The Link between Donald Trump and Abraham Lincoln

From American Thinker.com (Sept. 21):

Donald Trump might be the most controversial president since Abraham Lincoln.

The other day Trump compared himself to Lincoln in a civil rights context and ignited another media tantrum. Surely, Trump is no match for Lincoln's lawyerly reticence or rhetorical eloquence. As for having the courage to fire arrogant or incompetent subordinates, Trump is more than Lincoln's equal.

Trump/Lincoln parallels are coming into sharp relief as another presidential election looms. Like Lincoln, Trump has a civil war on his hands; and like Lincoln faces a second term might be more hazardous than the first.

President Trump has been besieged by domestic hate, much of it inspired by a hostile press, venal generals, and the Washington establishment from day one.

Like Trump, Lincoln was an outsider, a rural lawyer from Kentucky, reviled by capitol insiders including senior military officers. In Lincoln's second run for the White House, Democrats selected the best failed Civil War general, George McClellan, as their standard bearer.

Alas, Lincoln's electoral victory in 1864 against General McClellan was insured by 11 southern Democrat states whose electoral votes were rendered moot by secession. The 16^th president only had to contend with the McClellan cabal and the Democrat Party.

The difference between then and now seems to be that today's failed and embittered Vietnam era McClellans are more numerous. [read more]

Other articles about President Trump:

• Trump: A Flawed Champion
• Should Christians Vote for the Vain and Boastful? 

Contra Media Poll Narrative, Trump Tracking Just Fine In Electoral College

From The Federalist.com (Oct. 14):

It is absolutely true that national polls would predict a clear Biden victory if the country elected presidents through the popular vote. He’s up 10 points in the Real Clear Politics poll average nationally. What is left out of the media’s discussions of whether this or the 2016 race is winnable for Trump is the Electoral College. And for that discussion, it’s worth a look at the states whose electoral votes will decide the election.

In 2016, Trump won by winning battleground states that few expected him to win. Right now, he’s polling slightly and relatively better in those states than he did four years ago.

The graph above shows how Trump’s 2020 performance in polls of Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Florida, Arizona, and North Carolina compares to his 2016 polling performance by dates out from the election. One hundred days out from election day, Biden was up nearly 6 points in battleground states, at a time Clinton was only up 2.3 points. Now he’s up 4.9 points at a time Clinton was up 5.1 points. [read more]

What Will Happen If Liberals Pack the Supreme Court

From The Daily Signal.com (Oct. 15):

Exponential growth. It’s why plagues are so dangerous and compound interest is so wonderful.

It’s also why the Democrats’ flirting with court-packing could destroy the Supreme Court and, with it, America as we know it.

The following is a reasonable scenario:

Amy Coney Barrett is confirmed to the Supreme Court, which gives conservatives a 6-3 advantage (or 5-4, given that Chief Justice John Roberts has essentially become a swing vote).

Then, in January, having retained the Democrat-majority House, a President Joe Biden and a newly Democrat-controlled Senate decide to undo the advantage. Congress passes and Biden signs a new law expanding the court to 15 members. Biden appoints six new liberal justices, handing the left a 9-6 majority—a 60% advantage.

What happens when the Republicans regain power and they want a 60% conservative advantage? As a bit of algebra shows, to reverse the Democrats’ 9-6 advantage, they’d have to expand the court by seven and a half members.

Of course, they can’t nominate half a justice, so they’d probably round up to eight. Regardless, the Republicans, to gain a 60% advantage, must expand the court by more than the Democrats did—by eight, as opposed to six.

The parties would surely continue to insist upon a 60% advantage, meaning that, with each switch in power, they’d have to expand the court’s size by 50%. [read more]

That is exactly what will happen if the Left gains power in Congress and the White House. I think the Left might even do away with voters electing the POTUS and just go to a parliamentary system like Israel and England and other European countries. Heck, they may even extend their term limits since they are so addicted to power.

More articles about court packing: 

• Venezuela’s Dictator Hugo Chavez Packed the Courts
• How ‘Court Packing’ Would Damage Both the Judicial and Legislative Branches

Biden does not trust Trump to deliver a safe vaccine

From Washington Examiner.com (Sept. 29):

Vice President Biden said that he would not trust President Trump to deliver a safe and effective coronavirus vaccine during a bitter debate rife with repeated, personal attacks.

“In terms of the whole notion of a vaccine, we’re for a vaccine, but we don’t trust him at all, nor do you,” Biden said, speaking on behalf of himself and his running mate Sen. Kamala Harris. “What we trust is a scientist.”

Trump has touted his administration’s progress in developing a vaccine as part of its research initiative Operation Warp Speed, which has pushed four vaccine candidates to final clinical stages. Trump said that “we’re weeks away from a vaccine,” despite health officials in his own administration saying that the soonest the majority of the United States would be immunized would be spring 2021.

"I've spoken to the companies, and we can have it a lot sooner," Trump said about a COVID-19 vaccine. "I've spoken to Pfizer and spoken to all of the people that you have to speak to ... Moderna, Johnson & Johnson, and others. They can go faster than that by a lot."

Biden argued that Trump has repeatedly undercut government health officials, such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Robert Redfield and Dr. Anthony Fauci, the government’s top infectious disease expert.

