Posts on Thursday, November 19, 2020
As Texas shattered a single-day record with 12,000 new coronavirus cases reported, Republican Governor Greg Abbott on Friday ruled out another lockdown and accused local leaders of not enforcing existing restrictions.
His rejection of a lockdown comes as other governors across the US take aggressive new steps to curb record-shattering spikes in Covid-19 cases that are pushing hospitals to the limit.
Texas is on the verge of surpassing 8000 hospitalised Covid-19 patients for the first time since a deadly summer outbreak, which back then Abbott met with orders that closed bars and limited restaurant occupancy.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. —
Law enforcement agencies released statements Thursday in response to California's new COVID-19 public health orders and enforcement of the order.
Officials made the announcements the same day California health officials ordered a "limited" curfew, which will be in place from Saturday to Dec. 21. The new stay-at-home order stops non-essential travel from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. in counties in the purple COVID-19 tier. Here's what the different agencies said about enforcing the curfew:
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California Highway Patrol Commissioner Amanda Ray said in a statement the department's mission is unchanged.
“CHP officers will continue to patrol throughout California and use their sound professional judgment
On Tuesday, we covered the news of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s edict stating that no more than ten people could gather in private residences for Thanksgiving and the response he received from numerous law enforcement agencies around the state. To put it kindly, none of the police departments or sheriffs were enthusiastic about taking on the job. To put it more bluntly, a lot of them flatly refused, pointing out the impossible scope of even attempting such a task. The Governor was asked about that response in a press conference yesterday and it’s obvious that his famously short temper had gotten the better of him again. (NY Post)
157 years ago today President Abraham Lincoln delivered his famous Gettysburg Address at the dedication of the Soldier’s National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.This was after one of the bloodiest battles in the Civil War. They Union Army lost 3,100 troops and 3,900 Confederate soldiers died in the fighting.The former dean of Harvard spoke Edward Everett spoke for two hours at the dedication. Then Abraham Lincoln spoke for two minutes.This was a time of great turmoil.
Today our country is also in great distress.
If anyone was hoping the third time would be the charm for consistently constructive or tough questions at a post-election Joe Biden press conference, Thursday illustrated that such a hope was a fool’s errand. Over the course of the 15-minute availability, the Biden team had the former vice president receive questions from only four reporters with three of them offering softballs.ABC senior congressional correspondent Mary Bruce continued her accumulation of quite a highlight reel if she ever wanted to join the Biden administration, wondering to Biden in the first of two questions: “How many lives do you think are at risk here if this transition remains stalled?”
Joe Biden said in a Thursday address that he had discussed implementing a national mask mandate with a number of state governors.
Biden and vice-president elect Kamala Harris spoke with members of the National Governors’ Association on Thursday, including Democrat Andrew Cuomo of New York and Republican Kay Ivey of Alabama.
“We discussed the implementation of a national mask mandate,” Biden said. “Ten governors, Democrat and Republican, have imposed masking requirements and recognized the need for universal masking….It’s not a political statement. It’s a patriotic duty.”
Joe Biden has won the presidential election in the state of Georgia, a state recount confirmed on Thursday.
Initial results last week showed that Biden won the state by about 15,000 votes, a margin small enough that state elections officials immediately commenced a by-hand recount. While over 2,000 uncounted ballots for the President Trump were indeed discovered during the recount, the final tally shows that Biden beat Trump by 12,284 votes, according to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. “The audit has aligned very close to what we had in election night reporting,”
Major concerns were mounting today over whether Britain will be ready for Boris Johnson's 'ambitious' plans to ban gas boilers in all new-build homes by 2023, after the target was brought forward by two years. The proposal was branded 'impossible' because just two hydrogen boiler prototypes exist, a fifth of the pipe network still needs to be relaid and every engineer will be retrained. The ban on methane gas boilers means new homes must have low-carbon alternatives, such as electric heat pumps or hydrogen boilers—but it has surprised many homebuilders who had been working towards a deadline of 2025.
Boris Johnson has set out plans for green investment over the coming decade, including a target to generate enough offshore wind to power every home in the UK and a ban on new petrol and diesel cars and vans from 2030. The prime minister’s long-awaited 10-point plan for a “green industrial revolution” also promised the UK’s first hydrogen-powered town, four carbon capture “clusters” to suck 10 megatons of carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and a new generation of advanced nuclear reactors. But green campaigners warned that the £12bn in public funding promised by Mr Johnson fell well short
Senate Republicans are moving to push through more of President Trump’s conservative nominees during a lame-duck session and in his final days at the White House — extending Trump’s legacy on the government for years, particularly in the judiciary, sources told Politico.Much to the dismay of Democrats, the Senate confirmations overseen by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) could frustrate the agenda of President-elect Joe Biden.While Trump has yet to concede the election to Biden, the Senate GOP is moving to confirm Trump appointees to the Federal Elections Commission, the Federal Reserve Board and the federal judiciary.
