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Ask President Trump how he’s preparing for his high-stakes debate series with Joe Biden, and he’s apt to throw up his hands in response. “Well, I sort of prepare every day by just doing what I’m doing,” Trump told Fox News on Tuesday. “But I don’t know which Biden is going to show up.” Trump in recent weeks has questioned his Democratic rival’s mental acuity, even leveling allegations of drug use against him.

On this date* in 1442, Vietnamese writer, commander, and politician Nguyen Trai died for regicide. The Confucian scholar (English Wikipedia entry | the far more detailed Vietnamese) was already a patriotic hero for taking to the hills in the successful rebellion that had expelled the occupation of the Chinese Ming dynasty some years before. This philosopher of irregular war was famed for the very contemporary-sounding aphorism “better to conquer hearts than citadels”;** five centuries on, the great general of another era’s Vietnamese liberation struggle would credit Nguyen Trai’s “attacks on the minds, i.e. propaganda work among the enemy, persuading the...

The Florida campaign brain trust for President Donald Trump‘s reelection bid say they’re seeing supporters’ enthusiasm riding high, as reflected in crowds, canvassing efforts, volunteers, turnouts, and even in boat parades. Susie Wiles, Florida senior adviser to the campaign and a longtime go-to for Republicans’ Sunshine State must-win efforts, says she’s perhaps seeing more enthusiasm than in 2016 when tens of thousands of volunteers, all zealous to help, turned out to drive Trump’s surprise victory. “It could be a bigger number than in 2016. That was the most I had ever seen, but it is more than it was then,”...

Marine Corporal Robert Mitchell administered first aid to his wounded buddies while engaging terrorists, including hand-to-hand combat. Benjamin Gonzalez threw himself over a fellow Marine to protect him from a grenade. Aubrey McDade evacuated to safety three of his wounded brothers by himself (pictured in the middle above). But, sure, to ABC’s Jonathan Karl a Trump rally is just like both Battles of Fallujah. Just as covering a Trump visit to France is like the Battle of Belleau Wood or D-Day. Oh, bless him. Karl, who lives in the Washington, DC bubble and apparently believes that masked-autocrat Muriel Bowser is...

The question: At one apology per second, how long will it take RGB's spirit (spook) to apologize to 62,000,000 slaughtered victims of Roe v Wade.

When I heard the news of the passing away of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, I had a suspicion that Joy Reid would be reclaiming her spot today as host of AM Joy, the MSNBC show she left in favor of hosting a weekday primetime slot on the network. And sure enough, there Reid was this morning, having big-footed the aspirants to her host chair. [The apparently power-hungry Reid had also previously imposed herself as a guest on her former show!] Reid had an urgent message for Democrats: threaten, and exact, retaliation on Republicans should they manage to replace Justice Ginsburg on...

Democrats will take to every media outlet to claim it will be politically dangerous for GOP senators to move a nominee. The exact opposite is true. In 2018, 4 D senators lost their seats for opposing Kavanaugh: Heitkamp; Donnelly; McCaskill; Nelson.

President issues 'important instructions' to all regions to boost party control over private enterprise and rejuvenate the nation; all firms will need employees from the party to boost law abidance and moral standards (ATF) Chinese President Xi Jinping and the Communist Party's Central Committee have laid out a plan for a ‘new era’ in which the party has better control over private business in China. The plan was detailed in a 5,000-word statement – and all regions and departments in the country have been told to follow the new guidelines. This was the top story on Wednesday's CCTV Evening News...

Here is the Twitter feed last updated 11 minutes ago from Senator Lindsey Graham: Lindsey Graham @LindseyGrahamSC US Senate candidate, SC The two biggest changes regarding the Senate and judicial confirmations that have occurred in the last decade have come from Democrats. #1 Lindsey Graham @LindseyGrahamSC US Senate candidate, SC * Harry Reid changed the rules to allow a simple majority vote for Circuit Court nominees dealing out the minority. * Chuck Schumer and his friends in the liberal media conspired to destroy the life of Brett Kavanaugh and hold that Supreme Court seat open. #2 Lindsey Graham @LindseyGrahamSC US...

