Posts on Wednesday, November 11, 2020
Senator James Lankford (R-OK) threatened to “step in” if Joe Biden was not given access to U.S. intelligence briefings by Friday during an interview with Tulsa, OK radio KRMG host Russell Mills on Wednesday.
Mills said, “I gotta tell you, national security is a concern. Because Mr. Biden is not getting the briefings(snip)
Lankford said, “That should be resolved by Friday.
(Snip) “GSA has to certify that election to start turning it around. The first day they can do that on the calendar is Friday. And when that occurs, they should actually step in and, I will tell you, I’m on the committee of oversight,
Why did Trump lose Pennsylvania?
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Pennsylvania played a key role in Donald Trump’s surprise victory in 2016. This year, I thought that, although Trump would lose the election, he would again carry Pennsylvania. It seemed to me that the riots in Philadelphia and Biden’s contradictory statements about fracking would see the president through in the Keystone State.
It didn’t work out that way. Why not?
One possible explanation is voter fraud. On this view, Trump didn’t really lose Pennsylvania, it was stolen from him.
But the vote count puts Biden ahead of Trump by more than 50,000 votes. Was there enough fraud to account for that gap? Maybe, but I haven’t seen evidence of it yet.
In a revealing moment, New York Times columnist Kevin Roose denounced four instances of “right-wing misinformation” making the rounds on Facebook. Here is his tweet; see if you can spot the common denominator in the four instances of “misinformation.” Yes, that’s right: every one of these Facebook posts links to a news story that is indisputably true. A Republican in Michigan did go from loser to winner after a “technical glitch” was fixed. Attorney General William Barr did authorize the Department of Justice to investigate voting irregularities. Michigan’s legislature did hold an emergency session. And Senators Perdue and Loeffler did call on Georgia’s Secretary of State to resign.
Stephen Colbert on Tuesday smashed a champagne bottle and threatened to 'cut anyone who comes near him' over Donald Trump's refusal to concede the presidency. [SNIP] On Monday the 56-year-old had toasted Joe Biden's win during his first show since his victory was announced with a glass of champagne for him and his wife, Evie McGee-Colbert.
But by Tuesday Colbert was telling viewers: 'Yesterday, I was pouring champagne to toast the administration, and today I will cut you if you come near me, because there's some crazy s*** going on out there.'
Right now it appears that Republicans will have at least 210 seats in the House in the next Congress, and perhaps a many as 214 if the remaining races where the GOP candidate leads all break their way. That would leave Democrats with a slim 7-vote majority, and leave the GOP needing to gain only four seats to take control in the next election.
Given that over ten House Democrats didn’t vote for Nancy Pelosi to be Speaker after the 2018 midterms, it raises a tantalizing possibility: Could four House Democrats be induced to support a Republican for Speaker (or even switch parties)? Highly unlikely, but a second possibility
Failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams on Wednesday declared “identity politics” the future of the Democratic Party. The racial, gender, and sexuality politics of the hard Left, according to Abrams, are “exactly” who the Democrat Party is and how they “won” in 2020, despite a lackluster performance in the House of Representatives.“The notion of identity politics has been peddled for the past 10 years and it’s been used as a dog whistle to say we shouldn’t pay too much attention to the voices coming into progress,” Abrams said at the Center for American Progress’ Ideas Conference, adding, “I would argue that identity politics is exactly who we are
The coronavirus continues to play havoc on college football teams throughout the United States as eight Division 1 FBS games have been postponed or canceled for this weekend. Of the eight contests, five involved AP Top 25 teams, including No. 1-ranked Alabama, No. 3 Ohio State and No. 5 Texas A&M. No conference has been impacted more than the SEC, which postponed four of its seven games scheduled for Saturday. The most anticipated matchup of the weekend, top-ranked Alabama versus defending national champion LSU, was postponed on Tuesday after LSU reported multiple COVID-19 cases.
WASHINGTON— President-elect Joe Biden has chosen his longtime adviser Ron Klain to reprise his role as his chief of staff, installing an aide with decades of experience in the top role in his White House.Klain will lead a White House likely to be consumed by the response to the coronavirus pandemic, which continues to spread unchecked across the nation, and he’ll face the challenge of working with a divided Congress that could include a Republican-led Senate. Klain served as the coordinator to the Ebola response during the 2014 outbreak.In a statement Wednesday night, Biden suggested he chose Klain for the position because his longtime experience in Washington
A group comprised of at least 50,000 truckers plans to hold a nationwide strike on Veterans Day to express their displeasure over coronavirus lockdown policies and Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden’s disputed win in the 2020 race.The group formed on Facebook this Friday under the banner “StopTheTires2020” and is led by a truck driver named Jeremy Rewoldt. (Video) In a private group post published after the group’s launch last Friday, Rewoldt wrote that the goal is to hold an initial strike on Veterans Day and then, if the group’s demands aren’t met, an extended strike toward the end of the month.“We will not participate in the leftist,
Jeffrey Toobin was canned from the New Yorker on Wednesday over his caught-on-Zoom masturbation ordeal.
The 60-year-old staff writer was fired following a three-week probe into an incident where he was allegedly caught pleasuring himself during an election simulation work call with some of the magazine’s biggest names.
“As a result of our investigation, Jeffrey Toobin is no longer affiliated with the company,” a New Yorker spokeswoman confirmed to The Post.
The mag’s parent company, Condé Nast, announced that the Harvard alum had been given the boot in a memo to staffers obtained by The Post.
Biden Covid advisor says U.S. lockdown
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Shutting down businesses and paying people for lost wages for four to six weeks could help keep the coronavirus pandemic in check and get the economy on track until a vaccine is approved and distributed, said Dr. Michael Osterholm, a coronavirus advisor to President-elect Joe Biden.(Snip)A nationwide lockdown would drive the number of new cases and hospitalizations down to manageable levels while the world awaits a vaccine, he told Yahoo Finance on Wednesday.
“We could pay for a package right now to cover all of the wages, lost wages for individual workers for losses to small companies to medium-sized companies or city, state, county governments.
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Ticketmaster could allow venues to ask people to prove they've had the coronavirus vaccine to get into sports events and concerts. Drug company Pfizer announced earlier this week that early data shows their vaccine is 90 per cent effective raising hopes that venues will be able to start hosting events again in 2021. Ticketmaster says it has been working on a post-pandemic plan that could use fans’ phones to verify their vaccination status or confirm they have tested negative before an event. The company says the plan would be based on their own ticket app, third party health information firms and vaccine distribution providers.
