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There are pledges and there are pledges. Some are realistic, others are not. Some are pure fantasy and are best left that way. Remember Joe Biden's pledge from 2019? “I want you to look at my eyes. I guarantee you, I guarantee you we’re going to end fossil fuels.” He repeated it recently "There is no more drilling. I haven't formed any new drilling," I guarantee you it won't happen. Were it possible, there would be no Christmas. Were it possible, you most likely would die and so would your kids. Facts are stubborn things. Joe Biden is determined to...

FTX filed for bankruptcy last week, but the cryptocurrency exchange’s founder still thinks that he can raise enough money to make users whole, according to people familiar with the matter. Mr. Bankman-Fried, alongside a few remaining employees, spent the past weekend calling around in search of commitments from investors to plug a shortfall of up to $8 billion in the hopes of repaying FTX’s customers, the people said. The efforts to cover that shortfall have so far been unsuccessful. The Wall Street Journal couldn’t determine what Mr. Bankman-Fried is offering in return for any potential cash infusion, or whether any...

Left-wing activist and filmmaker Michael Moore said Thursday on MSNBC’s “The Beat” that Democrats will keep control of Congress in the midterms because the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. More said, “They’re not going to win next Tuesday. I know it seems like I take a minority position on this because the media is full of a lot of how the Republicans are surging and the Republicans are doing so well, and so this race we’re going to lose.”More went out on a limb to make this prediction. He was half right. The Democrats kept the Senate, but lost...

Tuesday, November 15, 2022: Join RSBN live from The Mar-a-Lago Club in West Palm Beach, FL as President Donald J. Trump, 45th President of The United States, makes a 'special announcement'. 45th President of the United States Donald J. Trump to Hold a Special Announcement at the Mar-a-Lago Club Tuesday, November 15, 2022, at 9:00PM EST President Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America, will hold a special announcement at the Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida on Tuesday, November 15, 2022, at 9:00PM EST.

Monday the country was focused on what was happening in Arizona. Rather than being able to process their elections in a timely manner, the state took almost a week to declare a Democrat victory across the board. According to Gateway Pundit, Pima County dumped another batch of election day ballots Monday that favored Katie Hobbs 58.08% to 41.95% for Kari Lake. But rather than the uncounted ballots decreasing after the dump, the total number of outstanding ballots increased. This election is being rigged and stolen, just like in 2020. According to the Uplift Data tracking service, Republicans had 52.7% of...

Baby elephant disrupting a TV reporter.I hate it when this happens.

Now in Gaza, the attack in Ariel and the murdered Israelis are being celebrated. Human scum who sanctify terrorism. Nov 15, 2022

Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Monday said he is confident Republican senators will reelect him as GOP Senate leader on Wednesday after failing to reclaim the Senate from Democrats. “Of course,” McConnell responded to Capitol Hill reporters. McConnell only needs a simple majority of the Republican conference votes to remain the GOP leader. The vote will take place by secret ballot and behind closed doors. No Republican appears to be challenging McConnell.

What’s the current timeframe these days of “conspiracy theories” becoming fact? Whatever it is, it sure seems to be accelerating. Heck, I’m old enough to remember when sharing the COVID-19 lab leak theory would get you banned from social media. Now even the “experts” have admitted that’s the most probable origin explanation.It’s not just the pandemic, though. For years, conservatives proposed, after piecing together much evidence, that the FBI was somehow involved in the unrest that took place on January 6th, 2021. Yet, those calls for answers and accountability were met with condemnation. “How dare you question the impeccable reputation...

Five people were killed and seven others were wounded by gun violence in Chicago Monday. A man was found shot to death Monday afternoon on the Lower West Side and, about 45 minutes later, a man and woman were fatally shot less than half a mile away in what the local alderperson said were potentially linked to a gang war. The man, 34, was shot multiple times about 1 p.m. in the 2200 block of South Bell Avenue, police said. A woman died and a teenage boy was wounded in a shooting in South Shore. The woman, 48, and the...

Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) said Tuesday she is “confident” former President Donald Trump will never be president again. Trump is expected to announce his 2024 candidacy Tuesday evening from Mar-a-largo. Speaking at the Washington Posts’ Global Women’s Summit, Cheney said the midterms were the chance “to make sure we prevented election deniers from taking power,” and voters did just that in many races. Cheney, a member of the House Jan. 6 investigation panel, said Trump’s involvement in the insurrection shows he is completely unfit for office. “It’s important for people to look at what’s happening and what he’s doing, not...

