sIt’s Evolving: Coronavirus Genetic Mutation May Have Made COVID-19 More Contagious

Anti-Lockdown Epidemiologist Intimidated, Shamed By Contagion Of Hatred And Hysteria

WaPost: 3 Charged With Whitmer Plot Were at Anti-Lockdown Demos

10 reasons why a second lockdown is a terrible idea

“We’re Not Guinea Pigs!” – Brazilians Protest São Paulo Governor’s Mandatory Vaccination Push

Global COVID-19 Deaths Top 1.2 Million After Worst Week Since April: Live Updates

WHO Struck Deal With China on COVID-19 Probe

Lockdowns don’t work

Vaccine politics will soon replace electoral politics

Maajid Nawaz corners epidemiologist over cost of second lockdown

Thousands Attend Utah Halloween COVID ‘Protest’

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In the closing days of the most consequential presidential election of our lifetimes, the New York Post has dropped a bombshell into this race. Whether Democrats or the mainstream media want to admit it, serious concerns have been raised about Joe Biden and his family – and the evidence is now pouring out to the public.

The question Americans should be asking is, “Why are we only now hearing about this?”

“A Lot Of People Are Leaving”: COVID Shutdowns Have Turned San Francisco Into A Ghost Town

A Smorgasbord of Coronamadness

Add vitamin D to bread and milk to help fight Covid, urge scientists

A once restrained Fauci unleashes on White House coronavirus approach days before election

Here’s How COVID-19 Deaths Aren’t Rising Along With COVID Cases

‘Le Grand Escape’ From Paris: Footage Shows Record-Breaking Traffic Gridlock Hours Before Lockdown

Four-Week British Virus Lockdown May Last Longer

Global Wine Production Slumps For Second Year As Industry Crushed By Virus   

White House Slams Fauci After Recent Comments on Pandemic

Pre-Election Virus Spike Creates Concerns for Polling Places

Anti-Lockdown Protests Erupt Across Spain As State Of Emergency Extended

‘They Helped Create This’: Wisconsin Gov. Blames Republicans Top To Bottom For COVID Crisis

Claim: Disease-transmission model forecasts election outcomes

No new locally-acquired coronavirus cases in Australia yesterday

Brain Scans Show a Whole Spectrum of COVID-19 Abnormalities We Can’t Fully Explain

COVID Comedy ‘Connecting…’ Complains About ‘Colonizer Behavior’

WHO Special Envoy On COVID Reiterates Caution Against Lockdowns As Primary Virus Plan

CORONAVIRUS ISOLATION DAY 231 UPDATE: Coronavirus Lands A Right Hook Directly On My Jaw

The Facts on Andrew Cuomo’s Nursing Home Policy

The Great COVID Lie

Texas County Judge Orders Two-Week Shutdown Of Non-Essential Businesses Due To Rise In COVID-19 Cases  Democrat.

Plague controls became social controls

How to plan a COVID-safe Thanksgiving, week-by-week (Popular ‘Science’)

A Holiday Season Covid Surge, Outbreaks in Swing States, and More  (Popular ‘Science’)

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Two former U.S. Navy SEALs started a business (Matbock) to develop and sell equipment they wish they had while SEALs but could not find. One of their first products was the ARDS (Acquire Read Deploy Sight) for use on assault rifles equipped with an M203 or M320 under the barrel 40mm grenade launcher. The M320 already had available a detachable DNS electronic sight. While the DNS was an improvement over the original iron sight, there were several obvious (to users) features missing. ARDS provided what DNS lacked and users wanted. ARDS sight enables the user to select model of grenade launcher as well as ammo type (illumination, smoke or explosive). ARDS contains a microprocessor and sensors similar to those found in smartphones or smartwatches. This enables to ARDS to sense positioning of the grenade launcher and calculate how far the grenade will go and where it will land. A small LCD tells you how far away the shell will land based on how you are holding the rifle mounting the M203 or M320. A handheld laser range finder is used to get the range to target. ARDS can be demonstrated on a firing range to first time users, who are convinced once they see their first ARDS directed grenade land on the target. ARDS was introduced in 2019 and within a year SOCOM (Special Operations Command) had ordered a thousand.

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Today is the 50th anniversary of Congressional passage of the Rail Passenger Service Act, which created the National Railroad Passenger Corporation, later known as Amtrak. This law was based on several factual errors, the most important one being a claim that passenger trains could make money if only they were freed from the stodgy railroad executives who supposedly preferred freight over passenger service.

