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Janice Dean slams Cuomo over COVID response: ‘He wants to be a celebrity,’ not a leader Dean said she’s learned over the past months that Cuomo is a ‘bully’ By Catie Perry

Posted By on January 19th, 2021

https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/janice-dean-cuomo-covid-response-celebrity-leader

Fox News senior meteorologist Janice Dean called out New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo for how the state has handled the coronavirus pandemic on FOX Business’ “Making Money with Charles Payne.”

Dean has been a vocal critic in the past months, specifically about how New York has treated the elderly while virus cases were surging in nursing homes – Dean’s husband’s parents both died after contracting the virus in a New York nursing home.

Recently, Cuomo’s office responded to Dean’s latest criticisms and claimed “she’s not a credible source on anything except maybe the weather.”

JANICE DEAN: I think I’m an expert on grief. I think I’m an expert on what’s happened in nursing homes. I think I’m an expert on this governor, having covered him for the last 10 months and his atrocious leadership – from putting COVID-positive patients into nursing homes for 46 days, and the fact that he doesn’t take any responsibility and he’s actually refusing to answer to lawsuits. The Justice Department is looking into why he’s covering up the total number of seniors that we lost in nursing homes. My mother-in-law died in the hospital, but her number doesn’t count because the governor does not count those who died outside of the nursing home, but contracted the virus inside of it. And some of those totals are, in some cases, double what they are officially reporting. So that’s why I’ve been very critical of this governor. And, you know, he’s a bully. I’ve learned that over the last several months.

In the middle of a pandemic, he had the time to write a memoir of his leadership and how he flattened the curve. The curve right now is on the rise. And then he missed 17 meetings at the White House, Charles, for coronavirus response in all of the states because he was promoting his book.This governor wants to be a celebrity. He likes to hang out with Robert de Niro and actors like Ben Stiller. He had a birthday party for himself where you could join virtually by signing a check to the Andrew Cuomo campaign for $1,000. He wants to be a celebrity. And my response is: go be a celebrity. Please go to Hollywood and join your fellow governor, Gavin Newsom. We need somebody who actually wants to rule this state.

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Hillary Clinton And Nancy Pelosi Agree: Trump And Putin Probably Coordinated Capitol Riot Posted By Tim Hains

Posted By on January 19th, 2021

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2021/01/19/hillary_clinton_and_nancy_pelosi_agree_trump_and_putin_probably_coordinated_capitol_riot.html

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and I agree: Congress needs to establish an investigative body like the 9/11 Commission to determine Trump’s ties to Putin so we can repair the damage to our national security and prevent a puppet from occupying the presidency ever again.

During a visit to Hillary Clinton’s podcast this week, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi agreed with the suggestion that “we should have a 9/11 commission” to investigate “Putin puppets” behind the riots on Capitol Hill.

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MORE HEADLINES JANUARY 19, 2021

Posted By on January 19th, 2021

Melania Trump gives farewell address to the American people https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxEeYAKJrEQ WHITE HOUSE LISTS A FULL INVENTORY OF ALL PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS GOTTEN DONE, AND IT WILL BLOW YOU AWAY Aimee Herd / White House News Staff : Jan 18, 2021  WhiteHouse.gov No Thanks, I’ll Be Skipping the Inauguration https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2021/01/18/no-thanks-ill-be-skipping-the-inauguration-n2583248?   FBI warned of large-scale nationwide protests by Trump supporters, […]

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Nuclear Extortion: Mullahs Want More Concessions from Biden by Majid Rafizadeh

Posted By on January 19th, 2021

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/16975/iran-nuclear-extortion

Iran… rejoined the global financial system with full legitimacy — plus billions of dollars flowing into the treasury of the IRGC and its expanding militias across the Middle East. You would think, then, that the regime would be delighted to return to the same nuclear deal, right? Wrong. The mullahs want an even sweeter deal.

Biden already showed his cards by stating that he wants the deal. The regime now knows that Biden seems desperate for a deal, and doubtless sees this as a delectable weakness.