Biden has said on the campaign trail that he would trust vaccine researchers far more than Trump’s word on different vaccine candidates’ development timelines. Trump seized upon Biden’s doubts, accusing the former vice president of having “anti-vaccine theories” in order to “discredit the vaccine now that they know we essentially have it.” [source]

Well, I guess that is his choice.

Other Biden news:

• Kyle Rittenhouse’s Attorney Demands Biden Remove Ad Claiming Client Is A ‘White Supremacist,’ Threatens Defamation Lawsuit.
• Kyle Rittenhouse to sue Biden, campaign for libel, attorney says
• Biden website vows ‘assault weapons’ ban, forced gun registration and banning online sales of guns, ammo and parts
• Why Biden’s Gun Policy Could Destroy Firearm Industry
• EXCLUSIVE: Proof that Joe Biden's family OWNED SLAVES
• Biden razzed after pulling down mask to cough into his hand
• Biden's Self-serving Lies
• Joe Biden's lengthy history of fabrication, plagiarism and racial controversy
• WATCH: Supercut Compilation: Joe Biden Makes Embarrassing Gaffes For 10 Minutes (VIDEO)
• 'Not up to the job': Former White House doctor says Biden lacks 'mental capacity' for presidency
• How to Understand Joe Biden’s Ukrainian Connection
• Biden Says 56 Percent of Americans 'Probably Shouldn't' Vote for Him
• Biden calls press ‘lid’ — won’t speak to reporters — following bombshell report about alleged meeting with Burisma executive
• Health Alert: Biden Caught Once Again Not Knowing Where The Heck He Is! [VIDEO]
• BUSTED: California CAUGHT Funneling MILLIONS To Biden’s Pocket!
• TIMELINE OF CORRUPTION: Biden’s nefarious ties with communist China exposed
  
• Do the Chinese Own Joe Biden?
  
• Revealing Joe Biden’s deep ties to the radical ‘Great Reset’ movement and its globalist leaders
  

'Color Revolution': The Obama Admin's plan UPEND America—and it's all happening NOW

From The Blaze.com (Sept. 18):

The former ambassador to Russia under the Obama Administration, Michael McFaul, came up with "7 Pillars of Color Revolution," a list of seven steps needed to incite the type of revolution used to upend Eastern European countries like Ukraine and Georgia in the past two decades. On his TV special this week, Glenn Beck broke down the seven steps and showed how they're happening right now in America.

Here are McFaul's seven steps:

1. Semi-autocratic regime (not fully autocratic) – provides opportunity to call incumbent leader "fascist"

2. Appearance of unpopular president or incumbent leader

3. United and organized opposition – Antifa, BLM

4. Effective system to convince the public (well before the election) of voter fraud

5. Compliant media to push voter fraud narrative

6. Political opposition organization able to mobilize "thousands to millions in the streets"

7. Division among military and police

Glenn explained each "pillar," offering examples and evidence of how the Obama administration laid out the plan for an Eastern European style revolution in order to completely upend the American system. [read more]

This is just another example of Van Jones’ top-down, bottom-up, inside-out plan to disrupt America. The bottom-up is Antifa and BLM. The top-down is the media and far-Left politicians, and rich executives like George Soros. God help America.

Other articles on the subject matter:

• DOCUMENTS: Everything you need from Glenn's 'Election War Game' special
• THE DOCUMENTS for 'Civil War: The Left's Election-Night War Game'
• READ: Left-wing Radicals Post Online Guide to ‘Disrupting’ the Country if Election is Close
• Trump Resistance Plans ‘Mass Mobilization’ After Election To Shut Down The Country If Biden Doesn’t Win
  
• Exclusive: Coup Plotters Considered Never Allowing Trump To Be Inaugurated
• Is the United States in the Midst of an Insurgency?
• Cultural Revolution: What the Violence in American Cities Is All About
• Why Some Revolutions Fail
• How to Prepare for a Communist Coup
• To Squash Civil Unrest, the USA Must Remember Its Virtuous Roots
• What Kind of Revolution?
• The Revolution the US is Experiencing – and What if it Succeeds
• America, You've Really Had a Wonderful Life
• ChiCom Government Said to Be Funneling Money to Left-Wing Anarchists Burning & Looting American Cities
• National Guard units put on standby ahead of possible civil unrest this fall
• ‘Spontaneous’ Street Violence Is Well Organized, Pursuing a Radical Agenda
• Trump supporters receive menacing letters threatening to burn down their homes
  

Six Strategies for Trump to Make Education Great Again and Woo Back Suburban Voters

From American Thinker.com (Sept. 28):

America stands in crisis today with urban rioting and political division.  The crisis in America is at root a crisis in our educational system.  As President Abraham Lincoln once said, "the philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next."  Taking Lincoln's quote forward 150 years, the theories of structural racism, critical race theory, Marxism, gender theory, revisionist history, queer theory, etc., are rapidly coming to bear in America's streets and the halls of government.

