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Never Again! A 10-point plan to fix America’s shameful voting system. By Doug Truax

Posted By on December 17th, 2020

https://amgreatness.com/2020/12/14/never-again/

Doug Truax is founder and president of Restoration PAC/Restoration Action, a West Point graduate, successful entrepreneur and a former U.S. Senate candidate from Illinois.
Nobody quite knows what is going to happen with President Trump’s challenges to the 2020 election, but one thing is certain—America should not conduct another national election without massive reforms.

In short, we just watched a Third World-style election within the borders of the greatest country in the history of the world. People voting for weeks, mail-out and mail-in ballots flying everywhere—on trucks across states lines, through post offices populated with partisans, into drop boxes monitored by no one, onto election machines with shadowy ownership where vote tallies apparently were shipped overseas and where states took days to count ballots while others counted them in hours.

The vast majority of Republicans believe massive cheating occurred and so do nearly half of Democrats. Even the corrupt liberal media’s refusal to cover the fraud can’t completely hide it. 

We are not going to fully trace the lineage that got us where we are today except to say Democrats have scratched and clawed for change after change to erode election security over the course of several decades while Republicans have been frozen in fear refusing to oppose them.

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Omar, Tlaib and AOC Demand Facebook Remove 100% of ‘Anti-Muslim Content’ 30 House Democrats go to war against the First Amendment. Daniel Greenfield

Posted By on December 17th, 2020

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/12/omar-tlaib-and-aoc-demand-facebook-remove-100-anti-daniel-greenfield/

Two of the most notorious bigots in the House of Representatives signed a letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg demanding that he “eradicate anti-Muslim bigotry from Facebook”.

The three-page letter signed by Rep. Ilhan Omar, Rep. Rashida Tlaib, as well as 28 other left-wing House members, spends a great deal of time demanding the removal of what it calls “anti-Muslim content” without ever specifically defining it. That’s convenient considering Omar and Tlaib’s own history of racism and antisemitism, and support for the sorts of Islamic bigotry and violence that groups like CAIR, which supports the letter, have become known for.

The letter spotlights one violent incident, but then goes on to call for a ban on “anti-Muslim content”, “anti-Muslim animus”, “anti-Muslim bigotry”, and finally, “anti-Muslim content and organizing” on the platform, without ever explaining what exactly they want to ban.

Considering the letter’s call for, “100 percent proactive detection and removal of anti-Muslim content”, the safe assumption would be that they want to ban everything critical of Islam.

That’s a disturbing attack on the First Amendment coming from 30 House members.

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San Francisco Removes George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Teddy Roosevelt’s Names From Schools Daniel Greenfield

Posted By on December 17th, 2020

https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/2020/12/san-francisco-removes-george-washington-abraham-daniel-greenfield/

The Democrats hate America. They really hate everything about it.

But this is also a shell game.

The San Francisco Unified School District has a $169 million deficit. It’s a ridiculously failed system that is upping its failure quotient with “equity” virtue signaling that’s wrecking the better schools, and it’s renaming schools named after George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Herbert Hoover, and Dianne Feinstein.

“On a local level Dianne Feinstein chose to fly a flag that is the iconography of domestic terrorism, racism, white avarice and inhumanity towards black and indigenous people at the City Hall,” Jeremiah Jeffries, chairman of the renaming committee and a first grade teacher in San Francisco said. “She is one of the few living examples on our list, so she still has time to dedicate the rest of her life to the upliftment of Black, First Nations and other people of color. She hasn’t thus far, so her apology simply wasn’t convincing.”

The real damage here is to the first graders that Jeffries is teaching because in between that woke word salad, he sounds semi-literate at best.

Good news, Dianne, at the age of 87, you get to dedicate your remaining years to the “upliftment” of “people of color”. Better be prepared to take a lot of knees and wash a lot of feet.

Critics have called the effort to rename 44 school sites, a full third of the district’s schools, amateur — citing the committee’s justifications pulled from Wikipedia or selective news sources rather than historical records or comprehensive research — and a waste of time amid a pandemic.

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The Rescue From Madness Joakim Book *****

Posted By on December 17th, 2020

https://www.aier.org/article/the-rescue-from-madness

In his memoirs, written in the 1940s but not published until after his death, the great economist Ludwig von Mises wrote, “I set out to be a reformer, but only became the historian of decline.” Most people contemplating the political and economic climate of 2020 can probably relate. 

Many of us, frustrated at the loss of liberty and overreach by governments in the single-minded battle to eradicate a virus they don’t understand, have reached for George Orwell or Aldous Huxley. In their novels, 1984 and Brave New World, they explored incredibly dystopian worlds. Real-world events that resemble anything in those books invite the fear that we’re destined for the same tyrannical lives. 

While literature captures something deeply real about what it means to be human ‒ particularly during the first half of the despicable 20th century in which these authors lived ‒ they ultimately depict something unreal. The superstate of 1984’s Oceania hasn’t quite emerged anywhere, except perhaps North Korea; the foolish quest for unstructured and uninhibited pleasure in the World State has so far restricted itself to communes and sections of woke university campuses. 

