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Republicans are leading RealClearPolitics’ [RCP] general ballot for the first time since 2014, according to the analysis website, which averages notable political polls in an effort to forecast election outcomes. RCP has Republicans up by half a percentage point on its generic congressional vote, showing 43.3 percent support for Republicans and 42.8 percent support for Democrats and potentially foreshadowing a red wave in 2022. Democrats notably maintained the lead in 2020, 2018, and 2016, though RCP showed Republicans ahead by 2.4 percentage points in 2014, halfway through former President Barack Obama’s second term. Support for Democrats and President Joe Biden...

At least 10 people were killed and 42 others — including a 4-year-old boy — were wounded by gunfire in Chicago over the weekend. More than half of the gunshot victims were wounded on the South Side, while nearly a quarter of the victims were shot on the West Side. It was the deadliest weekend in Chicago since the last weekend in September, when 10 were killed and 58 wounded in citywide attacks.

Not directly, but the governor’s race was more of a referendum on the first ten months of the Biden presidency than on four years of Trump. So, from that perspective, it depends. Glenn Youngkin’s impressive win in the Virginia gubernatorial race immediately sparked talk about what it means for the Republican Party’s future. Key among those is what does it tell us about the ultimate question for the next presidential race: Will Donald Trump run again? The Virginia outcome presents questions and potential answers about Donald Trump and 2024. Here are five to consider.1. Was Trump relevant in Virginia either...

“Well isn’t this interesting,” Sen. Melissa Melendez (R-Calif.) said Friday, tweeting out video of 2007 presidential candidate Sen. Joe Biden (D-Delaware) warning against the danger of pulling U.S. troops out of Iraq before first removing the “billions of dollars of weapons” the U.S. military had in the country. At an August 12, 2007 campaign event in Winterset, Iowa, Biden warned that the billions of dollars of weapons left behind – such as those left behind by the U.S. military’s hasty withdrawal from Afghanistan this year – would end up being used against America: “It will take a year to get...

Mayor Eric Genrich As The Gateway Pundit reported earlier Green Bay Mayor Eric Genrich gave the keys to the arena where ballots were stored before the the 2020 election to far left radical and former Facebook employee Michael Spitzer Rubenstein. We then reported that emails revealed that Michael Spitzer-Rubenstein, Wisconsin state lead for the National Vote at Home Institute, was given secret internet access to the hotel convention center where ballots were counted in Green Bay. Then in October a group of local Wisconsin patriots who call themselves ‘Wisconsin HOT’ uncovered another major elections scandal in Wisconsin. A Racine Clerk...

Barack Obama has called on young people to "stay angry" in the fight against climate change at the COP26 summit. The former US president urged them to apply political pressure to make a change, but warned they would need to accept compromises along the way. Perhaps a little unsure of his location in Scotland, Obama referred to being in the "Emerald Isles", seemingly a mistaken reference to Ireland, which is known poetically as the Emerald Isle. He also quoted Shakespeare, who was English. He admitted there is still a lot of hard and messy work to do to reduce the...

The mandate is coming apart at the seams. The trucker exemption is particularly absurd - is there a more obvious vector for disease transmission than a long-haul trucker? If you are working ALONE AT HOME the mandate applies, but truckers are exempt. (NOTE: See update at end.) Because science, or maybe because even the bright boys have realized the supply chain will collapse if they push this nonsense too hard. I predict that by this time next year the vaccine mandates will seem as absurd and political as school closures do right now. Remember how the unions and the media...

Hawaii Gov. David Ige (D) called on Monday for global emission reduction goals that aspire beyond "net-zero," as island communities continue to bear the disproportionate effects of climate change. The Biden administration has pushed for a goal of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions within the next few decades, under which the U.S. would seek to eliminate or offset climate pollution entirely. But Hawaii has gone further, with Ige telling other governors gathered at the U.N. Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow that his state is "committed to a net-negative goal by 2045, or as soon as practicable, because we know that...

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy’s (D) campaign is calling on his Republican opponent Jack Ciattarelli to concede last week’s election, arguing that he no longer has a path to victory. Ciattarelli, a former state legislature, had remained silent on the results of the election since last Thursday, though the current vote count currently shows him trailing Murphy by 2.6 percentage points, or a little more than 65,000 votes. While some provisional and mail-in ballots have yet to be counted, Murphy’s campaign argued that it won’t be enough to alter the outcome of the race in Ciattarelli’s favor.

