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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A federal appeals court on Sunday temporarily halted a six-day extension for counting absentee ballots in Wisconsin’s presidential election, a momentary victory for Republicans and President Donald Trump in the key presidential battleground state. As it stands, ballots will now be due by 8 p.m. on Election Day. A lower court judge had sided with Democrats and their allies to extend the deadline until Nov. 9. Democrats sought more time as a way to help deal with an expected historic high number of absentee ballots.

In the bizarre year that’s 2020, another highly unusual event is headed our way. This year’s Halloween full moon will be visible to the entire world, rather than just parts of it, for the first time since World War II, astronomy educator and former planetarium director Jeffrey Hunt says. “When I was teaching, my high school students thought a full moon occurred every Halloween,” said Hunt. Not quite, though pop culture decorations sure make it seem that way. The last Halloween full moon visible around the globe came in 1944, he said. He’s written about the event on his web...

Joe Biden debates his most worthy opponent — Joe Biden. It gets awkward.

Sixty-five years ago - September 1955 - America was reeling under one of those blockbuster Number Ones, so blockbuster indeed that it toppled "Rock Around the Clock" from the top spot. What does it take to knock off rock's first great iconic anthem? A beautiful Sinatra love ballad? A showstopping Rodgers & Hammerstein eleven o'clock number? Not a chance: To see off Bill Haley, all it takes a century old folk-song, heavy on the snare drums. And next thing you know you're blasting from every radio and jukebox: (video at link) Mitch Miller was a prodigious hitmaker of the early...

...RedState has been no fan of George Conway. In fact, I tend to think he conducts himself is a fairly sleazy way, especially in how he treats his wife publicly. But it’s hilarious to see the left start eating their own the moment they perceive someone is stepping out of line. Conway is just stating the obvious, which is that there is no logical rebuttal to Barrett’s nomination. If Democrats were smart, they’d recognize that, surrender on this, and help bolster their advantage with women in the electorate. They aren’t smart though, so instead you get unhinged nonsense like the...

Claiming to have “obtained Donald Trump’s tax information extending over more than two decades,” the NYT admits its findings amount to problems most businesses deal with: “struggling properties, vast write-offs, [and] an audit battle.” The article also admits “the filings will leave many questions unanswered, many questioners unfulfilled,” and also kills off the idea that President Trump’s finances were somehow linked to Russia. The piece reads: “Nor do [the tax returns] reveal any previously unreported connections to Russia.”

Our Troops Rock!  Thank you for all you do!   For the freedom you enjoyed yesterday... Thank the Veterans who served in The United States Armed Forces.   Looking forward to tomorrow's freedom? Support The United States Armed Forces Today!     ~ Hall of Heroes ~MAJ George E. WahlenAll info and photos from this website.             George E. Wahlen (August 8, 1924 - June 5, 2009) was a retired United States Army Major who previously served with the United States Navy and was awarded the United States military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his...

...Georgia State said the four positive tests were the first the school had experience in three weeks across the school’s athletic program. Out of caution, they called off the game, but then the news came in. The tests were wrong. “Friday afternoon, as we were loading the buses to play a football game at Charlotte, we were informed that four individuals out of 135 had tested positive for coronavirus from our third test in four days as part of our protocol to play. Through contract tracing, we identified 17 others, including one coach, who would require quarantining,” GSU athletic Charlie...

Will Chris Wallace, a known Trump-hater, toss Wiffle balls to Joe and blazers to Trump? The president will be prepared with his patented behavior by calling out Wallace, unlike Mitt Romney, who got eaten up by Candy Crowley during his debate with Obama. And we can't forget the conspiracy among CNN, the DNC, and Donna Brazile in giving Hillary the advantage in her debate with Bernie Sanders by giving her the questions in advance. A repeat on Tuesday? In short, putting Biden, as a warring gladiator in the Roman Coliseum of a monumental presidential debate with the likes of Donald...

[Catholic Caucus] Did George Cardinal Pell force Bergoglio's hand on the removal of Becciu? Has Bergoglio indeed raged causing the closing of the Casa Marta? Further to our post below and the removal of the corrupt Angelo Becciu, close confidant and friend of Bishop of Rome Jorge Bergoglio, our anonymous sources in Rome have indicated that George Cardinal Pell is behind these events.Becciu and Pell clashed often over Pell's desire to clean up the sewer of Vatican finances. It is reported that it was the malfeasant Becciu that arranged the false accusations of Cardinal Pell in Australia for which he...

Fadi Faouri has slept in his store in downtown Louisville, Kentucky, for 122 straight nights, trying to protect a livelihood that is nearly destroyed. -snip “If I leave my store, I leave to go home, take a shower, change my clothes and go back,” he told the Post. -snip “Stuff is being damaged on a nightly basis, people are shooting at each other every night,” said Faouri, who’s had the shop for eight years. “Every night we have a new store that got looted. They break in, they take whatever and go. They walk away.” Business is so bad right...

