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As has long been transparently predictable, the eve of the inauguration of Joe Biden has coincided with the determination of state and local elected Democrat officials that the threat of a COVID-19 pandemic has passed, and economic and social life in Democrat-controlled cities and states can now begin to return to “normal”.New York Governor Andrew Cuomo made his view known earlier this week:New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Tuesday he wants to start opening restaurants, theaters and offices by launching rapid testing sites in New York City and eventually at hundreds of new sites in other city centers throughout the...

Calling last week's riot at the US Capitol "the worst thing that has ever happened in America," Rep. Nikema Williams (D-GA) has filed a bill that would permanently bar Donald Trump from entering the building. "Above all else, members of Congress deserve to feel safe as they go about conducting the people's business," she said. "I, for one, would be greatly reassured if I knew that the Capitol Police were to be authorized to shoot him on sight should he ever attempt to enter this sacred place." Inasmuch as Trump was not in the Capitol when the riot took place,...

Why can’t Republicans be as smart as this caller, J.C., on Rush Limbaugh’s program on Thursday? Want to solve the problem of reaching the black community, Republicans? Then find this man and put him in charge of the whole darn party.I’m a black American conservative here in West Texas, El Paso. I’m concerned about the messaging—the verbiage from people on the conservative side to get folks who look like me who are straddling the fence to say “Hey, I’m all in.’How is it not systemic racism that if I’m in California and I go to jail and someone who is...

Either hate Donald Trump or try to unite the county.Pick one.You can’t do both.To the incoming president and his party, the message has to be clear: You cannot simultaneously try to mend fences and throw stones.Unity will come through partnership, not submission.As Joe Biden has repeatedly spoken of his desire to “be the president of all Americans” and to “heal the historic rift in our country,” he has also, in those same speeches, vilified Donald Trump and, by transference, those who supported him.That won’t work.You don’t make friends by spitting in somebody’s face.And while Donald Trump has, in the minds...

Last week’s outrage at the Capitol has fomented calls for District of Columbia statehood. Sen. Tom Carper (D-DE) explained that the riot “made it crystal clear why D.C. officials must have full control over their city’s own security and police force to secure the public safety of its residents.” So, then, statehood will strengthen riot prevention. But when Congress abortively voted for D.C. statehood last June, after Black Lives Matter protests, Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) said, “Trump’s recent decision to deploy thousands of federal law enforcement officers in D.C. against residents peacefully exercising their constitutionally protected right to protest, and...

Biden’s proposals will likely speed America further along the track to bankruptcy, higher interest rates, higher inflation and much higher taxes Can Uncle Sam tax, spend, borrow and print money to return America to prosperity? President-elect Joe Biden’s "American Rescue Plan," announced Thursday night, makes a $1.9 trillion bet that we can. The Biden plan is almost a replay — except with more than twice the price tag — of the strategy that President Barack Obama and then-Vice President Biden employed in 2009 with their $900 billion "stimulus" bill. Even by Obama’s own numbers, that bill led to hundreds of...

The Black Lives Matter activist who was seen storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 was arrested and charged, the Department of Justice said Thursday. A newly released court filing says John Earle Sullivan, 26, told FBI agents last week that he was at the Capitol when the breach happened. He said he entered through a window that had been broken out. He also said he was present when Ashli Babbitt, an Air Force veteran, was shot dead by a U.S. Capitol Police officer as she tried to climb into the House Speaker’s Lobby through a window. Sullivan showed agents...

A Brooklyn Supreme Court judge’s son was one of the hundreds of people who stormed the Capitol building on Wednesday, according to reports. Photos and videos taken inside the Capitol building on Wednesday afternoon show a fur pelt and bulletproof vest-clad Aaron Mostofsky carrying a riot shield and a wooden stick. Aaron Mostofsky, who told The Post on Wednesday he’d come to protest a “stolen election,” was holding a police riot shield as a mob of rioters swarmed the building Wednesday. Video below: LinkMostofsky is the son of Shlomo Mostofsky, a “prominent modern Orthodox figure in Brooklyn and former president...

What a difference a week makes. On Wednesday, we discovered that House Democrats actually support police. They are against mob violence. They believe in law and order. They believe in harsh punishment for rule breakers. They believe in accountability. They care deeply about civility. They believe words matter. They abhor intemperate rhetoric. They are against coarse language. Fancy that. They believe in a peaceful transition of power, at least this time, as opposed to 2016. They believe in the Electoral College. They believe in the legitimacy of the people’s vote. They believe in walls, at least when it comes to...

Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan is out of the leadership post he’s held for nearly four decades. On Jan. 13, 2021, state Rep. Emanuel “Chris” Welch was elected the new speaker of the Illinois House. On January 11, Madigan announced he was suspending his campaign for the position he’s held for nearly four decades after falling short of receiving the 60 votes needed to secure another term, sources told the Chicago Sun-Times. “As I have said many times in the past, I have always put the best interest of the House Democratic Caucus and our members first,” the statement continued....

President Trump was impeached yesterday by a mostly party-line vote. Ten House Republicans did cross the picket line to back the Democratic Party’s unhealthy fetish with impeaching this president. They did it using the Russian collusion hoax. And now, this riot that erupted on Capitol Hill last week. The chaos occurred on January 6 when Congress was certifying the 2020 Electoral College results. Pro-Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol. Five people died. It renewed an impeachment push from Democrats. More Republicans were going to back it. In the Senate, Mitch McConnell reportedly is not all that upset over this current...

The moral high-ground: That is what people around the world used to think of when the subject of the United States came up. It is where we want our leaders to reside but unfortunately it is not the first thing that comes to mind when we think about our politicians. The moral high-ground is not a place you are just entitled to be; you have to earn your way to that lofty spot through words and deeds. Additionally, there is a pathway to the moral high-ground and at the bottom of the hill the street sign says, Intellectual Honesty Lane....

Democrats called President Donald Trump a racist several times during the House debate on impeachment Wednesday, taking advantage of a temporary rule change they passed earlier this week. Newly-sworn-in Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO), for example, called Trump the “white supremacist-in-chief”:

...In a 70-minute address, [Trump] exhorted them to march on Congress where politicians had met to certify Democrat Joe Biden's win. The attack began moments after he took the applause.

I've had plenty of reasons to be angry about politics going back to the vicious treatment of President Reagan, to the Clinton's disgusting and impudent behavior, to the treatment of W Bush and later, to some of the things W did himself, to the countless outrages and the arrogance of Obama, to the despicable manner the entire liberal/prog/left/Dem world has treated Donald Trump, to the actual theft of a Presidential election and the way the media, entertainment, academia and other institutions colluded in all of it.

Finally!In October Project Veritas released a bombshell undercover video of a Texas “Republican” consultant violating both Texas and federal laws.Raquel Rodriguez, a consultant for GOP House candidate Mauro Garza was caught on camera coercing and bribing voters into voting Democrat.Rodriguez is seen on camera taking the ballot from the voter and helping her fill it out.Later on, Rodriguez admits that what she is doing is illegal and brags about giving the elderly voter a pretty shawl as a gift for her Democrat vote!“That’s illegal. I could go to jail,” Rodriguez tells a Project Veritas undercover journalist. “If I go to...

The Democratic Party Left, their media myrmidons, and their Wall Street/Silicon Valley allies have brutalized, terrorized, and silenced Trump supporters since 2016. Conservative complacency is to blame. It has finally come to pass. The Kakistocrats have prevailed and they are silencing dissent. Trump voters are to speak only with bated breath, if they are permitted to speak at all, in the presence of the Democratic Party masters, their surrogate thugs, their monied puppet masters and their media myrmidons. For those of us who experienced the rioting and insurrection perpetrated by Democrats and their surrogates during President Trump’s 2017 Inauguration, we...

New York State Assembly Member Noah Nicholas Perry (D-Brookyn) has introduced legislation that would authorize Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) to "order the detention of any person who poses an imminent and significant threat to the public health." "The governor has issued numerous decrees ordering folks to stay home, shutdown their businesses, stay out of church, always wear a mask, and refrain from family gatherings involving nonresidents of the home," Perry said. "Most people obey, but there are recalcitrant types who complain that they have a right to live as they please. The fines we have been levying are ineffective when...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., took to Instagram on Tuesday night and suggested that the states in the south need to be "liberated." During an over hour-long livestream about the Capitol Hill riots and the ongoing efforts to impeach President Trump, the progressive lawmaker reiterated her call for GOP Senators Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley to resign or be ousted by Democratic challengers for leading the opposition in the certification of President-elect Biden's victory. She then pointed to "multi-racial" and "multi-cultural" grassroots organization in Georgia that led to Democrats taking control of the Senate as a sign that "southern states are...

“When someone shows you who they are,” Maya Angelou said, “believe them the first time.” We’re about to be reminded who and what the corporate-owned Democratic Party is—something they showed us in 2009. A pair of upset victories in the widely-watched pair of Georgia senatorial runoff elections has handed Democrats what they said they needed to get big things done: control of the White House, the House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. If they want, they have argued over the last year, Democrats will be able to push through a lot of important legislation on the liberal agenda: a...