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Calling Bee-Ess with objective data: Guess how many people have died of influenza in Italy by year? The Truth will set you free.As Italy, which is and has been used for years as a “mini-America” test market, is committing literal economic suicide as we speak.As this is being written, after “two weeks” (but it is probably considerably longer) of “infection”, there are 233 souls dead, almost all of whom were over the age of 80, and in a state of pre-existing morbidity (in bad shape).Now, check out this Italian data, easily found by an English web search, of how many...

How a Pakistani/Islamic Lobby took over Bernie Sanders 2020 presidential campaign sabotaging his aspirations World Politics • Mar 05, 2020 Failed to learn lessons from Jeremy Corbyn, How Bernie Sanders sabotaged his 2020 Presidential Campaign by committing the grave mistake of mixing politics with religion and flawed foreign policy contributing to breach of trust of American voters. Background: In 2015, Bernie started his presidential campaign as an underdog against the Queen of democratic party Hillary Clinton. He ran a great campaign focusing on working-class regardless of religion and race focusing on economic issues raising record-breaking donations from average Americans. Eventually,...

Liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor issued a blustering dissent in an ideologically split 5-4 Supreme Court ruling released Friday night in which she accused the five conservative justices who voted in the majority of repeatedly favoring the Trump administration. The case involved an appeal by the Department of Homeland Security for an injunction in a ruling against the imposition by the administration of a “public charge rule” regarding immigrants in an Illinois case that the Court has already allowed for the other 49 states. (DHS fact sheet on public charge rule.) Sotomayor’s dissent is in the context of the growing pushback...

Nobody told me the road would be easy, but together we can and will win. pic.twitter.com/vVtykPfJse— Joe Biden (Text Join to 30330) (@JoeBiden) February 12, 2020

Deep thoughts with Alexandria Ocasio Cortez… AOC speaks to Congress: “Ms. Hutchinson, I also want to thank you about bringing up the poverty draft and this idea of a bootstrap. You know, this idea and this metaphor of a bootstrap started off as a joke because it’s a physical impossibility to lift yourself up by a bootstrap, by your shoelaces? It’s physically impossible. The whole thing is a joke.” __________ 'It's a physical impossibility to lift yourself up by a bootstrap': Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez argues everyone needs help to succeed The progressive lawmaker argued nobody succeeds alone, and some people have...

If you’ve never seen the Sergio Leone film “The Good, The Bad and The Ugly,” one of the characters admonishes a would-be assassin “When you have to shoot, shoot; don’t talk” after having dispatched him. Something like that exact sentiment is why warning shots, verbal warnings and other attempts to dissuade a violent attacker are a bad idea. If the threat is real, draw from your concealed carry holster and fire – and stop the threat.Warning Shots Will Only Land You In JailWarning shots sound great on paper. The gunshot will frighten the bad person enough so they give up...

There’s a reason Mitch McConnell has been Senate Majority Leader for the past 13 years: He gets the job done. And the biggest part of that job is keeping the GOP caucus, however necessary. At this point, he appears to have pulled off the feat once again.

Lindsey Graham started out by telling reporters that there is “no way” that Hunter Biden got rich from Burisma and his father didn’t know anything about it. “Somebody needs to look” at the why the prosecutor investigating Burisma was fired and the new prosecutor dropped the case, Lindsey said. A reporter then asked Lindsey Graham if Joe Biden is corrupt. “I don’t think Joe Biden is corrupt, but I don’t think he’s beyond being looked at.” he said. “I love Joe Biden, but I’m going to tell you, I’m not going to sit on the sidelines and just watch the...

I read here (Spanish Minister) that a Spanish government official is worried that Spain needs eight or nine million immigrants to keep the country from diving into a demographic tailspin......The conventional wisdom is to bring in African and Middle Eastern migrants by the shipload. Of course, there is opposition from hateful, ignorant Spanish citizens who whine about the inevitable disappearance of European culture from large swaths of the country..... What a thorny problem. Where can Spain get its hands on millions of migrants? Those bureaucrats must be saved. Where, oh, where?

