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The Big Ten Conference banned Jim Harbaugh from coaching at Michigan's three remaining regular-season games on Friday, defying a warning from the second-ranked Wolverines in an extraordinary confrontation over a sign-stealing scheme that has rocked college football.

It was just a brief statement, but said so much about Joe Scarborough's separation from reality. On today's Morning Joe, Scarborough said: "Unfortunately on college campuses, some of the twisted views about Hamas--that ain't coming from law professors or history professors."What? Twisted pro-Hamas views are not coming from professors? Let's start with my alma mater of Cornell, where Russell Rickford, a history professor, said at a Pro-Palestinian rally that he found the Hamas attack "exhilarating" and "energizing."Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

Democrats celebrated when Joe Biden narrowly flipped Georgia three years ago. Now many are growing nervous about the president’s reelection prospects in a state Republicans can’t afford to lose in the 2024 election. Biden’s low approval ratings and deep concerns among the party faithful about his age have spurred worry among state Democrats that Donald Trump’s comeback bid won’t have the same energizing effect on their voters that it did in 2020. An Atlanta Journal-Constitution poll released this week — showing Biden deadlocked with Trump and two other potential GOP rivals — highlights the president’s struggles to reforge the alliance...

Texas will always protect personal liberties.Today, I signed into law Senate Bill 7, which bans private employer COVID vaccine mandates in our state.Thank you to Sen. @mayes_middleton and Rep. @leachfortexasfor their leadership to get this done during Special Session #3.Bill Title: Relating to prohibiting a private employer from adopting or enforcing certain COVID-19 vaccine mandates; authorizing an administrative penalty.Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 69-1)Status: (Passed) 2023-11-10 - Effective on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . February 6, 2024 [SB7 Detail]Download: Texas-2023-SB7-Enrolled.html S.B. No. 7 AN ACT relating to prohibiting a private employer...

[Catholic Caucus] Catholic theology on the visibility of the Church provides crucial answers in the current crisisNo honest observer can doubt that today the Catholic Church is in crisis. Those who appear to hold the highest offices in the Church are promoting gravely sinful lifestyles and spreading doctrines that faithful Catholics recognize as incompatible with the faith. Heartbroken Catholics are asking: what is going on? How can this be explained? Have Christ’s promises to the Church failed? Is there a solution? What can be done? At present it may seem that there are few answers. Many voices are raised, and...

Water Tower Place, an eight-story, 758,000 sq. ft. high-end shopping mall in downtown Chicago, is in the news. Once one of the biggest and most exciting malls in the Midwest, it quietly leaked that the owners are interested in renting out the top five of its eight floors “for purposes other than retail.” Not just wealthy shoppers, but even browsing tourists, too, it seems, are staying away in droves. Chicago could support such a luxury mall once. The Magnificent Mile was a thrilling destination for generations. What happened to Chicago’s iconic Michigan Boulevard? Or to back up even farther —...

A 118-day-long strike by the actors and writers of the film and television industry apparently came to an end on November 8, as negotiators came to an agreement at last, ready to send to the rank and file for their vote. Just as Hollywood had to adjust to a changing business model when the movie world had to make room for television, and again when free TV had to make room for cable and video tape, this agreement will hopefully help their world adapt to the decline of cinema attendance and the increase in streaming. On top of that, they...

It’s that time when some Democrats, with whom you don’t share anything politically, tend to surprise. On the Israel-Hamas war, Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) has been one of those people. He’s not shy about his views. As Israel’s war rages against Hamas, the Pennsylvania Democrat has plastered his office walls with the missing persons posters of those the terror group kidnapped during their vicious October 7 attacks that left 1,400 Israelis dead. Advertisement It's caused some heartburn among progressive Democrats, but Fetterman is unmoved, namely because he’s not pro-terrorist. To shove it in their faces more, Fetterman was seen waving...

Professor John Rist: Pope Francis is a heretic and has encouraged heresy in othersCAMBRIDGE, England (LifeSiteNews) — Editor’s note: The following article was submitted by Dr. John Rist, a Professor Emeritus of Classics at the University of Toronto now residing in Cambridge, England. A world-renowned scholar and a life member of Clare Hall, Cambridge University, Professor Rist was one of the signers of a 2019 letter accusing Pope Francis of heresy. Q. Is Jorge Bergoglio the pope?A. Yes. Although elected by a scandalously irresponsible collection of Cardinals, the election was valid.Q. Why was the election ‘scandalously irresponsible’?A. Because, as admitted...

WE GO LIVE #InsideTheNumbers at 12PM EDT: Election 2023 coverage update and analysis! (summary)Richard Baris does some analysis on the recent election, how bad messaging on abortion by the republican party has hurt republicans in general, and how desantis, with a 6 week abortion ban can't win nationally...

