Clay Travis reports on the latest effort by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis to determine the degree to which U.S. federal agencies and COVID vaccine drug manufacturers went to deceive the American public.
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(11/12/22)
President Trump has been receiving lots of advice following Tuesday's mid-term election results. I hope he heeds it. Most notably Mr. Trump decided to launch attacks against Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who cruised to a huge victory, and Virginia Governor Glen Youngkin. For whatever reason Mr. Trump decided that the days following an election that did not live up to Republican expectations, except for Florida, that it was time to inject himself in the spotlight. Of all the commentaries and analysis following Mr. Trump's statments,
this view by Townhall's Mark Lewis most closely aligns with my view of the situation. I, too, am an ardent Trump supporter ... but ...
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(11/5/22)
You probably heard about a professor who wrote an article for the Atlantic Magazine in which she calls for a "COVID Amnesty" for those who supported lockdowns during the Coronavirus pandemic. The response has been a furious "Hell No." And rightly so. These people haven't apologized for the panic and havoc they fomented for nearly two years. What's scary is they're more than willing to do it again. What's the argument for amnesty? The answer from the tyrants is "We meant well." Sorry (not sorry), that doesn't cut it. These people ruined lives, literally. Kids have been set back years in their development. Businesses were put out of business. Workers were put out of work.
Andrew Miller at Townhall captures some of the sentiment in the response to the call for amnesty.
Brown University Economics Professor Emily Oster's attempt to make the case that supporters of lockdown measures "didn't know" that cloth masks were not effective, outdoor transmission of the virus was nonexistent, and were motivated by "deep uncertainty" is missing a key point. The data showed early on, just a month into the pandemic, that the virus posed little if any risk to kids, and those truly at risk were the elderly, especially those with comorbidies (other physical conditions or chronic diseases) that made them susceptible to viruses with their compromised immune systems. No, the maskaholics, the vaccine-mandaters, the panic-peddlers caused damage that is immeasureable. They trampled rights, they encroached on liberties and freedoms, and what's most frightening is they wouldn't hesitate to do it all again. No "amnesty" until they acknowledge that were wrong, very wrong.
(10/21/22)
It's MEA week in Minnesota, the Minnesota Educators Association's annual professional development weekend that starts on a Thursday. For the educators who don't fly off to the Caribbean, or some other short vacation destination during the four-day break, there are seminars scheduled to enhance teacher skills in the classroom, supposedly. The results of past MEA efforts are in and they're not good. Student performance levels have declined across the board. This man has a message for educators and School Boards that should be welcomed in MEA seminars if they truly want to see a closing of the gaps in student performance.
Of course public school educators and administrators blame COVID for the decline, not their increased focus on diversity and equity and gender identity (confusion). It wasn't the virus that closed schools or set education agendas. School Administrators and politicians closed schools in response to a virus, a virus that posed very little threat to children. That fact was known early on, the Spring of 2020. Still, there was a concerted effort to close the schools and there has been irreparable harm done to children as a result.
(10/20/22)
Democrats/progressives/socialists seem to struggle with the concept of inflation. They appear to not know what causes it or how to deal with it. Brilliant Economist Milton Friedman can simplify it for them, if they'll listen.
(10/19/22)
Let's remind ourselves of what the "experts" were telling us about the effectiveness of the COVID "vaccines" - the healthcare professionals, the politicians, and the corporate media. As it turns out, it was all untrue - translation: lies.
And those were clips just talking about the "vaccines" preventing transmission of the virus. They don't portray the claims made about "vaccine" safety.
(10/19/22)
Thanks and appreciation should be extended to Bill Maher. It is always refreshing when a liberal is willing to state reality when confronted with blatant political spinning. What has Maher whipped up this time? It's the attempt to change what we knew and when we knew it regarding the COVID virus.
(10/19/22)
The culture war has moved to center stage with the insistence by liberals that drag shows (men dressed as women) be, not only allowed, but encouraged in public schools. So, what is a drag show? Let's see.
