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George w. bush doesn’t like Donald Trump. He doesn’t like how Trump is behaving as president. He clearly doesn’t like the division in the country Trump has fostered. He knows American democracy is under threat. He has tried to be reassuring, telling people that America has survived rough times before—a way of using insistent optimism to diplomatically acknowledge the rough time the nation is going through now.

The New York Post on Wednesday published an article based on emails purportedly obtained from a laptop that Hunter Biden, the son of former vice president Joe Biden, had supposedly left behind for repair in a Delaware shop in April 2019. Here’s a brief explainer to help readers evaluate its significance. We will continue to update this article as more information becomes available. What’s new? The key thrust of the article is that an April 17, 2015, email suggests Hunter Biden arranged for a top executive at a Ukrainian energy firm to meet with the then-vice president when he was...

All you need to know about last night’s dueling townhalls on ABC and NBC with Joe Biden and President Trump is that Biden was not asked a single question about the New York Post’s bombshell reporting on his and Hunter Biden’s blatant selling of his vice-presidential office to China and Ukraine, and that Savannah Guthrie came at the President of the United States like a screaming banshee who desperately needed a valium or three. No one should have expected anything else. After all, Biden’s puffball hour was conducted by a former Clinton bagman, George Stephanopoulous, and Guthrie is just another...

You don’t sayyyyyyyyyy. – Former Biden intern Steve Scully, who was selected by the anti-Trump Commission on Presidential Debates was suspended “indefinitely” by his employer C-Span yesterday after he was forced to admit that his claim that his Twitter account had been “hacked” was exactly what we all knew it was: A very transparent lie. From a report by the Associated Press: C-SPAN suspended its political editor Steve Scully indefinitely Thursday after he admitted to lying about his Twitter feed being hacked when he was confronted about a questionable exchange with former Trump aide Anthony Scaramucci. The news came on...

President Trump continues to close the election gap with Democrat Joe Biden, gaining with independents and voters under 50. In the latest Zogby Poll, Biden leads Trump 45.5%-43.4% among likely voters. Pollster Jonathan Zogby said his survey is different from some others because it also included third party candidates who typically win 5% or more of the vote and in this case Libertarian Jo Jorgensen has 5% and Green candidate Howie Hawkins 2%. “The race is close and is a far better representation when you include third parties,” said Zogby, who heads Zogby Analytics.

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One of government’s most fundamental responsibilities is to protect its citizen’s life liberty and property. It is clear to any intellectually honest person that they have failed in this on many levels; this is intolerable. I am not talking about the riots and bogus shutdowns that are killing small business and people’s livelihood, although that is another failure. I am talking about censorship, identify theft and the permitted invasion of privacy. Twenty-three or so years ago I dated a computer network engineer and she explained the concept of the open and free public internet. She told me how it was...

Almost 1,000 absentee ballots are sitting in a locked bin somewhere in the Guilford County Board of Elections waiting to be processed. At least two voters in Greensboro, North Carolina, part of Guilford County, had no idea their ballots were sitting in that pile. incent Gager, a 48-year-old Black man, and his 83-year-old father Nathaniel mailed in their ballots on September 4. They wanted to vote by mail to avoid exposure to Covid-19. Over a month later, neither man had any idea their ballot had been listed as "pending cure" -- which meant there was something wrong with them that...

Media magnate Rupert Murdoch has predicted privately that Democratic nominee Joe Biden will defeat President Donald Trump in the presidential election in a landslide victory, the Daily Beast reported Thursday. -snip- Murdoch has appeared to enjoy unhindered access to the White House, but has not spoken with Trump lately — at least for several weeks, sources confided to the Daily Beast — after Murdoch grew tired of Trump’s unending grievances about negative coverage from Fox News. Murdoch has griped about Trump in the past, suggesting in a tweet ahead of the 2016 presidential election that then-candidate Donald Trump had been...

Since Twitter and Facebook are censoring the New York Post’s bombshell stories on Hunter and Joe Biden and their corrupt activities in Ukraine and China, we will focus today’s Roundup on the Post’s new story detailing the Bidens’ looting of China for personal gain. Here is an excerpt from today’s Post headliner: Hunter Biden pursued lucrative deals involving China’s largest private energy company — including one that he said would be “interesting for me and my family,” emails obtained by The Post show. One email sent to Biden on May 13, 2017, with the subject line “Expectations,” included details of...