The crisis in education has two facets: a crisis in civics and a crisis in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).  Each is rooted in the postmodern denial of objectivity and truth and the postmodern obsession with identities, which are together corrupting our education.  These obsessions are bringing down civics and STEM with it.  When our students are taught that America is fundamentally flawed, they are often done so at the expense of learning about our system of government or history.  For example, half of students do not know when the Civil War was fought.  When educators start talking nonsense about "white math," then some students are in essence being told they are not capable of learning it.  The less time spent on real civics and math, the more time may be spent building grievances.

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While respecting federalism and local control, Republicans especially should begin to confront our education crisis by proposing the following:

First, we ought to remove education licensure requirements for STEM.  To teach in public schools, teachers are almost always required to be licensed, having taken numerous educational courses and continuing education courses.  We cannot afford this luxury when students are not learning civics or math.  Selected retired military veterans should be given the opportunity to teach civics at public schools without a professional license.  Schools should be able to hire or bring in as adjuncts engineers and other professionals who are highly skilled in math to teach approved STEM curricula in the schools.  This should be a critical emergency priority, with the federal government playing a coordinating and facilitating role.

Second, we ought to mandate civics proficiency in order for students to graduate high school.  In our Country, thanks to the 26th Amendment, to the Constitution, adults can vote at age 18 on the rationale that they are old enough to fight and die in wars.  This is also the age of most high school graduates.  But with this right comes a responsibility to know and understand our system of government.  They ought to be able to take and pass the same citizenship test as is required for immigrants.  They should understand the separation of powers, federalism, our bicameral legislature, the expansion of the franchise, the Electoral College, and other functions of government.  If they cannot, they should not be awarded a high school diploma.  Our schools may fail them, but having a mandatory test can serve as a backstop for the failure.

Third, we ought to create a special visa for STEM teachers from other countries to teach at U.S. schools, with even a path to citizenship for those who are a successful teachers.  We desperately need all the talent we can obtain.  A similar program can be extended for critical language instructors, including those proficient in Spanish and Mandarin Chinese. [read more]

SPEECHLESS: Racist Group Releases Stripper and Pole Dancer PSA to Urge Blacks to Vote for Democrats — Cuz Liberals Think Blacks Only Want Stripper Ads

From The Gateway Pundit.com (Sept. 23):

Racist much?
Here is the latest ad by a liberal group that displays what Democrats REALLY think of black voters.
They only think of strippers, pole dancing and big butts.

A new far left group released this video to encourage blacks to vote for Joe Biden.

This is a new low for the American left.
The video ad includes only Atlanta strippers and poll dancers.

The group describes itself as:

In the middle of the pandemic, while many of us were out of work- we decided that we wanted to help influence the election! Angela, our fearless director, thought it would be a great idea to have exotic dancers from some of Atlanta’s finest gentlemen’s clubs to tell their patrons and fans to ‘Get their booties to the poll!’ [read more]

This is as bad as a bunch of nude actors telling viewers how to fill out a ballot so the ballot isn’t “naked.”

Trump to Sign ‘Born Alive’ Executive Order to Protect Abortion Survivors

From The Daily Signal.com (Sept. 23):

President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he will sign an executive order to ensure that babies who are born alive receive proper medical care.

Although the president didn’t go into detail about what the order would do, proposals earlier this year in the House and Senate would require health care professionals to treat a baby born alive after an attempted abortion the same as medical professionals would treat any other newborn.

“I will always defend the sacred right to life,” Trump said in remarks at the 16th annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast, held virtually this year.

“Today I am announcing that I will be signing the ‘born alive’ executive order to ensure that all precious babies born alive—no matter their circumstances—receive the medical care that they deserve,” the president said. “This is our sacrosanct moral duty.”

In 2002, President George W. Bush signed into law a bill extending legal protection to infants born alive at any stage of development, including after an abortion. The law, however, lacked enforcement provisions.      

Legislation called the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, considered in 2019 and again in 2020, would include criminal consequences for health care providers who violate the 2002 law. It also would require that proper medical care be given by the health care practitioner present if an infant is born alive.

The proposal emerged after Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, a Democrat, suggested in a live radio interview that in some circumstances, mothers and doctors should be able to deny medical care to newborns who survive an abortion. [read more]

Good for him.

Treasury flagged foreign money flowing to Hunter Biden-tied firms as ‘suspicious’

From Just the News.com (Sept. 16):

Treasury Department agency that polices financial threats such as money laundering flagged several foreign transactions to Hunter Biden-connected businesses as "suspicious" during the end of the Obama administration and the beginning of the Trump administration.

The concerns from the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) were highlighted in Suspicious Activity Reports turned over to Senate committees over the last year in conjunction with investigations into the Russia and Ukraine scandals, according to several officials familiar with the evidence.

As those Senate investigations wind toward the issuance of their first official report later this month, an essential question has emerged: Did U.S. law enforcement or intelligence agencies do anything to determine if the money flowing to Vice President Joe Biden's son posed any criminal or intelligence threats? Officials at Treasury, FBI and the Office of Director of National Intelligence declined comment.

Senate Democrats first called attention to the existence of the SARs in a little-noticed letter late last year and are now bracing for the flagged financial transactions to be a major revelation in a joint report they expect to be published by the GOP-led Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and the Senate Finance Committees as early as next week. [read more]

Getting money for no experience? Yea, that would be suspicious.

