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For the first time in his life, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo took a backseat to his brother when a professional bodybuilder accused Chris Primetime Cuomo of lifting fake weights. Weightgate, if you will. Just days later, big brother Cuomo returned to the news. Clever New Yorkers let the celebrity governor have it. Unfortunately, Cuomo had to share the spotlight with the unbearable mayor known as Bill de Blasio. Really interesting font. Fancy, but legible. According to the New York Post, the mural was a hit. “A few partygoers got the idea to paint in huge [letters, using] yellow paint...

WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Monday vowed to hold a vote on President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee before the November election following the passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. “President Trump’s nominee for this vacancy will receive a vote on the floor of the Senate,” McConnell (R-Ky.) said on the floor of the chamber, warning of a cultural war over filling the influential role. McConnell says there is “overwhelming precedent” for the Senate to act quickly on a nomination. “The Senate has more than sufficient time to process a nomination. History and process make that perfectly clear,”...

Republicans are preparing to release a report in a matter of days on their investigation focused on former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden, a move they hope will put fresh scrutiny on the Democratic nominee just weeks from the election. The controversial probe, spearheaded by Sens. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), is focused broadly on Obama-era policy and Hunter Biden's work for Ukrainian gas company Burisma Holdings. The GOP report, which is set to be released this week, is expected to argue that Hunter Biden’s work impacted Obama-era Ukraine policy and created a conflict...

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania -- Gov. Tom Wolf will go through with a veto of a bill that would give school districts the sole ability to make decisions on sports, including whether and how many spectators to allow, he said Monday. The Wolf administration's gathering limits of 25 people indoors and 250 people outdoors apply to youth sports, but legislation that cleared the state House and Senate would empower schools to make their own rules about the number of spectators permitted at games. Some families have chafed at the statewide limits, saying attendance could safely be expanded while still allowing for adequate...

The Drudge Report’s apparent decision to cater content to a political demographic that has zero overlap with his audience of two decades hasn’t been going well for the site. While I’m surprised he’s not down 100%, Drudge has hemorrhaged nearly half of his audience over the past year. --snip-- Comscore data also put Drudge’s viewers at 1.488 million unique visitors in July, down 38% from July of 2019. About a year ago, in August 2019, the site was posting “well over 100 million” readers. The site’s recent numbers mark a steep 40% decline year over year. They also mark Drudge’s...

A jaw-dropping new economic report from Axios reinforced a concept the liberal media never seem to get: never underestimate America or President Donald Trump’s economy. In a story headlined, “Wall Street: Recession is over,” Axios reported that U.S. economic activity is “going to grow more sharply in the third quarter of this year than during any other quarter in history.” Here’s the kicker: “The recession is over, according to Wall Street, with current forecasts showing sustained economic growth through 2021 and beyond.” More importantly, according to Axios, “the continued prevalence of the pandemic doesn't seem to have crimped economic growth.”

‘We’re going to vote on President Trump’s nomination on this floor’ VIDEO AT LINK.............................

I have been getting Emails and Text messages from all sorts of non-governmental websites, concerning voter registration and doing voter registration online. I am already registered, so that is not the point. The points are (a) are these non-governmental voter registration websites legit, (b) can they register voters into the states' voter registration systems, (c) how do they verify (document) residence of the voter, and (d) isn't this just another avenue for the Dims voter fraud????

The Louisville Metro Police Department has canceled all off days and vacation requests until further notice as the agency prepares for Attorney General Daniel Cameron's announcement in the Breonna Taylor case. Sgt. Lamont Washington announced the decision in a Monday afternoon news release. "The public may also see barriers being staged around downtown, which is another part of our preparations," Washington said in the statement.

Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) has put forward a bipartisan bill aiming to improve the security of vote-by-mail. It proposes to incentivize states to ban ballot harvesting.

