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As the phony January 6th Committee lies away and some RINOs begin to hedge their bets, sources say President Trump is poised to make a big announcementDue to the lying January 6th Committee’s continued unfounded (and unpopular) attack on President Trump, coupled with many RINOs such as Maryland Governor Larry Hogan and former Vice President Mike Pence being rumored to run in 2024, many Republican strategists anticipate President Trump announcing his bid for 2024 early–by November of this year.Although he has not declared his intent yet but instead said only that he is “close” to making a decision, those close...

#FoodShortage 🚨 (10,000 cattle die in a Kansas ranch. They’re blaming a “Heat Wave” (Climate Change). They all die due to WATER POISING. They are creating a Food Crisis in #USA)

On Sunday Peebles told Neil Cavuto that Trump is poised to win. Don Peebles: "On the Republican side for president, governors, Donald Trump, so you got people who know how to manage things. New York City is an example of what you can get with incompetent management. Neil Cavuto: Ted Cruz said he (Donald Trump) can win the whole thing if he wins in Iowa. What do you think of that? Can he go on to win it all? wrote Don Peebles: Oh, I think Donald Trump is poised to win it all.

DETROIT — The last time there was a white mayor of Detroit, the Vietnam War was just ending and the nation was getting used to a Supreme Court decision called Roe vs. Wade. But now this city, which is in the midst of a trial to determine whether it is eligible for bankruptcy protection, is set to elect its first white mayor since 1974, Mike Duggan, and by an overwhelming margin. Recent polls show Duggan up by a nearly 2-1 margin over his opponent, Wayne County Sheriff Benny Napoleon, in a city that is 82% African American.

President Obama told an audience of high school students in Texas on Thursday that the economy is "poised for progress" after clearing away the rubble of economic crisis. OBAMA: Our deficits are falling at the fastest rate in years. But now we’ve got to budget in a smarter way so it doesn’t hurt middle-class families or prevent us from making the critical investments that we need for your future. So a lot of sectors of our economy are doing better. The American auto industry is thriving. American energy is booming. American ingenuity and our tech sector continues to be the...

LOS ANGELES -- A tiny San Jose solar company named SoloPower will flip the switch on production at a U.S. factory Thursday, a major step toward allowing it to tap a $197 million government loan guarantee awarded under the same controversial program that supported failed panel maker Solyndra. SoloPower has initiated a strategy to differentiate it from struggling commodity players in the solar panel industry. Still, there are several similarities between SoloPower and Fremont-based Solyndra -- which became a lightning rod in the U.S. Presidential campaign this year after taking in more than $500 million in government loans and then...

The Senate this evening is poised to vote on a defense authorization bill that includes a provision which not only repeals the military law on sodomy, but also repeals the military ban on sex with animals--or bestiality. On Nov. 15, the Senate Armed Services Committee unanimously approved S. 1867, the National Defense Authorization Act, which includes a provision to repeal Article 125 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ). Article 125 of the UCMJ makes it illegal to engage in both sodomy with humans and sex with animals.

Reporting from Washington - With healthcare legislation mired in partisanship, "tea party" activists on the march and GOP leadership dominated by conservatives, Capitol Hill looks like a parched landscape for the withered moderate wing of the Republican Party. But green shoots are sprouting in Washington and on the campaign trail. A small band of Republican moderates in the Senate broke a logjam on jobs legislation. They added to their ranks with the arrival of another New England Republican, Scott Brown. And several moderate Republicans are in a good position to win Senate seats in November. Rep. Michael N. Castle, one...

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (Reuters) – A protege of outgoing President Oscar Arias could be elected Costa Rica's first woman head of state on Sunday, though a conservative rival has upped his challenge ahead of the election. Opinion polls show ruling party centrist Laura Chinchilla, who has promised to expand Costa Rica's free trade pacts beyond the Western Hemisphere, within striking distance of the 40 percent of the vote needed to avoid a second round run-off. A late surge by libertarian Otto Guevara, who wants to replace the local currency with the U.S. dollar and crack down on rising crime,...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama's plan to fight the U.S. economic recession with $825 billion in emergency spending and tax cuts was expected to pass on Wednesday in a divided House of Representatives. Working closely with Obama, who says he is open to changes to the plan, the House began a full day of debate on one of the most expensive single bills ever considered by Congress. Most House Republicans were planning to oppose the legislation. They will offer a competing plan, which is expected to fail, that would scrap the Democrats' hundreds of billions of dollars in spending...

