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On Tuesday, November 3rd President Trump was ahead of Joe Biden in the swing state of Michigan by over 100,000 votes. This appeared to be another solid win for President Trump in Michigan with a greater margin than his 2016 victory. The ballot counting in Detroit, Michigan on election night took place at the TCF Center, formerly known as Cobo Hall. This is the site where Detroit City Officials put cardboard over the windows to prevent the GOP observers from seeing in, where poll workers were militantly hostile to the GOP observers, and where hundreds of affidavits by election observers...

The Pacific Northwest region of the U.S. has been sweltering for the past few days under what weather specialists are calling a "once-in-a-millennium heat dome." In neighboring Canada, 60 temperature records were broken during the same heat wave, as the thermometer reached 117.5 degrees Fahrenheit (47.5 degrees Celsius) in Lytton, British Columbia, breaking a Canadian heat record set in Saskatchewan in 1937. So the last weather event of this kind was nearly a century ago. That hasn't stopped the armchair experts from musing about how humans are responsible for their own hot, sticky misery. These members of the behavior patrol...

An Arizona county has announced it will replace all of the voting machines used in the 2020 election over concerns security "has been compromised." On Monday, the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors in Arizona announced that all the voting machines will be replaced following its audit of the election ballots.

The Los Angeles branch of Black Lives Matter filed a federal lawsuit against the City of Santa Monica, California, on Monday, a year after rioters and looters rampaged through the downtown area alongside an anti-police protest on May 31, 2020. As Breitbart News reported last year: “While several hundred demonstrators participated in a peaceful march along Ocean Boulevard to voice outrage at the death of George Floyd at the hands of police in Minneapolis, Minnesota, hundreds of looters terrorized nearby stores.” The only stores to stave off looters were guarded by armed civilians. Graffiti was sprayed all over government and...

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on’t mess with these Texas parents. A husband and wife in Houston chased down an alleged “peeping Tom” lurking outside their 10-year-old daughter’s bedroom window — and shot him, authorities said. The couple said they heard their daughter scream late Sunday when she spotted the man touching himself, local reports said. “She looks over at the window and this guy is at her window,” the girl’s mother, who asked not to be identified, told KPRC-TV. “He took my daughter’s innocence away.”

VIDEOIs that decaf in Ryan Grim's coffee cup on the set of The Hill's "Rising" show? One has to ask because of his low energy level. Okay, perhaps you can discuss Federal Reserve policy in a low key manner but Grim seems to have a rather low energy level no matter the topic. Here are some clips of Grim discussing what should be a hot button issue for journalists, the claim by Tucker Carlson that the NSA was spying on him yet Grim's low energy level chock full of caveats and qualifications was notable.And if Ryan Grim is unable to...

At age 74, Sen. Willard M. Romney has fallen head over heels in love. With Dementia Joe Biden. “I do trust the president,” he gushed to ratings-challenged Clinton Crime Family soldier Jake Tapper on CNN Sunday. Another quote attributed to the junior senator from the Beehive State: “I do take the president at his word.” Of course Mitt does. Last Thursday, with the slobbering Romney behind him at the White House, Biden waxed semi-coherent about the wonderful bipartisan deal on the $953-billion so-called “infrastructure” bill. Two hours later, with Romney back in his Capitol Hill office, probably tweeting out valentines...

When one has been active in and writing about American politics as long as I have — especially as an avowed partisan — one puts together quite the list of reasons to not trust the other side. When I first got involved in political activism, I wasn’t as given to sweeping generalizations as I am now. That’s on the Democrats, not on me. While there are many big issues that the Democrats have been very wrong about for many years, they have gotten really, really wrong about almost everything since the beginning of the Obama era. That, for me, is...

China knows how to curry below-the-radar favor with international political figures, bureaucrats and opinion leaders, then, when a problem develops threatening Chinese Communist Party interests, use covert influence to stifle criticism or delay a response. The most pernicious example of Chinese covert influence in action is the World Health Organization's failure in January and February 2020 to demand Beijing provide a full and accurate accounting of the COVID-19/Wuhan virus epidemic in China, including its origin. Instead, WHO spouted medical nostrums and accepted China's evasions (lies). China ego-stroked WHO officials and created sympathizers by funding "research trips." The tactic is called...

