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Cincinnati Bengals rookie sensation Joe Burrow suffered a torn ACL during Sunday’s showdown against the Washington Football Team. His expected recovery time is set at 9 to 12 months. With Burrow out, Cincinnati’s quarterback options consist of Ryan Finley and Brandon Allen. For obvious reasons, many have begun to question whether the organization may take a look at signing Colin Kaepernick.

Republicans only need one of the two seats to maintain their Senate majority. A look at the history of similar contests indicates that an electoral split is uncommon, but still possible.The presidential race seems to be over. Republicans gained seats in the House, but Democratic control is assured there too, if narrowly. Only the Senate stands between the Democrats and undivided government, with the majority there to be decided by two runoff elections in Georgia. As close as that state was in the presidential race—a margin of 0.25 percent, according to the hand recount just finished—we can expect the Senate...

Waffle House CEO Walt Ehmer’s stance against lockdowns is courageous, but ultimately bolder action may be required to save businesses from the pernicious effects of lockdowns. Walt Ehmer, the CEO of Waffle House, didn’t mince words when he explained his biggest problem with economic lockdowns stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic. "None of the people who make the decisions to shut down businesses and impact people's livelihoods ever have their own livelihood impacted," Ehmer recently told Business Insider. When the coronavirus swept across America earlier this spring, Waffle House, which has locations in 25 states, was forced to shut down some...

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The head of the NYPD’s largest union issued a stark warning to subway riders Friday amid the recent rash of shoving incidents by unhinged assailants: You’re on your own, reports the New York Post. Since October 19, so we’re talking about just a little over a month, on four occasions now, unsuspecting subway riders have been ambushed from behind, pushed on to the subway tracks while waiting for a train. According to Police Benevolent Association president Pat Lynch, the “politicians have made it abundantly clear that they don’t want cops enforcing transit system rules, connecting the homeless with services, engaging...

When Tucker Carlson is on, no one can say it better. He is clairvoyant and witty and spot on. But at other times – like now – he can be off quite a bit (to say it nicely).We love Tucker Carlson but many of us are done with FOX News after the far-left bias consumed the network that was once the favorite conservative news channel. Tucker’s rant with Sidney Powell has not helped the permanent exodus from FOX News. What FOX doesn’t realize is that after all of their conservative viewers leave, they will have no one. We refer to...

Several Hollywood leftists jumped to Twitter on Sunday and Monday to praise former NFL player Colin Kaepernick and to attack Kyle Rittenhouse. Morgan Freeman (not actor Morgan Freeman, but filmmaker Morgan Freeman) retweeted a message by a United Nations operative that supported Kaepernick and attacked America

In the latest sign of economic trouble for Silicon Valley, Bay Area tech entrepreneur Keith Rabois is leaving San Francisco for the state of Florida."I think San Francisco is just so massively improperly run and managed that it's impossible to stay here," Rabois told Fortune magazine.Rabois is a startup executive for the likes of PayPal, Square, and LinkedIn. He is "moving imminently" from the area, finding it "impossible to stay," after calling it home for two decades, per the report.

Steve Schwarzman, the billionaire businessman who's been a long time supporter of Donald Trump's, now says the election is over and the president needs to move on in a sign of dwindling support for Trump's doomed legal battle. In the immediate aftermath of the election Schwarzman, the CEO of the Blackstone Group, defended the president's right to pursue legal battles and told the business community Trump had the right to pursue all avenues. But now he's recognizing Joe Biden's victory. 'I'm a fan of good process,' Schwarzman told Axios. 'In my comments three days after the election, I was trying...

Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) dismissed President Trump's accusation that fraud altered the outcome of the election "because he said before the election that if he were to lose, it would be because of voter fraud. That right there is enough to persuade me that Biden won fair and square." Asked if he would be as skeptical of a woman who predicted her boyfriend would beat her and she later showed up with cuts and bruises claiming that he did, the Senator replied "that's a totally different situation. She probably had ample reason to predict the outcome. He may have exhibited...

"....Indeed, if one were inclined to worry, this current manifestation of legal nihilism, maximalism and nullification are far more dangerous than the version we learned to live with for the past four years, because this new one is now operating separate and apart from Trump. We don’t have to wait to see what happens when Josh Hawley or Tom Cotton runs as a “competent” authoritarian in 2024. Even without a formal figurehead, competent authoritarianism is seeping up from below. It’s coming from Trump supporters who deny the legitimacy of the election, state officials who are pushing false claims, lawyers making...