More articles about Hunter Biden:

• Just before Obama left office, U.S. officials feared Hunter Biden firm in Ukraine paid second bribe
• Mark Kelly, Hunter Biden, and the Chinese Communist Party’s Influence
• Biden's bid to oust Ukraine prosecutor followed intense pressure by son's Burisma firm
• NY Post: Biden's Son Introduced Him to Ukraine Energy Official
  
• Smoking-gun email reveals how Hunter Biden introduced Ukrainian businessman to VP dad
  

A New Test for COVID-19 Shows Promise

From Real Clear Health.com (Sept. 11):

Another new test for COVID-19 was recently authorized — and this one could be a game-changer.

The Abbot Diagnostics BinaxNOW antigen test is a new point-of-care test that reportedly costs only $5 to administer, delivers results in as little as 15 minutes, and requires no laboratory equipment to perform. That means it can be used in clinics far from commercial labs or without relying on a nearby hospital lab.

That last factor is key. There are other quick COVID-19 tests on the market, but they have all required lab equipment that can be expensive to maintain and operate, and costs can be prohibitive in places that need tests most.

This kind of test is reminiscent of rapid flu tests that are ubiquitous in clinics. They’ll give providers tremendous flexibility in testing for the disease in not just clinics, but with trained and licensed medical professionals, in schools, workplaces, camps, or any other number of places.

With other kinds of tests taking sometimes days to produce results, thanks to supply chain bottlenecks in parts of the country, innovations like this may be an important part of ensuring everyone who needs a test can get one  — fast. [read more]

Excerpts from the book Red Famine–The Kulaks

Once identified as enemies and robbed of their possessions, the kulaks met a variety of fates. Some were allowed to stay in their villages, where they were given the worst and most inaccessible land. If they continued to refuse to join the collective farm, they often had their tools confiscated, as well as their livestock. They were called names such as odnoosibnyk, or singleton, which eventually became insults. When famine struck later on, they were often the first to die.

To keep them away from their friends and neighbours, some kulaksl were given plots of land in other parts of the country, or even in the same districts but distant from their old farms and with worse soil. Henrikh Pidvysotsky's family was sent to the Urals: "We lived there for one summer and spent almost the entire fall walking back on foot." A Ukrainian government order in late 1930 commanded kulaks to be expropriated and moved to "the farthest away and least comfortable” land inside the republic.

To avoid that fate many escaped. In a few cases neighbours or local officials helped them to sell their property, or even quietly gave some of it back to ease their journey. Those who could do so made their way to cities. Some 10 million peasants entered the Soviet industrial workforce in the years 1928—32; many, perhaps most, were forced or persuaded to do so by collectivization and de-kulakization. Whereas unemployment had been a problem in some cities just a year or two earlier, factories scrambling to meet their Five Year Plan targets in 1930 were desperate for workers, and not as concerned by their social origins as they were meant to be.

Source: Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine (2017) by Anne Applebaum.

Leaked DHS email reveals Antifa violence in Portland is 'organized,' not 'opportunistic'

From The Blaze.com (Sept. 15):

Investigative reporter Catherine Herridge obtained a leaked email from a former top Homeland Security official on Monday revealing that Antifa violence in Portland is, in fact, organized.

What's the background?

Although the black-clad militant protesters have been mainstays in unrest across the country for years, those who claim to be members of Antifa often refuse to acknowledge centralized organization of their group.

Mark Bray, author of "Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook," recently claimed in an essay for the Washington Post that the government cannot designate Antifa as a "terrorist organization," which President Donald Trump has threatened to do, because Antifa "is not an organization."

Bray also claimed that Antifa is not associated with Black Lives Matter, the Democratic Party, or "liberal financiers like George Soros," and that Antifa is not actually fascist.

What does the email say?

The email — sent by Brian Murphy, former acting under secretary for intelligence and analysis at DHS, who has now become a government whistleblower — stated the violence seen in Portland over the summer has been "organized."

Murphy's message, sent July 25, was to inform staff of a definition change, that future references to the violent activity taking place in Portland would be referred to as being "violent Antifa anarchists inspired."

The individuals are violently attacking the Federal facilities based on these ideologies. We can't say any longer that this violent situation is opportunistic. Additionally, we have overwhelmingly intelligence regarding the ideologies driving individuals towards violence and why the violence has continued. A core set of Threat actors are organized, show up night after night, share common [Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures] and drawing on like minded individuals to their cause.
I recognize we may not be able to attribute every individual as VAAI however we need to look at the totality of the intelligence both current and previous and recognize the motivation for the violence and why people have shown up to commit violence for about 60 days. And why the individuals are using social media to encourage the VAAI on the ground to carry out acts of violence.

Murphy concluded the email, "Threat actors who are motivated by Anarchist or ANTIFA (or a combination of both) ideologies to carry out acts of violence against State, Local, and Federal authorities and infrastructure they believe represent authority or represent political and social ideas they reject." [read more]

All the riots and Left-wing protests are probably organized.