(10/17/22)
Let the rewriting of history begin. Well, it has been underway for some time now, especially around the history of COVID-19, how it emerged, how governments responded to it, how the "science" changed over time, and the impacts of the pandemic on economies and societies. The latest: Dr. Anthony Fauci claims he had nothing to do with schools being closed.
And yet, somehow, the schools were closed. Someone closed them. Who did that? And what did they base those closures on?
(10/15/22)
It's finally happening. More and more information is coming to light about the supposed COVID "vaccines," how they were sold to the public, how safe and effective they truly are, and the efforts that were made to suppress information that questioned all of it. Townhall's Katie Pavlich captures all of it in her report, "The Big COVID Vaccine Lie Comes Crashing Down."
Sadly, it's doubtful any, any, of the people who fomented such misinformation and misled the public will be held accountable.
(9/22/22)
Remember when President Trump was ridiculed for carefully walking down a ramp after he addressed cadets at West Point? Many on the left questioned his health at the time. Good luck finding any comments from them when President Biden, if he isn't trying to shake hands with air, is wandering off trying to figure out where he's going.
(9/20/22)
This is interesting. A video has been produced that provides the history that created the "Climate Change Rhetoric" - from "Global Warming," the fear-phrase that climate alarmists/fearmongers initially used to scare people, to the fear rhetoric of today which is "climate change."
Pointing out to the alarmists that the climate has been changing since the creation of the Earth, or that the planet has experienced much higher levels of CO2 (when vegetation thrived) is ignored.
(9/16/22)
There is a superstar emerging in Arizona. Her name is Kari Lake. She's the Republican candidate for Arizona Governor in the November election. A journalist with an agenda decided to pose a loaded question to Ms. Lake. Here's how it went.
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(9/15/22)
President Biden gave a speech a couple of weeks ago. You probably heard about it. In it he gave his views of what he called "MAGA Republicans." This video matched Biden's speech with leftist violence in America that he didn't work into his speech.
(9/5/22)
Quite a coincidence at the Minnesota State Fair. As Scott Jensen, Republican Candidate for Minnesota Governor, was speaking with WCCO TV's Esme Murphy about Governor Tim Walz's refusal to engage in more than one debate, and alleging that WCCO is complicit in helping the Governor give the illusion that he wants to debate, suddenly the feed from the fair was lost. Surely, pure coincidence. And what did WCCO run immediately following the interview? An attack ad against Jensen.
(9/5/22)
An interesting admission today. Remember John Brennan, former CIA Director? Possibly former Communist? He's on video talking about, get this, potentially seeding the atmosphere to reverse the effects of climate change. Bill Gates has made similar comments. They're talking about geoengineering the atmosphere. Instead of WEF it should be WTF?
(9/4/22)
So much to choose from today. A massive crowd in Pennsylvania last night chanted "We want Trump" (while Biden can't fill a gym); Arizona Candidate for Governor Kari Lake educated a reporter on freedom of speech; there is a devastating ad from "Citizens For Sanity" that documents the rise in crime throughout the country; and a prophetic video has surfaced from 1996 that shows David Icke predicting where we are today (scary accurate).
(9/1/22)
Bingo! An OpEd by Ari Schulman, published in the New York Times and reprinted in the Minneapolis StarTribune today, details exactly why the "Public Health Officials" in the United States have lost so much credibility.
(8/19/22)
This week the U.S. Center for Disease Control admitted the agency screwed up the country's response to the COVID pandemic. It's nice that they admitted what has been obvious to most of the country for over two years now.
TownHall's Katie Pavlich recounts the CDC's failures, the agency's unforgiveable failures.
(7/28/22)
I enjoy reading Townhall's Kurt Schlichter. He's among the few who are truly in the fight to defend the country against all enemies, foreign and domestic. Today he discusses a topic near and dear to me: Advocating for the cross-examination of the climate cultists.
(6/14/22)
As America approaches the one-year anniversary of the country's chaotic, deadly and embarrassing retreat from Afghanistan, let's remember what then-Senator and Presidential Candidate Joe Biden said in 2007 about what it would take to properly withdraw from Afghanistan.
(6/14/22)
President Trump made a number of predictions when he was on the campaign trail two years ago. How have those predictions played out?
