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The story of the ominous coronavirus, which has increasingly been dominating the news cycle, has produced a bit of an outbreak of bad behavior among many of those personalities in the national spotlight. As reported by the AP, the Democratic debate stage on Tuesday was a hotbed of misinformation and false allegations around the global epidemic. Joe Biden was quick to blame President Trump. “We [The Obama-Biden Administration] increased the budget of the CDC,” he said. Trump, he added “wiped all that out….He cut the funding for the entire effort.”

North Carolina public universities are more than just institutions of higher learning. They are each small cities of young adults with Olympic-level athletic franchises, massive dining and fitness clubs, and special interest hobby communities supported by extensive human and physical infrastructure. To fund the many perks and benefits of university life, schools charge extra fees beyond tuition and room and board. In the University of North Carolina system, students at each of the 16 member institutions pay, on average, more than $2,500 annually in mandatory fees. Mandatory student fees are slowly going up at North Carolina public universities, making attendance...

All the remaining Democrat contenders going into Super Tuesday favor free college tuition. Some favor 4 years for students to pursue their bliss, debt free, while others propose (initially) a more moderate 2 years. A couple of whack jobs want to eliminate existing student debt as well.Reflect on that as you peruse this story from The Oklahoman reporting on an ongoing student protest at Oklahoma University: Students said they will be sitting at Evans Hall until their demands are met. The Black Emergency Response Team (BERT) said many members would go on a hunger strike.“To the upper administration: there will...

I don’t know if Americans know what is going on all over Europe but they NEED to. If liberals want to keep bringing Muslim migrants into this country, we would end up exactly like Europe — overrun with fear. Muslims should have their own right and religious freedom yes but radical Islam has no place in 2020! We need to wake up and quit just standing there and watching! Radical Muslims expect preferential treatment because they look at others as inferior infidels. At the moment as the world is only talking about Coronavirus, Greece is facing a terror on its...

he July 2019 incidents in New York during which police officers were doused with water is not unusual. When I was a Philadelphia police officer nearly 40 years ago, one of the most dangerous assignments was to turn off a fire hydrant during the summer. The residents would throw water, buckets, bottles, etc. at police officers. (For the unfamiliar, being sprayed by water from a fire hydrant is what inner city kids do to cool off on a hot summer day). What was unusual about this incident was the reaction - or more precisely the lack of a reaction- by...

The countdown to the announcement of his new contributor agreement with MSNBC has begun. – Preacher Pete Buttigieg, the scripture-quoting failed ex-Mayor of a small college town in Indiana, suddenly decided to end his hopeless presidential quest Sunday afternoon, a decision that seems odd given that it came just a little more than a day before the opening of the polls for the Super Tuesday primary contests in 14 states. The decision seemed even stranger given that it came mere hours after Buttigieg had given this interview with the execrable Chuck Todd on Meet the Press: Meet the Press ✔...

Subtitle: The Article VI Placebo There are some bright guys at The John Birch Society (JBS). Since I share their exasperation with Washington DC, I wish they devoted more of their intelligence to study. In particular, they should look both closer at, and beyond, Article VI. The pertinent clauses of Article VI are frustratingly brief. The Constitution, laws pursuant thereof and treaties are the supreme law. Judges and everyone else in the state and federal governments are “bound by oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution.” Well, there you go. JBS relies on Article VI to restore Constitutional government. Just...

Former Vice President Joe Biden is currently the youngest man still standing in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary. Of the men remaining on the Democratic side, former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg and Independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders are both 78, although Bloomberg’s birthday was last month and Sanders will turn 79 in September.

Late News From Syria Tonight Turkish backed jihadist forces reported advancing in southern Idlib tonight in the face of fierce resistance from the Syrian army. And early Monday morning local time a Turkish position coming under Syrian artillery fire in southern Idlib with injuries reported.... Two Syrian aircraft shot down by Turkish forces..... Syria saying that it shot down six Turkish drones today... Late today the Russian military warning that it cannot guaranteee the safety of any Turkish aircraft over Syria... Greece is facing what one official has described as an "onslaught" of migrants unleashed by Turkey towards Europe in...

President Trump is disrupting decades of multinational financial interests who use the U.S. as a host for their ideological endeavors. President Trump is confronting multinational corporations and the global constructs of economic systems that were put in place to the detriment of the host (USA) ie. YOU. There are trillions at stake; it is all about the economics; all else is chaff and countermeasures. We are already familiar how China, Mexico and ASEAN nations export our raw materials (ore, coking coal, rare earth minerals etc.). The raw materials are used to manufacture goods overseas, the cheap durable goods are then...

San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York City currently make up 42 percent of the United States homeless population. These so-called sanctuary cities are in a mess. Due to decades of misguided and faulty policies, homelessness is a serious problem. Over half a million people go homeless on a single night in the United States. But that’s no reason for homeless people to crash into your backyard and stay there because the cops tell you that they will arrest you if you remove them! This might sound horrifying but one video that surfaced over the weekend shows a homeowner in...