Other stories about violet “protests:”

• Barr tells prosecutors they could file sedition charges against violent protesters: report
• Today’s Riots Comparable to ‘Late Stage’ Violence of ’60s, ’70s
• This Week: DHS Provides Generous Funding to Aid in Anti-Violence Measures!
• Antifa militants gang up on woman of color, drag her to ground by her hair, try yanking American flag from her — but she doesn't let go

University of Pittsburgh scientists discover antibody that 'neutralizes' virus that causes COVID-19

From Fox News.com (Sept. 14):

Scientists at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine have isolated “the smallest biological molecule” that “completely and specifically neutralizes” SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.

The antibody component is 10 times smaller than a full-sized antibody, and has been used to create the drug Ab8, shared in the report published by the researchers in the journal Cell on Monday. The drug is seen as a potential preventative against SARS-CoV-2.

According to the report, the drug has been “highly effective in preventing and treating” the SARS-CoV-2 infections in mice and hamsters during tests. The drug also reportedly does not bind to human cells, which suggests it will not have negative side effects in people.

“Ab8 not only has potential as therapy for COVID-19, but it also could be used to keep people from getting SARS-CoV-2 infections,” said co-author John Mellors, chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Pitt and UPMC. “Antibodies of larger size have worked against other infectious diseases and have been well tolerated, giving us hope that it could be an effective treatment for patients with COVID-19 and for protection of those who have never had the infection and are not immune.”

Xianglei Liu of Pitt is also co-lead author of the study.

Researchers are “thinking outside the box” for how the drug could be administered, stating it may be able to be inhaled or through a superficial injection, instead of an IV. [read more]

Kamala Harris: The Most Radical VP Nominee in History

Commentary From Newt Gingrich on Gingrich360.com (Sept. 10):

Sen. Kamala Harris is the most radical person ever nominated for president or vice president by a major party. Because of Joe Biden’s frailty, her potential to become president is much greater than for most vice-presidential candidates.

Last month, Rasmussen Reports published a survey which indicted 59 percent of likely voters do not think Democratic Presidential Nominee Biden would finish his first term in office, if he is elected in November.

Even nearly half (49 percent) of Democrats who were asked thought Biden would bow out before four years was up. This is a remarkable statistic and makes the 2020 election even more unique and important, because it means nearly half of Democrats believe they will actually be electing the vice-presidential candidate rather than the top of the ticket. Historically, voters do not heavily consider the vice-presidential candidate when voting, but in 2020, Biden’s clear weakness makes it essential to give Harris much more scrutiny than would normally be warranted.

Of course, the liberal media constantly tries to pitch Biden as a moderate Democrat who could appeal to more people in the middle of the country. No doubt, the media will try to do the same with Harris – although it would be much more difficult.

I don’t want you to take my word for it or count on my judgement. That is why on Newt’s World, I captured some of Harris’s more radical positions – in her own words – so that Americans can hear directly from the senator how radical she is and keep that in mind as the November election approaches.

Harris, despite being a former prosecutor, has been incredibly supportive of efforts to defund police departments; to elect radical, pro-criminal, anti-police prosecutors who simply refuse to prosecute laws against criminals; and to sow chaos in American cities. [read more]

This is important because she is next in line if Biden becomes POTUS. And with Biden’s mental health who knows if that will happen sooner or later. Even if she doesn’t become president she might be able to influence him toward her radical positions.

Federal Judge: Pennsylvania's Stay-at-Home Order Is an Assault on Human Rights

Commentary from Ryan McMaken on Mises.org (Sept. 17):

A federal judge on Monday ruled that Pennsylvania governor Tom Wolf’s covid-19 stay-at-home orders and forced business closures were unconstitutional.

US district judge William Stickman IV of the US District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania ruled that Wolf’s orders violated the Constitution in three ways. They violated the First Amendment right to freedom of assembly, and they violated both the due process and equal protections clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment.

As a staunch decentralist, I don’t support the notion that federal courts have the authority to strike down state laws. Federal courts should rule only on federal laws, and federal laws ought to be few and far between. State laws are the business of the state’s supreme court. And if that court fails to rule against the despotic decrees of government agents, it is up to the citizens of that state to refuse compliance and make life very difficult and uncomfortable for the state’s politicians until they change their minds.

Moreover, I have no confidence that the US Supreme Court will side with Stickman if this case makes it to the Supreme Court. After all, Justice Roberts has already signaled that he is quite comfortable with states violating basic human rights so long as it is done for the sake of “public safety.”

But whatever is the ultimate fate of this ruling, there’s no denying that Stickman’s ruling offers a quite compelling and thorough takedown of the ruinous, cynical, and morally repugnant set of “laws” that are the state’s covid-19 restrictions.

The Ruling

Stickman starts off introducing his ruling with some basic and solid conclusions about rights in general. He writes:

In an emergency, even a vigilant public may let down its guard over its constitutional liberties only to find that liberties, once relinquished, are hard to recoup and that restrictions—while expedient in the face of an emergency situation—may persist long after immediate danger has passed.

It’s hard to dispute this, based not just on the current situation, but on countless other “crises” that have come and gone while the regime’s powers and prerogatives have proliferated.

Stickman then summarizes how the Pennsylvania decrees and orders came about. The “process” employed by Governor Wolf and his buddies is surprisingly corrupt and contemptuous of the public, even to an old cynic like me. [read more]

Shutdowns to the Left are all about control.

