Headlines

Pelosi says election threats from Russia and China are not equal

Trump signs orders aimed at extending some pandemic relief after Congress fails to reach a deal

Centrist Democrats pose a significant roadblock to Biden’s radical climate plans

Poll: Majority of Americans are not wearing masks outdoors

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine again tests negative for coronavirus

U.S. tops 5 million coronavirus cases as outbreak threatens America’s Midwest

National Security Advisor O’Brian issues warning to Americans about Chinese espionage

Gallup: 35% of Americans would not get a coronavirus vaccine

Kudlow: Trump’s executive order will stop evictions

Nearly 80% of credit card holders say they’re concerned about making minimum payments

Trump suspends student loan payments through December 31

Report: Gretchen Whitmer met with Biden in Delaware

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Apt Analogy

Trump’s election win in 2016


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Fractured Definition

Hi and Lois

Hiatus — Lois’ husband cannibalized a number of our group


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Question

How many children 17 or younger have died of coronavirus in our most populous state, California?

For answer, scroll down please ...



















One ... see: California Department of Public Health

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Headlines

Chinese tech companies could face trouble in Europe

Buffet buys back $5.1 billion in Berkshire stock as coronavirus hits operating earnings

John Brennan escapes prosecution in Durham probe

NY attorney general seeks to dissolve NRA

Trump and Macron discuss sending aid to Lebanon

Trump threatens executive action if no deal is reached in coronavirus stimulus talks

Bill Maher confronts ex-Clinton advisor about Epstein allegations

Police will be escorted to and from new Swedish No-Go police station

California sorts through coronavirus data as glitch stymies policy decisions

Jerry Falwell Jr. asks for indefinite leave of absence from Liberty University

President Trump says he’ll defer payroll tax until end of the year through executive action

Biden: Trump lying about safety of potential coronavirus vaccine

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Election Interference

The U.S. intelligence community is warning Congress and the American people that Russia would like to see Trump re-elected and may be planning to interfere to this end. And they also say that China and Iran hope Biden will prevail and may be taking covert actions to this end ... see: CNBC Story.

Dear reader, these both seem to be logical conclusions although I have yet to hear of any specific Russian election chicanery ... but the Democrats do have operatives with vivid imaginations ... and I am sure we will soon be supplied with sensational details. (Perhaps the Dems have gone to this Ruskie well once too often?)

Yes, the specifics of what Russia might do or is doing are rather vague ... perhaps some more Facebook ads or another peepee dossier? However, we already have compelling evidence of China’s massive election interference on behalf of Sleepy Joe — it unleashed coronavirus on us and the world to destroy our economies ... the very best way to defeat incumbents!

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Aurora

From daily timewaster blog

I have seen the Aurora Borealis but once in my life ... a bit of it during one clear, gelid night in Hanover, New Hampshire.

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Brilliant!!

Trump’s bypassing of Congress with his four executive orders yesterday was brilliant politically! He has not been known as a good politician ... but he just proved the pundits wrong. Yes, these executive orders may not pass judicial muster ... but they do show the American public what the Republicans are willing to do ... and what the Democrats are unwilling to do ... and may actually force the Dems back to the bargaining table. His executive orders did the following:

- temporarily suspended the payroll tax (social security tax) through the end of the year

- reinstated the prohibition against evictions due to lack of rental payments

- augmented state unemployment benefits by $400 per week (replaced the expired $600 per week)

- suspended student loan repayment through the end of the year ... and continued zero interest costs for same

Nancy Pelosi had thought she had a winner with her $3 trillion “my way or the highway” boondoggle ... and she did have the Republicans boxed in. So, what did the Orangeman do? He went outside the box and showed America how far he was willing to go. I believe that these executive orders might be vacated by the courts ... and possibly should be. But Trump has made his political hay ... while the sun wasn’t shining. And I expect the American people will appreciate his efforts.

Of his four executive orders, his only error might be his temporary suspension of the payroll tax for people earning less than $100,000 per year. The problem here is that many retired people and people on Medicaid automatically jump to the conclusion that their benefits will be jeopardized ... and the Dems will be sure to try to push this half truth. But this needs to be recognized as a potential problem and maybe needs to be let slide.

(Interesting sidelight: Trump’s aggressiveness with these executive actions may be inspired by the recent Supreme Court decision upholding the constitutionality of President Obama’s executive order protecting illegal immigrant children, known as DACA).

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Stupid Pills

The Democrat party was planning to pass out their annual allotment of stupid pills for their faithful at Biden’s nominating convention. Now that this is not going to happen live, party leadership is worried that their voters may wake up and learn the true state of affairs and vote for Kanye or the Orangeman.

