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The day before yesterday on NBC News, former host of “Meet the Press” Chuck Todd castigated the management of his network during a live broadcast. Todd’s grouse? NBC’s hiring of former Republican National Committee chairwoman Ronna McDaniel: “Let me deal with the elephant in the room. I think our bosses owe you an apology for putting you in this situation,” whined the sanctimonious Todd as he launched into a minute-long rant. “Look, there’s a reason why there’s a lot of journalists at NBC News uncomfortable with this because many of our professional dealings with the RNC over the six years...

Second first lady for prezBiden won’t debate. Can’t. Our codger-in-chief can’t even read the prewritten script in front of him fast enough to pronounce the words. So, forget him — which most of us already have. ..... Plans are to grab Michelle for the Democratic presidency choice. Making the music is Barack the orchestra leader.Michelle says she’s “terrified” Trump will win. No casual burp. Was programmed. She’s sent a survey to Dem biggies asking their feelings about her candidacy. Obama’s quietly angling for Joe to go. He’s weaseled up to this for a few weeks. Mouths aren’t talking. But mouths...

Donald Trump just clinched it with a couple of comments which have been reported since tonight's townhall. "It's not Me, It's Us."This struck me like a hammer. BOOM ! It's a winning campaign theme which 1) deflates the narcissistic meme and 2) pulls everyone in who smells the rat, realizing that DjT is truly on our side. "I'll only be a dictator on Day 1"In other words: the insanity stops now !

What do we know ? AP fact checks it as false. https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-pelosi-insurrection-foia-epps-961838772892 Snopes fact checks as false: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/nancy-pelosi-ray-epps-phone-jan-6/ Neither are to trusted. Both claim FOIA does not apply to congress persons.

Goalkeeper Arne Espeel has tragically died during a match while playing for Belgian side Winkel Sport B. The ‘keeper pulled off the save and then dropped to the ground, with emergency services running onto the pitch and using a defibrillator to try and save him.

As it becomes more likely Pennsylvania senatorial candidate John Fetterman may not be able to continue his campaign as he tries to recover from stroke, PA democrats are beginning to whisper that perhaps Fetterman is not up to the job as he has great difficulty putting together a cognitive sentence. The question, then, is what do PA dems do to replace Fetterman ? Do they wait to see if he recovers sufficiently ?....or pull the plug soon in the event a replacement is in place with time to campaign. We're reminded that neighboring Jersey simply plugged in a retired senator...

As an offshoot of CNBC’s America’s Top States for Business 2022 study, the news outlet also compiled a list of the worst states to live in. At the bottom of the list was Arizona, with the report calling the state the worst place to reside in the United States in 2022. These are the 10 worst states to live in right now, according to a new report Methodology: CNBC’s report looked at factors such as health care, crime rates, environmental quality and child care. It also took into consideration inclusiveness and protection against discrimination. Why Arizona? The American Lung Association...

....But if you strain your ears and concentrate really, really hard, you can detect a separate faint murmur of concern. Some of those on the right, who have been getting through the disaster that is the Biden administration by looking forward to the absolute bloodbath the 2022 midterms promise to be, are quietly voicing their fear that Roe v. Wade being overturned will energize the Left and hand the midterms over to the Democrats. No worries — Athena is here to allay your fears. Without further preamble, here are the factors which will blunt the political blowback that conventional wisdom...

The politically insane plan to divert resources away from the Veterans Administration to care for illegal immigrants ..... ....But it’s not insane if the end game is to “fundamentally transform” the country in such a way that it can’t be reversed, and politics will no longer play the same role. Once geopolitical alliances and relationships have been altered as they’re being since Obama’s first term and now on steroids; Once 4 years of an open border with possible 6-10 million illegal immigrants flood in and alter demographics and domestic policy including drugs, crime, welfare, education, housing, and of course voting;...

According to the Canadian financial blog Armstrong Economics, the emergency powers activated by Justin Trudeau to cripple the trucker protests have sparked panic among citizens, which could lead to a devastating financial crisis. On Feb. 14, Trudeau enacted the Emergencies Act, which enabled Canadian banks to freeze the assets of anyone who donated to protests against the vaccine mandates — without due process or any court action. Trudeau then ordered the banks to unfreeze the accounts after the protesters had been cleared away. But what is reported to have happened after that is being ignored by the corporate press. Armstrong...