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Good luck with that.

CDC warns against worldwide travel on cruise ships Oh, wait – there’s an industry we haven’t destroyed yet….

Follow The Science – 1.2 Million COVID Deaths Edition

British Study Finds COVID-19 Immunity Doesn’t Last

‘That’s A Fear Term’: Fox News Medical Contributor Criticizes Biden For COVID-19 Rhetoric

GM, Ford knew about climate change 50 years ago  The swine!

Study finds over 80 percent of Covid-19 patients have Vitamin D deficiency

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Let’s consider some history. Prior to his arrival in the Senate, senators were generally reluctant to openly oppose judicial nominees on ideological grounds, but Schumer worked to change that. He enthusiastically supported a blockade of Bush appellate nominees and rejected President Bush’s appeal for a presumptive confirmation schedule.

Once Republicans retook the Senate, Schumer pushed for the repeated filibusters of President Bush’s nominees and, even after the “Gang of 14” deal, continued in his attempts to use this obstructionist tactic.

California’s dire coronavirus prediction was wrong, hospitalizations went down instead

Curfew imposed in El Paso County in Texas as all hospitals and ICUs hit 100% capacity

The Cult Of The Brave New Normal

Chinese Authorities Scramble To Suppress Biggest COVID-19 Outbreak In Months

Watch: Furious Welshman Tears Down Sheeting Off “Non-Essential” Goods In COVID-Lockdown Protest  “Welshman’? The guy is obviously black.

The non-linearity of Covid-19 response

AstraZeneca Says Its COVID-19 Vaccine Produces Robust Immune Response In Elderly Patients

“Remdesivir for COVID-19” Study accidentally proved effectiveness of Hydroxychloroquine   Shhhh! We aren’t allowed to talk about hydroxycholorquine!

Rockefeller Foundation Offers $1 Billion for Coronavirus Recovery

Health Expert: Mask Wearing Will Remain Mandatory Even After A COVID Vaccine  Be ready for pushback on that.

Iconic Barbershop In NYC’s East Village Closes After 73 Years In Business Due To COVID

YouTube, Vimeo Remove Conservative Entrepreneur’s COVID-19 Video

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“We are in a bit of a race right now,” with China and Russia on developing the technology, Mark Lewis, acting deputy undersecretary of Defense for research and engineering (and director of defense research and engineering for modernization,) told reporters on a Monday call.

One of the models the DoD has looked at in developing the new consortium is the Chinese government’s, which works closely with its universities on hypersonic weapons programs. Lewis said they have noted that “China will integrate their students working on their various projects.”

Universities in the US, Australia, the UK and Canada are eligible to work on the DoD program, said Gillian Bussey, head of the Joint Hypersonic Transition Office. But Bussey added Texas A&M has strict counterintelligence protocols in place, and the Pentagon will have strict rules for who can participate in the often classified work. The team in particular wants to ensure “we’re not training Chinese scientists that are going to go help their programs for example.”

‘Learn to live with the pandemic’: Physicians warn that a vaccine may not prevent Covid from becoming endemic  It will eventually disappear, just like SARS-1.

CDC had contentious plan for flight filled with COVID-exposed cruise passengers

First-time buyers fuel pandemic-related surge in gun sales (CNN) I suggest it’s more related to left-wing riots.

Polar bear research on hold in Western Hudson Bay due to COVID-19 restrictions

Sweden Refuses To Impose New Lockdown Measures, Saying People Have Suffered Enough  I’d move to Sweden if it weren’t so overrun by violent Muslim immigrants.

The false promise of herd immunity for Covid-19

NYC Hotel Occupancy Rate Crashes Toward 10% As Permanent Closures Loom

Welsh People Blocked From Buying “Non-Essential” Items Due To Lockdown

Tennessee Titans Fined $350,000 For Coronavirus Violations

Italians Rise Up Against “Health Dictatorship” As Country Moves Toward New Lockdown

Bethany Mandel: Your Home Is No Longer Your Castle

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“I don’t know why anyone in the great state of South Carolina would ever vote for Lindsey Graham,” Dobbs said. “It is just outrageous. This is a guy who keeps saying ‘stay tuned.’ He said he would get to the bottom of Obamagate with the Judiciary Committee, which has been a year and a half, actually longer, of absolute inert response to these pressing issues of our day.”

