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Today is a bit slower than yesterday. I would prefer to see us under 150k and on pace for 50k per day, but not bad. There were also some reporting issues with Polk County and early poll closings in the Panhandle shortening hours because of the hurricane. So we'll see. All in all, Trump is still in strong position. Democrats had a 96k vote lead in 2016 Early Voting and Trump is now within 70k of that number with 3 more days of early voting left. On a positive note, we are rapidly closing the gap in the former weak...

Federal agencies warned that cybercriminals are unleashing a wave of data-scrambling extortion attempts against the U.S. healthcare system designed to lock up hospital information systems, which could hurt patient care just as nationwide cases of COVID-19 are spiking.In a joint alert Wednesday, the FBI and two federal agencies warned that they had "credible information of an increased and imminent cybercrime threat to U.S. hospitals and healthcare providers." The alert said malicious groups are targeting the sector with attacks that produce "data theft and disruption of healthcare services."The cyberattacks involve ransomware, which scrambles data into gibberish that can only be unlocked...

Tony Bobulinksi was thrust into the national spotlight on the evening of the final presidential debate. -snip- Bobulinksi said he was first introduced to the former vice president in May 2017 by Hunter and Jim Biden in Beverly Hills, California. He claimed they talked about the Biden family business plans with China, despite the Democratic nominee on several occasions denying he had any involvement, including the final presidential debate when Biden said, “I have not taken a penny from any foreign source ever in my life." During his remarks that same night, Bobulinksi displayed three phones he claimed contained evidence...

It doesn’t take a fount of political wisdom to say that if Biden and the Democrats carry the Electoral College, America is lost, perhaps forever. The U.S. will become a Leninist country. Madness and ignorance will have triumphed. If Trump and the Republicans survive on November 3, as I hope and suspect they will, certain policies will have to be enacted to ensure that the country never again approaches the brink of social, political and economic perdition as it has in recent times, most emphatically engineered by the administration of Barack Obama premised on the “radical transformation” of America. And...

@JamesRosenTVEXCLUSIVE: A @TheJusticeDept official confirms that in 2019, the @FBI opened up a criminal investigation into "Hunter Biden and his associates," focused on allegations of money-laundering, and that it remains open and active today. More very soon on your @WeAreSinclair stations.

Leftist protest groups plot election day coup aided by the Democrat Party, Federal employees & Intelligence contractors. They plan to shut down & take over Washington D.C. starting Nov. 4th until inauguration day to force Trump out of the White House. https://twitter.com/Millie__Weaver/status/1321931449650610178  

“Brothers All,” Including “Families” of the Same Sex. The Pontificate of Francis Under the Analyst’s Lens > Italiano > English> Español> Français> All the articles of Settimo Cielo in English*(s.m.) The benedictory words of Pope Francis for homosexual “families,” in the recent film named after him, and his encyclical “Fratelli tutti” on universal brotherhood, with only 4 timid paragraphs out of 287 dedicated to “Christian identity,” have prompted Professor Pietro De Marco to make a comprehensive critical evaluation of the current pontificate.On the genesis and effects of the pope’s words from the film, Settimo Cielo has offered this detailed reconstruction:>...

Kelly Kean Sharp resigned Tuesday from her assistant professorship at Furman University following accusations that she pretended to be non-white, a university spokesman said. An anonymous person outed the African American history scholar through a Medium post, InsideHigherEd reported. The anonymous writer said that he or she “distantly” knew Sharp when Sharp was in graduate school at the University of California, Davis, and that Sharp only recently began identifying as Chicana. Sharp reportedly formerly identified herself as Chicana in her Twitter profile, which has since been removed. The Medium post includes screenshots of Sharp’s tweets showing Sharp referring to her...

Canada Dry settled in court for $200,000 with a B.C. man who claimed the company falsely advertised its ginger content to have medicinal properties. Most of the $200,000 will be going to a legal foundation. The plaintiff, Victor Cardoso, started a class action lawsuit on Jan. 21, 2019, on behalf of all Canadians outside of Quebec, arguing that Canada Dry’s label was misleading. This came after similar lawsuits were filed in the U.S. Shortly afterward, two similar cases popped up in Quebec and Alberta. Cardoso alleged that the marketing of the ginger ale as “Made from Real Ginger” was deceptive...

