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A total of 18 Republicans joined all Senate Democrats to pass a $1.85 trillion omnibus spending bill Thursday afternoon, in the final two weeks in which Democrats control the House of Representatives. The bill passed 68-29. Since there are 47 Democrats in the Senate and three independents who caucus with Democrats, that means 18 Republicans voted to support the spending package. They are listed below. Conservatives called the move during the lame-duck session a “stunning act of betrayal.” Democrats have had both branches of Congress and the presidency during all of 2022, conservatives say, but rushed to pass this budget...

My least Favorite song is: Jingle Bells and especially: The Barking Dogs Jingle Bells

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell has enjoyed the loyal support of MAGA world and conservative circles over the past two years as he’s pushed to overturn the 2020 election results. But, in recent days, conservative pundits have begun turning on the pillow maven over a new conspiracy theory that involves auditing Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis’ 2022 victory in Florida. Specifically, right-wing blowback against Lindell began emerging after he announced his plans to audit DeSantis’ victory in Miami-Dade County. “I don’t believe it,” Lindell said on his Frank Speech website Tuesday evening regarding DeSantis’ ten-plus point triumph. “So it’s just going to...

"Your Love Is Driving Me Crazy" may not be Sammy Hagar's biggest song in terms of cultural impact, but the track, which the Red Rocker released in December 1982, remains the top-charting single of his solo career. The lead single from his seventh album, Three Lock Box, reached No. 13 on the Billboard 100, Hagar's only Top 20 single as a solo artist. Achieving this success was exactly what the song was intended to do. "I was asked by the head of promotions at Geffen Records to write a Top 40 hit like a hit song Eddie Money had out...

Just 29 GOP Senators out of 50 oppose Democrats’ Christmas wish list of radical policies — and prefer a bill drafted by House Republicans that secures the border. Twenty-nine. (SENATE passes omnibus 68 to 29)

A teenaged girl died unexpectedly Tuesday at Diamond Ranch Academy, a southern Utah youth residential treatment center, state officials confirmed Wednesday evening. Joe Dougherty, a spokesperson for the Utah Department of Health and Human Services, confirmed the department’s Office of Licensing received notification of the girl’s death and are actively investigating in coordination with police officials. “Our deepest condolences are with their loved ones as they grieve this sudden loss,” he said Wednesday evening. “We’re grateful for everyone who tried to save this youth’s life.” Diamond Ranch Academy is a 108-bed teen treatment program in Hurricane that describes itself on...

On Thursday's Morning Joe, Ukrainian president Zelensky's speech to Congress stirred Joe Scarborough into a burst of pride and advocacy for "Western civilization," which must sound most offensive to the Systemic Racism folks in the MSNBC audience. Will the woke mob be calling for the cancellation of Joe Scarborough? In the course of that first half-hour, Scarborough offended the CRT cabal repeatedly:1. Described himself as an "Anglophile." A fan of England, with its atrocious history of colonialism? 2. Revealed that he reveres and takes inspiration from the speeches of Winston Churchill. That execrable imperialist? 3. And in the most egregious...

It looks like the snowflake who ran the world's largest crypto money-laundering scheme has gotten himself temporarily freed from prison thanks to his mommy and daddy. From CNBC: His parents, both Stanford Law professors, were present in the courtroom. Bankman-Fried was flanked by two U.S. Marshals, dressed in a suit and tie. Bankman-Fried's parents would put up the equity in their home to partially satisfy bail conditions. As part of the release, Bankman-Fried would be released into the custody of his parents home. I'm pretty sure SBF bought his parents $30 million or so in real estate, so I have...

From One America News: “Victim rights advocate Nikki Goeser continues to be stalked by her husband’s killer from prison, and is now speaking out saying that the justice system is geared to defend criminals, not their victims.” This interview is related to a piece that Nikki Goeser wrote with Dr. John Lott at Real Clear Politics titled: “When Protecting Criminals’ Rights Come at the Expense of Victims.”

The acclaimed musicians also played with the Charlatans and collaborated with Paul Weller, The Chemical Brothers and more.Martin Duffy, who played keyboards for Primal Scream and Felt, has died aged 55, his former Charlatans bandmate Tim Burgess has confirmed. The musician was born in Birmingham, UK on 18 May 1967 and grew up in Rednal. He joined the indie band Felt in 1985 after frontman Lawrence put up a notice in the Birmingham branch of Virgin records advertising for a guitarist that read: “Do you want to be a rock’n’roll star?” and Duffy was recommended to him. Duffy’s sound...