On Wednesday, Arkansas GOP Senator Tom Cotton, citing a story that surfaced delineating how Georgia Democrat senatorial candidate Raphael Warnock was charged and arrested in 2002 after allegedly obstructing a police investigation into suspected child abuse, bluntly asked whether the media would even ask Warnock about it.Cotton tweeted, “In 2002, when the police investigated suspected child abuse at Raphael Warnock’s church camp for children, Warnock was arrested for obstructing the investigation. Will the media ask Raphael Warnock why he interfered with the police investigation?”Cotton added in a follow-up post:
On the campaign trail, Joe Biden promised the American people that he wouldn't shut down the country again if he was elected President, but that has turned out to be another gigantic lie. As President Trump continues his legal battle to overturn the fraudulent result of this election, Joe Biden's "transition team" is trying to sell the public on another devastating shutdown.Yes, they are already flirting with the idea of another 4-6 week shutdown. Here's the story from CNBC: Osterholm, who serves as director of the Center of Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, said earlier this week that the country is headed toward “Covid hell.”
Sworn statements from a Donald Trump campaign lawsuit alleging vote fraud include complaints about military ballots going for Biden despite one GOP poll watcher saying he thought those who serve are 'conservative.'The same poll-watcher also said under oath that he believed independent poll watchers were in fact left-wing radicals. Among the the things that tipped off the GOP poll watcher: the independents said they wanted to work in Brooklyn or expressed sympathy with protesters who declared an autonomous zone in Seattle. 'As a final note, I did find it odd that, throughout the day/night, I saw a few dozen military ballots be counted,' according to one affidavit accompanying the suit.
Washington—He’s been trashing the Trump administration’s COVID-19 vaccine plan but New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo stopped taking part back in June—skipping more than a dozen White House meetings and snubbing a one-on-one with Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, The Post has learned.
Cuomo skipped out on 17 consecutive governor calls with the White House designed to brief state leaders on the vaccine development and rollout process, while calling them “circuses” and “a joke” in his frequent press briefings, a White House source confirmed. Cuomo on Monday blasted President Trump’s vaccine plan as “flawed” amid news of a Pfizer vaccine
Ohio Democratic Rep. Marcia Fudge is making her case for Agriculture secretary, arguing she’s best positioned to take on a cabinet post that has never gone to an African American woman. It's a move that sets up a battle with former North Dakota Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, long seen as the frontrunner for the post in the Biden administration. In her first public remarks about her interest, Fudge told POLITICO on Wednesday that as an African American woman, she represents a crucial segment of the electorate that helped fuel President-elect Joe Biden's victory over President Donald Trump. “When you look at
On this 245th birthday of my Marine Corps, I am thinking about why this annual November 10 birthday celebration and simply being a Marine are so important to those of us who have worn the eagle, globe, and anchor. Some might say it has much to do with what it takes to become a Marine. Perhaps. But I would argue it has less to do with boot camp or officer candidate school rites of passage—which really have more to do with determining a recruit or candidate’s suitability to be a Marine—and everything to do with post-boot experiences, shared hardships, and an unusual stretch of time in our lives, whether four
Gov. Ron DeSantis has moved to expand the state’s Stand Your Ground Law and give armed citizens the green light to shoot and potentially kill anyone they suspect of looting businesses. His “anti-mob” legislation sparked outcry from critics who called it dangerous, ‘clearly political’ and would allow armed citizens to shoot and potentially kill anyone they suspect of looting, Fox News reports.
DeSantis’ legislation comes in response to a spread of riots and looting in Florida and nationwide this summer following the death of George Floyd, a black man who died while being detained by a white Minneapolis police officer.The legislation is an attempt to prevent “violent and disorderly assemblies”
Two small businesses in central California are suing Gov. Gavin Newsom over his strict continuing lockdowns purportedly aimed at combating the CCP virus that causes the disease COVID-19.
The 109-page lawsuit, Ghost Golf Inc. v. Newsom, filed in Fresno County Superior Court by Pacific Legal Foundation (PLF), a public interest law firm based in Sacramento, claims the governor lacks the power to unilaterally shutter businesses to counter the ongoing pandemic.
“An emergency doesn’t give the governor authority to decide fundamental policy for the State; only the legislature can make law, and that remains true even in a time of crisis,” said PLF attorney Luke Wake, an attorney at Pacific Legal Foundation, which
Video) President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump observed Veterans Day at a ceremony in Arlington National Cemetery in the rain on Nov. 11.
Vice President Mike Pence, Second Lady Karen Pence, and Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie were also in attendance.
Trump approached the wreath and saluted at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, stood for a moment of silence, then retreated and saluted again.
It was the first official event Trump has attended since the election.
President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign sued Michigan in federal court late on Nov. 10, alleging pervasive violations of election laws at a vote-counting center in Detroit.
The lawsuit (pdf) is accompanied by 234 pages of sworn witness affidavits which describe how Republican poll challengers were prevented from having adequate access to observe the counting process in violation of Michigan’s election code.
The witnesses detail a battery of problems with the handling, processing, and counting of the votes, including instances in which election officials ignored their challenges.
Georgia Senate Democrat candidate Raphael Warnock was arrested in 2002 for obstructing a police investigation into alleged child abuse at a church camp in Carroll County, Maryland.
Revs. Warnock and Andre Wainwright, who both worked at Douglas Memorial Community Church, were accused in court documents of attempting to prevent a state trooper from interviewing counselors at the church’s Camp Farthest Out in Eldersburg, Maryland, regarding alleged abuse at the church.
Warnock hopes to oust Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) during the January senate runoff.
A state trooper said that neither Warnock nor Wainwright were suspects in the child abuse investigation, although the trooper declined to describe the nature of the suspected abuse.
Inside the Vatican Slams McCarrick Report
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ROME — Veteran Vatican journalist Robert Moynihan blasted the Vatican’s long-awaited “McCarrick Report,” writing Tuesday that the text brings injury and obfuscation rather than healing and clarity.
In his scathing review, Moynihan (Snip) declares that after two years of careful investigations, the 460-page report on former cardinal Theodore McCarrick and his serial homosexual abuse “leaves us still in the ecclesial swamp of cover-up, evasion, and scapegoating of others.”
(Snip) the report places the blame on the shoulders of four “scapegoats,” (Snip), namely Pope John Paul II, his personal secretary, Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz, Pope Benedict XVI, and the whistle-blowing archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, without whom the report would never even
LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Times and Tribune Publishing have agreed to pay $3 million to settle a lawsuit that said minority journalists and women were paid less than white reporters. Nearly 240 current and former reporters and editors will benefit from the settlement that was granted preliminary approval last month by a judge in San Bernardino County, the Times reported Tuesday. The discrimination lawsuit, filed in June, alleged that the Times violated California’s Equal Pay Act and the state’s Business and Professions Code. The paper and its former owners denied the allegations and don’t acknowledge any wrongdoing in the settlement agreement. Correction*
The devil may be in the details, but the angels are in the data. That’s what we’re learning very quickly as we examine the work of a dedicated Trump-supporter who appears to have uncovered all of the proof necessary to dispel this myth that Joe Biden won the presidential election.A post on TheDonald.win by user TrumanBlack has sparked a little attention, though not nearly enough.
