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MSNBC host Joy Reid said that the word "inflation" is "not part of the normal lexicon" for Americans, and that they are only concerned with the concept because Republicans have taught it to them for political gain. Reid added that most people would have "never used that word ever in their lives" before this election cycle. The liberal host's comments seem to follow growing frustration among mainstream media pundits over polls showing that the biggest issues for voters ahead of the midterm elections are inflation, the economy in general and crime — issues that tend to favor Republican candidates, according...

Deemed a “great person” by the prosecutor, judge and defense attorney, a Florida man who had himself filmed walking on the thermals of Yellowstone’s Grand Prismatic spring was ordered Wednesday to pay $2,000 in fines and community service payments. Matt Manzari, who has 16 screws and three plates in his face and scars on his body from an electric-shock accident he narrowly survived in his youth, was grateful to the judge for not sentencing him to jail. “I really appreciate your leniency and understanding. It means more than you will ever know to me and my family,” he told Stephanie...

The Babylon Bee is a great satire site, with a real talent for making some truly fun stuff. Recently, we brought you some of their humor from their “Californians who moved to Texas” series. The California couple went canvassing for Beto O’Rourke in a deep red area of Texas, with special guest Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) — who revealed his true identity as the Zodiac Killer — with a twist at the end of the video. Now they’re out with another one — a Democrat midterm ad — about how we moved from the “time of darkness” under the “Orange...

Pennsylvania Democrat John Fetterman recreated the classic 1979 Coca-Cola advertisement featuring football legend ‘Mean’ Joe Greene in a bizarre video during his failed 2016 U.S. Senate campaign. The original Coca-Cola advertisement began with Greene, a Pittsburgh Steelers legend, hobbling down the tunnel after a game when a child approaches him to offer a coke. Greene accepts it and tosses this child his jersey, saying, “thanks, kid.”

The Florida bar is investigating a member of mass shooter Nikolas Cruz's defense team after she was recorded sneakily flipping the bird on camera and chummily laughing with the convicted mass killer. Tamara Curtis, who is on Cruz's defense counsel, is being investigated due to an inquiry based on her behavior in court, a Florida bar spokesperson revealed a day after Cruz was sentenced to life in prison and avoided the death penalty. Cruz, 24, killed 17 people and injured 17 more when he engaged in a shooting rampage at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida in 2018....

Republican Arizona Senate candidate Blake Masters took the lead over Democratic Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly for the first time in a Friday Emerson College poll. Masters was favored by 48% of respondents, taking a one-point lead over Kelly after months of trailing the incumbent Democrat, the poll found. Masters has been slowly climbing in popularity and was tied with Kelly in other recent polls, though Kelly has a one-point lead in the RealClearPolitics polling average. About 1% of voters were undecided, and Masters’ new lead is within the 3% margin of error, meaning the race is effectively tied.

Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., said the U.S. will continue to strongly support Ukraine with military aide as a new Congress will sit this January...“I believe we will continue to support Ukraine with the kind of military aide that only the U.S. can provide,” he told Newsmax’s “Rob Schmitt Tonight” Wednesday night. “Some of our European partners can provide some military support, but really there are some systems only America can provide.”

Vatican Sec. of State Parolin to French Bishops: Help Trads "disoriented" with Traditionis Custodes Message sent by the Vatican Secretary of State, Card. Parolin, to the French Episcopal Conference meeting this week in Lourdes:The Holy Father Pope Francis wishes to assure you and all the members present [at the 2022 Fall Plenary Assembly] of his prayer and his fraternal and spiritual support. At a time when the Church of France is once again shaken by the drama of abuse on the part of some of its pastors, he invites you, with your eyes fixed on the cross of Christ,...

judge has ruled against the Republican National Committee’s legal request for Clark County to have equal political party representation on manual signature verification boards for mail ballots. Clark County District Court Judge Timothy Williams issued the order Thursday, a day after attorneys representing the RNC, Clark County and a cadre of Democratic groups argued the case following oral arguments from the parties on Tuesday. The ruling, which comes just two days before the end of the state’s early voting period and after days of mail ballot processing, marks a defeat for the RNC, whose chairwoman had claimed the county’s lack...

