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Over at MSNBC, Steve Benen contends that Republicans, poised to take back the House next year, keep promising to impeach Joe Biden but “haven’t quite worked out” why. As a big fan of impeachments and congressional investigations, I may have some helpful ideas. In his conduct while president of the United States, Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. has shown a habitual contempt for the rule of law, on numerous occasions willfully violating his constitutional oath by corrupting and manipulating the power of the executive branch. Take the eviction moratorium. The Supreme Court explicitly ruled that the plan “exceeded … existing statutory...

When a young adult in a New York City suburb visited an emergency department in June after experiencing weakness in their lower legs, the shocking diagnosis would lead local officials to declare a health emergency in New York and put authorities across the U.S. and around the world on a state of alert. The individual, a resident of Rockland County, had suffered from a fever, a stiff neck, back and abdominal pain as well as constipation for five days. The patient was hospitalized and tested for enterovirus, a family of pathogens that in rare cases can cause weakness in the...

Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) currently has a three-point lead over Republican challenger Blake Masters in his state’s Senate race, according to a new CBS News/YouGov poll. The new poll, published Wednesday, found that 51 percent of likely voters surveyed said they’ll support Kelly in November’s midterm election, while 48 percent offered their support for Masters. Among respondents who said abortion is a very important issue, Kelly’s lead was significantly wider, with 73 percent of that group saying they will support the incumbent senator compared to 26 percent who said they will support Masters. Among those who said immigration is very...

The U.S. Senate race in New Hampshire is tightening, according to a poll published Tuesday showing Don Bolduc three points behind Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-NH). The poll, conducted by the Trafalgar Group from September 26 to September 30, found Hassan at 48.2 percent and Bolduc at 45 percent, while 3.2 percent of respondents were undecided.

The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and its oil-exporting allies announced a 2 million barrel per day cut in oil production Wednesday, bucking months of pressure from Washington to increase production and potentially spiking gas prices again. The coalition, which includes the 13 OPEC nations and 11 non-members including Russia, made the announcement at its Vienna meeting, the first in-person summit since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. The announced cut is roughly equivalent to 2 percent of global supplies. In July, President Biden visited Saudi Arabia to directly appeal to its leaders to increase oil production, despite...

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was ready with his answer when Fox News’s Neil Cavuto asked him about the widespread, hurricane-related power outages in southwest Florida. “Do you think this reminds folks that we’re not ready, or the EVs are not ready for prime time?” Cavuto asked Buttigieg. “Well, I actually think this is a great example of one of the many benefits of those tools,” Buttigieg said: “I was just at the Detroit Auto Show a couple of weeks ago. And one of the things that was very impressive about some of the vehicles that we saw, including the —...

“Stockpiling in Taiwan is a very active point of discussion,” said Jacob Stokes, a fellow at the Center for a New American Security who advised Mr. Biden on Asia policy when he was vice president. “And if you have it, how do you harden it and how do you disperse it so Chinese missiles can’t destroy it?”“The view is we need to lengthen the amount of time Taiwan can hold out on its own,” he added. “That’s how you avoid China picking the low-hanging fruit of its ‘fait accompli’ strategy — that they’ve won the day before we’ve gotten there,...

Soon after the FBI searched Donald Trump’s home in Florida for classified documents, online researchers zeroed in on a worrying trend. Posts on Twitter that mentioned “civil war” had soared nearly 3,000% in just a few hours as Trump’s supporters blasted the action as a provocation. Similar spikes followed, including on Facebook, Reddit, Telegram, Parler, Gab and Truth Social, Trump’s social media platform. Mentions of the phrase more than doubled on radio programs and podcasts, as measured by Critical Mention, a media-tracking firm. Posts mentioning “civil war” jumped again a few weeks later, after President Joe Biden branded Trump and...

“… I am sorry, but if you have voted Conservative, you do not deserve to be resuscitated by the NHS,” former nurse Mirada Hughes declared while ranting to Host Jeremy Vine during a Channel 5 debate titled “Britain on the Brink.” […] … Hughes made the comment while complaining that nurses don’t have enough resources to compassionately care for their patients. […] After being challenged by the incredulous host, Hughes eventually backed off and said that “of course” she would resuscitate a conservative. …

Forty six percent of registered voters said they will vote for Democratic candidates in the midterm elections, a 3-point lead over Republicans, according to a Politico-Morning Consult poll released on Wednesday. The pollster has asked the question weekly as the elections approach, with Democrats holding a slight lead in each iteration for more than a month. Forty three percent in the latest poll indicated support for Republicans, while 12 percent said they didn’t know or had no opinion. A majority of voters — 53 percent — who ranked the economy as their No. 1 issue favored Republicans, with 34 percent...