After four years of attacking President Donald Trump as “illegitimate,” “fascist,” “Nazi,” “tyrant,” “dictator,” “racist,” “anti-Semitic,” “Russian stooge,” “traitor,” “grifter,” “xenophobe,” “sexist,” “homophobe,” “ignorant,” “fat” and “lazy,” Former Vice President Joe Biden, the presumptive president-elect, now says, “Let’s heal.”In his “victory speech,” Biden said: “And to those who voted for President Trump, I understand your disappointment tonight.“I’ve lost a couple of elections myself. But now, let’s give each other a chance.“It’s time to put away the harsh rhetoric. To lower the temperature.
Tucker Carlson Unloads On Trump Lawyer
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Fox News host Tucker Carlson slammed Trump lawyer Sidney Powell during his show on Thursday night for not providing any evidence to substantiate her claims that voting software changed votes from President Donald Trump to Democrat Joe Biden.Carlson said that he repeatedly tried to bring her on the show, offered to give her the entire hour to talk, and that she allegedly became angry and told his show to stop contacting her after they continued to ask for evidence.Video and transcript below:Carlson began: All of which brings us to the bombshell at the center of today’s press conference, that was delivered by former prosecutor Sidney Powell
It's clear that Democrats will continue spewing sick and twisted rhetoric against President Trump and his family until the end of time. That was just made even more apparent on CNN.During an interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper, Democratic Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms said President Trump would “eat his own children”.Yes, really.“He will eat his own children, I’m sure, if he found it prudent. He’s now picking a fight with Brian Kemp… the governor who he was closely allied with,” she said. She also suggested that Trump would “turn on anybody if the situation warrants it.”Watch below:
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On Thursday during a press conference, Rudy Giuliani and other Trump team lawyers held a press conference laying out President Trump's pathway to re-election. At one point, Giuliani took a question from a reporter.
"Sir, is it your goal to pressure officials or lawmakers in these battleground states to block or delay certifications so the GOP can pick their own electors? Is that the end theme here?" the reporter asked.Giuliani started to chuckle as he stared down the reporter."Our goal here is to go around the iron curtain of censorship. What publication are you with?" Giuliani asked.
Suggested new CNN slogan: "We Don't Report. We Decide for You."On today's New Day, the idea was seriously propounded that the media should refuse to report on, or examine the merits of, Republican challenges to election results. CNN has concluded that the challenges are not "serious," and thus that reporting on them would only serve to do the Republicans' work for them. Co-host Alisyn Camerota kicked off the discussion by pointing to a recent poll showing that 70 percent of Republicans think that Biden's win was due to fraud. An angry John Berman shouted that Republicans believe that because people like Republican House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy
Sidney Powell’s heart beats with pulse of American patriotism. “In terms of the level of corruption we are looking at here, we have no idea how many Republican or Democratic candidates… paid to have the system rigged to work for them.” – Sidney Powell (Video)We already knew the metadata available in the NSA database is for sale by private contractors to any politically connected high bidder. That data is worth trillions.
Does it not seem likely that Dominion election engineers would offer their services to both sides of the political equation. How many campaigns purchased those services? How many currently sitting political leaders know the phone
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During a press conference Thursday, Jenna Ellis, the senior legal adviser to President Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign, castigated the mainstream media over their partisan refusal to report truthfully on the campaign’s findings as it pertains to voter fraud allegations.The fact is that the campaign has already uncovered some evidence of fraud in its investigations of the 2020 election results and is slowly uncovering more as the investigation proceeds.The problem is that, one, the media refuse to give the campaign time to complete its investigation, and two, they keep improperly framing the situation as a matter of the campaign not finding enough evidence to substantiate “claims widespread voter fraud.”
Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday announced a curfew limiting the nighttime movements of more than 90% of Californians. The order, intended to deal with a worrying surge in coronavirus cases, requires most non-essential work, movement and gatherings to stop between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m. (Snip) Dr. John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases and vaccinology at the UC Berkeley-UCSF Joint Medical Program, said he was “delighted” by Thursday’s curfew order. “Because we need to be doing more aggressive things to take this on, to really change the direction that things are going,” he said. “Because they’re going very
Tom Cotton Celebrates Anniversary Of The
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Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas took to the Senate floor on Wednesday to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the Pilgrims’ arrival in America on the Mayflower, lamenting that the founders’ story has “fallen out of favor in fashionable circles” these days.“This year we ought to be especially thankful for our ancestors, the Pilgrims, on their four hundredth anniversary. Their faith, their bravery, their wisdom places them in the American pantheon,” Cotton said. “Alongside the Patriots of 1776, the Pilgrims of 1620 deserve the honor of American founders.”Cotton pushed back on attempts from the left to rewrite history and squash celebrations of the Pilgrims.
