Good morning! Here is your news briefing for Friday December 25, 2020
1.) THE DAILY SIGNAL
2.) THE EPOCH TIMES
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3.) DAYBREAK
4.) THE SUNBURN
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6.) THE FACTUAL
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11.) AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE
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17.) THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER
18.) ASSOCIATED PRESS
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December 25, 2020 View in Browser  AP MORNING WIRE Merry Christmas! Tamer Fakahany is on vacation until Jan. 4. During this holiday period, we are serving up a daily briefing on what our readers consider the best of the AP news report each morning. As the very unusual period known as 2020 comes to an end, we wish you and those you care about a happy, healthy new year.
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20.) CHICAGO TRIBUNE
21.) CHICAGO SUNTIMES
22.) THE HILL
23.) ROLL CALL
24.) POLITICO PLAYBOOK
Merry Christmas!
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DRIVING THE DAY
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
THE PRESIDENT is complaining to people he speaks to that the coronavirus/government funding package has too much “pork,” as he says, and the direct payments are too low. The bill has been flown to Florida from Washington for his signature. No one we can find knows if he’ll sign it.
UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS run out Saturday. And the government shuts down Monday.
HERE’S THE SCARY THING: The House is in on Monday — the day the government runs out of spending authority — but the Senate doesn’t come back until Tuesday, which is, of course, after the funding deadline.
WHEN WE SPOKE TO SEN. ROY BLUNT (R-Mo.) on Thursday after he opened the Senate, we said how do you get out of this mess?
“THE BEST WAY OUT OF THIS is for the president to sign the bill. I still hope that that’s what he decides to do,” BLUNT said.
WHAT’S THE NEXT BEST WAY, CNN’s KRISTIN WILSON asked him.
“LET’S HOPE THE BEST WAY works. The second-best way’s a lot more challenging,” BLUNT said.
TAKE A LOOK at the nation’s front pages. President DONALD TRUMP put congressional Republicans in a horrible bind, and they’re getting blamed. … San Diego Union-Tribune: “FEDERAL STIMULUS MEASURE REMAINS IN LIMBO: Republicans in House block effort to advance $2,000 relief checks” … Hartford Courant: “GOP says no to $2K checks” … Tampa Bay Times: “$2K checks tie down stimulus”
… Atlanta Journal-Constitution: “Relief bill’s fate remains up in the air: In U.S. House, calls for $2,000 checks, changes to foreign aid both fail” … Chicago Tribune: “House GOP says no to $2K checks: Virus relief remains stuck in limbo with shutdown looming” … Star Tribune: “Pandemic aid stuck; veto threat mires vote” … Dallas Morning News: “House GOP blocks $2,000 aid checks” … Houston Chronicle: “On chaotic Capitol Hill, ‘all is not calm’: House GOP blocks $2,000 checks as Trump imperils COVID relief amid looming shutdown”
NATIONAL FRONTS: WaPo: “$2,000 checks blocked by GOP: DEMOCRATS SOUGHT A CHANGE FROM $600 … Trump leaves painfully negotiated bill in disarray” … NYT
TRUMP is in Palm Beach, and VP MIKE PENCE is in Vail, Colo., the tony ski town. Denver Post
TO WIT … President-elect JOE BIDEN to columnists, via MIKE SHEAR of the NYT: “‘My leverage is, every senior Republican knows I’ve never once, ever, misled them. … I’ll never publicly embarrass them.”
ALSO: NDAA will be up Monday in the House for a veto override. Rep. MAC THORNBERRY, the retiring Texas Republican who chairs Armed Services, is urging Republicans to “avoid distortions” of the bill — presumably the distortions from the White House. Connor O’Brien scoops
THIS IS USEFUL! @whpoolreports will chronicle the White House pool reports on a real-time basis.
CLICKER … POLITICO MAGAZINE: “Politico Magazine’s 20 Stories That Explain 2020”
NYT, A1 … PETER BAKER: “For a Defeated President, Pardons as an Expression of Grievance”: “Never mind that Mr. Trump presents himself as a champion of ‘law and order.’ He has been at war with the criminal justice system, at least when it has come to himself and his friends. And so in these final days in office, he is using the one all-but-absolute power vested in the presidency to rewrite the reality of his tenure by trying to discredit investigations into him and his compatriots and even absolving others he seems to identify with because of his own encounters with the authorities.
“In some ways, of course, this is the concession that Mr. Trump has otherwise refused to issue, an unspoken acknowledgment that he really did lose the Nov. 3 election. These are the kinds of clemency actions a president would take only shortly before leaving office.
“But it also represents a final, angry exertion of power by a president who is losing his ability to shape events with each passing day, a statement of relevance even as Mr. Trump confronts the end of his dominance over the nation’s capital.”
— WAPO: “Trump wields pardon power as political weapon, rewarding loyalists and undermining prosecutors,” by Toluse Olorunnipa and Josh Dawsey in West Palm Beach: “[T]he rogues’ gallery of criminals receiving clemency this week showcased Trump’s willingness to exert raw political power for his own personal gain, handing out favors to friends at a time when he is seeking GOP support for his flailing bid to reverse his election loss.”
LOOKING TO JOIN THE PARTY … ANDREW DESIDERIO and ANITA KUMAR: “Snowden allies see opening amid Trump clemency blitz”: “The pardons have started. And they’re not going to stop. Sensing an opening, some of Trump’s closest congressional allies are imploring the president to add one controversial name to his list: Edward Snowden.
“Aware that Trump bypasses the formal pardon process and chooses candidates based on advice from the friends and celebrities in his orbit, several Republican lawmakers have been encouraging the president to offer clemency to Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who caused a firestorm in 2013 when he leaked classified information that exposed the vast underbelly of America’s global spying apparatus.”
WHOA … WAPO’S CAROL MORELLO: “How bad are U.S. relations with Russia? Just try getting a visa for a repairman”: “The deplorable state of relations between Washington and Moscow has gotten so bad that the United States cannot get visas for American technicians to come repair malfunctioning elevators and fire alarms at diplomatic missions.
“The U.S. Embassy in Moscow is understaffed and overstretched, as every individual diplomatic visa requires drawn-out negotiations that get snagged over minuscule matters. Senior diplomats are being tasked with basic tasks like shoveling snow and mixing disinfectants to supplement depleted cleaning crews battling the coronavirus pandemic.”
A NATION IN THE MIDST OF A HEALTH CRISIS …
— LOOK WHO CAME OUT ON TOP … WSJ: “Covid-19 Caused Chaos for Investors in 2020. These Hedge Funds Earned Billions,” by Juliet Chung
— GRIM … L.A. TIMES: “L.A. County records 140 COVID-19 deaths in one day, a new record,” by Soumya Karlamagla, Luke Money and Rong-Gong Lin II
— KATHY WOLFE: “U.S. mandates negative Covid test for flights from the United Kingdom”: “The United States will require airline passengers coming from the U.K. to test negative for coronavirus before flying, the CDC announced Thursday evening, amid reports of the spread there of a new strain of Covid-19 that health authorities believe is significantly more contagious. Passengers will have to test negative within three days before flying and must be denied boarding if they refuse to be tested, the CDC said. The restriction will be put into force as of Dec. 28.”
— WAPO: “The Trump administration wants to take credit for a covid vaccine. Trump supporters are undermining it,” by Elizabeth Dwoskin and Josh Dawsey
THE SEARCH FOR AN A.G. … WAPO: “As Biden zeroes in on attorney general pick, some worry one contender is too moderate on criminal justice issues,” by Matt Zapotosky and Anne Marimow: “[A]s [Merrick] Garland draws increasingly serious consideration, some defense lawyers and criminal justice reform advocates say they worry Garland’s record on the bench shows he is too deferential to the government and law enforcement — and perhaps would not be as aggressive about implementing the kind of dramatic changes they had hoped for. …
“Garland is among three people, all former federal prosecutors, who remain under consideration by Biden for the attorney general job, according to people familiar with the discussions. The others are Sen. Doug Jones (D-Ala.), who lost his reelection bid, and former deputy attorney general Sally Yates.
“People familiar with the matter said Biden is not expected to make a selection this week and that it is possible that when he reveals his decision, he also will announce picks for deputy attorney general, associate attorney general and solicitor general. These people spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations.”
— WSJ: “Biden Attorney General Will Be Greeted With Politically Challenging Inbox of Cases,” by Sadie Gurman
THE PRESIDENT’S CHRISTMAS: Nothing on TRUMP’S or PENCE’S schedules. No events on BIDEN’S or VP-elect KAMALA HARRIS’ schedules either.
TV TONIGHT — PBS’ “Washington Week”: Dan Balz, Errin Haines and Weijia Jiang.
SUNDAY SO FAR …
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FOX
“Fox News Sunday”: Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) … Adm. Brett Giroir. Panel: Jason Riley, Kristen Soltis Anderson and Donna Brazile.
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CNN
“State of the Union”: Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) … Anthony Fauci … Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan and Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer … Reps.-elect Cori Bush (D-Mo.) and Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.).
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ABC
“This Week”: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) … Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan … Surgeon General Jerome Adams. Panel: Chris Christie, Heidi Heitkamp, Leah Wright Rigueur and Frank Luntz.
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“Face the Nation”: Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine … Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer … Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde … Scott Gottlieb. Book panel: Susan Glasser, Peter Baker, Jon Meacham and Isabel Wilkerson.
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“America This Week”: Brett Favre … Ted Nugent … Phil Robertson.
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Gray TV
“Full Court Press”: Boyan Slat … Janice Brahney.
PLAYBOOK READS
DAVID HERSZENHORN in Brussels: “EU and U.K. wrap up Christmas Eve deal on post-Brexit trade”: “In the end, the hardest Brexit was the one with a deal. After 10 months of fierce bargaining, EU and U.K. negotiators clinched agreement Thursday on a post-Brexit trade deal with historic provisions for zero tariffs and zero quotas on goods.”
SCARY STORY … WSJ: “JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon and His Brush With Death: ‘You Don’t Have Time for an Ambulance’”: “It was 4 a.m., and the JPMorgan Chase & Co. chief executive dialed up his top lieutenants to deliver a message that couldn’t wait: The economy is in trouble.
“Mr. Dimon hung up the phone and lay down on the couch to read the morning papers. He felt a rip in his chest. He sat up with a gasp and called his doctor. ‘Jamie, take a cab,’ the doctor told him. ‘You don’t have time for an ambulance.’ Hours later, Mr. Dimon was clinging to life, surgeons perched above his chest repairing a gash in the artery that delivers blood from the heart to the rest of the body.”
KATY O’DONNELL: “Biden allies push back on sweeping plan to promote fair housing”: “President Donald Trump accused Joe Biden during the 2020 campaign of seeking to ‘destroy the beautiful suburbs’ by supporting a sweeping Obama-era fair housing rule that Trump had scrapped. Now, with Biden planning to reinstate the rule, he’s likely to run into opposition again — this time from members of his own party.”
JAMES ARKIN and ZACH MONTELLARO: “Democrats shatter fundraising records ahead of Georgia Senate runoffs”: “Democrats Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock shattered fundraising records by hauling in more than $100 million each in the past two months, significantly outraising GOP Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler in the final stretch of the two Georgia Senate races that will decide control of the chamber next month.
“The massive fundraising for the two Democrats was driven largely by small-dollar donations, continuing the pattern this year of the party’s Senate candidates tapping into online donors across the country to fund their challenger campaigns, although Democrats underperformed expectations in November despite the fundraising edge.
“Ossoff became the best-funded Senate candidate in history, hauling in $106.8 million in two months. The Democrat spent $93.5 million from Oct. 15 through Dec. 16, and ended that period with $17.5 million in the bank for the closing weeks of the runoff. Perdue, his opponent, raised $68 million over the same time period. The Republican spent nearly $58 million and had $16 million in the bank.”
