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The race for governor in New York is tightening, like many races across the country, and Republican Lee Zeldin is closing the gap with incumbent Democrat Kathy Hochul. One of the issues driving this race is crime, and Zeldin has been hammering Hochul, even using the attempted assault on himself as an example. Another factor that may be hurting Hochul is the fact that she wasn’t elected to the job but lucked into it when Andrew Cuomo stepped down. Zach Williams reports at the New York Post: New poll has Kathy Hochul, Lee Zeldin neck and neck in NY gov...

In response to Republican legal challenges, courts have curbed some of the worst usurpations of state legislative authority over elections in 2020, says conservative election watchdog Phill Kline, but the right, he cautions, has failed to anticipate and counter a reconfigured alliance of the federal government, Big Tech and Democrat-friendly nonprofits to microtarget and turn out Democrat voters in 2022. "[T]ruthfully, if you review all the litigation, it refutes the narrative of mainstream media that Trump allies filed all these lawsuits and lost," Phill Kline, founder of the Amistad Project, told the John Solomon Reports podcast. "No, many of those...

Col. Doug Macgregor on Nord Stream and Nuclear War

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson argues the framers of the 14th Amendment adopted it "in a race-conscious way," a position some legal experts say is subject to debate. Jackson, the first black woman on the Supreme Court, began her first two days on the nine-member bench by speaking more than any other justices , in addition to a full four-minute statement in which she said the 14th Amendment used "race-conscious" remedies to make freedmen equal to white citizens. The issue at hand involved a challenge to Alabama 's 2021 congressional district map, which a lower court held was a...

Yesterday I caught good part of interview of NCL CEO Mr Del Rio on CNBC. According to Del Rio, NCL has more bookings for 2023 than either 2018 0r 2019, and at higher prices.

“But the Word of God Is Not Bound!” (2 Timothy 2:1-13) Do you ever feel constrained or held back, like you’re the prisoner of things that are too powerful for you to overcome? Maybe it’s age. You feel the advancing years taking their toll on you. Maybe it’s sickness. You get over one thing, and then it’s something else. More pills, more trips to the doctor. You feel like a prisoner in your own body. Or maybe it’s a guilty conscience weighing you down. You sense your own failings. Your past sins keep on dogging you. Then there’s the approach...

Democrats are continuing their "weaponization" of justice in order to tarnish their leading "political opponent," former President Donald Trump wrote excoriating the nonstop efforts to keep him from running again in 2024."The Document Hoax Lawsuit, which is the 'Weaponization' of the Justice Department and the FBI, is yet another Scam against me, much like Russia, Russia, Russia, Impeachment Hoax #1, Impeachment Hoax #2, the Mueller Report (no collusion!), Spying on my Campaign (and getting caught!), Lying to the FISA court, Lying to Congress, Illegally Breaking into my home in Florida in violation of the Fourth Amendment, also violating the Presidential...

APU shot 16 civilians in the north of the Kherson region: https://tinyurl.com/2fjx874p 'We're hunting them down and shooting them like pigs': How the Ukrainians are taking brutal revenge on the collaborators who've betrayed their neighbours - and country - to the Russians: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11284819/How-Ukrainian-intelligence-chiefs-tracking-collaborators-worked-Russians.html

Today's tall cylindrical fermentation tanks that have replaced the shorter vats of breweries in the past have tended to negatively impact the taste of the resulting beer – but now scientists have stepped in to improve the taste of our booze. These tall tanks can produce more beer for less money – they're easier to fill, empty and clean – but their widespread adoption also means excess pressure from the carbon dioxide produced during fermentation, and that affects flavor. The researchers began by identifying strains of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae yeast that were particularly CO2-resistant, focusing on the production of isoamyl...

President Joe Biden kicked off a speech on the economy Friday with a classic brain-freeze moment. “Let me start off with two words — Made in America,” he said, using three words in front of a sign that read “Made in America.” “Made in America,” he repeated, without correcting his mistake. “That’s not hyperbole, I’m not joking about that as you know

We start today’s program, sadly. Talking about the passing of Bernard McGuirk. Nationwide, you know him from the Imus program. In and around New York City, many of you know him from WABC. Where he did a morning show, the great twosome in the morning on WABC. Bernie and I were buddies. I don’t mean social buddies. I don’t mean that we went out. I don’t mean that we called every day. But we were buddies. We shared the same philosophy. Kind of the same weird humor. We didn’t take any enemies. And. He was a really, really smart guy,...