Emails from Biden's laptop reveal relationship with Boies Schiller Flexner.. The prominent law firm for which Hunter Biden served as counsel took steps to avoid disclosing to Congress its work with Ukrainian energy giant Burisma Holdings, emails from Biden's laptop show. Heather King, a partner at Boies Schiller Flexner, detailed the lobbying strategy in emails to Biden, his business partners, and an executive for Burisma Holdings in 2014. King wrote that she planned to provide legal and political services for Burisma "right up to the line" at which the law firm would have to disclose the work under federal lobbying...

The National Transportation Safety Board has determined probable cause and issued seven safety recommendations related to the deadly 2019 New Year’s Eve sinking of the fishing vessel Scandies Rose resulting in the deaths of five crew members.

Gov. Tony Evers on Tuesday vetoed a GOP-authored bill that sought to eliminate Wisconsin’s participation in enhanced federal unemployment benefits, which provide unemployed individuals with an extra $300 per week. Republicans and some of the state’s largest business organizations have taken aim at enhanced federal benefits, which are slated to run through Sept. 6, as creating a disincentive to work and exacerbating the ongoing workforce shortage. Democratic lawmakers and some business groups have defended the benefits as much-needed assistance to those who are unable to find work or are reluctant to return to the workforce amid the ongoing pandemic. In...

Over the last, terrible schoolyear, appreciators of educational freedom and excellence can at least take heart that their cause is winning the esteem of many parents. This owes not only to the poor behavior of American educrats and their unionized minions, but also to the spiritedness of school choice advocates—noteworthy among them, the masterly economist Thomas Sowell. When Sowell turned 90 a year ago, he concurrently published Charter Schools and Their Enemies, a superb book among a superb oeuvre. Lovers of free enterprise and public virtue should immerse themselves in the latter, and in Jason L. Riley’s splendid new Sowell...

Master Sergeant Leo P. Day, who had served 16 years in the U.S. Army and was then stationed at the Presidio, went out that evening after dinner. He stood on the cliff overlooking Baker Beach and surveyed the scene with his binoculars. To his right stood the Golden Gate Bridge and the majestic headlands of Marin. To his left, the posh neighborhood of Sea Cliff spread along the shore. It had been an unusually hot day for May in San Francisco, and now, not surprisingly, two teenagers were swimming in the blue ocean waters just off the beach that sits...

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that a U.S. reconnaissance aircraft was operating in sync with a British destroyer during last week's Black Sea incident in what he described as a "provocation" to test Moscow's response. Moscow said one of its warships fired warning shots and a warplane dropped bombs in the path of British destroyer Defender on June 23 to force it out of an area near the Crimean Peninsula, which Russia annexed in 2014. Britain denied that account, insisted its ship wasn't fired upon and said it was sailing in Ukrainian waters. Asked if the incident could have...

It turns out, dogs know how doorbells work. A couple in South Carolina worried about their lost dog were surprised when their doorbell rang in the middle of the night. They were even more shocked when it turned out that their beloved pet had not only returned home but had also figured out how to use the electronic device. Mary Lynn and her husband, Ryan, say that their dog Rajah got spooked by fireworks and escaped from their backyard in Greenville, Southwest News Service (SWNS) reports. For seven hours, the worried couple searched for the dog but could not find...

BARABOO (WKOW) – A Baraboo Walmart employee was able to tackle a deer that got into the store this week. A 27 News viewer recorded a video in the store when it happened Wednesday. The video shows an employee on top of the deer, to keep it from moving through the store. The witness said the deer got into the store somewhere in the back of the building. Managers at Walmart declined to comment on the incident. Video at source

The woke Left’s long march through our institutions of higher learning has reached an astronomy course at Cornell University. Astro 2034 “Black Holes: Race and the Cosmos” introduces “students to the fundamentals of astronomy concepts through readings in Black Studies.” Yes, really: Conventional wisdom would have it that the “black” in black holes has nothing to do with race. Surely there can be no connection between the cosmos and the idea of racial blackness. Can there? Contemporary Black Studies theorists, artists, fiction writers implicitly and explicitly posit just such a connection. And there we have it, friends, proof there is...

Like Wile E. Coyote, the self-anointed geniuses in the political media just keep trying to spring new traps on Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. And like the Road Runner, DeSantis keeps escaping with his head high while his pursuers’ plans detonate in their faces. Example: The building collapse in Surfside, Fla., has cost at least 11 lives, likely many more. There must be some way to blame DeSantis, right? Hannah Dreier of The Washington Post claimed on Twitter that “FEMA was ready to deploy to the condo collapse almost immediately, and included the crisis in its daily briefing, but didn’t get...