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Maine could be the first state to withdraw from the compact aimed at abolishing the Electoral College. In a stunning reversal of last year's misguided attempt to overthrow the Electoral College, Maine’s House of Representatives recently voted to withdraw the state from the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC). Three Democrats and two Independents joined Republicans in the vote for withdrawal. The NPVIC is an agreement among member states and the District of Columbia to award their electoral votes to the presidential candidate who wins the national popular vote once states with a majority of electoral votes join. Democrats created...

For two days, citizens poured into Belgrade for the largest protest in modern Serbian history. This occurred despite authorities' efforts to obstruct the demonstrations by halting public transportation. Thousands of students walked into the capital, spreading messages of solidarity through smaller towns along the way. The city's streets were packed, with people occupying several key locations. "I came for my child, for my son, so that his future can be better," a young man told DW. Police estimated a peak turnout of 107,000. Arhiv javnih skupova (Archive of Public Gatherings), an NGO which tracks mass gatherings, reported between 275,000 and...

The movement formed after 15 people were killed when a railway station roof collapsed in the city of Novi Sad in November, igniting long-simmering bitterness over alleged corruption and lax oversight in construction projects. But with supporters of President Aleksandar Vucic's embattled government also gathering in the capital as well, there was growing concern about the risk of clashes. In statements issued on social media, students urged those attending the rally to act "in a calm and responsible manner". "The purpose of this movement is not an incursion into institutions, nor to attack those who do not think as we...

Seeks power of popular vote A movement to bypass the Electoral College and elect the president based on the popular vote is gaining steam, racking up almost one-fifth of the support needed to trigger the plan. National Popular Vote, a California-based group formed in 2006, has won commitments from four states to award their electoral votes to the winner of the popular vote. Those four states — Maryland, New Jersey, Illinois and Hawaii — have 50 electoral votes among them. The goal is for states with a total of 270 electoral votes to enter into a compact in which they...

Jo Biden has earned the contempt being shown for him now. He is a warmonger. He has weaponised the justice system for political advantage. He gave the vice presidency to an incompetent woman for racist and sexist reasons and to make it harder to replace him when his own unfitness for the presidency became obvious. But I feel a tiny bit sorry for the old bloke as his own mob turns on him. His dithering geriatric incompetence to be in the Oval Office was obvious long before last night. Why the hell did all the alleged Democrats let him become...

- If you live in a "democracy" where everyone routinely votes to censor and imprison one another, you still live in a police state. - The word "democracy" appears to have become polite shorthand for insisting that an insular minority in control of the American government always knows what is best for the vast, unrepresented majority. Even worse, it sometimes seems nothing more than a convenient disguise for camouflaging abuses of power.The American system of government is a federation of sovereign states that retain inherent powers not specifically delegated to the national government. It is a republic that separates discrete...

On the anniversary of the Boston Massacre, it is worth remembering how America passed its first major test in equal application of the law.It was March 5, 1770. Future President of the United States John Adams was enjoying a local Boston social gathering when the town bells began to ring. Townsmen often rang these bells in case of fire. However, the guests hurried out onto the cobbled streets to discover a different sort of blaze: British soldiers, surrounded by an indignant and pressing mob, had discharged their muskets, hitting 11 civilians. Three died on site. Two more followed in the...

The Left has created new rules for national politics. Here are 20 precedents they have established for America in the future: 1. When in control of the Senate, demand the end of the filibuster; when not, don’t. 2. Call for the end of the Electoral College — but only if it appears to recently favor the candidate of the opposition. 3. In an election year, change any state balloting laws deemed unhelpful through administrative fiat or court order to favor your political candidate. 4. Seek to flip electors from voting in accordance with the popular vote count in their states;...

Rishi Sunak has warned that the UK is descending into ‘mob rule’ and demanded the police take urgent action or risk losing public confidence. The Prime Minister demanded a crackdown on protests as he pledged to do ‘whatever it requires to protect our democracy’.

First lady Jill Biden said Thursday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that her husband, President Joe Biden, must win the 2024 election because “we cannot let go of our democracy.” Co-host Mika Brzezinski said, “This has got to be so different than any races you and your husband have been in, a little scary?” Biden said, “It is a little scary, not just for me and Joe, but just to see what happened. Look at the insurrection that took place. I mean, it’s just so hard to believe that the United States of America witnessed an insurrection. I think Americans were...