Donald Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani delivered a rambling monologue Thursday meant to reveal evidence for a 'massive' vote fraud where he quoted 'My Cousin Vinny' and claimed he had 'hundreds' of sworn affidavits as evidence that he would not share - because, he claimed, it would put his witnesses' lives at risk.
suffering more than a score of legal defeats on President Trump's multi-state case to throw out ballots, Giuliani resorted to an extended rant about alleged fraud to reporters packed in tightly at the Republican National Committee headquarters in Washington. The last time he held a press conference was at Four Seasons Total Landscaping in northern Philadelphia,
Deep beneath the streets of London, in a complex of bomb shelters left abandoned since World War II, something is growing. Thousands of green sprouts burst from their hydroponic trays, stretching toward glowing pink lights that line the arched ceilings. These plants, along with tens of thousands of other salad crops, are being grown from seed without soil or sunlight, in tunnels transformed into a high-tech commercial farm.
The farm is known as Growing Underground (GU), and it’s located 108 feet below the main street in Clapham, a south London suburb. Every year, in 6,000 square feet of old bomb shelter, more than 100 tons of pea shoots, garlic chives,
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Donald J. Trump was fond of saying the 2020 presidential election was the most important election of our lifetimes. Presumably he meant that it would determine the direction of the country for a generation. That remains to be seen, but perhaps he was wrong.
Although about 70 percent of Republicans believe that Joe Biden didn’t win fair and square, those issues are wending their way through the courts so let’s leave them for another day. Assume for the moment that Biden really did win. What does that mean for our country? Maybe not that much. It turns out that the election wasn’t about policies but personalities.
Donald Trump is a larger-than-life
Robinson Canó testing positive for the performance-enhancing drug stanozolol will not just cost the New York Mets second baseman the entire 2021 season and his $24 million annual salary,
No, as outlets including The New York Times and Sportico have pointed out, Canó’s second suspension for doping will also cost the 38-year-old, who missed 80 games in 2018 after testing positive for a banned substance while playing for the Seattle Mariners, his shot at the Hall of Fame and millions of dollars in future earnings.
Only eight second basemen in MLB history have more career hits than Canó’s 2,624, and all of them have already been enshrined in Cooperstown.
Joe Biden has pledged to rejoin the Paris climate agreement on the first day of his administration, a promise unambiguous and therefore certain to be fulfilled, notwithstanding the essential absurdity of the Paris agreement narrowly and of climate policies more generally. Applying the EPA climate model under highly favorable assumptions, the Paris agreement if implemented immediately and enforced strictly would reduce global temperatures in 2100 by about 0.17 degrees C, an effect that would be barely detectable given the normal variation in annual temperatures. The Biden proposal for net-zero emissions by the U.S.: 0.137 degrees C. The temperature effect by 2100 from either net-zero emissions
In 1980, Democratic President Jimmy Carter lost in a landslide to Ronald Reagan, 489-49 in the Electoral College. So naturally, Democrats concluded that Reagan had committed treason in order to steal the election, to wit: His campaign had conspired with Iranian ayatollahs to prevent 52 American hostages from being released until after the election.
And who can blame them? Carter’s economic policies had produced a 21% interest rate, a 17% mortgage rate and a 15% inflation rate in the coveted “hat trick” of presidential incompetence. His brilliant strategic ploy of abandoning the Shah of Iran had led to a 154% spike in oil prices and Islamic lunatics seizing our embassy and
A prominent liberal legal academic who spent the last four years pushing outrageous, discredited, and debunked conspiracy theories about Donald Trump stealing the 2016 election said on Fox News Sunday that refusal to accept the legitimacy of the 2020 presidential election threatens the country.
“He is undermining democracy because there are millions of people who will believe him even though there is nothing to his arguments and no evidence to back them,” Harvard Law professor Laurence Tribe said of President Trump’s litigation regarding the November election.
As Trump and many of his 74 million voters express concern about the security of the 2020 election,
Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) said Thursday on “The Axe Files” podcast that President Donald Trump’s claims of voter fraud seem dubious because “the president said before the election that if he were to lose, it would be because of voter fraud.”Romney said, “At this stage, we haven’t heard any evidence of a widespread voter fraud effort that would result in a change in the outcome of the election.” Host David Axelrod said, “The place where the allegations are being made are mostly the president’s Twitter feed.” Romney said, “I’m surprised that there are as many people as you say that give it credibility even within our own country
California Democrat David Atkins this week called for Trump supporters to be “deprogrammed” in “post WWII” type reeducation camps. (Tweet) “No seriously…how *do* you deprogram 75 million people? Where do you start? Fox? Facebook?” Atkins said. “We have to start thinking in terms of post-WWII Germany or Japan. Or the failures of Reconstruction in the South.” he added.(Tweet) Atkins called the 75+ million people who voted for President Trump a “belligerent death cult against reality.”
