One-Third of U.S. Believes Coronavirus Was Sent by God

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As people reckon with the global upheaval that the coronavirus pandemic has caused, the vast majority of the United States believes that there is a lesson to be learned from everything the virus has wrought this year.

A survey from the Pew Research Center found that a resounding 86% of respondents “believe there is a lesson or set of lessons for humankind to learn from the coronavirus outbreak.”

Slightly more than one-third, 35%, of all respondents took that statement a step further and said that the coronavirus was a lesson sent by God. Only 13% of respondents said that there was no lesson to be learned from the coronavirus.

The survey was conducted with participants from Pew’s American Trends Panel, a sample of randomly selected adults in the U.S. that currently comprises 15,372 active respondents. That sample is weighted for such population benchmarks as gender, age, and education. More than 10,000 adults were polled for this survey, which was run from July 13-19, and 3,700 respondents were then asked to provide qualitative responses. (Read more from “One-Third of U.S. Believes Coronavirus Was Sent by God” HERE)

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California Officials Knocked Down Giant Trump Sign on Private Property, Claimed It Was a Safety Hazard

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Officials from the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) knocked down giant white letters spelling “TRUMP” on the hillside of someone’s private property on Tuesday, citing it as a “life and safety issue.”

“This was a life and safety issue because there were concerns about distracted driving,” Chief Public Information Officer for Caltrans Lauren Wonder said.

The sign was located at the Sepulveda Pass hills just outside of the largely blue and Democratic-run Los Angeles adjacent to highway 405.

The first report of the sign came right before 7 a.m. from someone who “was apparently concerned it could spark a blaze” following multiple “destructive brush fires in the past few years.”

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Dividing Biden Blames Trump for Democrat Governor Kidnap Attempt, Without Evidence

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Former Vice President Joe Biden blamed President Donald Trump on Thursday for a foiled kidnapping plot by a group of extremists who intended to abduct Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer. . .

Though it did not name a specific political ideology, the FBI’s criminal complaint alleges that the members of the group “talked about creating a society that followed the U.S. Bill of Rights and where they could be self-sufficient.” Two apparently met at a Second Amendment rally.

One member of the group, Brandon Caserta, was seen in an online video in front of an anarchist flag.

Biden, speaking to reporters in Arizona alongside running mate Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), said Trump’s rhetoric was to blame:

There is no place for hate in America. And both of us have been talking about this for some time, about how white supremacists and these militias area a genuine threat. I want to compliment the FBI and the police agencies for what they did, and how they stepped up. But look –the words of a president matter. Whether they can — you’ve heard me say this before. They can cause a nation to have th market rise or fall, go to war or bring peace, but they can also breathe oxygen into those who are filled with hate and danger, and I just think It’s got to stop. The president has to realize the words he utters matter.

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Pelosi Announces Intention to Push Constitutional Measure to Remove President Trump From Office

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made a dramatic announcement during her weekly press conference Thursday by telling reporters that she intends to discuss a constitutional measure to remove President Trump from office, following questions regarding Trump’s health as he recovers from coronavirus.

The 25th Amendment allows for the vice president to become acting president if is determined that the president “is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.”

“Tomorrow, by the way, tomorrow, come here tomorrow,” Pelosi said. “We’re going to be talking about the 25th Amendment.” . . .

Pelosi had earlier questioned the status of Trump’s health, as well as exactly how long he has had COVID-19.

“I think that the public needs to know the health condition of the President,” Pelosi said. “There’s one question that he refused to answer … when was his last negative test?” Pelosi said that this information is necessary in order to “make a judgment about the actions that were taken after that.” (Read more from “Pelosi Announces Intention to Push Constitutional Measure to Remove President Trump From Office” HERE)

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A Little Media Bias in this Headline? “All Republican Texas Supreme Court Rules That 2 Million Voters in Houston Can’t Get Applications for Mail-In Ballots”

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The all-Republican Texas Supreme Court has blocked Houston election officials from sending mail-in ballot applications to over 2 million registered voters in the state’s most populous county.

On Wednesday, the state’s highest civil court said that Harris County Clerk Chris Hollins would not be allowed to send out 2.4 million ballots in an effort to expand voting options to Texans during the coronavirus pandemic. . .

The state sued Hollins in August, arguing that sending out applications for mail-in ballots would overstep his authority and cause confusion among voters who are ineligible for an absentee ballot under state rules. Hollins argued that the applications would come with clear instructions and would be beneficial to residents, given the health concerns surrounding the coronavirus outbreak.

