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Nearly a dozen Republican senators announce plans to vote against counting electoral votes By Jake Tapper, Lauren Fox and Veronica Stracqualursi CNN January 2, 2021 (CNN)Nearly a dozen Republican senators and senators-elect announced Saturday they will vote against counting electoral votes next week when Congress is expected to certify President-elect Joe Biden’s victory — despite no credible evidence suggesting widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election. The 11 Republican lawmakers said they intend to support an objection to the Electoral College votes, if one is brought, and propose an election commission to conduct an “emergency 10-day audit” of…
With Trump a no-show, Mar-a-Lago guests left to party maskless with Rudy Giuliani and Vanilla Ice By Kevin Liptak CNN January 2, 2021 (CNN)Guests who paid four-figures for tickets to President Donald Trump’s annual New Year’s Eve party were left to party with his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, his two adult sons and various figures from the conservative media — none of whom wore masks — after the President made a last-minute decision to ditch the event and return to Washington. No official explanation for the President’s early departure from Mar-a-Lago was given, though he remains consumed with…
Analysis: Trump and Hawley set off Republican meltdown with Georgia elections looming By Analysis by Gregory Krieg CNN January 2, 2021 (CNN)President Donald Trump is stoking division in the Republican ranks days before control of the Senate — and the balance of power in Washington — is decided in a pair of runoff elections in Georgia. After more than four years of nearly unbroken fealty to the President, a heavy majority of Senate Republicans broke with Trump in a Friday vote overriding his veto of a bipartisan defense policy bill. With that loyalty test failed, Trump is also…
China warns of retaliation for NYSE’s delisting of companies Fox Business January 2, 2021 China said Saturday that it would take necessary countermeasures in response to the New York Stock Exchange’s announcement that it would delist three major Chinese telecoms, in the latest flare-up of tensions between Beijing and Washington. The stock exchange said Thursday that it would delist China Telecom Corp. Ltd., China Mobile Ltd. and China Unicom Hong Kong Ltd., with trading of the companies to be suspended sometime between Jan. 7 and Jan. 11. The move stems from an executive order President Donald Trump issued…
By Dom Calicchio Fox News January 2, 2021 New Year’s Day in Pasadena, Calif.: Time for a parade, right? Some Trump supporters thought so Friday after the Tournament of Roses Parade — a long-standing Southern California tradition to kick off each year — was canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic. At least 600 vehicles participated in the event along the usual Rose Parade route. Many vehicles sported American flags from their windows or from the beds of pickup trucks — and drivers honked their horns as they traveled down Colorado Boulevard. “Trump 2020” flags and patriotic “Don’t Tread on…
By Larry Klayman WND January 1, 2021 It’s time not for another New Year’s resolution, but instead a revolution! The American people are now on their own; that is, patriots and those who believe in freedom, liberty and God. President Trump did many good things during his four years in office, but thanks to the compromised courts, particularly the federal bench, and a legal team that could not shoot straight — or should we say shoot at all — even The Donald has now been forced to face reality in this corrupt world and virtually thrown in the towel.…
Freedom Watch TV January 1, 2021
Freedom Watch TV January 1, 2021
Continental Congress | History, Members, & Significance Encyclopedia Britannica December 31, 2020 Continental Congress, in the period of the American Revolution, the body of delegates who spoke and acted collectively for the people of the colony-states that later became the United States of America. The term most specifically refers to the bodies that met in 1774 and 1775—81 and respectively designated as the First Continental Congress and the Second Continental Congress. In the spring of 1774 the British Parliament’s passage of the Intolerable (Coercive) Acts, including the closing of the port of Boston, provoked keen resentment in the…
Abolish Inherited Wealth By Ben Burgis Jacobin Magazine December 31, 2020 In Charles Bukowski’s novel Hollywood, the protagonist Hank Chinaski reflects on the importance of home ownership to his father. “Look,” Henry Chinaski Sr once told him, “I’ll pay for one house and when I die you’ll get that house and then in your lifetime you’ll pay for a house when you die you’ll leave those houses to your son. That’ll make two houses. Then your son will…” Hank thinks this is ridiculous. What if after accumulating ten houses in ten generations, the eleventh Chinaski gambles them all…