Lawyers for President Trump's campaign alleged a plot by his opponents to "rig" voting machines in the presidential election, delivering the race for Joe Biden.A news conference held at the Republican National Convention headquarters in Washington on Thursday grew heated as three Trump attorneys alleged "a massive well-funded, coordinated effort to deny" voters their constitutional voting rights.“In terms of the level of corruption we are looking at here, we have no idea how many Republican or Democratic candidates … paid to have the system rigged to work for them,” said Trump attorney Sidney Powell.“This is enough to overturn any election,” said Rudy Giuliani,
We all should probably acknowledge that we Americans, in many ways, have become an unserious people. No serious civilization and society would allow a fraction of what is taking place here—from the absurdity of our education system to the dominance of big tech monopolies to our current form of elections. A list of our nation’s follies demonstrating our unseriousness would fill pages. But it’s not just about the American people as a whole: conservatism is an unserious movement (if one can even call what exists a movement), and Republicans are deeply, deeply unserious as a political party.
Consider, in the immediate, our election system again.
Rudy Giuliani and other lawyers representing President Donald Trump’s campaign outlined their case Thursday that the Nov. 3 presidential election was so deeply flawed in several key states that the results should be overturned in the president’s favor.Giuliani said there was a pattern to the alleged irregularities in key states that suggested, he said, a “plan from a centralized place” to commit voter fraud in cities controlled by Democrats.He said widespread adoption of vote-by-mail had allowed Democrats to take big-city corruption practices nationwide. “They picked the places where they could get away with it.”
A group of Harvard University students circulated a petition aimed at keeping Trump administration officials from teaching, attending or speaking at the Ivy League school — but not everyone was on board with their “progressive” agenda, according to a report.The petition, drafted last week by students at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, got a less than enthusiastic reception by those attending the Kennedy School of Government and the Business School, Fox Business reported.Sources with direct knowledge of the matter told the outlet that petition organizers later changed the wording
New York's public schools closed Thursday, sparking debate over whether the measure will help fend off a second coronavirus wave when classroom transmission is low and non-essential businesses remain open. While European countries have so far kept schools open, focusing instead on shutting down indoor dining, bars and gyms, America's most populous city has taken the opposite approach. Mayor Bill de Blasio said Wednesday the United States's biggest public school system, which teaches 1.1 million students, would revert to remote learning Thursday "out an abundance of caution." The announcement came after the city -- where COVID-19 has killed more than 24,000
In a ruling hailed by campaigners as "historic", France's top administrative court on Thursday gave the government a three-month deadline to show it is taking action to meet its commitments on climate change.
The government of France, which brokered the landmark 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change, was hauled before the Council of State /snip/ which noted that "while France has committed itself to reducing its emissions by 40% in 2030 compared to 1990 levels, it has, in recent years, regularly exceeded the 'carbon budgets' it had set itself."
President Donald Trump’s campaign is hosting a press conference at the Republican National Committee in Washington, DC, on Thursday, where the president’s lawyers are expected to lay out a “viable path to victory.” The press conference will feature former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and Trump Campaign Senior Legal Advisor Jenna Ellis.The update follows reports of discrepancies in hand-recounts, threats of intimidation against Republican members of the Wayne County Board of Canvassers, and looming questions over the voting software used in 28 states. Trump previewed the press conference in a Thursday morning tweet.
Business leaders are turning on Donald Trump claiming he can still continue litigating the results of the election while cooperating with Joe Biden's transition team. CEO of the Chamber of Commerce Tom Donohue, a longtime confidant of Republican presidents, acknowledged to Axios in a report published Thursday that Biden is the winner of the presidential election.
Donohue said in a statement that Trump 'should not delay the transition a moment longer.' 'President-elect Biden and the team around him have a wealth of executive branch experience that should allow them to hit the ground running,' the Chamber of Commerce boss said.