More article on lockdowns:

• Governments Will Impose New Lockdowns If They Think They Can Get Away with It
• Rising Homicides This Year May Be Yet Another Side Effect of Covid Lockdowns

Excerpts from the book Red Famine - The Bolsheviks

The Bolshevik leadership also formally opposed pogroms, though that didn’t stop Red Army soldiers from blackmailing Jewish communities or stealing their money. Lenin was informed that Red Army soldiers in Zhytomyr province were "destroying the Jewish population in their path, looting and murdering," in October 1920. Despite his arguments to the contrary, followers of Makhno were also responsible for attacks on Jews, as were some Polish soldiers.

But the violence was greatest in areas that were not under any political control at all. The worst damage was inflicted by disintegrating military units or bandits with little sense of allegiance to anybody. One testimony, written by a Jewish trader, Symon Leib-Rabynovych, describes what happened in the village of Pichky, near Radomysl, when twenty members of "Struk's gang" took over in 1919. On the first evening the Jews of the village were taken hostage until they agreed to pay 1,800 roubles. A few days later most of them fled temporarily, following a Bolshevik attack on the village. When they returned, they discovered that their homes had been plundered and their possessions distributed among their neighbours. Leib-Rabynovych went to one of them and asked for his feather back:

He fell on me like a Wild beast; how did I dare to demand of him, the head man of the village? He would arrest me and hand me over to the Strukists as a communist. I saw that some change had taken place in my neighbour. He had previously been peaceable, and extraordinarily conscientious, and had always been kind to me. I understood that I could not stay any longer in the village. I had to get away to save my life.

Leib-Rabynovych escaped. The next day the Struk gang the entire Jewish population of the village out into the field, stripped all of them of their clothes and possessions, demanded money, and murdered those who could not pay.

Source: Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine (2017) by Anne Applebaum.

'Y'all gonna die one by one': BLM activists storm hospital where ambushed officers taken, block exits

From The Blaze.com (Sept. 13):

After two Los Angeles Sheriff's deputies sustained multiple gunshot wounds upon being ambushed while sitting in their patrol vehicle on Saturday, alleged Black Lives Matters protesters stormed the hospital where the officers were transported to for emergency surgery.

According to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Office, protesters attempted to block the entrance and exit of the hospital. Protesters also shouted that they hoped the injured officers died.

"To the protesters blocking the entrance & exit of the HOSPITAL EMERGENCY ROOM yelling 'We hope they die' referring to 2 LA Sheriff's ambushed today in #Compton: DO NOT BLOCK EMERGENCY ENTRIES & EXITS TO THE HOSPITAL. People's lives are at stake when ambulances can't get through," the agency said.

Video taken from outside the hospital showed one protester tell law enforcement officers standing guard outside the hospital, "I hope they f***ing die," referring to the injured officers. [read more]

Peaceful protesters?! My ass!

More stories about BLM and their stupid/evil agenda:

• BLM's perpetual fake outrage cycle
• What Will Replace the Police? Ten Historical Examples
• Protesters demand cops let themselves be stabbed or shot
• This BLM Co-Founder and Pro-Communist China Group Are Partnering Up. Here’s Why.
• Is Beijing Funding Riots in America? It’s Time to Investigate
• Like the Soviets, Black Lives Matter Purges Its History
• How Black Lives Matter Is Being Used to Further a Communist Agenda
• The Disturbing Intersection Between Antifa, BLM, & Public-School Teachers
  
• WATCH: Immigrant Business Owner Battles BLM Activists Outside Store: ‘I Refuse To Be A Victim’
  

LOCK STOCK Sweden’s coronavirus herd immunity plan ‘vindicated’ as just 1.3% of residents test positive despite no lockdown

From The-Sun.com (Sept. 10):

SWEDEN’S coronavirus policy which favoured “herd immunity” over a national lockdown was justified experts say.

The claims come after it emerged only 1.2 per cent of people tested for Covid-19 actually have the disease — compared to the pandemic peak when 19 per cent tested positive.

So far the nation has recorded 5,838 deaths due to Covid-19 —  the fifth-highest rate per capita in Europe .

But new infection numbers have been plummeting since June despite having no lockdown or other restrictions.

Whereas many countries have imposed rules, Sweden has simply offered advice on how to avoid catching the bug.

Jonas Ludvigsson, professor of epidemiology at Karolinska Institute, said:  "Our strategy has been consistent and sustainable".

The professor added that Sweden likely had a higher level of immunity in the population than most countries.

"I think we benefit a lot from that now," he said. [read more]

Vitamin D deficiency raises COVID-19 infection risk by 77%, study finds

From UPI.com (Sept. 3):

Sept. 3 (UPI) -- Vitamin D deficiency increases a person's risk for catching COVID-19 by 77% compared to those with sufficient levels of the nutrient, a study published Thursday by JAMA Network Open found.

As many as one in four of the nearly 500 participants in the study were found to have less-than-optimal levels of vitamin D, the data showed.

Among those found to be lacking the key nutrient, 22% contracted COVID-19, the data showed.

Of the 60% of study subjects with adequate vitamin D levels, just 12% were infected, according to the researchers.