Yesterday was a day on which honest historians will look back and record Twitter and Facebook crossed the line and set themselves onto a path to become regulated as content providers, overtly blocking the dissemination of a true New York Post story containing hugely damaging information about Joe and Hunter Biden. It was the day that both social media giants decided to step directly into the presidential election, overtly intervening in it on behalf of the Biden/Harris campaign. This is a frightening moment for our society, although – thanks to the efforts of the legacy and social media establishment –...

-SNIP- CDC First Said Not to Wear Masks, Then to Wear Masks, Then Masks Were Better than Vaccines – Now New Evidence Shows Masks Are Ineffective Six months ago Dr. Robert Redfield told the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee that healthy people should not wear face masks. CDC Director Robert Redfield on masks, 6 months ago, prior to the “new science”: pic.twitter.com/idEfQ2RpYF — Jordan Schachtel (@JordanSchachtel) September 16, 2020 Dr. Redfield even tweeted about it. CDC does not currently recommend the use … SNIP Dissent used to be a defining feature of American life, but no more. Now, we have mandatory...

(CNN)President Donald Trump revived his public criticism of Dr. Anthony Fauci Tuesday morning, continuing his efforts to undermine the infectious disease expert even as the doctor said he's not going to bow to pressure. Trump contended in the tweet that Fauci's pitching arm -- a reference to his poor first pitch at Nationals Park -- is "far more accurate than his prognostications." Fauci's recommendations and assessments have largely been in line with public health experts throughout the coronavirus pandemic but not aligned with what the President perceives his political interests to be. On Monday, Fauci said he is not deterred...

This is a serious question: How many Democrat members of the Senate Judiciary Committee have an IQ that is lower than the thermostat setting in the Senate hearing room? You can start with Mazie Hirono and Sheldon Whitehouse and go from there. During yesterday’s hearing, you really could not help but wonder if Chuck Schumer simply arrayed his Democrat caucus members from lowest IQ to highest and then selected the 9 at the bottom of the list to sit on this key committee. I know from experience that members of congress are not especially intelligent as a class (though they...

[Note: this post uses heavy video content.] It’s all becoming crystal clear now. – In a blockbuster report that the rest of the corrupt U.S. news media will do its best to ignore, the New York Post this morning published some incredibly damning emails that it has obtained from a copy of Hunter Biden’s laptop computer. The emails show officials at Burisma, the Ukrainian natural gas company that paid Hunter Biden millions in exchange for his influence on his then-Vice President dad, clearly soliciting the younger Biden to use his influence with dear ol’ daddy, who has claimed to have...

Progressive filmmaker Michael Moore shared an altered photo on Twitter Monday in an apparent attempt to smear Judge Amy Coney Barrett. Moore posted side-by-side photos of Barrett and a protester depicting a character from Handmaid’s Tale, a fictional television series. Specifically, the coloring of Barrett’s clothing was modified to make it appear to match the protester’s red outfit:

Health officials have struggled to convey the seriousness of Covid-19 to many Americans. President Trump’s rapid recovery from the disease, while welcome by all, makes the challenge even more difficult, Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases acknowledged. Trump’s quick bounce-back from his infection will likely underscore the mistaken belief some people have that the disease does not present significant health risks, Fauci said in an interview with STAT. “We’re all glad that the president of the United States did not suffer any significant consequences of it,” Fauci said. “But … because he is such...

Climate change has spurred close to a doubling of natural disasters in the last 20 years, and world leaders are failing to prevent Earth from evolving into “an uninhabitable hell” for millions, the United Nations warned on Monday. At least 7,348 major disasters had occurred between 2000 and 2019, claiming 1.23 million lives, affecting 4.2 billion people and costing the global economy some $2.97 trillion, the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction said in a new report entitled “The Human Cost of Disasters 2000-2019.” According to the Geneva-based agency, the last two decades saw the number of disasters caused by...

A group of 88 faculty members at Notre Dame - none of which are part of the law school where Judge Barrett teaches - penned a letter asking her to refuse her appointment to the Supreme Court. "We’re asking a lot, we know," the opponents wrote. "Should Vice-President Biden be elected, your seat on the court will almost certainly be lost. That would be painful, surely. Yet there is much to be gained in risking your seat."

Just one more reason why these hearings should not be held. – Well, two reasons, actually, that the Democrats in the Senate provided to Mitch McConnell and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham on Monday. Two glaring reasons why the Judiciary Committee hearings on the Amy Coney Barrett nomination should be cancelled now, today, and the nomination should immediately be taken to the Senate floor for an up-or-down vote. Reason #1 was provided by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, who told fawning fake reporters that he and his fellow Democrats would boycott any votes in committee or on the floor...