So Democrats are in a bit of a panic! And are actually thinking about sending out these pills (and some moving-around money) with their pre-marked mail-in ballots!

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Fractured Definition

Embargo — Dorothy’s aunt on her way to an emporium to get sotted


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Headlines

TikTok threatens legal action against Trump executive order

Coronavirus relief talks grind to a near halt, dimming chances of a deal

State Department lifts international ‘Do Not Travel’ advisory

Obama: Coronavirus opportunity to change ‘how wealth is distributed’

U.S. unemployment fell to 10.2 percent in July

Coronavirus updates: Russia offers Philippines potential vaccine, key model predicts 300,000 U.S. deaths

Lebanon investigating possibility of ‘external interference’ in blast probe

Claim: Some PA Democrats fear NRA lawsuit helps Trump

Judge dismisses Republican lawsuit seeking to block proxy voting

Pfizer agrees to manufacture Gilead’s coronavirus drug remdesivir

Portland mayor accuses rioters of attempted murder

Andrew Cuomo pleads with rich New Yorkers to return to city


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Quotable Quote

These days everything is political ... even the allowed naming of ethnic foods! — Anon.

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Comet Neowise

From daily timewaster blog

Over South Dakota Badlands

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Obvious Truth

Electing Joe Biden president would be the equivalent of waving the white flag to China. — Anon.

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Headlines

Emboldened Pelosi takes hard line as relief talks drag on

U.S. weekly jobless claims total 1.186 million, lowest level of coronavirus pandemic

Teenagers arrested at Mar-a-Largo trespassing with AK-47

Coronavirus: UK Councils empowered to destroy ‘contaminated’ buildings

Facebook and Twitter sanction Trump for claiming kids are ‘virtually immune’ to coronavirus

McConnell believes Dems, GOP will reach a relief deal ‘in the near future’

Rioting predictably continues in Portland after Feds leave

Joe Biden snaps at black reporter over cognitive test Q: ‘You a junkie?’

Trump outraises Biden in July, breaking opponent’s short streak

Trump to sign executive order requiring U.S. to buy ‘essential’ drugs from American companies

Jeff Bezos sells $3.1 billion in Amazon stock

1 in 4 mail-in ballots disqualified in NYC primary

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Fractured Definition

Bucolic — a former Boston University student with emotional distress likely caused by indigestion

Hologram President

If Biden wins on November 3rd, will we ever see him live? Or will he only appear as a hologram? He was a virtual candidate ... will he also be a virtual president?


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Seth Rich

According to Julian Assange it was not Russia who supplied Wikileaks with emails from the DNC server in 2016. It was a disguised Democrat. Was this disguised Democrat Seth Rich ... who later suffered from Arkancide? Well, a whole lot of people suspect this to be the case ... and now there are some additional developments in this matter. So dear reader, put on your tinfoil hat and read: The Stream blog.

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Obvious Truth

NY Go. Andrew Cuomo

The most dangerous politicians are those who are likable ... with good communication skills ... yet have not even a modicum of common sense. — Anon.


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Bucolic Romania ...

Headlines

‘She is absolutely our No. 1 draft pick’: GOP pines for Rice as Biden VP pick

Private payroll growth slows sharply in July amid spike in virus

Trump suggests DOJ uncovered ‘breathtaking’ evidence  of misconduct in Russian probe

Watch: Democrats refuse to condemn Antifa at Senate hearing

Biden hits back at reporter asking if he took a cognitive test: ‘Are you a junkie?’

Trump banned Epstein from Mar-a-Largo after sex criminal hit on member’s daughter, book claims

Report: Biden narrowed VP pick down to Kamala Harris and Susan Rice

Charles Hurt: Nadler calls riots ‘myth’ — then blames them on Trump

Missouri votes latest to approve Medicaid expansion

Trump says coronavirus death toll ‘is what it is’ as he insists pandemic is ‘under control’ in U.S.

25% of mail-in ballots in Brooklyn June primaries declared invalid

Trump: I want $600 unemployment benefits to continue

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Questions for Alexa

There was a test devised  by Alan Turing to tell you if you are dealing with true artificial intelligence. This test was to determine if you were communicating remotely and you couldn’t tell if your responder was a computer or a person. Now we are obviously getting closer to success in this process with search engines and with Alexa-like devices.

But are we really? Clearly, as we  are learning from politics, the search-engine algorithms are not immune from human interference. And Alexa can often be a little hazy or even thick headed in her answers.

