Private property rights and personal responsibility saved the Plymouth colony from the edge of extinction and laid the economic foundation for a free and prosperous nation. //

It is widely known that the early Pilgrims came to the New World to escape religious persecution. What is lesser known is that their spiritual adventure was also a commercial enterprise. Today’s self-identified democratic socialists like to claim real socialism has never been tried in America, but they need to brush up on their history. The Pilgrims did try it — and it failed. //

When one group of Puritans from the Separatist Church, led by Rev. John Robinson, decided to migrate to the New World, where they could establish a new place to adhere to God’s teachings, they sent two representatives, Robert Cushman and John Carver, to London to secure a land patent in the existing Virginia colony. A London merchant, Thomas Weston, probably one of the earliest venture capitalists, led a group of investors and offered the Puritans a deal they couldn’t refuse.

The deal stipulated that everything the colonists produced would belong to a “commonwealth,” and at the end of seven years, everything would be equally divided between investors and colonists. To make sure the investors would get their money back, this deal forbade colonists from having any personal time to work on any private business during the seven-year contract term. //

Many settlers resented that whatever they produced went into a common pot and was divided among them equally. In addition, knowing that at the end of the seven-year term they were required to surrender half the wealth they’d accumulated to investors in England offered no incentive to work hard.

Since not everyone was pulling the same weight, the colony was constantly running out of food, a typical problem in all the socialist countries, from China to Venezuela. As French philosopher Jean Bodin wisely pointed out, that communal property was “the mother of contention and discord” because “for nothing could properly be regarded as public if there were nothing at all to distinguish it from what was private. Nothing can be thought of as shared in common, except by contrast with what is privately owned.” //

By 1626, the Plymouth settlers couldn’t return sufficient profits that the investors in England had demanded, and they were forced to restructure the debt they borrowed from investors. Conceding the problem, Bradford wisely recognized that a change had to take place, and he gathered the settlers to a brainstorming session. //

After turning the communal property into private property, letting everyone be responsible for themselves and their own families’ wellbeing, Bradford noted drastic changes in all the colonists’ behaviors: //

These hardworking and motivated colonists turned Plymouth colony into one of the most successful colonies in North America.

Today’s self-identified democratic socialists might need to pick up a copy of Bradford’s book if they think real socialism has never been tried in America. One of the most important legacies of early settlers is that they experimented with socialism in the 1620s, and it didn’t work. Private property rights and personal responsibility, two pillars of a free market economy, saved the Plymouth colony from extinction and laid the economic foundation for he free and prosperous nation that we all enjoy today.

Rather than repeating always failed socialist experiments, Americans ought to remember the powerful lessons early settlers learned in the 1620s: Socialism is incompatible with free people. It always leads to failure and misery. The United States of America must never become a socialist country.

To the uninitiated, the term “power breaker” would seem to apply to any circuit breaker. To those more familiar, the term focuses on a range of low voltage circuit breakers. Because breaker nomenclature can seem complex, this article reviews the terms that describe commonly used in low-voltage, backup power systems.

Molded Case Circuit Breakers

Some breaker types are named for the manner in which they are constructed. The term molded case circuit breaker identifies a breaker that is assembled as an integral unit within a supportive enclosure of insulating material … typically, a molded plastic case. Within this category, breakers are differentiated by their trip mechanisms. There are two principle types - thermal-magnetic and solid-state. Molded case breakers are tested according to requirements specified in UL 489 - Molded-Case Circuit Breakers, Molded-Case Switches, and Circuit-Breaker Enclosures. Those that test successfully are listed by UL. Notably, breakers are identified as “80%-rated” and “100%-rated” models. Those rated at 100% undergo thermal testing beyond those listed at the 80% threshold. Consequently, 80%-rated molded case breakers are sometimes called “standard breakers”. //

Insulated Case

Sometimes called a “power” breaker, an Insulated Case Circuit Breaker is similar to a molded case breaker, but Is built on a frame inside an “insulated” molded plastic case. They are tested to the same UL489 standard as molded case circuit breakers. Insulated Case Circuit Breakers can be fixed-mounted or draw-out types. Because of their molded case design, they offer limited serviceability.

