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My New York City apartment doesn't have a lot going for it. It's 700 square feet. The master bedroom fits little more than a queen-sized bed. There's no kitchen pantry. My baby son sleeps in a large closet. But I'm a cook, and it does have at least one thing that keeps me renewing the lease year after year: a four-burner gas stove. Gas ranges allow cooks a greater degree of control over heat, from which flavor and texture result. But for the next generation of New York cooks, that feature will be even more of a rarity. Starting this...

Hallelujah! Ken Paxton’s defense attorney Tony Buzbee brings the fire today during his closing statement in the insufferable impeachment effort underway in Texas.Delivering the non-pretending thunder-bombs, Mr. Buzbee laid waste to the manipulative and machiavellian Bush legacy with some resounding truths. This was awesome.The full closing remarks are below the fold; but here’s the highlight where Buzbee declares “The Bush era in Texas ends today!” WATCH:Full video below:.

The largest and fastest interest rate increase in Federal Reserve history was supposed to crush inflation. That hasn’t happened. The alarming feature of this week’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) report is that inflation is moving in the wrong direction. It is re-accelerating in surprising ways, with at least one category (transportation services) moving up double digits on an annual basis. Overall, prices are up 3.7 percent year over year and a compounded annual rate of change at 7.8 percent. The dollar has lost at least 16–20 cents of value since 2020. The downward momentum is now reversed, headed up for...

Count Vlad does a new interpretation of Hendrix's “If 6 Was 9.” This puts Jimi into a modern setting, floating around in a world of street rappers and musicians. If you like the music please subscribe.

'I think at the end of the day, it's very fluid.' Gov. Ron DeSantis isn’t worried despite national polls that show him roughly 50 points behind former President Donald Trump. During an interview on the Fox News Channel’s “America Reports,” the Governor downplayed the importance of a fresh Fox News poll showing Trump ahead of him 60% to 13%, and a Quinnipiac poll with a 62% to 12% spread. “I think it’s a state-by-state thing. So we’re focused our efforts on the early states. I mean, if it was a national Primary, we’d have a different strategy and we’d be...

People should pay close attention to Vivek Ramaswamy’s idea because he is willing to think outside of the box about how government should work, compared to the grotesque behemoth we now have in D.C. Most importantly, he thinks it’s possible for the president to fire most of the federal workforce. He’s not just talking about Schedule F political appointees. He wants to empty buildings full of ideologically corrupt agencies.

Desantis can barely keep himself together during this Fox segment. He’s on the verge of a meltdown No composure whatsoever. Totally not Presidential material pic.twitter.com/OsKDWhSLte— johnny maga (@_johnnymaga) September 15, 2023

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis had absolutely nothing on his schedule for his official duties as Governor of Florida on September 14, 2023, which also happened to be his 45th birthday. Instead of spending his birthday in Florida on Thursday, a weekday, in which he is supposed to be working as Governor of Florida, a job he is paid to do with Florida tax payer money, DeSantis spent his birthday fundraising for his failed Presidential campaign in New York City with elitist Wall Street donors.DeSantis kicked his birthday morning off with a breakfast fundraiser in New York City that was hosted...

President Trump delivers a speech at the Concerned Women of America 2023 Leadership Summit and then later will speak at the Pray, Vote, Stand Summit. Broadcast is expected to begin at 7:00 p.m. ET but is subject to change without notice.

John 19:25-27 Friends, we hear in today’s Gospel that, as he was dying on the cross, Jesus looked to his mother and the disciple whom he loved, and he said to Mary, “Woman, behold, your son,” and then to John, “Behold, your mother.”We are told that “from that hour the disciple took her into his home.” This text supports an ancient tradition that the Apostle John would have taken Mary with him when he traveled to Ephesus in Asia Minor and that both ended their days in that city. Indeed, on the top of a high hill overlooking the Aegean...

The Biden family had no business being in Ukraine — no personal ties, no business relationships, and no expertise or experience in the energy sector. Yet, Hunter Biden showed up from America. He sat on the board of a Ukrainian gas company called Burisma and received millions of dollars in exchange. Subpoenaed bank records show that roughly $20 million in unexplained wire transfers were sent to the Biden family from foreign sources.

