Posts on Sunday, October 25, 2020
100 Percent Fed Up – If polls didn’t exist, who would you say was winning the election right now?It’s a serious question. Would it be the guy who has massive rallies every day, many of them spontaneous, or the guy who stays in his basement every day, drawing scant crowds the rare times he comes up for air?Joe Biden is up eight points in the RCP national average. This is no small thing. Yes, pollsters got it wrong in 2016, but they tend to correct for past mistakes. They have reputations to maintain.But are they just biased?
Biden: ‘This Is The Most Consequential Election’
Due To Possibility Of ‘Four More Years Of George’ replies
Due To Possibility Of ‘Four More Years Of George’ replies
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden warned on Sunday that next month’s election was the “most consequential” in a long time because of what would happen if there was “four more years of George,” an apparent reference to former President George Bush. Biden, after saying “George” twice, corrected himself.“This is the most [consequential], not because I’m running, but because who I’m running against, this is the most consequential election in a long, long, long time,” Biden said. “And the character of the country, in my view, is literally on the ballot, what kind of country we’re going to be.”“Four more years of George, uh, George, uh, he, uh,” Biden said,
Donald and Melania Trump skipped passing out the candy at this year's Halloween celebration at the White House and waved to the trick-or-treaters instead at a down-sized event due to the coronavirus pandemic.The first couple came out to the music of Michael Jackson's 'Thriller,' holding hands and waving to the crowd. They did not wear face masks as they greeted the children, who walked in a line in front of them at the South Portico of the White House. It was a parade of angels, astronauts, pirates, cartoon characters, skeletons, witches, unicorns and tyrannosaurus rex. Spooky music - from the 'Game of Thrones' theme song
Democratic nominee Joe Biden took great pains during his debate with President Donald Trump to paint his Republican opponent as racially insensitive and politically divisive.(Snip)Biden’s critiques struck some as odd given the former vice president’s long tenure in public office and his own problematic record on racial issues and his past racially insensitive comments. The following is an extensive, but not exhaustive, look into the Democratic nominee’s past stances and comments.
1. As recently as June of 2019, Biden praised the “civility” of the segregationist senators he worked with in Congress to pass anti-busing legislation(Snip) the former vice president engendered criticism after seeming to praise the “civility” of two arch segregationists
When the Senate votes on Monday evening to confirm Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the United States Supreme Court, it will be just over a week before Election Day that will decide what both parties are portraying as the most important race in American history.
If Barrett is confirmed to become a member of the highest bench in the country – and, with Republicans easily having enough votes to confirm her, that seems to be a foregone conclusion – one of the first cases she could hear as a new Supreme Court justice could decide who wins the White House.
Courts at all levels have been deluged with cases relating to balloting
Our choice is Joe Biden*
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This year’s general election ballot presents the voter with a dilemma. We have wrestled with this year’s choices, as we imagine many voters have. Up and down the ticket we are faced with choices in political ideologies, personalities, backgrounds and governing styles. (Snip) President Trump is not always 100 percent wrong, but he is 100 percent wrong for America. Trump has many admirable accomplishments from his first term in office. We can find much common ground with Trump supporters, including judicial appointments, tax policy, support for gun rights, even inroads to Middle East peace.
What is the measure of a man’s courage? Is it measured by jumping on an enemy grenade to save his friends? Is it boldly braving enemy fire to pull one of his comrades from the brutal bloodbath of an enemy ambush? Both of those are great examples, but they miss a critical element…Fear. Fear can take many forms, both rational and irrational. In some cases fear can be fairly brief(snip)
Then, there is fear that extends over a long period of time(snip)Regardless of duration, there can be no courage without fear. The two go hand in hand.
New Hampshire paper endorses
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Democratic presidential candidate for
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The New Hampshire Union Leader newspaper has endorsed Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden for the 2020 election contest, marking the outlet's first endorsement of a Democratic presidential candidate in more than 100 years. When the paper in 2016 endorsed Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson, that move marked the first instance in more than a century that the paper did not endorse the Republican presidential nominee, according to the New York Times.
WASHINGTON, Pennsylvania — "I can't believe there aren't any newspeople here," said Linda of Greene County, Pennsylvania, as she stood among hundreds of cars and pickup trucks idling in long parallel lines in a vast big-box-store parking lot Saturday, waiting to join the Interstate 70 Trump Train. Indeed, although there were carloads of Trump supporters as far as one could see, and many more on the way from Ohio and West Virginia, and this enormous political event was happening less than two weeks before the presidential election, as far as I could tell, I was the only newsperson there.
It was the biggest political rally no one saw.
New York state faces a nearly $60 billion budget deficit through 2024.The answer? Pot. Gov. Andrew Cuomo says legalizing marijuana could be key to offsetting the massive budget deficit and helping the COVID-19 torn state recover.“There are a lot of reasons to get it done, but one of the benefits is it also brings in revenue, and all states — but especially this state — we need revenue and we’re going to be searching the cupboards for revenue,” Cuomo told the Staten Island Advance.“And I think that is going to put marijuana over the top,” he added.The governor said he will “soon” legalize marijuana
Democratic nominee Joe Biden holds a slight lead in Texas over President Donald Trump among likely voters in Texas, according to a poll released Sunday by the Dallas Morning News and the University of Texas at Tyler.