RON BURKLE has bought the Neverland Ranch. LAT
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WELCOME TO THE WORLD — Alexander Nazaryan, national correspondent for Yahoo News who will cover the Biden White House after paternity leave, and Maia S. Merin, national director of professional development for Great Minds, welcomed Moses Merin Nazaryan on Wednesday afternoon at Washington Hospital Center. He came in at 7.5 lbs, “in a Mets hat and vintage Mookie Wilson jersey from the Amazins’ ’86 season.” Pic
BIRTHDAYS: Irene Sherman … Karl Rove is 7-0 … Canadian PM Justin Trudeau is 49 … Tim Miller, founder of Light Fuse Communications and contributor to The Bulwark, is 39 … DOJ’s Brian Rabbitt is 38 … Charlton Boyd, associate director for the office of Jared Kushner (h/t Eddie Vasquez) … Bill Bailey, VP of government relations at Walt Disney Co., is 53 … Michelle Altman … Stephanie Mathews O’Keefe, CEO of the International Women’s Forum … Sophia Lalani, defense and foreign policy adviser to Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) … Jeff Seglin (h/ts Jon Haber) … Lewis Lukens … Hilary Krieger, editor for NBC’s THINK opinion section … Scott Paul, president of the Alliance for American Manufacturing … New York state Assemblymember and DNC Vice Chair Michael Blake … Rachael Slobodien, COS at the CEA … CNN’s Natalie Pahz … Danny Fisher, VP of government affairs for Associated Equipment Distributors, is 4-0 (h/t Kent Wilson) … Chris Beam …
… Garrett Bess, VP of government relations and comms at Heritage Action (h/t Jessica Anderson) … former CEA Chair Christina Romer, now at Berkeley, is 62 … Steven Luckett … Amanda Munger, president of the AM Group … Lisa Dallos, CEO of High 10 Media … Visa’s Grace Maumbe … Miranda Margowsky, principal at Precision Strategies … Wintta Woldemariam, policy director for House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.) … Anne Wall, partner at the Duberstein Group … Dan LeDuc is 6-0 … NYT’s Michael Roston is 43 … Peter Kauffmann … Jonathan Block … Maggie Williams … Elisabeth Hire … Madhu Chugh (h/ts Teresa Vilmain) … Zachary Hastings Hooper is 47 … Mauritian PM Pravind Jugnauth is 59 … Sarah Levin … Scott Cottington … Robert Jameson … Rebecca Pilar Buckwalter-Poza … Christopher Connell … Kristen Shatynski … James Fitzella … Christina Cornell … Dominic Gabello … Wendy Nipper Homeyer
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25.) AMERICAN MINUTE
Christmas: Date revealed by Levite calendar & celebrated through the ages! – American Minute with Bill Federer
To track down the traditional date of Christmas, it is first necessary to determine the date of the conception of John the Baptist.
- Passover, when Jesus Christ was crucified as the “the Lamb of God”; followed by
- His being in the tomb on the Feast of Unleavened Bread; then
- His rising from the dead on the Feast of First Fruits.
26.) CAFFEINATED THOUGHTS
27.) CONSERVATIVE DAILY NEWS
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28.) PJ MEDIA
The Morning Briefing: Merry Christmas and Don’t Let the Bastards Get You Down!
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas, my dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends! I’m cooking the fancy bacon today.
As most of you know by now, the Morning Briefing doesn’t get holidays off if the holiday falls on a weekday. It’s always a little shorter than a regular installment, of course, but it happens. I usually do a little news, but try to keep it a bit lighter.
It’s Christmas 2020 though, and I feel compelled to eschew my brand here for the lead-in today. I’m not going full Gandhi on you (never go full Gandhi), I just feel that as we come to this most holy day in this most unholy of years I could dial it down a bit and spread a little cheer.
Admittedly, this isn’t exactly my forte. Even on stage, I’m usually pretty dark while getting the laughs.
So here goes.
The world is a mess, that’s true. It isn’t going to get measurably better any time soon. What has begun to plague us all more than the actual plague is the gloom and doom drumbeat of our politicians and the media. They focused on the bad a lot at first because they had to, then kept doing so because they were enjoying it. We can end up focusing so much on their big picture negativity we miss some of the smaller good things going on around us.
I may have to pay attention to the news, but the longer this goes on, the more I’m looking for ways to defuse and distract myself. I go for walks and look at pleasant things that can’t relay the news of the day. I play video games. I read murder mysteries which, sadly, are a pick-me-up these days.
The point is to take control of whatever you can around you to help you dictate your own perspective instead of leaving that up to a bunch of professional doom mongers. Trust me, the tiniest little distractions can be hugely positive.
I’ve decided to work on cranking out a lot more lighthearted fare elsewhere on the site next year to give all of you fine people another option for taking a break.
I’m still going to be kind of a tool here at the Briefing though. Let’s be honest, none of us show up here each morning to watch me put on a happy face and go all Kumbaya.
That’s my heartfelt message for the day, my friends.
Merry Christmas and don’t let the bastards get you down.
It Just Got Merrier
PJM Linktank
The Left Can Cry Me a River Over Trump’s Pardons, Here’s Why
5 Reasons I’ll Always Resist Joe Biden and the Democrats (and You Should Too)
Trump Leaves For Mar-a-Lago While Pandemic Relief Remains in Limbo
UK-EU Agree to a Post-Brexit Trade Deal
Congress Approves Smithsonian Museums for Latinos and Women
NYC: Man Murders ‘Americanized’ Daughter Who Didn’t Want to Wear Hijab
Actor Kirk Cameron’s Christmas Lockdown Protest Aims to Spread a Different Virus: Hope
VIP
Kruiser’s (Almost) Daily Distraction: Save Us, Wonder Woman
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NY Lawmakers Now Seeking Trump’s Help to Get Real Numbers from Nursing Home Tragedy
From the Mothership and Beyond
Wesołych Świąt! How People Say ‘Merry Christmas’ In Different Europe Countries
Nick Butter: The man who ran a marathon in every country in the world
Someone Said Trump’s Pardons Could Be Challenged in Court…and Got Wrecked Over It
Why an Editor’s Open Letter to Journalists Got Totally Wrecked in a Single Twitter Thread
Why Rush Limbaugh’s Last Program of the Year Had Listeners in Tears
Report: A Special Counsel for Hunter Biden Could Still Happen
Trump receives “Person of the Year” award from major pro-life group
Canada’s Gun Confiscation Effort Runs Into Resistance
80-Year-Old Armed Citizen Teaches Carjackers Valuable Life Lesson
Demand For AR-15s Greater Than Supply
‘Happy Days’ Star Henry Winkler Responds To Scott Baio’s Criticism Of Cast’s Democrat Fundraiser
Feel-Good Video Of The Day: The Christmas Movie Arena Battle Death Match
Special report: The year in sports
CNN Goes All in on Fauci Worship: From ‘Lord and Savior’ to Wolf Blitzer’s Special Fauci Item
Maggie Haberman Is Having a Holiday Meltdown; Someone Give Her a Gelt
GoDaddy used a holiday bonus email as a phishing scam test and people aren’t happy
President Trump presents Richard Grenell with a National Security Medal
‘Times change’: Glenn Greenwald calls out media for sudden downshift covering Biden vs. Trump
The Australian Town That Turns Trash Into Christmas Trees
Smells Like Onion
The Kruiser Kabana
A Christmas double-header. CRANK IT UP!
Santa cleaned out my liquor cabinet.
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- ’Twas the Night before Christmas, and All through the Swamp…
| Should we talk politics at Christmas gatherings? This year, yes we should.
Posted: 24 Dec 2020 06:47 PM PST About 3/4ths of the extended family who come to Christmas dinners every year are progressives. They aren’t your standard left-leaning Democrats, either. Most of them rooted for Bernie Sanders to be the nominee and a couple of them thought the Democratic-Socialist may be too moderate for their liking. It’s a wonder I came out of the family as a rare conservative. Last year during a large family Christmas gathering, I didn’t talk politics at all. It wasn’t out of fear; they know I’m a Trump supporter and they still pass the green bean casserole when I need seconds. I keep silent on politics and religion because with family, there’s no need to cause strife during the holidays. This year is different for two reasons. First, many members of my extended family have bought into the COVID-19 lockdown mandates and do not venture out, well, ever. Second, people need to be educated. All of them. This election was stolen. We continue to fight for the truth to prevail here at NOQ Report, and I’ll be taking the fight to the dinner table. I’m not going to start any arguments but I feel compelled to make sure everyone knows about the voter fraud that took place. In our conservative bubble we often assume most people have watched the Georgia video, read at least a summary of the Antrim County forensic audit, and know the astronomically improbable statistics surrounding the alleged come-from-behind victory of Joe Biden. But they don’t. They probably get their news from CNN, which means they haven’t a clue. I’m not going to try to persuade anyone else to do the same as me. Family is too important for anyone to listen to a random guy on the internet for topical advice. But I will say this: If you are bold enough and secure enough in your familial relationships to safely spread the truth, you should. They need to know. Everyone needs to know. Because if things go as we hope and President Trump wins this election, your family needs to know that it wasn’t stolen from Biden. That’s the narrative that’s going to be put out, so preemptively arm them with truth. The republic is under attack. Don’t cripple family relationships over it, but if you can spread a little truth with some Christmas cheer this year without causing a rift in your family, then it’s a good idea to break the no-politics-at-the-dinner-table rule. COVID-19 lockdowns are taking down an independent news outletNobody said running a media site would be easy. We could use some help keeping this site afloat.Colleagues have called me the worst fundraiser ever. My skills are squarely rooted on the journalistic side of running a news outlet. Paying the bills has never been my forte, but we’ve survived. We have ads on the site that help, but since the site’s inception this has been a labor of love that otherwise doesn’t bring in the level of revenue necessary to justify it. When I left a nice, corporate career in 2017, I did so knowing I wouldn’t make nearly as much money. But what we do at NOQ Report to deliver the truth and fight the progressive mainstream media narrative that has plagued this nation is too important for me to sacrifice it for the sake of wealth. We know we’ll never make a ton of money this way, and we’re okay with that. Things have become harder with the coronavirus lockdowns. Both ad money and donations that have kept us afloat for a while have dropped dramatically. We thought we could weather the storm, but the resurgence of lockdowns that mainstream media and Democrats are pushing has put our prospects in jeopardy. In short, we are now in desperate need of financial assistance. The best way NOQ Report readers can help is to donate. Our Giving Fuel page makes it easy to donate one-time or monthly. Alternatively, you can donate through PayPal as well. We need approximately $17,300 to stay afloat through March when we hope the economy will be more open, but more would be wonderful and any amount that brings us closer to our goal is greatly appreciated. The second way to help is to become a partner. We’ve strongly considered seeking angel investors in the past but because we were paying the bills, it didn’t seem necessary. Now, we’re struggling to pay the bills. This shouldn’t be the case as our traffic the last year has been going up dramatically. June, 2018, we had 11,678 visitors. A year later in June, 2019, we were up to 116,194. In June, 2020, we had 614,192. In November, 2020, we hit 1.2 million visitors. We’re heading in the right direction and we believe we’re ready talk to patriotic investors who want to not only “get in on the action” but more importantly who want to help America hear the truth. Interested investors should contact me directly with the contact button above. As the world spirals towards radical progressivism, the need for truthful journalism has never been greater. But in these times, we need as many conservative media voices as possible. Please help keep NOQ Report going.
