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The NYT is whining about a new tv spot out today that's sounds pretty brutal, questioning whether Biden can survive a new term. It's running all day including on the lib networks. If anybody has a link I need to see it!

Orange County Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Ferguson has been charged with murder in the shooting death of his wife. Soon after pulling a handgun from his ankle holster and fatally shooting his wife, prosecutors say, Orange County Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Ferguson alerted his staff that he wouldn’t be taking the bench at the Fullerton courthouse to handle the next day’s calendar. “I just lost it. I just shot my wife. I won’t be in tomorrow. I will be in custody. I’m so sorry,” the judge texted his clerk and bailiff, according to documents filed late Thursday by the Orange...

From the article: Perhaps sharing more than his wife might prefer, the president confided that Mrs. Biden insists he combat the effects of age in other ways. “She gets very upset if I have not fully shaven, all this excessive amount of hair I have,” he said. “You know what I mean?”

If something big hit the fan right now, would Biden be up for it? I assume he's either back or on his way back from the Middle East and he's probably unconscious. I remember Trump doing random press conferences on the WH lawn on any given day at any given time, day or night, seven days a week. The press seems to just take the weekend off now and not cover any news on Biden, presumably because he's out of it. The question remains, is Biden up for it if something serious goes down after hours?

For those, like me, who find it difficult to follow the progress of the Russian invasion as reported in MSM of all stripes:www.understandingwar.org

The investigation by the DHS into the September incident with Border Patrol agents on horseback was said to take "days." Well it's now "months" and no word. Where is Secretary Mayorkas on this? What's the status of the reassigned BP agents who are "going to pay"? I really want to see this garbage report.

The investigation by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) into the September incident with Border Patrol agents on horseback has yet to conclude despite initial assurances from the Biden administration that it would take "days." "The investigation is ongoing. The Department is committed to a thorough, independent, and objective process. We are also committed to transparency and will release the results of the investigation once it is complete," a spokesperson for DHS wrote in a Saturday email, according to The Washington Examiner. Photographs went viral in September depicting horse patrol agents deterring Haitian migrants attempting to cross into the United...

The transformation from phony "objectivity" to open one-party orthodoxy hasn't been an improvement. I collect Soviet newspapers. Years ago, I used to travel to Moscow’s Izmailovsky flea market every few weeks, hooking up with a dealer who crisscrossed the country digging up front pages from the Cold War era. I have Izvestia’s celebration of Gagarin’s flight, a Pravda account of a 1938 show trial, even an ancient copy of Ogonyek with Trotsky on the cover that someone must have taken a risk to keep. These relics, with dramatic block fonts and red highlights, are cool pieces of history. Not so...

When the news came Sunday night that Barbara Keating died at 82 following a stroke, there was sadness among conservatives on both the East and West Coasts. As the U.S. Senate nominee of the insurgent New York Conservative Party in 1974, Keating, a widow and mother of five, impressed audiences with her speaking style and no-holds-barred conservative stands on issues. On a shoe-string budget and with an almost exclusively volunteer campaign, she drew 16% of the vote and held veteran liberal GOP Sen. Jacob Javits to a career-low 45% in his reelection. By 1992, having relocated to Northern California and...

During the Gold Rush era it celebrates, the owners of Columbia Booksellers & Variety Store might settle their disputes with dueling pistols at dawn. But today, non-firing replicas of the very kinds of guns that would have been brandished during that time period appear to be at the center of a dispute between the small locally owned Tuolumne County shop and major San Francisco tech company Square, Inc. The store had to close both its physical location in Columbia State Historic Park and its online website sales due to the tech giant abruptly canceling its contract earlier this week. Now...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA - Secular elite are blasting a California priest for his traditional presentation of the Catholic faith. San Francisco mayor London Breed and Bay Area media are excoriating Fr. Joseph Illo, pastor of Star of the Sea parish in San Francisco, for encouraging his parishioners to attend Holy Mass — safely — during the California shutdown. Late last week, media source SFist accused Fr. Illo of making "a number of outrageously irresponsible statements that sound like they came from Fox News." One statement SFist found "outrageously irresponsible" was the priest's empirical observation that among the "thousands of people"...

Maybe we're a little obsessed?

After a night of watching coverage, including Fox News, that seemed to paint the Democratic primary in New Hampshire as the only primary held tonight and clearly holding that the winner of that primary would surely be our next President, I did a little research of my own: Unopposed Incuments in New Hampshire Presidential Primary NH Primary Votes Cast 2020 Trump 120,476* 2012 Obama 49,080 2004 Bush 53,962 1996 Clinton 76,797 1992 Bush 92,271 *87% Reporting

WASHINGTON - Republicans adopted a new defense strategy this past week at President Donald Trump's impeachment trial in the Senate: boredom. A top White House aide called the trial "unwatchable," Trump's campaign manager compared the proceedings to watching paint dry, and several Republican senators entertained distractions while downplaying the three-day prosecution as repetitive and unexciting. "They're really not bringing forth new information," Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., said of the House impeachment managers Friday. "I've not heard anything new," added Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla. Barrasso and Scott were among 53 Republican senators who voted 10 times last week to block new...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran's judiciary said Tuesday arrests have been made over the accidental shootdown of a Ukrainian passenger plane that killed all 176 people on board just after takeoff from Tehran. The announcement came shortly after Iran's president called for a special court to be set up to probe the downing last week of the plane by Iranian forces. Judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Esmaili was quoted by Iranian state media saying that "extensive investigations have taken place and some individuals are arrested. He did not say how many individuals have been detained or name them. Iran, which initially...

The story of that week, and the secret planning in the months preceding it, ranks as the most perilous chapter so far in President Trump’s three years in office.

TIKRIT, Iraq (Reuters) - Two Katyusha rockets fell inside Iraq’s Balad air base, 80 km (50 miles) north of Baghdad, which houses U.S. forces on Saturday but caused no casualties, two security sources told Reuters.

Knab, Charles I. (Bo) 84 Oct. 26 to 1929 Feb. 28, 2014 Charles I. (Bo) Knab was born in Eureka, Calif., Oct. 26, 1929 to George and May Elizabeth Knab. Bo's father was in the Redwood business and was transferred to Chicago in 1935. Bo's parents were divorced a year later. Bo always said how lucky he was that his mother's sister lived in Portland. In an epic road trip from Chicago Bo's mom moved Bo and his brother George to Portland in 1936 in 1931 Auburn. While attending Ockley Green in 1936-37 Bo and his brother George during the...

December 18, 1912 - Great Britain -Piltdown Man The so called Piltdown Man thought to be the missing evolutionary link between ape and man is discovered in the Piltdown gravel pit in Sussex, England, by amateur archaeologist Charles Dawson. In 1953, at an international congress of paleontologists, the Piltdown Man was first openly called a fraud, and it has since been confirmed that it was indeed a fraud made up of skull parts from humans and an orangutan. December 18, 1966 - U.S.A. - How the Grinch Stole Christmas The popular Dr. Seuss' book "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" is...

More than 20 speakers, many of them immigration activists, urged the Stanislaus County Sheriff’s Department to stop cooperating with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. In addition, they called for county leaders to build trust with immigrants by passing an ordinance to prevent voluntary interaction between the sheriff’s department and the federal agency that’s regarded by critics as President Donald Trump’s tool for deporting undocumented people and appealing to anti-immigrant voters. The county Board of Supervisors heard the comments Tuesday during an annual report and “forum” on sheriff’s department assistance for the federal agency. Unlike large counties such as Los...