Malaysia's former prime minister today said that Muslims have the right 'to kill millions of French people', shortly after a knife-wielding Islamist killed three people in a deadly terror attack in Nice. Mahathir Mohamad, who lost power in February this year, said freedom of expression does not include 'insulting other people' as fury over satirical cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed sweeps the Islamic world. The 95-year-old politician said he did not approve of the beheading of a French school teacher for sharing caricatures of the Prophet, but said: 'Irrespective of the religion professed, angry people kill'. 'The French in the...

Polling Data Poll Date Sample Democrats (D) Republicans (R) Spread RCP Average 9/18 - 10/28 -- 50.4 42.0 Democrats +8.4 Economist/YouGov 10/25 - 10/27 1365 LV 52 42 Democrats +10 USA Today/Suffolk 10/23 - 10/27 1000 LV 49 39 Democrats +10 CNN 10/23 - 10/26 886 LV 54 42 Democrats +12 USC Dornsife 10/15 - 10/28 5271 LV 52 44 Democrats +8 NBC News/Wall St. Jrnl 10/9 - 10/12 1000 RV 49 42 Democrats +7 Monmouth 9/24 - 9/27 809 LV 50 44 Democrats +6 Politico/Morning Consult 9/18 - 9/20 1989 RV 47 41 Democrats +6 All 2020 Generic Congressional...

Discuss Trump's Coattails.

A couple of days ago there was a big Fox News dustup between Rudy Giuliani and Lisa 'Kennedy' Montgomery when she first compared him to Christopher Steele then said she was grossed out by his Borat scene. Giuliani blew up, told her to come over to his office, examine the documents for herself then apologize for comparing him to a criminal that created a phony dossier for the Clinton campaign. Kennedy promised that she would come over with her staff and look for herself. I haven't seen any followup on that yet. Does anyone know if she kept her promise?

The daily Rasmussen Reports poll that tracks black support for President Donald Trump shows the president sitting at 31 percent as of Thursday, just five days before the election.

Someone I know who is a member of the police auxiliary has been told to "stand by" / vote ASAP / not plan on going out of town for the next week / alert his regular employer that he may not be available because there is a high degree of probability that he will called upon to assist the regular police with expected unrest next week. What are you hearing from the people you know who are regular, aux, or retired police and or military?

Spotify has defended allowing Infowars conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to appear as a guest on Joe Rogan's podcast, saying it won't censor conservative voices just because some may not agree with them. In a memo to staff, Horacio Gutierrez, the company’s chief legal officer and head of global affairs, said that the platform would not ban people from going on others' shows just because staff may not agree with their views. 'Spotify has always been a place for creative expressions. It’s important to have diverse voices and points of view on our platform. 'We are not going to ban specific...

America is five days away from the presidential election, and the NBC and CBS morning news shows censored an astounding recovery in U.S. GDP growth. The ABC morning news show coverage of the news was a weak micro-mention. The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) released it’s long-expected third quarter GDP estimates at 8:30 a.m., and the results were jaw-dropping. Actual GDP growth in the third quarter was 7.4 percent, which the New York Post said was a “record-setting rebound.” That is an understatement. On an annualized basis, the GDP growth went from falling an atrocious 31.4 percent in the second...

Publication by the New York Post two weeks ago of emails from Hunter Biden's laptop, relating to Vice President Joe Biden's work in Ukraine, and subsequent articles from other outlets concerning the Biden family's pursuit of business opportunities in China, provoked extraordinary efforts by a de facto union of media outlets, Silicon Valley giants and the intelligence community to suppress these stories. One outcome is that the Biden campaign concluded, rationally, that there is no need for the front-running presidential candidate to address even the most basic and relevant questions raised by these materials. Rather than condemn Biden for ignoring...

This Sunday, Nov. 2, will mark the end of daylight saving time for 2020. I am pleased to share that, finally, serious legislative considerations — in several states — are underway in the quest to end the biannual rituals of changing from standard time to daylight saving time (DST). During the last 3 years, 13 states enacted legislation to provide for year-round daylight saving time if Congress were to allow such a change and, in some cases, if surrounding states would enact the same legislation, according to the website of the National Conference of State Legislatures. Full-time DST is not...

[snip] Aside from a handful of news outlets, most of the press has downplayed, blacked out, or attacked this story, with many simply regurgitating -- or not challenging -- the Biden campaign's claim that the whole controversy is a product of Russian disinformation. This assertion has literally zero basis in established fact, yet it's the official position of Team Biden, and has been parroted by journalists. Lefty writer Matthew Taibbi, who has been highly critical of the media in recent years, (is aghast:)