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MECHANICSBURG, PA— In picking a sure thing by endorsing state Sen. Doug Mastriano for governor in PA, former President Donald Trump has set off a chain of events that could cost Republicans the governor's office and ensure him a tough race in PA if he chooses to run for president. Allegheny County Republican Party Chairman Sam DeMarco was stunned when the news hit social media: “I am very disappointed with the president's decision in picking Mastriano. It's not exactly going out on a limb supporting someone in the lead three days before the election; it does guarantee him one win...

Former Clinton Treasury Secretary Larry Summers slammed moves by Democratic lawmakers to introduce legislation that would counter alleged price gouging, calling it “dangerous nonsense.“ “There is no material prospect that, in any enduring way, gouging legislation can have any substantial effect on inflationary pressure,” Summers told Bloomberg Television‘s David Weinstein. “But it can cause and contrive all kinds of shortages” – as well as undermine moves by companies to boost supply as prices climb, he added. Congress will vote next week on legislation barring “excessive” or “exploitative” fuel prices. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Thursday backed the bill, saying, “This is...

George Soros Drug Liberalization plan is destroying the State of Oregon.

Food prices are rising across the U.S., but the latest sticker shock at the supermarket is in the eggs and poultry aisles, as the deadly bird flu wreaks havoc on the country’s egg-laying hen flock. Inflation data tracked by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics found a dozen of eggs jumped 23% in April compared with the month before to $2.52. Prices reached levels not seen since early 2016, a period that followed the highly pathogenic avian influenza outbreak of 2014-15, which led to a 50% increase in egg prices in the second half of 2015. Since January, the outbreak...

Feast of Saint Matthias, Apostle John 15:9-17 Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus announces to his disciples: “I no longer call you slaves, because a slave does not know what his master is doing. I have called you friends, because I have told you everything I have heard from my Father.” Many mysticisms and philosophies of the ancient world—Platonism and Gnosticism come readily to mind—spoke of God or the sacred, but they spoke of it as a force or a value or an ontological source. It was impersonal and at an infinite remove from the world of ordinary experience. These ancient...

Elon's response : "Whoever thought owning the libs would be cheap never tried to acquire a social media company!" What Trump said yesterday : "Only a stupid person would buy Twitter for that price, and Elon is not a stupid person. Besides, how can the deal go through when he may have illegally bought his shares? Would be very unfair to all of those shareholders, past, present, and future, who got “screwed.” I appreciate the offer, but I will never go back to Twitter. I love TRUTH!"

More lawmakers may be called to testify by the Jan. 6 committee as early as next week, according to a new report. House select committee chiefs of staff and aides got word Friday on their weekly call with committee staff that more legislators will be asked to testify, Axios reported Saturday. The briefers did not say which lawmakers will be contacted, or whether they intended to issue more subpoenas, the sources told Axios.

In the former Soviet Union, one of the first Secret Police organizations was called the CHEKA (In Cyrillic: Чека). This organization, formed in 1917, was an unaccountable ‘police’ force intended to repress any of the opponents of Communism. They ran the Soviet GULAG; they conducted mass arrests; they put down rebellions of the citizenry against the new Communist rulers. America, in the last decade or so, has drifted slowly to a society more in line with what the Soviet Union implemented, then a society based on the personal freedoms enshrined in the Bill of Rights. I even have a quip,...

Florida police said parents of a 2-year-old starved her to death despite there being plenty of food in the home, and the mother is pregnant again. Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd relayed the horrifying details about the incident to reporters in a media briefing. Police were called to a home in Davenport after the child had stopped breathing. They said they found her unresponsive in a playpen made from an inflatable pool. They interviewed 35-year-old Arhonda Tillman and 37-year-old Regis Johnson, the parents of the child. "Regis Johnson told us the baby ate a sandwich yesterday, and some chicken nuggets,"...

During an interview aired on Friday’s edition of Bloomberg’s “Wall Street Week,” economist, Harvard Professor, Director of the National Economic Council under President Barack Obama, and Treasury Secretary under President Bill Clinton Larry Summers stated that if politicians want to help solve inflation, one way to do so would be asking borrowers who “are in better financial condition than any time in a very long time, to pay back their student debts, rather than maintaining the moratorium.”

