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Republicans are signaling that they will help bail out Jerome Powell if he's renominated to lead the Federal Reserve amid opposition and skepticism from progressives. The burgeoning fight over who will lead the nation’s central bank comes as Powell’s four-year term runs out in February. Fed watchers anticipate President Biden could make an announcement in late October or November in order to set up an early 2022 confirmation vote for another four-year term. Powell has strong backers, including Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen. But he’s facing a curveball in the form of a stock trading scandal that has poured fuel on...

Massachusetts high school investigates reports of racial slurs during football game © Thinkstock A Boston Roman Catholic high school has suspended football activities amid an investigation into reports of one of its players using racial slurs toward an opposing player during a game last weekend, The Associated Press reported. In a statement posted on St. John Paul II website, Cathedral High School players told their coaches about St. John Paul II players’ using racial epithets toward them during the contest. Cathedral coaches reported the incident to St. John Paul administrators and have open an investigation into the allegations, according to...

Cumulus Broadcasting issues a vaccine mandate. Lead talk star Dan Bongino calling them out and says "You can have me or the mandate, not both."

John Kerry, who counts the disastrous Iran nuclear deal among his accomplishments, is Old Joe Biden’s man on climate change hysteria, but Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) has revealed that even among a staff that includes the likes of Pete “Mr. Mom” Buttigieg and Jen “Yes, I Think You’re Stupid” Psaki, Kerry is a lowlight, or worse. “For weeks,” Rubio wrote at FoxNews.com on Friday, “rumors have swirled in Washington about President Joe Biden’s climate czar John Kerry and his opposition to taking concrete action against the Chinese Communist Party’s use of slave labor. Now, we may have an answer about...

The Supreme Court on Monday sided with law enforcement in a pair of cases that implicated “qualified immunity,” the controversial legal doctrine that gives police broad protection from lawsuits. In a pair of unsigned summary rulings issued without noted dissent, the justices reversed two federal appeals courts that had permitted excessive force lawsuits to proceed against officers in separate cases arising from California and Oklahoma. The justices ruled the officers should be granted qualified immunity, which shields government officials from liability unless it is proven they violated a “clearly established” right, a difficult legal hurdle. Both lawsuits dealt with police...

Glenn Youngkin Terry McAuliffe Terry McAuliffe Isaac Schorr Fri, October 15, 2021, 8:44 PM·2 min read In this article: Glenn Youngkin College basketball player (1986–1989) Rice Terry McAuliffe Terry McAuliffe American businessman and politician The Trafalgar Group has released a poll showing Republican Glenn Youngkin with a one point advantage (48.4-47.5 percent) over Democrat Terry McAuliffe in Virginia’s gubernatorial race. The survey of 1,095 voters conducted between October 11 and 13 has a margin of error of three points, and indicates that three percent of Virginia voters are undecided in the contest. On the other hand, Fox News’ newest poll...

MSNBC contributor Donny Deutsch on Monday issued a warning to members of the Democratic Party about the far-left wing of the party, such as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY). On “Morning Joe,” Deutsch said that the far-left wing is “suicide” for the Democratic Party. He called on the party to “get some new faces” closer to the center because the socialists pulling the party to the left could spell “disaster.” Host Joe Scarborough stated, “All I have heard over the past year — it’s been remarkable — is I am going to grip my teeth and vote for Joe Biden because...

For every cloud, there really is a silver lining. And in a time of near-universal madness driving scientifically unjustified vaccine mandates, such a silver lining has made itself plain to me; perhaps it has done the same for you… These mandates have forced our hand. They have forced us to choose sides. I know that their pressure has forced many to choose out of fear–that’s the unfortunate part. But choosing–driven by reason instead–is good. The entities and corporations driving the mandates are shortsighted at best, and downright evil at worst. Consider that we have chosen to work for these entities,...

Let's investigate the costs of "free" college education with a look at demographics and incentives to not work.Population Change in Last 5, 10, 15 YearsPopulation Change Details In the last 5 years, the total noninstitutional population age 16 and over rose by 7.68 million. The population change of those aged 65 and older rose by 8.24 million, over 100% of the total increase.The population change of those aged 60-64 rose by 1.39 millionThe 60+ total is 9.63 million.The population of the prime-age workers, those aged 25-54 rose by a mere 219,000.Civilian Noninstitutional Population by Age The above chart highlights the...

The National Theatre of Scotland has banned the word “spooky” over its “racial connotations” despite nobody complaining and despite there being no record of it ever being used as a racial slur in the United Kingdom. Yes, really. “A source at the Scottish theatre told the Daily Record that no one has complained about the term “spooky” but they were concerned the word could become problematic in the future,” reports RT. So based on the prospect that somebody, somewhere, might be offended in the future by a completely non-controversial word, it has to be banned. Apparently, the word “spooky” may...