Instead, I find Mises, or his contemporary, the novelist and poet Stefan Zweig, much more revealing. Both came of age in fin de siècle Vienna with its coffee houses, intellectual advancements, literary achievements, famed circles and aura of learning for learning’s sake that posteriority much envied. Both witnessed the prolonged and enduring collapse of their civilizations. 

In contrast to Orwell and Huxley’s unreal worlds, the demise that Mises and Zweig discuss actually happened, and just a few generations ago. In our times, in our worlds, with roughly our civic institutions and social structures and values. 

We are watching, in real time, the destruction of our own civilization.

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Evidence Of National Fraud During America’s 2020 Presidential Election: A Compendium Sam Jacobs

Posted By on December 17th, 2020

https://issuesinsights.com/2020/12/16/evidence-of-national-fraud-during-america

(Editor’s note: This is the first of a series of posts by the Libertas Bella blog on the evidence for fraud in the 2020 presidential election. For more entries, along with charts, graphs and pictures, please click here to go to the Libertas Bella blog site.)

Regardless of where one falls politically, the sanctity of the vote is a bedrock of a functioning representative democracy. Voters have to believe their vote matters. And that the vote is free, fair, and accurate. 

The basic facts of the 2020 American Presidential election are concerning because mounting evidence indicates there’s been a concerted effort by state Democratic Parties to flip the election from President Donald Trump to former Vice President Joe Biden in a number of key swing states with the help of notoriously corrupt Democratic Party machines in at least five American cities — Detroit, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, Pittsburg, and Atlanta.

Here are the basic facts of the case: On Election Night when America went to bed, President Trump had a commanding lead in virtually every swing state, as well as Virginia, which no one expected him to win. However, when America woke up the next day, we found that he’d lost these leads, largely on the basis of mail-in ballots found in the middle of the night and out from under the watchful eye of legal election monitors. 

What’s more, these massive caches of votes – almost all of which were for former Vice President Biden – came via large dumps primarily from the five aforementioned cities in states predominantly run by Democratic governors.

When one looks at the statistical likelihood of the reported turnout, the numbers are so improbable they’re more at home in a one-party state like Saddam Hussein’s Iraq or North Korea.

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Biden’s First 100 Days — The Beginning Of A New National Nightmare

Posted By on December 17th, 2020

https://issuesinsights.com/2020/12/17/bidens-first-100-days-the-beginning-of-a-new-national-nightmare/

Joe Biden still isn’t president, and we’ve urged President Donald Trump and his team to continue the fight to ensure the election was fair. But should Biden take the oath on Jan. 20, this country will go through some changes that will scar it forever.

Barack Obama, “the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean,” the black “storybook,” confirmed what many already knew, and that is this man who has such a severe deficit of self-awareness also lacks good judgment.

The former Delaware senator and two-term vice president is no lyrical “palmist.” He’s just a gaffe factory permanently operating at peak productivity. Who knows what he’ll say when dealing with the likes of Russia’s Vladimir Putin and China’s Xi Jinping? Pair his history of motoring through a discourse of nonsense, with his cognitive decline, and we might have a regrettable scene in which he tells one or both to “trunalimunumaprzure” themselves, or calls them lying dog-faced pony soldiers, which in the case of Putin is close to the truth.

Biden might even tell South Carolina Republican Sen. Tim Scott and the African-American GOP members of the House that they “ain’t black” because they didn’t vote for him. It’s a near certainty that before it turns warm again in Washington, he’ll call someone he shouldn’t a “horse’s ass” who’s “full of s—” and threaten to continue the disagreement outside as if he were settling some boozed-up frat boy argument.

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Multiple Witnesses Testify on Election Irregularities at Senate Hearing By Bowen Xiao

Posted By on December 17th, 2020

https://www.theepochtimes.com/multiple-witnesses-testify-on-election-irregularities-at-senate-hearing_3621177.html

Witnesses at a U.S. Senate hearing on election “irregularities” testified about a litany of alleged instances of election fraud occurring in certain states. Some also expressed concerns over last-minute changes to election laws and other issues they argued were unconstitutional.

Republican senators said they believe fraud did occur and that taking an honest look into the growing mountain of evidence is necessary for a democracy, noting that many Americans have similar concerns. A POLITICO/Morning Consult poll taken after the election found 70 percent of Republicans didn’t believe it was free and fair. However, trust in the election actually increased for Democrats.

Democratic senators largely used their time to attack the hearing, declaring that the American people had already spoken and Republicans were spewing disinformation. Courts have struck down many of the suits contesting the results, they said. But witnesses, including politicians such as Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), pointed out that the vast majority were rejected for procedural reasons, as opposed to merit-based or substantive-based rulings focused on the allegations of fraud. 

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, said in his opening statement that although the Electoral College awarded Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden 306 votes, “a large percentage of the American public does not believe the November election results are legitimate.”

