking in New York what stood out was not the awe-inspiring and intimidating skyscrapers seemingly reaching to the heavens, or for the first time in my life seeing a city not lying in ruins from the ravages of war, but that there was a...

Pope Francis accused of ‘lying’ after he denies involvement in Fr. Rupnik sex abuse caseAfter Pope Francis denied any personal involvement in the decisions about Fr. Rupnik, he was accused of ‘lying diplomatically’ to try and save his reputation.VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) –– Pope Francis has denied having any involvement in deciding or assisting the case of Father Marko Ivan Rupnik, the Jesuit priest whose alleged psychological and sexual abuse has raised questions about the Vatican and the Pope’s actions.In a newly released interview he granted to the Associated Press, the Pontiff fielded questions on his health, critics of his papacy,...

John Whitehead's Commentary “Children are being targeted and sold for sex in America every day.”—John Ryan, National Center for Missing & Exploited Children It takes a special kind of evil to prostitute and traffick a child for sex, and yet this evil walks among us every minute of every day. Consider this: every two minutes, a child is bought and sold for sex. Hundreds of young girls and boys—some as young as 9 years old—are being bought and sold for sex, as many as 20 times per day. Adults purchase children for sex at least 2.5 million times a year...

Info from California Department of Water Resources. Graphic from a 'deplorable conservative'. Gonna be interesting to see the increases certain to come with the Spring thaw. White water rafting biz will see a big boost I bet.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office is investigating after two men were shot in a strip mall in Regency on Thursday. According to detectives, at around 1:05 a.m., officers responded to the area due reports of gunfire, but they were unable to locate the scene, victims or witnesses. However, a short time later, officers were alerted that two men in their early 20s arrived at a local hospital with gunshot wounds to their left side and hip.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A judge Wednesday declared a mistrial in a trial for a woman accused of shooting and killing a teenage girl at a Westside Wawa in 2020. The jury stated in a letter: “We could not agree on a verdict.”

Well this doesn't bode well for the new lunar year. A zoo in China organizes a “handover ceremony” for going from the year of the tiger to the year of the rabbit ahead of the Chinese New Year. The results can't have been entirely unexpected The way they screamed! Yeesh! This is reportedly real: The Linfen Zoo in Shanxi decided to do a cute, fun little ceremony with both the animals to celebrate the end of the Year of the Tiger (2022) and the beginning of the Year of the Rabbit (2023). They brought out a cute little bunny with...

The Carter files fell into Kristin’s hands through a somewhat meandering route. Two days after the 1980 debate, businessman Alan Preble found the papers in his Cleveland hotel room, apparently left behind by Carter press secretary Jody Powell. Preble took them to his Franklin Park home, where they sat for more than three years as a faintly appreciated keepsake. “We had looked through them but didn’t think they were important,” Carol Preble, Kristin’s mother, said back then, apparently unimpressed by the classified markings. But for social studies class, Kristin “thought they’d be real interesting. I thought they’d be great, too.”...

They forecast that San Jose, Austin, Phoenix, and San Diego will likely see peak-to-trough declines of more than 25%. Such declines would rival those seen around the country around a decade-and-a-half ago. During the mid-2000s housing crisis, home prices across the US fell around 27%, according to the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller index.