President Trump’s campaign highlighted examples Wednesday of dead people registering to vote in Georgia, a contested swing state where presumptive President-elect Joseph R. Biden currently holds the lead. The Trump campaign has alleged widespread voter fraud as the president refuses to concede the election to Mr. Biden after several media outlets on Saturday named the Democrat as the winner of the Nov. 3 election. The president’s campaign claimed Deborah Jean Christiansen from Roswell, a suburb of Altalnta, passed away in May of 2019, yet someone registered her to vote Oct. 5, the day after the state’s deadline to register. James Blalock from Covington
Ilhan Omar paid her husband's political consultancy firm $2.8million during the 2019-2020 election cycle, campaign finance records show. The Democrat congresswoman handed husband Tim Mynett's eStreet Group $1.6million between 2019 and July 22 this year, another $1.1million between July 22 and the end of September and paid an additional $27,000 since then. The majority of the money has been spent on digital advertising, FEC records show, but charges also include consultancy fees and more than $2,700 in travel expenses. The two largest payments in recent months were $404,338.75 paid on July 7 for digital advertising, and another $289,759.58 on July 24 for cable advertising.
Growing up behind a veil of secrecy, the adorable little girl who Hunter Biden didn’t want to claim as his own is a happy two-year-old living in rural Arkansas with her mother and her mother's family, DailyMail.com can reveal.
On Saturday, Joe Biden invited six of his grandchildren on stage when he announced to the world that he had won the 2020 presidential election.
But the seventh was missing from the smiling ranks of America’s next First Family: Navy Joan Roberts - the two-year-old daughter Hunter fathered with stripper Lunden Roberts then shamefully denied was his.
If the Democrats win run-off elections for two Senate seats in Georgia, the only people who have something to worry about are taxpayers, business owners, parents, cops, gun owners, people of faith, and the unborn,” Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) told Fox News’s “America’s Newsroom” on Wednesday.“I can't overstate the importance of Georgia. We have -- if you count Alaska we're also going to win we have 50 Republican votes. We need 51 to hold the majority. It’s going to be determined in Georgia. What happens in Georgia is going to determine the future of the United States for the next four years,” the senator said.
Gov. DeSantis Introduces ‘Anti-Mob’ Legislation To Allow Floridians To Shoot Rioters And Looters
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Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has proposed an “anti-mob” bill that would allow residents to shoot rioters and looters who target businesses following nationwide unrest.
The law would expand the state’s self-defense law, which currently forbids “the use of force in defense of property,” by increasing what constitutes a “forcible felony,” according to the Miami Herald. DeSantis seeks to make looting or “interruption or impairment” of a business such a felony, thereby justifying deadly force to prevent it, the local outlet reported.
At least 180 boxes filled with voting materials and uncounted votes from across Puerto Rico have surfaced since the Nov. 3 elections, the election commission said Tuesday, raising questions and concerns about the validity of the preliminary results. Initially, the Puerto Rico State Elections Commission placed the number at 40, but it has continued to rise since the boxes were first reported. Election officials blamed the new scandal on the volume of early ballots cast on the island, marking the second electoral debacle for Puerto Rico in a three-month period. In August, the U.S. territory was forced to suspend its primary elections
CNN anchor Jim Sciutto said Wednesday on CNN’s “Newsroom” that President Donald Trump’s refusal to concede the 2020 presidential election could put America at risk for a terrorist attack like the 9/11 attacks.Co-anchor Poppy Harlow asked, “Yes or no, are the actions of the president is taking now putting this country in danger?”Former Bush administration assistant Attorney General Jack Goldsmith said, ” “Clearly, it’s not great for our democracy.”Sciutto said, “Yep, that’s it fair. Let’s put some teeth on that if we can for a moment because they are sitting members of Congress who were around in their positions at the time of 9/11,
President Donald Trump was seen for the first time in days on Wednesday as he and first lady Melania braved the rain to participate in the wreath laying at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery for the observance of Veterans Day. Vice President Mike Pence and Trump's daughter and Senior Advisor Ivanka Trump, donning a face mask. also joined the president and first lady for the short trip from D.C. to Arlington.Also in attendance was Acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller. Trump ousted Defense Secretary Mark Esper, who was not at the wreath laying, in a tweet on Monday and said Miller would
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin celebrated the success of female Republican congressional candidates but warned they will not get fair treatment from the media.The Republican who was picked as the late Sen. John McCain’s 2008 running mate spoke with Fox News’ Martha MacCallum about the impressive performance of GOP women in the 2020 election. But she also noted that the “lamestream media” will likely not provide unbiased coverage so it will be up to the lawmakers themselves to tout their policies and accomplishments.Palin was “very pleased” with last week’s election results that saw a wave of Republican women elected to Congress, though she said on “The Story” Tuesday that
Attorney for General Flynn, Sidney Powell, joined Maria Bartiromo this morning to pptdiscuss the ongoing investigations into this year’s election. Sidney Powell: It’s just stunning Maria and then we have statistical evidence that we haven’t even brought out yet. My next venture is to explain the statistical anomalies to show it was statistically impossible for this election to come out the way it did. It’s just mathematically impossible for all the people who love science the math is dispostive. [Snip] we have evidence of the same number of ballots or same number of votes being injected into the Wisconsin system and into the Michigan system three different times.
I Did Not Recant!’ Postal whistleblower in
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In a confusing series of events Tuesday, claims of voter fraud made by a mail carrier in Erie, Pa., were left somewhat muddied.Postal worker Richard Hopkins alleged that he overheard a postmaster telling staff to backdate ballots mailed after the Election Day deadline. Amid reports he recanted his allegation, Hopkins appeared on video to double down on his claims.(Video) The Democrat-run House Oversight Committee cited the U.S. Postal Service’s Office of the Inspector General to claim that Hopkins “completely recanted” his allegations.“BREAKING NEWS: Erie, Pa. #USPS whistleblower completely RECANTED his allegations of a supervisor tampering with mail-in ballots after being questioned by investigators,
Yesterday the Trump campaign and two Pennsylvania residents sued Pennsylvania’s scofflaw Secretary of the Commonwealth and seven county election boards in federal court. The lawsuit is premised primarily on equal protection; it alleges that some Pennsylvania counties, which were uniformly favorable to Joe Biden, systematically violated Pennsylvania’s election laws, at times with the encouragement of the Secretary of the Commonwealth, while Republican-leaning counties followed the law. The result was systemic voter fraud that diluted the votes of Pennsylvanians in the law-abiding counties, and also the votes of those who voted in person rather than by mail.