Let's see.
Pretty spot on don't you think? Wait until history reveals how the 2020 Presidential Election was, let's say, manipulated.
(5/28/22)
Townhall's Kurt Schlichter issues a warning to milquetoast Republican lawmakers: Don't go weak-kneed in protecting 2nd Amendment rights.
If they do weaken they will surely lose their mid-term elections. He's not wrong.
(4/28/22)
Lot's of effort and pressure is being expended trying to convince Americans to buy electric vehicles (EVs). You have probably seen the non-stop ads on television. The belief is EVs will eventually be your only choice when it comes to purchasing a car or truck. Is that a good idea, to limit choices for Americans to only EVs?
Here's a story that goes behind the scenes, or should we say under the hood of an EV, to tell the whole story?
Prager University provides an excellent summary of the the environmental costs associated with"Green Energy
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(4/18/22)
Townhall's Kurt Schlichter has pin-pointed where problems exist in our public schools, and they are "our" public schools, not the misfits who have tried to take them over. Anyone seeing Tik Tok videos of "teachers" feeling a need to share their "gender identities" with Kindergartners knows what he's talking about.
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(4/10/22)
It has taken a year-and-a-half but even the liberal news media organizations the New York Times and the Washington Post have now acknowledged that what they have denied is, in fact, true. What's true? The information contained on Hunter Biden's laptop. What did emails contained on Hunter Biden's laptop reveal? Financial dealings with foreign countries, including Communist China, portions of which, 10 percent, would be given to the "Big Guy." Who is the "Big Guy"? Several Congressmen want to find out.
One of them is Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan.
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(4/9/22)
When the entire story is written about the COVID "Plannedemic" there will be a chapter dedicated to the therapeutic "Ivermectin." This potential treatment to confront the COVID-19 virus was, at first, ridiculed and attacked by liberal politicians and liberal news organizations as a "dangerous treatment that needed to be avoided." As more and more people shared stories that they had positive results from taking this treratment, the medical establishment, the pharmaceutical industry, liberal politicians, and liberal news and social media outlets conspired to mount a campaign to shutdown any discussion about the efficacy of "Ivermectin." Then, in April 2022, over two years after the emergence of COVID-19, researchers in Australia reported this.
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(4/9/22)
There's so much talk these days about the need to confront misinformation. One place to start would be the U.S. Center for Disease Control (CDC). Remember this from over a year ago from CDC Director Rochelle Walensky:
Yes, the CDC Director said COVID vaccines prevent one from contracting COVID or spreading it to others. We now know that wasn't, and isn't, true. Did any social media platform shutdown the CDC for spreading misinformation? Nope.
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(2/13/22)
It is becoming almost too much to believe. Now, Public Health officials have decided they need to withhold current COVID-19 data because it's being used as evidence to end "vaccine" mandates, mask requirements, and other COVID-related restrictions.
Apoorva Mandavilli at the New York Times has the story.
Within Ms. Mandavilli's article is this quote: "The C.D.C. is a political organization as much as it is a public health organization," said Samuel Scarpino, managing director of pathogen surveillance at the Rockefeller Foundation's Pandemic Prevention Institute. "The steps that it takes to get something like this released are often well outside of the control of many of the scientists that work at the C.D.C."
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(2/20/22)
The CDC in the U.S. isn't the only organization that has decided to withhold COVID data. It is happening in other countries. Jonathan Turley reports Scotland's Public Health community is already restricting release of the data.
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(2/13/22)
It's difficult to understand what to make of this document from the UK. Seems very important. The document contains the largest compilation of "vaccine" analysis, sources, and conclusions that I have seen. I'm posting it simply because so many social media companies are censoring, downplaying, or outright silencing all analysis and discussion that is raising questions about the structure and elements of the "vaccines" that are being injected into humans by the hundreds of millions around the world. The information suppression efforts should concern everyone.
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(1/16/22)
You may have heard there's a lot of misinformation out there about COVID-19, how it is spread, and how it should be treated. What isn't getting a lot of attention is who is spreading it. Arsenio Toledo at Truth Based Media says he knows.
