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Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) said Wednesday that he will oppose Rahm Emanuel’s nomination to be ambassador to Japan. “Black Lives Matter. Here in the halls of Congress, it is important that we not just speak and believe these words, but put them into action in the decisions we make,” Merkley said in a statement. “I have carefully considered Mayor Emanuel’s record—and the input of civil rights leaders, criminal justice experts, and local elected officials who have reached out to the Senate to weigh in—and I have reached the decision that I cannot support his nomination to serve as a U.S....

I keep harping on the obvious, but Grandpa Badfinger is getting worse. The other day he was sharing with the baffled pontiff some sort of story about Satchel Paige. Tomorrow, he’s probably going to introduce America to his invisible rabbit friend Harvey. How long is this going to continue?Tucker Carlson is a threat to democracy by…saying things liberals dislike. Good.I saw “Dune” and did not hate it, but boy I love the 1980s version because it is just insane.President Crusty Is Getting WorseRumor has it that Joe Biden gave new meaning to the phrase “Let’s go, Brandon,” when he has...

Former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) conceded to Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin (R) on Wednesday, hours after Youngkin declared victory. "Congratulations to Governor-Elect Glenn Youngkin on his victory," McAuliffe said in a statement. "I hope Virginians will join me in wishing the best to him and his family." Youngkin narrowly defeated McAuliffe by roughly 2 points on Tuesday. In the same statement, McAuliffe pushed for a number of the liberal initiatives he highlighted during the campaign. "While last night we came up short, I am proud that we spent this campaign fighting for the values we so deeply believe in. We...

UST AN FYI, VIRGINIA VOTE STILL OUTSTANDING WAS JUST SCAMMED, INSTEAD OF 96% COUNTED, THE MARXISTS CHANGED IT TO 94% AND DROPPING… MEANING, A 100K VOTE DIFFERENCE, THEY CAN EASILY SCAM WITH THE HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF FAKE VOTES ALREADY IN AND READY, PRINTED AND FILLED OUT WITHOUT ID. THIS IS NOT OVER BY A LONG SHOT.

The Texas Heartbeat Act, known as SB 8, is once again up for consideration before the Supreme Court as a result of two consolidated cases.Whole Woman’s Health v. Jackson and United States v. Texas — scheduled for oral arguments on Monday — will require the court to consider whether the federal government can sue to enforce the right of Texas women to get an abortion and, if so, whether the Texas Heartbeat Act can be enforced at all.SB 8 — a Texas law banning abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected, usually around six weeks’ gestation — has remained in...

...."McAuliffe made several mistakes, unfortunately," his campaign volunteer said. "He allowed himself, rightly or wrongly, to be defined as anti-parent. Stuff like that does not sell in heavily suburban Virginia." He also said President Biden and Congress’ inability to pass their multitrillion-dollar spending bills dragged Democrats' favorability down nationwide, hurting McAuliffe as a result.

ongressional Democrats have reportedly begun to blame the far-left for the sound drubbing of Democrat gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe Tuesday night in Virginia. Politico’s co-Congressional Bureau Chief Heather Caygle said Democrat members are “already texting me blaming progressives for ‘debacle’ in Virginia.” After Governor-elect Glenn Youngkin had a clear lead when the polls closed Tuesday evening, Democrats expressed their frustration with the party’s infighting. The Democrat Party is at odds with one another over certain policies the far-left are demanding to be included within President Joe Biden’s reconciliation framework. Youngkin’s victory in Virginia is giving the Democrats a “sense of...

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to take up a case involving a Catholic hospital in California that is being sued for refusing to perform a hysterectomy on a trans-identified patient. In a list of orders published Monday, the Supreme Court denied “the petition for a writ of certiorari” in the case of Dignity Health v. Minton, Evan. Conservative Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neal Gorsuch would have granted the appeal. The case goes back to state court for further proceedings as the high court's decision lets stand an appellate court ruling allowing the plaintiff to proceed with a...

Ann Davison is currently leading in early results for the Seattle City Attorney race, with 58% of votes to Nicole Thomas-Kennedy’s 41%. Twelve-year incumbent City Attorney Pete Holmes did not advance out of the August primary, leaving Thomas-Kennedy and Davison as the last candidates left standing for November’s general election. Davison ran for Seattle City Council in 2019, ultimately losing to District 5 incumbent Debora Juarez by a 60% to 39% margin. She then ran as a Republican for lieutenant governor the following year, failing to advance out of the August primary after garnering 12% of votes.

