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... Rawhide Down: The Near Assassination of Ronald Reagan. We discuss what happened on March 30, 1981 (almost exactly 30 years ago), whether Reagan almost died that day, and how the incident shaped Reagan’s presidency. From page 147 of the book: Lichtman assured the president that he would have no difficulty breathing during the operation and then prepared to administer the anesthetics. As if responding to a cue, the president rose up on one elbow and dramatically pulled the oxygen mask from his face. Salvaging a line that had fallen flat in the emergency room earlier, he said, “I hope...

Of all the ways identity politics is used as a tool to sow hatred among people where there should be the potential for friendship, “critical race theory” is one of the gravest offenders..Indeed, the tactics used by proponents of critical race theory share many parallels with old tactics used by the Bolsheviks. As such, federal employees and those who work for corporations that do business with the federal government sucked into the poisonous vortex of critical race theory can thank President Trump for ordering a stop to the promulgation of critical race theory. Thanks should also be sent to scholar...

Biden vs Pelosi Am I wrong in saying, Pelosi showed less humanity than Biden does? Whatever happened to her supposed "I'm praying for the prez. all the time" at the impeachment season? May Almighty God cure our great president - speedy revovery!

#NEW National Post-Debate Poll: Biden 49% Trump 46% IBD/TIPP (LV, 9/30-10/1 ) A 3 point shift towards Trump in a week. This is electoral victory territory for Trump (anything inside -3.2%): -- More info from the IBD/TIPP poll: Biden +2.7 with likely voters: 48.6% to 45.9%. Hispanic Trump support: 36.5% Black Trump support: 15%

The Anne Arundel County, Marlyland, Board of Elections on Thursday warned of a potential scam involving an individual or group “unlawfully going door-to-door” attempting to collect completed ballots. “To all registered voters of Anne Arundel County. Please be advised, it has come to the attention of Anne Arundel County Board of Elections that someone/group is unlawfully going door to door and trying to collect completely filled out Presidential General Election Ballots,” election officials said in a statement.

Left-wing documentary director and Joe Biden supporter Michael Moore took to Twitter on Friday to proclaim that his “thoughts and prayers are with Covid-19” following President Donald Trump having tested positive for the coronavirus. “That poor virus got sucked into his body and is now trapped there. How can it escape?” tweeted Moore on Friday. “He wants to use it as a prop. ‘See this China Flu? I BEAT IT! Just like I’ll beat Biden! They’re both a hoax!’ My thoughts and prayers, too, are with Covid-19.”

A Joe Biden campaign source is using President Trump’s coronavirus diagnosis to cast doubt on the next presidential debate, scheduled nearly two weeks away. Lisa Desjardins of PBS reported a “Biden senior source” said it is “hard to see that debate happening” between Trump and Biden on October 15. After the raucous debate on Tuesday, several Democrats and Biden allies called on the cancellation of future contests:

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Say an IV with Cytokines added to it were given to a person in a hospital, would that artificially create a Cytokine Storm? Basically the person will appear they died from Covid but actually they were given enough Cytokines to kick off the Cytokine Release Syndrome. If this is possible, Trump needs to be careful who is administratoring him while in the hospital. Trump needs to take Lenzilumab! It was the only pre-Covid antibody treatment that neutralized the Cytokine Storm. It is being used by Mayo Clinics for all severe Covid Patients and has a 100% success rate. It has...

The burst of gunfire that injured President Reagan Monday sparked an instantaneous and sharp rise in his popular standing with the American people, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. The president was already comparatively high in popularity, but his approval rating showed a climb of 11 percentage points from Sunday, the Tuesday, when the news Post-ABC poll was conducted. While it is common for a president's popularity rating to increase at a time of national crisis, the rise for Reagan appears as sharp as any yet recorded. Reagan's new surge came at a time when the president seemed...

A majority of U.S. voters say former Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has used his decades-long political career to enrich his family and close friends, according to a new Just the News Daily Poll with Scott Rasmussen. When asked, 57% of voters said it was either "somewhat" or "very" likely that Biden's inner circle has profited from his nearly 50-years-long career in public office, which includes the elected positions of U.S senator and vice president. Just 28% said they doubted such profiting...

