Politics

By Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness - Will multibillionaire Mike Bloomberg really convince anyone that a farmer operates by simplistic rote, and someone like himself is critical to America—one who censored the politically incorrect reporting of his own journalists while he schemed to find ways to capitalize Chinese Communist-owned companies with western currencies—at huge multi-billion-dollar profits to himself?... When your refrigerator goes out under quarantine and your supplies begin to rot, do you really need another rant ...

By Jeffrey Rubin, Newsmax - After blocking a Senate move to vote on boosting coronavirus stimulus checks on Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell introduced an alternative proposal. In it, the checks are increased as Pres. Trump, many Democrats and even some GOP lawmakers have urged... McConnell also ties those fatter payments to Trump priorities including probing allegations of election fraud ... Unrelated to COVID, he also wanted a repeal of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act ...

White House - Today is the 850th anniversary of the martyrdom of Saint Thomas Becket on December 29, 1170. Thomas Becket was a statesman, a scholar, a chancellor, a priest, an archbishop, and a lion of religious liberty... Before the Magna Carta was drafted, before the right to free exercise of religion was enshrined as America’s first freedom in our glorious Constitution, Thomas gave his life so that, as he said, “the Church will attain liberty and peace.”