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(1/11/22)
Well, this is encouraging. CNN's Jake Tapper is realizing that COVID data that has been reported has flaws and is "misleading." In this interview with Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Gupta admits the data should be handled differently. People showing up at hospitals for other conditions, such as accidents, should not be counted as COVID patients if they are asymptomatic and are seeking treatment for non-COVID-related illnesses or injuries.
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(1/9/22)
Townhall.com's Wayne Allen Root explained the potential dangers of COVID-19 "vaccines" to an ICU doctor.
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(1/9/22)
Was the Covid-19 Pandemic planned as Part of The Great Reset? A Catholic Priest says yes.
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(1/8/22)
What's spreading faster than the Omicron variant of COVID-19? Insanity. What in the world is going on? A year ago, practically the entire United States was unvaccinated. "Vaccines" had just become available in late 2020. The first half of 2021 found much of the country rushing to get vaccinated. What do the numbers show? More Americans died "with" COVID in 2021 than in 2020 when no one was "vaccinated." This situation doesn't add up.
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(1/7/22)
From the Follow Up File: The case of the disappearing pedophile case. Townhall.com's Ann Coulter asks the questions that remain unanswered following the conviction of Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein's close associate charged with trafficking underage girls.
2/21/22 - Update: Another Epstein associate found dead in a jail cell.
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(12/28/21)
When historians decades/centuries from now attempt to understand what was happening in the world in the early 2020s, specifically the United States, I hope they come across this story. It's a story of how Public Health authorities deliberately misled the public about treatments that were immediately available to combat the symptoms and dangers posed by the COVID-19 virus that had infected millions around the world. It took freelance investigative journalists to uncover the story because the mainstream media refused to get and report the facts. In fact, the media in many respects contributed to the ruse and were complicit in squashing stories challenging the accepted government narrative. Here's the story titled, "A Myth is Born: How CDC, FDA, and Media Wove a Web of Ivermectin Lies That Outlives The Truth":
Let's see how long the story stays up until it is censored.
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(10/28/21)
Would you like to hear a federal government bureaucrat who is unable to speak a simple truth? There are probably many examples out there but this one in particular shows just how bad it can be. Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst asked DoD Under Secretary for Policy, Dr. Colin Kahl, a straight forward question about Americans left behind in Afghanistan. Dr. Kahl was unable to admit the obvious. So, Sen. Ernst turned to Lieutenant General James Mingus of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who was seated beside Dr. Kahl, and asked him the same question which he answered directly. Watch. These political appointees are obfuscating and deliberately misleading the American people about what was done leading up to, and the aftermath, of the United States "retrograde" (Translation: Retreat) from Afghanistan.
This is what our elected officials have to put up with in trying to manage our unelected bureaucracy in Washington, D.C. They are unaccountable, they believe they can stonewall, obfuscate, and give, at times, outright false testimony. This will not end until people lose their jobs when they engage in this type of behavior.
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(9/23/21)
Some people have pointed out I sure don't post things very often. Right, I don't. The reason? There's too much crap disseminated everyday by people on "the tech giants" who have very little or nothing of value to say. So, I want to limit my posts to the things that are of value, or to matters that people should be paying attention to. Today is one of those days. This issue came to light today and Americans should find it appalling. The Epoch Times carries the headline the
"Biden Administration 'Strongly Opposes' Honorable Discharge for Troops Who Refuse COVID-19 Vaccine'."
How awful. Truly disgusting. People who have volunteered to protect and defend this country are facing the loss of veterans benefits if they resign/quit instead of receiving vaccinations they don't want. This nonsense has to stop.
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(9/23/21)
Twitchy lays out in pretty clear terms the problems the conservative base of the Republican Party has with the "NeverTrump" cabal. We view the Biden Administration as a total failure, which we predicted, and there's a group of alleged Republicans that are fine with it: 'You ALL own this crapfest': MERCILESS thread takes holier-than-thou #NeverTrump APART for giving us President Biden"
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(7/15/21)
We were confident documented evidence of massive voter fraud during the 2020 General Election would emerge eventually. According to Tucker Carlson of Fox News, it has.