The SCOTUS Judiciary Committee hearings should be virtual. On Zoom. You know, for everyone's safety. Social distancing and all that. DEMs can't bring protesters into the room. No room full of hostile media. Harris and Feinstein can't grandstand on Zoom. The hearings will be so boring on Zoom, no one will watch. Haha. You know for everyone's safety with Covid-19.

Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh urged Senate Republicans to skip the confirmation hearing process for President Trump's soon-to-be announced Supreme Court nominee and head straight to a floor vote. "I want the Judiciary Committee - that could be great if it were skipped," Limbaugh said Monday on his daily radio program. "We don't need to open that up for whatever length of time, so that whoever this nominee is can be Kavanaugh'd, or Borked, or Thomas'd. Because that's what it's going to be, especially when it's not even required."

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is finally ready to call out the National Guard — to staff polling places on Election Day! After placing the Guard “on standby” but not sending them in as riots raged in New York City this past summer, Cuomo said Monday that he might pull the trigger and actually deploy troops to ensure voters can cast in-person ballots in the Nov. 3 presidential election. During a teleconference with reporters, Cuomo said that “the Board of Elections is basically a person-powered, staffing function” and that the June 23 primary elections “showed a lot of issues with the local...

Quebec RCMP confirm that there is an ongoing police operation taking place on Vauquelin Blvd. in St-Hubert, Quebec. The operation is related to the recent contaminated letters sent to the White House. Ongoing police operation on Vauquelin blvd in St-Hubert, related to the contaminated letter sent to the White House. More details to come. A media relations officer is on site to answer questions. #rcmp pic.twitter.com/Ms4uQakYBo— Quebec RCMP (@rcmpqc) September 21, 2020 The suspect in the ricin-letter case was taken into custody this morning, she is a native of St-Hubert. According to the Daily Mail, the woman was arrested trying...

I am publicly inviting Joe Biden to sit down with me on Life, Liberty & Levin for a full hour interview. Subjects would include the Supreme Court, China, the coronavirus and coming vaccine, law and order and the riots, and his 110-page manifesto.— Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) September 21, 2020

Mitch McConnell live ON SENATE fLOOR

An international team of scientists said Monday it had joined forces to combat the spread of anti-Semitism online with the help of artificial intelligence. The project Decoding Anti-Semitism includes discourse analysts, computational linguists and historians who will develop a "highly complex, AI-driven approach to identifying online anti-Semitism," the Alfred Landecker Foundation, which supports the project, said in a statement Monday. "In order to prevent more and more users from becoming radicalized on the web, it is important to identify the real dimensions of anti-Semitism - also taking into account the implicit forms that might become more explicit over time," said...

A Tennessee program is now taking donations of whole deer from hunters to feed families in need. Tennessee Wildlife Federation’s Hunters for the Hungry program is in full swing for the 2020 deer season. More than 60 processors in counties throughout the state are now accepting donations of whole deer to help feed local families in need. And this year, the need is greater than ever due to the coronavirus pandemic. “Because of COVID-19, more Tennesseans than ever are having to rely on hunger relief organizations to help feed their families,” said Matt Simcox, Hunters for the Hungry manager. “That’s...

By now only someone living in the most remote reaches of equatorial Africa could not know that Ruth Ginsburg died and that there is now a vacancy at the U.S. Supreme Court . . . right in time for the election chaos the Democrats had already planned to roll out.This will be Donald TrumpÂ’s third USSC appointment. In case you were interested, no, it doesnÂ’t come close to the record for a first-term president. Obviously, George Washington, who named all of the original Supreme Court justices (six) has the record. But William Howard Taft, an otherwise inconsequential president, also named...

Through a bit of remarkable reporting by Lachlan Markay, The Daily Beast has revealed the mysterious life of William B. Crews. Known professionally as an official for the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the public health agency overseen by Dr. Anthony Fauci, he is also the anonymous managing editor of pro-Trump website Red State. Known there by the pen name “streiff,” he has written a series of harangues attacking Dr. Fauci and the “deep state” over the pandemic response. For the blissfully uninitiated, Redstate holds sway in conservative circles, including with members of Congress and their staffers on...