Progressive firebrand Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan will be delivering a response to President Biden’s State of the Union address next week. Tlaib, a member of the so-called "Squad" of progressive and diverse Democratic lawmakers in Congress, will give her address on behalf of the left-wing Workers Families Party, the group announced on Wednesday. Tlaib, a two-term lawmaker who made history as the first woman of Palestinian descent in Congress, represents a congressional district that includes parts of Detroit and its inner suburbs. She is expected to praise the president’s stimulus bill and argue that liberals have pushed hard to...

Just heard on ABC radio. Democrats planning a Trojan Horse to pass the Voting Rights legislation by avoiding filibuster procedures. As best as I can explain it, Ds plan to remove a provision from an unrelated piece of legislation (NASA related, iirc) and insert voting rights legislation. The radio report said if the legislation originated in the Senate, the 60 vote threshold was unneeded and could presumably move to the house.

Oops, he did it again. After leaking fake Donald Trump, Jr. emails, fabricating the transcript of a 2019 phone call between former President Donald Trump and Ukraine’s president, and lying about his interactions with the so-called whistleblower behind House Democrats’ first impeachment of Trump, Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., is now running the same con against a fellow lawmaker. During a hearing Monday night on the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, Adam Schiff claimed to have proof that a member of Congress texted former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows to instruct former Vice President Mike...

It is time to embrace what Thomas Jefferson called the “rightful remedy” for all federal usurpation of states’ domain: nullification

Given Joe Biden’s affinity for firing off executive orders as fast as they’re shoved in front of him — along with accompanying index cards that he’s supposed to read aloud so both he and the rest of us can know what he’s signing — the question of “constitutional” — or the lack thereof — is increasingly under debate, and with good reason.

...Georgia election officials scanned the same batch of ballots five different times in a row in Fulton County, Georgia at State Farm Arena on November 3, 2020....

For too long, mayors and governors and health officials across the country have overstepped their authority. Time to ignore them. By now it should be obvious that elected state and local officials issuing COVID-19 lockdown and stay-at-home orders are just making things up as they go along.Too often, their edicts aren’t based on science or data, but on a grotesque understanding of their own authority and infallibility. In the face of a worsening pandemic, they want to be seen doing something, taking bold action to stop the spread of the virus—that is, so long as it doesn’t hurt certain favored...

...a “data scientist” found a huge surge of incomplete voter registrations and those giving casinos and temporary RV parks as “their home or mailing addresses" in CD3 / Clark County/ Las Vegas The expert... said .....there was an “historically strange” jump in voter registrations missing the sex and age of the voter. 74% of the incomplete registrations took place between July and September this year. “This investigation found over 13K voters whose voter registration information revealed no sex or date of birth.... we cannot verify whether these voters are old enough to vote.... very strange that there were very, very...

(November 25, 2020, 12:18 PM EST) — A Pennsylvania judge has ordered the state to temporarily pause further action on certifying its 2020 election results until Friday, when her court will hold a hearing on a lawsuit seeking to declare all mail-in votes in the Keystone State unconstitutional. Commonwealth Court Judge Patricia A. McCullough entered a preliminary order Wednesday granting an evidentiary hearing on a lawsuit brought by Republican Congress member Mike Kelly, candidates Sean Parnell and Wanda Logan and five additional voters, who say Pennsylvania’s October 2019 expansion of “no-excuse” mail-in voting violated the state constitution’s limits on who...

The national conservative group Amistad Project filed an emergency petition Tuesday with the Wisconsin Supreme Court challenging the state’s unofficial results in the 2020 presidential election, saying it has identified over 150,000 potentially fraudulent ballots. Results from the Nov. 3 balloting in the state show Democratic candidate Joe Biden defeated President Trump by a roughly 20,000-vote margin. Phill Kline, director of the Amistad Project of the Thomas More Society, said the number of potentially fraudulent ballots identified are “more than enough to call into question the validity of the state’s reported election results.” “Moreover, these discrepancies were a direct result...