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I n the wake of the deaths of George Floyd and other people of color, America continues to undergo a reckoning with our nation’s original sin: racism and white supremacy. Recent events have laid bare the brutal truth that systemic inequalities and state-sanctioned violence have continued to oppress people of color in our country. In the midst of this national conversation, the history of the United States Army has come front and center, largely because of the Army’s experience in the American Civil War. By May 1861, sixty-five of eighty-six southern West Point cadets had followed their seceded home states...

Steve lays out some good reasons Trump will win. He was accurate 4 years ago that the US was ready for Trump in a short book; and was right then.

A ProPublica/Texas Tribune review of federal spending data shows more than 200 contract modifications, at times awarded within just weeks or months after the original contracts, have increased the cost of the border wall project by billions of dollars since late 2017. This is particularly true this year, in the run-up to next week’s election. The cost of supplemental agreements and change orders alone — at least $2.9 billion — represents about a quarter of all the money awarded and more than what Congress originally appropriated for wall construction in each of the last three years.

The Boston Herald endorsed President Trump for reelection, declaring that America doesn’t need the “unfeasible spending spree in the name of a progressive utopia” that would occur if Democratic nominee Joe Biden won on Election Day. "The 2020 presidential election is about what people don’t want as much as what they actually do want. For the left, getting Donald Trump out of office tops the wish list. It’s been that way since the day after the 2016 election. For them, everything the president has done is bad, every move sinister, and every policy one more nail in the progressive coffin,”...

Zuckerberg states the FBI warned them a while ago that weeks leading up to the election that there will be attempts to interfere with the election with hacked documents!!!The FBI instructed FACEBOOK to censor anything negative about Biden knowing what would be coming out!!! https://twitter.com/RichHiggins_DC/status/1321495977140932612 

Just released yesterday. Regardless of your politics, I think conservatives know how to laugh. https://youtu.be/9WfZuNceFDM

Josh Kraushaar of the National Journal seemed perplexed. He tweeted, "This makes no sense, unless you're out of cash: Trump campaign spending on Minnesota but pulling out of FLORIDA." Don't be fooled. He knows what this means. President Donald John Trump has nailed down Florida and he is moving to add Minnesota to his list of states. The crowds at his rallies and the Trumptillas of boats show the Sunshine State is backing its new snowbird turned homeboy.

Had Democrats given Trump's judicial nominees due respect and consideration, they could have had more influence over Barrett's nomination process. Judge Amy Coney Barrett is now Justice Amy Coney Barrett, replacing the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court. For invoking the “nuclear option” in the Senate back in 2013 and eliminating the filibuster for non-Supreme Court judges, Harry Reid deserves his round of applause. Reid is not the only Democrat to have worked hard on Barrett’s behalf — indeed, the Democratic Party’s actions during both the Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh confirmation hearings played a pivotal role...

North Carolina GOP again asks Supreme Court to block mail ballot extension North Carolina Republicans on Wednesday filed a second request to the Supreme Court asking justices to block a six-day mail ballot due date extension in the key battleground state. The latest effort seeks the reversal of North Carolina’s top state court, while a similar petition filed last week by President Trump’s reelection campaign and state GOP members is aimed at blocking lower federal court rulings that relaxed the received-by deadline for mail ballots. Both requests are now pending before the Supreme Court, which after the arrival Tuesday of...

@schwartzbCNBCNEW: Wall Street will finish the 2020 election spending just over $74 million backing Joe Biden's run for president, topping the amount toward President Trump. It's more than what President Obama saw from the securities and investment industry.

SHASTA COUNTY, Calif. — Shasta County deputies are looking for a suspect who robbed a gas station in Cottonwood Tuesday morning. The robbery happened around 3 a.m. Tuesday at the 4th Street Chevron in Cottonwood. Deputies were searching the area for a suspect who was armed with a pistol. "He came in, he had got gas, he had paid for it. Walked out came back in to try and buy stuff... well when he went to go buy stuff that is when he popped the question and said give me all the money," said Erica Evans, Manager, Chevron. The gas...

If Libertarians feel that the election is close they will probably vote for Trump. If they think Biden has it "in the bag" then they will vote for Jorgensen. Is this another reason for the Fake Media and Fake Polls showing ridiculous Biden leads?

The Republican Party nominated its first presidential candidate in 1856, putting up John C. Fremont against Democrat James Buchanan, who had been a senator from Pennsylvania. Fremont lost Pennsylvania to Buchanan and lost the election.Four years later, the Republicans nominated Abraham Lincoln, who ran in a divided nation against a divided Democratic Party and won Pennsylvania -- and also the presidency.Lincoln won Pennsylvania again in 1864, and Ulysses S. Grant won it in 1868 and 1872.A pattern had been established: Since the Civil War, only two Republicans have been elected president while losing Pennsylvania. The first was Richard M. Nixon,...

Just one week into the Big Ten college football season, the conference is now feeling the effects of the coronavirus pandemic. On Wednesday, Wisconsin announced that it would be pausing all football-related activities for seven days due to an "elevated number of COVID-19 cases within the Badgers' program," the program said in a statement. Wisconsin's game against the Nebraska Cornhuskers on Saturday, October 31, will not be played.

A federal judge on Tuesday night ordered the U.S. Postal Service to reverse limitations on mail collection imposed by Trump-backed Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, giving the agency until Wednesday morning to inform workers of the court's changes as more mail-in ballots continue to flood in. In a highly detailed order, Judge Emmet Sullivan of the District Court for the District of Columbia granted an emergency motion by plaintiffs against President Donald Trump to enforce and monitor compliance with Sullivan's previous injunction tied to USPS services. No later than 9 a.m. Wednesday, the judge said, agency workers must be told that...

CNSNews.com – “Generations yet unborn will suffer the consequences” of Amy Coney Barrett’s elevation to the Supreme Court, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said on the Senate floor, shortly before a majority voted on Monday to confirm the pro-life, conservative judge onto the bench. Schumer was not likely thinking of unborn babies in the womb; his next sentence began with an allusion to climate change. But the same sentence also included a reference to abortion, as he lamented what he described as “reactionary state legislatures curtail[ing] a woman’s right to choose.” Now-Justice Barrett said at her swearing-in ceremony on Monday...

TikTok will ‘reduce discoverability’ of content that prematurely claims victory on election day before results are officially confirmed by the Associated Press, the video-sharing platform announced on Wednesday, following competitors like Facebook who have also committed to doing the same. Key Facts TikTok will also limit the distribution of any claims that can’t be verified or conclusively fact-checked “out of an abundance of caution,” the company said in a blog post outlining its election day measures. On videos carrying unverifiable claims, Tiktok will add a banner on top that points viewers to its election guide page, which it had launched...

Lacy Johnson, the Republican challenger to Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn), complains that "Rep. Omar has been dodging all of my requests to engage in a debate to help voters view both candidates answering questions about the policies they support and how they will affect Minnesotans. She is one of only two holdouts among the state's eight-member congressional delegation—both of them Democrats—who have refused to participate in a debate." Omar brushed off Johnson's complaint, calling it "the mewling whining of a loser. The fact is that our campaign has discovered that debates are an inefficient method for interacting with voters. We...