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(6/22/21)
"Critical Race Theory" is much in the news these days. What's really needed, however, is not theory but actual "Critical Race History," and Townhall's Cal Thomas provides it in this commentary titled, "Democrats need a day of atonement."
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(6/8/21)
I would like to see the "professional educators" in the country debate
Dennis Prager about what he says we need to do to Retake America." It starts by taking our kids back from them.
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(6/8/21)
More garbage "reporting" from the StarTribune this morning. They would have us believe CO2 levels are rising faster than EVER." EVER! Well, since the late-1800s ... which is EVER. These headlines are so ridiculous and dishonest. FACT: CO2 levels are far less than 10% what they once were on Earth. Far less. Fact check it. What's embarrassing is that these "reports" go unchallenged and taken as fact. They're not. They are sensationalized to keep climate-alarmism going. Few climate scientists question whether it's a good idea to place CO2 monitoring equipment on the top of a volcano.
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(6/1/21)
This should scare every American, but it won't because most Americans will be kept in the dark about the social engineering that is underway in the U.S. military. Some of us, retired military, are following it. Richard Berg (Pen Name) has an article printed in National Review magazine that outlines the dangers ahead.
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(5/29/21)
Today's StarTribune includes a commentary from Sandy Lewandowsky, the Superintendent of Plymouth (MN) School District 287. It carries the headline "The Kids Need Help." Yes, they do. And who is to blame for that? I'll tell you who - she is, and all of the other Democrats who kept kids out of school for the past year. It's Democrats who ignored the science that kids were the age group least affected by COVID. Democrats will claim they were "saving lives." Did they? We're just seeing the statistics showing soaring suicide rates, especially among the kids, soaring rates of depression, chemical dependency, and bankruptcies over the past year. I know Democrats believe they shouldn't face political consequences, or pay a political price, for the decisions they made this past year. I disagree. They need to be held accountable for what they imposed on the state since the outbreak of the pandemic. We're 15 months into the "two weeks to flatten the curve" and Governor Walz claims he still needs emergency powers to respond to the "emergency." It isn't an emergency. That ended well over a year ago.
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(5/15/21)
I wish an ambitious reporter would ask President Biden* who is telling him he shouldn't answer questions. He has responded this way more than once. Biden* makes reference to getting into trouble.
Vivek Saxena at Business & Politics makes the same observation.
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(5/8/21)
Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, the Number 3 ranking Republican in the House of Representatives, will be headed to the door fairly soon. If she doesn't head to the door on her own she'll be shown the door either by her colleagues or by her constituents in 2022. Matt Vespa at Townhall outlines the reasons why Cheney must go.
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(5/6/21)
"Clean House in 2025" is a slogan I can get behind. Townhall's Kurt Schlichter, always insightful, states that needs to happen. Schlichter says
not cleaning house in 2017 was Trump's biggest mistake. He's right. Trump allowed people dedicated to stopping him and destroying him to keep their jobs within the U.S. government. Sadly, to the detriment of the country, they succeeded to some degree. One remaining question is has the final chapter of the Trump Administration been written?
(5/3/21)
Journalism is not dead ... in Canada. David Common, a CBC news anchor had the nerve to ask Steven Guilbeault, the Minister of Canadian Heritage, a liberal, some follow up questions during a recent interview. This is fun. Watch a liberal squirm as he is confronted with a reporter actually doing his job in trying to get answers to actions a Canadian Parliament Committee took regarding a broadcasting bill.
(5/3/21)
Talk about petty and asinine. If you have been following the latest regarding the July 4th celebration at Mount Rushmore, asinine is about the only way to describe a recent announcement from the Pentagon. Powerline's Steven Hayward has the details.