The ruling mullahs also most likely assume that they can extort even more concessions from a Democrat administration, particularly Biden’s, because they successfully did so in the past….

Iran’s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif… told a forum… that he wants a new deal. “A sign of good faith is not to try to renegotiate what has already been negotiated,” he said, adding in the same speech that the US must “Compensate us for our losses.” Iran’s top judicial body had already demanded that the US pay $130 billion in “damages.”

The regime, in addition, is playing another dangerous game, as it did with the Obama administration, to program to extort greater concessions from the Biden administration: It is ratcheting up nuclear threats.

The Iranian regime received a dangerous and unprecedented level of concessions from the Obama administration for Iran’s 2015 “nuclear deal,” known as the JCPOA (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action) — which, by the way, Tehran never signed. The major concession was that the deal paved the way for Iran legally to become a full-blown nuclear state.

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The Pernicious Effects of Popular Nuclear Mythology by Stephen Blank and Peter Huessy

Posted By on January 19th, 2021

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/16974/popular-nuclear-mythology

While one looks with alarm at the massive Russian nuclear modernization effort now nearing completion, the disarmament lobby — such as Ploughshares and Global Zero — views such modernization as simply a reflection of how the American threat is perceived by the Russians.

There is also little doubt that the Russian Federation’s priority investment in nuclear weapons was — and remains — aimed primarily to checkmate the United States’ conventional weapons superiority, and give Russia a free hand to use its own military power for hegemonic purposes. The same could be said of North Korea and Iran’s decisions to go along their respective paths to nuclear breakout.

What brings the issue to the forefront today is that many luminaries of previous administrations who may now be staffing the incoming administration still hold these historically inaccurate views.

A commitment to a “sole-purpose” posture — or to its equivalent, a “no-first-use” stance — not only undermines the US nuclear umbrella upon which America’s allies have relied for 70 years, it also invites a Russian first strike. Moscow’s conventional and nuclear forces are configured for just that kind of operation and are ultimately restrained only by the American nuclear deterrent.

If the United States wrongly assumes that Russia’s deterrent serves no offensive purpose, we would be ignoring recent and authoritative evidence to the contrary…. Russia’s military posture is fundamentally offensive…. “active defense.”

Russia’s ability to initiate conventional strikes against its rivals and adversaries is closely backed up by nuclear weapons.

Iran would undoubtedly see even partial unilateral US disarmament as a green light for its nuclear quest. One can imagine what that would lead to in the Middle East.

Moreover, US unilateral acts of altruism, designed to lead by example, will not be reciprocated: states in general, and certainly Russia and China, are, to quote Charles De Gaulle, “cold monsters.”

There is a widespread belief, especially among advocates of nuclear disarmament, that a country with nuclear weapons is primarily interested in self-protection. The narrative continues with another belief — really more of a wish — that nuclear weapons should never be used to deter anything other than a nuclear attack from an adversary and, if that can be agreed upon, nations would then be willing to get rid of nuclear weapons altogether.

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By Dems’ logic, couldn’t Obama and Biden be impeached and convicted for their actions in 2016 so they can never hold office again? By Jack Hellner

Posted By on January 19th, 2021

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/01/by_dems_logic_couldnt_obama_and_biden_be_impeached_and_convicted_for_their_actions_in_2016_so_they_can_never_hold_office_again.html

Isn’t it pure abuse of power and obstruction of justice when an administration is so consumed with maintaining power that it uses the massive personnel and taxpayer resources to destroy their political opponent while protecting their chosen successor from prosecution no matter how many crimes she committed?