The Emerald City is filled with nearly 500 parks but if you look around, you'll see Seattle’s Park system is in peril. Since the pandemic hit, many city green spaces have become overcome by homeless encampments, drugs and crime.
It’s a homeless crisis that’s been growing into a searing scar across our city for more than decade. (snip) Especially after the City Council defunded the Navigation Team with no plan to address the growing problems in city parks.
“This has got to be on the council – I think the council has allowed this to happen,” said Gaydos.
A Great Ormond Street worker is suing the children's hospital as she claims colleagues bullied her for being a Christian and called her a 'stupid northerner,' and a 'silly white b***h'. Catherine Maughan, a former data manager, is suing the children's hospital, claiming sex, race and religious discrimination. [SNIP] She also alleged that she was told to "accept that in black African culture, men are dominating towards women."
Rudy Giuliani reportedly confirmed today that Dominion software whistleblowers have stepped forward. This is exceptional news. [Snip] Rudy Giuliani joined Steve Bannon on Wednesday they have witnesses from Dominion who stepped forward to testify. Rudy Giuliani: Coleman has the community people and he’s got the Dominion people. And they were the ones who were the actual, not poll watchers, the actual observers who were excluded, who were lied to, two of whom stayed behind after all the Republicans had left out and they’re the ones who got the evidence of the 100,000 votes coming in. And they have some photographs also.
Vegas Oddsmaker Says, “The Fix Was In, Trump was Robbed, This Election Was Stolen” I understand odds and gambling in a way that no other conservative media personality, host, or politician in this country could. And I can tell you something is very wrong with this presidential election. It reminds me of a fixed football game. Remember the famous fixed 1978 game between the New York Giants and Philadelphia Eagles. The Giants quarterback handed the ball off. The running back didn’t want it. It fell on the ground. Herm Edwards of the Eagles picked it up and ran it
Democrats want it all now
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Remember the weeks before the election, when leading Democrats, voices in the media, and tech moguls warned America to be patient after election day? It might take days, or weeks, or even months, to know the final results of the presidential election, they warned. Americans should not get ahead of themselves but instead wait to let the process of choosing a new president work.
That was then. Now, some Democrats not only want President Trump to leave office, they want him to do so, and be replaced by Joe Biden, immediately. On Tuesday evening, Hollywood moviemaker and activist Rob Reiner tweeted: "Since Donald Trump has already stopped doing his job
Calls For ‘Unity’ From Those Who Demonize
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Former Vice President Joe Biden delivered a victory speech Saturday night calling for national unity, insisting the country to move past partisan divides to new heights.
“With the campaign over, it’s time to put the anger and the harsh rhetoric behind us and come together as a nation,” Biden said celebrating his media-declared victory. “It’s time for Americans to unite. And to heal.”
True to form, however, Biden cast no blame on the loudest voices within his own party or the Trump-deranged media vilifying the president and his supporters as white supremacist enemies of the state at every turn. In truth, Democrats want Trump-supporting Republicans to heel, not heal, while punishing
Ailing Yoko Ono is handing her business interests in The Beatles and John Lennon over to their son Sean.
The reclusive widow, 87, has not been seen in public for more than a year and now uses a wheelchair much of the time on the rare occasions when she leaves her New York home.
She has been managing John's $800million fortune since his death in 1980.
Now Sean, 45, has been appointed a director at eight companies linked to the family and The Beatles according to The Mirror, including the multimedia Apple Corps.
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were unambiguous throughout their presidential campaign: they believe that racism pervades policing and all other aspects of the criminal-justice system. Just a day before the networks declared Biden the president-elect, he claimed a “mandate” to eliminate “systemic racism.” He doubled down on that claim the next day, in his first speech as presumptive president-elect. During the campaign, Biden routinely announced that black parents were right to worry that their children would be shot by the police, an assertion formalized in his campaign plan for “strengthening . . . justice.”
Saying that Texas Democrats had a deeply disappointing election is like saying the Sacramento Kings had a bad season. They’ve had a lot of them, so some clarification is needed. This is a pretty odd-looking one, as disasters go: judging by the numbers alone, it’s one of the best results the state party has achieved in an election since the turn of the century.
Texas Democrats’ best election in the last decade was 2018, when the party picked up two new members of Congress, twelve members of the state House, and two state senators. This year, the party retained those gains—and won an additional state Senate seat. (In the state House,
In 2018, Aayush Jain, a graduate student at the University of California, Los Angeles, traveled to Japan to give a talk about a powerful cryptographic tool he and his colleagues were developing. As he detailed the team’s approach to indistinguishability obfuscation (iO for short), one audience member raised his hand in bewilderment.
“But I thought iO doesn’t exist?” he said.
At the time, such skepticism was widespread. Indistinguishability obfuscation, if it could be built, would be able to hide not just collections of data but the inner workings of a computer program itself, creating a sort of cryptographic master tool from which nearly every other cryptographic protocol could be built.
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) on Wednesday announced that the state will conduct a “by-hand recount in each county” in the Peach State.
“At 1 p.m. today, I will make the official designation of which race will be the subject of the RLA [risk-limiting audit]. At that time, I will designate that the RLA will be the presidential race,” Raffensperger announced, emphasizing that the RLA, in this case, will require a by-hand recount. Typically, an RLA involves officials examining “a statistically meaningful sample of ballots.”
“The audit is mathematically designed to catch anomalies that would arise from misconfigured machines, procedural errors, or intentional attack,
Michelle Steel, a GOP woman, won her place in the House of Representatives for California’s 48th District on Tuesday after her Democratic opponent, Rep. Harley Rouda, conceded.
While the race was close with 95 percent of precincts reporting, Steel was steadily pulling ahead with 50.9 percent of the vote, while reports showed Rouda at 49.1 percent.
Steel’s victory in the district flipped the seat, which Cook Political Report projected as “lean Democrat,” turning the congressional area encompassing part of Orange County back to red.(Snip)In 2019, the recently-resigned DCCC Chairwoman Cheri Bustos labeled Rouda a “frontline program member,”
If you thought Twitter’s censorship of reported Joe Biden family corruption or frequent flagging of the U.S. president’s tweets were isolated incidents, think again. Big Tech’s efforts to shield favored political figures and positions from scrutiny have only increased.
You and I can find ourselves branded with censorious labels even for sharing court documents containing sworn testimony, should the offending share touch any of a growing number of third rails. Today, the integrity of the 2020 presidential election is the greatest third rail of them all.