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| Trump ‘resolved, determined’ about election, says Pennsylvania senator
Posted: 24 Dec 2020 06:27 PM PST WASHINGTON—Several Pennsylvania state senators, all Republicans, met with the president in the Oval Office on Dec. 23 to discuss election fraud issues in their state. Among them was Sen. Doug Mastriano, who said afterwards that he’s “never seen anyone more resolved or determined” as Trump, “because truth is on his side.” “The mood was determined. We need to find out what the heck happened here,” Mastriano told The Epoch Times. He said the group took Trump through the various concerns they had, including a dump of 570,000 votes in the middle of the night for Democratic nominee Joe Biden, during which time only about 3,200 votes appeared for Trump. “Even in the bluest of blue areas of Pennsylvania that’s statistically impossible,” Mastriano said. “And we talked about how if this is not only fixed in the future, but if it’s not fixed for what just happened here, at what point does the republic collapse?” Mastriano held a public hearing in Gettysburg on Nov. 25, where witness testimony outlined allegations of fraud ranging from chain-of-custody issues, lost USB cards, statistical anomalies, and poll watcher access issues. The state legislature has been out of session since Nov. 30 and Republicans have been unable to convince Gov. Tom Wolf, a Democrat, to call a special session to address election issues. Wolf said on Dec. 4 that there’s “absolutely no reason” for state legislators to call a special session. “We had a free and fair election and now it’s time to move on,” he wrote on Twitter. State House Rep. Daryl Metcalfe started pushing for Wolf to call a special legislative session in early December. “Due to the extraordinary election activities occurring, it is necessary for the General Assembly be sworn in and organize immediately in order to be actively engaged in continued oversight of this election to ensure the integrity of the process,” Metcalf wrote to Wolf on Dec. 2. Wolf declined and a petition was launched, which is currently signed by 78 House members and 12 senators. Mastriano said the legislature, as a co-equal branch of state government, should be able to come into session without the governor’s approval. He wants to test the constitution by convening through a simple majority vote. “We want to come into session, because we have a crisis on our hands. And let the governor take us to court, let’s fight him on this,” he said. State legislatures are ultimately responsible for carrying out elections in their states and for selecting the electoral college electors to present to Congress. On Dec. 14, Pennsylvania Republicans submitted a dueling slate of electors to the 20 Democratic electors. Six other states also put forth dueling electors for Trump: Wisconsin, Michigan, Georgia, Arizona, Nevada, and New Mexico. The official vote count in Congress on Jan. 6 is expected to be contested. Meanwhile, the Trump campaign this week filed an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse rulings by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court that changed mail-in ballot laws without state legislature involvement. “The fact is, there’s a lot of things that went wrong. And so we need to sort it out,” Mastriano said. “And [Trump] sees that. He’s laser focused on this republic. It’s not about him, it’s about our nation and our republic. If this is allowed to stand, what comes of us? Will we just be a republic in name only? Probably.” Follow Charlotte on Twitter: @charlottecuthbo COVID-19 lockdowns are taking down an independent news outletNobody said running a media site would be easy. We could use some help keeping this site afloat.Colleagues have called me the worst fundraiser ever. My skills are squarely rooted on the journalistic side of running a news outlet. Paying the bills has never been my forte, but we’ve survived. We have ads on the site that help, but since the site’s inception this has been a labor of love that otherwise doesn’t bring in the level of revenue necessary to justify it. When I left a nice, corporate career in 2017, I did so knowing I wouldn’t make nearly as much money. But what we do at NOQ Report to deliver the truth and fight the progressive mainstream media narrative that has plagued this nation is too important for me to sacrifice it for the sake of wealth. We know we’ll never make a ton of money this way, and we’re okay with that. Things have become harder with the coronavirus lockdowns. Both ad money and donations that have kept us afloat for a while have dropped dramatically. We thought we could weather the storm, but the resurgence of lockdowns that mainstream media and Democrats are pushing has put our prospects in jeopardy. In short, we are now in desperate need of financial assistance. The best way NOQ Report readers can help is to donate. Our Giving Fuel page makes it easy to donate one-time or monthly. Alternatively, you can donate through PayPal as well. We need approximately $17,300 to stay afloat through March when we hope the economy will be more open, but more would be wonderful and any amount that brings us closer to our goal is greatly appreciated. The second way to help is to become a partner. We’ve strongly considered seeking angel investors in the past but because we were paying the bills, it didn’t seem necessary. Now, we’re struggling to pay the bills. This shouldn’t be the case as our traffic the last year has been going up dramatically. June, 2018, we had 11,678 visitors. A year later in June, 2019, we were up to 116,194. In June, 2020, we had 614,192. In November, 2020, we hit 1.2 million visitors. We’re heading in the right direction and we believe we’re ready talk to patriotic investors who want to not only “get in on the action” but more importantly who want to help America hear the truth. Interested investors should contact me directly with the contact button above. As the world spirals towards radical progressivism, the need for truthful journalism has never been greater. But in these times, we need as many conservative media voices as possible. Please help keep NOQ Report going.
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| Dr. David Samadi considers running for Mayor of New York City
Posted: 24 Dec 2020 05:24 PM PST There are seven registered Democrats for every one registered Republican in New York City. In fact, there are almost twice as many registered with no-party-affiliation than with the GOP. But the city has been in freefall on multiple fronts under Democratic leadership and residents of the Big Apple may be ready for a change. Are they ready to return to the days when Republican Mayors had the city humming? That’s what Dr. David Samadi is contemplating as he looks at the field and considers running in the upcoming primary as a Republican.
The primary is in June, leaving little time to raise the funds necessary to put forth a serious fight. But Samadi is a popular figure in the state and has allies in the GOP who may be able to give him a boost. Considering Rudy Giuliani and Michael Bloomberg both won as Republicans before Bill de Blasio came in to reverse the progress they had made, it’s possible a well-funded candidate could turn the city red again. Much hinges on whether billionaire mogul John Catsimatidis decides to run. He’s viewed as a strong potential contender, not just because he can self-fund what will be an extremely expensive campaign but also because he is extremely well connected across the city. His daughter, Andrea, is Chair of the Manhattan Republican Party. If Catsimatidis does not run, Samadi seems poised to be a very strong candidate in the primary. His long-standing opposition to the lockdowns that have financially crippled the city has been documented since before the President announced “15 days to slow the spread” in March. He is a proponent of law and order which is desperately needed in the city and his support for President Trump can be appealing considering what has happened with this presidential election. The President garnered over 300,000 more votes in New York City in 2020 than he did in 2016. Former presidential candidate Andrew Yang has filed paperwork to run as one of many Democrats in the city. The current Georgia resident left New York City to vote in the senate runoff election on January 5th, though he’s expected to return to the Big Apple once the election is over. He is currently the frontrunner to get the Democrat nod for mayor. There seems to be little hope for a quick turnaround of the Big Apple’s fading fortunes. But with next year’s mayoral race starting to heat up, the city may be ready for a major change. Dr. David Samadi may be the change they seek. COVID-19 lockdowns are taking down an independent news outletNobody said running a media site would be easy. We could use some help keeping this site afloat.Colleagues have called me the worst fundraiser ever. My skills are squarely rooted on the journalistic side of running a news outlet. Paying the bills has never been my forte, but we’ve survived. We have ads on the site that help, but since the site’s inception this has been a labor of love that otherwise doesn’t bring in the level of revenue necessary to justify it. When I left a nice, corporate career in 2017, I did so knowing I wouldn’t make nearly as much money. But what we do at NOQ Report to deliver the truth and fight the progressive mainstream media narrative that has plagued this nation is too important for me to sacrifice it for the sake of wealth. We know we’ll never make a ton of money this way, and we’re okay with that. Things have become harder with the coronavirus lockdowns. Both ad money and donations that have kept us afloat for a while have dropped dramatically. We thought we could weather the storm, but the resurgence of lockdowns that mainstream media and Democrats are pushing has put our prospects in jeopardy. In short, we are now in desperate need of financial assistance. The best way NOQ Report readers can help is to donate. Our Giving Fuel page makes it easy to donate one-time or monthly. Alternatively, you can donate through PayPal as well. We need approximately $17,300 to stay afloat through March when we hope the economy will be more open, but more would be wonderful and any amount that brings us closer to our goal is greatly appreciated. The second way to help is to become a partner. We’ve strongly considered seeking angel investors in the past but because we were paying the bills, it didn’t seem necessary. Now, we’re struggling to pay the bills. This shouldn’t be the case as our traffic the last year has been going up dramatically. June, 2018, we had 11,678 visitors. A year later in June, 2019, we were up to 116,194. In June, 2020, we had 614,192. In November, 2020, we hit 1.2 million visitors. We’re heading in the right direction and we believe we’re ready talk to patriotic investors who want to not only “get in on the action” but more importantly who want to help America hear the truth. Interested investors should contact me directly with the contact button above. As the world spirals towards radical progressivism, the need for truthful journalism has never been greater. But in these times, we need as many conservative media voices as possible. Please help keep NOQ Report going.
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| Texas ignores CDC guidance, gives vaccine to elderly before essential workers
Posted: 24 Dec 2020 04:37 PM PST Austin, TX – Texas was the first of multiple states to break from the recommendations of an independent advisory panel to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CD) charged with making guidelines for Covid vaccine distribution. Article originally appeared in The Police Tribune. CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) prioritized healthcare workers and nursing home residents for the first available round of vaccines being released into the public arena and most states followed that advice, CNBC reported. Massachusetts opted to also include its first responders, including correctional officers, and prisoners in the first round. But when the panel released guidance for the second round of shots – known as the phase 1b group – on Sunday, there was a bigger split, CNBC reported. CDC guidance said the recipients in the second phase should be people over 74 years of age and 30 million essential workers like police, teachers, and agricultural workers. Texas was the first to announce its own plan on Monday, CNBC reported. The state decided to prioritize everyone 65 years of age or older ahead of essential workers. “The focus on people who are age 65 and older or who have comorbidities will protect the most vulnerable populations,” Imelda Garcia, chair of Texas’ expert vaccine allocation panel and associate commissioner for laboratory and infectious disease services at the Texas Department of State Health Services, said. “This approach ensures that Texans at the most severe risk from Covid-19 can be protected across races and ethnicities and regardless of where they work.” On Tuesday, Florida followed suit and Governor Ron DeSantis announced that everyone 70 years of age and older would be vaccinated ahead of essential workers, CNBC reported. “The vaccines are going to be targeted where the risk is going to be greatest, and that is in our elderly population,” DeSantis told reporters. “We are not going to put young, healthy workers ahead of our elderly, vulnerable population.” ACIP’s guidance is just that – a recommendation of what states should do but not a requirement that they do it, CNBC reported. Vanderbilt University epidemiologist Dr. Bill Schaffner said he expected more states to break with CDC guidance in the coming weeks. Schaffner said states have been working on their distribution plans for months already, and while the advice from the ACIP may be valuable, it arrived too late for many, CNBC reported. “The ACIP recommendation has been earnest, careful, thoughtful, egalitarian, sincere, honest, all those good things, and a little late in coming,” Schaffner said. “I was pretty sure that in our diverse country with 50 states and I can never remember how many territories, there would be some, shall we say, harmonics — variations on a theme.” ACIP members noted in their Dec. 20 recommendations that states should adjust the guidance based on their local situations, CNBC reported. But Schaffner said Texas’ plan was a notable deviation and not just a different interpretation of the CDC recommendations. “It’s not really about right or wrong, but it is about state values,” Dr. Jen Kates, senior vice president and director of global health and HIV policy at the Kaiser Family Foundation, told CNBC. Kates is closely monitoring state vaccine prioritization plans as they are released to the public. “Texas has clearly come down on the side of, ‘we’re going to focus on those who are at greatest risk of illness and death,’” she said. “Basically, it creates a different order for the line, So far, 4.6 million vaccine doses have been given to states but only one million of them were administered in the first 10 days they were available, Business Insider reported. Schaffner said distributing the vaccine to vulnerable populations takes more resources and more money than local health departments have at their disposal, CNBC reported. COVID-19 lockdowns are taking down an independent news outletNobody said running a media site would be easy. We could use some help keeping this site afloat.Colleagues have called me the worst fundraiser ever. My skills are squarely rooted on the journalistic side of running a news outlet. Paying the bills has never been my forte, but we’ve survived. We have ads on the site that help, but since the site’s inception this has been a labor of love that otherwise doesn’t bring in the level of revenue necessary to justify it. When I left a nice, corporate career in 2017, I did so knowing I wouldn’t make nearly as much money. But what we do at NOQ Report to deliver the truth and fight the progressive mainstream media narrative that has plagued this nation is too important for me to sacrifice it for the sake of wealth. We know we’ll never make a ton of money this way, and we’re okay with that. Things have become harder with the coronavirus lockdowns. Both ad money and donations that have kept us afloat for a while have dropped dramatically. We thought we could weather the storm, but the resurgence of lockdowns that mainstream media and Democrats are pushing has put our prospects in jeopardy. In short, we are now in desperate need of financial assistance. The best way NOQ Report readers can help is to donate. Our Giving Fuel page makes it easy to donate one-time or monthly. Alternatively, you can donate through PayPal as well. We need approximately $17,300 to stay afloat through March when we hope the economy will be more open, but more would be wonderful and any amount that brings us closer to our goal is greatly appreciated. The second way to help is to become a partner. We’ve strongly considered seeking angel investors in the past but because we were paying the bills, it didn’t seem necessary. Now, we’re struggling to pay the bills. This shouldn’t be the case as our traffic the last year has been going up dramatically. June, 2018, we had 11,678 visitors. A year later in June, 2019, we were up to 116,194. In June, 2020, we had 614,192. In November, 2020, we hit 1.2 million visitors. We’re heading in the right direction and we believe we’re ready talk to patriotic investors who want to not only “get in on the action” but more importantly who want to help America hear the truth. Interested investors should contact me directly with the contact button above. As the world spirals towards radical progressivism, the need for truthful journalism has never been greater. But in these times, we need as many conservative media voices as possible. Please help keep NOQ Report going.
