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But some Republicans are worrying that Mastriano is squandering the opportunity in one of the country’s most consequential races. Would-be allies have remained on the sidelines, having concluded by now that a Mastriano win in November might require a minor miracle. Coincidentally, divine intervention is just what the candidate has in mind this week. On Monday night, Mastriano’s campaign posted on Facebook a photo of two hands under the words “40 days of fasting & prayer” with the dates Sept. 29 through Nov. 8 — Election Day. “Interceding for our elections, our state, and our nation,” it stated, along with...

A costly troop mobilization, plunging energy prices and a new round of Western sanctions threaten to bear down on Russia’s already embattled economy and undermine the financial underpinnings of President Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine. ... Capital Economics estimates that Russia’s total oil-and-gas export revenues will halve from around $340 billion this year to $170 billion in 2023, a loss equivalent to more than twice Russia’s defense budget last year. ... “People are escaping where they can,” Mr. Mironov said. “These are mainly highly skilled, educated workers. So this mobilization is going to have a severe economic effect not just...

Representatives for Jimmy Buffett announced that he must cancel the rest of his 2022 tour dates per “doctors orders” after a “brief hospitalization” for health issues that were not shared. In a message posted on social media Tuesday, the 75-year-old rocker posted a statement indicating Buffett’s “Life on the Flipside-Redux” tour would be cut short. “Due to health issues and brief hospitalization, Jimmy will need to refrain from touring for the rest of the year,” the statement read. “On doctor’s orders, he must take this time to recuperate and heal.” “Jimmy looks forward to getting back on stage next year,”...

While the MSM is busy pointing fingers at Russia for the sabotage of Nord Stream, Trump drew attention to a VERY relevant statement Biden made in an ABC News video from February where Biden promises to remove Nord Stream. Trump replies to the video with "Wow, what a statement. World War III anyone?"

Well, we just had our weekly team meeting. I work for a very large corporation. We were just told that they will be recalculating retirement lump sum payments due to inflation, and depending how things are calculated, if we retire after Jan 1 of next year, we could lose up to 30% of our savings. You read that right, 30%. Thanks Commierats!

Jerome Powell, Chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve, has silenced the calls for a U.S. central bank digital currency (CBDC) to be issued in the near future, saying that the central bank has “not decided to proceed” with the issuance of a CBDC for the time being. "We do not see ourselves making that decision for some time," he said Tuesday, speaking remotely on a panel about the role of central banks in digital markets to global financial leaders and crypto regulation experts attending a conference in Paris. Powell indicated that the central bank would instead be working in collaboration...

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has decreed that natural gas heaters and furnaces will be illegal in the state after 2030. CARB Chair Liane Randolph declared this draconian measure "essential for cleaning our air of carbon emissions." She rebuffed contentions that the ban will cause unnecessary hardship for those who can't afford the pricier options of wind or solar heating, saying "people are mammals. This means we each generate body heat. Garments were invented by the human race as a protection against the cold. If we each wear a sufficient number of garments the need for external heat can...

An 8-year-old child was allegedly molested in August by a substitute middle school teacher in Kansas City, Missouri, who is now in jail. Jason L. Carey was arrested on Wednesday and charged with one count each of felony enticement or attempted enticement of a child, felony second-degree child molestation, and two counts of misdemeanor furnishing pornographic material or attempting to furnish pornographic material to a minor. He was already under investigation for allegedly sending nude photos of himself to several eighth-grade students. ------------ the 8-year-old said that Carey abused her and forced her to watch pornographic tapes, including one with...

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) slammed President Joe Biden during a press conference Tuesday as the state prepares to be hit by a category 3 hurricane. The remarks from DeSantis come after Biden held separate calls earlier in the day with Mayor Jane Castor of Tampa, Mayor Ken Welch of St. Petersburg, and Mayor Frank Hibbard of Clearwater. An official White House readout of the calls made no mention of the president speaking with DeSantis. A reporter asked the governor how he would characterize his conversations with Biden as the hurricane prepares to make landfall. “So I have not personally...

An ISIS publication claimed the United States is a “banana republic,” citing the FBI’s raid of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate. Voice of Khurasan, a magazine published by ISIS’s Khorasan Province’s Al Azaim Foundation for Media Production, had an article in its latest issue titled “America from the Land of Free to a Banana Republic,” according to Homeland Security Today. It focused on Trump's criticism of the raid to retrieve classified material that he took from the White House to his Florida home. “Donald Trump, an ex-US president who gained animalistic pleasure in butchering innocent Muslims of the third...

