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[Madison, WI] – In scathing interviews with POLITICO, Wisconsin Democrats are ripping Governor Tony Evers for his weak response to the Kenosha riots earlier this summer. Evers’ sleepy actions led one Democrat interviewed to question, “Is he governing? Because it doesn’t feel like it.” Now Democrats fear that Evers’ feckless leadership might drag Joe Biden down in November. Meanwhile, Republicans in Wisconsin have built one of their strongest ground games ever during a presidential election year. Excerpts: Dems fear Wisconsin governor is becoming liability for Biden Natasha Korecki - POLITICO - September 17, 2020 Tony Evers pulled off one of...

The world’s shortest man who was capable of walking, as verified by Guinness World Records, died Friday at a hospital in Nepal, his family said. Khagendra Thapa Magar, who measured 67.08 centimeters (2 feet, 2.41 inches), died of pneumonia at a hospital in Pokhara, 200 kilometers outside Kathmandu, where he lived with his parents. “He has been in and out of hospital because of pneumonia. But this time his heart was also affected. He passed away today,” said Mahesh Thapa Magar, his brother.

The number of people aged 100 or older in Japan has surpassed 80,000 for the first time amid the rapid aging of the country’s population, government data showed Tuesday. The number of centenarians rose 9,176 from the previous year to 80,450 as of Tuesday for the 50th consecutive annual increase, with women accounting for 88.2 percent of the total, according to the data released by the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry. Centenarians marked the largest annual increase with the number of men rising 1,011 from last year to 9,475 and women up 8,165 to 70,975, the tally showed. The ministry...

Just 2 months after voting to DISMANTLE the police and SLASH its budget, city council members pressed the department's chief over a surge in crime prompting a GOP candidate to slam the laymakers as hypocrites. 'Residents are asking, where are the police?' Council Member Jamal Osman said on Tuesday, adding that calls to the police department from constituents have gone unanswered. 'That is the only public safety option they have at the momment. MPD. They rely on MPD. And they are saying they are nowhere to be seen.' Osman and other council members questioned police Chief Medaria Arradondo on Tuesday...

CNN says it will host a "drive-in town hall" with Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden on Thursday night, which the network calls "the latest adaptation to campaigning during the coronavirus pandemic." The former vice president will take questions from voters in the parking lot of PNC Field in Moosic, Pa., starting at 8 p.m. "Thirty-five cars will file into the parking lot, where a stage and monitors have been set up, and audience members and cars will be spaced out to comply with social distancing guidelines," said Kate Lunger, the vice president of CNN's special events team. "There will be...

A Massachusetts man says he built an electric fence around his Trump lawn sign to stop people from removing it after repeated thefts. John Oliveira, a 54-year-old disabled veteran and local school committee member, told The Standard-Times this month that the move was intended to protect his First Amendment rights. “I’m defending my property and my right to free speech,” he said. “This is about my right to free speech, period.” Oliveira said his neighbors may complain about the electric fence but he defended the decision, saying the sign outside his home in New Bedford “hasn’t been touched in two...

This story is almost too good to be true. The federal Department of Education notified Princeton University today that it was placing the school under a civil rights-related investigation. The hilarious reason for the investigation is due to virtue-signaling remarks made during the Democrat-sponsored summer of rioting by the University’s own President. I kid you not. As reported by the Washington Examiner today, Princeton President Christopher L. Eisgruber published an open letter earlier this month claiming that “[r]acism and the damage it does to people of color persist at Princeton” and that “racist assumptions” are “embedded in structures of the...

Social media executives should play a key role in ensuring the legitimacy of the 2020 election, former Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats suggested in a New York Times op-ed Thursday. Coats recommended the U.S. create a new nonpartisan commission that would help reassure the American public that their votes would be counted and seek to monitor forces attempting to undermine the election.

Eating apples dipped in honey on Rosh Hashana is a Jewish tradition to symbolize a sweet start of the New Year. But in Israel, bitterness prevails on the eve of the holiday as the country faces a second nationwide lockdown to stem a raging coronavirus outbreak. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government has imposed a three-week lockdown, beginning on Friday afternoon - just hours before Rosh Hashana starts. Israel's first lockdown, in March and April, put a damper on Passover, the Jewish spring holiday marking the deliverance of the ancient Hebrews from slavery in Egypt. Now, the Jewish High Holidays...

A family in Fresno County, California, is upset that vice presidential nominee Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) trespassed on their property to use their burnt home as a photo op, according to a local news report. Harris visited California on Wednesday to survey damage from one of the fires that raged in California this month. Her trip came a day after President Donald Trump surveyed fire damage in the state.