(4/19/21)
This is rich. Townhall is reporting that
Rep. Maxine Waters (Democrat-CA) requested a police escort when she came to Minnesota over the weekend to foment confrontation. That really takes a lot of nerve. During her visit Rep. Waters threatened Chauvin trial jurors that they better find former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin "guilty of murder," or else. Or else what, you ask? I'm sure our crack local media is trying to get clarification. Meanwhile, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has, reportedly, asked for assistance from law enforcement agencies in other midwestern states, such as Ohio. Clearly, he's expecting many "peaceful protesters" to show up and exercise their First Amendment rights. Final arguments are being made today in the Derek Chauvin trial. Then the case goes to the jury and we wait for the outcome.
(3/28/21)
Democrats please help us out here. Doesn't requiring the showing of an ID in order to board an aircraft disenfranchise people from traveling? And, doesn't that somehow impose a hardship on people? Something doesn't square here.
(3/15/21)
Scott Johnson at Powerline reports it's "THE PENTAGON VERSUS TUCKER CARLSON" - What is going on here? While the military should be focused on winning our nation's military battles, it has instead decided to engage in the culture war. Accommodating "transgender" people? So-called "Climate Change"? (Fact Check: The climate has been changing since Earth's creation. Ask any scientist when was the Earth's climate not changing? They can't point to any period when it wasn't.) Lowering physical fitness standards?
(1/11/21)
This young woman gets it. If only more adults would get it as well the country wouldn't be in such turmoil.
(1/4/21)
It's right in front of us. According to Townhall's Kevin McCullough "The Cheat is in Plain Sight." It's in the certified data. Trump won!
(12/30/20)
I took a COVID break. I'm back and ready to turn the calendar. It's back to business.
(12/30/20)
News/Commentary: When is the media going to start accurately reporting on the election challenges that are currently underway in the courts and Congress? CNN's Jake Tapper is just one anchor that doesn't seem to know the difference. These efforts by Trump and his legal team are not "overturning an election." They are being made to recognize the rightful winner of the General Election.
Mr. Trump won this election, most of the country knows it, even many Democrats and the media know it.
Facts:
No court has agreed to hear the evidence of voter fraud in multiple states.
States have "certified" vote totals that exceed the number of registered voters in their respective states.
A voting machine in Antrim County, Michigan, was found to have switched 6,000 votes from President Trump to Biden, and the votes were switched due to programing in the machine instead of human error.
Thousands of affidavits have been signed by people stating they witnessed fraudulent ballot-counting activity.
Each of the swing states stopped counting votes in the middle of the night. Why? When they resumed, again early in the morning, there were identified spikes in vote totals almost exclusively in favor of Biden.
In Georgia, video shows suitcases with ballots being pulled from under tables and full of ballots and fed into machines without observers present.
On national television, votes were shown as being changed on screen from Trump to Biden.
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(5/16/20)
News/Commentary: Swamp draining is a slow and tedious process, but it has to be done. Yesterday President Trump fired the State Department's Inspector General, Steve Linick, as the Boston Globe's Matthew Lee reports. Lee's report states, "In a letter to Congress, Trump said Linick, who had held the job since 2013, no longer had his full confidence and that his removal would take effect in 30 days."
With all of the revelations that came out this past week about the Intelligence Community and other Deep State shenanigans during President Trump's candidacy and the early days of his administration the real question should be why weren't these guys fired sooner? Where were they while the agencies they were sworn to monitor were trampling on the rule of law? President Trump's actions simply amount to holding people accountable which it appears is something Washington isn't used to.
(5/15/20)
News/Commentary: Joe Biden says he would not pardon President Trump? He might want to hope that President Trump feels differently about him and other senior officials in the Obama Administration.
(5/15/20)
News:
(5/14/20)
News/Commentary: Bravo Victor Davis Hanson! Thank you for providing some perspective with your commentary titled "Losing Our Fears, in War and Plague." Fear appears to be the bigger threat to the country than a coronavirus.
(5/14/20)
Commentary: Antonio F. (A.F.) Branco is one of the best political cartoonists in the United States. His cartoons capture the essence of the Left/Right battle that is underway in the country. I have yet to see a cartoon that isn't right on, like this one:
(5/13/20)
News/Commentary: Remember, Woodstock Occurred in the Middle of a Pandemic. The American Economic Research Institute provides the details that the Hong Kong flu spread from China to the United States, ultimately killing 100,000 people in the U.S., mostly over the age of 65, and one million worldwide. That was 50 years ago. Today we're quarantining the healthy.
