December 2020

Donald Trump’s decision to pardon four Blackwater contractors involved in the 2007 slaughter of Iraqi civilians was met with a tsunami of anger and resentment online from people calling it a travesty of justice. Read Full Article at…

A World Health Organization Covid-19 expert has warned that the new strain of the virus, prevalent in Britain, appears to be easily transmitted among young people amid fears schools may be prevented from reopening in January. Read Full…

The government will meet Wednesday with the goal of approving a third lockdown, including potentially shutting down the entire education system, as the number of new cases hit another peak.“We need to have another discussion about a…

Likud MK Sharren Haskel announced in a speech at the Knesset for her Facebook followers on Wednesday that she will run with the New Hope party of former Likud minister Gideon Sa'ar in the March 23 election. Haskel said she would quit the…

Jerusalem District Court Judge Rivkah Friedman-Feldman, the lead on the panel handling the public corruption trial of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been infected with the coronavirus.A statement from the court spokesperson's office…

Mowing Down Yaxue Cao, December 22, 2020 I saw this cartoon and can’t get out of my head. It’s the work of Polish illustrator Pawel Kuczynski but it struck me as a succinct portrait of China. In the coming days and weeks, I will…

In Deciding The 2020 Election, Congress Will Get The Last Word: While objections to electoral votes are infrequent, they are not unprecedented — and in the past, it was Democrats who lodged them. The Senate and House will meet in a joint…

Trump Kicks COVID Bill Back To Congress; Demands $2,000 Stimulus, Shreds Lawmakers Over Mountain Of Pork: President Trump appeared to threaten to veto the COVID-19 stimulus package that Congress passed almost 24 hours earlier, telling…

After the TARP bailouts of 2007 and 2008, some financial commentators said that the government might as well throw money out of a helicopter, because the profuse amounts of printing was pointing, as a joke but also with a serious note, in…

On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” House Freedom Caucus Chairman Andy Biggs (R-AZ) stated that the coronavirus relief bill “should be vetoed” by President Donald Trump via a pocket veto, “and I’m hoping it will be.”…