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The great architect Daniel Burnham is reported to have said, “Make no little plans, they have no magic to stir men’s blood.” These words are hardly surprising coming from a man famous for being one of the first to develop skyscrapers. He is right. A large, ambitious plan can inspire us and spur us on to action. One of the Old Testament’s most commonly cited verses is Jeremiah 29:11: “For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.” In fact, I have...

Pulling the Plug on Democrats’ Life Support The Democrats’ walls are not closing in—they are crumbling. And they are about to be overrun by the fierce army of the president’s millions of supporters. Conrad Black - February 3rd, 2020 On Wednesday the Democratic Party is scheduled to be removed from the life support system that has sustained it these past four years: the fraudulently and almost certainly illegally confected condition of Donald Trump being under a legal and ethical cloud. The wild aspersions about financial chicanery, misogyny, racism, rank ignorance, and incompetence, and the monstrous canard about “treason” with Russia,...

Baltimore County residents' have had their perceptions about where their glass ends up shattered. Over the weekend, news broke that the county—which does not include the City of Baltimore—has not been recycling the glass it's been collecting as part of its recycling program. For the past seven years, the jars and bottles that residents dutifully placed in their blue bins have been being junked instead. "There are numerous issues with glass recycling, including increased presence of shredded paper in recycling streams which contaminates materials and is difficult to separate from broken glass fragments, in addition to other limitations on providing...

CENSORSHIP!!! The House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis, in their lust to seize power and destroy industry and the economy want to shut down discussion on alternatives to CO2 being the ONLY cause of global warming. They are seeking to have YouTube to remove all content that offers alternative views on climate. Remove it all voluntarily, or we’ll make you remove it under rules you really won’t like! Do what we say or you die. This is what The House is up to while everyone is watching the shiny thing happening in The Senate. This guy, Ben Davidson, has...

During the Fox News Channel’s 2020 Iowa caucus coverage, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) said that if 2020 Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden had won the Iowa caucuses, “we probably would have some results right now.” And that “if we’d have gotten these results, Joe Biden might have gotten out of the race tonight.” Gaetz said, “I mean, everyone from the Trump campaign that was out in these precincts got reports as to what was going on in the rooms with the Democrats. We’ve heard from a lot of our colleagues that Joe Biden was failing to meet...

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- President Donald Trump's job approval rating has risen to 49%, his highest in Gallup polling since he took office in 2017.

Initially losing to Simonov’s AVS36, Tokarev's design was later retried and adopted as the SVT 38, later becoming the SVT 40 after the Finnish Winter War debacle that the Soviet Union found itself in, just prior to the Second World War. The SVT-40 saw widespread service during and after World War II. The initial reaction of the troops to this rifle was negative. Among the issues were that the rifle was too long and cumbersome, difficult to maintain, and the magazine had a tendency to fall out. In service, SVTs frequently suffered from vertical shot dispersion. The army reported that...

DW: Do you trust the official numbers of infections and deaths? Jiesi Luo*: I think there are many more infections and deaths from coronavirus than have been officially reported. When preliminary tests determine that a patient has a lung sickness, the nucleic acid test (NAT), which detects viruses, cannot always be carried out because the waiting list is too long. The patient is therefore not diagnosed. Furthermore, if someone dies from the lung sickness, and has not taken the NAT test, the fatality is not statistically registered as having been caused by the coronavirus... *Jiesi Luo (pseudonym) is a medical...

President Trump's approval rating hit 49 percent in a new Gallup poll released Tuesday, his highest mark in that poll since he took office. The poll, released on the eve of a likely Senate vote to acquit him on impeachment charges and at the outset of an election year, found 50 percent of those surveyed disapprove of Trump's job performance. Just 1 percent of respondents said they had no opinion. Trump's previous high approval rating in the Gallup poll was 46 percent, a number he reached in May after former special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation did not charge him with...

Here's hoping 2020 is the best year yet!! President Trump should take the win in the Senate trial without dragging it out, then concentrate on winning the 2020 election with wide coattails, then bide his time as the cases against the various coup plotters wind their way through the justice system. Win the election, hold the senate, take back the house!! And then continue the work of making America great again: Build the wall, enforce the law, deport them all!! End DACA!! End sanctuary cities!! End anchor babies!! Continue cutting regulations, cutting government, cutting spending and cutting taxes!! Continue negotiating...

