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Durbin Cuts Off Conservative Witness During Hearing on Gun Violence

(ConservativeStar.com) – Violent crime has increased significantly over the last year, particularly in Democratic-run cities. To get to the heart of the issue, Senator and Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin (D-IL) held a “field hearing,” inviting several experts to offer insight. Amy Swearer of the Heritage Foundation was one attendee, but Durbin failed to even hear her out. Refusal to Listen During her remarks, Swearer tried to address the apparent softness of prosecutors when it …

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Meadows Sues January 6th Committee and Speaker Pelosi

(ConservativeStar.com) – A former Donald Trump administration official is hitting back against the Democrat-led inquisition into the January 6 Capitol incident. Mark Meadows, who served as chief of staff for the last year of the Trump presidency, is being threatened with contempt proceedings unless he obeys a demand to appear in front of the panel. Meadows says he doesn’t have to turn over the documents – and now he’s asked a court to back him. …

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New Report Suggests Positive News About Omicron Variant

(ConservativeStar.com) – Raquel Viana, a researcher in South Africa, was performing gene sequencing on samples of the COVID-19 virus and discovered a series of mutations she didn’t expect. The world now knows them as the Omicron variant. That was towards the latter part of November 2021. After the first week in December, experts warn it’s too early to make any long-term predictions, but there does seem to be at least one bright spot. Milder Symptoms? …

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VP Harris’ Team Leaving in Droves

(ConservativeStar.com) – On December 1, Symone Sanders, chief spokeswoman for Vice President Kamala Harris, announced she was quitting at the end of the year. It’s the second high-profile departure from Harris’ team in only a month, and it raises serious questions about just what’s going on in the vice president’s office. A Toxic Office? Rumors about a “toxic” and “dysfunctional” working environment in Harris’s office have been popping up in the media for months, but …

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Republicans Want to Take Over Election System in Wisconsin

(ConservativeStar.com) – According to a Rasmussen Reports survey from early October 2021, 56% of those polled felt that “it’s likely that cheating affected the outcome of the 2020 presidential election,” with 41% saying it was “very likely.” With this distrust in the election system as a backdrop, Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) has proposed a controversial plan to change who would control future federal elections in his home state. The Big Change Currently, the Wisconsin Elections …

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COVID-19 Restrictions Land US on Frightening List for First Time

(ConservativeStar.com) – The COVID pandemic might have been bad for our health, but it’s been even worse for our freedoms. That’s the grim conclusion of a new report on the world’s governments. Authoritarian regimes have become more authoritarian, while many democracies have become less democratic. Pandemic Has Promoted Authoritarianism Every year, the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA), a think tank based in Stockholm, Sweden, releases its Global State of Democracy report. It …

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Lab Find in Pennsylvania Reminds World of Dangerous Disease

(ConservativeStar.com) – The disease the world knows as smallpox is no joke. Roughly 300 million people died during the 20th Century, also leaving a full third of the survivors blind and most with horrific scarring. That’s why there was so much concern when a cleaning person at a Merck pharmaceutical lab outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, found five vials marked “smallpox.” One of the organizations to respond to the find was the CDC, where they’re well aware …

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Nasal Alzheimer’s Vaccine Gets Human Trials

(ConservativeStar.com) – A possible new treatment for Alzheimer’s disease will soon start clinical trials in a Massachusetts hospital. If it’s successful, the drug could help people who already suffer from the disease and those who are at risk. Boston Hospital Will Run Tests On November 16, Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, MA, announced that it’ll start a Phase 1 clinical trial of a nasally delivered Alzheimer’s vaccine in the next two weeks. The drug, …

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McConnell Allegedly Tried Disinviting Trump to Biden Inauguration

(ConservativeStar.com) – It’s the plot of countless movies and television shows: boy meets girl, boy and girl fall in love, boy and girl go their separate ways because… well, it’s complicated. The same is true of American politics, usually involving compromises between parties. However, sometimes the drama takes place within a party, like the feud between former President Donald Trump and Kentucky’s Senator Mitch McConnell, the top Republican in the upper chamber. RSVP by Never …

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Supreme Court to Rule on Prisoner Rights and Religious Rights

(ConservativeStar.com) – On July 19, 2004, John Henry Ramirez robbed and stabbed a man 29 times in Corpus Christi, Texas, killing him. He then fled to Mexico to avoid capture for approximately three and a half years. After he was convicted and sentenced to death for his crime, he met two members of a Baptist Church working in a prison outreach ministry who introduced him to Pastor Dana Moore, who became a spiritual mentor to …

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