There is no avoiding the obvious. Sen. Rick Scott’s personal history — single mom, public housing, extraordinary success in business — the only legit billionaire in the crowd. His military record. Winning not once or twice but four times in a large, politically complicated state like Florida that was a swing state before he ran in 2008. Business experience. Political experience as a governor in a large state, and appetite for policy. A personal history that speaks to the moment. He will be a very difficult competitor should he decide to seek higher office in 2024. Lots of folks in...

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Donald Trump on Saturday endorsed Doug Mastriano in Pennsylvania’s Republican primary for governor, siding with a far-right candidate who was outside the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 insurrection and has worked with determination to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. Mastriano was already leading a crowded field of contenders, and the former president’s endorsement puts him on even stronger footing heading into Tuesday’s primary. But there are growing fears from party leaders that Mastriano, a state senator and retired U.S. Army colonel, is too extreme to win the general election in November and could...

Vice President Harris will lead a presidential delegation to the United Arab Emirates on Monday, following the death of Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan on Friday, the White House announced. Harris will travel to the UAE to “offer condolences on behalf of the Biden-Harris Administration and the American people on the passing of His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan,” Harris’s press secretary Kirsten Allen said in a statement.

@RepThomasMassie Treaties don’t override our Constitution. If a treaty purports to supersede our Constitution, that treaty is unenforceable. It’s seditious to promote the idea that a President and 67 Senators have license to void the Constitution or any of our laws.

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Dan Clark says his future changed in an instant as his life savings of more than $700,000 vanished. “My phone said, ‘No service, SIM card.’ And I didn’t even know what a SIM card was,” Clark said. By the time he found out, it was too late. His phone number had been transferred to a crook’s device, and Clark’s accounts, including his proceeds in investments in cryptocurrency, were wiped out. “I lost everything in a matter of a few hours,” he said. “Life’s work, a few hours.” Clark quickly learned he was a victim of a...

A mass shooting is being reported out of Buffalo at the Tops [supermarket] at 1275 Jefferson Ave, Buffalo, NY. According to unverified reports, a shooter was taken out by gunfire. However, police say they have one person in custody. There are reports that “bodies [are] everywhere.” At least nine individuals have been reported shot, more than five of them in the head. At least one fatality has been reported.

A 12-year-old boy is recovering after being shot in a drive-by. Memphis Police said the alleged shooter fired shots at a house where the child was playing, but the story continues. According to police, they took 35-year-old Latorya Lemons into custody for harassment earlier in the week. She was released the day before the 12-year-old boy was shot. Police said she then allegedly returned to the same location, to find the man she is accused of harassing and allegedly doing the drive-by on. However, FOX13 recently learned Lemons may already be free once again. FOX13 spoke with neighbors in the...

In February 2022, I attended the Republican State Committee Meeting in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Our job, as state committee members, was to interview, vet, select, and support endorsed candidates through the primary and election cycles. This election cycle, for the first time in decades, the top three positions for governor, lieutenant governor, and Senate in Pennsylvania are "open seats." An open seat is when no incumbent is running, due to term limits or resignations. Open seats always draw more candidates. But this cycle, we Republican state committee members were called upon to complete the endorsement process for approximately 30 candidates, running...

About a quarter of the way through The Fighting Soul, Ari Rabin-Havt’s new book about Bernie Sanders’s most recent run for president, a funny little detail emerges. “After he lost his voice in September 2019,” Rabin-Havt writes, “a friend recommended a specific and hard to find brand of cough drop — Grether’s Blackcurrant Pastilles.”(snip) “It was September 2019, rally in Colorado: 10,000 people. And he blew out his voice completely,” he said. A week later, we had the debate. And he sounded terrible. It wasn’t getting better.” Sanders had apparently been eating Halls to no avail when the friend, who’d...

Chinese President Xi Jinping is reportedly suffering from cerebral aneurysm and had to be hospitalised at the end of 2021, say media reports. Xi Jinping, however, wants to be treated with traditional Chinese medicines rather than going for surgery. According to ANI, earlier in March 2019, during Xi's visit to Italy, his gait was observed to be unusual with a noticeable limp and later in France during the same tour, he was seen taking support while trying to sit down. The ANI report added that during an address to the public in Shenzhen in October 2020, Xi's delay in appearance,...