As was Sir Winston Churchill in the dark days of 1940, only Rush was there at first... the 1% standing alone against the onslaught of overwhelming and hostile Leftist media. Every attempt to ruin him has failed... Truth does that to lie... so lie HATES Truth and demands its destruction... as even 1% Truth terrifies 100% LIE!!! Oh Rush... you started a revolution! I recall the Book of Esther... Haman the kings Prime Minister, had 99% bow in submission to him... save one small Jewish guy, Mordecai, who bowed only to God! This sent Haman into RAGE (as Rush did...

I'm posting this mainly so one can see the look on Schmucky Todd's face(2 shots), starting at the :22 mark. PRICELESS!!!!

For the first time ever, there are FOUR trillion-dollar companies in the US. Their acronym is MAGA... Microsoft Apple Google Amazon I’ll just sit back and enjoy the comments about this.

MIAMI, FL—Super Bowl organizers were really worried about the risk of a wardrobe malfunction for the 2020 halftime show. Previous errors have caused millions to be exposed to terrible things like nudity, cursing, and The Black-Eyed Peas for the first time. Instead of risking a wardrobe malfunction this year, event planners decided to eliminate most of the singers' wardrobes. "We didn't want to risk someone's shirt or pants falling off, so we just got rid of the shirt and pants," said one choreographer. "You can't have a wardrobe malfunction without a wardrobe. It's a genius plan." In another major precaution,...

Whispers among members of the Democratic National Committee suggest there is growing anxiety about the rise of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders. Roughly half a dozen DNC members have quietly discussed reversing historic reforms that reduced the outsize influence of unpledged delegates, known as superdelegates, before the party picks its nominees for president and vice president this summer, according to Politico. The presidential primary of 2016 left Democrats bitterly divided, as liberal supporters of Sanders asserted superdelegates gave Hillary Clinton an unfair advantage. In August 2018, the DNC passed a measure to block superdelegates, which comprise elected officials and party leaders,...

A hot mic moment appeared to capture an NBC News panelist trashing the Iowa caucuses Monday evening after technical issues forced a massive delay in results. An issue with the phone application used to report results caused the delay, according to multiple reports. As of Tuesday morning, the results were still not in. “Oh my god, what an f-ing disaster,” someone appearing to be an NBC panelist could be heard in the background during the live segment Monday as the issue unfolded. VIDEO AT LINK..................... NBC News did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Daily Caller....

McALLEN, Texas — As Washington, D.C., was navigating impeachment drama on a recent Tuesday, giant diggers along the Rio Grande were moving around mountains of dirt, continuing to add new sections to a wall along the southern border.Several of us stood watching in the gusty south Texas wind as the cement was poured and looming steel bollards were snapped into place. The new construction was creeping slowly toward its older counterpart, the section of wall built following the passage of the Secure Fence Act in 2006.Influx Affects American Landowners Near the Border As I chatted with the Border Patrol agents...

The newest of these was a little unusual because it was based on a pre-print of a real scientific paper, (since removed just a few hours ago) uploaded to website bioRxiv, where scientists can present their completed, or near-completed studies, prior to peer-review by other scientists. The work, by a group based in India, was entitled “Uncanny similarity of unique inserts in the 2019-nCoV spike protein to HIV-1 gp120 and Gag.”

The U.K. is clamping down on the release of convicted terrorists after a Sunday incident involving a recently released Islamic militant who is stabbed two people in south London. U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has pledged to implement increased restrictions after the attack last weekend and November’s London Bridge stabbing that resulted in two deaths. He said the November attack has already prompted government efforts “to strengthen every element of our response to terrorism — including longer prison sentences and more money for the police,” Reuters reported. Johnson’s interior minister, Priti Patel, who manages police, said the government expects to...

Just because the Senate is about to acquit President Trump of charges Republicans believed never rose to the level of "high crimes and misdemeanors," don't think Democrats will raise the white flag of surrender. They (and their media allies) have only just begun. Next is a campaign to defeat enough of the 23 Republican senators up for re-election and, if possible (it doesn't look possible, but this is February), keep President Trump from winning re-election. Democrats have virtually no issues on which to run, except the promise of free stuff -- from Elizabeth Warren's student loan forgiveness plan, which does...