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UPDATE:After he initially made it sound like he would be riding out a painful election loss at home with his family on Tuesday night, Democrat gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe's campaign suddenly announced he was en route to his campaign's Election Night party to deliver remarks some 90 minutes after the race was called by Decision Desk and Townhall. "We've still got a lot of votes to count because every single Virginian deserves to have their vote counted," a defiant Terry McAuliffe said claiming he's been holding seven to ten events per day for the last 328 days. Omitted from his...

[Catholic Caucus] Praying for the Dead: Duty and PrivilegeMy mom had a strong devotion to the holy souls and prayed for them often. Even before she became ill, she would tell us to make sure that the priest who buried her did not eulogize about her saintliness. She was brought up to believe that Catholics had a duty to pray for the dead, and not only was it our obligation; it was our privilege.Straight-to-Heaven-for-All Illusion Dutch psychologist Gerard van den Aardweg, author of Hungry Souls: Supernatural Visits, Messages and Warnings From Purgatory (Tan, 2009), thinks Catholics today have a general...

New footage of events that led to a shooting involving Kyle Rittenhouse reveals the Illinois youth was charged by several leftist demonstrators, with one man involved in arson activities firing a weapon at Rittenhouse just before Rittenhouse was attacked by Joseph Rosenbaum. Rittenhouse shot and killed Rosenbaum when he went for Rittenhouse’s rifle, later facing an attack from other Kenosha rioters and shooting two more people. Jack Posobiec published the footage on Tuesday morning, before it was displayed in opening arguments during Rittenhouse’s trial. The footage, containing both aerial thermal imagery and video of the street in Kenosha where the...

Peter Navarro was a key adviser in the Trump administration. He was an important part of making sure the Trump administration delivered on the promises that were made to the American people. Navarro is releasing a new book called “In Trump Time.” The book is going to be a behind-the-scenes look at what took place during the Trump administration. This will be a trustworthy account, unlike the books that come out from Fake News hacks and RINOs. In the book, he talks about the fight to stop Joe Biden from stealing the 2020 election. According to Navarro, Pence was fed...

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken is a man in a hurry. His president expects him to produce foreign policy success stories. Success stories are desperately needed as post-Afghanistan, the superpower has become a laughing stock universally. The trans-Atlantic alliance is seriously disoriented and Russia is on the prowl in the heart of Europe with natural gas to sell. The Iranians are yet to give a date for the resumption of talks on the US return to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) nuclear accord. As for China, the less said the better. The chairman of the US Joint...

"The New Jersey’s Governor’s race is hanging by a thread. And that thread is blue collar, where working class towns like Bloomfield, Bayonne, Wood-Ridge and Carteret are making it a real contest, and sending shivers up the spines of Democrats."

In late September, the Dallas Mavericks announced that fans would be required to provide proof of vaccination or have a negative COVID-19 test in order to attend Mavericks home games. Now, six games into the 2021-2022 NBA season, the Mavericks are reversing course. As announced on the Mavericks website on Saturday, most fans will no longer be required to provide proof of vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test to attend home games. “The Mavericks, in conjunction with the NBA, announced today that beginning Nov. 15, fans seated beyond 15 feet of the court will no longer need to complete a...

China’s Manufacturing Purchasing Manager Index (PMI) fell 0.4 percentage points in October to 49.2—any number below 50 represents a contraction in manufacturing production—according to official figures from the National Bureau of Statistics. The data was worse than expected with market analysts expecting a figure of 49.7. This is the second consecutive month the index has indicated a contraction, and is the lowest the index has been since the onset of the pandemic.Article by Edward Cheng from our premium news partners at The Epoch Times.Perhaps more worryingly, the data shows signs of stagflation—slow economic growth coupled with accelerating inflation. Driven by...

HOUSTON — Despite a hot start in Game 5, the Atlanta Braves couldn’t close out the World Series at home Sunday night. Now the series is back in Houston for Game 6 Tuesday night. The Braves split their first two games in Houston last week, but it only takes one more win to claim the title. “We’re going to a familiar place now. I thought they handled it really good the first go-round, and I think because we’ve been there now and the whole routine and into the routine and all that, they’ll be -- none of that will be...