American Conservative MovementJoin fellow patriots as we form a grassroots movement to advance the cause of conservatism. The coronavirus crisis has prompted many, even some conservatives, to promote authoritarianism. It’s understandable to some extent now, but it must not be allowed to embed itself in American life. We currently have 8000+ patriots with us in a very short time. If you are interested, please join us to receive updates.The post Texas ignores CDC guidance, gives vaccine to elderly before essential workers appeared first on NOQ Report – Conservative Christian News, Opinions, and Quotes. |
| Why we won’t cover the fictional ‘Joe Biden administration’
Posted: 24 Dec 2020 04:27 PM PST We received an email this morning that struck me. It was kind and complimentary towards what we’re doing here at NOQ Report, but it also offered some friendly feedback. Here’s what was suggested:
We love the feedback. Many of the things we do on this site as well as changes we’ve made in the past have come as a direct result of readers making suggestions. I appreciate the sentiment of this email as well and I completely understand where this reader’s head is at. But here’s the thing. We see no reason to cover something we do not believe is going to happen. Before the election, I said there’s a 90% chance President Trump would be reelected. I knew with a near certainty he would win the election if it were fair enough, but I allotted 10% just in case the left pressed voter fraud even more than we anticipated. Clearly, that was the case. But I have not wavered much on my percentage of optimism despite time running short and options thinning out. Today, I’m at 85% sure President Trump will end up victorious. There are two factors in this. First and foremost, God is in charge so the notion that we are out of ways to correct this election is erroneous. Okay, so perhaps WE may have limited options but the Lord is limitless. If He wills it, then President Trump will be victorious. The second reason is tied in nicely with the first. We have the truth on our side. President Trump DID win the election based on the massive landslide he achieved. Without the widespread voter fraud and technological cheating that took place, it would have been an historic win. But they cheated. Thankfully, they had to cheat so badly to overcome the landslide that they left mountains of evidence and statistical anomalies that cannot be explained outside of the fact that they’re attempting a coup. God’s plan is known by Him and Him alone, so I would never presume to say that God will deliver America from the darkness that would almost certainly come if the current fraudulent election results are allowed to stand. I know He can correct this, but He is sovereign and we cannot question His will. Considering the aforementioned reality that we have the truth on our side, I see a likelihood that He will side with truth. Then again, His plan may allow this strong delusion to persist as He brings us closer to judgment. That may seem depressing to many, but it’s actually a further reason to rejoice. Whatever comes from this election, we should praise our Lord for His will being done, even if that means going against what we perceive with or limited understanding of what is best. Covering Joe Biden’s hypothetical cabinet picks, policies, or staff members at this point is meaningless. It’s fodder for conservatives to be reminded of what we already know, that a Biden administration will be disastrous, perhaps even an existential threat to the United States. Thankfully, it’s still only hypothetical. It’s fiction that has a chance of becoming reality. By my reckoning, that chance is around 15%. As I posted earlier this week, my primary focus is on correcting the election by exposing the fraudsters for their crimes. As a secondary focus, we will continue to oppose the lockdowns and all of the lies being told about COVID-19. That is all happening now and while it’s not as pressing as the election, it’s a challenge that will persist. We must continue to fight it regardless of who is declared the winner of the presidential race. We will occasionally cover other issues of importance as they come up, but we will highlight voter fraud and ways to combat it as our main mission until the end. We can speculate about how bad things would be under a Joe Biden administration or we can redirect those efforts towards making sure it never happens. We choose the latter. Stop the steal. COVID-19 lockdowns are taking down an independent news outletNobody said running a media site would be easy. We could use some help keeping this site afloat.Colleagues have called me the worst fundraiser ever. My skills are squarely rooted on the journalistic side of running a news outlet. Paying the bills has never been my forte, but we’ve survived. We have ads on the site that help, but since the site’s inception this has been a labor of love that otherwise doesn’t bring in the level of revenue necessary to justify it. When I left a nice, corporate career in 2017, I did so knowing I wouldn’t make nearly as much money. But what we do at NOQ Report to deliver the truth and fight the progressive mainstream media narrative that has plagued this nation is too important for me to sacrifice it for the sake of wealth. We know we’ll never make a ton of money this way, and we’re okay with that. Things have become harder with the coronavirus lockdowns. Both ad money and donations that have kept us afloat for a while have dropped dramatically. We thought we could weather the storm, but the resurgence of lockdowns that mainstream media and Democrats are pushing has put our prospects in jeopardy. In short, we are now in desperate need of financial assistance. The best way NOQ Report readers can help is to donate. Our Giving Fuel page makes it easy to donate one-time or monthly. Alternatively, you can donate through PayPal as well. We need approximately $17,300 to stay afloat through March when we hope the economy will be more open, but more would be wonderful and any amount that brings us closer to our goal is greatly appreciated. The second way to help is to become a partner. We’ve strongly considered seeking angel investors in the past but because we were paying the bills, it didn’t seem necessary. Now, we’re struggling to pay the bills. This shouldn’t be the case as our traffic the last year has been going up dramatically. June, 2018, we had 11,678 visitors. A year later in June, 2019, we were up to 116,194. In June, 2020, we had 614,192. In November, 2020, we hit 1.2 million visitors. We’re heading in the right direction and we believe we’re ready talk to patriotic investors who want to not only “get in on the action” but more importantly who want to help America hear the truth. Interested investors should contact me directly with the contact button above. As the world spirals towards radical progressivism, the need for truthful journalism has never been greater. But in these times, we need as many conservative media voices as possible. Please help keep NOQ Report going.
American Conservative MovementJoin fellow patriots as we form a grassroots movement to advance the cause of conservatism. The coronavirus crisis has prompted many, even some conservatives, to promote authoritarianism. It’s understandable to some extent now, but it must not be allowed to embed itself in American life. We currently have 8000+ patriots with us in a very short time. If you are interested, please join us to receive updates.The post Why we won’t cover the fictional ‘Joe Biden administration’ appeared first on NOQ Report – Conservative Christian News, Opinions, and Quotes. |
| Viral legal memo calls for new leadership at DoJ to file variation of Texas lawsuit with SCOTUS
Posted: 24 Dec 2020 02:04 PM PST There’s ancient wisdom that says when you’re running out of good ideas, pick the best bad idea and run with it. That seems to be where many Trump supporters are at in the fight against the coup attempt. But a viral legal memo published today by the Western Journal offers more than fodder for Trump supporters to cling to on Christmas Eve. It actually makes some very strong points and takes a slightly different angle on a notion that has been considered since the Supreme Court declined to hear the Texas suit against four contested states. When SCOTUS shot down the Texas lawsuit over standing despite 19 other states joining in, many called on the Trump campaign to refile it. After all, they would clearly have standing and the merits of the lawsuit were arguably strong. But that didn’t happen for a few different reasons, not the least of which that they had their hands full with other lawsuits. Some questioned the efficacy of fighting a legal battle over technicalities when there was direct and demonstrable voter fraud that took place. I was one of those who felt this way. But this new concept, penned by William J. Olson and Patrick M. McSweeney, takes a different angle. Instead of the Trump campaign refiling the lawsuit, it is the duty of the United States of America, represented by the Department of Justice, to file a variation of the Texas suit from a purely constitutional angle. At first glance, I balked. Getting the Department of Justice involved in election affairs would make for bad optics. But upon reading their memo, I realized two things. First, the contention is not that an election was simply unfair but that laws and constitutional standards were broken in the effort to “win” the election for former Vice President Joe Biden. In other words, crimes were allegedly committed and that puts this under the purview of the DoJ, not the Trump campaign alone. Second, optics are no longer valid. Who cares what Democrats, mainstream media, and Big Tech think at this point? They have directly attacked Republicans and conservatives because they control optics. This is too important of a circumstance for us to hesitate just because they’re going to go after us for it. They’re going after us regardless of what we do. We might as well use every possible weapon in our arsenal. With duplicitous Attorney General William Barr handing the reins of the DoJ to Jeffrey Rosen, there should be no roadblocks to make this happen. The United States has unquestionable standing in this situation and the Supreme Court is compelled to hear cases when the federal government sues a state or visa versa. The framework is already in place thanks to Texas. Some tweaking and this lawsuit is ready to go. Many on social media have been all over this since it was released a couple of hours ago, including Trump attorney Jenna Ellis.
It’s imperative for President Trump to order acting-AG Jeffrey Rosen to take action on this now. The constitution is under attack and the republic is at stake. Here is the memo: Overcoming the Court’s Abdication in Texas v. PennsylvaniaWilliam J. Olson & Patrick M. McSweeneyDecember 24, 2020In refusing to hear Texas v. Pennsylvania, the U.S. Supreme Court abdicated its constitutional duty to resolve a real and substantial controversy among states that was properly brought as an original action in that Court. As a result, the Court has come under intense criticism for having evaded the most important inter-state constitutional case brought to it in many decades, if not ever. However, even in its Order dismissing the case, the Supreme Court identified how another challenge could be brought successfully — by a different plaintiff. This paper explains that legal strategy. But first we focus on the errors made by the Supreme Court — in the hopes that they will not be made again. Texas v. PennsylvaniaThe Supreme Court declined to hear the challenge brought by the State of Texas against four states which had refused to abide by Article II, § 1, cl. 2 — the Presidential Electors Clause, which establishes the conditions and requirements governing the election of the President of the United States. In adopting that provision, the Framers vested in each State legislature the exclusive authority to determine the manner of appointing Presidential electors. The Framers’ plan was shown to be exceedingly wise, because we have now learned that allowing other state and private actors to write the election rules led to massive election fraud in the four defendant states. Individuals can be bought, paid for and corrupted so much easier than state legislatures. In refusing to hear the case, the sole reason given was that Texas lacked “standing.” In doing so, all nine justices committed a wrong against: (i) Texas and the 17 states that supported its suit; (ii) the United States; (iii) the President; and (iv) the People. The Court’s Many Wrongs in Texas v. Pennsylvania.As Alexander Hamilton explained in Federalist No. 78, courts have “neither FORCE nor WILL, but merely judgment.” As such, in deciding cases courts have a duty to explain their decisions so the rest of us may know if they constitute arbitrary exercises of political power, or reasoned decisions of judicial power which the People can trust. In Texas v. Pennsylvania, all that the justices felt obligated to do was to state its — “lack of standing” — supported by a one sentence justification: “Texas has not demonstrated a judicially cognizable interest in the manner in which another State conducts its election.” Resolving a case of this magnitude with one conclusory sentence is completely unacceptable. The Supreme Court docket consists primarily of only those cases the High Court chooses to hear. However, just like when it agrees to decide a case, and in disputes where the original jurisdiction of the Court is invoked, it has a duty to decide cases properly brought to them. Two centuries ago, Chief Justice John Marshall construed the obligation of contracts clause in a decision where he wrote: “however irksome the task may be, this is a duty from which we dare not shrink.” Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward, 17 U.S. 518 (1819). Courts have a duty to resolve important cases even if they would prefer to avoid them. In Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. 137 (1803), Marshall described “the duty of the Judicial Department to say what the law is” because “every right, when withheld, must have a remedy, and every injury its proper redress.” Abdication in a case of this sort is not a judicial option. The Supreme Court’s reliance on standing as its excuse has had one positive result — provoking many to study the origins of that doctrine who may be surprised to learn that the word “standing” nowhere appears in the Constitution. There is compelling evidence to demonstrate it was birthed by big-government Justices during the FDR Administration to shield New Deal legislation, and to insulate the Administrative State from challenges by the People. Those who favored the Texas decision argue that standing is a conservative doctrine as it limits the power of the courts — but the true constitutionalist uses only tests grounded in its text. The true threshold constitutional test is whether a genuine and serious “controversy” exists between the States that could be resolved by a court. The only reason given by the Supreme Court was: “Texas has not demonstrated a judicially cognizable interest in the manner in which another State conducts its election.” In truth, Texas did make such a showing. When Pennsylvania violated the exclusive authority bestowed on state legislators in the Constitution’s Electors Clause, it opened the door to corruption and foreign intrigue to corrupt the electoral votes of Pennsylvania, and as Alexander Hamilton explained in Federalist 68, that is exactly why the Framers created the Electoral College. During the 2020 election cycle, changes to the election process in Pennsylvania were made by judges, state office holders and election officials which would never have been made by its state legislature. If the process by which Presidential Electors are chosen is corrupted in a few key states, like Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin by rigging the system in favor of one candidate, it becomes wholly irrelevant who the People of Texas support. That political reality presents a real “judicially cognizable interest” no matter what the Supreme Court decided. What happens in Pennsylvania does not stay in Pennsylvania, as electors from all States acting together select the President of the United States. In the Federalist Papers, both James Madison and Alexander Hamilton recognized the need to combat “the spirit of faction” and the tendency of each State to yield to its immediate interest at the expense of national unity. They reasoned that the Constitution provided a solution to this centrifugal pressure while reserving