“Happy President’s Day!” – Hillary Clinton Posts Photo of Herself with Obama, Biden on President’s Day – Leaves Out Her Husband Bill

Twice-failed presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton excluded her own husband Bill in a ‘President’s Day’ photo she posted to her Facebook page on Monday.

Clinton posted a photo of her with Joe Biden and Barack Obama in the Oval Office.

“Happy President’s Day!” Hillary said in the caption.

Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama were behind the scenes helping Joe Biden and the Democrats steal the 2020 election and this photo is Hillary’s way of telling everyone the swamp is back in charge.

Hillary Clinton may have snubbed her hubby Slick Willie today but he posted a photo of Hillary on Valentine’s Day.

Hillary responded to Bill with heart emojis.

The trolling on this photo and Hillary’s response was endless!

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/02/happy-presidents-day-hillary-clinton-posts-photo-obama-biden-presidents-day-leaves-husband-bill/

6.2-Magnitude Earthquake Hits Vanuatu, USGS Says

According to the data, the epicenter of the earthquake was located 90 km from the country's capital Port Vila, and was at a depth of 10 km.

An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.2 struck off the coast of the island state of Vanuatu in the South Pacific, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS).

No immediate information on possible casualties, specific damage, or tsunami threat has been reported.

The European Mediterranean Seismological Center (EMSC) registered the tremor on Tuesday night.

Situated in a seismologically active region, Vanuatu is an island country that frequently suffers from earthquakes. The archipelago, formerly known as the New Hebrides, sits atop a complex and active plate boundary in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.

https://sputniknews.com/asia/202102161082087195-62-magnitude-earthquake-hits-vanuatu-usgs-says/

North Carolina Republican Party votes to censure Burr for vote to convict Trump

The North Carolina Republican Party's central committee voted unanimously on Monday to censure Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC) over his vote on Saturday to convict former President Trump.

The committee announced the censure in a statement that argued Burr's vote to convict went outside the authority of the Constitution.

"Tonight, the North Carolina Republican Party Central Committee (NCGOP) voted unanimously to censure Senator Richard Burr for his vote to convict former President Trump in the impeachment trial which he declared to be unconstitutional," the committee said in a statement, adding that "the Democrat-led attempt to impeach a former President lies outside the United States Constitution."

"Now that the Senate has voted to acquit President Trump, we hope that Democrats will set aside their divisive partisan agenda and focus on the American priorities of tackling the COVID-19 pandemic, safely reopening schools and restarting the economy," it concluded.

Burr, who has said he does not plan to run for reelection, initially voted that trying Trump in the Senate was unconstitutional because the former president was no longer in office. But he ultimately joined six other Republicans to vote to convict Trump.

“It is truly a sad day for North Carolina Republicans," Burr said in response to the censure. "My party's leadership has chosen loyalty to one man over the core principles of the Republican Party and the founders of our great nation.”

Republicans who voted to convict Trump are now facing fierce criticism from conservatives and Trump allies within their party.

Burr's censure comes as Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) and Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) are facing calls to be censured over their votes to convict.

The Louisiana Republican Party censured Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) over the weekend and several county-level GOP parties have censured Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.).

The North Carolina Democratic Party blasted the censure, with Chair Wayne Goodwin saying in a statement that the state's GOP is "is in an all out civil war."

"Today’s censure vote against their senior Senator for a vote of conscience in the most bipartisan conviction of a president in history proves this is the Donald Trump Party above all else," Goodwin said in a statement. "North Carolinians are already fleeing the party by the thousands, donors are closing their checkbooks, and political leaders are withdrawing their support after North Carolina Republicans helped incite a dangerous attack on our Capitol, and the fallout is only growing."

Senators voted 57-43 Saturday on whether to convict Trump for “willfully inciting violence against the Government of the United States,” falling 10 votes short of the required 67 votes for conviction.