Former President Donald Trump is gloating over Republican Glenn Youngkin’s lead in the Virginia governor’s race as results continue to trickle in. In a statement on Tuesday night, Trump said that he didn’t even have to rally for Youngkin in the Virginia governor’s race because McAuliffe constantly tied his Republican rival to the former president. That ultimately boosted Youngkin’s standing heading into the Tuesday election, Trump said. “It is looking like Terry McAuliffe's campaign against a certain person named ‘Trump’ has very much helped Glenn Youngkin,” Trump said in a statement. “All McAuliffe did was talk Trump, Trump, Trump and...

Republican Winsome Sears defeated Democrat Hala Ayala in Virginia's lieutenant governor race. Sears is the first Black woman elected to a statewide office in Virginia.

They seem to be running late. Hundreds of conspiracy theorists gathered at the AT&T Discovery Plaza in Dallas to await the arrival of former President Donald Trump and John F. Kennedy Jr., whom they expected to announce an unlikely campaign for the White House around 12:30 p.m. Tuesday. As of late afternoon, those optimists were still waiting. Kennedy’s absence was likely due to the 1999 plane crash in which he died. His father, former President John F. Kennedy, was fatally shot in November 1963 at the downtown Dallas locale where supporters had gathered. The event had been promoted through the...

Before I start, here’s the caveat. With Fairfax County in the middle of their vote-manufacturing plan, it’s possible that they could reverse the will of the people in Virginia just as they did during the 2020 election. But enough news outlets have called Virginia that we’re confident Republicans swept the major elections in the state even if Democrats will try to steal it all overnight.Virginians showed up in force to give Republicans the win in all three statewide races. Glenn Youngkin will be the next Governor, Winsome Sears will be the next Lt. Governor, and Jason Miyares will be the...

Miami-Dade lawmakers slam Pope, Catholic Church for weak response to Cuba protestsThe Cuban people 'have been met with apathy from the highest levels of the Church hierarchy.'Three members of Congress from Miami-Dade have called out leadership within the Roman Catholic Church for its weak response to human rights protests in Cuba.In a joint letter Friday to Archbishop Christophe Pierre, the Vatican’s apostolic nuncio to the United States, Republican Reps. Mario Díaz-Balart, Carlos Giménez and María Elvira Salazar expressed “profound disappointment” that Pope Francis has not condemned the Cuban regime’s “egregious abuses of the Cuban people” or expressed solidarity with the...

As we watch the results come in we can use a point spread comparison to last year's Presidential Election. In Virginia Joe Biden at 54.1 percent and Donald Trump at 44 percent last November. (10.1 advantage Biden-Democrats) In New Jersey Biden at 57.3 percent and Trump at 41.4 percent last November (15.9 advantage Biden-Democrats). The Repoublican and Democrat numbers in these governor's race lets see how they match up to those numbers last year for President.... The vote in the heavily Democrat City of Richmond still held back at this point. The vote also lagging in heavily Democrat Fairfax County...

@disclosetv JUST IN - Police department in Minneapolis won't be replaced with a "Department of Public Safety," residents rejected the proposed amendment.

e-mail 19 View comments New York City has elected black former policeman Eric Adams as mayor, making the Democrat the next leader of America's biggest city. The result was called by Associated Press shortly after the polls closed at 9pm Eastern Time, with less than 30 per cent of the vote counted. Adams already had a 50 point lead, CNN reported. The centrist Democrat trounced Republican rival and volunteer crime fighter Curtis Sliwa in the liberal-voting bastion to become just the second African American to lead the Big Apple. Sliwa, who founded the vigilante group Guardian Angels, showed up to...

Democrats are about to include a tax break in their $1.75 trillion social spending plan that will overwhelmingly benefit higher earners.On Tuesday, Rep. Josh Gottheimer of New Jersey wrote on Twitter that the provision had been added into the plan. A Democratic aide familiar with negotiations told Insider that Democrats were eyeing a five-year tax break that runs through 2025, a development first reported by Punchbowl News. The break would also be retroactive to this year. The SALT deduction allows taxpayers to deduct their state and local tax totals from their federal obligation. Under Trump's 2017 tax plan, the previously...

Haven't watched FOX since Nov. 3. I enjoy seeing pain. pPease remember it ain't over yet so should we watch the lefties grasping for straws?

@RandPaul I was proud to endorse @GlennYoungkin. His win tonight is a clear and much needed signal for personal freedom and that parents are the deciders of their children’s education and future.