For some reason, I have never seen Pelosi, Schumer, Hoyer, Durbin, AOC and other Democrats asked the following questions no matter how many times they have been interviewed the last 4 1/2 years:

Is it OK that the DNC and Hillary paid a foreign national over $10 million to create a fictional dossier to take out Trump?
Is it OK that the DNC and Hillary campaign committed fraud by lying to the FEC that the money paid to a foreign source was for legal fees instead of telling the truth. (And Democrats say they are the party of truth over lies)
Is it OK that several FBI swamp creatures used this fake dossier when they continually lied to the FISA court in order to spy on people surrounding Trump as they allowed Hillary and her aides to get off scot free? (and the Democrats say that under them, the Justice Department operates independently and no one is above the law)
Is it OK that so many people in the Obama administration, including Biden himself, spent the two months after the 2016 election unmasking people and seeking to destroy people like Flynn instead of helping the Trump administration and having a peaceful transition of power?

Image credit: Daniel Schwen CC BY-SA 4.0 license

As a matter of fact, I don’t remember Obama, Biden or Hillary asked these same obvious questions no matter how many times they have been interviewed and kissed up to the last several years as to how great they are and were.

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Did Truth Matter on January 6th? Will It Ever Matter Again? James McCoy

Posted By on January 19th, 2021

https://townhall.com/columnists/jamesmccoy/2021/01/18/did-truth-matter-on-january-6th-will-it-ever-matter-again-n2583269

Editor’s Note: This column is co-authored by Loyd Pettegrow

“Yes, January 6th did matter!  It remains to be seen if the truth behind that day will ever be known, and just how much truth, if any, will matter in American politics in the future.”

Hillary Clinton counseled then-candidate Joe Biden not to concede, “no matter what!” That was before myriad video accounts, poll worker claims and sworn affidavits attesting to illegal and fraudulent conduct in the 2020 presidential election. The “never concede” wise advice to Joe Biden has since been considered unpatriotic, even seditious behavior for President Trump. Ah, Democrat hypocrisy!

When President Trump called for Georgia’s officials to verify voter signatures and to make sure all voters were legal residents of the state, his request was denied. Georgia’s secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger boldly stated, “truth matters.” Does it really? That truth matters, is exactly the foundation of President Trump’s refusal to concede the election. President Reagan advocated the practice of “trust but verify.” In the wake of a global pandemic and the most problematic election in the nation’s history, one can reasonably legitimize President Trump’s reluctance to trust, and certainly his persistent call to verify. After all, a federal commission headed by former President Jimmy Carter had warned of the potential dangers of wise-spread mail-in balloting.  

To the mainstream media and the Democrats, President Trump had no right to challenge the veracity of the unorthodox 2020 election practices. Christopher Krebs, Deep State Director of the Cyber Security Agency – a department in Homeland Security, called the 2020 election the “most secure in American history.” That was certainly a bold statement coming from a man who was at the helm when the largest security data breach of the federal government was reported on December 13, 2020, several months after it occurred. His credibility was certainly questionable! 

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Marginalising Conservatives Until We Vanish Peter Smith

Posted By on January 19th, 2021

https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/qed/2021/01/marginalising-conservatives-until-we-vanish/

Recently, miffed by its coverage of the US election and its aftermath, I wrote to The Australian:

Dear Editor, a suggestion: The cabal of your anti-Trump correspondents should get together each evening to stick pins in an effigy of Donald Trump. That might get the bile out of their systems and allow them to produce decent copy fit to read.

If you’ve noticed the newspaper’s drift to the port side of politics, you guessed it — The Australian didn’t publish my comment but, of course, I had zero expectation it would. The paper is becoming a left-of-centre rag. True, it has some decent writers. I enjoyed reading Gerard Henderson and Caroline Overington this morning. True, too, it is better than the alternatives, which is why I reluctantly still buy it.

It will also be interesting to see where the paper goes when Trump isn’t around for the hacks to get stuck into. What is clear is that it is on a pathway to leftism with the occasional dissident voice for appearances sake. Once leftists have infiltrated and reached an influential level they hire their own. That has been the history of universities, schools, public broadcasting, most of the mainstream print media and public services. The Australian, I fear, is just one more domino. Rupert won’t live forever.

