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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Just one day after the unprecedented removal of Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the House of Representatives, tragedy struck on Capitol Hill, as the crew tasked with moving Nancy Pelosi out of her long-occupied "hideaway" office was crushed to death by a sudden avalanche of empty wine bottles. "They never saw it coming," said one source within the Capitol who asked to remain anonymous. "They were just here to help. They expected to be carrying a lot of boxes of books and office equipment and some furniture…but they didn't expect several years' worth of empty glass bottles...

Special Dispatch to the New-York Times. WASHINGTON, Saturday, Oct. 3. Such news from ROSECRANS has been received as should dismiss all anxiety for his welfare, and quiet all care for our military supremacy in the South. He is fully equal to his situation. REPORTS FROM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. ARMY OF THE CUMBERLAND, Saturday, Oct. 3. The present and future prospect of success for this army is not only brightening but at this time is really good. If the enemy now makes an attack, even in very heavy force, he will in all probability be badly defeated. Each day's delay but...

McCarthy Ouster: Humiliation For The Uniparty Or Own Goal?All that really matters is ensuring that Biden goes down in defeatHowever emotionally gratifying it might be to many on the right, the sacking of ex-Speaker Kevin McCarthy is an ambiguous victory. Take it from the left. Democrats never move a muscle without thinking about politics. These are people who would throw their mothers off a cliff if it meant the good of their party. And they are celebrating McCarthy’s historic humbling. Why would that be?On one hand, McCarthy showed himself willing to compromise – too willing perhaps – with Joe Biden....

"We are going to tell them that coming to New York doesn't mean that you're going to stay in a five-star hotel. It doesn't mean that, the mere fact that you come here, that you automatically are going to be allowed to work."

A FedEx Boeing 757 with landing gear failure crash landed, then skidded off the end of a runway late Wednesday night in Chattanooga, Tennessee, the city's fire department said in a post on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. The three pilots on board weren't hurt, the Chattanooga Regional Airport said in a statement. First responders raced to the airport after getting reports that the plane was on its final approach, the fire department said. Agencies at the scene along with firefighters included their department's Special Ops team, Chattanooga police and Hamilton County EMS, according to CBS Chattanooga affiliate...

* DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas quietly issued the wavier on Wednesday * Cited 'acute and immediate need to construct physical barriers' at the border * Wavier applies to limited stretches of the border in Starr County, Texas ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Biden administration will waive 26 federal laws to allow several miles of new border wall construction in South Texas, leading former President Donald Trump to argue that his signature policy was correct all along. The Department of Homeland Security posted the announcement on the US Federal Registry on Wednesday, allowing the construction in Starr County, Texas, part of a busy Border...

On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Katy Tur Reports,” Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO) said that he is “definitely” willing to shut down the government if a bill to keep it open doesn’t include Ukraine funding (snip) Earlier, Bennet said that America is “at the head of these free countries around the world standing against tyranny.”

In a story that has virtually been ignored by the global media, UK police arrested an independent journalist for posting "malinformation" and misinformation about Ukraine.Under the new UK censorship law called the Online Safety Act, the government can order the arrest or detention of anyone said to be "hateful" or judged by fact checkers to be posting "misinformation."Warren Thornton was literally in the midst of streaming an edition of his podcast The Real Truth on Sept. 24 when Bristol police officers came to his front door and demanded he speak with them.The Liberal government of Canada is preparing its own...

Pray For The Peace of JerusalemJohn 20Jesus Appears to Mary Magdalene 11 Now Mary stood outside the tomb crying. As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb 12 and saw two angels in white, seated where Jesus’ body had been, one at the head and the other at the foot. 13 They asked her, “Woman, why are you crying?” “They have taken my Lord away,” she said, “and I don’t know where they have put him.” 14 At this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not realize that it was Jesus. 15...

Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) was carjacked at gunpoint in Washington, D.C., on Monday night, and White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre says Republicans are to blame.That’s right. It’s not at all important that the District of Columbia is run entirely by Democrats; Republicans in Congress are responsible.And can you guess why? According to Jean-Pierre, the reason why Republicans are at fault is because of their opposition to Joe Biden’s American Rescue Plan.On Wednesday, reporters asked Jean-Pierre for a White House comment on the carjacking, if Joe Biden had spoken to Cuellar, and what the incident said about crime in the...

Because the Biden regime refuses to enforce federal immigration laws, Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) this week introduced legislation that would allow states to defend their borders themselves. The State Border Defense Act would allow California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas to place barriers on federal lands or water along the southern border and allow them to prosecute and remove illegal immigrants from the country. The law would effectively nullify a 2012 Supreme Court case that significantly limited the ability of states to be involved in immigration enforcement, according to Fox News. “Our southern border is overrun,” Hawley told Fox. “Joe...