So, I would like to suggest a few questions that might be asked of Alexa-like devices to make sure that they are really (artificially) intelligent. Here they are (with result accuracy grade):

Alexa ...

Are you a computer?    -

Is there a God?    +

What was Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity?    *

How many calories are there is a BTU?    +    (She got it backwards.)

What is your mother’s maiden name?    x

Can you pass the Turing test?    *    (“I don’t claim to be human”)

How does photosynthesis work?    +

 Who was Sniffles human friend?    x

What is a poison pawn?    x

What is the temperature of the Earth right now?    +

How far was Mao’s “Long March” and how long did it take?    x

Should we stand up for America?    x    (“Hmm, I’m not sure.”)

* Bingo    + Correct but not on point    - Misleading    x Dead wrong

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Will most of the main-stream Democrats, who have fearlessly moved so tar left that they rival Che Guevara’s insanity, eventually wake up to find that most of the rest of America has not accompanied them on their loopy journey?

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My Prejudice

If given a choice between a president with a soothing personality who can’t govern for the benefit of the people  ... and one with a rough demeanor who can ... I’ll  take the latter every day.

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Headlines

Photo appears to show Jerry Falwell Jr. with zipper down and his arm around a woman

Congress, White House struggle to break coronavirus stalemate as economic pain spreads

NYC health commissioner quits, citing de Blasio’s failures

U.S. factory orders rise, signaling manufacturing recovery

French police use cameras with speakers that shout at people who break coronavirus rules

Massive explosion in Beirut port rocks Lebanese capital

VP Pence reminds Gov. Cuomo 1-in-5 Covid-19 deaths are in his state

Border wall construction crew caught smuggling from Mexico

Trump doubles down on well-wishes for alleged sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell

Research shows $60 unemployment boost didn’t discourage returning to work

White House mulls ‘unilateral’ action on coronavirus relief

Shakedown: BLM demands protection fees from Louisville restaurant

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Cognitive Test

The following is this blog’s feeble attempt to determine if you, dear readers, are cognitively impaired:

- Does Donald J. trump have an abrasive personality?

- Has Joe Biden, of late, lost some mental acuity?

- Are President Trump’s enacted and promised policies generally good for America?

- If elected president, would Joe Biden’s plaform promises be damaging to this country?

- If Trump loses on Nov. 3rd, will he step down?

- If Biden loses the presidency, will the Democrats lead another coup attempt?

If you, dear reader, answered any of the above questions “no,” you might consider buying some, or more, long-term care insurance.

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Net Worth

Found on Mostly Cajun blog

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Headlines

Why Trump is focused on making Marco Rubio happy

Coronavirus updates: Eli Lily begins late-stage trials for antibody drug, Russia plans mass vaccinations

Obama endorses 100+ Dem candidates — skips AOC

TV ratings crash for return of woke NBA and MBL

House committee subpoenas 4 top Pompeo aides

Trump returns to the Hamptons for fundraising swing as Biden closes the cash gap

July shootings in Portland double amidst chaos

34 shot, 9 fatally in Mayor Lightfoot’s Chicago

Trump blasts Birx after she warns coronavirus pandemic is ‘extraordinarily widespread’

Coronavirus cases ease in the Sun Belt states as nationwide deaths climb

Pompeo says Chinese software companies are feeding data directly to CCP

New York Times Op-ed: ‘Lets scrap the presidential debates’


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Nostalgia

Demolition Derby

I have attended a couple of uniquely-American demolition derbies in my knickers days. The secret was to run into other cars going backwards so that you didn’t destroy your car’s radiator which meant steam-belching mechanical inoperability (you lost).

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A Karen Karen

In a sea of red

A Bass with the first name of Karen,

The Veep nod she’s been cravin’.

But her ultimate plot

Is to take the top slot,

Soon after Joe’s office swear-in.


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Breastworks

From Woodstream blog

Stilton’s Place

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Fauci Feedback

Yesterday I published a reader contribution summarizing what Dr. Fauci said on a virtual call with some Dartmouth doctors ... see: Reader Contribution. I am not trying to be disrespectful of this doctor ... but I do have some questions about what he said ... the following:

1) Fauci says the the ratio of asymptomatic cases to diagnosed cases in 2:3 (40%). But previous studiies in California, New York and Florida put the ratio at 10:1, 20:1 or even higher. Perhaps our increased testing has changed things ... but this much?

2) Fauci says all ages get infected at the same rate, Take a look at what has happened in California ... see: California Department of Public Heath. No quite the same Anthony!