Week 3Friday, Sept. 15Virginia at Maryland | 7 p.m. | FS1 Army at UTSA | 7 p.m. | ESPN Utah State at Air Force | 8 p.m. | CBSSN Saturday, Sept. 16No. 14 LSU at Mississippi State | 12 p.m. | ESPN No. 7 Penn State at Illinois | 12 p.m. | FOX No. 3 Florida State at Boston College | 12 p.m. | ABC No. 15 Kansas State at Missouri | 12 p.m. | SEC Network Georgia Southern at Wisconsin | 12 p.m. | Big Ten Network Liberty at Buffalo | 12 p.m. | CBSSN Louisville at Indiana |...

Another national survey presents bad news for the Florida Governor's White House hopes. A new national poll shows trouble for Ron DeSantis, not just in the 2024 GOP Presidential Primary but also in a General Election. The Fox News survey conducted between Sept. 9 and 12 shows DeSantis in second place in the Primary, but 47 points behind Donald Trump. The former President has 60%, with DeSantis’ 13% putting him 2 points ahead of Vivek Ramaswamy. DeSantis is 10 points further behind Trump than he was in the August poll, which showed a 53% to 16% spread. When second-choice polling...

Kiev Mayor Vitaly Klitschko on Friday ordered the closure of 74 churches belonging to the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC), citing its alleged “direct ties” to the Moscow Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church. Klitschko’s decree is similar to that used to seize the Kiev Pechersk Lavra, or Monastery of the Caves, which Ukrainian police stormed last month. The world-famous holy site, which is nearly 1,000 years old, was handed over to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, a rival organization set up by the government in 2018.

Below is the 14th Amendment brief that lawyer Robert Barnes wrote, which I think you'll all find very informative. It was sent only to subscribers, but I don't think he'd mind me reposting just this portion of his much longer newsletter. If he does, he knows my email. Let’s dispatch with the 14th Amendment argument more and more frivolous litigants file suit in to try to bar Trump from the ballot. Let’s start with the text itself. Of note, section 5 clarifies who can enforce this provision: “The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of...

What happened to Elon Musk this past week showcases how completely unhinged and dangerous U.S. policy to Ukraine has become. The condemnation began when the Washington Post published excerpts from a new biography on Musk revealing that he turned down a Ukrainian request to help launch a major sneak attack in September 2022 on the Crimean port of Sevastopol. There were numerous, legitimate reasons why Musk refused to activate his Starlink internet services for Ukraine to carry out the unprecedented, surprise attack on Russian naval vessels: Musk was providing terminals to Ukraine for free; he was not on a military...

(Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday said he had appointed former Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker to serve as the new U.S. special representative for Ukraine's economic recovery.Biden said she would mobilize public and private investment, shape donor priorities, and work to open export markets and businesses shut down by what he called Russia's brutal attacks and destruction.

The White House is promoting President Joe Biden’s mass marijuana pardon and scheduling review directive as part of a “Fight for Our Freedom” campaign meant to “mobilize young people” as next year’s election approaches. A factsheet about the campaign that the administration published on Thursday contains a section dedicated to the president’s cannabis reform actions from late last year titled, “Addressing a Failed Approach to Marijuana.” “The criminalization of marijuana possession has upended too many lives—for conduct that is now legal in many states,” it says. “While white, Black and brown people use marijuana at similar rates, Black and brown...

President Joe Biden’s commitment to his green energy agenda, with Electric Vehicles (EVs) at the forefront, without first securing a fierce American supply chain is likely to cede United States economic power to its biggest adversary, China. The United Auto Workers (UAW) are now striking against the top three automakers, General Motors (GM), Ford, and Stellantis. The union has continuously asked for a contract that ensures security for auto workers amid Biden’s EV push which, if not coupled with an ambitious manufacturing agenda, may eliminate millions of U.S. jobs.

BERKELEY COUNTY, S.C. (WCSC) - The Berkeley County Sheriff’s Office says a 37-year-old woman has been charged in a Friday morning assault of an underage girl. Samantha Lynn Bigelow is charged with second-degree assault and battery, Cpl. Carli Drayton said. Drayton said an argument preceded the assault. Deputies responded to the area of Cane Bay Boulevard just after 8 a.m. where the assault was reported. Investigators say Bigelow “escalated” the fight by assaulting the victim multiple times. In a message sent to parents, the Berkeley County School District said multiple agencies within the county responded, but the school did not...