(5/13/20)
News/Commentary: As can now be expected NBC News has mischaracterized President Trump's decision to push for the reopening of America. As the article explains Mr. Trump has weighed the pros and cons of keeping the country largely closed and decided that the bigger risk facing the country is the collapse of our recent great economy. NBC News has an agenda, exhibited every Sunday morning by Chuck Todd and MTP. An accurate headline would read, "Trump weighs new warning signs in push to re-open the country."
(5/12/20)
News/Commentary: #Obamagate went viral on Twitter shortly after President Trump posted the hashtag in a one-word tweet - Speaks for itself doesn't it? At last count the hashtag had over 3 million "Likes." I tend to agree with the conclusion that Daniel Greenfield of Frontpage Magazine has reached when he says, "Obama operatives committed treason for political gain. Only one man had the power to command them, to reward them, and to bring together the forces that spied on men, women, and on a nation. Obamagate is not just the reckoning the nation needs: it’s the reckoning that the rule of law deserves."
As much as I would like to get my hopes up that justice will prevail, I'm going to hold off getting any hopes up until there's actual evidence that someone is moving to hold conspirators against President Trump accountable. Until then, the Obamagate memes are sadly both funny and scary.
(5/11/20)
News/Commentary: Jimmy Knutson, owner of Jim's Ash Trail Store near Orr in Northern MN, speaks for many of Minnesota's small business owners. He provides some facts for Gov. Walz to consider regarding his "Stay At Home" orders. Knutson points out that there's no camping, no traffic from Canada, no houseboats, no fishing guides & Gov. Walz is telling fishermen to only go as far as a tank of gas. Knutson says, " That’s almost 90% of his business gone." That's just some of the impact Minnesota's business owners faced heading into the fishing opener over the weekend.
How about Mother's Day? How much business was lost because dine-in restaurants were closed? Sales tax revenues lost, gas tax revenues lost, fishing license revenue lost, and property taxes are coming due with no revenue stream coming in to pay them. All this is happening while MN Gov. Walz fiddles with his dials. Minnesota businesses can reopen responsibly. Let them!
(5/11/20)
News/Commentary: American Thinker's Monica Showalter surmises former President "Obama is panicking." Well, if he isn't then in my view he should be.
Some light reading from Sundance to fill in the picture.
(5/9/20)
News/Commentary: Come on people, get tested for the COVID-19 virus, pleads MN Health Commissioner Jan Malcolm. If I may summarize: "We need to get our numbers up! Our numbers are nowhere near what we projected them to be when we shut down the state. If we don't get numbers up the people of the state are going to start thinking why did we just ruin the American economy? We can't have that." Okay, that probably wouldn't be Commissioner Malcolm's take on the situation, but it is for most Minnesotans and they're going to be highly upset when they realize hundreds of thousands of Minnesotans were put out of work over projections that were woefully inaccurate.
On Friday, Commissioner Malcolm related "Minnesota’s hospitals, labs and clinics have the ability to test over 10,000 people a day, but last week fewer than 4,000 sought a test on the average day." What seems lost on Public Health people, and Gov. Walz, is that as testing numbers grow they only change the denominator in fractions that determine the percentage of people who have been impacted by the COVID-19 virus. As the denominator grows, fractions become smaller. Larger denominators mean the only thing to be learned is that the virus impact is even less than has already been recorded. When all the numbers are in we'll likely see the death toll to be similar to flu totals the country experiences every year. For that, the American economy was eviscerated.
(5/8/20)
News/Commentary: The bad days for Democrats just keep piling up. Add Evelyn Farkas to the pile. Who is Evelyn Farkas? She is a former DOD official who went on MSNBC a few years ago and claimed there was evidence of Trump/Russia collusion. Well, we now learn from The Federalist that "Obama Defense Official Evelyn Farkas Admitted She Lied On MSNBC About Having Evidence Of Collusion" In fact, Ms. Farkas, who is now running for Congress admitted "I didn't know anything." There's so much more that's going to come out about this entire "collusion" fiasco it will be head spinning. Will it matter to those on the left? No.