The poll showed Biden with the support of 48 percent of likely voters, compared with 45 percent for Trump. The results represent a shift from the same poll in September, when Trump led by 2 percentage points. One difference from September is that Biden has expanded his lead among Hispanic voters from 30 percentage points to 48.
A diverse and patriotic MAGA movement is overwhelming the mechanisms of narrative control; and they are doing it by flooding the zones with a combination of “old school” and “modern tech” workarounds. It’s quite honestly the most remarkable political dynamic since the organic Tea Party erupted in 2009.
(Snip)it is worth looking at how big tech is freaking out [CNN Narrative Engineering HERE].“A right-wing offensive” is the 2020 narrative equivalent to Clinton’s vast Russian conspiracy theory. The truth is Big Tech is getting their ass kicked by the American electorate and they are freaking out about how visible, in-your-face, unapologetic and dramatic the MAGA activism has become.
The start of President Donald Trump’s rally was still hours away when it became clear his campaign would not keep its promise. In the days leading up to the Sept. 30 event in Duluth, Minn., local officials had privately pressed the campaign to abide by state public health guidelines aimed at slowing the spread of the novel coronavirus, documents show. In response, the campaign signed an agreement pledging to follow those rules, limiting attendance to 250 people.(Snip) Held two days before Trump was diagnosed with COVID-19, the rally was attended by more than 2,500 people, airport officials estimated.
President Donald Trump will reportedly move to “immediately fire” three top U.S. officials if he wins re-election next month, and has additional planned replacements after those three are gone.The three officials who Trump wants to immediately remove include FBI Director Christopher Wray, CIA Director Gina Haspel, and Defense Secretary Mark Esper, according to Axios. Wray and Haspel are reportedly “despised and distrusted” by the administration, and the president would have already fired both—starting with Wray—if not for politically damaging headlines in the run-up to next month’s elections.“The view of Haspel in the West Wing is that she still sees her job as manipulating people and outcomes,
Anti-Trump protesters hurled eggs and insults at supporters of the president—including former mayor Rudy Giuliani—as they rolled through Manhattan in a convoy on Sunday. Video posted on Twitter shows a flag-draped Trump caravan led by Giuliani being bombarded with eggs, including one spot at 59th Street and 5th Avenue—with one protester yelling “f—-g scum” at the former Big Apple mayor. “F–k you Rudy,” another man is heard screaming. “You f—-g coward, go back to f—-g Long Island,” another man yells.(Snip) Another video shows cops blocking protesters from pursuing the Trump caravan.
Tampax has faced a backlash online after saying that 'not all people with periods are women'. The tampon company tweeted in support of transgender people and insisted that 'not all women have periods'. The company said: 'Fact: Not all women have periods. Also a fact: Not all people with periods are women. Let's celebrate the diversity of all people who bleed. '#mythbusting #periodtruths #transisbeautiful.' But some feminists online accused Tampax's owner, Procter & Gamble, of 'erasing' women with their message. Others praised the company for the inclusivity and show of support to trans people in the tweet.
Exclusive–‘Over My Dead Body’: Bill
Cassidy Torches Joe Biden’s Plan to
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Cassidy Torches Joe Biden’s Plan to
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Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview on Friday that former Vice President Joe Biden would shut down America’s energy industry “over my dead body.”
During Thursday night’s presidential debate between Biden and President Donald Trump, Biden pledged to shut down the oil industry.
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Cassidy told Breitbart News that Biden’s promise to close the oil industry exposes Biden and the Democrat Party’s elitism and lack of concern for the working-class families that will lose their livelihoods in the process.
“I think it exposes the elitism of the Democratic Party. I read Joe flew away in his private jet. He will still have the jet fuel; he will
Breitbart News senior contributor Peter Schweizer said on Sunday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Sunday Morning Futures” that the story not getting covered was “about Hunter Biden participating in Chinese efforts to acquire western technology.”
Bartiromo asked, “Let me ask you about [Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States] and the approval that a foreigner needs in order to do an acquisition in the United States. That’s one of the things that you’ve reported on that these Chinese companies needed, right? They wanted the influence of Joe Biden so that they could get approval to acquire companies. This is what Donald Trump has been trying to put an end
Hundreds of vehicles took to the streets on Long Island, NY to show their support for President Trump's re-election in another “MAGA-gras” parade. (Tweet) The president voiced his support for the rally, tweeting out: “Have a GREAT “MAGA-GRAS” Rally today on our wonderful Long Island. Cut Taxes, Stop Crime, VOTE FOR TRUMP. Our City and State are a MESS. What do you have to lose? Thank you!!!” (Tweet/Video) The event was hosted by Loud Majority Long Island, which has hosted similar events across Long Island and New York City in recent weeks. Social media posts captured stretches of the parade, with some Twitter users claiming
Cars lined up for a “Trump Train” parade that cruised around Northwest Missouri on Saturday to support President Donald Trump.