a measure of sovereignty to each State. When differences arise between States that threaten to lead to disunion, the Republic can be held together, as Hamilton observed, either “by the agency of the Courts or by military force.” A constitutional remedy to enable the States to resolve their differences peacefully is the provision that permits any State to invoke the original jurisdiction of the Supreme Court to address and settle their differences. In the vernacular, the Supreme Court blew it, threatening the bonds that hold the union together. Round Two: The United States Must Enter the FrayFortunately, that might have been only the first round in the fight to preserve the nation. A strategy exists to re-submit the Texas challenge under the Electors Clause to the Supreme Court in a way that even that Court could not dare refuse to consider. Just because Texas did not persuade the Justices that what happens in Pennsylvania hurts Texas does not mean that the United States of America could not persuade the justices that when Pennsylvania violates the U.S. Constitution, it harms the nation. Article III, § 2, cl. 2 confers original jurisdiction on the Supreme Court in any case suit brought by the United States against a state. Thus, the United States can and should file suit against Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin. Like the Texas suit, that new suit would seek an order invalidating the appointment of the electors appointed by those four defendant States that refused to abide by the terms of the Presidential Electors Clause. That would leave it to the state legislatures in those four states to “appoint” electors — which is what the Constitution requires. When those four States violated the Constitution by allowing electors who had not been appointed in the manner prescribed by the state legislature, the United States suffered an injury. Indeed, there could hardly have been a more significant injury to the nation than that which corrupted its Presidential election. The United States has a vital interest and a responsibility to preserve the constitutional framework of the Republic, which was formed by a voluntary compact among the States. As with any contractual relationship of participants in an ongoing enterprise, no party is entitled to ignore or alter the essential terms of the contract by its unilateral action. The President who has sworn to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution has the right and the duty to order the U.S. Department of Justice bring such an action in the Supreme Court — and should do so quickly. Reasons for Great Hope at ChristmasIn rejecting the invocation by the State of Texas of the original jurisdiction of the Supreme Court to resolve the dispute between Texas and four other States that refused to abide by the terms of the Presidential Electors Clause, for now, a majority of the Justices foreclosed the use of that constitutional safeguard by Texas to provide a peaceful means of resolving the controversy that has deeply divided States and the citizens of this Republic as at no time since the 1860s. That consequence is too dangerous to be allowed to stand. If the same case previously brought by Texas were now brought by the United States of America, there is every reason to believe that the Supreme Court would be compelled to understand it must hear it and decide it favorably. Although outcomes are never certain, it is believed and hoped that a majority of the Supreme Court could never take the position that the United States has no business enforcing the process established in the Constitution by which we select the one government official who represents all the People — The President of the United States. COVID-19 lockdowns are taking down an independent news outletNobody said running a media site would be easy. We could use some help keeping this site afloat.Colleagues have called me the worst fundraiser ever. My skills are squarely rooted on the journalistic side of running a news outlet. Paying the bills has never been my forte, but we’ve survived. We have ads on the site that help, but since the site’s inception this has been a labor of love that otherwise doesn’t bring in the level of revenue necessary to justify it. When I left a nice, corporate career in 2017, I did so knowing I wouldn’t make nearly as much money. 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| Georgia congressman releases report claiming election workers ‘purposefully’ committed ballot fraud
Posted: 24 Dec 2020 01:19 PM PST Voter fraud definitely took place in Georgia, and state Sen. William T. Ligon has released the proof. A new bombshell report in his possession lays it all out in simple terms, demonstrating that Georgia Sec. of State Brad Raffensperger, along with the State Elections Board, failed to enforce the law as written in the Georgia Code. They also created and implemented their own policies that directly contradict Georgia state law. Article originally published at Natural News. There was no transparent process in place to verify the signatures on absentee ballots, for instance. There was similarly no process in place for the subsequent “audit” and “recount,” which was just as fraudulent as the first count. Raffensperger also implemented an unconstitutional gag order blocking poll monitors from taking pictures or recording video of the recount as it happened. This facilitated a second round of fraud that only reiterated the first round. All throughout the ballot counting process in Georgia, there was a systemic failure to maintain a proper chain of custody, it was also revealed. Both prior to and after the election, as well as all throughout the recount, ballots were tampered with, altered, counted twice or tossed, depending on the circumstance. Citizen patriots who tried their best to monitor what was going on in order to ensure some level of transparency were treated with suspicion, hatred and hostility – and election officials did nothing to stop it. All in all, it was determined, there were “coordinated illegal activities by election workers themselves who purposely placed fraudulent ballots into the final election totals,” the report explains. To keep up with the latest news about election fraud, be sure to check out Trump.news. When will the evidence of voter fraud switch from informational to prosecutorial?Other revelations in the report include proof that private grants exerted influence over the election process. There was also “ample evidence” in the form of oral and written testimony to prove that the 2020 Georgia General Election was compromised, and thus should not be certified. Bottom line, virtually everything that took place during the election was fraudulent in some way, and the reality of this is incrementally becoming evident as the pieces are deconstructed and analyzed. Though the report has not yet been formally approved by the Subcommittee Chair or the standing Judiciary Committee – and may never be, quite frankly – what it contains is both damning and eye-opening. “It is submitted for informational purposes to be a part of the record at the request of the Judiciary Chair … (and) [i]t is a summary of testimony given in person and by affidavit,” writes Jacob Palmieri for his The Palmieri Report. “For more information, please refer to the video record of the hearing and the affidavits submitted.” The Georgia suitcase scandal is still being investigated as well, with video evidence showing that several poll workers responsible for counting ballots in the Atlanta area committed blatant ballot fraud. As we have been saying for nearly two months, the 2020 election is not over. There is prolific and undeniable proof that Joe Biden is not the winner. It is just a matter of figuring out if anything can and will be done about it, for the sake of our tattered and embattled republic. “It’s an urban problem, as well as (a problem of) political hacks in office because of previous voter fraud,” wrote one of our own commenters about the situation in Georgia. “People need to start going to jail.” If you would like to learn more about what attorney Sidney Powell is doing to fight election fraud, be sure to visit her website. Sources for this article include: COVID-19 lockdowns are taking down an independent news outletNobody said running a media site would be easy. We could use some help keeping this site afloat.Colleagues have called me the worst fundraiser ever. My skills are squarely rooted on the journalistic side of running a news outlet. Paying the bills has never been my forte, but we’ve survived. 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Interested investors should contact me directly with the contact button above. As the world spirals towards radical progressivism, the need for truthful journalism has never been greater. But in these times, we need as many conservative media voices as possible. Please help keep NOQ Report going.
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| Our upside-down postelection world
Posted: 24 Dec 2020 01:12 PM PST After Nov. 3, the meaning of some words and concepts abruptly changed. Have you noticed how new realities have replaced old ones? Media cross-examination of the president is now an out-of-date idea. The time for gotcha questions has come and gone. Why ask a president whether he is a traitor or a crook when you can focus on his favorite flavor of milkshake or compliment him on his socks? Article originally published at Daily Signal. The old pre-election truth was that new vaccines take years to develop. The new postelection truth is that it’s no big deal to bring out new vaccines in nine months. Impeaching a first-term president after his first midterm election—on a strictly partisan vote, for political reasons other than the Constitution’s “treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors”—is now a terrible idea. Worse would be to appoint a special counsel to harass a president on unfounded charges of collusion with China. An even scarier notion would be a conservative dream team of partisan lawyers hounding a President Joe Biden—using a 22-month, $40 million blank check. It would be unprofessional for university psychologists and physicians from a distance to diagnose, in pop fashion, the mental faculties of a President Biden. Certainly, there would never be talk about Department of Justice officials contemplating wearing a wire as part of an entrapment scheme to remove a President Biden through the 25th Amendment. That would almost constitute a coup attempt. Almost as bad would be for the holdover FBI director to start “memorializing” his private conversations with Biden on FBI devices. He might then leak such memos to the press—just in case he were to be fired for secretly investigating Biden for “Chinese collusion” and then lying about such a probe. What happened to the Logan Act? Not long ago it was assumed to be a critically needed guardrail. Wouldn’t it now ensure that presidential transition team members were not calling foreign leaders while Donald Trump is still president? How has it suddenly become a defunct, ossified relic? Leaking classified material would be about the worst thing government officials could do. Imagine if a Trump holdover, burrowed into the new Biden administration, released a transcript of Biden’s private conversations with the Mexican president or the Australian prime minister. Such a breach of trust would be almost as bad as a turncoat anti-Biden mole seeking to resist presidential directives. Imagine if this anonymous staffer were given an op-ed in The New York Times to claim that a cadre of old-time Democrats was shocked by Biden’s cognitive decline and resisting his directives. Is extending security clearances to former high-level officials-turned-cable TV pundits still a bad idea? Who would wish to see, for instance, former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe issuing warnings each night on Fox News? With a wink-and-nod hat tip to his “confidential sources,” Ratcliffe could spin conspiracy theories that Biden is facing bombshell disclosures about his family misadventures with the Chinese. Is it still important that we keep the tradition of retired high-ranking military officers—all subject to the requirements of the Uniform Code of Military Justice—not disparaging the president? Who would want former Pentagon officials, some of them serving on the boards of military contractors, warning us that Biden should be removed because of cognitive challenges? Certainly, generals and admirals should not compare a President Biden’s policies to those of Mussolini or the Nazis. At least “dark money” no longer exists. The old idea of right-wing billionaires pouring money into candidates’ political campaigns was supposedly a dangerous practice. It would be far more civic-minded for left-wing billionaires to pour hundreds of millions of dollars into the coffers of nonpartisan state bureaucracies entrusted with guaranteeing the sanctity of national elections. And apparently after, not before, an election is the proper time to announce critically important news. Like the rollout of a safe and effective COVID-19 vaccine? Like a $900 billion stimulus package? Like a revised upward Fannie Mae report on the economy? Like the ties between a Democratic member of the House Intelligence Committee and a suspected Chinese spy? Like a federal investigation of Biden’s son and his possible profiteering with rich Chinese elites affiliated with China’s government? To keep track of our brave new American world is easy. Just consider everything said to be bad by the “Animal Farm” media before Nov. 3 as now good. And remember that everything said to be good two months ago is now actually bad. COVID-19 lockdowns are taking down an independent news outletNobody said running a media site would be easy. We could use some help keeping this site afloat.Colleagues have called me the worst fundraiser ever. My skills are squarely rooted on the journalistic side of running a news outlet. Paying the bills has never been my forte, but we’ve survived. We have ads on the site that help, but since the site’s inception this has been a labor of love that otherwise doesn’t bring in the level of revenue necessary to justify it. When I left a nice, corporate career in 2017, I did so knowing I wouldn’t make nearly as much money. But what we do at NOQ Report to deliver the truth and fight the progressive mainstream media narrative that has plagued this nation is too important for me to sacrifice it for the sake of wealth. We know we’ll never make a ton of money this way, and we’re okay with that. Things have become harder with the coronavirus lockdowns. Both ad money and donations that have kept us afloat for a while have dropped dramatically. We thought we could weather the storm, but the resurgence of lockdowns that mainstream media and Democrats are pushing has put our prospects in jeopardy. In short, we are now in desperate need of financial assistance. The best way NOQ Report readers can help is to donate. Our Giving Fuel page makes it easy to donate one-time or monthly. Alternatively, you can donate through PayPal as well. We need approximately $17,300 to stay afloat through March when we hope the economy will be more open, but more would be wonderful and any amount that brings us closer to our goal is greatly appreciated. The second way to help is to become a partner. We’ve strongly considered seeking angel investors in the past but because we were paying the bills, it didn’t seem necessary. Now, we’re struggling to pay the bills. This shouldn’t be the case as our traffic the last year has been going up dramatically. June, 2018, we had 11,678 visitors. A year later in June, 2019, we were up to 116,194. In June, 2020, we had 614,192. In November, 2020, we hit 1.2 million visitors. We’re heading in the right direction and we believe we’re ready talk to patriotic investors who want to not only “get in on the action” but more importantly who want to help America hear the truth. Interested investors should contact me directly with the contact button above. As the world spirals towards radical progressivism, the need for truthful journalism has never been greater. But in these times, we need as many conservative media voices as possible. Please help keep NOQ Report going.
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| ’Twas the Night before Christmas, and All through the Swamp…
Posted: 24 Dec 2020 10:48 AM PST ’Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the Swamp, The creatures were festive and bloated with pomp; They’d finally done it, though it had taken four years, Sent Donald Trump packing, reduced his supporters to tears.
