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by Ron Kersten The Sunday Night Football clash between the Rams and the Cowboys was supposed to halt the ratings crash the NFL has experienced so far in the 2020 season. Instead, it was a complete disaster -- nearly equaling the devastating ratings crash the NBA playoffs suffered after embracing the Marxist BLM movement. According to DEADLINE Hollywood, ratings for NBC’s only weekly NFL game, were down a shocking 28%. Putting on the two teams with big national followings, SNF snared a 4.7 in early ratings among adults 18-49 and 14.81 million viewers last night. In numbers certain to change, that’s a fall...

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77-year-old Joe Biden on Monday got attacked by a bug during his ‘climate change’ speech in Wilmington, Delaware. Biden delivered remarks on the wildfires ravaging western states and twisted himself into pretzel making the connection to climate change.

A panel of judges of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday to uphold the Trump administration's drawdown of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designations for a handful of countries, which allow more than 400,000 foreign nationals to live and work in the United States. The panel ruled to lift an injunction in a case filed by citizens of El Salvador, Nicaragua, Haiti and Sudan and their U.S.-citizen children against the Trump administration's management of TPS. Under Trump, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has acted to eliminate TPS designations, which allow citizens of certain countries to live and work...

Speaking exclusively to Townhall on a recent flight from Cleveland to Washington, D.C., Attorney General Bill Barr discussed the timing of U.S. Attorney John Durham's investigation into the FBI's Russia probe and efforts by the Department of Justice to ensure it remains non-political on the matter. "I've said that there are sort of two missions, I see it. One is to get to the bottom of what happened and get the facts out about that and we are going to do that and you know, try to be careful about that, that we don't do anything that would unduly interfere...

The Russian government on Monday said that over 250 Moscow residents have got the dose of its first Covid-19 vaccine, Sputnik V, over the past five days, according to a report. The vast majority of them are in good health, the anti-coronavirus crisis centre told reporters today. "Over the past five days of clinical trials of the vaccine against the coronavirus infection over 250 Moscow residents got inoculated at the seven centres that opened first. Doctors closely monitor the health condition of the vaccinated. The absolute majority is in excellent health - 75% of the participants today do not observe...

Oklahoma state Sen. Stephanie Bice (R) leads Rep. Kendra Horn (D-OK) in the race for Oklahoma’s fifth congressional district. SoonerPoll.com, Oklahoma’s public polling firm, released a poll this week that found that 44.8 percent of Oklahoma likely voters in the district would vote for Bice, whereas 44.2 percent would vote for Horn, and 11 percent remain undecided. --SNIP-- Oklahoma’s fifth district represents one of the pivotal swing districts ahead of the 2020 congressional elections and could decide whether Republicans regain the House in November. President Donald Trump won Oklahoma’s fifth congressional district during the 2016 presidential election by more...

[Catholic Caucus] Germany: FSSP Hands Out Plate Communion (Video) During a September 13 Traditional Latin Mass celebrated by a priest of the Fraternity of St Peter (FSSP) in Saarlouis, Germany, Holy Communion was distributed by means of dessert plates. The masked celebrant placed plates on the Communion rail. He then put one consecrated host on each of them, and returned to the altar where he waited from a distance while the masked faithful approached the plates from the pews to take Communion. Communion was received with the tongue from the plate. After Communion, the priest returned to the Communion rail...

Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? this that is glorious in his apparel, travelling in the greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save. Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the winefat? I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment. For the day of...

An Oregon man was charged with using a Molotov cocktail to start a brush blaze in the wildfire-devastated state — then busted again just hours later for allegedly going back and starting six more, cops said.

The Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department said protesters attempted to block and enter the hospital where two shot deputies were taken. “To the protesters blocking the entrance & exit of the HOSPITAL EMERGENCY ROOM yelling ‘We hope they die’ referring to 2 LA Sheriff’s ambushed today in #Compton: DO NOT BLOCK EMERGENCY ENTRIES & EXITS TO THE HOSPITAL. People’s lives are at stake when ambulances can’t get through,” the department wrote on Twitter. A person who captured footage of the hospital incident in Los Angeles showed activists near the facility. “I want to deliver a message to the family of the...

