One of the most memorable lines from the 1995 movie “The Usual Suspects” is this: “The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he did not exist.”

With just a little tweak, this statement could be applied to the last presidential election: “The greatest trick the Democrats ever pulled was convincing the voters they did not steal the 2020 election.”

Consider the number of things the Left has been willing to lie to the American people about in recent years. After going to alternative sources to discover facts and weigh evidence, we have stirred a vibrant mistrust of those in whom, just a decade ago, most Americans trusted to tell us the truth.

So why has this leap of faithlessness not jumped over to the obvious facts of the 2020 election?

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Can Republicans move beyond just completing the original, necessary Trump agenda on closing the border, legal-only immigration, deterrence against China, energy production, immunity from optional military engagements in the Middle East, industrial and manufacturing resurgence in the Rust Belt and conservative judicial appointments?

What would such a new Contract with America entail, if it were indeed wise before the midterms to advertise such a confident Newt Gingrich-like strategy for regaining the House? And should a menu be more rather than less detailed? What about the follow-up for a later Republican presidency?

Here are the Ten Commandments worth running on, some new, some old. Not all are official policy positions. Some are recommendations for action even when the federal government is not directly involved.

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If you’ve been wondering about the extent of voter fraud in America, we may be seeing a staggering amount of either fraud or grotesque negligence in Wisconsin voter rolls. A review of the state’s voter roles showed that 569,277 voters registered on January 1, 1918.

Yes, 1918.  Of that number, 20% of these people, all of whom must now be at least 124 years old, voted in November 2020. Biden “won” in Wisconsin by 20,682 votes....

Ultimately, there are three ways to account for the fact that 20% of people who registered to vote on January 1, 1918, showed up to vote in November 2020, none of which is good for election integrity:

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This story is not for cynics, nor folks who lack imagination or national pride.

After nearly 40 expensive years of dreaming, planning, designing, building, congressional whining, testing, and hoping, NASA and its army of very smart people have placed into solar orbit a powerful new seven-ton telescope.

The new telescope’s success so far is just one of our nation’s numerous recent space achievements: Landing robots to explore Mars. Flying a research robot through the Sun’s aura. Snatching a scoop of primordial soil from a distant asteroid and bringing it back in the fall of 2023.

Yet this latest achievement, successfully launched one month ago today, is simply astonishing.

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When some people acquire power, they act like wolves. They take whatever savage actions are needed to win and dominate. They turn their opponents and critics into sheep, who learn to be quiet or face vicious attacks and destruction.

We are currently living through a moment of delusion among Democrats, who seem to think they can behave like wolves and destroy and intimidate their Republican opponents. The wolves who currently dominate the Democrat Party think they will be permanent wolves. They are wrong.

The 2022 midterm election will turn the Democratic wolves into sheep—and the power to shear the sheep will be handed over to House Republicans. House Republicans owe it to the Constitution and the American people to defeat the wolves and return them to sheep status.

This is not about revenge. This is about reinforcing the principle that in America, political wolves who viciously destroy their fellow Americans—and violate the rule of law to do so—will not be tolerated. This is about restoring the core principles of American self-government.

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“Good evening,” NM said. He had a slightly affected accent, and when he spoke, he lit up in different colors. “That cheeky woman on the marquee was my idea,” he said. “Were she not there, along with ‘naked’ in the title, I’d likely be speaking to an empty auditorium! I also had them add ‘shocking’ because it’s a favorite word amongst us batteries.” He flashed a light blue color as he laughed.

Then he went on, “Now, it is not elementary to ask, ‘what is a battery?’ I think Tesla said it best when they called us Energy Storage Systems. That’s important. We do not make electricity – we store electricity produced elsewhere, primarily by coal, uranium, natural gas-powered plants, or diesel-fueled generators

But that is not half of it. For those of you excited about electric cars and a green revolution, I want you to take a closer look at batteries and also windmills and solar panels. These three technologies share what we call environmentally destructive embedded costs.”  NM got redder as he spoke.

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Joseph Biden’s deservedly maligned speech on voting rights (more aptly described as grotesque racial demagoguery) contained this passage from the Bible (Amos 5:15), which he quoted twice:  “Hate evil, and love good, and establish justice in the gate” [that is, in the courts].

But he left out the rest of Amos 5:15:  “It may be that the LORD, the God of hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.”

