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Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James is known for being a great basketball player. Beyond that, he also seemingly tries to make a positive impact on the world through his various charities and organizations. By all accounts he is a generous person. However, one issue continues to arise – his tipping practices.

JANICE DEAN: “I didn’t think that the governor could make surprise me more after his 'leadership book,' of course, was released over a month ago. And he has been on a self-congratulations tour to all of the television and radio stations talking about his leadership and how he flattened the curve here in New York City as cases rise. My in-laws were on the curve he flattened. So it is jaw-dropping, insulting, sickening to see him accept an award for his leadership that we don’t have answers to when it comes to the Coronavirus patients going into nursing homes for...

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) came to the defense of Georgia Senate candidate Raphael Warnock following resurfaced comments in which he said, “nobody can serve God and the military.” Omar said in a Twitter post that Warnock was quoting biblical Scripture from “Mathews 6:24.” “The lies and smears of the GOP have no boundaries, but this is a disgrace and shameful,” she wrote. The Washington Free Beacon reported that in 2011, Warnock preached that Americans cannot serve God while also serving in the U.S. military. “America, nobody can serve God and the military,” the video shows the Georgia Democrat saying. “You...

Kayleigh McEnany slammed Democrat lockdowns meant to slow the spread of COVID as “Orwellian” and said it isn’t the American way to threaten people with jail time if they don’t comply. “A lot of the guidelines you’re seeing are Orwellian,” she said. “The American people know how to protect their health. We’ve dealt with COVID for many months.” And while Biden intends to conquer the pandemic by locking people in their basement as he did, McEnany predicted something a little different that is sure to send the media into an apoplectic frenzy. “We believe that we will [handle Covid] going...

LaVar Ball is having a pretty good week. On Wednesday, his youngest son LaMelo was drafted by the Charlotte Hornets with the third overall pick in the 2020 NBA Draft. In making that selection, the Hornets ensured that LaVar would go down in NBA history as the first father with two sons taken within the top three picks. While on his celebratory media tour, LaVar appeared on a podcast and took the opportunity to take a jab at President Donald Trump.

CNN anchor Christiane Amanpour apologized on air after comparing President Trump’s four years in office to the Nazis’ Kristallnacht purge of the Jewish people in 1938. She made the ill-advised comparison last week during a segment on her CNN International show commemorating the 82nd anniversary of the pogrom. “This week 82 years ago, Kristallnacht happened,” Amanpour opened the segment. “It was the Nazis’ warning shot across the bow of our human civilization that led to genocide against a whole identity.” ... “After four years of a modern-day assault on those same values by Donald Trump, the Biden/Harris team pledges a...

Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, in charge of certifying election results in her state, has referred to President Trump and his supporters as being on the side of Nazis multiple times. A tweet from 2017 shows Hobbs responding to the Charlottesville hoax and commentary from former Senator Jeff Flake. “The White Supremacy in Charlottesville does not reflect the values of the America I know,” Flake tweeted. “Hate and bigotry have no place in this country.” President Trump made similar remarks about the incident, yet the media claimed he called the white supremacists “fine people.” He didn’t. But Hobbs fell...

Most CTH readers are likely aware of the term “deplatforming.” Unfortunately the big tech control mechanism to shut down speech & assembly has now arrived on our doorstep. One week after the 2020 presidential election, The Conservative Treehouse received the following notification: …”given the incompatibility between your site’s content and our terms, you need to find a new hosting provider and must migrate the site by Wednesday, December 2nd. What does this mean? It means CTH is being kicked-off the WordPress website hosting platform because the content of our research and discussion does not align with the ideology of those...

Dr. Anthony Fauci: “I was talking with our U.K. colleagues just today who were saying the U.K. is very similar to where we are now in outbreak because each of our countries have that independent spirit, we don’t want to be told what to do. Well, I understand that, but now is the time to do what you’re told. (Laughter) And I think it really is something that we should be doing right now.”

Former Vice President Joe Biden has vowed to increase the United States annual intake of refugees by over 800 percent of current figures. After the Trump administration established a ceiling of 15,000 refugees, Biden has now promised to raise that number to 125,000, Religion News Service (RNS) reported.

Kayleigh McEnany, in an interview with Just the News, responded to a controversial move by Fox News host Neil Cavuto to cut away from a recent press conference on alleged voter fraud. ... “The Democrats – they tried to delegitimize the 2016 election for four years,” McEnany continued. “All we’re asking for is transparency. And we have the media attacking us simply for asking to put light on the system.”

Reports have surfaced that officials involved in the planning of Joe Biden’s inauguration are concerned his supporters won’t show and they’ll be “left with a mass gathering of Trump supporters in their place.” Daily Beast politics editor Sam Stein published a column in which he discusses the tiptoeing necessary to conduct an inauguration in the age of COVID. Stein notes that Biden’s previous campaign events were made sparse by design, something that could cause logistical nightmares on January 20th. The report cites one ‘official’ who is concerned that a “MAGA rally” could break out.

Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson took a subtle shot at his own network after colleague Neil Cavuto cut away from a press conference held by White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany. ... During his Monday night broadcast, Carlson took a subtle jab at Cavuto and his own network for making the decision to cut away from McEnany. “In a democracy, you can’t ignore honest questions from citizens,” Carlson said. “You can’t dismiss them out of hand as crazy or immoral for asking,” he continued. “You can’t just cut away from coverage you don’t like.”

Donald Trump Jr. criticized Richard Pilger, the DOJ’s top election crimes prosecutor, after he decided to resign in protest following Attorney General William Barr’s authorization of federal prosecutors to investigate voting irregularities in this year’s presidential election. Trump Jr. alleged that Pilger was a member of the “deep state.” The President’s son seemed particularly irked at the notion that a voter fraud investigator would be upset at the idea of people actually investigating voter fraud. “Wait. Seriously? Isn’t this the guy who was involved with the IRS and Lois Lerner in targeting conservatives and the Tea Party?” Trump Jr. tweeted....

Throwing out the first pitch at a Major League Baseball game is something of a time-honored tradition for American Presidents.

We are saddened today to hear of the passing of the world’s shortest man, Khagendra Thapa Magar from Nepal. He was 27 years old.⁣ Khagendra was born in the Baglung district of Nepal, the eldest son of Roop Bahadur and Dhan Maya. His father recalled, “He was so tiny when he was born that he could fit in the palm of your hand, and it was very hard to bathe him because he was so small.”⁣

Democrat Rep. Elijah Cummings is one of President Trump’s fiercest critics. Now, his wife may be in some pretty big trouble involving a “pay-to-play” scheme.” Here’s the scoop… From Fox News:House Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings is fighting back against allegations that his wife’s nonprofit organization violated its tax-exempt status and posed a potential conflict-of-interest with the work of his congressional panel. Cummings statement: “These baseless claims come from a group funded by right-wing mega-donors known for their political hit jobs. I am confident that they will be exposed for what they really are – a fabricated distraction from the...

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