However, the court ruled against Hollins, stating that voting documents are accessible online and that while they are typically sent out by political campaigns or other private organizations, distribution from a government official would exceed the official’s legal authority. (Read more from “Texas Supreme Court Rules That 2 Million Voters in Houston Can’t Get Applications for Mail-In Ballots” HERE)

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Biden Would Ban and Criminalize the Most Popular Selling Centerfire Rifle

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The National Shooting Sports Foundation, the trade association for the firearm industry, is focusing on former Vice President Joe Biden’s radical antigun campaign promise to ban, register and confiscate the most popular selling centerfire rifles – the modern sporting rifle – sold in America today. Biden borrowed a page from the failed campaign of Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke to craft an agenda that would hobble Constitutionally-protected rights for law-abiding Americans.

“Joe Biden’s gun grab isn’t original, but is it is shockingly honest that they admit the end game. His campaign promise to confiscate guns rips the mask off the lie told by gun control for decades,” said Lawrence G. Keane, NSSF Senior Vice President and General Counsel. “Yes, they are coming for your guns. The Biden-Harris campaign literally spelled out how they would do this and would violate their oath to uphold and defend the Constitution, but instead destroy it.”

The Biden-Harris gun control agenda proposes to ban the sale and manufacture of modern sporting rifles, or what the campaign terms “assault rifles” or “weapons of war.” In fact, these firearms are just semiautomatic firearms that uses 100-year-old technology and have been sold commercially since the early 1960s. Semiautomatic firearms expend one round for each squeeze of the trigger, unlike the military’s automatic firearms that continue to fire automatically while the trigger is depressed. The Biden campaign is purposefully conflating the similar appearances of AR-15s and the military’s M-16 and M-4 rifles to confuse the American public.

Biden proposes that all 18 million-plus modern sporting rifles in circulation would be registered in the same onerous manner as automatic firearms and regulated under the 1934 Gun Control Act. That would require current owners to register these rifles with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), pay a $200 tax, submit fingerprints, photos, and complete duplicitous background checks for firearms they already passed a background check to purchase. They would also be subjected to random and unannounced ATF inspection of their firearm and would be registered in a federal watchlist of firearm owners. Further, permits regulated under the 1934 NFA are already backlogged by more than nine months. (Read more from “Biden Would Ban and Criminalize the Most Popular Selling Centerfire Rifle” HERE)

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Trump: U.S. Troops ‘Should’ Be Out of Afghanistan by Christmas

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President Donald Trump on Wednesday teased a complete withdrawal of U.S troops from Afghanistan by Christmas, an aggressive timeline to fulfill a campaign promise to end what he has called America’s “endless wars” that comes as the president trails in polls less than a month to go before the election.

“We should have the small remaining number of our BRAVE Men and Women serving in Afghanistan home by Christmas!” Trump wrote on Twitter.

It was unclear whether Trump’s tweet amounted to an announcement or another of many policy suggestions he has handed down over the social media platform throughout his time in office.

His post comes a little less than a month after Gen. Frank McKenzie, commander of U.S. Central Command, announced plans to cut the troop presence in Iraq to 3,000 from 5,200 by the end of September. (Read more from “Trump: U.S. Troops ‘Should’ Be Out of Afghanistan by Christmas” HERE)

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VP DEBATE: Pence Rips Harris for Her ‘Unconscionable’ Undermining of the COVID Vaccine; It Looks as Though Kamala’s ‘Progressive Prosecutor’ Past Is Now a Liability; Kamala Harris Ducks Pence’s Questions

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By Townhall. As the leader of the White House coronavirus task force, Vice President Mike Pence has been on the receiving end of the criticism over the U.S. response to the coronavirus pandemic. Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) tore into the vice president for what she termed “the greatest failure of any presidential administration in the history of our country.” In fact, she asserted that the Trump White House “has forfeited their right to re-election” because of it. . .

Pence was ready with several counterpunches. If Biden had been in charge and not President Trump, Pence argued, we would still be allowing travel from China, and the outbreak would have been much deadlier. Before he flip flopped on the issue, Biden called Trump’s travel ban “xenophobic.”

The president’s decision to ban those flights, Pence said, “bought us invaluable time” and “saved hundreds of thousands of lives.” It gave them time to reinvent testing, deliver billions of supplies to health care workers, and start developing a vaccine under Operation Warp Speed. The VP said he believes they will have tens of millions of doses before the end of this year. . .

Moderator Susan Page tried to switch gears and asked a different question of Pence, but he couldn’t let his opponent’s outrageous answer slide.

Pence told Harris how “unconscionable” it is that she keeps “undermining” the confidence in the eventual coronavirus vaccine.

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It Looks as Though Kamala’s ‘Progressive Prosecutor’ Past Is Now a Liability

By Townhall. Vice President Mike Pence on Wednesday slammed Sen. Kamala Harris’ (D-CA) record on criminal justice reform, both as a District Attorney in San Francisco and as Attorney General of California.

“But you talk about personally prosecuting. I’m glad you brought up your record, senator,” Pence said. . .

“I need to make this point: when you were DA in San Francisco, when you left office, African Americans were 19 times more likely to be prosecuted for minor drug offenses than whites and Hispanics,” the vice president explained. “When you were Attorney General of California, you increased the disproportionate incarceration of blacks in California. You did nothing on criminal justice reform in California.”