For the demagogue we saw in Atlanta is the same Joe Biden who has acted this way for decades—and advanced politically.  Today he is the champion of the politics of white self-hatred, that America is about race, not about freedom and the pursuit of happiness—about where we’ve been, not where we’re going.

In the 19th century, Democrats championed slavery whose principle was “You work, and I eat.” It is a shame that so many Republicans fail to see that a self-slavery mentality exists today in the party of self-hating whites as “I work and you eat.”

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Zhou Biden’s “voting rights” speech in Atlanta (1/11) has been widely criticized for dishonesty and demagoguery, but its real significance involves what it told us about the increasing panic that pervades his Democrat Party.

Biden’s sudden pivot from the Build Back Better Act (BBB) to “election reform” betrays a very real fear that his party will lose its tiny majorities in Congress big time unless they seize control of our national elections.

For well over two centuries the states have played the primary role in the administration of congressional elections, as the Constitution specifies. Yet Biden and the Democrats now insist that this time-tested system somehow constitutes a threat to democracy itself.

No, it’s a threat to the Dems’ goal of seizing monopoly power of all America.

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In a disgraceful performance yesterday (1/11), Joe Biden went down to Georgia to offer a disgraceful pack of lies about the filibuster and Democrats’ so-called “voting rights” bills.

In a scathing address on the Senate floor today (1/12), Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell ripped into Biden’s Georgia speech on the Democrat push for voting rights legislation, calling it “profoundly unpresidential” for calling millions of Americans “domestic enemies” while comparing “a bipartisan majority of senators to literal traitors.”

Biden’s was a demagogic rant designed to make Twitter blue-checks do a Snoopy dance of joy while embracing an effort with no chance of actual success.

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Yes, Biden actually said this, on October 24, 2020.  It was a classic Biden gaffe, in the Washington definition: “A gaffe is when a politician accidentally tells the truth.”

The key word here is “accidentally,” for politicians are professionals at hiding the truth.  And when it comes to that, Democrats are the best in the business.  Take what’s happening right now.

Democrats in Congress are pushing another wildly unwanted, unnecessary, unpopular bill: The Freedom to Cheat Act.  They don’t call it that, of course, as they are desperate to hide and deny what it really is.  But it’s what every patriot needs to call it. Here’s why.

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Before Christmas eve, Biden declared his administration's efforts to eliminate supply-chain bottlenecks ahead of the holiday season had succeeded. Ten days into the new year, we can firmly say that is not the case.

The hashtag "BareShelvesBiden" has been trending on Twitter for the last 24 hours. The hashtag ranked on Twitter's most trending list as of late Sunday evening.

#BareShelvesBiden is Trending pic.twitter.com/T3pAmhoxZN

— Benny (@bennyjohnson) January 10, 2022

People from around the country are tweeting pictures and videos of bare supermarket shelves as Biden's Supply Chain Disruptions Task Force fails to address pandemic-induced disruptions.

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In HBO Chernobyl series there is scene where man in charge of fallout turns out to be not scientist, but shoe salesman w/party connections. Given absurd personnel policy, my assumption is this level of absurdity becomes more common every day in US agencies.

— FischerKing (@FischerKing64), January 9, 2022

Most folks who were paying attention during the Obama administration realized he was racializing and weaponizing each and every one of our law enforcement institutions, among others.  The damage done to law enforcement has been catastrophic.

How did he do it?  By appointing people who were loyal to him and not because they were particularly smart or competent.  Like the quote above about the personnel who ran Chernobyl, Obama's people were chosen or kept for their dedication to the Obama agenda.

Which brings us to the hapless Biden administration and its collection of people chosen for their skin color, sexual orientation, or mindless dedication to the destructive policies of radical leftism.  Could Biden's Cabinet be any more mendaciously incompetent?  Not likely.

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Democrats are despondent over Joe Biden’s sinking polls. His policies on the economy, energy, foreign policy, the border, and COVID-19 all have lost majority support.

As a result, they now variously allege that either in 2022, when they expect to lose the Congress, or in 2024, when they fear losing the presidency, Republicans will “destroy democracy” or stage a coup.

They praise democracy when they get elected—only to claim it is broken when they lose. Or they hope to avoid their defeat by trying to terrify the electorate. Or they mask their own revolutionary propensities by projecting them onto their opponents.