Apparently, without his former job as John McCain’s Sancho Panza, Graham doesn’t do a lot.

Maybe Mitt Romney has some openings.

Stop wiping down groceries and focus on bigger risks, say experts on coronavirus transmission

CNN destroys coronavirus research showcased on Tucker Carlson’s show (Washington Post)

Hormel is giving away bacon-scented face masks so you can smell bacon everywhere you go

Apple updates its COVID-19 app with new testing and symptom screening questions  I monetize your insecurity! Hah!

Permanently remote workers seen doubling in 2021 due to pandemic productivity  There’s nothing like ‘shaking the box’ to reveal what is needed and not from current ways of doing things.

“Alexander the Grate” on living in the “interstices of the infrastructure”  Not noticeably different than being ‘homeless’ any other time.

World Reports Record Jump In COVID-19 Cases As Outbreak Explodes Across Europe, Midwest: Live Updates

Sovereign Wealth Funds Forestall Real-Estate Investments As COVID-19 Pandemic Bites

Fossella: Improve Contact Tracing First to Save Lives, Taxpayer Money  AAUGH! CORONAVIRUS COOTIES! RUN AWAY! RUN AWAY!

FDA Finally Allows AstraZeneca To Restart US COVID-19 Vaccine Trials

NHS COVID-19 contact tracing app is leaving some unable to access government self-isolation grants  And of course nothing is so important than those government handouts….

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RINOs ASSEMBLE!

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I had a fairly irritating experience this week which is yet to be resolved. I purchased a set of carbon fiber wheel rims in order to build a new set of wheels for my new bike. The rims and hubs turned out to be incompatible, so I had to return both, the hubs to my local bike shop, the rims to a shop in Colorado. Concerned about getting the rims back to the dealer I shipped them via USPS Priority Mail last Thursday. The charges were $35 for the service and an additional $30 for insurance on the rims which have a cost of $975 each. They were supposed to be delivered on Monday according to the tracking notice, but they have been posting expected arrival dates as one day beyond the actual expected date, so I thought that they would arrive on Saturday.

According to the tracking, they left my local post office for a more centralized office a bit north of here. Apparently, they stayed in that office until Monday when they finally shipped to Colorado. I received a notice on Monday night that they would not arrive on time. Boy! Was I surprised! The notice did not change on Tuesday or Wednesday. Nothing updated. It took some searching but I was able to find a Customer Service site and filled in the form. Very surprisingly I got a call back that afternoon from a representative.

What I was told is that due to Covid (which has pretty much become the standard excuse for every possible demonstration of incompetence) the postal service was understaffed and buried in excess mail. They are flying fewer planes, so my package for which I paid premium rates was “likely” shipped via truck. No refund was offered for the demotion in service, and no date for its arrival.

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And worth every penny.

The only thing that saves us is that we don’t get all the government we pay for.

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“Make unto you friends of the mammon of iniquity; that when you shall fail, they may receive you into everlasting dwellings.”

Don’t thin of it as sellling out; think of it as buying in.

AP Poll: American Trust in COVID-19 Information Plummets

Meet the disease detectives fighting to understand COVID-19

It’s Time to Talk About Covid-19 and Surfaces Again  Because you have nothing else to do than obsess about what is panicking the Crust.

Ireland Imposes New Fines For Violating Europe’s Most Restrictive Lockdown: Live Updates  Moderation has never been an Irish value.

CDC Recommends Masks on Planes, Trains, Buses  Be the first on your block to come up with a new ridiculous place to wear your slave mask! (In the shower!)

A Mechanist’s Guide to the Coronavirus Genome  More than you ever wanted to know.

Some U.S. doctors flee to New Zealand where the coronavirus outbreak is under control and science is respected  (CNBC)

How the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally may have spread coronavirus across the Upper Midwest  (Washington Post) ‘may have’

The Chinese Lockdown-and-Mask Model Failed. Now Its Proponents Need Scapegoats

UK Bans Sex For At-Risk Couples

Pfizer Vaccine Timeline

And yet the American trial remains suspended

The pandemic has eroded democracy and respect for human rights

Tocqueville: Arrested for Brunching with Friends? Life in France in 2020.

Europe’s Daily COVID-19 Tally Hits 200k/Day As World Nears 40 Millionth Case: Live Updates  (Reminder: cases are not hospitalizations are not deaths.)