I found that out this week when I tweeted screenshots of the summary of a sworn affidavit, and a link to that affidavit, delivered by Detroit
The elaborate pretense being conducted that the U.S. presidential election has been decided resembles the exaggerated excitement of a juvenile team when a contested goal or touchdown has been scored.
The side that claims to have scored, especially if it’s a game-winning or even championship-winning play, may have already uncorked champagne and carried the winning scorer on their shoulders off the field before the officials succeed in disqualifying the subject of the premature celebrations.
The electoral waters are being muddied by a number of arbitrary decisions taken by Trump’s unrelenting enemies in the media. It was clear enough late on election night that Trump had carried North Carolina and Alaska, yet those
Election officials in Pennsylvania’s Allegheny County on Tuesday voted to count over 2,000 ballots with the date missing, while providing a two-day window for an appeal of their decision.
The Allegheny County Board of Elections, in a Nov. 10 release, announced that officials voted by a 2–1 vote to count 2,349 ballots that were returned with no date.
“There is a 48 hour period to appeal that vote and so those ballots will be put aside until that time period has expired with no appeal, or until appeals have been exhausted, whichever comes first,” the Board said in the release.
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Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said Wednesday the state will conduct a full recount of the presidential election. Mr. Raffensperger said all ballots will be recounted by hand for the audit in each of Georgia’s 159 counties. “This will help build confidence. It will be an audit, a recount and a recanvass all at once,” he said at a press conference. “We have all worked hard to bring fair and accurate counts to assure that the will of the voters is reflected in the final count.” Democratic challenger Joseph R. Biden, projected to be the winner of the national election last weekend,
The Illinois State Police accidentally approved a convicted felon for gun ownership and concealed carry licenses, prosecutors said Monday. Now, that man is accused of having a pile of weapons, a Kevlar vest, and over $114,000 worth of pot and heroin in his home. Chicago police armed with a search warrant raided Tracey Massey’s home in Englewood at 2 a.m. Sunday, authorities said during a bond court hearing Monday. Officers reportedly found a loaded handgun in his family room. But cops really hit pay dirt in the 52-year-old’s second-floor bedroom, according to prosecutors. There, officers found a loaded 12-gauge shotgun, a loaded “AR-15 style” rifle, Correction*
There are a lot of things Democrats, NeverTrumpers, and the mainstream media have said and done in the aftermath of the election that are just flat out rotten, as my RedState colleagues and I have previously documented.
Among the most rotten of all has been Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden going back on what he said in September about how and when he would declare victory.
During the September presidential debate between Biden and President Trump, the last question moderator Chris Wallace asked both of them is if they would hold off on declaring victory until the election was “independently certified”:
It is hard for me to understand the advice now emanating from Fox News and much of the rest of Conservatism, Inc.. These folks have gone into high gear instructing Donald Trump’s supporters to “graciously” accept Joe Biden’s presidential victory. Since we are not allowed to utter the word “fraud” to describe what has happened, are we at least permitted to refer to “irregularities”? I’m not sure that even that’s OK.
At high noon on November 7, when Fox News anchor Chris Wallace announced his network was declaring Biden the victor in the presidential contest, he quoted Senator Mitt Romney (R-Utah), who warned the outgoing president against saying anything “inflammatory.”
We are in a whipsaw-fast news cycle, events breaking and churning faster than ever — but over at the New York Times, self-regarding reporters, columnists and editors have spent this most incredible year fighting among themselves over the New York Times.
A jaw-dropping piece in New York Magazine reveals just how far and fast the paper has fallen, executive editor Dean Baquet somehow allowing his millennial social justice warriors to dictate not just how stories are covered but who writes them, edits them, or whether they should run at all.
Make no mistake: The Times is engaging in self-censorship, which extends to outright censorship.
HOUSTON, Texas -- The man accused of killing a Houston police sergeant is now in custody and a person of interest remains on the run.
Robert Soliz, 24, was arrested Tuesday 24 hours after the shooting death of Sgt. Sean Rios. He was arrested during a traffic stop on the Katy Freeway around 3:15 p.m. .(Snip) Soliz (Snip) was out on bond for unlawfully carrying a weapon in a motor vehicle on Feb. 15 when he was arrested.
He was given a $100 bail for that charge. In 2017, Soliz was accused of threatening his girlfriend at the time with murder.
As far as almost all of the mainstream media and the half of the country that voted for Joe Biden is concerned, President Donald Trump and his supporters are sore losers.The president's refusal to accept the projections of media vote counters that he has lost the election, as well as his claims that the election is being stolen from him, is being put down as more than just poor sportsmanship. He is accused, along with many of the 71 million Americans that voted for him, of spreading "disinformation" about claims of voter fraud about officials in Democratic-run cities and states allegedly wrongly influencing the count
Don’t Give an Inch
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Elections don’t make democracies; free and fair elections do. Today, in the midst of post-election chaos, we find ourselves in a fight for the latter. In that sense, this election is about far more than Donald Trump the man, or even his policies. The question is this: either democracy survives or one political party will be allowed to bully, lie, cheat, and steal its way into power.
The stakes, at this moment, in this country that we love, could not be higher. Some Republicans are used to losing and habituated to concession, but the President and the largest number of voters for any Republican in American history know
Sen. Dan Sullivan (R) on Wednesday was projected to have won a second term representing Alaska, securing 50 seats in the Senate for Republicans in the next Congress. CNN and NBC News both called the race shortly before 10 a.m. EST.
Sullivan defeated Al Gross, an independent who was backed by national Democrats in their effort to flip the seat. Gross is a former orthopedic surgeon and commercial fisherman and is the son of former Alaska Attorney General Avrum Gross (D).
Polls had consistently shown Sullivan narrowly leading in the race, but outside groups poured millions of dollars
Joe Biden’s premature status as “president-elect” has caused him to already begin assembling advisors, specifically on how to handle COVID-19. More ridiculous is that his advisors are already doing what Democrats do and are putting together a plan that effectively puts America as a secondary concern.(Snip) oncologist Dr. Zeke Emanuel has suggested that America not “hoard” the vaccine and advised that we don’t resort to — and he actually said this — “vaccine nationalism.”
Emanuel has created a guideline called the “Fair Priority Model,” which calls for a “fair international distribution of vaccine.”
According to the model, this distribution of the vaccine to the globe occurs before Americans get to it:
Democrats had pretty much resigned themselves to the sobering fact that if they want to control the senate for the next two years, they’ll have to win both special elections in Georgia on January 5. But there had been a very faint glimmer of hope that one other as-yet-decided senate race, in Alaska, could still produce a surprising win for the party and make their task much easier. As of election night, Republican incumbent Dan Sullivan held a lead of tens of thousands of votes and around 30 percentage points in the sparsely populated state.
Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla cashed in on his company’s coronavirus vaccine breakthrough. The executive sold more than $5.5 million worth of Pfizer stock on Monday—the same day the drugmaker said its experimental COVID-19 shot was more than 90 percent effective, records show. The groundbreaking development sent Pfizer’s share price surging as high as $41.99 that day, its highest level in more than a year. Bourla dumped more than 132,000 shares for $41.94 apiece, just five cents shy of that peak, according to a Tuesday securities filing. The filing says the sale had been arranged in advance under a so-called Rule 10b5-1
Former Vice President Joe Biden recently brought on oncologist and bioethicist Ezekiel Emanuel to serve on his COVID-19 advisory board and will work closely with Biden if he becomes president.
The move to bring on Emanuel is quite odd considering the doctor once argued that people should not live past the age of 75. Biden is 77. The comments from the doctor were made in an article titled, “Why I Hope to Die at 75.” Emmanuel explains his argument that “society and families — and you — will be better off if nature takes its course swiftly and promptly.”
Check out what Emmanuel had to say:
We knew we would win and that the Democrats would attempt to steal the election by large-scale voter fraud. President Trump foresaw this danger and began fundraising and hiring a team of litigators months ago, preparing for a legal battle royale. I spent almost an hour on the phone with the head of the GOP litigation team this fall—the Trump team had already raised a huge war chest, and were positioning themselves legally for victory by pre-emptive strikes in the courts.
Conservatives have little trust in the courts to save us. We have seen that (Snip) Justice John Roberts wants to protect the institution of the court more than he
As if lockdowns and forced mask mandates aren't enough, there is another chilling detail of the hellish authoritarian state that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will preside over if he is installed into the White House.Get ready for the creation of an army of political enforcers who will be imbued with the power of the federal government to act as "contact tracers" to keep tabs on Americans under the pretense of fighting COVID.Despite what the media and Democrats claim, the election is not a done deal yet with several states still dragging out the process and multiple legal challenges being brought by President Trump and state officials to address irregularities
A Veterans Day story.
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A reader wrote, "I had promised you pictures of Martha Raye I took of her in Vietnam 50 years ago. (Snip) "While the news media still gush over Jane Fonda, Martha was the real woman of valor, having served our country in three wars. (Snip) after Pearl Harbor, she acquired nursing skills and put them to use in military hospitals, healing the wounded with laughs as well as medicine, giving them the idea that life was still worth living after what they had suffered. (Snip) After the war ended, she chose to remain in the reserves and over the next 25 years, rose to the rank of colonel, serving in
Americans should be outraged at the liberties Joe Biden and his media cronies have taken following the still-contested results of the 2020 presidential election.The presumptive president-elect is making speeches and taking victory laps while President Donald Trump’s team seeks to uncover all of the glitches and ghosts that may have accounted for Biden’s sudden electoral advantage in key states.Meanwhile, there is mounting pressure for the U.S. General Services Administration, the government body in charge of the transition to a new presidential administration, to release millions of dollars and other resources to the Biden/Harris campaign for their new administration.
President Trump Hammers Former and
Fired FBI Heads Andrew McCabe and
James Comey in Late Night Tweet replies
Fired FBI Heads Andrew McCabe and
James Comey in Late Night Tweet replies
President Trump fired off a tweet on Andrew McCabe who was exposed in the US Senate on Tuesday. The President called former FBI leader Andrew McCabe an ignorant fool and stated that the great people of the FBI must make sure that both McCabe and his former boss and fired FBI Director James Comey pay the price for what they did to the reputation of the FBI. The President tweeted: (Tweet) The President later tweeted that McCabe shoud be held accountable and pay a big price: (Tweet/Video) We’ve reported on McCabe’s many lies multiple times: (Photo) McCabe and Comey should be held accountable for their crimes.
Along with 40-some thousand other people around the world, I’m enrolled in the clinical trials for the Pfizer COVID vaccine. All has gone well for me, and I’ve had no side effects. Of course, I’ve followed closely the progress of the trials, and I occasionally receive updates from Pfizer.
Pfizer announced yesterday that its early review suggests that the vaccine is astonishingly effective – over 90%. The FDA has previously said that it will approve a safe vaccine that exceeds 50% efficacy.
Veterans Day has always had special meaning for Ron Dolecki, even though it has long reminded him of a disappointment.
Years ago, Dolecki took part in a U.S. Army mission in Eastern Africa. He was ambushed and captured by armed guerrillas, forced to march more than 150 miles across a desert, and held in brutal conditions for two weeks, only to escape on foot, saving two crew mates in the process.
Historians call his saga the stuff of legend, and it helped Dolecki launch a career with the CIA. But his pride in his service has been mixed with exasperation.
Appearing on Fox News with Sean Hannity, White House spokesperson Kayleigh McEnany shares information from within 234 pages of sworn affidavits outlining ballot fraud in Wayne County, Michigan.
Amid the allegations are: a single person signing sixty percent of ballots, multiple ballots being run through the counting machines more than once, and deceased voters. (Video)
Tuesday on CNN’s “Right Now,” host Brianna Keilar featured a list of Republican Senators who have not made public comments “acknowledged Joe Biden is president-elect.” Keilar said, “You can count on one hand how many Republicans acknowledged Joe Biden is president-elect. Senators Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Mitt Romney of Utah, Susan Collins of Maine, Ben Sasse of Nebraska. The rest here are silent, emboldening the president as he refuses to concede. But why? Oliver Darcy here to shed like on this subject. Tell us really what is in the calculus of GOP senators according to your reporting.”Senior media reporter Oliver Darcy said, “If you watch right-wing media,
U.S Postal Worker Richard Hopkins came forward to expose specific irregularities with the back-dating of ballots which he personally witnessed. Several U.S. Senators demanded AG Bill Barr immediately investigate the claims and sworn affidavit. However the Washington Post ran a story yesterday (has been re-written several times) claiming Mr. Hopkins recanted his statements.
After reading the Washington Post story, whistleblower Richard Hopkins tells the newspaper their story is false, he did not recant. However, the Washington Post refuses to remove the story, (Snip)Hopkins was interviewed by the USPS Inspector General’s office and shares with Project Veritas the pressure federal officers exerted upon him in an effort to force
New York Times’ Kevin Roose Calls
Accurate Stories About Election Integrity
Fight ‘Misinformation’ replies
Accurate Stories About Election Integrity
Fight ‘Misinformation’ replies
In a sign of things to come from the blacklisters in the corporate media, New York Times’ tech writer Kevin Roose attacked Facebook for allowing stories that are 100 percent accurate to rise to “the 10 most-engaged URLs on the platform over the last 24 hours.” “Facebook is absolutely teeming with right-wing misinformation right now. These are all among the 10 most-engaged URLs on the platform over the last 24 hours,” the far-left propagandist tweeted from his verified account on Monday.He linked four stories. Here they are:
Joe Manchin digs in: 'Under no
circumstances' would break tie to
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circumstances' would break tie to
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Joe Manchin said on Tuesday he is committed to voting against packing the courts or ending the legislative filibuster no matter what situation arises.