Former President Donald Trump called on CNN Thursday to create a network that only features him. Trump made the statement in an email sent to supporters and said creating a conservative CNN would be the "smart" move. "If CNN were smart, they'd open up a Conservative network, only have me on, and it would be the most successful network in History," the statement read.

NEW YORK - The most recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows over seven in 10 U.S. adults aged 20 and older are either overweight or obese. The problem is bigger in some states than in others, though. WalletHub took a closer look in their list of 2022’s Most Overweight & Obese States in America. West Virginia was ranked the most overweight state, followed by Mississippi and Kentucky. Colorado finished as the least overweight state. Here are the rankings across the tristate area: Connecticut: 38 overall, 33 in obesity and overweight prevalence, 37 in health consequences...

JERUSALEM (AP) — After nearly four years of political deadlock and five elections, Israel swore in the most right-wing parliament in its history on Tuesday. Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu is working to cobble together a far-right and religious governing coalition in the 120-seat parliament, or Knesset. The surging popularity of a right-wing alliance once on the fringes of Israeli society helped propel Netanyahu’s political comeback even as he stands trial on corruption charges. The 25th Knesset was sworn into office with trumpets and choral music just hours after a Palestinian assailant went on a deadly rampage in an Israeli-controlled industrial...

This is the moment that a heroic German shepherd rushed to protect its young owner after a neighbor's dog got loose and charged at the youngster. The six-year-old boy was playing on his front lawn with his dog, Tank, at his South Florida home when the hound suddenly made a frightening beeline for him on November 8. According to the boy's father, the neighbor's dog started charging toward his son. The family pet, Tank, a one-year-old German shepherd, sensed the boy was in danger and swiftly jumped into action to protect his best friend. Tank's guarding instinct kicked into overdrive...

Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) said that Republicans’ 2022 midterm losses were not because of former President Donald Trump because he “wasn’t on the ballot.”“Donald Trump remains a very popular figure in the Republican Party in each corner of the country,” Banks, the head of the influential Republican Study Committee, told Fox News Sunday. Banks added that when the 45th president was on the ballot in 2020 and 2016, Republicans “won a lot more seats” than in 2018.“And [Trump] wasn’t on the ballot in 2022,” Banks remarked. “He had also supported many candidates who won around the country too, but he...

Protests began in Iran on September 16, prompted by the death of a 22-year-old woman who was dragged away and allegedly beaten by the morality police for wearing her hijab improperly. Now, a new horror is being forced on the protesters of Iran who've spent weeks continuing their fight amidst brutal oppression by Islamic forces. More than 14,000 Iranians have been arrested in connection with the demonstrations being held around the country, with the country's parliament voting overwhelmingly last week in favour of the death penalty. Protests are being held across the world in solidarity with Iranian citizens. Image: Taken...

With the disappointing results from the predicted “red wave” this midterm cycle, Republicans have been quick to point fingers at former President Donald Trump for the particularly poor performance of Republicans in the Senate races.Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, however, has specifically named Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell as the reason for Republican failure to win the upper chamber.According to The Daily Caller, Cruz unapologetically stated on Monday’s episode of his podcast “Verdict with Ted Cruz” that McConnell’s “indefensible” abandonment of Arizona Senate candidate Blake Masters is what kept Republicans from recapturing the Senate.Cruz co-host Ben Ferguson started the...

The UMC Book of Discipline forbids ordaining 'self-avowed practicing homosexuals' A regional body of the United Methodist Church (UMC) voted to elect the denomination's first openly gay Black bishop last week in violation of its rules prohibiting the ordination of "self-avowed practicing homosexuals." The UMC Western Jurisdiction, which encompasses the western U.S. and Alaska, voted to promote Rev. Cedrick D. Bridgeforth of the California-Pacific Conference to the rank of bishop on Nov. 4 after Bridgeforth secured 73 votes out of the 93 cast. He needed 63 votes to win. Bridgeforth, who is married to another man, said in remarks following...

The CEO of now-bankrupt FTX admitted that FTX was nothing more than a laundromat for the Ukrainian government. TGP reported earlier that the now-bankrupt FTX was transferring money to Ukraine and then laundering money back from Ukraine to the Democrat party. FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried donated $38 million to Democrats this year. Mitch McConnell took funding from FTX for his Senate Leadership Fund.