Bucking the long-run trend of declining hunting license and permit sales statewide, hunters purchased 7 % more for all hunting licenses and permits from last year. Sales of specialty licenses and permits are surging with permits for snow geese up 863%, river otters climbing 73%, and shooting range permits soaring 93%. “The pandemic left people with time they didn’t typically have,” said Patrick Snickles, spokesman for the Pennsylvania Game Commission. “And people have been looking for things to do where they aren’t around other people, so they have been hunting, fishing and kayaking.” They are also looking for shooting ranges...

Sorry for using the word, “algorithm.” I suspect most of you reading this struggled thru basic algebra in high school and did not deign to venture into the world of calculus and other advanced mathematics. The explanation is simple. A calculation built into the computer software was executed to produce numbers that, if unexamined, appear to secure a victory for Biden. The numbers do not lie. Votes were manufactured for Joe Biden. The citizens of Pennsylvania voted overwhelmingly for Donald Trump. Joe Biden’s folks tried to steal it.A fellow by the name of Edward Solomon has done yeoman’s work in...

While many Democrats and their allies in the traditional media argue there is no evidence of systemic voting irregularities in the Nov. 3 election, a mountain of evidence has been amassed in private lawsuits alleging there was, in fact, significant and widespread voting misconduct. The question for the courts is whether the irregularities were widespread enough to impact the outcome or erase Joe Biden's lead in at least three of the six battleground states where results are being contested. And while both President Trump's campaign and private entities like the Amistad Project are planning to file more lawsuits on Monday,...

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy was called “a d–k” by foul-mouthed, maskless hecklers who interrupted him having dinner with his family, according to a viral video. “Oh my God, Murphy, you are such a d–k,” one woman could be heard telling the governor in the video seen more than 1.2 million times since it was posted by Breaking 911 on Sunday night. “You’re having fun with your family, in the meantime you’re having all kind of bulls–t going on?” another female voice heckled the politician as he dined outside with wife Tammy and their four children. The governor — who...

A top Democratic operative says voter fraud, especially with mail-in ballots, is no myth. And he knows this because he’s been doing it, on a grand scale, for decades.

The COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc on the U.S. labor market, and according to new data from job and review site Glassdoor, the damage done within some industries might be irreversible. Glassdoor Chief Economist Andrew Chamberlain breaks down pandemic-affected jobs into three categories: jobs that won’t return until the coronavirus is under control, jobs that may take years to get back to pre-pandemic levels, and jobs that may never return.Jobs that likely will not return until COVID-19 is under control include anything in the personal services, including beauty consultants and stylists as well as discretionary health care jobs like audiologists,...

John Kasich, the former Ohio governor who unsuccessfully ran for president in 2016, said Sunday that he found it “amazing” that fellow Republicans are “sitting on their hands” and refusing to defend the integrity of the election against President Donald Trump. Kasich, a frequent Trump critic, said on National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered” that he believes the lack of action is because Republicans are “either in complete lockstep” with Trump - “or they’re afraid of him.” The GOP’s part in enabling Trump is “extremely disappointing for someone who has been a Republican all of my life,” he added. Kasich...

Break out the Wagner, folks … the Germans are back! No, not the warm, fuzzy, pussified, peace-loving, post-war Germans … the Germans! You know the ones I mean. The “I didn’t know where the trains were going” Germans. The “I was just following orders” Germans. The other Germans. Yeah … those Germans. In case you missed it, on November 18, the German parliament passed a law, the so-called “Infection Protection Act” (“Das Infektionsschutzgesetz” in German) formally granting the government the authority to issue whatever edicts it wants under the guise of protecting the public health. The government has been doing...

A “fit and healthy” teenage wrestler in England has died within hours of being hospitalized with COVID-19. Cameron Wellington, a 19-year-old professional wrestler from Walsall, tested positive for the virus on Nov. 10, but his condition quickly took a turn for the worse, Birmingham Mail reported. “Cam was adamant he was fine but I could tell (something was wrong). The color was draining from him,” his mother Jane Wellington told the outlet. He was rushed to the hospital Wednesday with breathing problems — and doctors said he “wasn’t expected to last an hour