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The liberal media is exulting in dancing on what it presumes to be Donald Trump's political grave. Take today's Morning Joe. Joe Scarborough, noting a poll showing Trump with a historically low approval rating, and playing off the title of the Al Pacino movie, Scent of a Woman, Joe claimed that Jonathan Lemire has a movie title for Trump: Whiff of a Loser.Hey Joe: when it comes to the Whiff of a Loser, maybe you should look—or smell—in the mirror. Morning Joe continues to get trounced in the polls by Fox & Friends! And don't try to downplay your ratings...

U.S. stocks tumbled Thursday as Wall Street reeled from another sizable rate hike by Federal Reserve officials and assessed similar moves by monetary policymakers across the Atlantic. A disappointing reading on consumer spending also weighed on sentiment. The European Central Bank and the Bank of England followed the U.S. Fed in raising interest rates by 50 basis points Thursday morning. The BoE's hike brought rates in the country to their highest since 2008. Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) DJI - DJI Real Time Price. Currency in USD Follow 33,025.93-940.42 (-2.77%) As of 01:20PM EST. Market open.

Former President Trump said Thursday that he’d ban the U.S. government from labeling any domestic speech as “misinformation” or “disinformation” if he returns to the White House. “I will sign an executive order banning any federal department or agency from colluding with any organization, business or person to censor, limit, categorize or impede the lawful speech of American citizens. I will then ban federal money from being used to label domestic speech as mis- or disinformation,” Trump said in a pre-taped video shared with the New York Post. The former president also said he’d fire federal bureaucrats who he perceived...

The former director of Agape Boarding School pleaded with a Cole County judge on Monday to keep himself off the state’s central registry of child abuse and neglect, so he can keep working with children. Bryan Clemensen was the long-time director of the Stockton-based reform school for troubled boys until last month, he testified Monday. The Missouri Department of Social Services says it substantiated five preponderances of evidence findings against Clemensen — one count of child neglect and four of physical abuse. The department is seeking to add Clemensen’s name to the state’s child abuse and neglect central registry, a...

"This is the third coin of this type found in excavations in Jerusalem, and one of the few ever found in archeological excavations," said the researchers.During the Great Revolt against Rome, the Jews in Jerusalem minted bronze and silver coins. Most of the silver coins featured a goblet on one side, with ancient Hebrew script above it noting the year of the Revolt. Depending on its denomination, the coins also included an inscription around the border noting either, "Israel Shekel," "Half-Shekel," or "Quarter-Shekel." The other side of these coins showcased a branch with three pomegranates, surrounded by an inscription in...

As part of its “Winter Preparedness Plan” announced on Dec. 15, the Biden administration will continue its free COVID virus at-home test program to address a potential surge in the winter months. U.S. households can order four free at-home tests from CovidTests.gov. The Biden administration plans to start shipping orders during the week of Dec. 19. Complimentary tests will also be available at major food banks, according to a White House statement. The program was suspended on Sept. 2 “because Congress hasn’t provided additional funding to replenish the nation’s stockpile of tests,” the CovidTest website reported at the time. This...

Melanie Leffler, a mother of two in Sydney, Australia, had four COVID-19 vaccines. But on Nov. 19, 2022, after coming down with a sore throat and a runny nose, Leffler tested positive for COVID. She said goodnight to her family—her husband, Mick Hogan, and their two daughters, Clemmie (age four) and Lottie (9 months). They would never speak to her again.

Pennsylvania lawmakers have been busy preparing memos pitching new legislation for the 2023–2024 session. Before laws are made and before a bill is written, legislative ideas start as a memo offering a rationale for the proposed legislation. A bill based on the memo is presented at the committee level and rewritten if committee discussion calls for edits. This is a good time for the public to weigh in on new laws, but the public often does not know about proposed legislation until it is presented on the full chamber floor, if it gets that far. Sometimes the same bills are...

Tesla is completely lost on Wall Street. The electric vehicle manufacturer is having a dark year in the stock market. And those difficulties worsened on Dec. 13 with another sharp drop in the stock price of almost 4%. In all, the Tesla stock lost has lost 54.2% of its value in 2022, translating into a drop in market capitalization of nearly $600 billion. Tesla (TSLA) – is down 60%, compared to its all-time high reached in November 2021. Most worryingly, on Dec. 13, shares of the Model Y maker were down while the broader market was up. This stock market...

[Catholic Caucus] Pope Francis to appoint heterodox German bishop as Church’s doctrine chief: reportsSources confirm the 'real possibility' that Bishop Heiner Wilmer, a supporter of the German Synodal Path, will become the new Prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith.The Italian blog Messa in latino, which is just now in the international media for having accurately reported on a scandal inside the Vatican, revealed yesterday that Pope Francis has chosen Bishop Heiner Wilmer as the new Prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith. LifeSite has been able to confirm this report with its own...