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/538927-north-carolina-republican-party-votes-to-censure-burr-for-vote-to-convict

Deceptively Titled 'Equality Act' Would Be Giant Step to Destroying Religious Freedom

It’s baaccckkk! That horrendously mislabeled Equality Act from 2019 has re-appeared but this time there are Democratic majorities in both chambers of Congress and a Democrat in the Oval Office.

There are two keys to understanding why this proposal is such a threat to the First Amendment’s guarantee of religious assembly and practice without interference from Congress.

First, as with so much else that appears under the rubric of “social justice,” this proposal absolutizes the concept of equality into a battering ram against the rights of unfavored groups. That’s precisely the outcome the Founders hoped to prevent.

Here’s how that works: If the secular progressive understanding of equality as equal outcomes — rather than equal opportunities — is combined with moral relativity — the idea that “truth” is whatever any individual decides it is for them — then every other societal value must be totally subordinated, including freedom of political expression and religious freedom, the two bulwarks of American liberty.

That is why the “social justice” movement is the source of the Cancel Culture that is steadily suffocating creativity, individuality, privacy, and everything and everybody else refusing to conform. It absolutized equality and moral relativity become the basis of law, anything that even remotely conflicts with them must be suppressed, the Bill of Rights be damned.

Second, the Equality Act essentially rewrites the definition of what constitutes a public accommodation in America so that its reach can encompass whatever federal bureaucrats, lawyers and politicians decide it is.

Doing that will strike a lethal blow against the idea of privacy of individuals. And when there is no realm of privacy into which the government cannot inject itself, the ultimate politicization of everything will be a reality, just as it always is in every totalitarian regime.

House Democrats passed the Equality Act in 2019, but the proposal died in the Republican Senate. During his 2020 presidential campaign, Biden promised to make passage a top priority of his first 100 days. One of his first Executive Orders applied the Equality Act to federal housing policies and programs.

The Supreme Court’s 2020 decision in Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia, held that sexual orientation and gender identity cannot be used to justify terminating an employee from a business or a non-profit.

But Biden seeks to go beyond even what the high Court ruled by essentially giving free rein to government to apply the public accommodation label as widely as possible.

The Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) has a great deal of experience defending cases that are warning signs of what is ahead if the Equality Act becomes law. Several landmark victories have been won by ADF in recent years, including Masterpiece Cakeshop.

But such cases as Masterpiece require tons of money and time-consuming litigation. If the Equality Act becomes law, there will be a flood of such cases and superb religious freedom groups like ADF will be overwhelmed.

https://pjmedia.com/culture/marktapscott/2021/02/15/deceptively-titled-equality-act-would-be-giant-step-to-destroying-religious-freedom-n1425728

At Least 3 Dead In Car Bomb Attack On Somalian Parliament Building Compound

Chaos in Somalia is increasing due to the missed elections.

In two subsequent days attacks took place by unknown assailants.

On February 13th, security forces destroyed a VBIED before it could reach the parliament building in Mogadishu.

Still, at least 7 people were wounded (according to various reports), at least 3 people died.

As reported by the AFP, local officials said the following:

“Three civilians were killed according to the information we have received so far and eight others were injured,” said local official, Abdirahman Mohamed.

Abdirahman said that currently the local police were chasing one of the suspected terrorist vehicles that exploded the car. He explained that the getaway car was several kilometers from the location of the explosion. The car that assisting in carrying out the terror incident was still being pursued by the local police, at the time of interview on February 14th.

“The police were chasing the attacker getaway vehicle after seeing it several kilometers from the scene of the explosion,” he said.

The bomber broke through a checkpoint near the palace and detonated his explosives after police chased and fired at his vehicle, authorities told reporters.

“Security forces foiled a complex attack this morning, firing on the suicide car bomber before he reached his target, allowing many civilians to escape unharmed,” a police officer said.

Government buildings in Mogadishu have been a target for the al-Qaida affiliated group, Al-Shabab.

https://southfront.org/at-least-3-dead-in-car-bomb-attack-on-somalian-parliament-building-compound-map-update/