Donald Trump has been accused of trying to hamstring Joe Biden before he leaves office by 'lighting so many foreign policy fires the Democrat won't be able to put them out.'The president has ordered thousands of troops out of Afghanistan and Iraq, attacked Chinese tech companies and brokered a colossal arms deal in the Middle East this month.And this week it emerged that Trump had to be 'talked out of' a bombardment on Iran's foremost nuclear facility as his aides impressed upon him this would likely start a war.One White House official told CNN: 'The goal is to set so many fires that it will be
The maverick website Conservative Treehouse (CTH) recently announced that WordPress would no longer host them due to alleged violations of its terms of service. When CTH asked WordPress to identify the alleged violations, it cited its policy against “prohibited content” and “calls to violence.” WordPress didn’t bother to identify any specific offending content or explain how the site’s content violated the terms. (Snip
CTH played an indispensable role in the pushback against the Russia collusion hoax. The site is known for its long analytic pieces that spotted overlooked details in court documents and publicly-available transcripts. (Snip) Perhaps no other source demonstrated as much skill in deciphering redactions to uncover the identity
New York Democratic congressional candidate Jackie Gordon conceded Wednesday afternoon to Republican candidate Andrew Garbarino.Garbarino released a statement after Gordon called him saying: “Jackie Gordon has just called me to concede and offer her congratulations. I look forward to getting to work.” Republicans will hold on to the seat which was vacated by former Republican New York Rep. Peter King.(Tweet) The Daily Caller released a report on Gordon which included military records that show she was subject to two investigations during her time in the U.S. Army, resulting in two separate recommendations that she be relieved of command, one of which was acted upon in Afghanistan.
On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Rachel Maddow Show,” host Ali Velshi stated that we can’t move past the 2020 presidential election “because of Trump’s continued nonsense,” before conducting an interview with former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, who he said, “helped cement the right to vote for everyone in Georgia to stop what happened to her from ever happening again.”Velshi said, “Joe Biden won this election. Joe Biden will be inaugurated the 46th president of the United States on January 20, but because of Trump’s continued nonsense, we will have to keep our tired legs running just a little bit longer.”
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A Democratic state politician told a female Republican election official to “think about your kids” and named their likely school, amid a tense stand-off on Tuesday night that briefly saw vote totals in Michigan held up from certification over unexplained irregularities.
Election officials in Michigan’s largest county, which takes in Detroit, eventually voted four-zero to certify the results from the presidential election, confirming a victory for Joe Biden over Donald Trump.
It came around three hours after an unprecedented two-two deadlock along party lines drew praise from the President and the head of the Michigan Republican Party, but outrage from Democrats, including Governor Gretchen Whitmer and Attorney-General Dana Nesssel.
Lin Wood tells Mark Levin he believes
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Powerhouse attorney Lin Wood, the man responsible for Richard Jewell and Nick Sandmann’s successful lawsuits against the establishment media, believes President Donald Trump won the 2020 presidential election in a landslide.Speaking on conservative commentator Mark Levin’s radio program Tuesday, Wood claimed that all the alleged voter fraud he’s uncovered has him convinced that the incumbent president won over 400 electoral votes in the race.“This election was a fraud. Donald Trump won, I believe, clearly a 70 percent-plus landslide election in the nation. He probably won over 400 electoral votes,” Wood said.“So we’re uncovering step by step the layers of the onion.
Former President Barack Obama is on the road hawking a new book, and in it he makes some startling allegations about former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.“Through Palin, it seemed as if the dark spirits that had long been lurking on the edges of the modern Republican Party — xenophobia, anti intellectualism, paranoid conspiracy theories, an antipathy toward Black and brown folks — were finding their way to center stage,” Obama writes in “A Promised Land,” which hit bookshelves on Tuesday.Palin fired back in an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity earlier this week.
A Philadelphia attorney who was representing President Trump’s campaign has been reportedly placed under official protection after threats were made against her.Noting court papers filed on Wednesday, The New York Post reported, “Philadelphia lawyer Linda Kerns ‘has been the subject of threats of harm, to the point at which the involvement of police and U.S. Marshals has been necessary to provide for her safety,’ the filing says.” The Post added, “The stunning revelation came two days after Kerns, a solo practitioner, sought sanctions against a lawyer from the firm representing Pennsylvania Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar for leaving her an ‘abusive voicemail on Saturday night.’”
The Wisconsin Elections Commission on Wednesday night issued an order to recount ballots in two counties following a request by President Donald Trump’s campaign.
Commissioners in a video teleconference on Wednesday argued for nearly six hours before ultimately agreeing to conduct the recount.
“An order will be issued mandating that the recount take place. This is not a discretionary decision. This is simply what will happen,” Chairwoman Ann Jacobs, a Democrat, said at the beginning of the hearing.
But members of the commission, which has three Republicans and three Democrats, debated for hours over how the recount would be conducted. Some said state law governing a recount contained ambiguities.
It may just have been the fact that they were beamed in virtually to the hearing room, but our billionaire Big Tech overlords looked more cyborg than human when they testified before a Senate committee Tuesday.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, 43, in funereal black, with a castaway beard and nose ring, stood stiffly in front of an austere shelf of white bowls and empty bottles and talked about “humans” versus “algorithms.”
Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg, 36, was freckly and clean-shaven, but came across as equally robotic. He wore a white shirt, blue jacket and striped tie against a bland backdrop of silk drapes and a potted plant.
Both spoke in a slow monotone.
Let’s be clear about something. The coronavirus crisis is no longer an emergency situation. It might have been in March or April, but it absolutely is not as we enter the third week of November.
It’s a tragedy, it’s a problem, it’s a crisis, but it is not an emergency, and we have to stop treating it like one at the expense of our children. Thursday, all in-person public schooling in New York City will close again. There is no excuse for this given all we know now, and it is abusive towards our kids.Scientific consensus is a term that gets tossed around far too often,
In a stunning reversal Wayne County Board of Canvassers Chairwoman Monica Palmer [affidavit here] and fellow GOP member William C. Hartmann [affidavit here] have filed affidavits rescinding their prior vote to certify the election in Wayne County, Michigan.
The two board members cite threats against their family as the pressure put upon them to certify the Detroit area vote against their original decision not to certify. John Solomon – […] In an extraordinary turnabout that foreshadows possible legal action, the two GOP members of Wayne County’s election board signed affidavits Wednesday night alleging they were bullied and misled into approving election results in Michigan’s largest metropolis and do not believe
Last Sunday, in my article "'Lost votes are fraud votes," I looked at the "lost votes" for the 2020 presidential election listed in Internet blogger "Pede's" analysis, and I described how, after adjusting for the thrown-away votes, Trump won Pennsylvania and will win (after the recount) Georgia, while Biden likely won Nevada, Michigan, Wisconsin, and possibly Arizona. But there's still something missing. "Pede's" data search exposed votes switched from Trump to Biden, and "votes lost" (mostly Trump votes thrown away); but there is a third category that escapes this type of data scanning: "votes added."
If Texans are worried about a second lockdown coming to the state, then they can rest easy as Governor Greg Abbott has promised that no new lockdown measures will be taken, even as cases in Texas rise. “We are not going to have any more lockdowns in the state of Texas,” Abbott said during a radio interview with Dallas’s Mark Davis on Thursday.
“Our focal point is gonna be working to heal those who have COVID,” he added, “get them out of hospitals quickly, make sure they get back to their normal lives.”
This focus on quickly treating COVID-19 positive patients and getting them back to their normal lives means
JERUSALEM — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced Thursday, during a visit here, that the State Department will consider the anti-Israel BDS campaign “anti-Semitic” and withdraw U.S. government support from organizations engaged in such “hateful BDS conduct.”
Calling the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions push a “cancer” and vowing to stand with like-minded nations on the issue, the secretary spoke via a livestream from Jerusalem Thursday morning. He stood beside Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, taking no questions.
The Trump administration official is on a post-election, multi-country swing through Europe and the Middle East apparently designed to highlight the administration’s foreign policy legacy. During previous stops, America’s top diplomat highlighted
I am enjoying the squirming of Nancy Pelosi’s nephew, California Governor Gavin Newsom, now that he has been exposed as completely disregarding the COVID guidelines he is trying to force 40 million Californians to follow. (snip) The party was NOT outside as he claimed. Too bad for Gavin that the pictures that Fox 11 Los Angeles published came after he smikingly lied his butt off (snip) I am old enough to vividly remember Joe Isuzu, the attention-grabbing comic liar whose commercials for Isuzu grabbed a lot of notice a few decades ago, though they sold few vehicles. I think that I see a certain family resemblance.
Like millions of Americans, I have in recent days grown sick of Facebook. Like hundreds of thousands, I've abandoned it for Parler.
When I said goodbye to my friends on Facebook, they were all kind. Many said they'd miss me, and others offered advice. One told me she had glanced into Parler and had found it horrifying. But, she said, she was sure I had done my due diligence before signing on.
Indeed I had. Parler allows you to choose whose words you read and whose memes you chuckle at. I'm not a fan of outlandish conspiracy theories so I don't keep up with the Joneses -- Alex or Mother.
In a Senate hearing, Senator Kamala Harris demonstrated a twofold ploy of dishonesty while attempting to trap Judge (now Justice) Amy Coney Barrett in a trick question. (snip) Barrett used the term "judicial notice." This is the clue. She was asked (preposterously) whether she believes that COVID-19 (the China virus) is contagious. Barrett answered yes, that is something so obvious and uncontroversial, that one takes "judicial notice" of it. Consider what that means. (snip) Even if it is not conclusively proved, ballot by ballot, that hundreds of thousands of votes supposedly for Biden were fraudulent, strict proof is not required.
