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CNN has released the results of exit polling in today’s vote on issue 1 and the polling data looks considerably skewed from national polling over the course of the last few years. According to the CNN data, the electorate today supported abortion in what has been turning into more of a red state over the years – even though national polling data shows more Americans are pro-life than pro-abortion. The Ohio electorate turning out for the vote largely favors legal abortion – roughly 3 in 10 say the procedure should be legal in all cases and about a third that...

@RepMattGaetz My office has received disturbing allegations of political retaliation by the U.S. Bureau of Prisons against @JohnStrandUSA and @OwenShroyer1776 I’m looking forward to taking up Director Peters on her offer for on-site visits to investigate how J6 defendants are being treated.

A former top United Nations official in New York joins us for an in-depth interview about why he has resigned after publicly accusing the U.N. of failing to address what he calls a "text-book case of genocide" unfolding in Gaza. Craig Mokhiber is a longtime international human rights lawyer who served as director of the New York Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. His resignation letter has gone viral. .....

Polls just closed, first results coming in. Yes is presently winning on both initiatives.

[Catholic Caucus] German bishop authorizes same-sex blessingsBishop Karl-Heinz Wiesemann wrote to diocesan priests, deacons and lay pastoral workers saying that the blessings – which he also extended to remarried couples – could take place in churches in the Diocese of Speyer. “The ceremony must differ from a church wedding ceremony in terms of words and signs and should explicitly reinforce the love, commitment, and mutual responsibility in the couple’s relationship as an act of blessing.”

The House is headed for a showdown vote Wednesday on whether to punish Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan - the only Palestinian American in Congress - for her rhetoric about the Israel-Hamas war. A vote to move forward on censuring Tlaib, a punishment one step below expulsion from the House, advanced Tuesday in a procedural vote. Republican Rep. Rich McCormick of Georgia proposed the measure in response to what he called Tlaib’s promotion of antisemitic rhetoric. “Rep. Tlaib has levied unbelievable falsehoods about our greatest ally, Israel, and the attack on October 7,” McCormick said. Debate on the censure...

This past weekend flying to Atlanta, I met a FEMA guy who was on his way to Chicago to continue dealing with a disaster, he said. "What disaster - I haven't seen anything in the news?", I asked. He says the news of it are being smothered but that according to FEMA, this is Chicago's second-most expensive disaster in history. What happened was - he said - that a sewage main collapsed and backed up, flooding hundreds if not thousands of home, building and business basements. That aside from the bio-hazard that represents and its cleanup, thousands of boilers (furnaces?)...

By day, Brian Krewson is a technical expert at computing giant Oracle. But by night he’s Mr. Poto, a fire-breathing, stilt-walking party entertainer, happy to perform at birthdays, weddings and corporate picnics. A Facebook photo from Halloween 2020 shows Krewson dressed in full methlab attire as a remarkably convincing Walter White, the infamous drug trafficker played by Brian Cranston in Breaking Bad. According to a Justice Department DOC, Krewson's resemblance to that character extends beyond appearance. The agency alleges that Krewson helped store and launder $54 million worth of cryptocurrency for two friends, Christopher Castelluzzo and Luke Atwell, who were...

CHICAGO - There was chaos at City Hall on Tuesday as protesters took over a meeting about Chicago's status as a sanctuary city. They're angry about efforts to stop a referendum that would allow Chicagoans to decide whether to welcome migrants. The raucous meeting of the City Council Rules Committee spun out of control as protesters shouted down aldermen during debate about Chicago's status as a sanctuary city. "Do you as a resident of the City of Chicago believe that we should remain a sanctuary city?" asked 41st Ward Alderman Anthony Napolitano. The crowd responded with boos and catcalls. The...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A man was arrested in Louisville's Portland neighborhood on Tuesday after police say he was causing trouble at a polling location, even preventing someone from voting. Police said Jacen Cockerell, 40, was making threats toward voters and damaged a voting machine at a polling location. Louisville Metro Police Department said it happened at the Molly Leonard Portland Community Center around 9:15 a.m. When officers arrived, they were told Cockerell was wielding a flag on a fishing pole while making threatening gestures toward voters. LMPD said that Cockerell intimidated at least one voter at the location, preventing them...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Two Jefferson County polls will be open 30 minutes later than normal on Tuesday after they were deemed inaccessible earlier in the day. The Jefferson County Circuit Court ordered that the polls at Blue Lick Elementary and Highland Baptist Church remain open until 6:30 p.m. instead of 6 p.m. because of disruptions that closed the polls. The court order said that precincts 141 and 145 closed on Tuesday morning for 30 minutes because of a police pursuit in the area. This caused Blue Lick Elementary to be locked down and inaccessible during that time. Precincts L170, L171,...

Leftist billionaire George Soros’ Open Society Foundations finally released a statement condemning Hamas’ hellish attacks on Israel nearly three-and-a-half weeks after the Oct. 7 massacre. However, it did so while trying to make believe that the fortune it funneled into groups championing Hamas' barbarism didn’t exist. The OSF Fact Sheet, “The Open Society Foundations in Israel and Palestine,” which supplemented the organization's Nov. 1 press release on Hamas, attempted to equivocate the conflict involving the Jewish state and the terrorist organization as a territorial dispute between Israel and “Occupied Palestinian Territories.” OSF flexed its decades-long bona fides of “proudly support[ing]...

Mark Regev interviewed by PBS News Hour's Nick Schifrin. Regev explains, we don't know about the numbers. We can not trust anything that comes out of Gaza controlled by Hamas. Hamas don't wear uniform. Hamas controls the pictures. Ask yourself. Are We are only killing children? Nick Schifrin, desperately to diminish this, hurried to answer "but women and children died." How does that disprove Regev's assertion

American coal is rebounding! Yay. Enough of Unicorn Farts.

There are actually more unemployed people of working age as a percentage now than the height of The Great Depression. While the '70s stagflation was bad, the country still had a vibrant middle class and the process of gutting our infrastructure was just getting started. Main Street was still alive in the 1970s and The Great Financialization of the 1980s and 90s that created record wealth inequality hadn't begun. People talk like interest rates were 20% for the entire decade. It wasn't until 1979 that interest rates climbed that high, and only stayed there for two years. The massive interest...

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Kentucky Election Night Reporting

An Israeli-American woman, who defended a kibbutz during the October 7 massacre, has been stabbed to death by a 16-year-old boy in Jerusalem's Old City. Sgt. Rose Ida Lubin, 20, was murdered near Herod's Gate on Monday morning while patrolling the border. The killer, from the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Issawiya, attacked Lubin and another Border Police officer.

Voting machines in multiple Pennsylvania precincts were shut down after they flipped cast votes from one candidate to another, the very same issue that was found to have happened in multiple states in 2020 as unprecedented election fraud gripped the nation. The shutting down of the voting machines in Pennsylvania could mark the first time that a government has actually acknowledged that the machines are flipping votes.The vote flipping is being chalked up to a human-induced “coding error” and came in Pennsylvania’s Northampton County, where voters were deciding whether two incumbent Pennsylvania Superior Court Judges should keep their jobs or...

A rare video of Leonard Nimoy in Character talking to Flip Wilson, really funny!