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Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL) Monday on FNC’s “Fox & Friends” that the Biden administration’s “blank check policy” on the war in Ukraine was not acceptable. DeSantis said, “They have effectively a blank check policy with no clear strategic objective identified, and these things can escalate. I don’t think it’s in our interest to be getting into a proxy war with China getting involved over things like the borderlands or over Crimea. So I think it would behoove them to identify what is the strategic objective that they are trying to achieve. But just saying it’s an open-ended blank check, that’s...

Ukraine’s defense minister is brushing off House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s (R-Calif.) recent comments that Republicans in the lower chamber will not write a “blank check” to Ukraine, chalking them up as campaign tactics. “Political statements from the so-called opposition right now in different countries just means that they continue their election campaigns, and I know they have to say something for their electorate trying to criticize the authorities of the moment,” Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov told Politico in an interview.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said that House Republicans will not write “a blank check” to Ukraine if House Republicans take control of the chamber next year, marking one of the clearest signs that aid to the war-torn country fighting off Russian invasion will face a much tougher road in a GOP-led House. “I think people are gonna be sitting in a recession and they’re not going to write a blank check to Ukraine. They just won’t do it,” McCarthy, who hopes to become Speaker if Republicans win the midterms, told Punchbowl News in an interview published Tuesday.

According to the results of the forensic audit, Maricopa County counted 9,589 excess mail-in ballots with bad or no signatures, approving and verifying blank votes.Dr Shiva Ayyadurai gave the first presentation of the Maricopa County forensic audit to the Arizona Senate. Ayyadurai’s analysis focused on the mail-in ballot envelopes sent to Maricopa County. During the presentation, Ayyadurai explained that the audit examined the signature area of the ballots, and compared them to the official canvass results that Maricopa County gave in their report. When using signature presence detection analysis, the audit found an excess of 9,589 votes with signatures that...

Thousands of US flags have been placed at the National Mall in honor of the nearly 200,000 Americans who were not able to be present for the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris. The display, which is called the 'Field of Flags,' is comprised of 191,500 US flags and 56 pillars of light. Images taken on Monday showed the flags carefully placed in rows near the US Capitol. The flags are representative of the Americans who cannot travel to Washington, DC, to attend the inauguration in person due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The world's wealthiest people can, and often do, surround themselves with bodyguards, travel in armored cars with bullet-proof glass and live within well-guarded fortresses. Still, no one is completely immune to murderous plots -- not even billionaires. ... snip]

The e-mail server used by Hillary Rodham Clinton when she served as secretary of state was turned over to the FBI late Wednesday afternoon from a private data center in New Jersey, according to an attorney familiar with the transfer. “It was picked up about 4 p.m.,” said Barbara J. Wells, a Denver lawyer who represents Platte River Networks Inc., a small computer services firm that has managed the Clintons’ private e-mail system since mid-2013. Wells said her client was contacted by the FBI, which expressed interest in obtaining the old server. The FBI did not have a search warrant...

The FBI has taken possession of the personal e-mail server used by Hillary Clinton during her tenure as secretary of state, according to a published report. Barbara Wells, an attorney for Denver-based computer services firm Platte River Networks, told The Washington Post that federal agents picked up the server from a private data center in New Jersey Wednesday afternoon. The attorney told the paper that the server "was blank" and no longer contained useful information. ADVERTISEMENT "The information had been migrated over to a different server for purposes of transition," Wells told the paper. "To my knowledge the data on...

No longer a blank slate: Obama, 4 years laterBy JERRY SCHWARTZ, Associated Press – 1 day ago Nearly four years after Barack Obama was elected to the most powerful office in the most powerful country in the world, the question remains: Who is he? He seemed to come out of nowhere. He had served seven years in the Illinois Senate, and less than four years in the U.S. Senate — a meager political resume, augmented by a stirring speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. His was an exotic story, at least by the standards of the 42 white men...

900 freakin channels and fox news is the only one with a black screen...What's up with that? ANYONE ELSE HAVE THIS?

For several minutes now, nothing but a white screen. Same for you guys? I am loged in. This is series. I did refersh.

DeMaurice Smith, NFL Players Association chief, urged the league to nix Rush Limbaugh's participation in a consortium to buy the St Louis Rams. Buying Al Sharpton's hype that Limbaugh is a racist, Smith whined that football is at its best "when it overcomes division and rejects discrimination and hatred." But who are the discriminators and haters here? Sharpton blocked Limbaugh like Governor Orval Faubus tried to block black children from entering Central High in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957. Limbaugh can't make an investment because some don't like him? Based on something he did? No, based on who they allege...

Behold one of the new "Fairness" Doctrines - "media diversity" - coming soon to a radio station near you. President Barack Obama's Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has released the names of the thirty-one members of their Advisory Committee On Diversity For Communications In The Digital Age. This May 7 gathering is made up of a laundry list of left-wing grievance groups, with a smattering of radio and television companies included to break up the monotony. Not a single conservative organization is taking part in this Commission - more than a dozen Leftist groups are. A little ironic for a "diversity"...

I just watched one of the most brazen attempts to grab moeny taht I have seen to date. Ms. Blnco says she wants FEMA to wipe her butt, or practically everythinbg up to that...

It is not often that I agree with what is in the San Francisco Gate (sfgate.com), but I will admit that I disagree with the Bush Administration regarding the federal government persuing obscenity charges like the one that is chronicled by Mark Sherman. According to Sherman, there have been forty federal obscenity convictions since W. took office, while there were only four under the eight years of Slick Willie. Alberto Gonzales, like John Ashcroft are not turning a blind eye like Janet Reno did.

MEXICO CITY (AP) -- A woman who fumbled a few phrases of Mexico's national anthem while singing the song before a soccer game in Guadalajara has been fined $40 for the blunder.

Coffee 'can make mind go blank' By Nic Fleming (Filed: 20/07/2004) Drinking coffee can cause tip-of-the-tongue moments when the brain struggles to retrieve information, according to a study. Caffeine, widely held to make people more alert, can make the mind go blank or struggle to switch between trains of thought. It can help the brain process information rapidly but interferes once the brain tries to switch between subjects, researchers claim. Volunteers were split into two groups, with one given 200 milligrams of caffeine - the equivalent of two cups of coffee. They then answered 100 questions after reading 10 "priming...

Astronomers have completed their most sensitive search yet for radio signals from intelligent life in space. They believe the best way to find ET is to look for a radio signal. Such signals can travel vast distances. The Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico, supported by Jodrell Bank, searched over a period of 10 years. The scientists looked at 800 nearby stars with no evidence of a signal from ET. They say they have learned a lot, and plan another search next year. From the ashes The last star scrutinised by Project Phoenix - the most powerful search for intelligent...

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