Somebody made a deal. Was it the DNC? Mike Bloomberg? Perhaps even Joe Biden? Pete Buttigieg, the young Mayor of South Bend, Indiana, who won the Iowa Caucus and performed better than expected in the New Hampshire primary and Nevada caucus (and arguably the South Carolina primary where he came in fourth), has inexplicably dropped out of the race two days before Super Tuesday. Like I said, somebody made a deal. Timing of the Buttigieg drop out is more than a little unusual. Maybe he secured some sort of deal … a “quid pro quo,” we might say. — Josh...

The Second Amendment Sanctuary movement continued to gain steam in Michigan in the past week, with Allegan, Charlevoix and Livingston counties all passing resolutions to declare they will not enforce any unconstitutional firearms laws. Allegan County's resolution sought to codify board support for the Sheriff and prosecuting attorney in exercising their “sound discretion to not enforce against any citizen an unconstitutional firearm law.” Protection of Second Amendment rights also advanced at the state level this week. The Michigan House of Representatives passed a resolution Wednesday, stating it would not pass any laws that could infringe on the Second Amendment. View...

Below I summarize the primary races taking place this Tuesday by state; delegates up for grabs; whether the primary is open, mixed, or closed; latest RCP averages for the top three candidates; major newspaper endorsements; and major (cough cough) Republicans running against Trump in the Republican primary: Alabama; 52; open; no polls; Time-Daily (Bloomberg); Weld Arkansas; 31; open; no polls; no endorsements; Weld California; 416; mixed; Sanders-35, Warren-17, Biden-11; San Diego Union Tribune-Buttigeg, Mercury News (San Jose) and San Francisco Chronicle-Klobuchar, San Francisco Bay Guardian and The Times Standard (Eureka)- Sanders; Weld Colorado; 67; open; Sanders-31, Warren-18, Butt and Bloomberg-...

The Big Picture: who is really running the show in the culture war, and its nature and trajectory. Major policies of liberals are contrary to Scripture and have the devil as their author.While it is easy to focus on personalities and daily events in the on-going culture war, the larger picture is that this is a spiritual war in which liberals, to varying degrees, are simply proxy servants for the devil. Who uses these servant to “progressively” transform the world into an alternative world order of perversions of what God has ordained. Thus the real reason for liberal's attack...

...An obviously rattled Warren took to the stage in Houston where she ranted and raved, attacking her Democrat opponents and generally seeming a bit unhinged...Part of this has to be a reaction to Bernie actively campaigning in Massachusetts and polling ahead of Warren in her home state. He is also fundraising far more than she is; the AP reports: “Sanders raised stout $46.5M in February; Warren got $29M.”

Claiming to be the "only true Christian running for president this year," Democratic candidate, former Mayor Pete Buttigieg explained why religious objections to the LGBTQ agenda "cannot be allowed." "The right to freedom of religion is a right to worship as you choose as long as what you choose to believe does not contradict the public policy guaranteeing that lesbians,' gays,' bisexuals,' transsexuals,' and bleep' rights to be accepted as they are," Buttigieg said. "In the privacy of your own mind you can harbor whatever thoughts you want, but in public you must obey the laws enacted by our courts...

Biden Buffoonery Update! – To end his long, softball interview with Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday, Quid Pro Joe looked at the camera and said, “Thanks, Chuck!” I swear I don’t make this stuff up: Daily Caller ✔ @DailyCaller .@JoeBiden thanks “Chuck” after finishing his interview with Chris Wallace Embedded video 2,919 10:02 AM - Mar 1, 2020 Twitter Ads info and privacy 1,653 people are talking about this During the interview, Biden also promised to “end the Ebola crisis.” Surreal. Ford Mustang Bullitt GT 1968 Subastado en $3.4 millones Lo manejó Steve McQueen Hooboy. Five more months of...

An African-American couple pulled their best Jussie Smollet impression by attacking their own car and blaming it on the Trumpers! As WREG reported an African-American Southaven couple said they woke up Tuesday morning to find racist graffiti had been spray-painted on two of their vehicles. Southaven Police confirmed they are investigating the reported vandalism on Marcia Louise Drive, and the FBI is also looking into the matter. The couple’s pickup truck has two N****** spray-painted on it. A car was painted with the phrase ‘Leave N******’ and ‘Trump.’ “This had to be unnerving for a quiet family to come out...

I've been wondering why, if a man in King Co., Washington State in his 50s has died of the Coronavirus, apparently the first case in the U.S., that we haven't been told the RACE or ETHNIC BACKGROUND of said individual. I mean, is he of Chinese extract, or from the Orient? Did he have any dealings with people from the Orient in recent weeks or months that would explain him having been exposed? Two people in a nursing home in Kirkland, WA have also tested positive. Neither has done any traveling in recent months. But obviously, there's a common denominator...