Donald Trump's star on Hollywood's iconic Walk of Fame was once again vandalized early Friday morning, the Los Angeles Police Department said. A man in an Incredible Hulk costume demolished Trump's star with a pickax around 5 a.m., TMZ reported. The LAPD said their officers responded to a report of vandalism at the site at 5:55 a.m.

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The Michigan Supreme Court on Friday struck down months of orders by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer that were aimed at preventing the spread of the coronavirus, saying she illegally drew authority from a 1945 law that doesn’t apply. The court said the law was an “unlawful delegation of legislative power to the executive branch in violation of the Michigan Constitution.” The Michigan Supreme Court issued a split decision late Friday that ruled against Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. In a 4-3 ruling, the court determined the governor did not have the authority under state law to issue any additional...

...In a full-length feature this week, the Miami Herald reported that 95-year-old Rita Thomas “was a victim of COVID-19, but she never had the disease.” According to the article, Thomas died because of “pandemic-imposed isolation.” More from the Herald: The vivacious and outgoing 95-year-old, who lived independently until last year and celebrated her most recent birthday in February with friends at a Pasco County diner, willed herself to die two weeks ago because she could no longer handle the pandemic-imposed isolation. “She said to me: ‘Linda. I’ve had a good life. I am ready to die. I don’t want to...

Cox Statement on Michigan Supreme Court Ruling Posted by Jack Sullivan · October 02, 2020 5:22 PM LANSING, Mich., October 2, 2020 — The following statement is from Michigan Republican Party Chairman Laura Cox regarding today’s 4-3 decision by the Michigan Supreme Court overruling Governor Whitmer’s emergency executive powers. “This is a great day for the people of Michigan. The court rightly recognized that the constitution gives the legislature a role to represent the people of this state. Governor Whitmer overexerted her powers. The legislature wants to be a willing partner in dealing with COVID-19 and Governor Whitmer should recognize...

...Rather than conclude that the presidential candidate was giving a wink and nod to Muslim voters concerning Islamic law, everyone, even Biden’s critics, many of whom were additionally critical of Islam, concluded that he has no idea what he was talking about and should better vet the scripts his team provide him with. However, now that it’s clear that, far from being clueless of the things of Islam, Biden is so familiar and comfortable with them that he instinctively relies on Arabic idioms—even around the most inappropriate of audiences—a reevaluation of what Biden meant may be in order. At the...

One of the world’s richest cities is instituting a minimum wage which proponents say is only relatively sumptuous. Geneva, which by most metrics ranks in the top five for the globe’s priciest places to live, has approved a minimum wage which would be considered lavish elsewhere but is intended to just get food on the table for its poorest workers. The Swiss city voted in a two-thirds majority Sunday to introduce a minimum wage of 23 Swiss francs ($25) an hour for a 41-hour workweek, CNBC reported. That adds up to somewhere in the range of $4,100 a month, or...

During his daily news conference, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) said Mexico was “not sucking their thumb” as they prepared for the new migrant caravan that he claimed appears to be more politically motivated rather than a humanitarian cry for help. “We find it very weird, very awkward, that this caravan begins on the eve of the U.S. presidential election,” Lopez Obrador said. “This is too much of a coincidence–how is it that in Honduras, where they have a lockdown, they are allowing this group to form?” Despite the Coronavirus crisis in Central America, an estimated 6,000 migrants...

Here's one example: "I contend that we are the finest race in the world and that the more of the world we inhabit the better it is for the human race. Just fancy those parts that are at present inhabited by the most despicable specimens of human beings what an alteration there would be if they were brought under Anglo-Saxon influence, look again at the extra employment a new country added to our dominions gives."

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — There’s not enough evidence to prove that a group of white men set a young biracial woman on fire during a chaotic night of protests in Wisconsin’s capital city this summer, federal prosecutors said Friday. Detectives were unable to find any surveillance video that shows the alleged attack taking place, but they did find footage indicating the woman wasn’t in the city at the time she says she was attacked, according to investigative reports.