PARIS — According to reports, watching soccer is finally interesting as France descends into fiery chaos after a Morocco semi-final loss. "Wow, now THIS is entertaining," said one viewer while watching a Morocco supporter beating up a French guy with a stale baguette while several others lit the Louvre on fire. "Look at all the fighting and explosions! Why can't soccer always be like this?" Early reports indicate World Cup viewership is now at an all-time high as people around the world tune in to see massive, fiery street brawls. "Who knew watching soccer could be such an engaging experience?"...

At the end of November, a lot of people wondered whether the National Hockey League, one of the few pro-sports to stay out of the culture wars, had made a mistake when it decided to support a “Team Trans Draft Tournament.” The NHL may be wondering the same thing now that a man pretending to be a woman smashed a woman pretending to be a man, all of which was caught on camera, effectively putting the lie to transgender madness.(snip) All of which gets us to what happened on the ice last month, a story that Jonathan Kay finally broke...

A top-ranking FTX executive last month flipped on Sam Bankman-Fried and his allies by tipping off Bahamian regulators about alleged malfeasance — two days before the doomed crypto platform filed for bankruptcy, according to court filings. Ryan Salame, who served as co-CEO of FTX Digital Markets prior to its collapse, tipped off officials on Nov. 9 that FTX client funds were being secretly transferred to “cover financial losses” at Alameda Research — the sister cryptocurrency hedge fund also owned by Bankman-Fried. The 29-year-old Salame told regulators that only three FTX executives had the authority required to approve the cash transfers...

Parents at the Halton School District, in Ontario, Canada, claimed some students were warned that they would be suspended from classes if they continue filming and photographing Oakville Trafalgar High School shop teacher Kayla Lemieux. Lemieux made headlines earlier in the fall following widely circulated pictures of her in class with the massive prosthetics, as well as her trip skydiving with a porn star. Since then, students inside the district have leaked videos of Lemieux in other schools while she recovers from a foot injury, showing her walking with crutches and sitting besides a student who appeared to be vaping,...

Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Dr. Anthony Fauci, told CNN on Wednesday he doesn’t “have a clue” what Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) is “asking for” in wanting to investigate the Covid-19 vaccines and warned that politicization of science and the vaccines has “cost lives.”

A marine on death row for raping and murdering 16-year-old Leesa Marie Gray in 2000 ate pork chops and biscuits for his final meal before his execution. Thomas Loden, 58, wore a red prison jumpsuit and was covered by a white head sheet during his execution as he beame the second inmate to be killed by lethal injection in Mississippi in two years. His last meal was made up of two fried pork chops, fried okra, a baked sweet potato with butter, Pillsbury Grands biscuits with butter and molasses, peach cobbler with French vanilla ice cream and Lipton sweet tea,...

Recently-appointed White House clean energy czar John Podesta has hired several officials who have advocated in favor of far-left energy and climate policies to join his team. Podesta, who founded the progressive Washington, D.C.-based think tank Center for American Progress (CAP), has hired Kristina Costa, Alison Cassady and Joshua Peck to serve in the White House Office of Clean Energy Innovation and Implementation. The three officials have previously worked in private and public sector roles pushing climate policies and have past ties to Podesta. Podesta, who founded the progressive Washington, D.C.-based think tank Center for American Progress (CAP), has hired...

A customer shot and critically injured a worker at a KFC in St. Louis over a lack of corn. The man was placing an order in the eatery’s drive-thru lane Monday evening when employees informed him the restaurant was out of corn, police said. The man grew enraged and threatened the employees over the drive-thru speaker box at the fast food joint located at 5020 Delmar Blvd. in the Central West End neighborhood. He then drove up to the drive-thru window with a handgun, according to cops. A 25-year-old employee went out to speak with the man and came back...

It was a challenging task, but an esteemed panel of NewsBusters editors led by MRC President L.Brent Bozell and MRC’s Vice President for Research and Publications Brent Baker, boiled down all the biased outbursts from lefty hack hosts, anchors, reporters and pundits in 2022 and declared a winner. This year the winner is Don Lemon! The CNN host won for his laugh-out-loud response to CBS Late Show host Stephen Colbert’s silly inquiry that “you guys aren’t allowed to be liberal anymore” under new CNN CEO Chris Licht’s leadership. To which Lemon absurdly responded: “I don’t think we ever were liberal.”...

@JackPosobiec EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: I have obtained a copy of President Trump unveiling the major planks of his official Free Speech Policy Proposal This is the first video drop in a series to come from his 2024 presidential campaign