‘Masks Work? NO’: Twitter Removes Anti-Mask Tweet From Trump Coronavirus Adviser

Twitter Silences Top Trump COVID Task Force Expert  You WILL NOT contradict the narrative.

Coronavirus timeline

The never-ending lockdown cycle

Steve Sailer does the reveal.

Despite its vast wealth, San Francisco has notoriously awful public schools with low test scores. But don’t worry, the school board has a plan to fix the badness of its schools: the rectification of names.

Has any current athlete or coach died from the coronavirus?

CORONAVIRUS ISOLATION DAY 217 UPDATE: The Smell Of Victory Is In The Air

Why I reject the Great Barrington Declaration

‘Long Covid’ may affect multiple parts of body and mind, doctors say

Pfizer Plans To Apply For FDA’s Emergency-Use Approval During Third Week Of November, CEO Says

The Preexisting Conditions of the Coronavirus Pandemic

Report: Red-Leaning States Less Prepared for COVID Resurgence

Italy Reports Record 10,000 COVID-19 Cases; Global Death Toll Tops 1.1 Million: Live Updates

How deadly is COVID-19?  Asking the questions Americans won’t do.

WHO Study Finds Remdesivir Didn’t Help COVID-19 Patients

Venezuelan Miracle Covid-19 Cure: “Ozone Rectal Therapy”  You first.

PINKERTON: Will Coronavirus Disappear If Trump Loses?

A New Approach to Covid-19

Gilead Disputes WHO Data Confirming COVID-19 Drug Remdesivir Is A “Flop”

Will the French forgive Macron for canceling dinner?

Why the Dutch can’t stop bending the COVID rules

10 Counties With Most COVID-19 Deaths Account for 22% of Fatalities but 11% of Population

Fauci Tells Americans To “Bite The Bullet And Sacrifice” Thanksgiving  Why don’t we make Fauci bite a bullet and sacrifice him? I’ll pull the trigger.

Will SARS-CoV-2 become endemic?  If the government has anything to say about it, it will.

WHO: Healthy Young People May Have to Wait Until 2022 for COVID Vaccine

Government Officials and Federal Judges Both Need to Be Reminded That There’s No ‘Pandemic Exception’ to the Constitution

Here’s How Hospitals Have Managed During The Coronavirus Pandemic

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It’s nice work if you can get it,
And you can get it if you try….

I’ll bet that’s the way they do it in Somalia. Cultural appropriation?

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The reason people who work in Massachusetts live in New Hamprshire to begin with is that nobody in their right mind wants to live in Taxachusetts.

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Emails from a former Hunter Biden business associate serving time in prison for a 2016 investment scheme reveal that Hunter and his colleagues used their access to the Obama administration to peddle influence to potential Chinese clients and investors – including securing a private, off-the-books meeting with the former Vice President.

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Many federal district court judges have an expansive view of their authority—which far too often ignores Supreme Court precedent.

Judge William Conley, a federal district court judge who was appointed by President Barack Obama, certainly seems to have an expansive view of his, as made evident by some election-related orders he gave that clearly surpass the appropriate power of a district court judge.

Fortunately for the voters of Wisconsin and their interests in the integrity of the election process, some members of the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals were having none of it, and stayed all of Conley’s election-related orders on Oct. 8.

New Evidence of Link Between Blood Type & COVID-19 Susceptibility

Risk of Dying From COVID-19 Double, Triple With These Pre-Existing Conditions

Las Vegas’ Largest Casino Cuts Hours As COVID Keeps Customers At Bay 

France Starts New Curfews as Cases Soar  Guess they don’t listen to the CDC.

US Army Wants To Make COVID Social Distancing ‘Permanent’ Even After Pandemic Ends

China Had COVID-Like Patients Months Before Official Timeline

Here’s Where Sweden Stands After Refusing To Require Strict Coronavirus Lockdowns

Head Of Oxford University Vaccine Team Says Face Masks, Social Distancing Will Continue Until Next Summer

WHO Europe Director Says Governments Should Stop Enforcing Lockdowns

Gun Sales Soar Amid Pandemic, Social Unrest, Election Fears

Dr. Fauci: Families Should Rethink Large Thanksgiving Dinners

London Latest To Revive COVID-19 Restrictions As Record Numbers Reported Across Europe: Live Updates  The point being whitewashed is that these are cases, not deaths or even hospitalizations. If the number of cases of the common cold increased dramatically, would the government lock down the economy?