They failed with collusion; impeachment was wholly a wreck; But stuffing untraceable ballots had had its effect; Who needs to win voters when the vote counters reign, And machines can be programmed to switch from Trump’s to Biden’s name?
China’s timely virus shut Trump’s economy down, And giddy Democrats wasted no time going to town; “We have a chance now,” said Rahm, “to actually win this race; Like the good book says: ‘Let no crisis go to waste.’
“We’ll print mail-in ballots across battleground states, Flood the election with fraud and false postmark dates, Eliminate signature checks and voter ID, Rewrite election laws with no authority.
“If Republicans call out what we’re doing And accuse us of theft, We’ll call them all racists; The press’ll take care of the rest. Politicians are too scared to stand up for the truth, When the race card is played at each voting booth.
“Reporters make it easy, Because they’re all on our side; We could get caught like Jeffrey Toobin, And they’d still cover up our lies.”
The plan went into motion with hardly a hitch, Because Soros bought each district attorney and judge he could get; To certify vote counts, Dems needed secretaries of state, too; So they got to work making sure each red office turned blue. If the vote counters cheat, and the results are treated as true, Then what in the world could Donald Trump do?
Go to the courts, or hope state legislatures protest? He’ll find no help there; they’re as corrupt as the rest; The Judicial Branch is no place for the truth; Politicians in robes will find the whole mess just moot;
If fraud has been vouched for and passes state tests, Why would Chief Justice Roberts interfere with this mess? He hates the president just as much as Dems do, And he won’t say a thing when Dems pack his Court, too.
Establishment Republicans have chosen Wall Street’s side; They like China’s money and have deep China ties; They’re paid to support illegal immigration and the outsourcing of jobs; They can’t wait until they’re rid of Donald Trump and his mob.
They might pretend that they’re loyal for that sweet campaign cash, But, to them, the MAGA agenda is an unpleasant rash; If it weren’t for Senator Burr keeping the Russia hoax lit, Schiff’s lies about Trump would have looked like tantrums and fits; Instead, Decepticons gave Pelosi cover to fight the White House for years, Hid Deep State crimes, and laughed at all of Trump’s fears.
You can win the will of the people, And promise to “Make America Great,” But if you think Swamp creatures change, Then you’ll die as you wait.
Fox News can be flipped; The Drudge Report, too; It’s like O’Sullivan says: What’s not strictly red quickly turns blue.
Just look at Bill Kristol, Steve Schmidt, and the NeverTrump Rump, Who have made it their mission to resist everything Trump; They controlled the Republican Party and ran it for years, But now miss no chance to kiss Socialist rears;
They have principles, see, and those can’t be betrayed, Unless big money Democrats make sure that they’re paid; Then they’ll peddle Obamacare to the masses, Throw conservatives’ beliefs in doubt, Anything necessary to kick Trump people out.
For them, it’s not about freedom or personal rights; It’s the power they crave, and Trump whom they spite; Only the right people may rule, not the Normals, you see; Communists are fine as long as they’ve got Harvard degrees; But as soon as you bring the MAGA crowd in, Republicans will do anything to make sure Democrats win.
Tea Partiers won the House, the Senate, and the presidency, too, And each step of the way, Republicans had no clue what to do; Spineless, it seems, or merely bad at their jobs, Or maybe good at using their offices as opportunities to rob.
Republican leaders, for sure, don’t give a wit; If you still have your doubts, just look at Mitt, A miserable man who enjoys flexing his morals, While betraying his voters and following Chuck Schumer’s orders;
He’s righteous and pure and stands at the ready, Biding his time until it’s time to be petty; Then facing the cameras and standing perfectly straight, He’ll turn Biden’s corruption into Trump’s impeachment posthaste.
Mitt’s just the Republican to head the party’s next electoral charge; When Dems need the GOP to lose, Mitt never makes it look hard. That was always the problem with President Trump; He was way too effective at leading the chumps.
He said what he meant, and he meant what he said, And nothing could fill Washington with more fear or more dread; An outsider president who’s beloved by the mob, Who actually does what he says and thinks it’s part of his job;
A man who believes that Americans should put America first, Is nothing for K Street but a problem and curse; If taking money from foreign nations is not part of the job, Then how can D.C. continue to rob?
Soon people would begin to think on their own, Ignore news propaganda and the Tweets on their phones, Start demanding balanced budgets, gun rights, and good jobs, Praise American history and see Marxists as knobs.
Who would keep Americans divided and ready to fight, If President Trump were allowed to do what he’s promised is right? Increasing American wealth and sending the nation back into space Might inspire Americans to look past one person’s race. If MAGA succeeds and jobs come back home, Then who will be left to complain and to moan?
The Swamp loves money and power but runs on division; It won’t survive very long without hate and derision; And you can’t rule over others if they all just say, “No!” For these reasons alone, Trump had to go.
The Deep State, not the people, decides what comes next, Not some commander-in-chief behind the Resolute desk. Without grift and corruption, Washington has nothing to do; So you see the Swamp had no choice but to keep pushing its coup.
If voters became Minutemen and pushed D.C. aside, Then all its control would disappear with its lies; Americans would take over, rule themselves, Decide when to wear masks and how to live well.
They’d topple local tyrants and refuse federal taxes, Simplify laws and end IRS madness, Burn all the red tape and all the senseless green rules, Take back their lands and their Constitution, too!
Until Trump voters rebel, Nothing will change; Swamp creatures believe this is all just a game; Corruptocrats don’t care that MAGA is mad; There’s only one principle in D.C.: Orange Man Bad. Image via Branco.
COVID-19 lockdowns are taking down an independent news outletNobody said running a media site would be easy. We could use some help keeping this site afloat.Colleagues have called me the worst fundraiser ever. My skills are squarely rooted on the journalistic side of running a news outlet. Paying the bills has never been my forte, but we’ve survived. We have ads on the site that help, but since the site’s inception this has been a labor of love that otherwise doesn’t bring in the level of revenue necessary to justify it. When I left a nice, corporate career in 2017, I did so knowing I wouldn’t make nearly as much money. But what we do at NOQ Report to deliver the truth and fight the progressive mainstream media narrative that has plagued this nation is too important for me to sacrifice it for the sake of wealth. We know we’ll never make a ton of money this way, and we’re okay with that. Things have become harder with the coronavirus lockdowns. Both ad money and donations that have kept us afloat for a while have dropped dramatically. We thought we could weather the storm, but the resurgence of lockdowns that mainstream media and Democrats are pushing has put our prospects in jeopardy. In short, we are now in desperate need of financial assistance. The best way NOQ Report readers can help is to donate. Our Giving Fuel page makes it easy to donate one-time or monthly. Alternatively, you can donate through PayPal as well. We need approximately $17,300 to stay afloat through March when we hope the economy will be more open, but more would be wonderful and any amount that brings us closer to our goal is greatly appreciated. The second way to help is to become a partner. We’ve strongly considered seeking angel investors in the past but because we were paying the bills, it didn’t seem necessary. Now, we’re struggling to pay the bills. This shouldn’t be the case as our traffic the last year has been going up dramatically. June, 2018, we had 11,678 visitors. A year later in June, 2019, we were up to 116,194. In June, 2020, we had 614,192. In November, 2020, we hit 1.2 million visitors. We’re heading in the right direction and we believe we’re ready talk to patriotic investors who want to not only “get in on the action” but more importantly who want to help America hear the truth. Interested investors should contact me directly with the contact button above. As the world spirals towards radical progressivism, the need for truthful journalism has never been greater. But in these times, we need as many conservative media voices as possible. Please help keep NOQ Report going.
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- The Power of Christmas
| Merry Christmas 2020
Posted: 24 Dec 2020 10:22 PM PST  Christ’s Birth! Merry Christmas 2020! From: Dr. Bill Smith, Editor & our Contributors ARRA News Service ARRA News Service On Facebook Tags: ARRA News Service, Christmas, Merry Christmas, 2017, Christ’s BirthTo share or post to your site, click on “Post Link”. Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service and “Like” Facebook Page – Thanks! |
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| Are ‘Never Trumpers’ the Future of the GOP?
Posted: 24 Dec 2020 10:11 PM PST
The anti-Trumpers and “Never Trumpers” celebrating at Christmas 2020, in this “dark winter” of Joe Biden’s depiction, are assuring each other that Trumpism and Trump are dead and gone for good in four weeks. The future of the GOP, they suggest, belongs to the Republicans who resisted and renounced Trump through the last five years of his candidacy and presidency. As for those cowards and collaborators who stood by Trump and refused to repudiate him, they will, in turn, be repudiated by history and the American electorate alike. The wish, here, is very much the father to the thought. For if the past is any guide, not only are the reports of the death of Trumpism premature, the probability is that Trumpism has put down roots in our national politics that are not soon, if ever, going to be pulled up. For those of us of a certain age, a comparable situation arose at Christmas 1964. Barry Goldwater had just been crushed in a 44-state landslide, winning the votes of only 27 million Americans. The senator had carried only five states of the Deep South and his home state of Arizona. The establishment saw in the crushing of Goldwater the defeat and rout of the “extremist” movement that had produced him. “The Party That Lost Its Head” was the title of a widely hailed post-election book by two Ripon Society Republicans. The establishment consensus was that Govs. Nelson Rockefeller of New York, William Scranton of Pennsylvania and George Romney of Michigan were the future of the party, if it was to have a future. What followed? Richard Nixon, who had stood by Goldwater when the party’s liberal elite abandoned him, would lead the GOP to recapture 47 House seats in 1966, take the presidency in 1968, and run up a 49 state landslide in 1972. Thus began a period of GOP presidential ascendancy, with Nixon, Reagan and Bush I winning five of six elections from 1968 to 1988, until the first baby boomer president, Bill Clinton, arrived on the scene. And while there are differences between now and then, there are many similarities. Do the anti-Trumpers or “Never Trumpers” represent the future of the GOP? If so, where is the postwar precedent for this? No Republican who turned his back on Goldwater was ever nominated for president or vice president following Goldwater’s defeat. When President Gerald Ford put Rockefeller on his ticket after taking over from President Nixon, the Kansas City convention of 1976 demanded Rockefeller’s removal as the price of party unity. Rockefeller was sacrificed, as the right had demanded. Four years after Ford’s defeat, Mr. Conservative himself, Ronald Reagan, Goldwater’s most effective surrogate in 1964, was nominated and won successive landslides in 1980 and 1984. Other factors and forces point to the probability that Trumpism has a major role in the party’s future. Where Presidents Truman, Nixon, and George W. Bush left office with approval ratings in the 20s, Trump’s approval rating is still in the 40s, where it has been for the duration of his presidency. Second, the issues that propelled Trump to the nomination and the Oval Office still resonate with the American people. Among them are mass migration, insecure borders and dependency upon foreign imports for the necessities of our national life. Moreover, there is shrinking support for a foreign policy that has us tied down militarily in Europe, East Asia and the Middle East, to fight if need be, in the defense of scores of nations, few of which have a direct bearing on the national security of the United States. Another issue Trump elevated and exploited that is more acute now than in 2016, is a distrust of the media, the “deep state” and the political, cultural and academic establishments that have alienated the 74 million who voted for Trump. And if the past is prologue, the Republican Party will make a major comeback in 2022. Consider. Two years after his smashing victory over Goldwater, LBJ and his party lost 47 House seats. Ronald Reagan, after his landslide in 1980, lost 26 House seats in 1982. After routing Bush I in 1992, Bill Clinton lost 54 House seats and the Senate. Two years after winning the presidency, Barack Obama lost both the House and Senate in 2014. Is it likely Joe Biden will be celebrating his 80th birthday after making history by leading his party to control of Congress in 2022? For Republicans, the nomination of 2024 is a prize to be sought. However, if one has spent the last four years trashing Trump, it may be as out of reach as it was for Rocky. Tags: Patrick J. Buchanan, Rasmussen Reports, Are ‘Never Trumpers’ the Future of the GOPTo share or post to your site, click on “Post Link”. Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service and “Like” Facebook Page – Thanks! |
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| Porkulus
Posted: 24 Dec 2020 09:52 PM PST Pelosi and the Democrat’s priorities seem to be everyone and everything but Americans who are hurting.  Tags: AF Branco, Editorial cartoon, PorkulusTo share or post to your site, click on “Post Link”. Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service and “Like” Facebook Page – Thanks! |
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| The Real Stakes of the War on Christmas
Posted: 24 Dec 2020 09:43 PM PST If only Americans would “listen to the science” and stop believing in “superstitions.”
 by Bruce Thornton: This year the annual attacks on Christmas went beyond complaints about holiday salutations or public creches. Blue-state governors and mayors like California’s Gavin Newsom and government clerks like Anthony Fauci have issued diktats forbidding even private celebrations of Christmas by more than one family at a time. These orders follow on this year’s lockdown protocols that made liquor stores, pot dispensaries, and violent protests “essential,” while church services were verboten.These assaults on faith illustrate how far secularism has infiltrated our culture. And although in some states the Supreme Court has struck down such restrictions on the First Amendment’s freedoms of religion and assembly, this tactical victory will not stop the strategic advances being made by those who want to remove God from public life in order to monopolize the authority to tell us how we should live and what we should believe.The justifications for these violations of the Bill of Rights reflect another dimension of secularization, the process of removing God and faith from public life. Alleged scientific advances in understanding human nature and motivation have made religion irrelevant, if not dangerous for the ongoing progress toward utopia that will follow once we “listen to the science” and stop believing in irrational “superstitions” and “illusions.”
