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VEGAS ODDS: Who Will Biden Pick for SCOTUS? | Steve Berman

VEGAS ODDS: Who Will Biden Pick for SCOTUS? | Steve Berman


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Vegas odds makers peg the Senate confirming the next SCOTUS nominee before the end of 2022 at 92 percent. The subhead under the top story in today’s Atlanta Journal Constitution noted that Democrats must work fast if they want the Court to not get “more conservative.” I laughed at that one, because it assumes the court getting more …

PUTIN: The Silent Sound of Ukraine Falling | Steve Berman

PUTIN: The Silent Sound of Ukraine Falling | Steve Berman


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Let’s be clear: Russia wants Ukraine more than NATO wants it. Also, Russia’s border Ukraine is a hundred miles longer than the Florida’s coastline. Plus, Russia designed the technology and software which runs most of its power infrastructure. Oh, and Russia has about 100,000 troops sitting on the border of east Ukraine. Finally, there’s hundreds of years of …

MANDALORIANS of Delaware and Other Stupid Authoritarian Ideas | Steve Berman

MANDALORIANS of Delaware and Other Stupid Authoritarian Ideas | Steve Berman


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As a conservative, I believe that our “rights” are not bestowed upon us as a positive reward for being useful members of society. We have them because we are imbued with human dignity by God, who is not subject to a vote or opinion poll. Therefore, government is an exercise in imperfection, since we are not …

GASLIGHTING: Trump Investigation is 100% Political | Steve Berman

GASLIGHTING: Trump Investigation is 100% Political | Steve Berman


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Former Vice President Al Gore made $100 million in just twelve years after leaving office, “investing” in green energy companies. Meanwhile, green energy companies were lobbying Obama energy officials and the White House so strongly they wore out trouser legs of people like Jonathan Silver, who headed the DOE’s $38 billion cash bazaar. Imagine Oprah Winfrey: “you get a …

THE LEPER: Unvaxxed Djokovic Will Be Barred From Everywhere | Steve Berman

THE LEPER: Unvaxxed Djokovic Will Be Barred From Everywhere | Steve Berman


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Tennis champion Novak Djokovic has been booted from Australia, and likely will be prevented from entering France and Spain, therefore denied competition in two Grand Slam events, the French Open and Madrid Open. The Serbian Djokovic has become a leper of his own choice, and is being treated as such, to the cheers of his fellow countrymen. The basis …