Story at-a-glance The World Health Organization’s upcoming pandemic treaty and the International Health Regulation (IHR) amendments are part of a global “soft coup” to strip nations of their sovereignty and people of their bodily autonomy and freedom The WHO wants to put into law a requirement that nations must censor their citizens, so that only public health messages aligned with the WHO’s recommendations can be shared The IHR amendments specify that the WHO will dictate which drugs countries must use, and which they cannot, in the event of a pandemic — and possibly outside of pandemics as well The IHRs...

Daily Wire host Matt Walsh dove into the “huge” ruling from the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals that upheld Tennesee’s and Kentucky’s bans on puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and gender surgeries on gender-confused children. In its 2-1 ruling rejecting a challenge to the laws from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and families of trans-identifying children, the federal court “thoroughly dismantled, point-by-point, every disingenuous argument from trans activists,” Walsh said in a thread posted to X. “The case arose because of laws in TN and KY banning the use of puberty blockers and sterilizing cross-sex hormones on children. The laws...

Corporations, academic institutions, and organizations across the US routinely incorporate “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) training into the education of their staff. In theory this training is designed to minimize so-called “microaggressions” in the workplace and to ensure diversity in hiring. But, according to two Harvard social scientists, DEI training isn’t quite working out that way. They wrote that “There’s also no question that the way organizations deal with [DEI training] is more likely to hurt than help.” The scientists went on to say, “[A]fter decades of diversity training, many university faculties, state agencies and corporations have made little progress...

Have you ever stopped to think how much life has changed for the everyday consumer since 1977, when the personal computer industry officially began? Over the last forty-six years, computer technology has been embraced by the average user, from desktops to laptops to tablets to smartphones. Most of us have some understanding of computing terms such as CPU (central processing unit) or RAM (random-access memory) or read-only memory (ROM) such as CD and DVD. But many people just want to know enough to use the technology they have to perform the tasks they want to accomplish. With that minimal knowledge,...

After mid-terms, Biden resumed his attack on once bad, then good, and now bad again fossil fuels—at least until '24. One common denominator that explains why previously successful societies implode is their descent into fantasies. A collective denial prevents even discussion of existential threats and their solutions. Something like that is happening in the United States. Eight million illegal immigrants have entered the United States by the deliberate erasure of the southern border. Apparently, the Biden administration sees some unstated advantage in destroying U.S. immigration law and welcoming in would-be new constituents. Yet, the more the millions arrive, the more...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Kevin McCarthy spent years raising mountains of Republican campaign cash, flying around the country to recruit top candidates in key districts and painstakingly building political relationships as he worked his way toward becoming speaker of the House. Now that he’s been ousted from the post after less than nine months, some in the GOP are wondering if anyone can take his place as a fundraising dynamo and party builder. snip “Nobody can raise money like him,” said Rep. Kelly Armstrong, R-N.D. “And no matter who is the next speaker of the House, none of them can do...

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and his predecessor Nancy Pelosi shared an essential strength in modern-day politics that gave them an edge when it came to clawing their way to the top of their parties. Both Californians are powerhouse fundraisers who spent years helping build out their majorities by showering their colleagues in tight reelections, as well as the party itself, with tens of millions of dollars in cash. As the dust settles on McCarthy’s swift demise, there’s a nervous edge surrounding the frenetic race to anoint a successor. Will the chaotic GOP infighting discourage conservative donors from ponying up this...

Whoever succeeds Kevin McCarthy as House speaker will almost certainly be a friend of fossil fuel interests and a likely skeptic of the fight against climate change. The prospect is prompting worries among some green conservatives who appreciated the California Republican’s efforts to move the party away from straight-up climate science denialism. Those advocates see the current slate of candidates as either untested on or outright hostile to policies designed to address a warming planet. Many of those fears are being directed at Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.), the current House majority leader who on Wednesday formally announced his candidacy to...

I listened to Kevin McCarthy’s exit speech. To me, it was clear that the government is his blanky, his Teddy Bear; he wants to snuggle with it, kiss its cute little head and sleep with it. He stated several times that he had “served the people” by reaching a compromise with the Democrats and not shutting the government down. I happen to think the people are best served by having an absolute showdown over an out-of-control government freight train barreling down the tracks with no engineer and no brakes. snip I heard some Republican talking heads stating, “well yes, the...