By the way, I am not convinced that socialism per se is behind the movement to close down conservative voices. Socialism in practice produces an intolerance for counter views. First comes socialism then comes fascism. Right now, it seems as though the process has been short-circuited. I put it down to post-modernism and its attendant disregard for the concept of objective truth.

When there is no objective truth, my agenda can become the truth and your opposition lies. And, lies cannot be allowed to pollute the air waves. Liars can be cancelled in good conscience.

Thus, those who express the view that women must have XX chromosomes are liars and should be shunned. Those who don’t accept that free speech becomes hate speech when it offends someone of a minority group are liars. Those who believe it is discriminatory and racist to favour someone because of their skin colour are liars; unless the skin colour is white, in which case they are in good standing.

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MY SAY-PRESIDENT SELECT BIDEN’S POTEMKIN ADMINISTRATION

Posted By on January 19th, 2021

It is obvious by now that the next four years will be Barack Obama’s third term. Virtually every cabinet post and nomination for government office will be filled by former Obama officials. The demonic rush to “cancel” the Trump administration and treat it as a parenthesis and interregnum has begun.

Here is the President-select’s to do list right after inauguration:

Biden Aide: ‘Roughly a Dozen’ Executive Actions on Day One

Plans To Cancel Keystone XL Permit

Will Ask Congress to Grant Path to Citizenship to 11M Illegal Immigrants

Biden’s ambitious 100-day plan to erase Trump’s legacy https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/17/opinions/biden-ambitious-first-hundred-days-zelizer/index.html

Andy Puzder: Biden proposal to boost hourly minimum wage to $15 would destroy jobs, hurt unemployed Any minimum wage increase should be at the state or local level — and the more local the better:https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/minimum-wage-biden-andy-puzder

Biden set to cancel Keystone XL pipeline and right out the gate enrages Canada By Monica Showalter

http://Biden set to cancel Keystone XL pipeline and right out the gate enrages Canada

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Election Lawsuits Move Forward Despite Silencing Crusade Even though Trump’s fate is sealed, the Supreme Court still has time to rectify the election’s many wrongs. The only remaining question is—will they? By Julie Kelly

Posted By on January 19th, 2021

https://amgreatness.com/2021/01/18/election-lawsuits-move-forward-despite-silencing-crusade/

As the country looks back at the mayhem that has unfolded over the past few months, one moment stands out: The most consequential event since Election Day—hands down—was the Supreme Court’s rejection of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s lawsuit against four states that helped decide the outcome of the 2020 presidential election.

In fact, it’s easy to assume if the court had agreed to consider the petition, the melee on January 6 never would have happened.

Paxton’s case detailed the unlawful handling of mail-in ballots in Michigan, Wisconsin, Georgia, and Pennsylvania, votes that overwhelmingly favored Joe Biden. (Biden flipped those states by a combined 270,000 votes; more than 9 million ballots were absentee.) Several Republican state attorneys general and more than 100 GOP House members immediately joined the suit. There were no claims of “kraken” or foreign servers or bribed governors, just indisputable facts of what happened.

But a mere four days after receiving the 154-page filing on December 7, the Supreme Court neglected its duty to protect the U.S. Constitution, refusing to ensure that election laws codified by state legislatures were followed in accordance with the Electors Clause.

“Texas has not demonstrated a judicially cognizable interest in the manner in which another State conducts its elections,” the court wrote in an abrupt order issued December 11. (Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas disagreed with the majority’s “standing” argument and concluded the case did fall within the court’s jurisdiction.)

In a hard slap to both the Constitution and those responsible for their rise to the highest court in the land, the three justices appointed by the president agreed with the majority’s ruling.

Now that the news media, Big Tech, and lawmakers of both parties are attempting to criminalize criticism of the 2020 election—the president was impeached a second time for allegedly inciting an “insurrection” following his fiery speech to supporters gathered in the capital on January 6—the court’s denial of the Texas lawsuit looms large. As I cautioned in December, the vacuum created by inaction in the court system and the Justice Department would fuel chaos.