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We could go on and on and on about the raid on Mar-a-Lago as the most horrendous overreach of government officials and politicians. We've never had a former president raided and ransacked by the FBI. You never send agents at 6am to the president's personal resident. It's third-world, banana-republic tactics. This is Marxism on the move.

"“Form of a string of douchey statements. Shape of a career killing series of events.” –the Blunder Twins. The actual Wonder Twins movie was just canceled, which is a win as they are the worst characters ever and there was zero reason for a movie about them. Batgirl was also canceled after filming was complete, and with respect to the “Afro-Latina” woman who was set to play her Batgirl didn’t need a race swap. The problem is that inventing new characters takes talent, so leftists take the easy way out and ruin existing characters to push their agenda instead (more...

The $369 billion investment, Gates said, will "spark innovation, drive job creation, and reduce energy prices and emissions." "It sets a clear example of what serious climate action looks like," the billionaire said.

This song just makes you want to beat the crap outta someone! Great jam from Staind.

Idaho has a potato shortage. If you haven't heard about it already or noticed fewer and fewer potatoes in your grocery store's produce section, you will soon. So, what's the problem? The weather. Not this year’s weather, mind you. It’s the weather from over a year ago that’s to blame. “I'm not sure if you remember last June, but we had some just unbelievably hot temperatures here in Idaho. It did a number on our potato crop,” said Jamey Higham, president and CEO of the Idaho Potato Commission. “And so, our yields were significantly down last year.” Now, keep that...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — What takes four years to make and costs more than $20,000? A trash can in San Francisco. That costly, boxy bin is among six trash cans hitting San Francisco’s streets this summer in the city’s long saga in search of the perfect can. Overflowing trash cans are a common sight in the Northern California city, along with piles of used clothes, shoes, furniture and other items strewn about on sometimes-impassable sidewalks. City officials hired a Bay Area industrial firm to custom-design the pricey trash can along with two other prototypes that cost taxpayers $19,000 and $11,000...

SEATTLE - The Washington State Liquor Cannabis Board is considering a point system that would give people convicted of a drug-related crime and did prison time - preferential treatment when applying for retail cannabis license.

Chicago is hiking property tax bills by $42.7 million, keeping the city’s long-running tax hike tradition alive as it tries to manage its runaway pension debt. Mayor Lori Lightfoot chose in 2020 to tie property tax hikes to inflation with a maximum of 5%. After inflation reached a 40-year high, the city will instead use a 2.5% adjustment for tax hikes. Lightfoot said the increase will cost the owner of a $250,000 home $34 more each year, equating it to extra toppings at lunch. “To put that in terms that I can understand, that’s about the price of an Al’s...

A man in California was arrested last weekend after a family argument at a funeral turned ugly, resulting in a mass brawl that saw the suspect allegedly hit someone with his car and knock over the casket containing the deceased.(snip) Lieutenant Matt Stonebraker of the Richmond Police Department told SFGate, the San Francisco Chronicle website, that grass was damaged by the car. Several headstones and vases were also damaged, and a water main was broken close to the funeral plot where the family met, causing flooding in the area.(snip) After the physical fight, "one of the family members tried to...

A librarian in Louisiana filed a lawsuit against two men and a conservative organization alleging they defamed her when they attacked her for supporting the teaching of books involving the LGBTQ community. Amanda Jones, a middle school librarian and the president of the Louisiana Association of School Librarians, alleged in the lawsuit that a “public campaign” against her started after she spoke out against removing certain books from the Livingston Parish Library system at a board meeting. The lawsuit states that Citizens for a New Louisiana posted on its Facebook on July 20, the day after the meeting, criticizing “anti-censorship...

Oct. 20, 2010— -- When you're President of the United States, you can lose a vote, you can lose popular support, and you can lose a round of golf. But you're never, ever supposed to lose the biscuit. That's what they call the card the president is meant to keep close at hand, bearing the codes that he has to have in order to launch a nuclear attack. And for several months during the Clinton administration, a former top military officer says they lost the biscuit. Watch "World News with Diane Sawyer" for more on this story tonight on ABC....

This is exactly what many people predicted would happen after the Uvalde school shooting in Texas, and the horrific police response. With the Uvalde police response fresh on their minds, parents showed up in El Mirage, Arizona after the elementary school was locked down. Apparently, an armed man tried to gain entry to the school. The police were following their lockdown protocols and would not let the arriving parents into the building. Scuffles with law enforcement began breaking out as desperate parents wanted to protect and save their kids. Subsequently, police opened fire on the parents with tasers then began...

In 2020, we took pains to emphasize that, although he was a significant underdog in our forecast, then-President Donald Trump could absolutely win reelection. Frankly, I’m not sure we’ve taken the same care this year when it comes to Democrats and the U.S. House. Their chances to hold the House started out in the Trump-in-2020 vicinity when we launched our forecast — 13 percent — and now they’ve risen to 20 percent amidst an improving political environment for Democrats. It’s still not terribly likely Democrats win control of the House. But it also means that a GOP takeover is far...

GOP Rep. James Comer of Kentucky, who could potentially lead the powerful House Oversight Committee if Republicans take control of the lower chamber after the 2022 midterms, said high-profile conservative congresswomen Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and Lauren Boebert of Colorado have shown interest in becoming members of the panel. In a recent interview with Politico, Comer — who is currently the Oversight ranking member — said that if he led the panel, it would not devolve into "a dog-and-pony show." "This isn't a committee where everybody's gonna scream and be outraged and try to make the witnesses look like...

On Saturday’s “CNN Newsroom,” Rep. Dina Titus (D-NV) responded to an estimate by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) that the Inflation Reduction Act won’t have much of an impact on inflation this year or next year by saying that many economists say “inflation is already coming down. Gas prices are coming down. So, I believe that you will be able to feel it.” Host Fredricka Whitfield asked, “But do you worry that many Americans won’t actually feel the impact of the bill — some of the impact, for a long time? I mean, it’s called the Inflation Reduction Act. But...

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I’ve decided to endorse Liz Cheney for the Republican nomination for the House seat in Wyoming it’s my first time endorsing in a GOP primary.

Nineteenth Week in Ordinary Time Matthew 19:13–15 Friends, in our Gospel for today, Jesus proposes that the kingdom of heaven belongs to those who are like children. Why? For starters, children don’t know how to dissemble, how to be one way and act another. They are what they are; they act in accordance with their deepest nature. “Kids say the darndest things,” because they don’t know how to hide the truth of their reactions. In this, they are like stars or flowers or animals, things that are what they are, unambiguously, uncomplicatedly. They are in accord with God’s deepest intentions...

UPDATE: (Aug. 12, 2022, 3:13 p.m. ET): NBC News on Friday obtained a copy of the warrant used in the FBI's search of former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home in Florida, as well as the related property receipt. The FBI recovered 11 sets of classified documents in the search, according to the documents. This week, in addition to having his private residence searched by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, former President Donald Trump was deposed in an investigation by the New York Attorney General’s office. There he apparently didn’t say much other than that he was asserting his Fifth Amendment...

MADISON, Wis. — It’s sadly not new for a business on Madison’s east side, but EVP Coffee’s owner calls the latest burglary a one-two punch — showing a side of her neighborhood she never expected to see. “There was glass everywhere, the cash register was thrown on the floor,” owner Tracy Danner said. Danner’s general manager encountered quite the mess Wednesday morning at EVP Coffee. “The door was open, the ATM was stolen,” Danner said. As shocking as it looks, it wasn’t the first time this has happened. It’s Danner’s second break-in at the East Washington Avenue location in 10...