Pizza is always there for you. At your eighth birthday party with all your friends and that clown, it was there for you. During your late-night college cram sesh, it was there for you. After a long day of work, a hot cheesy slice was there to comfort you — and maybe a bottle of wine too. Pizza is a staple of American meals, which means it’s pretty easy to come across. It can sometimes feel like there is a pizzeria around every corner, but there’s just something about a great pizza. Here is where to find the 101 best...

Cardinal Parolin: Vatican and China Have ‘Common Intentions’ to Renew Agreement Observers say the contentious deal will likely continue on a provisional basis. VATICAN CITY — The Holy See and China intend to renew their provisional agreement on the appointment of bishops, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican Secretary of State, said Monday. The agreement, which is subject to revision this month, will expire in October, the cardinal said, but added that the common intentions are to continue with its renewal, the Italian news agency ANSA reported. Cardinal Parolin, who spearheaded talks that led to the agreement on Sept. 22,...

Sharon Stone says that looks matter. “You don’t even realize how much [looks] matter until they start to go,” Stone, who stars in the new Netflix drama “Ratched,” a prequel to “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” told the Telegraph in a newly released interview. It’s a “big, fat stupid lie if anyone says that they don’t,” the Beverly Hills resident says. That’s why Stone, 62, is disciplined about maintaining her trim physique, despite COVID-19 restrictions.

Wisconsin’s attorney general seeks to rob the state’s citizens of their sovereignty. He is trying to grab power that does not belong to him and wants to make mischief while avoiding oversight. This lawless behavior — aimed today at Wisconsin’s farmers and tomorrow at small towns — must be checked. The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources and Attorney General Josh Kaul oppose a number of Wisconsin farmers in a legal dispute that focuses on high-capacity wells. The specific questions in that dispute are whether Wisconsin farmers can use high-capacity wells and under what conditions. (A high-capacity well is one that...

The assistant secretary of public affairs at the Department of Health and Human Services claims that government scientists are seditious and that the country should prepare for an armed revolt after the election. The New York Times reports that Michael Caputo has alleged that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is harboring a “resistance unit” that has a goal of undermining President Donald Trump. He claimed scientists “deep in the bowels of the CDC have given up science and become political animals.” He has no evidence that the alleged resistance unit exists or that an armed revolt will take...

President Trump for a second day in row aimed criticism at Matt Drudge and The Drudge Report on Monday, claiming all of his supporters had abandoned the pioneering conservative news aggregator. “Our people have all left Drudge. He is a confused MESS, has no clue what happened,” Trump tweeted Monday. “Down 51%. @DRUDGE They like REVOLVER and others!” It was unclear what the 51 percent figure referenced, but on Sunday Trump tweeted a blog post claiming traffic to The Drudge Report had declined 40 percent.

Even before the violent Black Lives Matter/Antifa riots took center stage over the summer after the death of George Floyd, many on the right were calling on Democrats and their diehard supporters on the far left to cool it with the anti-police rhetoric. The concern was that their constant bashing of law enforcement officers before actual facts were known in high-profile cases was going to continue to have dangerous and deadly consequences for those who put their lives on the line every time they put on their uniforms and badges. Unfortunately, Democrats – most notably those in positions of power...

H/T to my friend Ed Morrisey over at HotAir for this story calling attention to what seem to be some unmistakable shifting in polls away from the models that produced wide margins of victory for Democrats in the 2018 midterm election.I’m not a “polling guy”. If you want expert polling analysis, I recommend my colleague here at Red State Scott Hounsell. But they are a curiosity for me, and the article from HotAir had some interesting nuggets of polling information. As reported in the NYT, recent polling shows some potential weakness for Joe Biden in a few key demographic groups...

This is the first part of our interview with the esteemed Professor Thomas Borody, which covers the following aspects: What is the recommended ivermectin-based tri-therapyHow is this early therapy administered to old and younger people alikeExamples of elderly people “turning the corner” after being treatedThe increasing adoption of the tri-therapy in Australia Professor Thomas Borody is a world renowned medical doctor from Australia with over 40 years experience in clinical research and practice, including at the St Vincent Hospital in Sydney and at the Mayo clinic in the US. Some of his most ground breaking contributions in medical science...