“Temporary” Layoffs Turning Into Permanent Job Losses

Oxford Scientists Say They Created Test That Detects COVID In Under 5 Minutes  Guess how long it will take to get to you — three months? Six months? A year?

Lockdowns Should Be ‘Very, Very Last Resort,’ WHO Says  We must Listen To The Science, unless The Science disagrees with The Narrative, in which case forgetaboutit.

COVID-19 security tips: Ensure you sack your staff without leaving their IT access enabled, says Secureworks

Don’t worry. Your dentist probably won’t catch COVID-19

Here’s How Coronavirus Actually Stacks Up Against The Flu

Why can’t we talk about the Great Barrington Declaration?

COVID’s second wave is hitting the Czech Republic hard

Europe, US Reel as Virus Infections Surge at Record Pace

A Journal of the Plague Year

The True Cost Of Coronavirus Lockdowns

COVID Is Not A “Categorically Different Danger”

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The left has won the COVID issue and probably the next election as a result. I am old enough to remember when Nancy Pelosi et al took the counsel of Dr. Fauci and told us that the viral disease the Washington Post had once called the “Chinese flu” in a headline was really no threat. It was all merely a racist, divisive, anti-Chinese stunt by Trump to pretend that the “Wuhan flu” was serious. Well into the apparent upswing of the pandemic Mayor DeBlasio urged maximum attendance at plays and restaurants.

Of course, none of that really happened. These politicians were always at war with COVID, it was Trump who did nothing. CNN says so.

The Third Wave of the Pandemic Is Here (New York Magazine)

Mitch McConnell laughs at criticism over Congress Covid relief failure (The Guardian)

Rush Limbaugh Touts the New York Times: A COVID Optimism Outbreak!

Rickards: We Destroyed The World’s Greatest Economy For No Reason

Hawaii “Has Committed Suicide” – Local Rages “Hardly Anyone Is Sick, But We’re All Broke”

“Facts Do Not Matter” To The Covidian Cult

Swedish Health Chief Said Country Avoided Lockdown To Prevent “Pandemic Fatigue”

Governments are using the pandemic as an excuse to restrict internet freedom

COVID-19 cases are on the rise yet again (Popular ‘Science’)

CDC Warns Small Household Gatherings Fueling COVID-19 Spread

Unhinged Lunatics at MSNBC: GOP ‘Clowns’ Part of ‘Macho Death Cult’

Bill Gates Warns “World Won’t Return To Normal” Until “Second Generation” Of COVID-19 Super-Vaccines Arrives

Obesity and Covid-19  Think of it as evolution in action.

COVID has killed the EU’s crowning achievement

Pennsylvania County Says 29K Wrong Ballots Were Mailed Out

How the Michigan Supreme Court Whacked Whitmer for COVID-19 Overreach

Judge Blocks Wisconsin Governor’s Order Forcing Businesses To Limit Capacity To 25%

Here’s Why A Vaccine Won’t End Coronavirus Hysteria

Coronavirus in one state (113)

New York Gov. Cuomo Sends Warning Letter To Areas That Won’t Enforce Social Distancing, Threatens To Withhold Funds

Nearly 29,000 Pennsylvania Voters Reportedly Receive The Wrong Mail-In Ballots

Elizabeth Warren Lashes Out At Disney For 28,000 Layoffs That Happened As A Result Of Gov’t-Mandated Shutdowns

Why must we ‘live with’ coronavirus?

The Flu Is More Likely To Kill You Than COVID-19 If You’re 17 Or Younger, Statistics Show

The World’s Biggest Seller Of Halloween Costumes Cannot Find Workers Due To COVID-19  Pretty scary.

France To Issue Curfews In Paris, 8 Other Cities As Coronavirus Surges

‘Mass Murder’!: CNN Guest on Possible Trump Embrace of Herd Immunity

‘Prisoners In Our Own Home’: Seniors Hold Coronavirus Protest Outside Nursing Home

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The pandemic has created a butchering capacity shortage in the U.S. It’s illegal for ranchers to butcher their own animals and sell them directly to consumers, but a new state law offers relief.

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A cow sold to restaurants or retailers has to be processed at a USDA-certified facility.

Why would it be illegal for ranchers to butcher their own animals? Does that make any sense at all?