DEVELOPING STORY: Hundreds of pro-Hamas mobs have shut down all bridges and tunnels leading into Manhattan causing a massive rush hour nightmare.Video from the Citizen app showed group gathering on the Brooklyn Bridge, and protesters blocking entrances to the Brooklyn, Manhattan and Williamsburg and Holland Tunnel.

Last week the U.S. Supreme Court decided to take the Trump campaign's appeal of the Colorado Supreme Court voting 4-3 to remove the Republican presidential candidate from the ballot, saying he is disqualified under the 14th Amendment. The US Supreme Court said Friday it will review the Colorado Supreme Court’s unprecedented decision removing former President Donald Trump from that state’s ballot. The court scheduled oral arguments for February 8. Trump remains on the primary ballot as the lower-court ruling disqualifying him has been put on hold pending Supreme Court action. If the justices do conclude Trump is ineligible for public...

January 6 was a big deal for Democrats as they commemorated the third anniversary of the Capitol riots, insisting it was an "insurrection" and that our very democracy--even though we live in a constitutional republic--is at stake. This was the case not only with several posts from President Joe Biden's multiple X accounts, who had also given a speech the day before about the anniversary, but with a series of posts from Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH). One post stood out in particular, as she was so obsessed with the idea of "democracy," that she even misquoted Benjamin Franklin. Shaheen began...

The judicial mob tyranny under which we’re now living didn’t begin with Trayvon Martin and Black Lives Matter, but it certainly got a lot of traction there. Earlier this week, I attended the theatrical debut of Dinesh D’Souza’s compelling new documentary Police State. As much as I liked the movie, there was one subject left unexplored: the ironic fact that, today, among those most vulnerable to the “police state” are local police. Searching for a more inclusive metaphor than “police state” to describe our current state of peril, I reached into the past and came up with “Jacobin Justice.” In...

On this date in 1771, Henry Stroud and Robert Campbell were hanged at Bethnal Green Road — a pointed message to the Spitalfield working class. Their hanging was tit for tat in an exchange of deadly violence between the state and laboring Londoners. Two years before, an anti-union law making it a capital crime to cut silk out of looms had actually been put to use with the hanging of two as part of the suppression of a Spitalfields weavers riot. This execution provoked in the following months a horrifying mob vengeance against the independent weaver who had testified —...

MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace said Monday on her show “Deadline” that not one Republican is doing a “single @@@@@@@ thing to protect democracy” while discussing Tennessee state lawmakers expelling two members from their House seats. Wallace said, “This is a Republican problem. The Democrats haven’t done anything wrong other than maybe not fighting like Republicans. The corruption of the party that you and I were a part of is also a story that gets short-shifted. We sanitize that too. It’s corrupt from the top to the bottom, from east to west. Not one Republican condemned the Tennessee Republican majority for...

Former President Obama on Wednesday warned against the rise of political violence across the U.S. and urged Americans to cast a vote in the midterm elections to save democracy. Obama told rallygoers at a Phoenix event that the “only way to preserve our democracy is if we nurture and invest in it.” “When true democracy goes away people get hurt,” Obama said. “It has real-life consequences, it’s not some abstract political science question. We are all affected. We take this for granted, and we can’t.” “There’s a reason why generations of Americans fought and died for this idea of self-government...

The Gibsons suffered horrific stress as a result of Oberlin's lies and involvement in protests as well as boycotts, which culminated in the college and its former dean of students Meredith Raimondo being ordered to pay out $44 million for defamation in 2019. That was later reduced to $33 million, but Oberlin has arrogantly declared that it still won't pay out after losing a state court appear earlier this month. It has also refused to apologize, despite multiple college staff and numerous resources being deployed for the protests and boycotts. Meanwhile, Raimondo has landed on her feet with a cozy...

Democrats embrace leftist mobs with one aim: power. Forty years ago there was a great show on NBC called Hill Street Blues. It was an early player in the gritty police drama genre, à la The Wire or Bosch. The ensemble show was led by Daniel J. Travanti playing Capt. Frank Furillo and his love interest, the stunning Veronica Hamel as public defender Joyce Davenport. In one episode, the police had arrested a suspect for a particularly heinous crime and Davenport was his attorney. There was a giant mob in front of the jail demanding the suspect’s head. Furillo knew...

So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men. – VoltaireAmerica: Land of the Free*Uncle Joey said we might be able to remove our face masks by the 4th of July! However there will be a few new restrictions this year. Specifically, American-Left Groupthink (ALG)® is no longer optional. In fact, the approved ALG® must be affixed to your persona whenever you...