"There is prior evidence from multiple sources that vitamin D can enhance both innate and adaptive immunity," Dr. David O. Meltzer, a professor of medicine at the University of Chicago, told UPI.

Innate immunity refers to the body's natural immune system response. Adaptive immunity describes how the immune system adjusts to a new pathogen -- like a virus -- that is able to evade its natural response.

"Vitamin D also ... may prevent the excess inflammation that is part of the challenge in managing severe COVID-19," Meltzer said. [read more]

Here’s Proof That Facebook Worked with Soros-Funded Media Matters to Eliminate Pro-Trump Conservative Content on the Platform

From The Gateway Pundit.com (Sept. 9):

Back in May 2017 The Gateway Pundit first reported on the 2017 David Brock Media Matters Playbook that was accidentally discovered and leaked online.

The Soros-funded Media Matters revealed in this playbook that they have access to the raw data of numerous social media platforms including Facebook, Twitter and Google, plus the connections and power to influence their understanding on what is and isn’t “fake news.”

Inside the 2017 playbook Media Matters admits they have already secured access to raw data from the tech giants.

“Media Matters has already secured access to raw data from Facebook, Twitter, and other social media sites. We have also put in place the technology necessary to automatically mine white nationalist message boards and alt-right communities for our archive.

We will now develop technologies and processes to systematically monitor and analyze this unfiltered data.”

Media Matters goes on to describe how they found a way to manipulate these social media platforms into thinking that they need their help. In fact, the following excerpt from the #BrockGate document speaks to this concern with precision:

“Out lets that push fake news are completely dependent on Facebook to spread their lies, and ad networks like Google to fund them.

Media Matters has unique insight to help fix the problems in this part of the media landscape.

After Facebook responded to our campaign by acknowledging the problem of fake news and agreeing to do something about it, we began a dialogue. It became clear form these conversations that Facebook needed our help in fully understanding the problem and identifying concrete solutions. Further, it also became clear that we had information and insight that they didn’t have that was helpful in educating them on the full scope of the problem. For example, Media Matters had a detailed map of the constellation of right-wing Facebook pages that had been the biggest purveyors of fake news – as well as insight into the food chain of fake news and how it was moving through the Facebook ecosystem.

Similarly, after Google revised their terms of service in order to prohibit so-called fake news sites from using their advertising network, it was Media Matters that had the information necessary to identify 40 of the worst fake news sites to which this policy applied.”

Facebook then went to work against the top Pro-Trump websites on the internet with tremendous success. [read more]

More stories about George Soros and Facebook:

• REVEALED: Soros’s Election Coup Playbook Demanding America Abandons Constitutional Norms And Prepares For A ‘Street Fight’
• Newt Gingrich: George Soros Actively Working to ‘Undermine the American System’
• Facebook content oversight member reportedly linked to Muslim Brotherhood
  

6 Highlights From Trump-Biden Debate

From Daily Signal.com (Sept. 30):

President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden squared off for the first of three debates Tuesday night.

Here’s six matters the two discussed in the debate, which was moderated by Fox News anchor Chris Wallace.

1. Election Integrity

With COVID-19 prompting significant mail-in or absentee voting, election integrity has become a major topic of discussion.

Biden suggested it’s not a concern.

“There are going to be millions of people, because of COVID, that are going to be voting by mail-in ballots,” Biden said. “We’re going to make sure the people who want to vote in person are able to do that because enough poll watchers are there to make sure they can socially distance.”

He added, referring to Trump, “This is all about trying to dissuade people from voting because he’s trying to scare people into thinking that it’s not going to be legitimate.”

The former vice president stressed that he would accept the results either way.

“If I win, that will be accepted. If I lose, that will be accepted,” Biden said. “By the way, if he says he’s not sure what he’s going to accept, let me tell you something, it doesn’t matter. If we get the votes, it’s going to be all over, He’s going to go.”

Trump warned of fraud, bringing up numerous examples of primaries earlier this year where mail-in balloting was a problem. Trump made a distinction between absentee ballots—or what he called solicited ballots—and mass mail-in ballots.

“As far as the ballots are concerned, it’s a disaster. A solicited ballot is OK. You’re asking. They send it, you send it back. I did that,” Trump said. “They are sending millions of unsolicited ballots across the country. There is fraud. They found them in creeks. They found some with the name Trump in a wastepaper basket. They are being sent all over the place. They sent two in a Democrat area. This is going to be fraud like you’ve never seen.”

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2. Forest Fires and Green New Deal

Trump argued that “forest management” was key to preventing the wildfires scouring California.

“You need forest management … the forest floors are loaded up with trees, dead trees that are years old and they’re like tinder, and leaves and everything else—you drop a cigarette in there, and the whole forest burns down. You’ve got to have forest management,” Trump said.

Later he added, “Every year, I get the call, California’s burning, California’s burning … if you had forest management, good forest management, you wouldn’t be getting those calls.”

Asked by Wallace if human pollution and greenhouse gas emissions were contributing to global warming, Trump said, “To an extent, yes.”

