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Republican Tim Reichert, an economist from Golden, officially launched his bid to represent Colorado’s 7th Congressional District on Thursday. Reichert said in a press release that he will invest $500,000 of his own money into the campaign to start. His announcement centered his own experience growing up “lower middle class” and how that led to his policy priorities to strengthen the middle class, reduce inflation and prevent people from leaving the workforce. “I have studied the economy my entire life and I know what it will take to get our country and our middle class back on their feet. I...

Veteran anchor and reporter Stephanie Ruhle will be the new host of MSNBC's "The 11th Hour" while the cable network's "Morning Joe" is set to expand to an additional fourth hour, the network's president announced Thursday. Ruhle, now the host of “MSNBC Live with Stephanie Ruhle” at 9 a.m. EST, will take the 11 p.m. seat formerly held by Brian Williams, who signed off in December. “Morning Joe,” which now runs from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m., will run for another 60 minutes to 10 a.m. “This expansion will give us an opportunity to extend the reach of the program,...

RNC Building ‘Army’ of GOP Poll Workers After Decades-Long Court-Ordered Hiatus The Republican National Committee is ramping up presence at the polls this year by enlisting thousands of workers ahead of the midterms, an operation it legally could not run for 40 years prior to 2018. “If elections are the cornerstone of democracy, then transparent and secure elections are one of the most important offerings that the RNC can have,” RNC spokeswoman Danielle Alvarez told Breitbart News. “And it happens to be the first cycle that we can get involved and stand up this operation the way that RNC chairwoman...

Moscow has put what appear to be final preparations for an invasion of Ukraine by sending medical units to the front, moving to a level of readiness that it hadn’t reached in past buildups, according Western defense officials. While the moves don’t mean an attack is certain, they are prerequisites for battle and have intensified debates among Western allies over Russian President Vladimir Putin’s intentions. The U.S. and European allies, particularly Germany and France, appear to be drawing different conclusions from identical intelligence.

Golly gosh, you learn something new every day about the IVF industry. And you thought it was just about gurgling, picture-perfect infants. IVF porn is one of those sordid things that everyone knows about but no one has the stomach to talk about. Last year’s “Private Life”, a highly-praised Netflix film about a middle-aged couple going through IVF, is typical. Equipped with a cup, the exasperated husband enters a cubicle where a wall-mounted screen is playing hard-core porn. It’s part of the fertility furniture. Back in 2010, a British health think tank, 2020Health published a brief report, Who Said Pornography...

“He withdrew into Galilee; and leaving Nazareth, He came and settled in Capernaum, which is by the sea” (Matthew 4:12-13). Nothing was accidental or happenstance about Jesus’ earthly ministry. He did not go from Judea to Galilee because Herod or the Jewish leaders forced Him to or because He had nowhere else to go. He left Judea because His work there was finished for the time being. And He came to Galilee because that was the next place, according to the Father’s plan, for Him to minister. Humanly speaking, Jesus left the lower Jordan region for Galilee because of the...

I am compelled by the Holy Spirit to send out an urgent message to friends and to church leaders we have met all over the world. An earth-shattering calamity is about to happen. It is going to be so frightening that we are all going to tremble, even the godliest among us. We are under God’s wrath. In the psalms, it is written, “For look! The wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow on the string, that they may shoot secretly at the upright in heart. If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?” (Psalm 11:2-3,...

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We all followed the events of the cave rescue. We think we know what happened. But we don’t. “The Rescue”, by directors Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin, has peered behind the heroic narrative that was cultivated at the time of the Chiang Rai Tham Luang cave rescue in July 2018. 13 young men – 12 teenagers and their 24 year old soccer coach – rode their bikes to the Tham Luang Caves in Chiang Rai, Northern Thailand, for a quick excursion following training of the Mu Pa (wild boars) team. It was Saturday, June 23, 2018. Following torrential monsoonal...

Meghan McCain is ripping Sarah Palin as “stupid” and “feckless,” after her father’s former running mate was spotted dining at a New York City restaurant just days after testing positive for COVID-19. “Is she crazy? Day two? I haven't seen her or talked to her for many years, aside from some short emails when my father passed [in 2018], so I can't imagine what she is thinking but this is highly irresponsible,” McCain, a columnist for DailyMail.com, told the site on Thursday.

Violent crime is absolutely out of control. Twenty-five cops have died in the line of duty so far this year, nearly one every day. There is no sign that it will let up any time soon. Many were shot to death. Two them - Jason Rivera and Wilbert Mora- were murdered in New York City. Their murderer was a career criminal with a lengthy rap sheet. Despite that, he was on probation and allowed to roam free. LaShawn McNeil shot his victims with a Glock 45 with a 40 round magazine attached. New York Governor Kathy Hochul said the officers...