The parade started in Savannah, Missouri, at Messick Park, and ended in St. Joseph, Missouri, (Snip)
“I’ve had the idea for some time, and then I saw the Trump trains and the flotillas for Trump, and I thought it’d be really cool to just run one through the ninth legislative district, where I’m running for state representative,” Dean VanSchoiack, a candidate for the Missouri House of Representatives who organized the rally, told News-Press Now.(Snip)
The caravan of cars traveled 150 miles to support Trump and the Republican Party.
More than 1,000 people from New Jersey participated in a vehicle parade and rally supporting President Donald Trump on Saturday.
Inside the sea of vehicles, some waved American flags, thin-blue-line flags, and Make America Great Again flags, all supporting the president’s re-election, the Bridgewater Courier News reported.
The parade departed from the AMC movie theater parking lot in Mountainside. It made its way through several towns before arriving at the Clarence Dillon Public Library in Bedminster, about five minutes away from one of Trump’s golf courses, Trump National.
More than 1,000 people also lined up along Route 206 in Bedminster, with some carrying signs saying “Adorable Deplorables,”
Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden cut off a Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, television reporter on Saturday who was attempting to ask a question about his son, Hunter Biden.
WYOU reporter Andy Mehalshick began saying, “Questions and controversy continue today about Hunter Biden, your son,” before Biden jumped on him: Andrew Solender@AndrewSolender ·23hInterviewer: "Questions and controversy continue today about Hunter Biden, your son-"
Biden: "There is no controversy about my son. That's a hell of a lie. That's a flat lie because the president has nothing to run on... it's classic Trump.” (Video)
New York City Restaurateurs Can No
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Longer Swallow Subjective, Unscientific
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Restaurants, delis, and pubs are the lifeblood of our neighborhoods. They’re places we go to congregate with colleagues, celebrate with family, and catch up on “hyperlocal” news and gossip with neighbors. Much of the character and vibrancy of a neighborhood is found in its eateries.
On April 13, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced a Northeast regional plan to reopen the state’s economy in coordination with New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Delaware: “We have reached a plateau in the number of cases and . . . should start looking forward to reopening but with a plan. The art form will be doing it smartly, in a coordinated way,(Snip)
Unfortunately, Cuomo
Legendary Astronaut Buzz Aldrin Endorses
Arizona Sen. McSally Over Former Astronaut
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Arizona Sen. McSally Over Former Astronaut
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Legendary astronaut Buzz Aldrin expressed his support for Republican Arizona Sen. Martha McSally’s bid to keep her seat over her Democratic challenger in a Friday evening tweet.
McSally, a former United States Air Force pilot and congresswoman (Snip), has been running significantly behind former astronaut Mark Kelly throughout the 2020 Senate race. However, recent polls have shown the Arizona senator closing the gap of late, and one even has her leading by two percentage points, (Snip).
Aldrin used fighter pilot lingo in his tweets to praise McSally for moving “ahead past Mark, to 12 o’clock” and potentially delivering a “win for Arizona!”
Hunter Biden suggested setting up a shell company to do business with a Chinese firm in order to avoid registering as a foreign agent, and to be able to bid on contracts with the U.S. government, according to documents from May 2017 obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation.
A day after sending the message, Biden arranged a meeting between his father, Joe Biden, and Tony Bobulinski, one of the prospective partners in a deal with CEFC China Energy, a Chinese conglomerate whose chairman had links to the communist regime in Beijing.“We don’t want to have to register as foreign agents under the FCPA which is much more expansive
A “Jews For Trump” vehicle convoy was repeatedly attacked and heckled as it made its way through New York City Sunday to show its support of the president, video shows. The convoy took place in several Orthodox Jewish communities ahead of a planned event in Brooklyn’s Marine Park organized by Boris Epshteyn, an advisor to the Trump campaign and co-chair of Jewish Voices for Trump, the Jewish Telegraph Agency reported Friday. Multiple video clips of the convoy posted on @NYScanner show crowds not taking too kindly to rows of vehicles with hoisted Trump 2020 flags.
"The Brooklyn gunfire that killed a young tourist from Indiana this weekend came out of nowhere, a witness told The Post on Sunday. Ethan Williams, 20, was sitting with four of his friends on a stoop outside their Bushwick Airbnb around 2:30 a.m. Saturday when shots broke out across the street and struck him in the chest with “no warning,” his pal Jacob Mayhew told The Post on Sunday.
“Some guy next to that mailbox just started shooting!” he said.'
President Trump had a busy day on Saturday as he continued his swing through the key battleground states that he needs to win in order to send Joe Biden to his basement permanently. Trump who is fully recovered from his COVID infection and appears to be stronger than ever did a marathon that started in North Carolina and wrapped up in Wisconsin where he delivered the goods to patriotic Americans. During his stop in Lumberton, NC that kicked off the day, Trump ridiculed his opponent who has exploited coronavirus fear by holding drive-in rallies that have been sparsely attended.