Biden spoke of weatherizing buildings, and increased use of electric-powered vehicles. “We can get to net zero in terms of energy production by 2035,” the former vice president said, adding that millions of jobs would be created. [read more]

I agree with Sean Hannity. Forget the moderator. Chris Wallace said he would be “quiet as a mouse” but he wasn’t. He broke up the flow of the debate. President Trump was debating him and Biden. Let the candidates duke it out. Maybe have someone announce the topics otherwise have no moderator.

Other articles on the debate:

• THERE REALLY IS NOTHING SMART ABOUT JOE BIDEN
• Trump Smacks Biden Over Gaffes, Education: ‘Don’t Ever Use The Phrase ‘Smart’ With Me’
• The Biggest Loser From Tuesday's Presidential Debate
• Joe Biden: No More Coal or Oil Plants in America
• Biden speechless as Trump challenges him to name one police group that supports him
• Americans Deserve a Better Debate
• The Cleveland Brawl: First Presidential Debate Was a Cage Fight
• Joe Biden Tells Co-Debater Chris Wallace He Does Not Support the Green New Deal — But That’s Not What It Says on His Website!
• Biden Is Still Too Scared To Answer Questions About Packing The Supreme Court And The Corporate Press Still Doesn’t Care
• Biden: ‘I Am The Democratic Party Now’; Trump Delivers Blow In Response
• Trump Challenges Moderator Chris Wallace: ‘I Guess I’m Debating You, Not Him. But That’s Okay.’
• Biden Tells Trump To ‘Shut Up,’ Calls Him ‘Racist,’ ‘Clown,’ Not ‘Presidential’; Chris Wallace Runs Interference
• Trump Challenges Biden To ‘Name One Law Enforcement Group’ That Supports Him. He Doesn’t.
• Mark Levin: Biden Tried Using ‘Same Stunts’ He Used On Paul Ryan In 2012. Trump Made Sure It Didn’t Work.
• Chris Wallace ‘Had A Tough Night,’ Trump Says
• Overwhelming Majority Of Spanish-Speaking Americans Say Trump Won Debate: Telemundo Social Media Poll
• Presidential Debate Commission Promises ‘Additional Structure’ After Uproar Over Opening Night
• Presidential debate commission to give future moderators ability to cut off candidates' microphones: Report
  
• Fact Check: Biden Claims ‘No One Has Established’ There Is ‘Fraud Related to Mail-in Ballots’
• The Best Analysis on Tuesday’s Debate Was Given 42 Years Ago
  

The Dems Plan to Steal the Presidency

From American Thinker.com (Sept. 5):

It comes as a stark and frightening realization that the Democrats are not the idiots they appear to be. Stark, because they tried to use the Steele Dossier, a folder full of ridiculous and easily debunked rumor and imaginative narrative, to at first steal an election and then, depose a president. And they are now trying to convince Americans that “law and order” Trump, who has decried the riots from the beginning and offered federal support to Democrat-run cities and states to stop them, is somehow now responsible for all the destruction and violence. It is obvious they think Americans are the stupid ones.

It is frightening because the realization comes with an understanding that the Democrats have a many-faceted plan to steal the Presidential Election, now less than two months away.

They tried everything in Trump’s first term, from the aforementioned dossier to the “phone call” impeachment. None of it worked. Then, the disease from the despicable Chinese befell America. It was a tragedy for America but a stroke of luck for Democrats.

They have used the pandemic to so frighten the nation into serial semi-permanent shutdowns intended to so immiserate Americans through the destroyed economy as to cost Trump the election. And mephitic Dems have tried to blame their intention to maintain perpetual lockdowns on Trump’s mismanagement of COVID.

The rioting was another fortuitous opportunity for Dems. With the coopting of the BLAME (Black, Latin, Antifa, and Minority Excluded) agenda as their own, they hoped to keep support for the rioting high enough to continue through the election, thereby allowing the Dems to use the rioters as stormtroopers at the polls in November to deny Trump voters their right to vote. Of course, they mistook sympathy for a cause as support for the violence and destruction and are only now coming to the epiphany that would seem to have obvious non-epiphany status to non-morons: People don’t like their lives, families, property, and livelihoods threatened by violent anarchists who will never be pleased no how much they are given. [read more]

The Left want to steel the election because they are power hungry and they don’t trust the voters (especially when they lose elections). The Left say the care about the Constitution, but they don’t.  They really want to do away with it. It’s in the way of their power. Who needs checks and balances anyway.

More articles about the upcoming election:

• The Democrats' Upcoming Theft of the 2020 Election
• Millions of donations from ‘unemployed’ to liberal causes spark accusations of foreign influence
• Why (and How) Christians Should Vote
• A Workable Republican Playbook for 2020
• How Trump can Connect with Moderate Democrats
  
• How ‘Weaponizing’ Mail-In Ballots Could Create Constitutional Crisis
• Military Mail-In Ballots Cast for Trump Discarded in Pennsylvania, Federal Investigation Finds
  
• NYC Board Of Elections Responds After New Yorkers Receive Ballots With Wrong Name, Voter Addresses
  
• Project Veritas Exposes Ilhan Omar Allies in Alleged Ballot Harvesting Operation in Minnesota
  
• Are some states effectively enabling registration, ballots by ineligible voters?
  
• NYC elections board says nearly 100,000 Brooklyn voters received wrong ballot return envelopes