U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona is no stranger to taking flak from fellow Democrats for bucking the party line -- but a former high-level aide to President Barack Obama may have crossed another line. "I think she’s a c---," Alyssa Mastromonaco told the "Pod Save America" podcast earlier this month, after Sinema refused to side with other Democrats regarding the filibuster. "That’s what I have to say." Mastromonaco chose a fairly large platform for her profanity-laced remarks: According to Chartable, the podcast has enormous reach, and is the seventh-highest news program on Apple Podcasts.

Given the “cliff” off of which Joe Biden has fallen in Georgia, Raphael Warnock must feel some relief to still have a virtual tie with potential GOP challenger Herschel Walker. A new poll from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution puts Biden’s overall job approval at 33.7% in a state he narrowly won fourteen months ago. A large component of that collapse is from perhaps the Democrats’ most important electoral demo, too: President Joe Biden’s approval rating has fallen off a cliff in Georgia, according to an Atlanta Journal-Constitution poll released Thursday that showed just one-third of registered voters approve of the Democrat’s...

The news that Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer is retiring is still fresh. He won’t even officially retire until October, and the Biden administration will likely spend months vetting potential nominees. But I can tell you right now, whoever Biden picks, they sexually assaulted me 25 years ago at a high school party. I can’t remember how I got there or how I got home. So far, the people I know who were present are telling me it didn’t happen. I may have changed my story a few times too. But, hey, look, you can trust me. I have no...

[H/T Allegra]ransomnote: I made a brief .gif of the video at the link but it really doesn't do the original justice, because the original includes the voiceovers of children thanking truckers for standing up and fighting for them.Here's the link: Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 on Twitter: "WATCH: Crowds lined up in the cold cheering Convoy for Freedom 2022 https://t.co/vnKA9f3YhM" / Twitter6:50 AM · Jan 27, 2022·Twitter for iPhone

As part of their job in screening visitors to the U.S. Capitol (should the complex ever re-open to the public, that is), U.S. Capitol Police often rummage through backpacks and purses. Lately, they may also be rummaging through more than that: your tax records, real estate holdings, and social media posts. All without your knowledge. Besty Woodruff Swan and Daniel Lippman broke the details this week of a new Capitol Police initiative that involves deep dives into the speech, background, and lifestyle details of who members of Congress are meeting with, including donors, Hill staff, mayors, state legislators, and other...

Home is where the heart is — especially the healthy heart. Just by way of cooking your own food, you’re likely enjoying a healthier diet than those who rely on eating out, a new study finds. Researchers at the University of Washington interviewed 437 residents of nearby King County, asking them to fill out a questionnaire detailing their eating experiences. They compared this data to a metric devised by the USDA called the Healthy Eating Index. The index, which evaluates one’s compliance with federal guidelines set for a healthy diet, is weighted on a 100-point scale. The study showed that...

Annunziata Palese, the woman who co-founded Nancy’s Pizza, and whose nickname became synonymous with stuffed pizza in Chicago and made the city’s greatest cheese pull famous around the world, died Jan. 20 at 87 years old. Palese’s late husband, Rocco Palese, first made the Chicago-style stuffed pizza in 1971 at Guy’s Pizza, which they took over in the Hermosa neighborhood. “When he invented the stuffed pizza, there was war,” she said in a 2016 Tribune profile, her English imbued with Italian. “We fight. I no want to do it. Sometimes we was so busy, and he fool around with the...

The Federal Reserve signaled Wednesday that it plans to begin raising its benchmark interest rate as soon as March, a key step in reversing its pandemic-era low-rate policies that have fueled hiring and growth but also escalated inflation. With high inflation squeezing consumers and businesses and unemployment falling steadily, the Fed also said it would phase out its monthly bond purchases, which have been intended to lower longer-term rates, in March. The Fed’s actions are sure to make a wide range of borrowing — from mortgages and credit cards to auto loans and corporate credit — costlier over time. Those...

A Russian invasion of Ukraine poses a serious risk to American citizens and interests. One year into the Joe Biden presidency, critics have justifiably focused on his failed economic, border, and COVID policies. Let’s face it: those are low-hanging fruit and the consequences for Americans are significant. But with Russian forces poised to invade Ukraine, Beijing forcing its will on the world, and rogue nations provoking the international community, Biden’s weakness on the world stage risks drawing the U.S. into a hurricane of international security crises with massive implications. resident Biden was asleep at the wheel on national security policy...