Arizona Border Sheriff Mocks Leftists Over
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Pinal County Sheriff Mark Lamb took the occasion to 'educate' -- and mock -- the liberal leftists who ignorantly pushed back against President Trump because that's what they do, instinctively oppose and push back against everything he says (Trump Derangement Syndrome is to blame). “Border security is a big issue for us,” Lamb said in a video posted on Twitter. “Now, this week during the presidential debate, they talked about border security. And President Trump talked about how important it was to secure America.”“And he talked about coyotes,” Lamb went on. “Now, there’s a lot of you, even some with blue checkmarks, who think you’re smarter than all of us,
New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is an impressive woman. After all, she went from working nights as a bartender to representing Queens and the Bronx in Congress. The Democratic congresswoman’s personal embodiment of the American dream makes her victimhood schtick, which was on display again this week, all the more tiresome. After she was referred to as “AOC” during Thursday evening’s presidential debate, the name she uses regularly and has as her Twitter handle, Ocasio-Cortez tweeted out her offense. “I wonder if Republicans understand how much they advertise their disrespect of women in debates when they consistently call women members
Senate Republicans voted to advance the process to confirm Amy Coney Barrett's nomination to the Supreme Court in a procedural vote Sunday.The Senate voted 51-48 to break a Democratic filibuster of Barrett's nomination, setting up a likely final vote to confirm President Donald Trump's selection to replace the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Monday.Sens. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and Susan Collins, R-Maine, joined Democrats in voting to maintain the filibuster while Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif, was in Michigan campaigning as the Democratic vice presidential nominee and did not vote.Just 51 of the 53 Republicans in the Senate must vote in favor of Barrett's confirmation
President Barack Obama delivered a speech in Florida on behalf of Joe Biden’s presidential campaign on Saturday, in the course of which he stated at least nineteen false claims about President Donald Trump and his record.From the transcript:1. “He doesn’t have a plan” for coronavirus. Obama cited the presidential debate on Thursday. However, the president did, in fact, specifically mention Operation Warp Speed, his plan to develop and distribute a coronavirus vaccine quickly.2. Trump couldn’t answer Leslie Stahl of 60 Minutes when she asked, “What’s your priority in your second term?” In fact, Trump answered her: “The priority now is to get back to normal,
Ex-Biden business associate Tony Bobulinski recently came forward and provided damning information on the Biden family, specifically how they went behind his back and did a shady $5 million deal with the Chinese energy company CEFC.On Saturday, Bobulinski texted Joe Biden's brother, Jim Biden, about going behind his back.“You can imagine by shock when reading the report yesterday put out by the Senate committee. The fact that you and HB [Hunter Biden] were lying to Rob, James and I while accepting $5 MM from Cefc is infuriating,” Bobulinski texted to Jim Biden on Whatsapp.“Looks like they are looking under every rock relative to CEFC and Dong.
Kamala Harris was caught on a hot mic asking an aide which city she was in — just before she addressed a campaign rally in Cleveland. The vice-president candidate is heard asking the bizarre question to an assistant in a clip that circulated widely on social media and retweeted by Eric Trump. On the hot mic she says: "Are we in Cleveland?" When the aide confirms she is, the Democratic vice presidential candidate says: "Hey, Cleveland, it’s Kamala!" Harris spoke at a campaign rally at Cuyahoga Community College on Saturday and urged Clevelanders to vote for Joe Biden. During her
She made fashion history with her iconic ensembles in the 70s and 80s. And Cher used her impeccable dress sense to draw attention on Saturday, as she campaigned for presidential candidate, Joe Biden, and vice presidential candidate, Kamala Harris, at an early vote rally. The singer, 74, looked sensational as she grabbed the mic and took centre stage at a shopping centre in Las Vegas, Nevada. Cher emphasised her slender silhouette with a sparkling metallic jacket which perfectly complemented her silver manicure. The singing superstar paired her jacket with slim-fitting black trousers, a printed tee, and a glittery sequin scarf
An analysis piece in the Washington Post stated journalists should treat the leaked emails allegedly recovered from Hunter Biden’s laptop as a foreign disinformation campaign, even if the claim lacks evidence.“Take a step back, and the Russian interference of 2016 holds valuable lessons on what to do and what not to do in 2020,” wrote Thomas Rid in the Washington Post under the paper's "Perspective" section. “We must treat the Hunter Biden leaks as if they were a foreign intelligence operation — even if they probably aren’t.”“What an incredible admission in the Washington Post, wow. The hubris it must take to issue journalistic marching orders this contrived in full view
Joe Biden campaigned in Pennsylvania on Saturday and in three separate interviews by local media, was pressed about his comments during the debate about wanting to “transition” from fossil fuels to wind and solar power. He was also closely questioned about his views on fracking, that he still has trouble answering.
This has become a genuine issue in Pennsylvania, an energy-producing state with tens of thousands of jobs in the industry.