Gage Grosskreutz admits that Kyle didn't shoot him until he (Gage) advanced and pointed his weapon at Kyle. A big moment for this trial. Click link to watch 40 second video

States are the protectors of our republic, and red states in particular are the firewall between the federal government and the people.At the beginning of the COVID-19 lockdowns, we were asked to stay home for two weeks in order to flatten the curve. Nineteen months later, Americans are being denied their right to make health decisions for themselves. Our economy and the livelihood of millions of American workers stands at risk thanks to President Joe Biden’s alleged mandate forcing private businesses to require proof of vaccination of their employees. Government’s responsibility is to maintain a framework of ordered liberty. That...

Click link to watch 40 second video of Gage Groskreutz admitting that Kyle didn't shoot him until he (Gage) pointed his weapon at Kyle.

Solar storms, also known as coronal mass ejections, are known to damage electrical grids and cause blackouts; however, experts believe they could also negatively affect internet infrastructure, resulting in a global internet outage. Sangeetha Abdu Jyothi of the University of California, Irvine revealed this last week at the SIGCOMM 2021 data communication conference. In her research, she revealed that, while local and regional internet infrastructure would be at low risk of damage during extreme solar storms because they mostly use fibre optic cables that are not affected by geomagnetically induced currents. Even short cable runs that are vulnerable to these...

But she’s fully vaccinated so I’m sure she’s completely recovered already. Probably just helping Gavin Newsom with his family emergency. She’s missing now, though, just like the figures the Centers for Disease Control used to post on the deaths of fully vaccinated people. They don’t want you worrying your pretty lil heads with facts and data. Even the CDC’s favorite (highly dubious) relative risk chart hasn’t been updated since early September, just as vaccine effectiveness was starting to crash. Gee, I wonder why. More Covid and all-cause mortality numbers coming soon, from countries where public health data isn’t controlled by...

Yesterday’s ruling in a federal appeals court in New Orleans granting a temporary injunction against the vaccine mandate was encouraging to those who oppose the federal overreach it represents. But despite solid arguments against the mandate’s legality, it will likely go forward anyway. The injunction imposed by the appeals court yesterday was temporary. At some point, an appeals court will rule that the requirements of the mandate can go forward while the OSHA rule is litigated. That’s going to take a while. In fact, the delay between cause and effect is part of the Biden administration’s strategy. By the time...

Desperate migrants gathered at Belarusian frontier with Poland on Monday, attempting to hack down fence Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko is accused of 'weaponising' the migrants in his war with the West Middle Eastern and African people have been flown into Belarus and ferried to border by Lukashenko's men Polish PM Mateusz Morawiecki vowed to defend his country 'and the entire EU' from the illegal entrants Warsaw called action 'invasion' and declared it was sending 12,000 troops to reinforce 10,000 already there Poland has vowed to 'defend Europe' from a 'migrant invasion' unleashed by Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko whose forces have...

Millions of Americans could face even higher energy bills this winter if the Biden administration closes a gas and oil pipeline running through Michigan, a group of Midwest lawmakers have warned. Line 5 pipeline could be under threat due to the White House exploring the potential impact on fuel prices in the region, according to a recent Politico report, amid a drive to reduce the U.S.'s dependence on fossil fuels. The line, which delivers Canadian crude oil and natural gas from Alberta to Ontario through Wisconsin, the Great Lakes and Michigan, has operated since 1953 and currently transports about 540,000...

With more than 700,000 reported Covid-19 deaths in the United States, it is now evident that lockdown strategies failed to protect older high-risk Americans.With more than 700,000 reported Covid-19 deaths in the United States, it is now evident that lockdown strategies failed to protect older high-risk Americans. Naively believing that shutting down society would protect everyone, government officials failed to implement focused protection measures for those at the highest risk. While anyone can get infected, there is more than a thousand-fold difference in the risk of death between the old and the young. The failure to exploit this fact about...

Belarusian authorities have escorted an estimated 1,000 people, most of whom are from the Middle East, to the Polish border in an escalation of a deadly crisis that has already left people desperate to reach the EU trapped between borders and at least eight dead due to exposure. Videos published by Belarusian media on Monday showed armed Belarusian border guards in combat fatigues guiding the column of people, which included families with children, along a highway from the border town of Bruzgi towards a forest that runs alongside Poland’s Podlaskie region as European countries accused the state of using the...

For the last year, Nevada Democrats have been warring with each other over the past and future of their party. Senator Harry Reid, the state’s most successful politician, built a Democratic machine in the late 1990s and early 21st century that dominated local and national races up and down the ballot. But the machine suffered some setbacks in 2018 and 2020, leaving an opening for radicals to take control. The Democratic Socialists of America took over the party, and the Harry Reid faction didn’t much like it. They’ve been at war ever since. The Washoe County Democrats declared their independence...