After all, who is trying to federalize election laws in national elections contrary to the Constitution?

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The Supreme Court takes up the issue of vaccine mandates on Friday (1/07), holding a special hearing that is nearly unprecedented in its rushed timing.

Will we become a country of haves and have nots concerning the Covid vaccine, whereby those who sensibly decline the vaccine are segregated in cities, schools, hospitals, and concerts? The new year has rung in a slew of new “no vaccination, no service” rules in restaurants, bars, gyms, and even maintenance work in high-rise apartments.

This is not a fight in which the Supreme Court wanted to be, just as the sheriff in High Noon did not want to confront the outlaws returning on the noon train after the ringleader was released from prison. Ever since the Oscar-winning performance by Gary Cooper in that 1952 classic, its title has been synonymous with an unavoidable high-drama conflict that one side must win.

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Inconvenient data continues to roll in suggesting that the COVID vaccines actually have negative efficacy against the coronavirus.

A year after Joe Biden promised to shut down the virus, the United States on January 3 recorded more than 1 million Covid-19 cases, according to data from Johns Hopkins University, as the Omicron variant tore through the nation at a blistering pace. Omicron is said to be much more transmissible, and according to a recent study from Denmark, is much more contagious in fully vaccinated individuals.

Nowhere is this phenomenon more evident than in highly vaxxed New York City, where a surge in positive COVID cases has caused major staffing shortages within the NYPD and FDNY.

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According to the mainstream media, print and digital, COVID is surging, omicron is deadly, and everyone with a scratchy throat runs to a testing center to see if he is "infected."  It's madness on a grand scale.

Most of them are not infected, but these thousands of hypochondriacs are waiting hours in line for a test that, even if negative, may be positive the next day.

Viewers who rely on the mainstream media for news have been illegitimately frightened into believing that the sniffles mean omicron and that omicron is serious.

It's not.  It's a cold. How can so many Americans born into this country that was "conceived in liberty" be so submissive to the state?

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Xi Jinping has been doing a great deal of saber-rattling of late, threatening both Australia and Taiwan.

China has also been building islands in the South China Sea, flying hypersonic weapons, stealing and illegally buying vast amounts of military technology, and overtly working to make its military more manly, even as the U.S. military deals with maternity flight suits and the needs of the so-called transgender troops.

Nevertheless, when all is said and done, a military is only as good as the people doing the fighting, and there are indications that China has a problem in this area.

"The Chinese military has become a puddle of mud, without combat effectiveness," Luo Yu, son of former revolutionary Chinese Gen. Lou Ruiqing, explains. "No Chinese official or officer isn't involved in bribery, it's a systematic problem. "There's no way to stop the corruption in the Chinese military."

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Based on his abysmal job performance, Joe Biden's been unpopular with a lot of voting groups lately, and I'm not talking about just conservatives.

He's managed to alienate Latinos, suburban voters, independents, young people... He's lost a noticeable chunk of black men voters. He's losing with women.  Inflation, violent crime, job competition from illegals, and the monstrous Afghanistan pullout are taking their toll on old Joe's presidental approval ratings.

Now we learn that the rot has spread to the core: Even woke progressives can't stand Joe Biden.

Take a look at the just-released (12/27) poll of prog-lefties by Civiqs...

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“No federal solution.” Does that sound like — "don’t expect the SCOTUS to approve federal mandates/work arounds” — to you, too? Exactly what incentive does the SCOTUS have to take on the responsibility for mandates now?

And, doesn’t “solved at the state level” sound like, ‘You’re on your own,’ to you? Sure does to me.  Apparently, Zhou’s keepers have realized that the insoluble problems generated by injection mandates—such as staffing shortages in critical sectors of the economy, like health care—are coming home to roost

They’ve thrown in the towel – so now we get to win.

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What’s the moral of Joe Biden’s and the Democrats’ current troubles? From the Bible and the Greeks and throughout the Western tradition, there is a constant refrain of being wary of hubris, the lying and arrogance that are innate to it, and the divine power that ultimately levels things out.

Biden and the Left so despised Donald Trump that they lost all sense of moderation, of proportion, of logic itself. Thus, they find themselves in the current ridiculous situation of suffering the consequences of their own unhinged rhetoric and actions.

