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Tom Fitton: If Republicans Back Hawley’s Electoral College Objection, Trump Will Be Made Lawful Winner

Posted By on January 3rd, 2021

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2020/12/31/tom_fitton_if_republicans_back_hawleys_electoral_college_objection_trump_will_be_made_lawful_winner.html

Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton explains Sen. Josh Hawley’s argument to object to the Electoral College results to host Gregg Jarrett on FBN Wednesday: “Not only did [Pennsylvania] count the votes late, in my view, but they counted votes they shouldn’t have counted under their own state law and in violation of the constitution. So these electors that have been certified for Joe Biden are invalid, Ithink the argument could be made, and should be rejected, and President Trump is the lawful winner based on that analysis. This is a straightforward analysis, and this is why the left has been so desperate to avoid the debate, because it’s a simple argument, and they could lose it.”

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Causation Of Climate Change, And The Scientific Method Francis Menton

Posted By on January 3rd, 2021

https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2021-1-2-causation-of-climate-change-an

Let’s have yet another go at trying to apply the scientific method to the subject of causation of climate change. This is just basic logic, and not that complicated. We can do it.

As simple and basic as this is, you will shortly see that the agglomeration of all of the world’s leading “climate scientists” can’t figure it out. They are completely lost and befuddled. Check me and see if I’m wrong.

The proposition we are addressing is the one for which you see a constant drumbeat of advocacy. It runs something like, “the climate is changing, and we are the cause.” OK, nobody denies that the climate is changing; but how about the “we are the cause” part? What is the proof?

Let’s apply the scientific method. We start with the basic maxim that “correlation does not prove causation.” Instead, causation is established by disproof of all relevant alternative (“null”) hypotheses.

Everybody knows how this works from drug testing. We can’t prove that drug A cures disease X by administering drug A a thousand times and observing that disease X almost always goes away. Disease X might have gone away for other reasons, or on its own. Even if we administer drug A a million times, and disease X almost always goes away, we have only proved correlation, not causation. To prove causation, we must disprove the null hypothesis by testing drug A against a placebo. The placebo represents the null hypothesis that something else (call it “natural factors”) is curing disease X. When drug A is significantly more effective at curing disease X than the placebo, then we have disproved the null hypothesis, and established, at least provisionally, the effectiveness of drug A.

Back to climate change. The hypothesis is “humans are causing significant climate change.” An appropriate null hypothesis would be “observed climate change can be fully explained by some combination of natural factors.” How might you test this?

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6-Person Team Briefed Hundreds of State Senators on Election Irregularities

Posted By on January 3rd, 2021

https://www.theepochtimes.com/6-person-team-briefed-hundreds-of-state-senators-on-election-theft-evidence-navarro-says_3641503.html?utm_source=news&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=breaking-2021-01-03-1

BY IVAN PENTCHOUKOV AND ZACHARY STIEBER

A six-person team that included Rudy Giuliani and Peter Navarro on Saturday briefed hundreds of state lawmakers on evidence of election irregularities.

The Zoom meeting included hundreds of legislators across Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, Navarro, the White House director of trade and manufacturing policy, said during an appearance on Fox News.

“These legislators, they’re hot, they’re angry, they want action,” Navarro said. “We gave them the receipts. We explained exactly how the Democrat Party, as a matter of strategy, stole this election from Donald J. Trump.”

According to Got Freedom?, a nonprofit election integrity watchdog, the meeting included an address by President Donald Trump. Nearly 300 legislators heard from the president, Navarro, and Trump’s lawyer, Giuliani.

John Eastman and John Lott were also part of the briefing. Eastman represented Texas in the now-dismissed interstate challenge to the outcome of the election. Lott, a senior adviser for research and statistics for the Department of Justice, authored a recently released report on election theft.

Legislators were briefed on evidence of alleged voter, ballot, and election fraud, which can be viewed on a webpage hosted by Got Freedom?

“This information should serve as an important resource for state legislators as they make calls for state legislatures to meet to investigate the election and consider decertifying their state election results,” Phill Kline, who heads the Thomas More Foundation’s Amistad Project and who hosted the call on behalf of of the group, said in a statement.

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Biggest Horse-Race Fixer of All Time Says Democrats Stole Election. Here’s How. Wayne Allyn Root

Posted By on January 3rd, 2021

https://townhall.com/columnists/wayneallynroot/2021/01/03/biggest-horserace-fixer-of-all-time-says-democrats-stole-election-heres-how-n2582383?

I am the only nationally syndicated conservative talk radio host in America who spent his prior career as a professional gambler and “the King of Vegas Sports Gambling” (as the media dubbed me). But don’t take my word for it. Next time you’re in Vegas, look for my 180-pound granite star on Las Vegas Boulevard in front of Paris Las Vegas Hotel & Casino.