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The Centers for Disease Control recently announced the projects funded by more than $7.8 million dollars to “Prevent Firearm-Related Violence and Injuries.” This is after the National Institutes of Health funded more than $11 million in firearms-related research from 2014 to 2017.

I guess owning a firearm constitutes having a disease to the healthcare bureaucrats.

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When Democrats call, who answers?

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Democrats lie! Whoda thunkit?

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What good is a second amendment or any law if the government will not abide by them? A government that will only interpret law against its opponents and forgive them against their friends. This is not the America I thought I live in. I have to thank COVID for that. As cynical as I ever was about my government and its legal system this, the pandemic is proving that I was a babe-in-the-woods optimist at heart. Did any of you foresee or even think possible the never-ending lockdown and the politics afterward?

What use is a Second Amendment to defend yourself and your home only to have your government keep coming after you until you fall? Mark and Patricia McCloskey, the St. Louis couple that defended their home over the summer from a large group of marching demonstrators, should be protected but that does not seem to be so. Maybe they will stay out of jail but this thing is going to cost them dearly.

On the other hand, if you loot and riot in a city for 120-plus days and finally got yourself arrested, if you are on the Left it’s just a resume builder. Especially if you are a Democrat politician. Louisville’s Democrat mayor has been bending over backward to help these “protestors” and is handing out settlements like they are candy.

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You knew it had to happen: wearing face masks in restaurants is ridiculous, since you have to take them off to eat or drink. So as a practical matter, we wear them for 15 seconds each way as we walk to our tables. A sensible person would say that the whole farce of wearing masks in restaurants should be abandoned. But that person doesn’t live in California:

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Last week, Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe declassified information to the effect that U.S. intelligence agencies “obtained insight into Russian intelligence analysis alleging that U.S. Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton had approved a campaign plan to stir up a scandal against U.S. Presidential candidate Donald Trump by tying him to Putin and the Russians’ hacking of the Democratic National Committee.” Ratcliffe also indicated at that time that CIA Director John Brennan briefed President Obama and others on the intelligence. Today Ratcliffe declassified documents relating to last week’s communication, including handwritten notes by John Brennan.

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The federal government has several programs aimed at making affordable housing available to low-income families, and people have found numerous ways to scam those programs.

Jonathan Turley.

In his long-awaited testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, former FBI Director James Comey’s testimony proved as casual as his appearance in an open shirt from his home office. Comey was hammered with embarrassing findings of errors under his watch in the handling of the Russian investigation, including the reliance on information that FBI agents warned might be Russian disinformation supplied by a Russian agent. After years of investigation, the FBI was unable to show that a single Trump official conspired or colluded with the Russians. Instead, investigations found extensive errors, irregular and criminal conduct, and statements of intense bias by key FBI figures. Yet, Comey proceeded to give what amounted to a series of shrugs in either denying any recollection of such information or deflecting responsibility to others.

Comey was asked about an intelligence report suggesting that Hillary Clinton personally approved an effort “to stir up a scandal against U.S. Presidential candidate Donald Trump by tying him to Putin and the Russians’ hacking of the Democratic National Committee.” The report was reportedly sufficiently serious to be included in a briefing of President Barack Obama. However, when asked about his knowledge, Comey again shrugged and said it “didn’t ring a bell.” That’s it.

Jonathan Turley is a Professor of Law at George Washington University.

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This won’t ever come to anything, but it allows him to give a bunch of his favored cronies high-paying jobs at taxpayer expense. They will sadly conclude that there is no practical way to distribute such reparations ‘equitably’, but they’ll still have healthy paychecks in the meantime.

Steve Sailer indulges in a little history.

Who can forget the slaves signing their sad spirituals while they picked the cotton of the vast plantations of Burbank and North Hollywood?

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Betcha they’re all Democrats.

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A conservative lawmaker took his frustration over Ohio’s coronavirus public health orders to a new level Monday by demanding that criminal charges be filed against fellow Republican Gov. Mike DeWine.

Rep. John Becker, a Republican from Cincinnati, says DeWine has exceeded his authority under state law and the Ohio and U.S. constitutions in issuing orders restricting Ohioans movements and activities. He made his demand in Clermont Municipal Court under a provision of state law allowing private citizen affidavits.

A reviewing prosecutor dismissed the request for charges almost immediately, and a DeWine spokesman called the move “absurd.”

