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    Rudy Giuliani ordered to pay $148 million in defamation trial

    Giuliani has been ordered to pay $148 million in damages to both Ruby Freeman and Wandrea "Shaye" Moss. Of course, since Rudy apparently can't even to afford to pay his lawyers, it will be interesting how he'll be able to pay the damages in this case. The breakdown of the amounts: $16.171...
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    Poll shows Republicans think Trump is a "man of faith," more than other Republicans

    "More than half of Republicans see former President Donald Trump as a person of faith, putting him ahead of more vocally religious figures like his former vice president, Mike Pence, according to a new national poll conducted by HarrisX for the Deseret News. "Registered voters were asked...
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    Allegedly Trump being investigated for Wire Fraud

    The Washington Post is reporting that the Special Prosecutor is investigating former President Donald Trump for Wire Fraud, specifically his fundraising of $200,000 based on claims of election fraud. The Special Prosecutor is subpoenaing private correspondence of those helping the former...
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    Bradford Freeman, last member of the "Band of Brothers" dies at 97

    "Bradford Freeman, the last survivor of the famed Army unit featured in the World War II oral history book and miniseries “Band of Brothers” has died at the age of 97. "Freeman died Sunday at Baptist Memorial Hospital–Golden Triangle, according to Lowndes Funeral Home in Columbus, Mississippi...
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    I find the pearl clutching by those sides to be a bit much

    Yes, some Democrats have made hyperbolic statements against the Supreme Court and the abortion ruling. I seem to recall Republicans doing the same thing when issues like gay marriage were decided -- I even recall a "movement" by various Republicans to try and convince Governor's to refuse to...
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    German Airline Bans Jews From Flying

    This may be one of the craziest stories I've heard; worse are the videos that appear to substantiate the claims made by the author. "Allegedly, Lufthansa refused to allow any of the Jews from that flight onto their connecting flight to Budapest, while non-Jews were free to continue on their...
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    Biden to nominate Ketanji Brown Jackson to Supreme Court

    "Joe Biden will deliver remarks on his nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson to the supreme court at 2pm ET today, the White House has just announced. Kamala Harris will also be in attendance for the event, during which Jackson is also expected to deliver remarks of her own." Link
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    Olympic athletes being told to not take their phones to the Olympics

    Athletes and staff from the US, Australia, Great Britain and the Netherlands are being told to leave their phones, as well as laptop, at home, not to take them to the Olympic Games in China, because the Chinese will use the phones to spy on them. Team GB is even offering "burner phones" for...
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    Trump Campaign Knew Dominion Fraud Claims Were False, Memo Reportedly Shows

    From Forbes: "The Trump campaign debunked election fraud claims involving Dominion Voting Systems’ voting machines days before Trump allies like attorney Rudy Giuliani started widely promoting those same allegations, court documents discovered by the New York Times show, suggesting the campaign...
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    Elder concludes election is fraudulent before voting has concluded and votes are counted

    Republican Gubernatorial candidate Larry Elder's website appears to claim that Gov. Newsom won the election but that it was fraudulent, even though voting doesn't officially occur until tomorrow (though many mail in ballots have been cast) and the votes have not yet been counted. To quote from...
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    A good story, for a change, about an Olympic medalist auctioning off their silver medal

    "Polish javelin thrower Maria Andrejczyk auctioned off her silver medal she won at the 2020 Olympics in order to pay for an eight-month-old Polish boy's heart surgery. The Polish store chain Żabka Polska won the auction with a bid of $125,000. But Żabka Polska, a convenience store chain, wasn't...
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    Yet another Republican comment that makes us ask, how do they define socialism?

    "Today’s Anniversary of Medicare & Medicaid reminds us to reflect on the critical role these programs have played to protect the healthcare of millions of families. To safeguard our future, we must reject Socialist healthcare schemes." https://twitter.com/EliseStefanik/status/1421115026300186634...
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    Should a governor be able to deploy the National Guard, paid for by private donors?

    I bring this up because it is a question being raised based on the actions of South Dakota; where the governor is sending National Guard troops to the border but using donated funds from a private donor to pay for the deployment. My position is that this should not be allowed as it would be far...
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    Anti-Trump Republicans threaten third party

    Apparently the Anti-Trump part of the Republican Party will sign a letter on Thursday, calling on the Republican Party to break with Trump. If the Party refuses, these Republicans are saying they will split off and form their own new party. I can see two things happening. In some conservative...
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    Russia has been cultivating Trump as an asset for 40 years, former KGB spy says

    There is a new book coming out, American Kompromat, by Craig Unger, "which is based on interviews with former Russian and US operatives, details the KGB's attempts in the 1980s to cultivate dozens of unwitting businesspeople in the United States as useful Russian assets." In a Business Insider...
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    Trump reportedly has told aides to refuse any payments to Giuliani

    Per John Harwood, a White House correspondent, on Twitter: “Trump has instructed aides not to pay Giuliani’s legal fees, and has demanded that he personally approve any reimbursements for the expenses Giuliani incurred while traveling on the president’s behalf to challenge election results in...
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    As riot raged at Capitol, Trump tried to call senators to overturn election

    "President Donald Trump and his attorney Rudy Giuliani both mistakenly made calls to Republican Sen. Mike Lee as deadly riots were unfolding at the US Capitol earlier this week, a spokesman for the senator confirmed to CNN -- calls that were intended for another GOP senator the White House was...
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    No Christmas Eve miracle for Trump

    "A federal appeals court on Thursday upheld a decision dismissing a lawsuit seeking to declare President Donald Trump won swing state Wisconsin." link To be clear, since some have claimed otherwise, a Trump appointee was the original trial judge and found that Trump's arguments “fail as a...
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    L. Lin Wood files suit in Georgia, making his claims under “plenty of perjury,”

    Maybe a Freudian Slip? "On Friday a pro-Trump lawyer named L. Lin Wood, who spearheaded attempts to overturn Georgia’s president election results, lodged a new suit on similar lines, signing off his complaint that it he made his claims under “plenty of perjury,” rather penalty of perjury. “I...
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    Rep. Paul Mitchell of Michigan leaving Republican party

    Representative Paul Mitchell, serving the 10th Congressional District in Michigan, has announced he is changing his party affiliation from Republican to Independent. He's slowly been getting fed up with Republican politics and their reaction to the current election has pushed him to leave the...