Fox News:
“Look I’m from Scranton, Pennsylvania. My great grandfather was a mining engineer. So I come from coal country. And I’m not talking about eliminating fracking, I just said no more fracking on federal lands,” Biden told CBS Philadelphia.
The archbishop of Portland, Oregon, performed the rite of exorcism last week over the city that has been roiled with continuous unrest since the death of George Floyd in May.
Archbishop Alexander Sample, who has served as the archbishop of Portland since 2013, held a Eucharistic procession through the city last weekend and also prayed over it the “Exorcism Against Satan and the Fallen Angels” from the Roman Ritual, according to the Catholic News Agency.
“I wasn’t trying to suggest that I think the city of Portland is possessed,” Sample later explained, according to local CBS affiliate KOIN.
A parade of people backing President Trump on Saturday crashed Democratic nominee Joe Biden's drive-in rally in Bristol, Pa.
The former vice president called the band of Trump supporters parked outside his rally "chumps" while addressing the crowd. “I’m running as a proud Democrat, but I will govern as an American president," he said. "I’ll work as hard for those who don’t support me as those who do, including those chumps with the microphone out there. Look, that’s the job of the president. The duty to care for everyone. The duty to heal."
Millionaire owner of iconic Strand Book
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Store in NYC pleads with public for help
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An iconic New York City bookstore is asking the public to save it from financial ruin brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic even though it is owned by a multimillionaire wife of a US senator who recently bought at least $115,000 in Amazon stock and then got a PPP loan while laying off workers.
Strand Book Store, the 93-year-old institution where customers often get lost in the 18 miles of some 2.5 million new, used, and rare books (Snip) tweeted a dramatic statement pleading for help from the public.
But outraged Twitter users noted that the store’s owner, Nancy Bass Wyden, the wife of Senator Ron Wyden, a Democrat from Oregon,
A group of leading Hasidic (‘ultra-Orthodox’) Jewish Rabbis have signed and released a letter effusively praising Donald Trump for his support for religious freedom, particularly in light of government shutdowns.(Snip) “You have given a powerful voice to what all good people know beyond any doubt: that now, more than ever, we must turn to Almighty G-d, fortifying our faith and staying true to our values in the face of these current tribulations,” continued the rabbis. “You understand, Mr. President, that it is our faith in G-d that will keep us strong and lift us out of this calamity,” wrote the rabbis.
China’s Communist Party is backing the
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Communism is very much alive and well in China. The tactics of concentration camps and big lies sponsored by a corrupt nomenklatura killing each other for political power are the staples of communism. The tactic of embracing capitalism temporarily to save communism from its own incompetence was previewed by Lenin’s New Economic Policy in the 1920’s. The flocks of western intellectuals, academics and businessmen, that embraced Soviet communism in the 20th century have been replaced by a new generation, similarly duped, or compromised, except that the object of their affection is communist China rather than Russia. The demonization of U.S. police as racists
The Strand Bookstore needs your help. A staple of New York City that was founded in 1927 by the late Benjamin Bass, the indie bookshop is in danger of closing due to the current conditions caused by the on-going pandemic. Current owner Nancy Bass Wyden sent out a call for help on Friday, stating in an open letter shared on the store's social media pages that "The Strand's revenue has dropped nearly 70 percent compared to last year." "And while the loan we were given and our cash reserves allowed us to weather the past eight months of losses," she
A Manhattan march to encourage voter turnout turned sour when a few participants beat and tried to rob a bystander who quarreled with them, cops said Sunday. Three participants in the Plus 1 Vote march along Central Park West assaulted the bystander, who was walking his dog, and tried to steal his cellphone near W. 67th St. around 3:45 p.m. Saturday, cops said. The victim, 40, started the argument with the demonstrators but was sucker-punched in the head, cops said. Two demonstrators continued to beat him as he lay on the ground, police sad. A third demonstrator tried to take
During the Democratic primaries earlier this year, voters who cast early ballots for Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar in Super Tuesday states found out the hard way that early voting can be dangerous. Both candidates dropped out before Super Tuesday, and voters who cast ballots for them couldn’t do anything about it. They couldn’t revote. The only state that allowed voters to change their ballots was Minnesota, but the deadline had already passed.
Scenarios like this should have been the nail in the coffin for early voting. But the pandemic raised concerns about in-person voting for many and has caused a huge surge
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is getting grilled in Pennsylvania ever since he said during last week’s debate that he plans to “transition” away from the oil industry. In three separate local news interviews in the key battleground state on Saturday, Biden responded to questions about his comment, as well as his mixed messages regarding fracking. “Look I'm from Scranton, Pennsylvania. My great grandfather was a mining engineer. So I come from coal country. And I'm not talking about eliminating fracking, I just said no more fracking on federal lands,” Biden told CBS Philadelphia. “With regard to gas, oil, coal all of it, the transition is taking place
A 61-year-old homeless man with a lengthy rap sheet was hit with a slew of charges Sunday over a huge blaze at his ex-girlfriend’s East Harlem apartment building that left several injured, according to police. Willie Manning is accused of sparking Saturday’s inferno at the six-story building on East 135th Street and Fifth Avenue after allegedly barricading himself in to avoid being taken in for violating an order of protection.