NASA managers today cleared the shuttle Atlantis and its crew for blastoff Dec. 6 on a long-awaited flight to attach the European Space Agency's Columbus research lab to the international space station. With commander Steve Frick and pilot Alan Poindexter at the controls, Atlantis is scheduled to lift off from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center at 4:31:44 p.m. next Thursday, roughly the moment when Earth's rotation carries the launch pad into the plane of the space station's orbit. "We have had three outstanding flights of the space shuttle so far this year and we're looking forward to a...

HARRISBURG, Pa. Pennsylvania is poised to adopt pollution standards that would require new cars to be cleaner-burning a year from now and put the state in lockstep with California's efforts to impose even more stringent requirements by 2009. Smog-reduction rules expected to be adopted for the 2008 model year would have little or no impact on the price of cars or the way they drive, state and industry officials say. But more stringent greenhouse-gas reductions being sought by California on 2009 model-year cars would result in higher car prices, though advocates and opponents disagree about the amount. Automakers also say...

WASHINGTON – Cold remedies that can be used by drug dealers to make methamphetamine would be forced behind store counters under legislation Congress is poised to pass by year's end. Lawmakers hope that federal restrictions – included in the agreement reached Thursday to reauthorize the USA Patriot Act – will stem a meth trade that has hit rural America particularly hard. A number of states have already moved to curb the sale of cold pills containing pseudoephedrine, the ingredient used to cook meth in makeshift labs. The federal law would prevent meth makers from moving to states with weaker laws....

WASHINGTON – Nestled in the energy bill that Congress approved last week is perhaps the most tangible evidence yet that nuclear power, long shunned by many as a dangerous energy source, is on the verge of a comeback. The broad energy plan includes billions of federal dollars to jump-start production of nuclear reactors. The incentives, from tax breaks to loan guarantees, come at a time when soaring oil prices and increasing public concern about global warming have forced even some leading environmentalists to rethink their opposition to nuclear power as a cleaner, cheaper alternative to traditional fossil fuels. "Nuclear (power),...

US marines poised to crush Najaf revolt By Adrian Blomfield in Baghdad (Filed: 12/08/2004) US marines were poised last night to launch a final assault on militants loyal to the rebel cleric Moqtada al-Sadr as they sought to recapture Najaf, the centre of a bloody Shia insurgency engulfing southern Iraq. As British troops fought fierce battles with militants in Amara and Basra, American commanders warned the rebel forces they were ready to crush the revolt in Najaf after a week of fierce fighting. Mahdi militiamen on the offensive in Najaf "Iraqi and US forces are making final preparations as we...

Al-Qa'ida may be poised to attack, US warns By Andrew Buncombe in Washington 26 October 2003 Concern about a terror attack occurring in Saudi Arabia, possibly imminently, was growing yesterday as the United States issued a warning that it could happen as early as today. "The embassy continues to receive information that terrorist groups within the kingdom are still active and planning operations," the US embassy in Riyadh said. "It is [our] assessment that terrorist groups may place special operational significance on Ramadan, and American citizens are therefore urged to be particularly vigilant." The US warning follows similar announcements by...

<p>SACRAMENTO – California government is poised to spend up to 3.1 percent more this year over last year - despite the biggest budget deficit in history.</p> <p>How is this possible? Through a lot more borrowing and deferred payments, according to an analysis of the latest budget proposal prepared by the nonpartisan legislative analyst. The July 14 report obtained by The Orange County Register details how the state's reliance on borrowed money shrouds what is actually being spent.</p>

<p>Silicon Valley technology stocks, the source of much pain for investors during the past three years, finally may be breaking out of their slump and rising fast enough to spark the sluggish tech economy back to life.</p> <p>Sound implausibly optimistic?</p>

US poised to launch 'rolling attack' as reinforcements continue to arrive By Andrew Buncombe in Kuwait City 19 March 2003 British and American troops massing on the Iraqi border moved into forward positions yesterday in readiness for a military strike that could start as soon as tonight. Some soldiers were up before dawn, taking down tents and packing essential kit for the push north. Robert Vennebush, 25, an enthusiastic sergeant with a US army engineering unit, said: "Finally we're going somewhere. We're going to war." In another camp, soldiers from the US First Marine Division, which will lead the drive...