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For every election cycle, a few months prior to voting day, pollsters release surveys that show Democrats leading with wide margins. The media gleefully amplify these polls.This isn’t a recent phenomenon.Back in 1980, Reagan was trailing Carter trailing by 8% even in some mid-October polls. Reagan ended up winning the 1980 general election in a landslide.In 2016, pollsters said with certitude that Hillary Clinton would be the next president. The New York Times proclaimed she has a 91 percent chance of winning. Trump won that election by a respectable margin in the electoral college.In 2020, Trump was supposed to lose...

After receiving responses to open records requests, State Rep. Bryan Slaton (R–Royse City) released findings from an investigation led by his office revealing that public Texas medical schools have been teaching child gender modification. “Repeatedly, the people of Texas have been told, ‘This kind of thing isn’t going on in Texas.’ And yet, the exact opposite is true,” Slaton said. “Not only are young children being subjected to barbaric gender-modification practices like surgeries and puberty-blocking drugs on a daily basis, but these practices are being taught to the next generation of doctors in some of our public medical schools.” The...

When you know well in advance that you have over two decades to methodically peddle the venom of propaganda into the ears of the nation, and in the process, hope you will succeed in building enough national unity around some of your favorite ideas, what you might want to put at the forefront of your early efforts is the fundamental conviction of injustice and oppression at the hands of a vicious enemy or two, where - inevitably - you're the one riding the white horse of justice and values worth dying for and everyone else occupies the "forces of evil...

LEHIGH ACRES, Fla. – A local Pizza Hut is drying off after a man ripped the bathroom sink out of the wall, causing thousands in damage. The Lee County Sheriff’s Office showed up at the restaurant at 25 Homestead Road in Lehigh Acres after a report of a suspicious person. Employees explained that the man walked into the Pizza Hut and asked to use the bathroom. After 30 minutes, one worker knocked on the door, asking if the man was alright. That was when it was noticed that water was coming from the under the door and beginning to flood...

Individuals who are eligible to apply include residents of Evanston who are 18-24 years old, over 62 years old, or an "undocumented community member." In order to qualify, applicants must also live in a household that makes below or at 250% of the poverty line. For a one-person household, 250% of the poverty line is $33,975, and for a two-person household, 250% of the poverty line is $45,775, according to city officials.

Four-year-old Elizaveta Dmytrieva grinned as she pushed her stroller along the street in Vinnytsia, Ukraine. It was nearly five months into the war, but the city where her family had fled from Kyiv seemed safe enough. Her mother took an Instagram video as “Liza,” who was born with Down syndrome, led the way in a moment of delighted independence. Barely an hour later, the little girl was dead, her mother severely injured. And the image of her black and pink stroller, flipped on its side and spattered with blood, would become symbolic of the gruesome toll Russia’s invasion has inflicted...

Democratic candidates have decried North Carolina’s newly reinstated abortion restrictions after a federal judge allowed a state law banning nearly all abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy to go into effect. But some North Carolina Democrats say the ruling earlier this month — the latest fallout of the June U.S. Supreme Court decision eliminating federal abortion protections — might be the catalyst their party needed to reinvigorate its political prospects in what was shaping up to be a losing year.

Karl Rove, who served as a senior adviser to former President George W. Bush, said on Friday that former President Trump did not have the authority to take presidential documents with him to his Mar-a-Lago residence when he ended his term. “Why he was holding on to these materials when he had no legal authority to do so under the Presidential Records Act is beyond me,” Rove, a Fox News contributor, said during an appearance on the network. Rove’s appearance came shortly after a federal magistrate judge approved the release of a redacted affidavit used to convince him to approve...

The IRS official chosen to lead the new "centralized office" featuring the nearly 87,000 new employees funded in President Biden's Inflation Reduction Act was involved in the agency's targeting of conservative groups that opposed Barack Obama's reelection in 2012. Nikole Flax served as the chief of staff for then acting IRS Commissioner Stephen Miller, who was fired amid a cover-up of the scandal. When Republican lawmakers sought communications related to the scandal in an investigation, Flax's emails were among those the agency claimed were lost in a computer hard-drive crash. The IRS, the lawmakers charged, was attempting to "cover up...

Diesel and heating oil supplies in the Northeast are more than 50% below the recent average, raising concerns that an extreme weather event could cause supply disruptions, federal officials said. Fuel supplies are lower than normal across the country for a variety of reasons, including the war in Ukraine. But it’s the worst in the Northeast. Diesel fuel and heating oil, which comprise the distillate category, are 63% below the five-year average in New England and 58% below the same average from Maryland to New York, according to a survey by the Department of Energy. Gasoline inventories are not as...

Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin is working to dismantle Virginia's push toward electric vehicles, calling the move "ridiculous" in a Sunday statement. Virginia's former governor, Democrat Ralph Northam, signed legislation in 2021 tying the state's emissions policies to the California Air Resources Board. The board has imposed a regimen to eliminate the sale of gas and diesel vehicles by 2035, forcing Virginia to do the same thanks to the 2021 law. "In an effort to turn Virginia into California, liberal politicians who previously ran our government sold Virginia out by subjecting Virginia drivers to California vehicle laws," Youngkin wrote in...

A podcasting convention in America has issued a “grovelling apology” for allowing Ben Shapiro into its venue, Sky News Digital Editor Jack Houghton says. “Shapiro is a conservative and in the age of safe spaces that means his mere presence supposedly causes people physical harm,” he said. Mr Houghton said the podcaster responded to the backlash in good spirits and released a video of himself meeting and greeting fans.

A former NBA coach has been ridiculed for comparing President Biden's student loan debt forgiveness to Jesus' miracle of feeding the multitudes. Stan Van Gundy - formerly head coach of the Orlando Magic, the Miami Heat, and the Detroit pistons - tweeted a meme intended to mock Republican mentalities but instead landed his own political logic in a hotbed of ridicule. The meme showed a painting of Jesus' miracle of bread a fish - a bible story where Jesus feeds thousands by miraculously multiplying a supply of bread and fish - with a caption reading 'Jesus's miracle of the loaves...

Retiring Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois suggested Sunday that his party is facing an uphill battle to win control of Congress in November - despite months of a projected 'red wave' in the 2022 midterm cycle. The military veteran and lawmaker told NBC News' Meet The Press that it would be a combination of 'cruel' anti-abortion stances along with the fringe appeal of candidates endorsed by Donald Trump that could spell the GOP's downfall. He himself did not rule out supporting a Democratic candidate in future elections - if their GOP opponent promoted false 2020 election fraud theories.

Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) on Sunday defended former President Trump in the wake of an FBI search of his Mar-a-Lago property but noted Trump “should have turned over all” of the classified documents authorities said he kept after he left the White House. “I understand he turned over a lot of documents. He should have turned over all of them. I imagine he knows that very well now as well,” Blunt said on ABC’s “This Week with George Stephanopoulos.”

"Jesus answered and said unto him, What I do thou knowest not now; but thou shalt know hereafter. "Peter saith unto him, Thou shalt never wash my feet. Jesus answered him, If I wash thee not, thou hast no part with me." "So mightily grew the word of God and prevailed." John, Chapter 13 1 Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end. 2 And supper being...

My son is a manager at SAMS in Buford, GA and he just made an announcement that the EBT System is currently down across the US.

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R), who played a pivotal role in revealing the Hunter Biden laptop to the public, predicted that the forthcoming movie My Son Hunter will be “censored as much as possible” by the mainstream media and political figures. Speaking with My Son Hunter director Robert Davi (Licensed to Kill, Die Hard, The Goonies) on his podcast “Common Sense,” Guiliani said My Son Hunter, “Which looks to be a very high-quality production from a very high-quality director and actor, is going to be censored as much as possible by those who believe that they run the...

A Sol is a Mars-Day.PERSEVERANCEToday's Sol count:SOLS ON MARS541: XX: XX: XXSOLHRSMINSSECSSol 541,running from approx. 1825 PDT 8/27/2022 to 1905 PDT 8/28/2022(Star Number)Rosh Chodesh Elul"I Am My Beloved's"Our rabbis1 note that the name "Elul" is an acronym for the biblical phrase2 ani ledodi vedodi li-- "I am my Beloved's, and my Beloved is mine." In other words, the intense love between G-d and the Jewish people comes to the surface during Elul.The King in the Field***Love. It is the most powerful of human emotions. We all crave it. We cannot live without it. And yet it is so overwhelming, so...

When a car bomb exploded on the outskirts of Moscow, killing 29-year-old Darya Dugina, the eyes of the West immediately turned to her father, Alexander Dugin -- the ultra-nationalist philosopher credited with being the "spiritual guide" to Russian President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine. But Dugina herself played a smaller, public role in advancing Russian soft power -- assailing the West in TV appearances at home, while operating a disguised English-language online platform that pushed a pro-Kremlin worldview to Western readers. In recent years, she had sought to build influence publicly, often with an international audience in mind. And she...