I you care about voter integrity please pass this on to your lawmakers and local political leaders. We can catch the phantom voters. We will do this in 2024. Fractal brings the receipts! The Fractal team, working with legislators and citizen groups in 26 states, is merging voter/ballot roll data with property tax rolls, known addresses, FEC data and scores of other data sources – at 200 million transactions per second. This is the largest collection of real time voter records, some dating back to 1996, in the world. We were asked “Can ERIC clean voter rolls?” Today we release,...

There’s trouble in Fulton County, Georgia as two high-powered criminal defense attorneys have suddenly filed a motion to withdraw from a 2020 election case. Criminal Defense Attorneys Donald F. Samuel and Amanda R. Clark Palmer have motioned to withdraw themselves from the Favorito v. Wan case, according to the motion. Rasmussen speculated that the lawyers reportedly motioning to withdraw may have something to do with “missing” mail ballots. “These 150,000 still secret 2020 unfolded mail ballots with the perfect ovals protected by court order for 3 years may have gone missing, and the county’s lawyers have just quit,” Rasmussen posted...

The Metropolitan Police is preparing for an unprecedented security operation ahead of a pro-Palestinian demonstration in London on Saturday. The force expects the march - which coincides with Armistice Day - to be the largest yet, and has warned there is a risk of clashes. Pro-Palestinian protesters gathering near the Cenotaph can be arrested under sweeping measures announced by the Met. Rishi Sunak has repeated his view the timing of the march is "disrespectful". He urged protesters to be "mindful of the fear and distress in Jewish and Muslim communities" when they gather on Saturday, and said he had been...

Luke 16:1-8 Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus praises a steward who cheats his master. Now, what do we make of this? It seems so peculiar especially in Luke’s Gospel, where Jesus has been teaching the radical message of detachment from worldly goods. But here he is giving his approval to a man who clings to wealth in an immoral way. Well, what gives? Jesus wants us to see that this steward takes a hard look at his situation and decides to do something about it. Now, the Lord is not telling us to imitate his immorality. But what Jesus admires...

Georgia, Oregon and Washington election officials have all received some forms of threats over the past few weeks. A letter, post-marked from Portland, read “Stop giving power to the right that they don’t have. We are in charge now and there is no more need for them.” and it included the three arrows symbol (Leftist antifascists/Antifa). At least one letter had powder. For instance, this photo (obtained by the Taxpayers Association of Oregon) from this summer in Athens, Greece during their elections shows an anarchist flyer calling for people to burn the ballot boxes. In 2019, Greek anarchists actually burned...

An analyst, who was once dubbed the 'Oracle of Wall Street', has warned how not owning homes hurts the 'avocado toast generation.' Meredith Whitney, who is known for successfully forecasting the 2008 financial crisis, said that younger Millennials and Gen Z have missed out on $21 trillion in equity which older generations have built in home ownership. We are seeing record low homeownership levels for those under 38,' she told DailyMail.com. 'Homeownership has been a forced savings vehicle in the US, but particularly in the last 12 or 15 years, because interest rates have effectively been at zero. We have...

More than half of the U.S. and parts of Canada, home to around 180 million people, could fall short of electricity during extreme cold again this winter due to lacking natural gas infrastructure, the North American Electric Reliability Corp (NERC) said on Wednesday. In its 2023-24 winter outlook, the regulatory authority warned that prolonged, wide-area cold snaps threaten the reliability of bulk power generation and availability of fuel supplies for natural gas-fired generation. “Recent extreme cold weather events have shown that energy delivery disruptions can have devastating consequences for electric and gas consumers in impacted areas,” NERC said.

HOUSTON – Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo [aka County Supervisor] fired back Friday after the Texas Rangers [police force, not baseball team] opened a new public corruption investigation tied to “concealed” records subpoenaed during a grand jury’s review of the federal indictments of three of her high-level staff members.The records subpoenaed are related to the investigation launched last year into how the county’s nearly $11 million COVID-19 outreach contract was awarded to a local woman’s LLC.In a news conference streamed live on Click2Houston.com, Hidalgo said she wanted to call out the truth, as well as “what’s false.” She accused Harris...

With every hour that passes, Donald Trump’s grip on the Republican Party’s 2024 presidential nomination grows tighter. Every day in which his opponents aren’t gaining ground on his position is a day in which he gets nearer to appearing on the ballot next November and nearer to possibly being inaugurated on Jan. 20, 2025.

US tax brackets will rise by around 5.4 percent next year in line with inflation, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has confirmed. From 2024, the lowest tax rate of 10 percent will apply to those earning up to $11,600, up from $11,000 this year. Meanwhile the highest rate of 37 percent will now apply to workers whose salaries exceed $609,350, up from $578,125 in 2023. Middle-income thresholds all saw similar rises. These higher thresholds could mean savings for millions of workers across all income brackets. They will apply to the 2024 tax year - meaning returns filed in 2025. The...