The California mom accused of encouraging sex abuse at booze-fueled parties she arranged for young teens has long been known as a “liar” who leaves a trail of destruction in her wake wherever she goes, a source close to the family told The Daily Beast. Shannon O’Connor, 47, is accused of a breathtaking array of crimes in Los Gatos, a wealthy Silicon Valley suburb where prosecutors say she lured young teens to “secret” parties, plied them with booze, and encouraged them to engage in “sometimes nonconsensual” sex acts. She was arrested last weekend on a fugitive warrant in Eagle, Idaho,...

Quick someone call Eric Holder and ask him about all the subpoenas he ignored

National food supply shortages and staffing challenges are making it harder for metro Atlanta schools to serve meals to students. Faced with fewer pizza options and scarcity of French toast sticks, school cafeterias have had to rework breakfast and lunch menus... When her schools could no longer order their popular shrimp poppers, they switched to crispy cod nuggets. They’re trying a cinnamon toast crunch bread at breakfast and pizza quesadillas...

Like President Biden, who said in December 2020, “I don’t think it should be mandatory, I wouldn’t demand it be mandatory,” I was opposed to COVID-19 vaccine mandates from the start. Unlike President Biden, I haven’t flip-flopped.In fact, my opposition to mandates is growing stronger with each new anecdote and piece of information that shows not only how futile they are but how devastating these self-inflicted harms will be. President Biden, his administration, corporate media, and social media are denying three realities:1. The effectiveness of natural immunity and how medically unnecessary it is for the previously infected to get vaccinated.2....

White House Chief Medical Advisor Anthony Fauci said Sunday that he has become such a polarizing figure during the coronavirus pandemic because he is an advocate for the "truth" rather than "conspiracy theories." "I have stood for always making science data and evidence, be what we guide ourselves by," Fauci told "Fox News Sunday" host Chris Wallace. "And I think people who feel differently, who have conspiracy theories, who deny reality, that's looking them straight in the eye." "Those are people that don't particularly care for me, and that's understandable because what I do, and I try very hard, is...

US Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) to hold LENR Workshop: https://arpa-e.energy.gov/events/low-energy-nuclear-reactions-workshop Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions Workshop October 21-22, 2021 The objective of this workshop is to explore compelling R&D opportunities in Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions (LENR) [1], in support of developing metrics for a potential ARPA-E R&D program in LENR. Despite a large body of empirical evidence for LENR that has been reported internationally over the past 30+ years in both published and unpublished materials, as well as multiple books, there still does not exist a widely accepted, on-demand, repeatable LENR experiment nor a sound theoretical basis. This has...

Since the start of the pandemic, Dr. Anthony Fauci has been preaching about avoiding crowds, so when football season at the NFL and collegiate level kicked off this year, he feared we could be stuck in “outbreak mode” with thousands of maskless fans packed together in stadiums across the country. “I don’t think it’s smart,” he told CNN last month. “Outdoors is always better than indoors, but even when you have such a congregate setting of people close together, first you should be vaccinated. And when you do have congregate settings, particularly indoors, you should be wearing a mask.”Fauci wasn’t...

Financial reports show that Virginia’s Democrat gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe received nearly $500,000 in contributions from Michael Bloomberg-backed Everytown for Gun Safety. The McAuliffe campaign’s financial report for September shows Everytown gave $400,000 on September 23, 2021.

Authorities in Haiti say that the gang behind most abductions in the Caribbean nation between June and September is also responsible for Saturday's kidnapping of 17 Christian missionaries. Haitian police inspector Frantz Champagne told The Associated Press that the 400 Mawazoo gang based in the Ganthier area east of the capital of Port-au-Prince abducted the 17 missionaries with the Ohio-based Christian Aid Ministries, 16 of which are American and one Canadian. "The group of sixteen U.S citizens and one Canadian citizen includes five men, seven women, and five children," the Ohio-based Christian Aid Ministries said in a statement Sunday. "Join...

“Let’s Go Brandon” has made its way north of the border, where Canadian officials have banned its use by government workers.In a notice written late last week, a [REDACTED] official (see photo below) warned that “the use of the wording ‘Let’s Go Brandon” and any variation thereof under any circumstances is banned.”“Violation of this policy,” the notice concludes, “will be grounds for immediate dismissal without recourse or labour union representation.”The letter was photographed — with privacy-protecting redactions — and posted on several social media accounts.Canadians might prefer to know who would be foolish enough to sign their own name to...