3) Fauci says that all vaccines were started from virus samples from China. I’m not sure that, if I were a drug company ready to make this huge investment, I would trust China for such a starter sample.


There was some happy news however — Fauci said that a vaccine may be approved by October! Will this be the October surprise by the Republicans? And will the Dems use scare tactics against such a vaccine breakthrough? Watch and see!

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Headlines

Karen Bass renounces her praise of Fidel Castro

Retail rents plummet across New York City, as glitzy shopping districts turn into ghost towns

Trump demands death penalty for Boston Marathon bomber

Portland protesters burn Bibles, American flags in the streets

Pelosi accuses Trump, Birx of spreading misinformation about coronavirus

COVID-19 test delays create a nightmare as schools try to reopen

Twitter endangers Americans by suppressing medical debate

Farage: Government burying ‘their heads in the sand’ on migration

German leaders warn of coronavirus resurgence, condemn protests

Eastman Kodak’s top executive reportedly got Trump deal windfall on an ‘understanding’

There have more shootings in NYC this year than in all of 2019

Report: 21 shot, 6 dead, Friday-Saturday afternoon in Chicago


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Quotable Quote

Ellen DeGeneres

“Things are never what they appear to be.” — Jeanette Potts

Reader Contribution

On a Zoom call this morning a classmate had to break out early for another virtual meeting with Dr. Fauci. The following is his promised report of what transpired. We thank Rick for this first-hand info:

Per my promise to share the Fauci call and the college's latest communication to students:

Fauci had personal/professional links with all the half dozen Dartmouth Drs who asked questions ... - Main takeaways (answers to questions):

1. Microbal world will continue to interact with human world so this will not be the last pandemic - it is unusual in that it is demographically broad (unlike HIV), not subtle - and has shut the world down.

2. Masks are critical but rejected by the young who don't take the virus seriously and by politics.

3. Opening schools needs to use national guidelines and experiences but ultimately be based on local situations eg low incidence of virus ok to open, high no, teachers protected like others at high risk eg  masks/face shields ok.

4. All ages seem to get infected at about the same rate - 40% of carriers are asymptomatic - young are now becoming more worrisome as carriers as they are showing a higher load of the virus in their nasal passages than adults. (Grandkids have always been little petri dishes...)

5. There are 165 vaccines in development world wide, 127 are in various stages of testing; the speed with which these are being developed is because of the ability with new technologies to rapidly process, grow and analyze the virus once samples came from China - allowed getting to phase one in 3 months versus 18 months previously; some of the stage 1 tests have produced responses as good as getting the disease, so should get some final results in about 3 months.

Cheers -

Rick

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Imitating Immaturity

We are now in the midst of an pandemic. No, not the coronavirus, but Trump imitators.

Admittedly, President Trump has a sandpaper personality ... although less so recently ... and with offsetting policy pluses. This unattractive part of his temperament has spawned lots of obnoxious copy cats ... over-paid jocks, Nancy Pelosi, CNN commentators, many state governors, Chuck Schumer, Blue State mayors, snow-flake protestors, some foreign heads of state, Hollywood twits ... and many ... too many others ... without the good policy offsets ... a very disappointng gaggle of juvenile adults.

In 2016 Marco Rubio learned the hard way that trying to trade insults with the Orangeman was a huge mistake ... but this lesson was apparently not learned by the above sophomoric simps.

The real conundrum is why Trump elicits such a tide of imitators ... particularly since such aping does not compliment the apers ... it makes them appear petty and truculent. If they hate Trump so much, why try to emulate him? This is counterintuitive and I certainly can’t explain it.

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A real patriot who, if he could, would ...

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Headlines

Thousands protest against coronavirus measures in Berlin

Apple surpasses Saudi Aramco to become world’s most valuable company

‘What a fraud this guy is,’ Tucker Carlson rips Dr. Fauci’s dodging of questions about protests

Karen Bass’s long march from Communist fringe to Biden’s VP short list

Trump says he plans to ban TIKTOK in the U.S.

Hurricane Isaias lashes the Bahamas as it bears down on Florida

U.S. Supreme Court rejects request to halt construction of the border wall

MLB commissioner Rob Manfred warns 2020 season could be shut down

Florida teen, 2 others arrested over massive Twitter breach

Big tech spends over $20 million in lobbying in first half of 2020, including on coronavirus bills

Court overturns death sentence of Boston’s Marathon bomber

Exclusive: [Sen.] Cotton presses Google on election interference revelations

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Children

An NBA spectacle designed to give China’s President Xi goosebumps ...



