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They’re the people Hillary Clinton called deplorable.  They’re the people Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg call racist.  They’re the people CNN’s Don Lemon and Republican strategist Rick Wilson laugh at and name-call like mean high school girls on national television.  They are the reason for Trump rallies. Tens of thousands of people gathered in Southern New Jersey this week to see President Donald Trump in person.  Americans the political professionals and pampered media-types loathe.   Average, middle-class citizens who work hard and love their county shouldn’t be something to mock, but this is where we are.Do their critics ever take...

Trump Attorney Patrick Philbin NUKES Schiff For Making Up Bogus Charges of Bribery and Extortion Against Trump on Senate Floor (VIDEO) Cristina Laila by Cristina Laila January 29, 2020 141 Comments Patrick Philbin President Trump’s deputy counsel Patrick Philbin nuked serial liar Adam Schiff on Wednesday for making up bogus charges against President Trump on the Senate floor. Schiff is no match for Trump’s defense team. Mr. Philbin is brilliant and has been able to dismantle the Dems’ shampeachment while barely even looking at his notes. Impressive. Schiff smeared President Trump with allegations of bribery and extortion even though none...

Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words Official Trailer 2 Coming to select theaters January 31st 2020 See if it's playing near you -- http://www.justicethomasmovie.com/#al... Although Clarence Thomas remains a controversial figure, loved by some, reviled by others, few know much more than a few headlines and the recollections of his contentious confirmation battle with Anita Hill. With unprecedented access, the producers interviewed Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife, Virginia, for over 30 hours of interview time, over many months. Justice Thomas tells his entire life’s story, looking directly at the camera, speaking frankly to the audience. After a...

Today’s CG is from yesterday’s Arkansas Gazette, and it's a goodon'. Before you get started, take a deep breath, look at the name of the author for a bit, esp the second word of the name…which should give you the last name, start your timer, and then you should be off to the races. Everyone should get this under 3 minutes, and most under 2. NAHIW WDUZNP IAH ZJW RJZH CF UVGSOPH, CSW CF I PHAUHP JY PVIOO WDUZNP CAJSNDW WJNHWDHA. --QUZEHZW QIZ NJND You can find this little fun word game, to combat early dementia and senility in us...

“I neither learned wisdom, nor have the knowledge of the holy” (Proverbs 30:3).

I’ve always believed sunlight is the best disinfectant. If the Senate insists on making President Trump’s impeachment trial an even bigger circus by calling additional witnesses, then let’s call all the witnesses. Because this is about much more than President Trump; this is about who runs the country – the American voters, or the Washington Establishment. The Democrats, the Never-Trump Republicans, the anti-Trump media, the administrative state, the permanent bureaucracy and the special interest groups still haven’t gotten over the 2016 election. They are horrified at the prospect that American voters could reelect Trump in November. Let the American people...

Thousands Trapped In Italian Cruise Ship Over Feared Coronavirus Cases The outbreak of coronavirus has caused global alarm. Civitavecchia, Italy: Over 6,000 tourists were blocked on a cruise ship in Italy on Thursday after the vast liner was placed on lockdown over two suspected cases of the deadly coronavirus. Samples from a Chinese couple were sent for testing after three doctors and a nurse boarded the Costa Crociere ship in the port of Civitavecchia to tend to a woman running a fever, the local health authorities said. Costa Crociere confirmed the ship, carrying some 7,000 people including the crew, was...

Three days ago, the Chinese government reported 1,771 new cases. That was a surge from the previous day, when they reported 769 new cases. So, when the number of new cases fell two days ago to 1,459, it seemed that perhaps that surge was perhaps an artifact of reporting. For instance, maybe some sources had been quicker in reporting new cases than they had been previously. But they yesterday, the number of new cases remained below that peak, 1,732. Clearly, the epidemic still represents a grave threat. It would be insane to declare the crisis over. But since the news...

In response to potential health risks; and anticipating multiple agency aspects of the U.S. government would need a unified approach; President Trump has assembled a unified task force to coordinate all response efforts across the totality of government. President Donald J. Trump announced the formation of the President’s Coronavirus Task Force. Members of the Task Force have been meeting on a daily basis since Monday. At today’s meeting, which the President chaired, he charged the Task Force with leading the United States Government response to the novel 2019 coronavirus and with keeping him apprised of developments.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The nation's oldest civil rights organization endorsed an Ohio ballot initiative Wednesday that is aimed at streamlining the state's voting process.

President Donald J. Trump, joined by Vice President Mike Pence and U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, delivers remarks at the signing ceremony for the United States-Mexico-Canada Trade Agreement Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2020, in front of the South Portico of the White House.

In the U.S., the CDC is reporting five confirmed cases from these states: Washington, Illinois, California and Arizona. On Monday, Jan. 27, Nancy Messonnier, MD, Director of the agency's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, said it had 165 persons under investigation for coronavirus from 36 states. In addition to the 5 confirmed positive, 68 have tested negative. They are prioritizing the testing based on a personÂ’s risk. Messonnier said they had posted the blueprints for their diagnostic test on a public server and were working "as fast as we can" to get test kits out to states. Right...

Sidney Powell has the corrupt DOJ lawyers on their heels. – Some big developments took place in the case involving the coerced guilty plea by General Michael Flynn on Wednesday, as both sides made a series of key filings with the court. First, General Flynn filed a motion to dismiss the case entirely, citing an array of government misconduct that is backed up by overwhelming documentary evidence. Second, General Flynn filed a declaration requesting the court allow him to remove his plea of guilty entirely, citing misleading statements and document revisions by the FBI agents who performed the January, 2017...

BREAKING: Deputy Trump counsel Philbin just told the Senate the "whistleblower" may have had a "conflict of interest" in filing his complaint, because he may have been involved in decisions on Biden & Burisma & may have had a "reason to deep-six" a rekindled Ukraine investigation

Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts blocked Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul from posing a question during the Senate impeachment trial Wednesday that would have named the alleged whistleblower at the center of the case, Fox News is told — and Paul may try to force the issue during the question-and-answer session that begins Thursday afternoon.

During President Donald J. Trump's impeachment trial, we'll hear a lot of talk about our rules for governing. One frequent claim is that our nation is a democracy. If we've become a democracy, it would represent a deep betrayal of our founders, who saw democracy as another form of tyranny. In fact, the word democracy appears nowhere in our nation's two most fundamental documents, the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution. The founders laid the ground rules for a republic as written in the Constitution's Article IV, Section 4, which guarantees "to every State in this Union a Republican...

(PLA Lieutenant Ye was charged in federal indictments Tuesday, along Dr. Charles Lieber (pictured in Wuhan in 2011), chairman of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University.) A Chinese People’s Liberation Army lieutenant spied on the United States while doing “research” on a J-1 visa at a Massachusetts University. Yanqing Ye, a PLA officer with ties to the Chinese Communist Party, was one of three individuals indicted with aiding China and hiding connections. Others caught in the indictment include Dr. Charles Lieber, chairman of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University, and Chinese national...

A trans female Virginia delegate, who was biologically born a male, got an arm tattoo of the first 24 words of the Equal Rights Amendment. Democratic Manassas, Virginia, Del. Danica Roem tweeted a picture Wednesday showing Roem smiling with an arm tattoo of the words “Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.”

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