Vladimir Putin is a bad guy. Vladimir Putin is a megalomaniac. Vladimir Putin is a criminal. All of those things are true. Similarly, Adolph Hitler was a bad guy, a megalomaniac and a criminal. But Vladimir Putin is not Adolph Hitler and Russia in 2022 is not Germany in 1938/39. But in both cases, the future of the world hung on / hangs in the balance. But maybe not in the way you think… Much of the world was already engaged in war in 1941 when the United States joined the fight. Most of Europe and much of North Africa...

Friends, in today’s Gospel, we learn of a person possessed by a demon. Jesus meets the man and drives out the demon but then is immediately accused of being in league with Satan. Some of the witnesses said, “By the power of Beelzebul, the prince of demons, he drives out demons.”Jesus’ response is wonderful in its logic and laconicism: “Every kingdom divided against itself will be laid waste and house will fall against house. And if Satan is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand?”The demonic power is always one of scattering. It breaks up communion. But Jesus, as...

They say lightning never strikes twice in the same place. Don’t tell that to balloon pilot Michael Glen of Phoenix. The pilot of Joelly, the popular “baby bee” balloon, awoke early Thursday to leave for Balloon Fiesta Park only to find that his truck and trailer, with “baby bee” and a standard balloon inside, had been stolen from the parking lot of the TownPlace Suites hotel near the airport. Albuquerque social media was abuzz with the news and, to Glen, it was deja vu all over again. In 2006, Glen came to Albuquerque to fly in his first Albuquerque International...

The entire school district police force in Uvalde, Texas, has been suspended over their failed response to the devastating massacre at Robb Elementary School. On May 24, gunman Salvador Ramos, 18, shot and killed a total of 19 children and two teachers at the school. He was left alone in the classroom for 77 minutes before police intervened. In a statement today, the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District (CISD) wrote: 'Recent developments have uncovered additional concerns with department operations. 'As a result of the developments, Lt Miguel Hernandez and Ken Mueller have been placed on administrative leave. 'The District has...

FBI agents with "guns drawn" reportedly raided the home of 73-year-old Chester Eugene Gallagher after the pro-life leader promoted a series of anti-abortion events last year on social media in the Nashville area and advertised an activist blockade of an abortion clinic. Pro-life activist Heather Idoni, the 58-year-old owner of Beloved Books bookstore turned-Ukraine relief center, was charged by the DOJ with a civil rights conspiracy and a Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (FACE Act) offense for "blockading" an abortion facility.

Trump-endorsed Kelly Tshibaka was projected this week to defeat by a narrow margin 21-year incumbent and pro-impeachment Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK). According to FiveThirtyEight’s simulation of the race, Tshibaka is projected to defeat Murkowski 52 in 100 times. The model supports polling showing Tshibaka has a slight edge over the incumbent.

Democrats’ electoral fortunes have improved significantly in recent months. And while it appears the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade is the biggest reason, the coinciding drop in gas prices surely didn’t hurt. But just as the party appeared primed to take advantage of that in the midterm elections, which are just a month away, the problem rears its ugly head again. And Democrats are clearly quite concerned. Just how concerned should they be? Gas prices had already been rising for the past two weeks, after 98 days of consecutive declines over the summer, to a national average...

The FBI team that was in communication with Facebook before the social media company censored the original Hunter Biden laptop story has been identified, according to a new court filing. Meta, Facebook’s parent company, identified the team as the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force (FITF), according to an updated complaint entered late on Oct. 6. Meta named the team after receiving a subpoena in a case alleging the federal government pressured Big Tech firms to censor users. “Pursuant to the third-party subpoena, Meta has identified the FBI’s FITF, as supervised by Laura Dehmlow, and Elvis Chan as involved in the...

The oil producing nations basically told the U.S. to "shove it", furthering the case that the BRIC nations are moving away from the U.S. dollar and separating economically from the West. ... OPEC humiliated Biden on a global stage by cutting oil production after he specifically lobbied them not to. There’s no “nice” way of putting it - they straight-up snubbed the U.S. and have now, in my opinion, made it officially clear that they 1) are not our friends, 2) do not care what we want, 3) do not take us seriously and 4) are not here to help...