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The View cohosts have changed course — and are urging President Joe Biden to do the same — when it comes to the 2024 presidential election. After Biden's performance in Thursday night's debate against Donald Trump was universally derided by both sides of the political divide, the ladies of the morning talk show brought to the Hot Topics table an impassioned call for the 81-year-old to step down and let another Democrat take his place in facing off against Trump in November. "Most of us are in mourning," Sunny Hostin said at the top of Friday morning's episode, and while...

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Today, the Supreme Court voted to overrule the so-called Chevron deference in a 6-3 decision. The ruling is a HUGE victory for those who hate the massive power the administrative state has amassed in recent decades. Chief Justice John Roberts, writing for the majority, concluded: "The Administrative Procedure Act requires courts to exercise their independent judgment in deciding whether an agency has acted within its statutory authority, and courts may not defer to an agency interpretation of the law simply because a statute is ambiguous; Chevron is overruled."In the most basic terms, the Chevron deference (also called the Chevron doctrine)...

Watching the news this morning and discussion of the possibility of Biden dropping out, a former congressman (Chafitz) brought up an interesting point. Biden is on state's ballots. Primaries have been held and the dye is set. There is not a slot for Democrats (or Republican) and they can not add or drop as they need. At this point in the election process, the only way one can get off the ballot is to die. (Cafitz' point) Biden has to stay on the ballot as a place holder if for no other reason. Interesting point. There are many here who...

In what sounds like one of the weirdest cases in recent memory, the Supreme Court has ruled 6-3 in favor of municipalities in the case of City of Grants Pass, Oregon v. Johnson. The case involved whether municipalities could bar homeless people from “camping” in public spaces, addressing the question, “Does the enforcement of generally applicable laws regulating camping on public property constitute ‘cruel and unusual punishment’ prohibited by the Eighth Amendment?” The short summary from SCOTUSblog's Amy Howe in the site's live chat is that "The court holds that the enforcement of generally applicable laws regulating camping on public...

On Friday, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in Fischer v. United States that a federal obstruction law does not apply to January 6 protesters. The case affects hundreds of individuals who participated in the mostly peaceful "breach" of the Capitol on January 6, 2021. Those sentences will all need to be reviewed now. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the majority opinion. Justice Amy Coney Barrett dissented, joined by Sotomayor and Kagan. Plaintiffs argued that prosecutors misused a felony law, 18 U.S. Code § 1512, which involves tampering with a witness, victim, or informant against J6 suspects. The law was used...

WASHINGTON (NewsNation) — President Joe Biden has no intention of dropping out of the 2024 race after Thursday’s debate showed the candidate’s repeated verbal stumbling, a source familiar with the matter has confirmed to NewsNation. The source also confirmed the Biden campaign has not discussed avoiding another debate. Biden’s halting delivery and meandering comments, particularly early in the debate, fueled concerns from even members of his own party that at age 81 he’s not up for the task of leading the country for another four years. Biden was greeted early Friday in Raleigh, North Carolina, by throngs of supporters invited...

Megyn Kelly declared, “It is over for Joe Biden“, in response to his disastrous presidential debate performance against former President Donald Trump. During Sirius XM’s “The Megyn Kelly Show,” Kelly questioned whether Biden would be able to finish his term after observing his rambling and glitches throughout the 90-minute CNN debate. “In my view, it is over for Joe Biden,” Kelly told her audience. “His presidential campaign came to an end tonight, whether he knows it or not.” “There will be meetings tonight, first thing tomorrow amidst Democratic Party leaders about how to get him off the ticket.” “How to...

Joe Biden spent a week at Camp David with sixteen premier “advisers” – that would be doctors and strategists. They obviously put him through his paces, so much so that his voice was nearly gone. Bad planning on their part. But we can all be sure that by the end of the week, all those doctors and strategists knew that Biden was mentally gone, toast. They all knew he would perform badly against Trump and they still put him out there. The only conclusion one can come to is that they did it on purpose. They want to replace him...

It has officially happened-- Mechanic says he can’t work on your car because they’ve officially been locked out of computer systemsThe car companies want to put small guy out of businessA mechanic went viral when he posted a TikTok about technicians being locked out of computer systems in a new Dodge Ram.TikTok user Shorty of Shorty’s Speed Shop (@shortysspeedshop) garnered over 301,000 views when he showed viewers what mechanics had to do to be able to repair newer car models.“It has officially happened. 2024 Ram 3500, authorization denied,” Shorty said as he showed viewers the computer screen. “Cannot get into...