One of the interesting things about Donald Trump’s upset win in 2016 was that, in retrospect, all the signs were there: It was obvious in the immediate aftermath that key swing states in the Midwest were under-polled; it was obvious that polls were undercounting whites without college degrees; and it was obvious that Trump was closing in on Hillary Clinton at the end, especially in the key states of Michigan and Pennsylvania. Still, it was difficult to put all that together into a coherent case for a Trump upset, especially since the arguments for Hillary Clinton winning were more prevalent...

A newly-unsealed lawsuit is bringing up old allegations against former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson and several other high-profile New Mexicans. The lawsuit claims Attorney General Hector Balderas benefited from Richardson's 2008 pay-to-play scandal. A lawsuit in 2008 alleged Richardson had been the mastermind of a complex operation that defrauded New Mexico's taxpayers. It states, "Richardson obtained money for himself; money for his campaigns; money for his political organizations; lavish meals, entertainment, and travel; wine and liquor, sexual services and sexual favors." Bill Richardson faces fresh calls for investigation into alleged pay-to-play schemes In 2009, the U.S. Attorney over New...

A group of Chinese virologists released a strange new paper on Monday that claims the new coronavirus was engineered in a Chinese lab. One of the virologists, Li-Meng Yan, told the Fox News host Tucker Carlson it was a "man-made virus" that the Chinese government released "intentionally." Yan and her coauthors work for groups cofounded by the former Trump strategist Steve Bannon. He directed the groups before his arrest in August. Some members of the Trump administration have pushed a fringe theory that the virus accidentally leaked from a lab in Wuhan, China, but there's no evidence of this.

A video featuring Colin Kaepernick has sparked controversy at an elementary school within the Peninsula School District in Gig Harbor, Washington. The issue stems from a decision by Gig Harbor’s Discovery Elementary to post online materials for students relating to the Black Lives Matter movement. The materials in question, aimed at second-graders, were reportedly made available on students’ virtual classroom accounts. One of the videos in question featured former NFL quarterback, Colin Kaepernick.

Presidential candidate Joe Biden has pledged that his administration will impose no new taxes on Americans making $400,000 or less and that there will be “no raising taxes . . . on mom and pop businesses.” Both his policy platform and his record belie that promise. During their first campaign for the White House, the Obama-Biden ticket “firmly” pledged that “no family making less than $250,000 a year would see any form of a tax increase.” They soon pushed through the Affordable Care Act, which included a tax penalty for failing to purchase health insurance, paid primarily by people earning...

Now is the worst possible time for a 75% increase in Florida’s minimum wage. Florida’s unemployment rate was 11.3% in July, the latest monthly statistics provided by the Department of Economic Opportunity. According to a Florida State University survey released in June, one-in-six state businesses have closed for good due to COVID-19. The state’s restaurant, retail and tourism industries, which employ an overwhelming number of entry-level workers and operate on razor-thin profit margins, have been hit particularly hard by COVID-19 as people stay home and have less disposable income. Everyone wants to help 'entry-level' employees, but there are better alternatives...

A 60-year-old black man has been arrested for the murder of a 19-year-old UC Berkeley student. On Monday, the Alameda County district attorney’s office filed felony charges against Berkeley resident Tony Walker for the June murder of UC Berkeley student Seth Smith.

The domestic terrorists in Antifa and Black Lives Matter have accomplished one thing: the most costly riots in the history of our country, reports the far-left Axios. Property Claim Services, a company that tracks insurance claims filed due to riots and the like, found that the left-wing riots that occurred between May 26 and June 8 of this year could reach $2 billion in insurance claims. Obviously, because the left’s domestic terrorism extended well beyond June 8 and is still ongoing, the company acknowledges “this is still happening, so the losses could be significantly more.” Most importantly, these estimates are...

I have not read the opinion yet, but from this article, the Court said that despite being against the state statutes, ballots arriving 3 days after Nov. 3, will be counted even if there is no postmark. I don't see how Trump wins Pennsylvania if this is allowed to stand. -ajf The three parts of the opinion are here: https://twitter.com/SupremeCtofPA/status/1306645333754228738 https://twitter.com/SupremeCtofPA/status/1306645603674394626 https://twitter.com/SupremeCtofPA/status/1306644538539339777

Former President Barack Obama will release the first volume of his presidential memoirs on Nov. 17 in 25 languages, publisher Penguin Random House announced Thursday.The book, titled "A Promised Land," is 768 pages long with a suggested retail price of $45 in the U.S."I've spent the last few years reflecting on my presidency, and in 'A Promised Land' I’ve tried to provide an honest accounting of my presidential campaign and my time in office: the key events and people who shaped it; my take on what I got right and the mistakes I made; and the political, economic, and cultural...