Yet this past year has shown over and over that the “science” is not quite as reliable or efficacious as its champions claim. The attempt to stop religious services and Christmas celebrations, for example, is based on the notion that severe “lockdowns” will halt the spread of the virus. But extensive data from the U.S. and Europe show that indiscriminate lockdowns, rather than protecting the most vulnerable, at best just postpone the spread. New York’s high rate of mortality occurred amongst some of the most severe restrictions in the country, whereas Florida, with a larger population that includes the most vulnerable elderly, saw fewer people die despite less draconian lockdown restrictions. Moreover, those calling for lockdowns presumably to save the lives of old people already dying of other ailments seem not to care that the consequences of shutting down schools and the economy fall heavily on the young, whether students, workers, or small business owners, even though 99.95% of people under 70 will not die from the virus. The result of this sledge-hammer approach that harms the least vulnerable to the virus has been an increase in “deaths of despair” like drug overdoses and suicides: “Among 25- to 44-year-olds, the CDC reports a 26% increase in excess all-cause mortality relative to past years, though less than 5% of 2020 deaths have been due to Covid-19,” report Jay Bhattacharya, a professor at Stanford’s Medical School, and Sunetra Gupta, a professor of epidemiology at Oxford. But for decades our technocratic rulers have displayed the same callous myopia in carrying out other policies that allegedly “follow the science.” Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming––rebranded as “Climate Change” once its projections of future warming started being contradicted by empirical evidence––is based on the century-old “greenhouse warming” hypothesis applied to the most complex, non-living natural system on the planet. We as yet do not understand with scientific certainty and precision how all the factors contributing to global climate––which covers 95,000,000 square miles of earth and unfolds over billions of years––actually works. Yet despite that uncertainty, policies are proposed or put in place for eliminating fossil fuels, the cheapest energy we have, the cost of which policies fall on the most vulnerable, particularly in the developing world that desperately needs cheap electricity to grow their economies and improve their health and well-being. This technocratic mind-set, this faith put not in a transcendent God but in fallible human sciences, has been the heart of progressivism for over a hundred years. Contrary to the tragic sensibility of both our Classical and Judeo-Christian traditions, progressivism claimed that armed with new “human sciences” like psychology, economics, and sociology, empowered elites could take control of human evolution and improve people until the evils of human existence would be eliminated and all would live in democratic freedom and prosperity: “Democracy,” progressive theorist Herbert Croly claimed, “must stand or fall on a platform of possible human perfectibility.” Yet if we look for empirical evidence of such improvement, we won’t find it in the century of progressivism’s development. Yes, we have seen remarkable improvements in material life, but who can claim commensurate moral progress in the blood-spattered century of two world wars, the Holocaust, and the political murders of 100 million people based on an ideology, communism, that fancied itself a “science” of history? Or in the decades-long domination of eugenics and “scientific racism” in this country, which disguised in numerical data and technical jargon the ancient, dehumanizing bigotries based on superficial appearance, tribal parochialism, and social disorder shaped by poverty and tyranny? What that history does show is the truth of Immanuel Kant’s observation: “From the crooked timber of humanity nothing straight can be made.” This means that in the end technocracy is an ideology of power and domination necessary for trying to “improve” a permanently “crooked” human nature. We have witnessed this truth in the unseemly eagerness of progressive governors and mayors to issue arbitrary orders disrupting and damaging the lives of the people whom they allegedly serve and to whom they are supposedly accountable. This petty tyranny reveals what they really think about people who won’t fall in line: they are “deplorables” who don’t “believe in science” and so must be subjected to the stern tutelage of their smarter, more righteous betters. Finally, the domination by technocrats is politically dangerous. Tyrannies of every sort share a preference for concentrating power and eliminating or co-opting all mediating institutions––family, faith, business, education–– that the tyrant cannot control, or that differ in their foundational beliefs and aims from those of the ruling elite. No one can dispute that a hundred years of progressive-inspired policies and regulatory encroachments have narrowed the scope of freedom for civil society, states, and citizens. The lockdown policies this year have graphically demonstrated this ancient truth of tyranny. The desire to dominate and control others in order to satisfy one’s own interests and pride is not an anomaly caused by the environment, but is latent in all of us. And power is the instrument of that desire. Yet the lust for power is never sated, but always seeks to expand. The Founders understood this truth, which is why they created a constitutional order that balances and checks its various powers in order to prevent that aggrandizement of control over the lives of others that ends in tyranny. That’s why progressivism has chafed at that order from the beginning. A technocracy of cognitive elites based on alleged scientific expertise cannot cede authority to any other social institution or principles that can challenge it. We have seen that tendency not just in the response to the coronavirus, but also in the calls to eliminate the Electoral College or make the number of senators proportionate to population. The indistinguishable, anonymous mass of the abstract “people” are easier to control or bribe than are the diverse peoples with their different mores, customs, principles, and faiths. And that has always been the point of the war on Christmas––keeping faith out of the public square and confined to the realm of the private, where it cannot challenge the power and authority of the technocratic elite. It’s one front in the war that the secular technocracy has been waging for over a century that has witnessed the insidious and incremental erosion of our foundational political liberties. We are one Senate runoff-election away from finding out if that progressive ambition to control even more of our society––an effort stymied by Donald Trump’s administration––will return and move us to even more erosion of our political liberties. That’s the real stakes of the war on Christmas. Tags: Bruce Thornton, The Real Stakes, of the War, on ChristmasTo share or post to your site, click on “Post Link”. Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service and “Like” Facebook Page – Thanks! |
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| Messianic Prophecy
Posted: 24 Dec 2020 09:26 PM PST
The Bible is unique in many ways, especially when it comes to fulfilled prophecy. At the time when it was written, 27 percent (1800 verses) of the Bible was prophetic. Large portions of those prophecies have been fulfilled, and that is a powerful argument for the inspiration of the Bible. What is the probability that these Messianic prophecies could be fulfilled in the life of one person by chance? Peter Stoner, in his book Science Speaks, calculated the probability of just eight Messianic prophecies being fulfilled by chance. These included the prophecy in Micah 5:2 that the Messiah would be born in Bethlehem. Another was Malachi 3:1 that predicted that a messenger would prepare the way for the Messiah. Four of the prophecies were from Zechariah. They predicted that the Messiah would be betrayed: by a friend, for 30 pieces of silver, and it would be used to buy a potter’s field. Another prophecy said that the Messiah would die by being pierced (crucified). Multiplying all of these probabilities together, Peter Stoner came up with a number of 10 to the 17th power. In other words, the chance that just eight prophecies could be fulfilled by chance is one in one hundred quadrillion. In order to illustrate this, he says imagine we could fill the state of Texas with silver dollars two feet deep. Put a red mark on one and then ask a blindfolded person to travel anywhere in the state. The chance that he would pick up the marked silver dollar on the first try would be one in one hundred quadrillion. The conclusion is simple. Jesus is indeed the Messiah predicted by the prophets. Tags: Kerby Anderson, Point of View, Messianic ProphecyTo share or post to your site, click on “Post Link”. Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service and “Like” Facebook Page – Thanks! |
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| The Birth Of Christ And The Birth Of America Are Linked
Posted: 24 Dec 2020 09:17 PM PST
by Chuck Baldwin: As tomorrow is the day in which we commemorate the virgin birth of the Lord Jesus Christ, I am reminded of a quote by John Quincy Adams. On July 4, 1837, he spoke these words: America’s forebears first established a written covenant with God as early as November 11, 1620, when they penned The Mayflower Compact. It states in part: The Declaration of Independence states, “[Men] are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” It also states that these rights are “self-evident” and that they were formed by the “Laws of Nature.” These principles are also taken directly from the Scriptures—and from Natural Law fathers such as Hugo Grotius, John Locke, Samuel Von Pufendorf, Emer de Vattel and Charles Montesquieu. Furthermore, one cannot read what these men wrote without quickly observing that they formed their writings largely on the Scriptures. The signers of our Declaration of Independence could have never imagined that individual states would deny their citizens the right to bear arms. They could have never dreamed that the American people would be denied the right to be free from warrantless searches—which takes place every day throughout this country. I am also confident that America’s founders would be completely repulsed by the way the United States has jumped headlong into welfarism, corporatism and Zionism. At the national level, Democrats and Republicans alike have created a central government so large that it would be unrecognizable to any founding father—even Alexander Hamilton. Big Business sucks feverishly at the teat of Big Government; the major media has become little more than a propaganda ministry of Big Government; corporate 501c3 churches view Big Government as a god to be worshipped and subjugated by; and America (including and especially its Christians and churches) seems to be drunk on the perpetual wars and entangling alliances of the neocon Warfare State. And over the last nine months, we have learned that a vast percentage of the American people (including and especially its Christians and churches) are more than willing to submit to the most unconstitutional, tyrannical and devilish dictates imaginable, when they are couched under the guise of medical safety. More than anything else, the phony corona pandemic has proven that a host of Americans are already slaves in their souls. Surely, our Founding Fathers must be turning over in their graves. Therefore, it behooves us to recommit ourselves to our nation’s founding principles. Furthermore, let us renew with vigor the fight for freedom before our liberties and heritage disappear altogether. John Quincy Adams was right. The birth of Christ and the birth of America are indissolubly linked. Merry Christmas, America. Dr. Chuck Baldwin is the Pastor of Liberty Fellowship in Kalispell, Montana. Dr. Baldwin is Talk Radio Show Host for ” Chuck Baldwin Live.” He addresses current event topics from a conservative Christian point of view. Chuck Baldwin is a writer/columnist whose articles and political commentaries are carried by a host of Internet sites, newspapers, news magazines and the ARRA News Service. Tags: Chuck Baldwin, The Birth of Christ, The Birth of America, Are LinkedTo share or post to your site, click on “Post Link”. Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service and “Like” Facebook Page – Thanks! |
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| Why Congress Can’t Read
Posted: 24 Dec 2020 08:55 PM PST
No one reads the legislation Congress passes, not the staffers and lobbyists who write “the packages” and congress people least of all, as again illustrated by the recent 5,593-page, $2.3 trillion pandemic-relief-plus-kitchen-sink bill just passed by Congress. They haven’t for decades. Nor do they care to. James Bovard, expert reporter on the excesses of the modern individual-stomping state, says the new monster-bill “is another warning that know-nothing, no-fault legislating will be the death of our republic unless Americans can severely reduce Congress’s prerogative to meddle in their lives.” Correct. Problem is, it’s Congress that must enact reform — on itself. Talk about a conflict of interest! That’s why the citizen initiative process has been so important at the state level. Without democratic checks — initiative, referendum, recall — at the federal level, what major reform is even possible? All big, necessary reforms hit a roadblock on that issue alone. That goes for limiting the page-length of bills or requiring legislation be posted online for days if not weeks before a vote. Same for congressional term limits, which would de-insulate Congress from us. And, just so, with the late columnist Bob Novak’s proposal of smaller districts, maybe increasing the number of U.S. representative to 2,000. (It wouldn’t cost taxpayers anything more if we cut their pay.) More politicians might be better than fewer by decreasing the power of individual politicians — diminishing marginal power, you might say. We find ourselves in a trap. These ideas amount to ways to avoid the trap once we are out of it. But it is getting out of the trap that’s the hard part. Any ideas? Please advise. You can be sure your good ideas will be read — not by Congress, of course, but by those of us who want a way out. This is Common Sense. I’m Paul Jacob. Tags: Paul Jacob, Why Congress Can’t ReadTo share or post to your site, click on “Post Link”. Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service and “Like” Facebook Page – Thanks! |
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| Trump Threatens to Veto Covid Recovery, Omnibus Bill, Targeting Wasteful Spending and Pushing for More Relief
Posted: 24 Dec 2020 08:39 PM PST
“I am asking Congress to amend this bill and increase the ridiculously low $600 to $2,000 or $4,000 for a couple. I’m also asking Congress to immediately get rid of the wasteful and unnecessary items from this legislation and to send me a suitable bill or else the next administration will have to deliver a Covid relief package,” Trump said from the White House on Dec. 22. Additionally, President Trump said that small businesses were not getting enough out of the bill: “[N]ot enough money is given to small businesses. And in particular, restaurants, whose owners have suffered so grievously. They were only given a deduction for others to use in business, their restaurant, for two years. This two-year period must be withdrawn, which will allow the owners to obtain financing and get their restaurants back in condition. Congress can terminate it at a much later date, but two years is not acceptable. It’s not enough.” Here, Trump is referring to the a $280 billion renewal of the Paycheck Protection Program that saved as many as 5.2 million small businesses and 50 million jobs last spring. That is a little more than half of what small businesses got in the CARES Act this past spring. Among the wasteful spending items, President Trump cited,