I’m looking for some computer help. I(n the past, I've used Mozilla Thunderbird as an email vacuum, so that every time I run it it’s soaks up all the email in my regular email account, and then deletes those from my regular web mail account. I’ve done it like this in the past, but I had a system crash, and I’m reinstalling Thunderbird on one of my machines so that I can use it again to soak up email and then delete it from my email account. I’ve got it so that duplicates emails from my account, but can’t seem...

As my husband and I watched the National Day of Prayer and Repentance, the moment came where Franklin Graham asked the congregation on the National Mall to pray. After a hushed moment, the sound of 50,000 voices raised in prayer swelled in a great din of supplication. Glancing over at Michael, I noticed that he was covered with goosebumps...and he doesn't goosebump easily. As tears flowed down my cheeks, I had goosebumps on my goosebumps. Thank God for a nation that prays in the name of Jesus, Amen. Growing up in the Minnesota Republican party, I often spent my weekends...

JAG Writes: How does God simultaneously , , , {A} maintain and respect our Human Free Will , , , while at the same time , , , {B} often working in our lives where we do His Sovereign Will? One way is that He presents the "outside inducements" and controls the external circumstances in such a way where both {A} and {B} occurs and is the sustained reality. Let me give you one example where you could do that same thing with your son {assume you have an 8 year old son} A Father & Son & A Strawberry...

JAG Writes: I LOVE science. ' True science. My view is that God LOVES true science too, for example Math , , , My view is that Math originated in the nature of God who is the Original Mathematician --- just as all the other disciplines also originated in the nature of God. God Is The , , , , Original Mathematician Original Physicist Original Cosmologist Original Inventor Original Artist Original Scientist Original Oceanographer Original Philosopher Original Epistemologist Original Empiricist Original Poet Original Writer Original Lover {wanting the best for others} Original Chooser { Volition } Original Economist Original Emotion-ist...

A growing number of ancient DNA studies on Neanderthals, Denisovans and Homo sapiens suggest intertwined evolutionary and population histories, including several admixture events between early modern and archaic humans. However, ancient nuclear and mtDNA sequences revealed phylogenetic discrepancies between the three groups that are hard to explain. For example, autosomal genomes show that Neanderthals and Denisovans are sister groups that split from modern humans more than 550,000 years ago. However, all but the earliest Neanderthal mtDNA samples are far more similar to those of modern humans than to those from Denisovans. These studies suggest that Neanderthals originally carried a Denisovan-like...

JAG Writes: Some Thoughts On The Religion Of Evolution , , , Some talk about Abiogenesis {life came from non-life} Most Evolutionists today do NOT make a case for Abiogenesis, but some Thread-Evolutionists have argued for the possibility. To me its an absurd notion. Life cannot come from non-life. Most Evolutionists these days go with the word Evolution and hawk "Natural Selection" and "Random mutation" , , , My view is that it does not matter what you call it -- the fact remains that , , Evolutionists claim that , , , ~ natural selection and ~ :random mutation...

A few days ago, video emerged of CUNY Law School student and terror supporter Nerdeen Kiswani threatening to set on fire a man wearing an IDF sweatshirt CUNY School of Law seems to have responded in a rather limp-wristed way, releasing this general, vague statement condemning the hate on display Apparently, this was their third attempt at a statement. the CUNY Law administration chose to make two public posts on their social media profiles, first declaring that “CUNY Law stands against hate and anti-Semitism,” then replacing that with “CUNY Law stands against hate and harassment,” before deleting both of the posts, although leaving another...

Bishop says politicians and others who promote abortion are excommunicated from the Catholic Church. Article: Bishop: Pro-abortion Andrew Cuomo excommunicated himself, should not receive Communion According to this article, Bishop Strickland of Tyler, Texas claims that by rejecting Catholic teaching, one excommunicates themselves from the Catholic faith. That would mean Nancy Pelosi, Andrew Cuomo, and Joe Biden are excommunicated. In the past, Bishops have declared that supporting abortion excommunicates politicians. Probably the most famous example is the letter by the late Archbishop of Atlanta John Francis Donoghue. Here is a link to that famous letter/declaration. There were three bishops who...

Just for fun. If you were able to answer the debate questions on Tuesday night that are asked of President Trump, then what would be your answer? Or what would you want President Trump say in response. Since this is debate prep, we need debate questions and they can come from anywhere with no rhyme or reason, just as in real life. That is the way it is going to happen with Faux News on Tuesday night. Here's how to play: 1.) Submit a debate question or 2.) Reply to a debate question or 3.) Submit and reply. Most importantly...