BREAKING: Package addressed to the White House containing ricin intercepted by law enforcement. The package was addressed to President Trump. - CNN

A survey of Millennials and Generation Z residing in New York told pollsters that Jews caused the Holocaust. This is despite the voluminous pile of evidence confirming that it was the Jews who were victimized by the Nazis in history's most horrific persecution of a religious/ethnic minority. Unsurprisingly, 60% of these ignoramuses were also unaware that six million Jews were murdered by this criminal German regime. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn) urged that "we should not be so quick to blame these youngsters. The Quran warns us that Jews are the most devious and deceitful creatures on Earth. No one has...

Deceased Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will be celebrated by Democrats and even many Republicans as a long-time progressive voice on the bench. Even President Trump reacted with kind words towards her when he heard that she had died. But the fact remains that she was arguably the most ardent promoter of abortion from the bench for the last three decades, and Congressman Doug Collins took the opportunity to remind everyone of that on Twitter. RIP to the more than 30 million innocent babies that have been murdered during the decades that Ruth Bader Ginsburg defended pro-abortion laws. With...

The late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in 2016 said “nothing in the Constitution” prevents a president from nominating to fill a court seat. Ginsburg was reacting to the upcoming fight over a replacement for her friend and colleague Justice Antonin Scalia, who passed away. Then-President Barack Obama had nominated Judge Merrick Garland to fill Scalia’s seat only to be denied a Senate hearing by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.

A new poll conducted shortly before the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg revealed that an overwhelming majority of U.S. adults of all political stripes supported holding hearings for a nominee if a vacancy opened on the nation's highest bench. Marquette University released the survey results on Saturday that showed 67% of adults believed the Senate should hold a hearing if a vacancy occurred during 2020's race, with only 32% opposition — and similar strong numbers across Republicans, Democrats, and independents, who supported holding confirmation hearings at 68-31%, 63-37%, and 71-28% respectively. The poll was completed three days...

U.S. Africa Command says that at least two MiG-29 Fulcrum fighter jets, possibly piloted by shadowy Russian mercenaries, have crashed in Libya. Jared Szuba, the Pentagon correspondent for AI-Monitor, Tweeted out that one of the jets was apparently lost on June 28, while the other went down on September 7, 2020. This information had come in a statement from Rear Admiral Heidi Berg, U.S. Africa Command's (AFRICOM) director of intelligence. Another tweet indicates that Berg believes that "Russian fighter aircraft," presumably MiG-29s too, but potentially also Su-24 Fencer strike aircraft, have conducted airstrikes in Libya. AI-Monitor's Szuba follows that up...

A former Philadelphia police officer who was cleared of charges that he falsified records is suing to get his job back, saying officials were retaliating for his support of Black Lives Matter. Bryan Turner, who is (b)lack, sued the city and the Philadelphia Police Department this week in federal court, claiming systematic discrimination against him. The lawsuit seeks monetary damages and reinstatement with back pay. A spokesman for the mayor’s office said the city does not comment on open litigation. A spokesman for the police department declined a request for comment. Turner, 31, was fired in 2018 and arrested on...

Man what a last 24 hours, trying to keep up on the RBG news is something, but I was trying watch a little college football today the news flashed across the screen... Last week Norvell started off losing 16-13 to GaTech in his first game now this... Not a good time to be a Seminole Fan.

Democrat Joe Biden leaves little doubt that if elected he would try to scale back President Donald Trump’s buildup in nuclear weapons spending. And although the former vice president has not fully detailed his nuclear priorities, he says he would make the U.S. less reliant on the world’s deadliest weapons. The two candidates’ views on nuclear weapons policy and strategy carry unusual significance in this election because the United States is at a turning point in deciding the future of its weapons arsenal and because of growing debate about the threat posed by Chinese and Russian nuclear advances. […] Biden...

Harry Reid will go down in history for having handed the court to conservatives when he took the first step toward eliminating the 60 vote requirement for confirmation. 😂

Philadelphia police have identified an East Mount Airy man as a suspect in what they are calling the attempted murder of three undercover police officers Friday night. ---SNIP--- Police said Thomas is believed to be the person who pedaled up beside the officers' vehicle on a bicycle shortly after 8 p.m. on the 1400 block of Sharpnack Street in the city’s Cedarbrook section, pulled out a gun and started firing just after the officer driving the vehicle had rolled down his window and asked the man “if he was Ok."