$3 million in poultry production technology,
The bill also allows stimulus checks for the family members of illegal aliens, allowing them to get up to $1,800 each. This is far more than the Americans are given.” Here, Trump has a good point to make, which is that by combining the annual omnibus spending bill — with its usual litany of wasteful line items — and the Covid relief, which is urgently needed, more than half of the spending in the $2.3 trillion package have almost nothing to do with addressing the Covid pandemic and its economic fallout. But the President also has precious little time to do much about it. Here, the President can either renegotiate the legislation, veto it now (which would likely be overridden by Congress), or use a rare pocket veto, by simply not signing before the Congressional session ends on Jan. 3, and then, as he said, “the next administration will have to deliver a Covid relief package…” But that potentially means Joe Biden getting a must-pass piece of legislation, that is, government spending plus Covid relief, in his first 100 days in office. Recall, the $150 billion states bailout that was in the bill last month has now been removed. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) wanted $875 billion to bail out states in her $3 trillion version of Covid relief, and will likely want it revived again if she gets another bite at the apple in January. And it is unclear which party will be in charge of the U.S. Senate next year with the Georgia runoffs still ongoing. As Senate Republicans consider the President’s demands, it’s something they would do well to consider. So, there are risks involved with the President’s strategy. The question is whether the legislation can get any better right now. It might, but only if the President can successfully renegotiate the legislation before Jan. 3 and pull out the wasteful spending, and provide more needed relief to small businesses and the American people. But President Trump has a rapidly diminishing window of opportunity to act, and after Jan. 3, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) will have very little incentive to do another deal prior to Jan. 20, potentially handing Biden a big opportunity to enact his agenda in January. Stay tuned. Tags: Robert Romano, Americans for Limited Government, Trump Threatens, to Veto Covid Recovery, Omnibus Bill, Targeting Wasteful Spending, and Pushing for More ReliefTo share or post to your site, click on “Post Link”. Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service and “Like” Facebook Page – Thanks! |
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| Americans Said No to Coronavirus Contact Tracing Spy Apps
Posted: 24 Dec 2020 08:14 PM PST
In October, Governor Cuomo launched a New York contact tracing app based on technology from Google and Apple, and some assistance from Bloomberg’s organization. “It’s going to not only bring contact tracing to a new level,” Cuomo boasted, while claiming that it wouldn’t violate anyone’s privacy Few New Yorkers seemed to believe him. Despite being available in Spanish, Chinese, Bengali, Korean, Russian, Haitian Creole, and, even more unexpectedly, English, the app hasn’t taken off and Cuomo’s regime has refused to reveal the data that would actually show if it’s tracking positive cases. The lack of data transparency has been the second biggest story about Cuomo’s mismanagement of the pandemic, after the deaths of 11,000 nursing home residents when his administration forced nursing homes to accept infected patients. The numbers are likely higher, but the Cuomo administration, in its typical fashion, is refusing to release the data. After a month, only 5% of New Yorkers have downloaded Cuomo’s spy app. That’s far short of the 60% that’s needed for contact tracing to work. Even Europeans haven’t hit that 60% target. Few outside Communist China have. Apple and Google claimed that they needed at least 15%. Only a few states in America hit that bar and they tend to have small populations that lean leftward. Most Americans have opted out. Governor Murphy launched his state’s contact tracing app to great fanfare, urging a, “shared sense of personal responsibility to support our contact tracing efforts”. Only 4% of New Jersey residents decided to take up the former Goldman Sachs tycoon on his modest proposal. Murphy, like Cuomo, had forced nursing homes to accept infected coronavirus patients. Some of the state’s deadliest outbreaks had also taken place in state hospitals for veterans. Pennsylvania’s Governor Wolf and Secretary of Health Richard Levine, debuted their contact tracing app in September. “We won’t know who has downloaded the app, who has received notifications and who used symptom check,” Richard (Rachel) Levine, who had taken his mother out of a nursing home and into a hotel, while forcing nursing homes to take in infected patients, assured Pennsylvanians. Only 4% of Pennsylavanians were convinced. Richard Levine has begun pleading with 13-year-olds to download the app. If there’s anything that’s bound to reassure state residents, it’s a strange man in a blonde wig urging their children to download an app to monitor them. Contact tracing app adoption in America isn’t likely to get much better even with more time. Governor Northam rolled out a contact tracing app in Virginia back in August. After half a year, the state has passed Google’s 15% bar with an estimated 19% of smartphone owners having installed the app. But few people are actually using it. Only 553 people submitted their positive results out of 100,000 positive tests in the state. While Democrat governors and their European counterparts have brandished download figures, many people download apps and then uninstall them. Or leave them on and then pay no further attention to them. The actual utilization of contact tracing apps is laughably miniscule. Virginia’s 800,000 plus downloads figure still only comes out to 553 people submitting results. That’s why Governor Cuomo in New York and the NHS in the UK refuse to release their impact numbers. Considering the performance of contact tracing apps in Europe, it’s not hard to guess what they’re hiding. Italy’s Immuni app was downloaded by 14% of the population, but only had 155 positive results submitted in three months. In France, after 2.3 million downloads, only 72 risk contacts were flagged. A lot of people can be badgered into passively downloading an app, but when it comes time to upload their results and have the system notify everyone they’ve been around, they just as passively choose not to do it and the system fails. After a year of touting contact tracing as the answer, the assault on privacy has stalled. Contact tracing apps have failed miserably in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. California only got around to launching its contact tracing app now. The numbers are worse in much of the rest of the country with only 8 million Americans actually using contact tracing apps. Trust is the biggest factor in the adoption of contact tracing apps. And very few Americans trust Big Tech, the government and its public health experts with tracking their lives and the lives of those around them. The NHS app intends to start asking users about their personal lives to “score” their lifestyles for coronavirus risk. It’s easy enough to see this sort of thing as not only a privacy violation, but as an echo of China’s public surveillance and social credit system. In a socialized medicine system where people are already penalized for their risk factors by being denied access to medical care, leaving them with few options except emigration or death where age or obesity can mean a denial of medical care, and where babies can be killed because saving them is not deemed to be the best use of resources, a “score” isn’t just a score. Few people want to be denied medical treatment because they failed the social credit system. Conservatives are the most likely to see the downside of such calculations and the more conservative parts of the United States have the lowest utilization rates of contract tracing apps. Nevada’s contact tracing app was only downloaded 70,000 times, as of last month, and zero exposures were registered in September. In Wyoming, its app only managed 5,000 downloads. South Carolina’s legislature banned the use of contact tracing apps by government agencies. But all of that may be about to change if the Democrats succeed in their plan to place Biden in the White House. Biden’s team is filled with Big Tech lobbyists and strongly favors a national contact tracing app infrastructure. While the Trump administration allowed states to define their own policy, the Democrat plan has been to nationalize the crisis and control the response. Key to their plans is the creation of a national server that would store information across state lines, and allow national authorities to monitor everyone’s movements even if they leave a state. Ten states have already moved their codes to Microsoft’s National Key Server maintained for the Association of Public Health Laboratories. Another five are following suit. As of now, virtually every state and area, such as D.C., with a contact tracing app, is on the National Key Server. That includes heavily populated states such as California, New York, and Michigan. The hodgepodge of apps and approaches will be replaced by one system to rule them all. Scott Becker, the CEO of the Association of Public Health Laboratories, has also been touting Biden’s plans for app contact tracing. A national server will make a national contact tracing app much easier to implement. Google, which is also involved in the national server using its own cloud system, has, along with Apple, rebranded “contact tracing” as “exposure notification”. Big Tech decided that people were leery of “contact tracing” so they gave it a new name. Meanwhile, Biden’s people have been coordinating with the Rockefeller Foundation on testing plans. “Policy makers,” the Rockefeller Foundation had urged, must “allow the infection status of most Americans to be accessed and validated in a few required settings and many voluntary ones.” Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito recently warned that the “pandemic has resulted in previously unimaginable restrictions on individual liberty”. Despite that, under President Trump, Americans have still enjoyed an oasis of human rights compared to the brutal restrictions and measures in the rest of the world. Red states were able to choose less restrictive and abusive routes for tackling the pandemic, even while blue states relentlessly violated civil rights under the guise of a public health emergency. All of that may be coming to an end. The near future may be a mandatory national app based either on the existing Apple or Google architecture embedded into virtually every smartphone, or, worse, GPS tracking like Norway’s app which was withdrawn after being panned by Amnesty International, linked to the National Key Server, which will serve as a key element of a national pandemic social credit system. Americans rejected contact tracing, but a Biden administration won’t take no for an answer. Tags: Daniel Greenfield, Americans Said No, to Coronavirus Contact Tracing, Spy AppsTo share or post to your site, click on “Post Link”. Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service and “Like” Facebook Page – Thanks! |
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| The Power of Christmas
Posted: 24 Dec 2020 07:44 PM PST
Of all the great and small events of 1991, the death of CBS News’ “60 Minutes” co-host Harry Reasoner probably rates near the bottom in the amount of attention afforded it by the public. Yet when a keen observer and a person of talent and grace leaves the planet, we are all diminished a little. Such gifts are not as easily replaced as they once were when reading, not watching, was thought to better nourish the mind and soul. When Harry died, I recalled a commentary he did when he worked for ABC News in the early 1970s. The commentary was an unlikely one for a man of his position. Most people believe that news people, particularly those at the network level, rarely think of much beyond current events and their own careers. But Harry was different, and his easy-going manner allowed him to address subjects others might approach with more difficulty. On Christmas Eve, 1973, in the midst of growing turmoil over the Watergate scandal, a troubled economy, wars and rumors of wars in the Middle East, and uncertainty over the future of U.S.-Soviet relations, Harry delivered the following commentary: “Christmas is such a unique idea that most non-Christians accept it, and I think sometimes envy it. If Christmas is the anniversary of the appearance of the Lord of the Universe in the form of a helpless baby, it’s quite a day. It’s a startling idea, and the theologians, who sometimes love logic more than they love God, find it uncomfortable. But if God did do it, he had a tremendous insight. “People are afraid of God and standing in his very bright light. But everyone has seen babies and almost everyone likes them. So, if God wanted to be loved as well as feared, he moved correctly here. And if he wanted to know people, as well as rule them, he moved correctly, because a baby growing up learns all there is to know about people. “If God wanted to be intimately a part of man, he moved correctly. For the experience of birth and familyhood is our most intimate and precious experience. “So, it comes beyond logic. It’s what a bishop I used to know called a kind of divine insanity. It is either all falsehood or it is the truest thing in the world. It is the story of the great innocence of God the baby. God in the power of man. And it is such a dramatic shot toward the heart, that if it is not true, for Christians, nothing is true. “So even if you did not get your shopping all done, and you were swamped with the commercialism and frenzy, be at peace. And even if you are the deacon having to arrange the extra seating for all the Christmas Christians that you won’t see until Easter, be at peace. The story stands. “It’s all right that so many Christians are touched only once a year by this incomparable story. Because some final quiet Christmas morning, the touch will take.” Christmas has a power over those who observe it, and those who do not, that is unlike any other holiday or event. The other 364 days of the year we can be caught up in affairs of world-shaking significance, but on Christmas it is as if all systems shut down and we are given a chance to focus on something of greater significance than the headlines or the vacuous babble of television. Perhaps for some this Christmas, the touch will take. Tags: Cal Thomas, The Power of ChristmasTo share or post to your site, click on “Post Link”. Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service and “Like” Facebook Page – Thanks! |
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