“Under no circumstances would I support packing the court or ending the filibuster if there is a 50-50 tie,” said Manchin in an interview with the Washington Examiner.
In a deadlocked Senate, Manchin could be the deciding vote on a wide range of issues — somebody who could make or break Joe Biden's efforts to pass legislation.
In a wide-ranging interview, he laid out his views on the policy areas Democrats needed to focus on, and he was deeply critical of many items
The real story behind AG Barr authorizing
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investigations of vote fraud blows away
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Even some of my most respected conservative correspondents have been taken in by pessimism over Attorney General William Barr’s authorization of investigation of vote fraud. The media cabal seeking to oust President Trump focused on the abrupt purported “resignation” (he is keeping his federal paycheck and transferring to a different post) of Richard Pilger, director of the DOJ Criminal Division’s Election Crimes Branch. The narrative Pilger offers, all but universally adopted by the media, is that Barr is violating established norms and acting out of (corrupt) political motives. (snip) Barr’s order is hugely significant, for it removes the obstacle that has prevented serious investigations of vote fraud up to now. Correction*
Thanking America’s Veterans
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In the flurry of modern politics, remembering Veterans Day may seem unimportant. It is not. Remember with me. Our democracy depends, in the end, on whether we believe enough in it - and in the freedom it affords - to defend it. America’s veterans – living and dead – have done that. Somewhere in the heart of each was the resolve, arrived at long ago, that America is worth dying for.
Under varying circumstances, with motivations from family to freedom, obligation to honor, each stepped up, took up arms, trained and – as needed – faithfully deployed. The operative term is faithfully.
We hate to admit it, but we thought it would be hard for our colleagues in the already-disgraced big media to shame themselves further during this election cycle. After all, they had done such a great job of it over the past four years. But, in the last two months, they outdid themselves.
Free republics, such as our own, depend on a healthy, vibrant, independent press to survive. The free flow of information, facts and opinion is the oxygen that our republic breathes. Right now, we’re gasping for breath.
Black Lives Matter Pens Letter To Joe Biden
And Kamala Harris: ‘We Want Something
For Our Vote’ replies
And Kamala Harris: ‘We Want Something
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The leader of the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation recently wrote a letter addressed to “President-Elect Joe Biden and Vice-President-Elect Kamala Harris” requesting a meeting to discuss the organization’s expectations and priorities. BLM co-founder and executive director Patrisse Cullors said members are “relieved that the Trump era in government is coming to a close,” adding, “As we celebrate his electoral demise, we also know that his political exit does not ensure an end to the intolerable conditions faced by Black people in America.” The letter was dated Saturday, November 7,
A week after the 2020 presidential election, one thing is obvious about the United States of America: It is deeply divided. With 148 million votes counted, President Donald Trump trailed former Vice President Joe Biden by about 4.7 million votes.But, according to the exit polls, there were some demographic groups that did pick Trump over Biden.Who were they?For starters, according to the network exit poll published by ABC News, there was the divide between people who worked full time and those who did not.
This year, I took up the challenge to "put your money where your mouth is" by becoming a Republican election poll worker in my precinct in Ohio. Having now worked 17 straight hours on the inside of the election process, checking in and processing voters, as well as being one of the two persons responsible for delivering my precincts votes to the local Board of Elections, one irrefutable fact emerges from that experience: the way in which we hold our national elections is ridiculous and inexcusable. This is the untold story of the 2020 elections and a question everyone needs to ask.For this national election,
Donald J. Trump’s improbable presidency has been the most consequential presidency in modern times and his influence on American politics is ongoing and permanent.
From the time he rode down that escalator in July 2015 to announce his candidacy for the office, nothing has been the same.Unlike small-minded liberals who outwardly cheered for the failure of Trump’s tenure -- negative consequences to the country be damned -- should there be a Biden administration, there is no desire here for it to “fail.” If the Senate stays safely in Republican hands, thus assuring a split government, there will be no Green New Deal,
FOX News may have made a colossal mistake. They had one of the most loyal audiences in cable television. But after their reportage of the 2020 election, and particularly election night, the landscape is changing fast. Anger from their audience is already driving down FOX’s ratings. Now, another right leaning network called Newsmax is getting a major boost from former FOX News fans. In fact, Newsmax is already eclipsing the FOX Business Network in ratings.From Newsmax: Newsmax Again Beats Fox Business, CNBC in Ratings
Joe Biden in September: I will Not Declare
Victory Until the Election Is Independently
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Victory Until the Election Is Independently
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During the first presidential debate between President Donald Trump and Joe Biden, Chris Wallace of Fox News asked Biden if he would “pledge not to declare victory until the election is independently certified,” to which the former vice president answered, “yes.” “Will you urge your supporters to stay calm while the vote is counted, and will you pledge not to declare victory until the election is independently certified?” asked Wallace of Biden at the first presidential debate in Cleveland, Ohio.“Yes,” answered Biden.Watch Below: (Video)
MSNBC has split with two more on-air contributors who will work with Joe Biden’s White House transition team, a report said Tuesday.Barbara McQuade, a legal analyst for the cable network, and political analyst Richard Stengel will no longer be paid contributors at the station after they were announced as part of Biden’s forthcoming administration, the Daily Beast reported.Stengel will serve on the review team for the US Agency for Global Media and McQuade will be a member of the Department of Justice Review team, according to the report.The network does not allow their contributors to endorse candidates or run for office while being paid by the outlet,
At the time of Theodore McCarrick’s appointment as Archbishop of Washington in 2000, the Holy See acted on the basis of partial and incomplete information. What has now come to light are omissions, underestimations, and choices that later proved to be wrong, due in part to the fact that, during the assessment process requested by Rome at the time, those questioned did not always disclose all they knew. Until 2017, there had never been any precise accusation regarding sexual abuse or harassment or harm done to a minor. As soon as the first report was received from a victim who was a minor at the time
I object to the way the Democrats stole this election. This was just a straight-up smash-and-grab job. No creativity or panache whatsoever. Shouldn't the Hollywood Party be capable of putting something together that's a little more...I don't know...believable? (snip) I can't decide whether the Democrats think we're all as stupid as Chris Wallace and will find the statistically impossible outcomes in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania somehow believable if the Soviet-like press repeats the lie enough, or whether they're asserting their dominance by just strutting right out in the open with no fear
The absurd delays in ballot-counting across the country add weight to arguments against the wide use of early- and mail-in voting. They also should make opponents of early voting consider other alternatives that would make voting easier.