For this irony of blindly speeding over the cliff to one’s own destruction is not limited to Mr. Biden, but explains the self-implosion of Hillary Clinton, our Woke Military, Black Lives Matter and so much else afflicting the Democrats.

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I love the smell of Joe Manchin in the morning … it smells like … victory.

If you survey the charred ruins of the progressives' hopes and dreams, you will need to have a heart of stone not to burst into hysterical laughter at their pain.

They were so close, so very close, and their heart's desire was ripped from them by a senator from a sane state who had zero desire to commit ritual, political suicide to please the brother-marrying likes of Ilhan Omar.

Cue the gif of a team of Joes carrying a coffin to that catchy EDM song.

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What is behind recent pessimistic appraisals of democracy’s future, from Hillary Clinton, Adam Schiff, Brian Williams and other elite intellectuals, media personalities, and politicians on the Left?

Some are warning about its possible erosion in 2024. Others predict the democracy downturn as early 2022, with scary scenarios of “autocracy” and Trump “coups.”

To answer that question, understand first what is not behind these shrill forecasts.  After seeing all the reasons what is not, you see why:

The Left is fearful and angry not because democracy does not work, but because it does -- despite their own media and political efforts to warp it.

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China is experiencing a slow-motion economic crisis that could undermine stability in the current regime and have serious negative consequences for the global economy. Despite the many warning signs, Western analysts and policy makers are optimistic that Xi Jinping is up to the task of managing the crisis.

Such optimism is misplaced.

The U.S. and its allies have many tools to influence China’s economy and need to weigh the consequences of an acute crisis against the threat its current trajectory poses to the U.S. Policy makers should be thinking of how best to deploy these tools, instead of passively assuming the rapid growth and stability of the Chinese economy will continue.

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Does responsibility for the deaths of over 1 million Americans make Tony Fauci a mass murderer? It’s actually worse than that. Consider the basic evidence. It’s all laid out in Democrat Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s remarkable book, “The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health.”

Haven’t seen Kennedy being interviewed on the network news shows or the late-night talk shows?  No book tours? It’s no wonder. There is a wall of silence and fear throughout the media.

Simply put, there is certainly no way the Big Pharma-supported media is going to challenge a primary source of revenue. To Amazon’s credit, Kennedy’s book is available online and currently shows 3,000 ratings with 94% of them earning five stars. So the word on Fauci and his multiple misdeeds has not been totally contained.

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[Note by Jack Wheeler: As the Dems go Full Woketard Freakout, the Wall Street Journal Editorial Board here explains how Joe Manchin can save them from political extinction.  With any luck, the Dems will ignore the advice.]

Joe Manchin’s decision on Sunday [12/19] to oppose the Build Back Better Act is a service to the country, sparing it from huge tax increases and new entitlements that would fan inflation and erode the incentive for Americans to work. Paradoxically, it is also a blessing for Democrats if they get the message, and it offers President Biden a chance to reboot.

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With the price of gas hitting $7 a gallon and a package of Oscar Meyer bacon hitting $9.59 out in California, you can bet inflation is on consumers' minds, and 80% of them know who did it.

Inflation, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, has now soared 6.8% this year, the highest rise in nearly forty years, back when the U.S. was crawling out from the rubble of the Carter years

And today's inflation is far from done, according to the Fed, which expects to initiate three rate hikes in 2022 to fight it.  As the prices soar, it's likely that that 80% might just go higher.  And the Democrats’ reaction?  To double down in delusional denial, even though they know it leads to their electoral doom.

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Speaking in Wilmington, Delaware on Saturday (12/11), Joe Biden blamed the recent deadly tornado outbreak in Kentucky on “climate change.” Biden stated, “The fact is we all know everything is more intense when the climate is warming and obviously it has some impact here.”

Biden’s statement is laughably inept and easily disproved. All one has to do is look past the opinions, pronouncements, and hand waving and concentrate on what science and data actually say about the issues.  Here are five data-based reasons why Biden’s blather is ignorant demagoguery.

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Ready for some really good news? The corrupt and mediocre heroes of the Left are imploding.

With fits and starts, we are slowly returning to reality after four years of mass hysteria. Our media-deified, progressive icons are finally being exposed as the deceivers they always were.

Enjoy how they are icons no more: Jussieopath, Cuomo Duo, The Harris Who Never Was, Schiffter, The Late Not So Great BLM, and Basement Biden, losers all in the end.

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