The White House refused to comment on why President Biden has not spoken with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis prior to Hurricane Ian making landfall Tuesday. Biden has spoken on the phone with multiple Florida mayors ahead of the storm but has so far snubbed the popular Republican governor. Reporters repeatedly pressed FEMA chief Deanne Criswell on why Biden hadn't made the call during a White House press briefing Tuesday. "In the past, President Biden has made calls to [Republican] governors in situations like natural disasters, [such as] Kay Ivey in Alabama, Asa Hutchinson in Arkansas or the governor in Texas,"...

Friends, today’s Gospel invites us to follow Jesus above all. The heart of the message is the claim that he is everything, the one for whom a totalizing decision has to be made. I want to consider in detail how one man in our Gospel responded to the Lord’s call to discipleship. Jesus simply said, “Follow me,” and the man replied, “Lord, let me go first and bury my father.” Well, then as now, nothing would seem more reasonable! Of course you have to take care of your own father’s funeral. What could be more important, especially in a family-centric...

America’s corporate press is out of control. It claims to be an institution essential to successful self-government—and it would in fact be so, if it did its job responsibly. But all too often the American press seeks not to facilitate democratic deliberation by informing the voters but instead to shape political outcomes by dealing in hysteria and misinformation. More specifically, the corporate media routinely seeks to pull the nation’s politics leftward by using defamation to render prominent figures on the right odious to the public. The case of Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz is only the most recent example.

Katie Couric, a TV icon, is battling breast cancer. The 65-year-old former "Today" show anchor just revealed she was diagnosed in June. Cancer is no stranger to Katie ... she lost her first husband, Jay Monahan, to colon cancer in 1998. Her sister died from pancreatic cancer and her mother-in-law died from ovarian cancer. She said, "My mood quickly shifted from disbelief to resignation. Given my family's history of cancer, why would I be spared? My reaction went from, "Why me? to Why not me?"

I've seen multiple posters bragging about how they lie to pollsters...how does this benefit our candidates in any way? This results in lopsided results skewed towards the Dems that: 1. Decreases the amount of $$$ our candidates get 2. Allow cover for the Dems cheating 3. Potentially decreases voter turnout If contacted, tell the pollsters who you like and let's get accurate numbers out there.

Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) said leaks in the Nord Stream pipelines were likely “an act by Russia” to place economic pressure on European allies of Ukraine. European leaders have said leaks that have happened on Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2, two pipelines that carry natural gas under the Baltic Sea from Russia to Germany and supply Europe, may represent acts of intentional sabotage by Russia to punish Europe’s support of Ukraine. “We’ve seen over and over [Russian President] Vladimir Putin use energy as a weapon against the West to try and undermine NATO’s unity in the face of...

Two undersea leaks that began in the Nord Stream 1 and 2 natural gas pipelines were likely caused by underwater explosions, according to seismographic data. Bjorn Lund‬, director of the Swedish National Seismic Network at Uppsala University, told NPR Wednesday that it is “very clear from the seismic record that these are blasts.” Neither of the gas pipelines were active when officials reported sudden losses of gas pressure late on Monday, which they said could only be caused by significant leaks. “These are not earthquakes,” he added. “They are not landslides underwater.” And in an interview with Swedish television, Lund...

VIDEO AT LINK...................... A Twitter video shared Wednesday appears to show the ocean in Tampa disappearing as Hurricane Ian is set to make landfall. What was once described as a “once in a lifetime tidal event” by NBC News in 2017 during the onset of Hurricane Irma has reportedly occurred again: the ocean along Florida’s coastline is receding rapidly out to sea as Hurricane Ian draws ever closer, as seen in a video shared on Twitter. Hurricane Irma was the most powerful Atlantic hurricane on record, but the standard set by the enormous 2017 storm may be broken on Wednesday...

What’s with this hurricane? Why didn’t it turn away from the US? Doesn’t it know we passed the biggest investment in climate change in history? Golly, Sen. Amy Klobuchar said democrats could stop hurricanes! Nancy Pelosi said that she already saved the planet! Nancy Pelosi:” And we saved the planet,we’re saving the planet…” 🤣🤣🤣🤡🤡💩💩 pic.twitter.com/xM7htAbqau— NiCoLeEliSei (@NiCoLeEliSei1) September 22, 2022The empty-headed Cabbage Patch doll known as Karine Jean-Pierre also said that “What may happen in this hurricane season” will be “helped” by Biden’s “historic investment to fight climate change”! Karine Jean-Pierre: "What may happen in this hurricane season” will be...

When the FBI raided Trump last month, we knew it was bad. But most of us know that this latest show of brute force is even worse.Watch the below piece, plus an interview with The Federalist’s John Daniel Davidson, here.The left doesn’t need orders from the top. Indeed, more often than not the left is governed from the bottom up.This isn’t easy for conservatives to understand. Most of us, by disposition, respect hierarchy. A father at the head of the family, a boss at the head of a company, a president at the head of a country, a pope at...