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Today’s Poser

Are the “non-violent” prisoners who have been early-released from prison (like in California and New York) really any less likely to contract COVID-19 in the general population than when they were still behind bars? ... Proof?

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Headlines

‘Rigged election’ goes from Trump complaint to campaign strategy

CDC warns Congress of ‘significant public health consequences’ if schools don’t reopen

The never-ending Flynn case drags on

Diane Feinstein: China is ‘growing into a respectable nation’

Stephen Miller: Obama’s comments at Lewis funeral ‘totally disconnected from reality’

Coronavirus live updates: U.S. cases jump by 67,000, Sanofi, GSK nab $2.1 billion in vaccine deal

FBI audit finds 2 errors in 29 FISA applications — Carter Page’s alone had 17 omissions

Fauci: ‘I don’t think we need to go to lockdown again’

Eurozone economy shrinks by record 12.1 percent in second quarter

Earnings at halfway mark are much better than expected

Federal grand jury indicts Tenn. Dem senator who allegedly embezzled  $600k

Donald Tump suggests delaying 2020 election

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Herd Immunity

Is herd immunity the only real solution to the increasing infection rate of the COVID-19 pandemic? Well many epideniologists think so ... and I am beginning to agree. The current hot spots in the USA are Florida, Texas and California ... replacing New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts, all three of which might be approaching some sort of plateau in daily new cases ... each generating only a few hundred cases per day while the hot spots are in the thousands. (There are other states that could be placed in each group ... only to complicate things ... so we will ignore them here.)

To normalize things between these states we will look at new daily cases per million of population ... see: World Meters. Here they are today:

                                Total

                     Cases per 1 million

New York               22,843

New Jersey             21,128

Massachusetts       17,064

Florida                    22,350

Texas                      15,315

California               12,799

Total USA              14,351

As been demonstrated in various blood tests for this virus’ antibodies, the number of asymptomatic cases can be as much as twenty or more times diagnoses cases. Therefore we can see from the above that New York, New Jersey and Florida might really have as many as 400,000 cases per million (40%) of population. Now, herd immunity is estimated to be achieved at 50-60% ... so, we might be getting close to herd immunity in these three states. (Maybe why these states, excepting the special case Florida might be slowing down.) And Texas, California and Massachusetts still have a way to go ... as does the overall USA. (Caveat: our much more extensive testing now might have reduced this multiplier between asymptomatic and diagnosed cases to well below 20.)

(We are not dealing with coronavirus death rates here because therapeutics have gotten a whole lot better ... and we have also learned to concentrate mitigation efforts on nursing homes. Texas, California and Florida are still doing worlds better than the other three on this count.)

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China Import

From Powerline blog

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E.T.

An extraterrestrial was sent to Earth on last February first as an emissary from the Council of Worlds to decide if the Earth was to be invited for membership. After a short period changing its appearance and learning all the languages, it spent its remaining time visiting most of the inhabited areas of this globe ... but concentrating on the biggest economic power, the United States.

This information gatherer found multiple forgeries in all disciplines painted over to appear as masterpieces ... while actual truths were being ridiculed into submission. It uncovered prancing hypocrisy, preening vanity, indulgent lust, ostentatious wealth, manufactured realities, rampant crime, self-serving politicians, unscientific science and a destructive media.

After six Earth months, it left this morning on the UFO trolley to go back and file its report ... shedding green tears and shaking its head in disbelief.

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Today’s Poser

Isn’t today’s Cancel Culture, which curses our history, a lot like children suing their parents for any bad genes they inherited?

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Headlines

Pompeo claims he didn’t  interact significantly with ousted Ukraine Ambassador, Marie Yovanovitch

Trump suggests delaying election amid fraud claims, but he has no power to do so

Senate investigators target CIA, State records in expansion of Russian probe

Daily Caller experienced Google suppression, says EIC

Ruth Bader Ginsberg undergoes medical procedure [stent] at hospital

Former GOP presidential candidate, Herman Caine, dies after battle with coronavirus

1.43 million filed for [unemployment] benefits last week

Twitter under fire for flagging Trump posts but not Iran Ayatollah

U.S. suffers worse quarterly contraction on record as virus ravages economy

Congress has the goods on Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google

Additional 26 million Americans likely to qualify for round 2.0 of stimulus checks

Poll: Trump narrows gap in battleground states


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Quotable Quote

"It's not the people who vote that count, it's the people who count the votes." — Joseph Stalin (or was it Nancy Pelosi?)

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