(5/8/20)
News/Commentary: This needs much more attention than it is going to get. As has been suspected for months now, the computer model used to predict the deaths that would likely result from the spread of the COVID-19 virus was seriously, seriously flawed. Tyler Durden at Zerohedge.com has the details.
The last two paragraphs of the report contain the essence of what was discovered:
"Most of us are familiar with the computing adage, “Garbage In/Garbage Out” and the untrained reader may think that’s what (is) being asserted in this code review. It isn’t. What’s being asserted is that output is garbage, regardless of the input.
In this case, the output we’re experiencing as a result is a worldwide lockdown and shutdown of the global economy, and we don’t really know if this was necessary or not because we have no actual data (aside from Sweden) and severely flawed models."
(5/8/20)
News/Commentary: What do Gen. Michael Flynn, Shelly Luther, and former NJ Governor Chris Christie have in common? They were the vanguard in receiving some justice yesterday from courts around the country, including the U.S. Supreme Court. It was a big day for justice, well at least the beginning to get justice for all.
It's fitting that the decisions that were handed down came on the National Day of Prayer.
In the case of Flynn, President Trump blasted the Obama Department of Justice calling senior DOJ officials then "human scum" guilty of "treason" after the current DOJ dropped the case against Flynn. Evidence has come to light that Obama sought plausible deniability about knowing anything regarding the DOJ/FBI investigation of Flynn.
(5/8/20)
News/Commentary: U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says the coronavirus pandemic is unleashing a 'tsunami of hate' around the world. Unfortunately he didn't give any examples.
(5/7/20)
News/Commentary: Thank you to the Upper Midwest Law Center for representing small businesses in Minnesota and filing a law suit against Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and the arbitrary and discriminatory orders that he has issued in response to the coronavirus.
Here is what the UMLC lawsuit seeks:
“In this litigation we ask the Court to declare Governor Walz’ executive orders unconstitutional and enjoin him, Attorney General Keith Ellison, and the county attorneys charged with enforcement of the executive orders from enforcing them. The Plaintiff businesses also seek money damages from Governor Walz for the tremendous losses they have faced due to the executive orders. Governor Walz’ orders exceed his statutory authority and violate fundamental rights, so we will be seeking a temporary restraining order from the U.S. District Court and are prepared to take this matter to the Eighth Circuit and Supreme Court if needed.”
(5/7/20)
News/Commentary: Project Veritas is great. I always look forward to its reports. Their latest release allegedly involves "CBS News staging an event and portraying it as news." CBS News denies it did such a thing. With the credibility of most major news organizations in shambles it's quite easy to believe PV's version of what happened.
(5/6/20)
News/Commentary: If you thought "Social Distancing" guidelines to prevent the spread of the coronavirus are voluntary, think again.
There are now numerous viral videos of law enforcement showing up at businesses, and beaches, and parks, and churches, and wherever someone has complained that people appear to be "too close together." Chicago's Mayor stands out as an exceptionally egregious violater of individual Constitutional rights. I often wish I was a lawyer to be able to challenge some of these dictates that have resulted in clear abuse of power. What is truly frightening is that what we're witnessing these days could be viewed as a dry run for when these same socialist zealots determine climate change is an existential threat to the country.
(5/4/20)
News/Commentary: Townhall's Katie Pavlich reports, "President Trump has officially endorsed Rep. Ilahn Omar's opponent." President Donald Trump took to Twitter this morning to endorse Lacy Johnson, the man running to defeat Democrat Congresswoman Ilhan Omar in the fall.
(5/4/20)
Commentary: Kurt Schlichter at Townhall says, "America Doesn’t Have A Justice System Anymore." I don't want to believe that; however, if those at the FBI who appear to have conspired to frame an American Patriot are not held accountable (indicted) then I would have to agree with Mr. Schlichter. Sadly what has been coming to light in the efforts to get LTG Michael Flynn are shocking, or should be considered shocking, to everyone.
(5/2/20)