So, no other conservative media personality has friends like I do. In addition to many of the top GOP politicians and the president of the United States, my list of buddies includes some “only in Vegas” characters such as “Richie.” Richie is a professional gambler and a convicted horse-race fixer.

Back in the day, Richie may have been the greatest and most prolific horse-race fixer in history. He fixed over 1,000 horse races in 11 years at every racetrack in California, bribing over 100 jockeys. Eventually, he was convicted and served time in prison.

That was 25 years ago. Today, Richie is one of the good guys and a respected member of his community, as well as a noted philanthropist. But Richie still has his street smarts — something no one in Washington, D.C., has. For over 50 years, he witnessed the smartest and sharpest scammers and cheaters in the gambling world. No one can spot a scam like Richie. My buddy has a Ph.D. in the Art of the Steal.

Richie watched and studied the 2020 presidential election. He calls it “the greatest scam and steal in world history.” He says anyone who denies this election was stolen is a criminal who was in on the scam; a bribed politician or bureaucrat who benefits from the scam; or a complete naive moron.

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Hawley: When Millions Of Americans Have Concerns About Election Integrity, We’re Supposed To Sit Down And Shut Up?

Posted By on January 3rd, 2021

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2020/12/30/hawley_when_millions_of_americans_have_concerns_about_election_integrity_were_supposed_to_sit_down_and_shut_up.html

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) appeared on FOX News on Wednesday night after announcing his plan to object to the certification of Electoral College results. Hawley says by objecting, his actions will force his colleagues in the Senate to go on record. Former CIA Director John Brennan criticized Hawley on Twitter today, calling him the “Most Craven, Unprincipled, & Corrupt Senator.”

“I don’t recall hearing the Democrats make any such outrageous claims when they were the ones who are objecting during the Electoral College certification in 2004 and 2016,” Hawley said.

“Democrats have done this for years in order to raise concerns about election integrity,” he added.

“Now, when Republicans, 74 million Americans have concerns about election integrity, we’re supposed to just sit down and shut up? I mean, somebody has to stand up here. You have got 74 million Americans who feel disenfranchised, who feel like their vote doesn’t matter,” Hawley said.

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As COVID admissions surge, states conflating patients hospitalized ‘due to’ and ‘with’ virus Numbers of incidental infections could form significant percentage of total hospitalizations.

Posted By on January 3rd, 2021

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/coronavirus/covid-hospitalizations-reach-new-highs-states-failing-distinguish

States throughout the U.S. are failing to distinguish between patients hospitalized because of COVID-19 and patients who merely test positive for the disease while being hospitalized for other reasons.

Hospitalizations have for months been viewed as one of the critical indicators of the coronavirus pandemic: Countries worldwide have relied heavily on the number of patients sent to hospitals because of the virus as a way of measuring how severe a region or a nation’s outbreak really is. 

In the United States, as in most other countries, one of the chief concerns of the pandemic has been whether or not hospitals have enough capacity to treat surges in COVID patients in addition to more routine procedures and emergency issues. The most recent surge in positive COVID-19 tests, which began in early October, has led to record highs of hospitalized COVID-positive patients.

The COVID Tracking Project, a group of public health experts and journalists who have been collecting COVID-19 data from state health departments since early 2020, currently lists over 125,000 hospitalized COVID patients nationwide, roughly double the earlier peaks seen in the spring and summer. 

Differentiating between ‘with’ and ‘due to’

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Hunter Biden’s Guilty Laptop The most charitable reading of the sleazy saga is that Joe Biden, one of the most powerful men in the world, is an incredibly gullible idiot. Peter Van Buren

Posted By on January 3rd, 2021

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/hunter-bidens-guilty-laptop/

I read the files on Hunter Biden’s laptop. They paint a sleazy picture of multi-million dollar wire transfers, potential money laundering, and possible tax evasion. They raise serious questions about the judgment and propriety of Jim Biden, the president-elect’s brother, and Joe himself. Call it smoke not fire, but smoke that should not be ignored. The files were supplied to TAC by a known source previously established to have access.

Joe Biden is lucky a coordinated media effort kept Hunter out of the campaign. The FBI has had the laptop since 2019, when they subpoenaed the files in connection with a money laundering investigation. Federal investigators also served a round of subpoenas on December 8, a month after the election, including one for Hunter Biden himself. While the legal thrust of the investigation by the federal prosecutor in Delaware is taxes, the real focus seems to be on Hunter’s Chinese connections. This all comes after the FBI has had over a year to examine some of the same files TAC looked at.

In the final weeks before the election, Hunter’s laptop fell into Republican hands. The story went public in the New York Post, revealing that Hunter Biden introduced his father, then vice president, to a top executive at Ukrainian energy firm Burisma less than a year before the elder Biden pressured government officials in Ukraine into firing a prosecutor who was investigating the company. The meeting is mentioned in a message of appreciation that Vadym Pozharskyi, an adviser to the board of Burisma, sent Hunter Biden about a year after Hunter himself joined the Burisma board at a salary of $83,000 a month with no obvious work duties past making such introductions.