Becker filed to have the prosecutor charge DeWine with 10 different crimes, including engaging in a pattern of corrupt activity, complicity, terrorism, inducing panic and interfering with civil rights.

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It’s nice to read a feel-good story like the one about an Arkansas man who found a massive 9-carat diamond in a public state park in Arkansas. Thirty-three year old Kevin Kinard found the 9.07 carat whopper in the Crater of Diamonds State Park on Labor Day. It is the second-largest ever found at the park, the biggest being a 16.37-carat stone found in 1975, which was also the biggest diamond ever uncovered in the U.S. Mr. Kinard gets to hang on to his big find, since visitors who find diamonds or other minerals at the site are allowed to keep them.

The stone has not yet been appraised, but whatever the massive diamond turns out to be worth, does Mr. Kinard really have to worry about looking over his shoulder for the IRS? Yes, that’s the not so feel-good part of the story. According to the IRS, money or valuables you find are taxed, even if you just happen upon something by pure luck, and even if you don’t sell it to turn it into cash.

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In the video below, filmed in Hollywood, a Prius driver is stopped by a mob of Antifa/BLM criminals. They try to haul him out of his car, but he gets away. They pursue him in multiple vehicles, and a pickup cuts him off. Again the criminals try to assault him, and again he saves his life by driving away. The video ends with the victim being arrested and handcuffed by the police.

Their tax dollars at work. Will they learn anything from this? Sadly, I doubt it.

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The Department of Justice has disclosed additional evidence of the FBI’s efforts to undermine the Trump presidential campaign and presidency. Attorney Sidney Powell includes it in her memorandum filed yesterday in support of the “agreed dismissal” of the case against General Flynn. Powell characterizes the FBI misconduct involved in these efforts as “Stalinist tactics.” The FBI’s briefing to President Obama on January 5, 2017, figures in the mix. I have embedded Powell’s memo at the bottom of this post.

From inside the FBI a knowledgeable agent cries out regarding his colleagues: “…why do we do this to ourselves. What is wrong with these people[?]” It turns out that the famous “insurance policy” against Trump’s possible election required…insurance. Five days after the Oval Office briefing, “they all went out and purchased professional liability insurance.”

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Prediction: None one of them will spend any significant time in jail.

Just more ‘catch and release’, which is why this stuff keeps happening.

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As a very smart person pointed out, if Democrats could pack it when they win, then Republicans can re-pack it when they win; do they really want to go down that road?

The Other McCain calls out Fredo’s brother.

Before he became infamous for killing Grandma, the Democratic governor of New York signed into law an “affirmative consent” policy (a/k/a “Yes Means Yes”) that applies only to university campuses. Anyone familiar with human nature could predict that this law would produce disastrous consequences, because (a) college girls get drunk, (b) drunk girls do embarrassing things, and (b) the next morning they regret the stuff they did when they were drunk. This scenario accounts for perhaps 90% of all campus “sexual assault” accusations and, even if we can’t hold guys blameless in such incidents, the difficulty is determining guilt in a “he-said/she-said” situation where both participants are usually drunker than the proverbial skunk.

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This spring, public officials at all levels were thrown into a public-health crisis that made the first SARS, H1N1, Ebola, MERS, and Zika look like small potatoes. It is understandable that mistakes would be made, but officials assured us that their decisions were data-driven and that they were following science (or “SCIENCE!” as Gavin Newsom insists).

When cities and states enacted lockdowns, mostly in March and April, the U.S. had about a million diagnosed cases, concentrated in cities, particularly in the Northeast. Lots of counties in the rest of the country had few or no cases. Enacting a full lockdown in those places — shutting down all nonessential businesses, telling people to stay home, placing restrictions on interstate travel — was an excessive step that burned through a limited supply of public patience. Eight weeks of lockdowns limited the stress on hospitals and bought time, but at extreme economic cost, and that time was largely not put to good use. We would have been better off if restrictions were enacted on a local basis, depending on the prevalence of cases — although our assessment of how many cases were in an area was impeded by the limited number of tests and the difficulty of getting fast results. Some corners of the public will be highly resistant to any attempt to reinstate those restrictions, because they no longer have faith that they’re necessary.

We don’t mind ‘following the science’ so long as it is not JUNK SCIENCE, which a lot of the underlayment of these job-destroying restrictions is turning out to be.

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Sort of a universal metaphor for government by Democrats.