Help was lined up until then-secretary of state objected A Marine who says he was in the area during the terror attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, says then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delayed help for the ambassador and others who were killed. The testimony comes from Jon Myers, who tweeted, "I was the officer in charge of the Marine response after the Benghazi attack of 2012, in which the American consulate was destroyed and the ambassador murdered. Our mission was to reinforce the embassy. "I was in charge of a program that had a company of Marines...

The very same collection of intelligence, national security, military, diplomatic, and political experts rubbing their hands in eager anticipation of Trump’s ouster is responsible for mismanaging our longest war, a debacle that continues to cost American lives. A cynic might start to suspect that the current impeachment fervor roiling Capitol Hill is nothing more than a ruse by Washington’s aristocracy to camouflage revelations about their own incompetence, corruption, and abuse of power over the past few decades. Could it be, a cynic might wonder, that all the accusations leveled against President Trump merely are projections to deflect from the bad...

The goal of impeaching President Trump was never to kick him out of office. The Democrat-controlled House of Representatives knew from the start that POTUS would be acquitted in the Senate. It’s only a matter of time. The whole point was to stain his record because they have nothing else to go on. The economy is great. Unemployment is in the basement. Jobs are abundant. Enemies fear America. Like I said, they have nothing. Check out Pelosi on Bill Maher, via The Blaze:

Indicted businessman Lev Parnas said he did not speak directly with President Trump about a pressure campaign against Ukraine that sought to benefit Trump politically, despite earlier reports to the contrary.

After too long of a delay, I've finally started grinding out the words behind the study I've done of .380 ACP rounds, and posted part one. Yes, this is a bit of a blog pimping, but as I have no ads or monetization, one can hardly call it self-serving … it's just that there's too many words to make a good forum post. A short excerpt: ----- Our ideal round is not necessarily the same as the officer’s – but there are many similarities. If we’re forced to shoot in self-defense (presuming our threat doesn’t quit, run away, or hide)...

It has been less than two weeks since Iranian Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani was killed in an airstrike authorized by President Trump, and Trump still can't get his story straight about why he approved the operation, Seth Meyers said on Monday's Late Night. Trump has finally settled on claiming that Soleimani was going to target U.S. embassies, but he keeps changing the number. "In the span of two days, he went from not talking about embassies at all to saying it was one embassy to saying it was multiple embassies to saying it was four embassies," Meyers said. "I know...

One of the more depressing aspects of the whole Qassem Soleimani story is the way that so many talking heads in the MSM, along with Democrats, are describing it as an “assassination.” Our own Taylor Millard jumped into that debate last night and, disappointingly, decided to adopt the same language. Interestingly, he based his conclusion on both the standard dictionary definition of the word and Soleimani’s alleged position as a legitimate political and military figure in the Iranian government. Allow me to disagree with both. But first, let’s recall Taylor’s plunge into Merriam-Webster. Merriam-Webster defines assassination as, “murder by...

Yikes. According to new California laws on water use: you can take a shower or you can do a single load of laundry, but you cannot do both. 55 gal per day limit, or face $1k fine.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is getting desperate because she hasn’t been able to lay a finger on President Trump. Pelosi has decided that she is going to bring in former President Barack Obama and are starting a “unity” movement. The goal of this movement is to “Defeat Donald Trump and his Republican enablers.” After the impeachment vote in the House, Nancy Pelosi wrote a fundraising letter for the Democratic Unity Fund that that wants to raise millions to stop the re-election of President Trump and turn the Senate “blue.” “We all know what’s at stake in this election. Right now,...

Not only did Paul Pelosi Jr. get paid thousands for a no-show job which he wasn’t qualified in an effort to buy influence with his politician parent. The same company that paid him is connected to the Clintons as well. We reported yesterday that Nancy Pelosi’s son Paul is also on the board of an energy company. Paul Pelosi Jr. also traveled to Ukraine for his work. AND — Better Yet — Speaker Nancy Pelosi even appears in the company’s video ad! According to Patrick Howley at National File Speaker Pelosi’s son Paul Jr. was an executive at Viscoil. Paul...

Ruth Bader Ginsburg spoke with the BBC this week about the upcoming impeachment trial in the US Senate. During her questioning Justice Ginsburg suggested that US Senators could be disqualified from the proceedings if they are not impartial.