Sidney Powell, attorney extraordinaire, appeared on Newsmax’s Greg Kelly Reports on Tuesday to explain what happened on election day and tell why she believes that Trump almost certainly got more votes than any president in American history. Because Greg Kelly asks the intelligent, clarifying questions that we wish all journalists would ask, her appearance on his show is one of the best explanations of what happened with the Dominion Voting Software.
According to Powell, “Dominion has a long history of rigging elections. That’s what it was created to do to begin with.”
One more reason just surfaced marking the importance of keeping the U.S. Senate in Republican hands – Joe Biden’s plans to tax American gun owners.Well, the owners of certain guns, like AR-15 rifles.According to a new report by the National Shooting Sports Foundation, a gun-rights group, there are some 20 million rifles and 150 ammunition magazines of the dreaded ‘assault weapons’ style in circulation today. Biden’s gun control plan includes:- Ban the manufacture and sale of assault weapons and high-capacity magazines. Federal law prevents hunters from hunting migratory game birds with more than three shells in their shotgun. That means our federal law does more to protect ducks than children.
Donald Trump is continuing to rage against the outcome of the presidential election, claiming his competitor Joe Biden received a suspicious 'dump of votes' in Wisconsin after polling booths had closed. The Commander-in-chief is contesting the outcome in the crucial swing state, which Biden won by a slender 0.62 percent margin (20, 565 votes).
'Look at this in Wisconsin! A day AFTER the election, Biden receives a dump of 143,379 votes at 3:42AM, when they learned he was losing badly. This is unbelievable!'
Trump attorney Jenna Ellis posted a late night photo of herself with lead Trump elections attorney former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and non-attorney Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn (US Army Ret.) who was President Trump’s first national security advisor. (Photo) Ellis posted the photo at 12:30 a.m. EST Thursday with the caption, “Late night at the office…Patriots and #TeamTrump @RudyGiuliani @GenFlynn”
https://twitter.com/JennaEllisEsq/status/1329296048708349959 -One can’t help but wonder what a non-attorney like Flynn is doing hanging out with the President’s election attorneys so late at night.
California was once a shining exemplar of everything a state should be — inventive, creative, energetic, freewheeling, fast-growing and conservative. No more. Today, it’s a giant welfare economy run by far-left kleptocrats and union shills who can’t even keep the lights on. As hundreds of thousands of Californians flee the once-Golden State, the rest of America should ask itself: Will they bring their politics with them?
Put another way, will California’s broken model be adopted by much of the rest of the country, turning reliably red states blue and seeding the nation with high taxes, more rules, corrupt politicians, and slow
Two Republican members of the Wayne County Board of Canvassers in Michigan rescinded their votes to certify the election results, saying Wednesday they were bullied into changing their original votes, and state authorities had refused to conduct an audit.
As Breitbart News reported Tuesday, the board originally deadlocked 2-2 along partisan lines and failed to certify the results because of discrepancies between ballots and voter rolls. But after public abuse and threats, and with the video stream down, the two Republicans agreed to change their votes, saying that they’re promised state authorities would audit the results.
The liberal media meltdown about last week’s speech by Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito is silly and hypocritical. The speech was not only acceptable but insightful and appropriate.
Alito was the featured speaker at the annual national meeting (by video because of the coronavirus) of the Federalist Society, a group of mostly conservative lawyers that sponsors debates and seminars throughout the country. His remarks were quite pointed, perhaps even provocative, but they were well within ethical bounds. The media and leftist politicians, though, reacted as if Alito had thrown a verbal Molotov cocktail into the edifice of judicial propriety. But the media’s vapors are nothing more than gaseous piffle.
Former President Barack Obama has written not one but two memoirs about himself, the second out this week, which I’m calling “Everyone Who Disagrees with Me is Racist, Part II.”
His first memoir, “Dreams From My Father,” was a showy substitute for record and experience at the start of his first presidential term; his second memoir is meant as a defense of his two presidential terms, which were repudiated by the election of Donald Trump and the flow of minority voters away from the Democratic Party. Republicans built a big tent these last four years, while Democrats became older and whiter, and Democrats recognize this as a threat to their influence.
The Federal Aviation Administration cleared Boeing’s 737 Max for flight Wednesday, nearly two years after a pair of deadly crashes, marking a first step for the struggling aerospace giant toward recovering its reputation and profitability.
The air safety agency said it completed a “comprehensive and methodical” 20-month review before rescinding the longest grounding of a jetliner in U.S. history. The FAA said it made the decision in cooperation with regulators around the world, most of whom also plan to clear the Max for flight soon.
Airlines in the U.S. will be able to fly the Max again after Boeing updates key flight control software and computers on each plane,
Joe Biden’s plan to tax gun owners for the right to keep and bear arms could reach as high as $34 billion, according to an analysis by the Washington Free Beacon.