During my studies in tax accounting in college, I realized something that is seldom brought to the fore: the fact that the Social Security program entails a triple tax. Why, when so-called "fiscal conservatives" gain governmental power does this never get addressed? I'll lay out the thesis here and then recommend some actions that future "Republican" or actual conservatives can implement, by the grace of God. Social Security is a triple tax:1. The tax itself, which is 6.2% of earned income up to an inflation adjusted limit, which is well above most average salaries. (An ancillary tax, medicare, which is...

Chris Cuomo’s return to primetime cable news was a ratings flop that landed him in last place against the competition.

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris convened the second meeting of their reproductive rights taskforce on Tuesday, each giving introductory remarks and slamming pro-life views as “extremist.” Reading from a binder when his moment came, Biden used the word “extreme” or “extremist” six times in five minutes to describe abortion bans and the people who support such bans. “Well, first of all, I created this taskforce in the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s — what most people would acknowledge is a fairly extreme decision on Dodd [sic] — Dobbs — to launch a whole-of-government approach to address the...

Former CIA Director and retired U.S. Army Gen. David Petraeus said in a new interview that Russia can still inflict destruction upon Ukraine, but Russian President Vladimir Putin cannot reverse Ukrainian gains in the four regions Moscow recently annexed. “I think he’s literally out of moves,” Petraeus told CNBC’s Hadley Gamble.

American chess grandmaster Hans Niemann previously admitted to cheating twice in the past, but a new investigation reveals that he did it way more than that. Conducted and released by Chess.com, a 72-page report alleges that the 19-year-old champion likely received illegal assistance in more than 100 online games, the latest of which occurred as recently as 2020. Those matches included contests in which prize money was awarded. {snip}

Explosions and a natural gas leak last week at the sister pipelines of Nord Stream I and Nord Stream II, connecting Russia to Germany via the Baltic Sea, may remain a mystery like the “magic bullets” that killed John F. Kennedy The Russians say it was not sabotage on their end. It was the Americans. The Pentagon denies it. NATO says it was the Russians that ruined it, calling it an attack on European infrastructure. ... But for Europe, its current energy strategy is crippling its manufacturers. Steel mills have shut down. No steel, no cars (including electric ones). No...

Ukrainian forces have counted more gains on the battlefield, with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy hailing more “good news from the front lines” in his nightly address Tuesday. Rapid and significant gains have been counted in Ukraine’s counteroffensive in the south in particular, with advances in the Kherson region. Now, dozens of settlements have been liberated this week across four regions that Russia “annexed” last week, Zelenskyy said. Moscow’s hold on “annexed” territories (Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Luhansk and Donetsk) looks increasingly tenuous, with none of the regions fully occupied by Russian forces, and as Ukraine’s counteroffensives in the east and south maintain their...

State police filed charges against a Williamsport Area High School teacher on September 30th for allegedly having sex with a student. According to Trooper Matthew Miller, Michelle L. Pulizzi, 52, of Williamsport, is accused of criminal solicitation of sex with the student. She is the third high school employee who has been detained in the past year on suspicion of making inappropriate contact with a student while doing work-related duties for the school. ------------- The former pupil “explained how (on social media) the two engaged in sexual talks during his final year. He talked about how they communicated with each...

(The Center Square) – A lawsuit is brewing over Milwaukee’s 2022 get-out-the-vote effort. The Republican Party of Wisconsin on Wednesday filed an open records lawsuit against Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson and the city’s Elections Commission. “The lawsuit is related to the lack of response from Mayor Johnson’s office related to the 'Milwaukee Votes 2022' initiative,” the party said in a statement. “The Republican Party of Wisconsin requested communications between the mayor, Milwaukee Elections Commission Executive Director Claire Woodall-Vogg and GPS Impact, a communications firm that works to elect Democrats ‘in red states.’” Milwaukee’s mayor originally announced the program back in...

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was pressed on comments from Vice President Kamala Harris that critics said suggested Hurricane Ian relief aid be delegated based on factors other than purely loss claims. Harris had said that "it is our lowest-income communities and our communities of color that are most impacted by these extreme conditions… We have to address this in a way that is about giving resources based on equity, understanding that we fight for equality, but we also need to fight for equity." On "Your World" Tuesday, Buttigieg was asked about those remarks as his own department seeks to help...