ANSI-Rated Breakers

The term “power” breaker more often refers to circuit breakers listed to UL 1066 - Standard for Low-Voltage AC and DC Power Circuit Breakers Used in Enclosures, which in turn references additional standards promulgated by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). Also known as Metal Frame or Air Frame breakers, these are built as an assembly of parts in a welded metal frame, which is mounted on a draw-out mechanism that enables it to slide out of its enclosure for inspection and service. This enables greater serviceability when compared to other types.

Common Power Breaker Design Elements

Insulated case and ANSI-rated Breakers consist of three principle components: (1) Element, (2) Cell, and (3) Trip Unit. These are explained below.

In the National Tribune, 1880, an article appeared giving an account of the "Vision of Washington" at Valley Forge. The account was told by a gentleman named Anthony Sherman, who supposedly was at Valley Forge during the winter of 1777-78. The story has been published several times.

Ocasio-Cortez is never shy about touting her feminist cred, but what is more anti-woman than taking hormonal contraception to suppress one’s natural fertility and then spending a fortune to try to conceive via invasive medical procedures with a high rate of failure? Even then, one might well be forced to use another woman’s eggs. The structure of the modern economy makes it difficult for women to start a family in their 20s and 30s, but that doesn’t mean women should simply give up on that idea and freeze their eggs instead. //

In the Vanity Fair interview, AOC cites Illinois Sen. Tammy Duckworth as a role model. Duckworth gave birth to her second child via IVF at age 50. In 2018, Duckworth told Marie Claire that she consciously prioritized working over having a family. “I made the choice early in my career that I don’t want other women to have to make. When I was in my 20s and trying to rise through the ranks of the military, I knew if I took time off to get pregnant and raise my children, it was going to affect my career.”

While Duckworth might say other women shouldn’t follow her example, the images of her entering the Senate floor for the first time with her newborn while other lawmakers applauded send a very different message. No wonder AOC looks up to her. In 2020, the women we lionize are freezing their eggs until they’re 50 and embracing “dog motherhood” in the meantime.

Many young women in America look up to AOC. It is tragic that she is giving them such incomplete and irresponsible advice, endorsing the fertility industry’s myths and presenting pet parenting as a serious alternative to actual motherhood.

“I don’t want to be a savior, I want to be a mirror,” Ocasio-Cortez told Vanity Fair, and she is getting her wish. She is no savior. Young women who listen to AOC on fertility might well end up facing enormous sadness and lifelong heartache.

Trump made it clear he authorized her to cut the monies so there could be no doubt that nothing was hurt during a transition, so there would be no harm to the country by any delay, although he intended to continue his battle in the courts over the election.

That says a tremendous amount about the man and the way both sides have reacted also is very revealing.

Trump really didn’t have to authorize it until the Electoral College decided but he put America first to ensure the best for the country. It’s also clear he wants to protect his employees and remove them from the eye of the storm.

Democrats threatened a woman and her family to demand they be given power as soon as possible, even before officially declared by law.

So wait, tell me again, who is it that is breaking norms here? Who is it that is putting the country in danger?

Hint: it isn’t Trump.

Mail-in Ballots in Pennsylvania Were Rejected for Technical Errors at a Suspiciously Low Rate in Some Key Counties
By Shipwreckedcrew | Nov 23, 2020 8:15 PM ET

AP Photo/Julio Cortez
I have long suspected that this is the data that the Democrats wanted to keep buried long enough for some of the early lawsuits filed in Pennsylvania to burn themselves out over a lack of available evidence. That is often a problem with “election fraud” claims — most/all the evidence needed to prove the claim rests in the hands of the state officials who you are suing. Their refusal to provide data and evidence leads to the formation of conclusion that the allegations of fraud are untrue when the actual problem is that the state is keeping the evidence of fraud under wraps to protect the outcome.