Seven people, including two cops, were injured and taken to Harlem Hospital and Mount Sinai Morningside, the FDNY said, with photos showing an officer carrying a baby in a diaper near the building.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the General Services Administration (GSA) undermined the Trump transition team by violating a memorandum of understanding between the Trump transition team and the GSA - when they complied with requests from the FBI and special counsel Robert Mueller's office to provide private records on members of Trump's team, according to a Senate report released on Friday.(Snip)"These actions have called into question the GSA’s role as a neutral service provider, and those doubts have consequences,”(Snip) "Future presidential transition teams must have confidence that their use of government resources and facilities for internal communications and deliberations (Snip)will not expose them to exploitation by third parties,
When Joe Biden entered the presidential race, he did so because he said he wants to bring back civility and unite Americans. However, as we see regularly, Biden has anger management issues. He lashes out at President Trump and his supporters in a way that is neither civil nor unifying. Saturday during a drive-in rally in Pennsylvania, Biden had a real “basket of deplorables” moment. Biden’s campaign strategy consists of doing interviews with local news markets and random podcasts while remaining in his basement as much as possible. There is little interaction with journalists assigned to cover his campaign.
The Black Lives Matter mural outside Trump Tower has been vandalized yet again—with a black substance smeared through the middle of the bright yellow sign in the early hours Sunday. Photos show black paint or tar stretching the full length of the contentious sign outside President Trump’s iconic home on Fifth Avenue. It was believed to have been left by protesters who suddenly opened the back doors of a van and poured it on around 12.20 a.m., police sources said. The mural—one of many in high-location sites across the country in support of the protest group—has repeatedly been vandalized
Feeling Pushed Towards Trump
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I write about my feelings not because I’m going to tidy up the loose ends at the conclusion with a neatly reasoned-out policy recommendation, but because I think I am not alone in feeling this way, and so I think my current feelings are pertinent to the public discourse. Here is the feeling I am having: I am a never-Trumper who is probably going to vote for Trump.
The Decepticon senator from Alaska, Lisa Murkowski, is the Nikki Haley of the senate. After voting against Judge Kavanaugh, today, sensing the danger, she changes her position on Judge Amy Coney Barrett.
Knowing she would likely be kicked out of office by Alaska voters for blocking the second conservative Trump nominee to the Supreme Court, Murkowski switches her position and announces she will vote to support Judge Amy Coney Barrett next week.
“I believe that the only way to put us back on the path of appropriate consideration of judicial nominees is to evaluate Judge Barrett as we would want to be judged: on the merits of her qualifications,
The ninth century seems to have experienced a warmer climate, which has been called the Medieval Warm Period.
But from the 14th century things were different. It rained "without stopping" in 1315, and grain didn’t ripen. The situation was much the same the following year. Later in the 14th century there were several episodes of wild weather and cold periods.
The Little Ice Age can be divided into two phases, according to an article in The New Yorker. It began with a cooling period in 1300 - 1400. The coldest period was from the end of the 1500s to 1850.
On September 11, 2001, United Airlines Flight 93’s passengers defied armed hijackers and fought to take over the cockpit regardless of danger or odds because they realized that certain death was the alternative. Michael Anton’s 2016 essay “The Flight 93 Election,” written for the Claremont Review of Books and later expanded into a book, argued that although Americans did not know what kind of president Donald Trump would be, they should risk all to elect him because they could be very sure that the alternative would be our republic’s death.
In his new book, The Stakes: America at the Point of No Return,
LAREDO, Texas — A U.S. Border Patrol agent investigating suspected human smuggling with other agents in Texas fatally shot a person driving a vehicle carrying people believed to be in the country illegally, federal officials said Saturday.
Border Patrol agents, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials and the Webb County constable’s office had stopped a semi in Laredo Friday and found several people inside the trailer, according to a statement from Customs and Border Protection spokesperson Rick Pauza.
Here in Middle America, there are small towns where going a couple of miles per hour over the speed limit will get you stopped by the town’s lone police officer. These “speed traps” are dotted throughout the region as, many times, a significant portion of a town’s revenue comes from issuing these tickets. Now, the entire city of Chicago will become one, gigantic speed trap. Mayor Lori Lightfoot is going to rig traffic cameras to automatically issue tickets for residents going just 6 MPH over the posted speed limit. Correction*
Prices at New York City hotels have plunged as the hospitality industry continues to try and grapple with the effects of the global pandemic.
Some hotels, like the Midtown Hilton, have remained closed since March. Others, like the Pierre, are operating in limited capacity. Those that are open for business have slashed prices by more than 60%, according to a new writeup by AlJazeera.
The Rays eked out a dramatic 8-7 walk-off win over the Dodgers in Game 4 of the World Series on Saturday night to tie the best-of-seven Fall Classic at 2-2 (box score). Reserve outfielder Brett Phillips notched a game-tying single in the ninth off Dodgers closer Kenley Jansen, and Randy Arozarena was also able to score on an error by center fielder Chris Taylor and then a mishandled throw by L.A. catcher Will Smith.