Nice work if you can get it, and to get it your dad better be vice president.

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US: “Not Now One of the World’s Better-Functioning Democracies” by Guy Millière

Posted By on January 3rd, 2021

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/16911/us-functioning-democracy

“As President, I have no higher duty than to defend the laws and the Constitution of the United States. That is why I am determined to protect our election system, which is now under coordinated assault and siege”. — President Donald J. Trump, December 2, 2020.

“The top line here is very simple: [Many people] used a coordinated strategy across six battleground states — you’ve got Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin — a coordinated strategy to stuff the ballot box with mail-in and absentee ballots, and do it in a way where they bend and often break the law…” — Peter Navarro, regarding his report, “An Indecent Exposure,” Newsmax, December 21, 2020.

There are accusations that many politicians in America are not even slightly interested in fair elections or equal justice under law — only about attaining power and keeping it in perpetuity.

“Make no mistake: voter fraud is real. [Many people], the media and the so-called public interest groups on the political Left will tell you otherwise, but they are either lying or totally ignorant. Voter fraud is a threat to the integrity of our elections, the heart of our democracy—and [many people] want to make the problem worse with their new voting laws.” — Former Speaker of the House of Representatives Newt Gingrich, Newsweek, June 7, 2020.

The evidence gathered is available to be seen. That judges dismissed lawsuits without seeing it does not make it disappear.

Many commentators apparently accept the idea that Biden will soon be president and resign themselves to it. Others apparently have decided that accepting so much lawlessness is unacceptable. It could, they assess, undermine American democracy, fatally erode American institutions, and plummet the country into an authoritarian future, foreign or domestic, and economic ruin.

“Weak-kneed [politicians],” columnist Charlie Eastman wrote, “who choose to wave the white flag instead of fighting to the last man to challenge the fraud that occurred in the 2020 election are committing political suicide”.

November 3, 2020. New York. Midnight. A reporter on television said that election vote counting had been stopped in several states. At this point, President Donald J. Trump seemed in a position to win and easily to have a second term. Commenting a bit later, he said, “We did win,” but added a warning: “We don’t want them to find any ballot at four o clock in the morning”. By morning, everything had changed. Thousands more ballots had appeared. States where Trump had a clear lead displayed different results. Former Vice President Joe Biden appeared to have won.

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Meadows: Over 100 House Members Plan to Object to Electoral Votes By Zachary Stieber

Posted By on January 3rd, 2021

https://www.theepochtimes.com/meadows-over-100-house-members-plan-to-object-to-electoral-votes_3641463.html

Over 100 members of the House of Representatives plan on objecting to electoral votes during the Jan. 6 joint session of Congress, according to White House chief of staff Mark Meadows.

“We’re now at well over 100 House members and a dozen Senators ready to stand up for election integrity and object to certification. It’s time to fight back,” Meadows wrote in a tweet late Saturday.

According to an Epoch Times tally, 45 representatives have publicly committed to objecting during the joint session. Eleven senators announced earlier Saturday they would object, joining Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.).

“The forgotten men and women are speaking out and Washington D.C. is waking up,” Meadows wrote in another tweet.

The final number of members of Congress who will object keeps rising, but the exact number who have committed so far isn’t clear.

Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas), who tried suing Vice President Mike Pence over the vice president’s power during the joint session, claimed late last week that 141 Republican House members have announced plans to object.

Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), who opposes President Donald Trump, said during a podcast that he believes upwards of 100 members will end up objecting.

Rep. Brian Babin (R-Texas) said Saturday that he was on a call with House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), Trump, and “TONS of Jan. 6 election objectors.”

“This is a pivotal moment. Those who aren’t with us are against us – history will be unforgiving,” he added, using a hashtag for “Stop the Steal.”

After Hawley’s Dec. 30 announcement—becoming the first senator to commit to objecting—two groups of representatives joined the effort.

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A former Army Intelligence Captain shares a boatload of election oddities By Carol Brown VIDEO

Posted By on January 3rd, 2021

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

On New Year’s Day, an interview on Pure Social TV (lots of new media cropping up these days) featured Seth Keshel, former Army Intelligence Captain. It focused on numerous election patterns that bucked historical trends.

Keshel is smart, serious, detail oriented, and gets right to the heart of things. He also uses simple graphics to support his points.

YouTube video (cropped)

General Michael Flynn tweeted out a link to the video yesterday stating:

Exceptional presentation by a statistical genius on the election outcome @SKeshel offers PureTalk w/ host @RealDougWade. In 21 Minutes, you’ll understand why @realDonaldTrump won the election.

About a month ago Keshel was interviewed on OAN. Meanwhile, it appears that he only just opened a Twitter account and is overwhelmed with followers.

A gifted warrior has burst onto the scene.

The video is 20 minutes long and well worth watching and sharing.