The New York Times’s dry economic comedy specialist Paul Krugman gave new meaning to the term “doublespeak” when he drooled over President Joe Biden's supposed star-spangled awesomeness while telling him at the same time to make like a banana and split. Krugman joined a chorus of dumbstruck leftists in the media who were panicking over Biden’s bumbling debate performance against former President Donald Trump. “The Best President of My Adult Life Needs to Withdraw,” cried Krugman in his babbling June 28 contribution to The Times’s string of debate-lamenting columns. How Krugman could be adamant that “the best president” Biden should...

Depending on whether you are a conservative or a leftist, the debate last night was either fun or awful. I’ll have a few things to say about it but the more pivotal question is whether Biden’s disastrous performance harmed only him or if it harmed the entire Democrat party. It’s an important distinction because the former means Democrat machinations and a possible path to victory, while the latter means that the Democrats, finally, are a spent force. I’ll start with a few comments about the debate. It’s now known around the world that Biden was barely sentient. From the thin...

The NIF Target Chamber at Lawrence Livermore National Labs, where a laser-based fusion approach achieved scientific breakeven in December 2022 With the promise of unlimited energy, Xcimer has raised over US$100 million from investors and the US Department of Energy to develop a high-energy laser system that's intended for use in a practical fusion power plant. For over 75 years, scientists and engineers have been pursuing the dream of harnessing fusion energy as a practical power source. Though there have been remarkable achievements, the goal has remained elusive. However, the prospect of providing humanity with all the clean energy it...

“The View’s” Alyssa Farah Griffin says after watching President Biden’s shaky debate against former President Trump, she feels deceived by the White House about his fitness for office. “I feel duped,” she said Friday on the ABC daytime talk show during a discussion about the CNN debate the night before in Atlanta. “I feel like I’ve been told this guy’s doing gymnastics,” Griffin, a former Trump administration official-turned-fierce critic of the 45th president, said of Biden. White House officials and the president’s allies had pushed back on a Wall Street Journal report published earlier this month headlined “Behind Closed Doors,...

The Environmental Protection Agency wants to decimate the fossil fuel industry in the US. The European Environment Agency has planned to eliminate its fossil fuel industry as well, as has Environment Canada and every nation following the green agenda put forth by the World Economic Forum. These agencies gave Russia and the middle east a huge boost by nuking their own energy production. Adhering to targets for 2030 and 2035 required a continued diminished fossil fuel sector, with coal being targeted as one of the main perceived environmental threats. As the WEF-led nations carry on with their own demise, their...

I see a lot of people who are conditioned to believe the sky is always falling and that somehow, the bad guys always win. Let me tell you what's going to happen. Joe Biden is the president and isn't dropping out. Period. The election will happen as scheduled, and Trump is going to destroy him in historic fashion. Democrats who are smart will see this inevitability and begin pivoting so that they can be on the right side of history. Foreign nations will ramp up provocative behavior to achieve maximum gains prior to Daddy Trump returning to office, at which...

On this date in 1748, three instigators of a riot hanged in an Amsterdam public square, while worse fates befell those who came to see it. It was only a few days earlier that the Pachtersoproer (English Wikipedia entry | Dutch) had torn apart the homes of nineteen tax collectors and magnates in the capital. These violent protests against inequitable taxation and oligarchical power had actually begun in Friesland and Groningen, the northernmost provinces of the Low Countries, before spreading to Amsterdam. Marretje Arents (English Wikipedia entry | Dutch), a fishmonger supporting four children while her husband was abroad as...

Welcome to the fix. CNN was proud to announce that this was the first debate to ever take place BEFORE each candidate was actually nominated by their respective parties. The reason for this was to set the stage for Democrats to move to replace Biden with Hillary. CNN moderators did an amazing job of being unbiased. This debate revealed that Biden struggled to speak often, and his closing argument was really pathetic. My sources have been spot on. This debate was done EARLY to allow for this to take place to replace Biden. Some think the Democrats should go young....

Artistic reconstruction of two species of trilobite an instant before burial in a flow of volcanic ash 510 million years ago. Image credit: © Prof. A. El Albani, Univ. Poitiers =================================================================== Trilobites that date back 508 million years have been found preserved in volcanic matter, revealing never-before-seen details in 3D form. Their fossilization was so rapid that tiny shells have been preserved in situ, and soft tissues including mouthparts and internal organs can still be seen. The trilobites were entombed in pyroclastic flow, which is the hot, dense material that comes hurtling out of volcanoes sometimes reaching speeds as high...

The debate last night was an American tragedy. While everyone is focused on President Biden's performance, I cannot dismiss the underlying question: What is wrong with the Democrat party? The inner circle knows just how bad things with Biden are, other world leaders witnessed it a few weeks ago in France. And most conservative voters knew it 4 years ago. Republicans have always marveled at the lock-step of the democrat machine. Every member toeing the line and their ability to keep members within the coalition. Right now as we see the abuse of an elderly and feeble old man democrat...