This is some of the data that the Trump campaign asked for in the misguided suit brought two weeks ago in the Middle District of Pennsylvania against the Secretary of the Commonwealth and seven heavy Democrat Counties. The campaign sent interrogatories asking the following four questions and seeking a Court order that the Defendants be compelled to provide answers to the questions on an expedited basis:

County Defendants: How many mail-in ballots and absentee ballots were
counted and how many were invalidated? How many secrecy ballots were
received?
County Defendants: How many mail-in and absentee ballots lacking a signature,
lacking an inner secrecy envelope, or otherwise defective were “cured” by a
provisional ballot after you or your agents contacted a voter to inform them of the
defect in their ballot?
Secretary: When did the Secretary of State’s office become aware that the
County Election Board defendants were, prior to the election, engaged in
inspection of mail-in and/or absentee ballots and communicating to voters where
such ballots were deemed defective?
Secretary: Describe how you became aware that the County Election Board
defendants were, prior to the election, engaged in inspection of mail-in and/or
absentee ballots and communicating to voters where such ballots were deemed
defective and all steps you took to ensure that uniform procedures were being
followed throughout the State.
The spreadsheet linked is on John Solomon’s website JustTheNews. It does not state where the source data came from, and some of the numbers do not coincide with the information I’ve seen elsewhere — but I have no reason to believe one set of numbers over another.

Today, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court may have answered some of these questions, as it upheld the decision of many County Boards of Election to count mail-in ballots that had technical errors in the manner in which the voter completed the information called for on the outside of the mailing envelope. So, for example, the Trump campaign was challenging the decision of the Philadephia County Board of Elections to count 8,329 ballots with such errors, rather than reject them and not include them in the vote tally. According to Solomon’s spreadsheet, Philadelphia County rejected only 228 ballots TOTAL, while counting over 8,300 ballots with some defect. In its ruling, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court said it was acceptable for the County Boards of Election to interpret the requirements in a fashion that favored counting the votes of lawfully registered voters even if their mail-in ballots had minor deficiencies.

But these minor deficiencies are different from the failure to include the inner security sleeve, which the Supreme Court has previously ruled were required for a vote to be validly counted.

Since Philadephia County received 346,196 mailed-in ballots, and only 288 were rejected, Philadelphia County should be able to show that it has 345,968 inner sleeve security sleeves, since every valid mail-in ballot must have arrived inside an inner security sleeve.

For some reason, I suspect that Philadephia County won’t be able to do that. //

A total of 450 were rejected ballots out of about 1.3 million mailed-in ballots received in those counties. That is a rejection rate of .0003%.

Such numbers are simply ludicrous and defy belief.

The following essays are part of The Federalist’s 1620 Project, a symposium exploring the connections and contributions of the early Pilgrim and Puritan settlers in New England to the uniquely American synthesis of faith, family, freedom, and self-government.

The different adaptations of the B-70 included recon planes, tankers, transports, and even motherships to launch hypersonic vehicles and spacecraft. //

The Air Force's supersonic B-70 Valkyrie bomber, designed and built by North American Aviation, already holds a place of great prominence in discussions about advanced military aircraft that never made it into service and what might have happened if they did. //

Air Force Material Command's (AFMC) History Office released the document, titled NAA B-70 Valkyrie Variants: A Future That Never Was..., on Nov. 23, 2020. This office regularly publishes works that provide a more in-depth look at past advanced aviation developments and other historical topics.

https://www.afmc.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/2424882/a-look-back-naa-b-70-valkyrie-variants-a-future-that-never-was/

The Beijing-based outlet paid several newspaper companies a total of $1,154,666 for printing costs, including $110,000 to the Los Angeles Times, $92,000 to The Houston Chronicle and $76,000 to The Boston Globe.

Overall, China Daily spent more than $4.4 million on printing, distribution, advertising and administration expenses over the past six months, according to the FARA filing.”

Senator Rand Paul
@RandPaul
The DC U.S. Attorney today confirmed to me that they will not pursue an investigation of who is funding the thugs who attacked my wife and me and sent a DC police officer to the hospital.

some parts of certain states allowed ballot fixing, others did not; some parts of certain states allowed for examination of ballots, other parts of the same state did not; and in Pennsylvania alone, there were an alleged 600k ballots put in “secretly by Democrats alone.”

“All you have to do is look at statistical data and you can see that the fraud was rampant and out of control,” Giuliani said.

He also noted that, despite press reports to the contrary, his team does have plenty of evidence in the form of 100 affidavits that the media is “too lazy” to read.

John Solomon of Just the News did read them, however, and laid out some of the more compelling examples of voter fraud using some of the affidavits Giuliani mentioned, noting that “many Democrats and their allies in the traditional media argue there is no evidence of systemic voting irregularities in the Nov. 3 election, a mountain of evidence has been amassed in private lawsuits alleging there was, in fact, significant and widespread voting misconduct.”

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