Expect all hell to break loose within the Democrat party, with powerful key factions at each others’ throats. Voters in multiple states repudiated the radical wing of the Democrat party that had seized control of the party’s agenda. Republicans swept the statewide offices in Virginia, a state that had recently tantalized Democrat hopes of national dominance by swinging from red to purple to blue. Even if Phil Murphy ends up winning the governorship of New Jersey as troves of mail-in ballots are added to the totals when counting resumes in the morning (a story replicating what happened in some swing...

With children increasingly being exposed to the “normality” of transgenderism, there’s growing interest among children to pursue a gender change when they are not intellectually mature enough to be capable of such decisions. A few moments of thought show how worrisome this is and the unfair effects that emanate from these allowances.As we all know, all human beings are different in appearance, abilities, and personality. Part of growing up is becoming comfortable with who you are. In middle school and/or high school that’s a slow process but it picks up as we get older.When it comes to biological gender, most...

Here is the link for live audio for the 2nd Amendment Case that is being heard today: https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/live.aspx

The incumbent Democratic mayor of Buffalo, running as a write-in candidate, declared victory Tuesday night as he held a nearly 20-point lead over his Democratic Party opponent. India Walton, a socialist backed by many high-profile progressives like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, refused to concede to Mayor Byron Brown in the highly publicized contest until her campaign sees “all the votes,” her spokesman Jesse Myerson told The Post via text. Brown, 63, who lost to Walton in the June Democratic primary, claimed what would be a stunning victory in a speech to supporters from his campaign headquarters shortly after 11 p.m. “Today’s election,...

Former Mets manager Bobby Valentine lost his bid to become the mayor of Stamford, Conn. on Tuesday — and blamed the press for the loss citing all the “lousy” coverage. Democratic state Rep. Caroline Simmons appeared to win the race — though the Associated Press warned the contest was too tight to call and could be decided by outstanding absentee ballots. Vote totals and percentages were not immediately available from Connecticut officials because of a technical glitch that hit that state’s elections results website, NBC’s affiliate there reported.

It won’t be news to many that New Jersey is as crooked as a dog’s hind leg. This extends, of course, to its electoral system. Thus can it be said assuredly that without vote fraud, the remarkably corrupt and fairly stupid Garden State governor, Goldman Sachs guy Phil Murphy, would have lost Tuesday’s election hands down.Murphy’s challenger, Republican Jack Ciattarelli, has a slim advantage after late-counted votes have trimmed his margin. As of this writing, he leads the incumbent 49.65 percent to 49.60 percent with 97.51 percent of the precincts reporting. It’s a good bet at this point that more...

NBC “Sunday Night Football” sideline reporter Michele Tafoya filled in on ABC’s “The View” on Tuesday, where she held firm with regard to her opposition to both vaccine mandates and teaching children critical race theory. Tafoya told Sports Illustrated in 2015 she identifies as a conservative. On Tuesday, she appeared on “The View” in the chair vacated by former co-host Meghan McCain, and she drew the ire of the show's hosts. The sports reporter irked the program’s outspoken liberals by opposing two subjects the broader left has strong feelings for. She also came armed with firsthand accounts of how both...

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MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace, reacting to incoming election results in Virginia’s gubernatorial race, stated that “critical race theory, which isn’t real, turned the suburbs 15 points to the Trump insurrection endorsed Republican.” While it’s unclear what Wallace means by “insurrection endorsed,” the Republican to whom she referred is Glenn Youngkin, who has already been projected by the winner by some election analysts and outlets, though the race remains too close to call. Youngkin was endorsed by Trump, but he declined to campaign with the former president. Moreover, he has described the events of the January 6 Capitol riot as “sickening...

SNIP WHAT IS CRITICAL RACE THEORY? Critical race theory is a way of thinking about America’s history through the lens of racism. Scholars developed it during the 1970s and 1980s in response to what they viewed as a lack of racial progress following the civil rights legislation of the 1960s. It centers on the idea that racism is systemic in the nation's institutions and that they function to maintain the dominance of white people in society. The architects of the theory argue that the United States was founded on the theft of land and labor and that federal law has...

In a most unfortunate series of events, Queen Elizabeth II has waded into politics on the global warming matter, quite contrary to her lifelong position of being above politics. Her call to action at the United Nations' COP26 global warming summit in Scotland indicates a bad shift. According an editorial, likely written by Seth Lipsky, that appeared in the New York Sun:Queen Elizabeth II made a mistake, by our lights, in abandoning her royal impartiality and plunging into the political fray at the Glasgow summit on climate change. She’s effectively thrown herself — and her crown — in on the...