It had already been a wild game before one of the wildest culminations to a World Series game in living memory came along. Here's a look at the final play:
Biden’s most revealing gaffe yet
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Joe Biden has a well-deserved reputation as a gaffe machine, but an offhand comment yesterday in Pennsylvania while addressing a parking lot with a few cars in it, tells us exactly what we need to know about him at this precise moment.
Hillary Clinton’s notorious “basket of deplorables” slur about those who supported Trump has become immortal (snip) Joe’s insult does even more blowback damage to him.
Watch as Biden refers to those who oppose him as “chumps” (and coughs into his hand – don’t shake hands with him, folks, ever) (snip) Snobbery is bad, no doubt, but openly characterizing common folk (aka, the voters) as chumps reveals felonious intent.
When you get to make the rules, they always favor you. Parents can do things they forbid their kids from doing, bosses can take long lunches while insisting you not return late, and politicians can take pay-offs while…actually, there isn’t much of a private sector equivalent for that one. The word “bribe” has an obvious, legal meaning that, through a few tricks built into the system by the politicians who wrote the laws, helps them avoid breaking them while taking what amounts to bribes. Correction*
In the final days before the election, Joe Biden holds significant advantages in polling and fundraising over President Trump along with myriad options for a party desperate not to repeat the mistakes of 2016 but also tantalized by a potential “blue wave.” Mr. Biden’s campaign believes he is in a position to reclaim traditionally Democratic ground and expand the map, potentially running up the Electoral College score in purple and even red-leaning states. Correction*
Momentum: Trump
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Whatever political momentum Joe Biden might have had going into the final debate, President Trump drank it right up on live TV. By the time it was over, Old Joe looked drained and confused, and the prez stood smiling like a kid slurping up every last drop of dessert before ordering seconds.
Biden must have been thinking, "How did I get here?" Or rather, "How is it that this guy is still kicking my butt? I've got all the news corporations working on my behalf. Facebook and Twitter are actively censoring information that makes me look bad. The DOJ is still covering up the Russia hoax.
Some people who have seen the hastily hatched post-COVID voter rules in Democrat states know there are some serious ballot shenanigans going on this election. Now, Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden has wittingly – or unwittingly – confirmed it. You just never know with Joe.
Was he misspeaking or just opening his mouth and removing the filter between his brain and mouth? Was it a Joe Bidenesque Freudian slip sniff?
Biden was holding a rare campaign event – via video – when he boastfully proclaimed that his campaign operates “the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics.”
In much the same way that dinosaurs miniaturized to today’s birds, the ancient Democrat solons and media have devolved from positions of respect and power to starlings, annoyingly chirping and scattering guano from their perches. (Snip) This week, fully aware of its partisan, sensationalized, and dishonest reporting, the president, in advance of its airing of a Leslie Stahl interview of him, did what every conservative ought to: He filmed the entire unedited interview and made it public
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6. Meet America's New College Professors: Disgraced FBI Agent Peter Strzok and Beto O'Rourke | Campus Reform
Peter Strzok, whom the FBI canned for sending anti-Trump texts to lover and coworker Lisa Page, is now an adjunct professor of counterintelligence and national security at Georgetown. And who better to teach political science than failed Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke, who will join the ranks at Texas State University this spring?
A vote for Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and his running mate Kamala Harris is a vote for communism. There’s no other way to paint it.
From Orlando just the other day, a jubilant Harris took the stage to scream, “Justice is on the ballot in 2020. Economic justice is on the ballot in 2020. Climate justice is on the ballot in 2020. Health care justice is on the ballot in 2020. Reproductive justice is on the ballot in 2020. Criminal justice reform is on the ballot in 2020.”
This is the language of communists. This is the rhetoric of communist revolutionaries trying to jumpstart an uprising against corrupt, mismanaged, tyrannical government.
GTV, a Chinese dissident billionaire’s Taiwan-based media outlet, is releasing sordid, depressing videos and photographs of a person purported to be Hunter Biden engaging in sex and seemingly smoking crack. That’s not the big news. The big news is that the same outlet claims that (a) Communist China owns Joe Biden; (b) Joe Biden sold out CIA assets in China who were then executed or imprisoned; and (c) GTV has millions of images showing other presumably influential people in comprising positions. If all this is true, we may see a complete realignment in Western politics.
The Hunter Biden videos and images are at GTV’s video site.
The media tackled what was happening in the summer and fall of 2016 like the third-string of the New York Jets. They blew it. They whiffed. They could not conceive of a Donald Trump victory, and so they portrayed this event as a near-impossibility. To their credit, they admitted it, and they vowed to do better next time.
“If I have a mea culpa for journalists and journalism, it’s that we’ve got to do a much better job of being on the road, out in the country, talking to different kinds of people than the people we talk to … and remind ourselves that New York is not the real world,”
Perhaps the most moving words uttered during Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation hearings were spoken by Senator Lindsey Graham, the chairman of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee.