“You didn’t lift a finger to pass the FIRST STEP Act on Capitol Hill,” Pence said, as Harris smiled and shook her head. “The reality is your record speaks for itself. President Trump and I have fought for criminal justice reform. We’ve fought for educational choice and opportunities for African Americans … and we’ll do it for four more years.”

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Vice Presidential Debate: Kamala Harris Ducks Pence’s Court-Packing Question

By Fox News. Vice President Mike Pence hammered Sen. Kamala Harris Wednesday night over whether Democrats would pack the Supreme Court should they not “get their way,” and should Judge Amy Coney Barrett be confirmed to the high court before Election Day.

During the vice presidential debate, Pence said that the “American people really deserve an answer” on court packing, after Democratic nominee Joe Biden ducked the question during the first presidential debate last week. . .

Pence revisited the question, saying that the “American people would really like to know, if she is confirmed, are you and Joe Biden, if somehow you win this election, going to pack the Supreme Court to get your way?” . . .

Harris fired back, mum on the issue of court packing, but saying that the “American people deserve to make the decision” of “who will serve for a lifetime.”

“Joe and I are very clear the American people are voting right now, and it should be their decision about who will serve on this most important body for a lifetime,” she said. (Read more from “Vice Presidential Debate: Kamala Harris Ducks Pence’s Court-Packing Question” HERE)

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Harris Hits Trump Over Tax Returns, Asks President Who He Owes Money to

By Fox News. Democcratic vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris went after President Trump for not paying enough money in taxes, and questioned who he might owe money to.

“We now know because of great investigative journalism that Donald Trump paid $750 in taxes,” Harris said during Wednesday night’s vice presidential debate. “When I first heard about it, I literally said, ‘You mean $750,000?’ Nope $750.” . . .

“We now know Donald Trump owes, and is in debt for $400 million, and just so that everyone is clear, when we say in debt – it means you owe money to somebody,” Harris said Wednesday in answer to a question about presidential transparency.

Harris added: “And it’d be really good to know who the president of the United States, the commander-in-chief owes money to, because the American people have a right to know what is influencing the president’s decisions and is he making those decisions on the best interests of the American people….or self-interest?” . . .

Pence, however, highlighted the president’s dismissal of the report and said, “the American people have a president who’s a businessman, a job creator, he’s paid tens of millions of dollars in taxes – payroll taxes, property taxes, he’s created tens of thousands of American jobs.” (Read more from “Harris Hits Trump Over Tax Returns, Asks President Who He Owes Money to” HERE)

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Study Confirms What We Knew: Sexism Didn’t Sink Hillary Clinton’s Campaign

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It has been the consensus among legacy media that ambitious women trying to move up in politics are faced with a sexist double standard by voters. This idea was one of the many that were blamed for Hillary Clinton’s loss in 2016. And yet, a new study concludes that voters don’t have much of a problem with ambitious women in politics.

The study, conducted by Harvard lecturer Sparsha Saha and University of Bath professor Ana Catalano Weeks, claims to be the first study that measures voter perception of the ambition of political candidates. The study finds that Republican and Democratic voters don’t punish female candidates who are “seen as tough or determined, pushing for broad policy changes, or juggling family and public life.”

“I think it really is very reassuring, and I hope that women themselves who are thinking about politics look at this and are hopeful,” Saha said of the results. Weeks noted that observational data suggests that “when women run for office, they win.”

The study is another nail in the coffin of the idea that Clinton was punished by voters for being an ambitious woman. She was simply a bad candidate, one who ran an awful campaign and lost to an equally unpopular candidate who ran a better one. (Read more from “Study Confirms What We Knew: Sexism Didn’t Sink Hillary Clinton’s Campaign” HERE)

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Flynn Defense Team Moves to Disqualify and Remove Judge Sullivan From Trial

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Former White House National Security Adviser Michael Flynn’s defense team filed a motion Wednesday to disqualify D.C. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan from his position in Flynn’s trials after his blatant demonstration of bias against Flynn beginning in December of 2018. . .

In court documents released Wednesday, Flynn’s lawyers allege that Sullivan “cast an intolerable cloud of partiality over his subsequent judicial conduct” and “risk[ed] undermining the public’s confidence in the judicial process” by exhibiting unethical judicial behavior.

“Here, there can be no question that this judge has created the appearance of bias that mandates his disqualification,” the motion says.

Flynn’s lawyers argue that Sullivan is litigating against Flynn despite his judicial position, and violating the impartiality he is sworn to protect.

“[A]ll that must be demonstrated to compel recusal,” then, is “a showing of an appearance of bias … sufficient to permit the average citizen reasonably to question a judge’s impartiality,” the motion states. (Read more from “Flynn Defense Team Moves to Disqualify and Remove Judge Sullivan From Trial” HERE)

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