Former (and sort of current) president Barack Obama used a rally in Phoenix Wednesday night to deliver a crazy remark about America's system of self-government. The Anointed One asserted that if the Arizona Republican candidates are successful, "democracy as we know it may not survive" there. He added, "That's not an exaggeration. That is a fact." Opinions are now facts, as facts are "disinformation" to the wannabe tyrants called Democrats. Democrats have routinely asserted recently that "our democracy is in danger" if Republicans do well on a national scale in the upcoming midterm elections. Now they are doing the same...

Layoffs appear to cover a wide range of departments, with those in engineering, human resources, policy, content moderation, and more chiming in about their new unemployed status. MANY TWEETS AT LINK..................... On Friday, now-former Twitter employees took to the social media platform to document their firing as new owner Elon Musk clears house. Employees wrote of their job status in the hashtags "Love Where You Worked" and "One Team," calling it "dehumanizing," and calling out Elon Musk for the action. Others vowed to take legal action against the social media company for being laid off. Some former Twitter employees and...

Friday on ABC’s “The View” co-host Sara Haines asked Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Lt. Gov. John Fetterman (D-PA) to declare his “post-stroke troubles are not cognitive” and “would not hinder” him as a senator. Haines said, “Mr. Fetterman, I was happy you released an updated letter from your doctor, and it is clear your post-stroke troubles are not cognitive and would not hinder you as a senator. I’ll move on and treat you like a regular candidate.

“Jesus answered and said to them, ‘Go and report to John what you hear and see: the blind receive sight and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them. And blessed is he who does not take offense at Me’” (Matthew 11:4–6). The Lord Jesus always has the best answer for every distinct situation. Rather than a terse yes-or-no answer to John the Baptist, Jesus reported to his disciples a reminder of the healing miracles already so well-reported and witnessed. The signs had...

President Biden will campaign in New York for Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) Sunday in the final few days before Election Day. Biden will travel to Yonkers, N.Y., for a “Get Out the Vote” event with Hochul and New York state Democrats at 5 p.m. on Sunday, Hochul’s campaign announced on Friday. The president recently appeared with Hochul when he traveled to Syracuse, N.Y., on Oct. 27 to tout a $100 billion investment from Micron alongside the governor. Hochul is in a competitive reelection campaign against Republican challenger Rep. Lee Zeldin. The governor recently regained a more comfortable lead in polling...

God has revealed to us a sure way to become holy and perfect in his sight, whereby all his children can live in absolute peace and joy, knowing God looks on them as pure. “But now the righteousness of God apart from the law is revealed, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets, even the righteousness of God, through faith in Jesus Christ, to all and on all who believe. For there is no difference; for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in...

Early this Sunday morning, Americans will engage in the annual autumnal ritual of “falling back” — setting their clocks back one hour to conform with standard time.If some lawmakers had their way, it would mark the end of a tradition that has stretched for more than a century. But a familiar story unspooled of congressional gridlock and a relentless lobbying campaign, this one from advocates that some jokingly call “Big Sleep.” “I know that the permanent standard time people and the permanent daylight saving time people will be disappointed because they didn’t get what they wanted, and we will be...

Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) took her fellow Republican lawmaker, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), to task on Friday for pushing an isolationist foreign policy after vowing during a Thursday Trump rally in Iowa to cut off U.S. funding to help Ukraine defend itself from the ongoing Russian invasion of the country.

Last meals requested by condemned inmates across the country have ranged from epic portions to a single plate with barely any food as part of an ongoing ritual that precedes the execution.

There are a lot of faraway places in this world—Namibia for example— but Europe is not one of them. Europe is where your kids spent junior year abroad. Europe is an easy flight from the east coast of the United States to pretty much anywhere on the continent and you know this. You’ve been on vacation in Europe, as millions of Americans have. For the most part, they speak English in Europe. They’ve got Starbucks and Taco Bell and air conditioning and modern hospitals. It is not another world. Given how closely related the United States is to Europe and...

A Tennessee State University professor has been fired after a video surfaced that showed him screaming at a student and telling him to leave after he failed his course, the school says. History professor Robert Evins Pickard was recorded shouting in the students face before expelling him from the classroom. In the video, which has gone viral on various social media platforms, Pickard can be heard screaming 'What is your name?' at the student. He then shouts 'Get out! You have failed this course, whatever your name is! Out! Out!' The University said in a statement on Tuesday that Pickard...