The case against widespread early voting already was substantial. Having a single, national Election Day is a civic ritual useful for a sense of shared national purpose, and it also ensures that most voters will cast ballots with access to the same bank of information. As it is, early voters operate without knowledge of any late-breaking news, including sudden health problems that candidates may experience. Wars or threats of war,
Even with a new president and political party soon in charge of the White House, the nation’s economic standoff continues. Notwithstanding President-elect Joe Biden’s solid popular vote victory, last week’s election failed to deliver the kind of transformative reorientation of the nation’s political-economic map that Democrats (and some Republicans) had hoped for. The data confirms that the election sharpened the striking geographic divide between red and blue America, instead of dispelling it.
Now that millions of Fox News viewers have awakened to the network’s betrayal of their loyal viewers, what are we to think about those hosts we have let into our homes all these years? We’ve long thought that these anchors we relied upon for actual news were on the same political page as their viewers – reverence for the Constitution, law enforcement, our military, freedom, belief in American greatness, etc.
While it was clear some were not all-in Trump fans, Fox viewers assumed they shared their values. So have they been faking all these years? Have they gone home and made fun of Fox watchers
Ok, sit back from your sleepless nights and fury every time you turn on Fox News and put down the Chardonnay and take a long, deep breath. Please!
On Monday, Scott Adams of Dilbert fame, who is one of the finest critical minds in the podcast world quoted AmericanThinker.com’s article that said Trump was probably going to win this thing. Scott Adams agreed! Scott and I are probably the only two people on the planet, other than DJ himself thinking this right now. Let’s go there for a moment. Calm down! Again. Calm down!
Biden is at 290 Electoral votes; awarded by the mainstream media.
When all the recounts and lawsuits are done, Joe Biden almost certainly will be the next president. Yet Donald Trump has every right to challenge that — and Democrats have no excuse for raging about it.
Biden’s apparent Electoral College lead would require Trump to erase leads of tens of thousands of votes in at least three states — which won’t happen unless the president can show a lot more wrongdoing than he has so far.
But he has every right to try: Contesting results is part of democracy, one Democrats have done many times in recent elections. Al Gore’s 2000 effort in Florida left the election unresolved until Dec. 12.
While the Left is acting as if it is unthinkable – absolutely inconceivable! – that a presidential election can be stolen, and that to suspect otherwise is to venture deep into tinfoil-hat territory, in reality, this kind of thing has happened before, and it’s high time it all came out and safeguards were implemented. In Stephen King’s novel 11/22/63 (spoiler alert!), the main character, Jake, travels back in time to try to stop Lee Harvey Oswald from shooting John F. Kennedy. Even though King drops Jake off in 1958, giving him five years in the Good Old Days, the great novelist never thinks to offer him the easiest way
A warning on Georgia
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In this column, Steve Cortes identified four statistical anomalies associated with last week’s presidential vote. Any one of them, he argued, “would cast intense doubt upon election results.” Put all four together, and “the result is a seemingly impossible statistical perfect storm.”
Considering the importance of the Georgia runoff elections, I was struck by this passage in Cortes’ article:
In the Peach State, President Trump’s vote total almost exactly tracked the vote totals for the Republican senate candidates, separated by merely 818 votes out of 2.43 million votes Trump earned there. But, Joe Biden saw an astounding surplus of 95,801 votes over the Democratic Senate candidates.
It is the clarion call, the siren call, from the Democrat-Media-Left Alliance: “Think of the good of the country. Now is a time for healing. Stop investigating ballot fraud. What we need now is unity.”
You want unity? That’s fair. We will give you unity:
1. In unity with you, we will follow your example of the past four years and deny the legitimacy of the 2020 election for the next four years.
2. In unity with you, we will follow your example of the past four years and investigate the Biden family’s every business dealing at home and abroad.
Rep. James Clyburn is the House Majority Whip. Yesterday he told Axios that “defund the police” and other progressives slogans cost Democrats seats in the House and Senate. “We were not able to discipline ourselves according to voter sentiment,” Clyburn told Axios reporter Alexi McCammond. He continued, “We keep making that mistake. This foolishness about, ‘You got to be this progressive or that progressive.’ That phrase — ‘defund the police’ — cost Jaime Harrison tremendously.”
Fired FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe wants his old job back. Heaven help us.
It's hard to think of anyone who did more sustained damage to the FBI than McCabe. Well ... maybe two other odious characters: fired FBI Director James Comey and fired counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok. It's a close call.
All three bad actors demolished the good name and reputation of the once-vaunted law enforcement agency. It's quite possible that the bureau may never recover.
Joe Biden took questions from reporters for the first time since being projected as president-elect, but the questions that were asked were primarily focused on knocking President Trump and Republican lawmakers, who have largely not acknowledged the current outcome of the 2020 presidential election.
After his remarks defending Obamacare as the signature Obama-era legislation has made its way back to the Supreme Court, the soon-to-be 46th president didn't exactly face a tough grilling from reporters.
"During the campaign, you said you were not naive about how difficult it would be to unite the country,"
The Never Trump Lincoln Project, a political action committee run by multiple GOP campaign operatives opposed to President Donald Trump, shared a post to social media on Tuesday targeting two Porter Wright attorneys in Pennsylvania who are working to assist the Trump campaign with claims of voter fraud. “Here are two attorneys attempting to help Trump overturn the will of the Pennsylvanian people,” the committee wrote in a tweet, which has now been removed. Included in the tweet were photos of the two targeted attorneys, along with email addresses and phone numbers where they could be contacted. “Make them famous,” the committee added
Puerto Rico’s elections commission says it has discovered more than 100 briefcases containing uncounted ballots a week after the U.S. territory held its general election, drawing criticism and scorn from voters who now question the validity of the outcomes of certain races.
Francisco Rosado, the commission’s new president, said Tuesday that the briefcases were found in a secured vault and blamed the situation on what he said was an underfunded and understaffed administrative board responsible for counting a record number of absentee and early votes.
The Target store on E. Lake Street in Minneapolis reopens Wednesday for the first time since shutting down in May following riots that destroyed the business and many others along the normally bustling commercial corridor.
The multimillion dollar reopening restores some normalcy to a community hard hit by the civil unrest that broke out all along Lake Street in the wake of George Floyd's killing at the hands of Minneapolis police.(Snip) In the preceding months, store managers listened to store employees and surveyed neighbors while rebuilding a store that was destroyed down to the studs because of looting, vandalism and sprinkler damage.