“The fact that our last two presidential elections have not been accepted as legitimate by large percentages of the America public is a serious problem that threatens our republic,” Johnson said at the first federal hearing on the matter of election fraud.

According to officials, witnesses, whistleblowers, and data experts, some level of fraud and other irregularities occurred during the 2020 election, but the level of fraud is disputed.

The question is “whether the level of fraud would alter the outcome of the election,” Johnson said in his opening remarks.

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Wait a Second—Who is That With Dan Crenshaw in His Georgia Runoff Ad? By Bryan Preston

Posted By on December 16th, 2020

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/bryan-preston/2020/12/14/wait-a-second-who-is-that-with-dan-crenshaw-in-his-georgia-runoff-ad-n1211008

I had to do a double-take: Who is that alongside Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) in his “Georgia Reloaded” ad? Is that who I think it is?

Here’s a closer look.

Rep. Dan Crenshaw’s “Georgia Reloaded” video. Screenshot from YouTube.

Guys…guys.That’s Marcus freakin’ Luttrell.

The Lone Survivor. The former SEAL. The man who literally never quits.

Dan Crenshaw and Marcus Luttrell, both Texans, are banding together to save Republican control of the Senate in the upcoming Georgia runoffs. It means something, or at least it should, to have two young, bona fide American war heroes and Purple Heart recipients stepping up to campaign despite not being on the ballot.

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Republican Mackenzie Kelly Wins Austin City Council Runoff. Local Paper Declines to Cover It By Bryan Preston

Posted By on December 16th, 2020

https://pjmedia.com/election/bryan-preston/2020/12/16/republican-mackenzie-kelly-wins-austin-city-council-runoff-local-paper-declines-to-cover-it-n1215133

In a stunning upset, Republican Mackenzie Kelly defeated Democrat incumbent Jimmy Flannigan in Austin’s District 6 runoff Tuesday. Kelly ran on a platform that includes restoring police department funding and ending the city’s permissive homeless camping ordinance. She won with 52% to Flannigan’s 48%, a margin of just about 700 votes overall.

Kelly’s win, and Republican Jennifer Virden’s near-win in District 10, may signal a major shift in Austin voters’ thinking. The Democrat-dominated city was already up in arms over the homeless camping ordinance, which allows homeless people to camp just about anywhere they want all over the city (except city hall) since the council passed it unanimously in the summer of 2019. That has led to encampments under overpasses and even on the fringes of neighborhoods all over Austin. Those camps are unsanitary and unsafe; one of them recently burned.

Then the pandemic struck, and Mayor Steve Adler took an authoritarian approach that has, among other things, badly damaged the city’s once-vibrant live music scene (and his own credibility). #SaveOurStages became a force in the city because Adler and the city council’s policies are harming one of Austin’s trademarks, destroying many residents’ ability to make a living at all.

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Jill Biden’s Doctorate Is Garbage Because Her Dissertation Is Garbage By Kyle Smith

Posted By on December 16th, 2020

https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/12/jill-bidens-doctorate-is-garbage-because-her-dissertation-is-garbage/

Her dissertation is not an addition to the sum total of human knowledge.

You can tell someone is smarting from an inferiority complex when he insists on being addressed as “Dr.” on the basis of holding an academic doctorate rather than being a physician. Ph.D. holders who have genuine accomplishments don’t make you call them “Doctor,” which is why you never hear about “Dr. Paul Krugman” and “Dr. George Will.” None of the professors I knew at Yale, even the ones who were eminent in their fields, insisted on the title, and I think most of them would have scoffed if someone had addressed them as “Dr.” The only reason you ever hear the phrase “Dr. Henry Kissinger” is that Kissy grew up in title-mad, airs-and-graces Germany, where people are awed rather than dismissive even if you insist on a triple-serving title (“Herr Professor Doktor”).

Insisting on being called “Doctor” when you don’t heal people is, among most holders of doctorates, seen as a gauche, silly, cringey ego trip. Consider “Dr.” Jill Biden, who doesn’t even hold a Ph.D. but rather a lesser Ed.D., something of a joke in the academic world. President-elect Joe Biden once explained that his wife sought the degree purely for status reasons: “She said, “I was so sick of the mail coming to Sen. and Mrs. Biden. I wanted to get mail addressed to Dr. and Sen. Biden.” That’s the real reason she got her doctorate,’” Joe Biden has said.

Mrs. Biden wanted the credential for its own sake. As for its quality, well. She got it from the University of Delaware, whose ties to her husband, its most illustrious alumnus if you don’t count Joe Flacco, run so deep that it has a school of public policy named after him. That the University of Delaware would have rejected her 2006 dissertation as sloppy, poorly written, non-academic, and barely fit for a middle-school Social Studies classroom (all of which it is) when her husband had been representing its state in the U.S. Senate for more than three decades was about as likely as Tom Hagen telling Vito Corleone that his wife is a fat sow on payday. The only risk to the University of Delaware was that it might strain its collective wrist in its rush to rubber-stamp her doctoral paper.