The American people are being forced to pay billions across the country to build stadiums for the NFL to play in, despite the fact that the league is worth an estimated $132 billion as a whole. While it is difficult to put a firm price tag on the NFL, Sportico recently estimated that the average team is worth $4.14 billion, and the business and real estate holdings of the league as a whole are worth upwards of $132 billion.

Representative Michael McCaul (R-TX) said Thursday on CNN’s “At This Hour” that the United States giving aid to help Ukraine fight against Russia’s invasion has “destroyed the Russian military without one American soldier being killed.” On Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s speech to a joint meeting of Congress, McCaul said, “What I appreciated about his speech, a couple of things. One were the parallels that he made to World War II. That would be my father’s war. When we go to Poland, they talk about 1939 and Hitler, and had we stopped him at that point in time, we would have...

@ChadPergram 18 GOPers voted yes on omnibus: Blunt Boozman Capito Collins Cornyn Cotton Graham Inhofe McConnell Moran Murkowski Portman Romney Rounds Shelby Thune Wicker Young

In certain U.S. cities, young men are over three times more likely to be shot dead than American soldiers deployed to war zones in the Middle East, new research reveals. Compared to the risk of combat death U.S. soldiers face in Afghanistan, the findings show that young men living in the most violent zip code of Chicago have a 3.23 times higher average risk of firearm-related homicide. Scientists say their shocking findings put the risk of firearm-related death in perspective. They’re calling for urgent policy action to reduce violence. In 2020, firearms became the leading cause of death among children,...

'I would say there's no question in my mind that had there not been tabulator issues at 132 vote centers, this election would have resulted, would have ended up, with Kari Lake winning... ' Kari Lake’s legal team in a court hearing Wednesday produced evidence and testimony that highlighted harrowing examples of election interference and voter disenfranchisement that occurred during Arizona’s tainted governor’s midterm election. Lake filed a lawsuit challenging the controversial results, which saw Arizona’s incumbent Secretary of State Democrat Katie Hobbs certify her own victory in the governor’s race over the Republican Lake. The certification resulted from Hobbs’s...

The Senate on Thursday passed a massive $1.7 billion omnibus spending bill, sending the bill House for a hasty vote before Friday midnight to avert a partial government shutdown. The bill includes at least $44 billion in additional money to help Ukraine thwart Russia's invasion and was thrown into peril overnight by a GOP efforts to force a vote on an amendment to the measure to extend a Trump-era effort to stop immigration amid the pandemic by using a decades-old law known as Title 42. The one-year funding measure passed by a 68-29 vote in the Senate, according to the...

A committee of infectious disease researchers this week issued a statement urging hospitals to stop testing new admissions for COVID-19, saying that doing so will extend patients’ wait times. Researchers and doctors affiliated with the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America, a nonprofit organization, said that hospitals should not automatically test for the virus because it can cause “delays in patient placement” and “postponement of necessary procedures” unrelated to COVID-19, according to a research paper published online by Cambridge University. “As the pandemic evolved, asymptomatic patient screening had some unintended consequences,” they wrote. “Adverse outcomes related to asymptomatic testing include”...

The girl, who was enrolled at Diamond Ranch Academy, is the second teenager to die at a ‘troubled teen’ program in Utah this year.A teenaged girl died unexpectedly Tuesday at Diamond Ranch Academy, a southern Utah youth residential treatment center, state officials confirmed Wednesday evening. Joe Dougherty, a spokesperson for the Utah Department of Health and Human Services, confirmed the department’s Office of Licensing received notification of the girl’s death and are actively investigating in coordination with police officials. “Our deepest condolences are with their loved ones as they grieve this sudden loss,” he said Wednesday evening. “We’re grateful for...

Dr. Bruce Carroll allegedly stole more than $600 in merchandise A professor of criminal justice at a college in Georgia was arrested last month after shoplifting more than $600 worth of merchandise from a Target store over multiple visits, authorities said. Dr. Bruce Carroll, who teaches at Georgia Gwinnett College in Lawrenceville, was charged with felony shoplifting on Nov. 22 after getting caught stealing from the store on eight separate occasions between Sept. 23 and Nov. 3, FOX5 Atlanta reported, citing Gwinnett County Police. "It was definitely a surprise that he was a college professor and he taught criminology," a...

"Seven days, 18 hours, 39 minutes ago my beloved... died suddenly of cardiac arrest". When Victoria Brownworth logged onto Twitter to post these words about her partner of 23 years, she didn't know that two of them in particular would provoke a storm of online harassment.Because, as Victoria waited at her home in Philadelphia on Sunday night for her wife's ashes to be delivered, a video titled Died Suddenly was about to drop. In an hour and eight minutes of dramatic music and out-of-context news reports, the film tells a fictitious story of a dangerous vaccine killing off swathes of...