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Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has foolishly put herself—and the safety of the people of Chicago—in a game of chicken, with at least half the police force ready to defy her vaccine mandate and be sent home from work by City Hall without pay, rather than comply. “She wants to play a game of chicken. Well, we’re in a semi. And she’s in a Smart Car. And she wants to play chicken?” said Fraternal Order of Police President John Catanzara told me on Thursday. “That’s her decision.” I figure Chicago’s little Napoleon in pants suits caves by Friday. As I type...

Introduction: Imagine, if you will, an alternate universe in which a confused old man - Joe Buckstop - stumbles into the presidency, and spends his entire term in his basement. Each evening, an aide walks downstairs and serves him his bowl of soup, and engages him in conversation about current events, in a losing effort to keep his mind hale. Tonight's episode is an excerpt from the ongoing series, "Evening Soup with Basement Joe," by John F. Di Leo, a fictional chronicle of the events of 2021, a political satire available in paperback or eBook from Amazon. "Good evening, sir!...

Eritrea and Burundi along with North Korea are the only countries that have yet to roll out COVID-19 vaccination campaign. This was revealed by WHO chief, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyseus in his October 13, 2021 coronavirus briefing. He bemoaned the increasing lack of vaccines which according to him impacted a number of African countries stressing his call for more access to jabs. "As you know, 56 countries who were effectively excluded from the global vaccine marketplace were not able to reach the target of vaccinating 10% of their populations by the end of September - and most of them in Africa.

Jason Rantz on KTTH Radio @jasonrantz Jen Psaki Defends Rising Prices: 'Good Thing' Because it Means 'More People are Buying Goods' 5:47 PM · Oct 15, 2021·Twitter Media Studio

The fatal stabbing of British Member of Parliament David Amess was a terrorist incident, police said on Saturday (Oct 16), at they investigated the second killing of a UK politician while meeting voters since 2016. The Metropolitan Police said its preliminary findings had revealed "a potential motivation linked to Islamist extremism". Amess, a 69-year-old pro-Brexit Conservative lawmaker, was stabbed to death inside a church on Friday while holding a fortnightly consultation with his constituents in the small town of Leigh-on-Sea, in Essex, east of London.

A government watchdog group filed an ethics complaint against White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki Friday over her endorsement of Terry McAuliffe for Virginia governor during a press briefing, which the group alleges is a violation of the Hatch Act. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics filed a complaint with the Office of Special Counsel, requesting that an investigation be launched to determine if Psaki violated the Hatch Act, which prohibits federal government employees from participating in political campaign activities in their official capacity. The president and vice president are exempt from this rule. The complaint points to Psaki's comments during...

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Well, not quite but this is pretty dang funny. This guy is named Shawn Farash and I could totally see Trump saying all this.

Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) on Friday condemned the process that led to the redistricting of his House seat ahead of the next election, calling it “anything but transparent.” “I have proudly served six terms in the U.S. House and it has been an honor to do so,” Kinzinger said. “Following the release of the new congressional maps for Illinois, my team and I will spend some time looking them over and reviewing all of the options, including those outside the House. This redistricting process has been anything but transparent, which comes as no surprise to anyone. I believe the people...

SNIP A puppy named Bailey isnt shy when it comes to giving out kisses to the fish in this koi pond in the Netherlands.

Protests have been called in cities across Australia Saturday at Noon. Its a day following a deadline for more than one million workers in the State of Victoria, that's where Melbourne is located, to get their first vaccine jab or lose their jobs. In New South Wales, Australia's most populous state where Sydney is located, the Supreme Court rejected a challenge to mandatory vaccination. A tight lockdown remains on the table in Melbourne and there's one this weekend in the island state of Tasmania with Hobart and nearby areas under a three day lockdown. This week Northern Territory Chief Minister...

The raid on JStarks home was sparked by a confidential report by the German Federal Office of Criminal Investigation (it is not clear how this “confidential report” made its way into Spiegel’s hands) showed that German authorities received a message from England last December regarding “a man in Germany who is maybe manufacturing and spreading 3d printed firearms.” Investigators tracked down 28-year old Jacob D. where a special commando team raided his flat and searched the entire place. The search turned up nothing illegal nor were any firearms found at his apartment. Just two days after the raid, relatives found...

Brockton, Massachusetts — A woman who says she was burned by "scalding" hot coffee at a Brockton Dunkin' Donuts location is suing the local owner of the store and two employees there who allegedly mocked her injuries, CBS Boston reports. Angela Barbosa filed the lawsuit in Plymouth Superior Court earlier this month. She says she was in the passenger's seat of her sister's car in June of 2020 when they pulled up to the Dunkin' drive-thru at night and ordered three hot coffees. She claims an employee handed her sister coffee cups that weren't placed firmly in the tray, and...

FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va. (FOX 5 DC) - An Assistant to the Sergeant at Arms for the U.S. House of Representatives has been arrested and charged with ten felonies related to the possession of child pornography.

The animosity between Silberkraus’ Clark County faction and the state party chair erupted earlier this year, after the Republican Party’s state central committee voted to censure Nevada’s Republican secretary of state, Barbara Cegavske, for “failing to investigate” Trump’s baseless allegations of widespread voter fraud. Clark County Republicans accused McDonald, a Trump ally, of improperly influencing the vote by adding extremist members to the county’s roster. McDonald said he did nothing improper, casting the dispute as one between grassroots Republicans and two county parties — in Clark and Washoe — where entrenched leaders wanted to “keep it like a country club.”...

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Former President Trump reveled in the crises facing President Biden on Wednesday, asking voters whether clogged supply chains, rising gas prices and a humiliating retreat from Afghanistan made them miss him. 'COVID is raging out of control, our supply chains are crashing with little product in our stores, we were humiliated in Afghanistan, our border is a complete disaster, gas prices and inflation are zooming upward — how’s Biden doing?' he asked in an emailed statement. 'Do you miss me yet?' His message will be bolstered by a new poll suggesting 70 percent of Republicans want him to run for...

BREAKING: New Questions about U.S. Capitol Police Shooting of Unarmed Ashli Babbitt DHS Ends Worksite Enforcement to Protect ‘Noncitizen Victims’ from Deportation Targeting Trump: Durham Uncovers New Clinton, FBI Connections in Russia Probe BREAKING: New Questions about U.S. Capitol Police Shooting of Unarmed Ashli Babbitt Previously secret records we have obtained show there was no good reason to shoot and kill Ashli Babbitt in the U.S. Capitol on January 6. The Biden-Garland Justice Department and the Pelosi Congress have much to answer for over the mishandling and cover-up of this scandalous killing of an American citizen by the U.S....

“Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, is never to die again; death no longer is master over Him. For the death that He died, He died to sin, once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God” (Romans 6:8-10). God frees us from sin through the death of His Son. As a good teacher, the apostle Paul understood that important truths bear repeating. Thus in today’s passage he repeats and expands on the important truth he presented...

Joe Biden’s disastrous withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan has had devastating consequences. As a result, a flood of Afghan refugees has resettled in the U.S. A bill introduced by Republican Rep. Matt Rosendale of Montana hopes to give governors more power over the situation. If it passes, the bill would give Congress authority over refugee caps and allow governors the ability to reject the resettling of foreign nationals in their states. Currently, the Biden administration essentially holds the power to decide the number of refugees that settle into the country annually. The bill is called the “SECURE America Act.”...