On the campaign trail, Biden made several promises relating to guns that he is going to have a hard time getting through Congress. Assigning liability for gun deaths to manufacturers is only the tip of the iceberg. Biden’s far-reaching program would drive online gun retailers out of business, which would include retailers selling gun supplies. It would force owners of AR-15s and other similar weapons to either sell them or register them
10 favorite films
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I’ve been trying to catch up on reading I skipped in my favorite college courses and revisiting favorite films from years past. I thought just for the fun of it I would serve up my list of 10 favorite films as they occur to me today. When I ran it by a close friend this past Saturday, his only comment was: “How old are you?” Good question! I serve it up in the hope that it might give readers a lead or two.
1. Cool Hand Luke: Paul Newman is the existential hero of this incredibly audacious, funny, and moving film that is also full of great lines.
Rules For Us and Rules For Them
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Of all the quotable lines in George Orwell’s Animal Farm, few resonate as much as this one: “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” That was, of course, the proclamation of the pigs who controlled the government, lest any of the lesser species harbor grandiose notions about their place in the barnyard’s pecking order. That quotation has been referred to often in recent days after Gov. Gavin Newsom — fresh off of issuing a new set of edicts admonishing Californians to dine alone at home and curtail their Thanksgiving celebrations — was caught dining with his wife and 10 other friends at a birthday party
“We’ll always have Paris,” runs the classic line from “Casablanca,” and it might as well serve as one of the Biden-Harris administration’s central mantras. Joe Biden promises to aggressively combat climate change, starting by rejoining the Paris Agreement, which Team Trump ditched to the horror of the global cognoscenti.
That’s not a good thing.
In 2015, the Obama administration entered the Paris Agreement. Unlike treaties, which must be ratified by the US Senate, the Paris Agreement is “voluntary”: Each signatory nation vows to reduce its greenhouse-gas emissions sometime in the future.
With Kamala Harris leaving the Senate, Gov. Gavin Newsom will now have to pick a replacement to fill out the remainder of her term. Already, two far left groups are in public disagreement over who should take that spot. Justice Democrats is a progressive group co-founded by Cenk Uygur and AOC’s former Chief of Staff Saikat Chakrabarti among others. The group is already expressing its excitement over the possibility that Rep. Ro Khanna, an ally of AOC, is being discussed as a possible replacement for Harris.
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. – Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer took legal action Friday to shut down a pipeline that carries oil beneath a channel that links two of the Great Lakes.
Whitmer’s office notified the Canadian company that it was revoking an easement granted in 1953 to extend a roughly 4-mile (6.4-kilometer) section of the pipeline through the Straits of Mackinac. The revocation will take effect within 180 days, at which point the flow of oil must stop. The Democratic governor’s legal counsel said in a letter to Enbridge that the revocation resulted from “a violation of the public trust doctrine” and “a longstanding, persistent pattern of noncompliance
If half of what L Lin Wood shares within this interview actually happens there are going to be explosive developments to surface in the 2020 election challenge. It is difficult to encapsulate the content of this interview and I would strongly suggest listening to it carefully. If L Lin Wood is correct, it would reconcile why the media and Big Tech are positioning their recent efforts as a zero-sum game.
A number of classic novels that have long been a staple of school curriculum have been axed from California’s Burbank County because of concerns about racism.
“Until further notice, teachers in the area will not be able to include on their curriculum Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, Theodore Taylor’s The Cay and Mildred D. Taylor’s Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry,” Newsweek confirmed late last week.
Four parents, three of them reportedly black, complained that the novels posed “potential harm” to the Burbank Unified School District’s 400 black students.
Actress Gina Carano found out real quick that dissent from the prescribed liberal narrative simply is not tolerated in post-Obama America.
The star of “Star Wars: The Mandalorian” took to Twitter over the weekend to share apparent concerns about Democratic leaders opposing efforts to ensure transparency in the electoral process.
This was not the first time Carano has commented on the 2020 election, which has been marred by claims of fraud from President Trump’s campaign. The reaction from the media — which is little more than an extension of the Democratic Party these days — has been to shut down any such talk
In dramatic reversal, Wayne County
election board Republicans rescind votes
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election board Republicans rescind votes
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In an extraordinary turnabout that foreshadows possible legal action, the two GOP members of Wayne County's election board signed affidavits Wednesday night alleging they were bullied and misled into approving election results in Michigan's largest metropolis and do not believe the votes should be certified until serious irregularities in Detroit votes are resolved. The statements by Wayne County Board of Canvassers Chairwoman Monica Palmer and fellow GOP member William C. Hartmann rescinding their votes from a day earlier threw into question anew whether Michigan's presidential vote currently favoring Democrat Joe Biden will be certified. They also signaled a possible legal confrontation ahead.