“I have never been more proud of a nominee than I am of you,” Graham told Judge Barrett. He emphasized that with her nomination the American public were witnessing an unprecedented moment in U.S. history. “And, this is history being made, folks. This is the first time in American history that we’ve nominated a woman who’s unashamedly pro-life, and embraces her faith without apology.”
Graham realized that this historic moment will not be celebrated by mainstream media or cultural elites, whose ideological inclinations have seldom
If the election were held today, Joe Biden would probably win. But there are strong signs that the race is much, much closer than you’d think from the news coverage. Donald Trump has a real shot at being reelected.
First, the president is actually more popular now than on the day he was elected. Yes, that’s right. His personal favorability rating around election day in 2016 was 37.5%. Now, it is 43.2%. There are, in fact, hundreds of thousands of Americans (if not millions) who have grown fonder of Trump.
We all know it’s not about the popular vote so let’s disregard nationwide polls that have Biden ahead by double digits.
The Big Guy Strikes Out
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You can think long and hard about who might have been a better candidate for the Democrats, but as bad as Biden is, and as badly as he got beaten in Thursday’s debate, you’ll come up empty.
Biden was their only chance. Joe Biden’s installation by the Democrat establishment places into stark relief the absolute glut of losers currently parading the Democrat Socialists into electoral perdition. Now, with the Biden corruption meter falling hard into the danger zone, it must be asked: What did the Democrat strategists who foisted this fading senior citizen into the top slot know and when did they know it?
“We’ll have a big, beautiful party at the end,” Donald Trump promised today in announcing two moves in the Middle East. Trump ordered the removal of Sudan from the State Department list of terror sponsors after the new government adopted US requirements, and ponied up over $300 million in a fund for terror victims. In return for that consideration, Sudan agreed to work with Israel on normalized ties as part of the Abraham Accord process, although it’s not immediately clear just how far those negotiations have already gone:
Jerry Jeff Walker, a country singer-songwriter known for penning the hit "Mr. Bojangles," has died. He was 78.
Walker's death was confirmed to Fox News on Saturday by his former publicist, John T. Davis.
Davis said Walker died Friday after a battle with throat cancer and related ailments "for several years."
Walker was best known for "Mr. Bojangles," which he wrote after meeting a black street performer in a New Orleans drunk tank in 1965, according to an obituary obtained by Fox News.
Senate Democrats were stuck.
There was never much they could do to sidetrack the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett for the Supreme Court.
They could complain about the process, contending Republicans went back on their word.
They could blame their favorite foil.
“(Senate Majority Leader Mitch) McConnell is angry. Why? Because we Democrats have exposed that he has defiled the Senate as an institution, more than any other person in this generation,” thundered Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. They could invoke the ghost of Merrick Garland.
Democrats could cite Senate precedent.
Joe Biden called Donald Trump supporters 'chumps' when they tried to crash his drive-by Pennsylvania rally Saturday morning as he defended its small size and made a thinly veiled dig at the president saying he doesn't want his events to be 'superspreaders'. The Democratic candidate vowed to 'take back our democracy' and insisted he would protect Pennsylvania jobs by creating 'millions' of green energy jobs, as he told supporters the election could be won or lost by the state.Biden made his first of two stops in his native state Saturday at Bucks County Community College, in Bucks County, Bristol, as the two hopefuls ramp up their campaign trail
Chelsea Handler responded to ex-boyfriend rapper 50 Cent’s perceived endorsement of President Trump by scolding him and “reminding him that he was black.”
“I had to remind him that he was a black person, so he can’t vote for Donald Trump,” the comedian and television personality told Jimmy Fallon on Friday night in response to 50 Cent’s viral social media post knocking Joe Biden’s tax plan. “If he denounces Trump, I might be willing to go for another spin, if you know what I’m talking about.” [Tweet]
“Hey f---er!” Handler tweeted to 50 Cent, legally known as Curtis Jackson.
A wave of voters searched 'can you change your vote' following the final presidential debate marking the most times it's been searched this election campaign, according to Sky News contributor Lauren Southern.
The election campaign is hitting its final stretch with less than ten days in the battle for the presidency.
Democratic candidate Joe Biden still has a significant lead in all national polls and in many key state-wide polls, but the President's campaign has kicked into gear since recovering from Covid-19.
President Trump was considered to have performed much better than in the first debate, showing more restraint than in his previous encounter with Mr. Biden.
A new campaign advertisement takes aim at Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden in a satirical play on the hit 1980s movie “Weekend at Bernie’s.”An actor portraying a seemingly lifeless Biden is carted around by aides in a nod to the original comedy film about two men who pretend their dead boss is still alive so they can enjoy his luxury home over a weekend stay. The ad, titled, “Weekend at Biden’s,” was released by a conservative PAC on the night of the final presidential debate. (Video) “So let me get this straight. Less than a month to Election Day and this is our candidate?” A female “aide” asked