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@ChadPergram 1) Fox is told it’s possible the House will likely try to approve via unanimous consent (meaning no member objects) a short-term spending bill to avert a government shutdown later tonight. 2) If that’s not possible, the House will likely call a vote on the short-term spending measure. They’ll have to treat it as a “suspension” bill. That means they can get the measure to the floor quickly, but it requires a two-thirds vote to pass. 3) And then things are up to the Senate. That could take a while...if there is no deal to speed things up just...

Vice President Mike Pence and Second Lady Karen Pence will receive the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine live.

The Constitution provides for a remedy in case there is any suspicion of fraud in a Presidential election. A single Senator can object to the seating of electors as valid and the election will be thrown to the States. There are signs that Sen Majority Leader McConnell is willing to suppress the votes of Senators against the election. No doubt they are pushing the line that changing the election outcome now would let loose Antifa and BLM, the dogs of war of the Dem. Party and the MSM. Not to worry--they are domiciled in blue states so let them loose...

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio apologized for the police response to the protests that took place in the city earlier this year following the death of George Floyd.

The failed state of California is bleeding enough population to lose a House seat and an electoral vote. There are only so many seats in the U.S. House of Representatives and so many electoral votes, and those are earned based on your specific state’s proportion of the population when compared to the rest of the country

The Trump administration has taken steps to roll back some pretty high-profile rules. You might have heard of its moves to eliminate the ban on drilling for oil on public land, or maybe anti-fracking rules, or the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy. But here’s another deregulatory effort that has flown more under the radar: the Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday proposed scrapping its rules governing the makeup of…frozen cherry pies. Small potatoes? Maybe. But Scott Gottlieb, the former FDA chief, applauded it as a fat slice of liberty for the populace. “The American people are free (to) add...

Insanity Wrap needs to know: How are we ever going to achieve a color-blind society when our nomenklatura insists on seeing everything through the lens of race?Answer: We’re not supposed to achieve it, because then the nomenklatura wouldn’t be able to keep us at one another’s throats for their own benefit.Before we get to the sordid details, a quick preview of today’s Wrap:Here comes Santa Claus, and he wants us locked down... Helen Keller was ‘Just Another Privileged White Person’ because of course she was... Racist nipples... And so much more.Shall we begin?

Fauci hailed the public vaccination of the vice president as an important symbolic message that should give confidence to the rest of the nation that it is safe to get the shot. "The time is now to step to the plate and, when your time comes, to get vaccinated. Because when we’re speaking to you today, I often say it is really bittersweet," Fauci said. "The bitterness is the fact of what the vice president mentioned. We still are in the middle of a very difficult situation with record numbers of cases, hospitalizations and deaths." "But the sweetness is the...

The audio of Tom Cruise’s profanity-laced tirade about social distancing and COVID-19 on the set of Mission Impossible 7 was dubbed into Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer and it’s the laugh you probably need this month. Tom Cruise’s temper tantrum on the movie set of Mission Impossible 7 caused a lot of commotion. He’s an A-List star and he wants everyone to obey. However, he didn’t believe they were practicing appropriate social distancing.

Goodness. In what sounds like a dare, McDonald’s China is offering a Spam burger with crumbled cookies. As pointed out by Daniel Ahmad on Twitter, the burger will go on sale in China starting December 21 and will apparently be limited to 400,000 Spam Oreo sandwiches. Do note that the fine print does mention the Spam trademark and not the Oreo one. Oreos, of course, are widely available in China (and globally there are countless Oreo-type cookies), but according to Ahmad, the text does say Oreo.

A smart friend of mine who is a moderate liberal asked why I was not recognizing Joe Biden’s victory. The friend made the case that Biden had gotten more votes, and historically we recognize the person with the most votes. Normally, we accept the outcome of elections just as we accept the outcomes of sporting events. So, my friend asked why was 2020 different? Having spent more than four years watching the left #Resist President Donald Trump and focus entirely on undoing and undermining the 2016 election, it took me several days to understand the depth of my own feelings....

An Oklahoma ICU nurse has been left homeless for the holidays after her house burned down while she was at work treating COVID-19 patients. Tina Irwin was working a 12-hour shift at Mercy Hospital in Oklahoma City when her neighbor called to tell her that her home was on fire, according to KOCO News 5. Three of the single mother’s four children were at home when the fire started, the outlet reported.

The Centre of Fine Arts in Brussels announced the celebration of the 250th birthday of Ludwig van Beethoven by posting a portrait of the composer as a black African man. The centre, also known as BOZAR, published a post on Wednesday of a still from a video entitled “Black Beethoven” by American artist Terry Adkins, which features a portrait of the late 18th and early 19th-century composer depicted a young black man with dreadlocks. “In the work, Adkins presents a portrait of the iconic composer that slowly morphs into that of a young black man with short dreadlocks and back...

On Friday, Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) reacted to the alleged hacks orchestrated by Russia on multiple U.S. federal agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security. Kaine argued during MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports” that the alleged cyberattack shows we cannot count on the President Donald Trump administration to keep Americans safe. However, he touted President-elect Joe Biden’s incoming national security team as “competent” enough to do so.

Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s new book “Persist” will hit stores in April, her publisher announced on Wednesday. “I wrote ‘Persist’ because I remain as committed as ever to fighting for an America that works for everyone,” Warren in a statement. “I’ve written a dozen books, but this one is especially personal: I bring the pieces of who I am to the fight for real change, and I passionately believe that we are in a moment when extraordinary changes are possible.” The book, due to be released on April 20, will touch on the Massachusetts Democrat’s 2020 presidential run but will...

The NFL’s social justice initiative ‘Inspire Change’ has made headlines on numerous occasions over the past few months. This week, it happened again. On Wednesday the NFL honored 21-year-old Draesjon “Sean” Reed, a young man who was shot and killed by Indianapolis police back in May.

ormer Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton on Thursday took to Twitter to push back against Trump supporters “offended” by President-elect Joe Biden’s former campaign manager cursing when talking about GOP lawmakers in a recent interview. Republicans took aim at incoming deputy chief of staff Jen O’Malley Dillon after she called GOP lawmakers “a bunch of f---ers” and said Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is “terrible” in an interview published by Glamour on Tuesday. Clinton responded to the criticism in a tweet Thursday, writing, “People who stood by Donald Trump for the last four years are now claiming to be...

One of the most commercially successful painters of the last century, Montague Dawson, born in Chiswick, West London is acknowledged as a supreme painter of the sea, sailing ships and the deep ocean.His father and grandfather were both marine painters, and this maritime background was reinforced when, early in his life, his family moved to Smugglers House on Southampton Water, on England's south coast. Dawson never went to art school but, around 1910, he joined a commercial art studio in London, working on posters and illustrations.Joining the Royal Navy at the outbreak of the First World War, Dawson met Charles...

BATH, N.Y. (WETM) – Steuben County Legislator Steve Maio and four other men have been charged as part of a sex trafficking ring in Steuben and Chemung Counties, according to Steuben County District Attorney Brooks Baker.... Maio, a Democrat representing the City of Corning...was charged “as part of the enterprise corruption program. He is a participant in the enterprise corruption and engaged in a course of criminal conduct to advance the aims of the enterprise.” Maio was also charged with falsifying business records and forgery as part of what Baker called a “cover up.” Charges in the indictment include sex...

I’m pleased to write that Congressman Mike Kelly of PA has joined the effort, by conspicuously missing from the list is the signature of our own US Representative John Joyce, who never missed a photo op with President Trump, but is now willing to throw the President under the bus, no doubt to please his RINO supporters.