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I am perplexed why 50% or more Americans are clinically retarded. From voting for Obama to Biden to the current resident moron Kamala Harris. Some has postulated our Dewey influenced educational system. Some have said the removal of prayer and morality in our schools. Some have said the role of the media after the opinionated Vietnam era. I believe there was a time with candidates and presidents like Adlai Stevenson, Harry S Truman and JFK where democratic policies were sane and patriotic. What say you about why the party has devolved to a party of demonic stupidity and America hating?

Sheriff's deputies in Washington's Kitsap County frequently get calls about animals — loose livestock, problem dogs. But the 911 call they received recently from a woman being hounded by dozens of raccoons swarming her home near Poulsbo stood out. The woman reported having had to flee her property after 50 to 100 raccoons descended upon it and were acting aggressively, said Kevin McCarty, a spokesperson for the sheriff's office. She told deputies she started feeding a family of raccoons decades ago and it was fine until about six weeks earlier, when the number showing up went from a handful to...

You would not expect this to be allowed in Texas, but the Texas Secretary of State's Elections officials have instructed local precincts to accept driver's licenses issued to noncitizens as valid IDs for voting. ... The whole point of voter ID is to prevent ineligible voters from casting ballots and having a policy that ignores the validity of the ID makes it worthless. It's true that the Secretary of State requires officials to inform people that noncitizens are not allowed to vote and that there are potential penalties, but making something illegal is hardly an effective prevention tool. We have...

Kamala Harris is slipping, and she knows it. As we've noted, she is on a media blitz trying to stem the bleeding, but her problem is that she is her own worst enemy. Her decisions are so stupid she is clearly making them on her own. She chose to wine and dine with big time donors on the west coast as hurricane Helene slammed Florida. After taking flak for it, she decided she would inject herself into the disaster business with Milton on the way and put in a call to Gov Ron DeSantis. He wouldn't take her call, or...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — High-ranking officials in the Democrat Party are reportedly "extremely perplexed" to find that their candidate whom nobody ever voted for is currently slipping in the polls. According to House Leader Hakeem Jeffries, Democrats find it completely inexplicable why their candidate, who was never legally nominated and did not receive one single primary vote, is struggling to connect with voters. "It just doesn't make sense," Jeffries said in a late night campaigning struggle session with the Harris PR team. "We've done everything we can to get this woman into a position of popularity — sex podcasts, truck stop...

The Washington Post followed a familiar scheme when it comes to the incessant media gaslighting on the existence of censorship of conservatives: First, deny it exists. Second, admit it exists, but excuse it away by asserting that such censorship is justifiable. The Post released an eye-popping Oct. 3 story that reeked of absurdity. “Why conservatives get suspended more than liberals on social media,” read the irony-laced headline based on a new so-called study published by Nature. The leftist rag attempted to play gotcha with Sen. J.D. Vance’s (R-OH) comments during the vice presidential debate, when he suggested that censorship was...

A key swing state has flipped in favor of Donald Trump, according to a new Electoral College map projection. RealClearPolitics' polling tracker shows that, with no toss-up states, Michigan has flipped in favor of Trump, with the former president now half a point ahead of his opponent, Kamala Harris, in the state, on 48.5 percent to her 48 percent. It's the first time that the tracker has shown Trump ahead in the state, which Joe Biden flipped to blue in 2020, since July 29. Trump's lead in Michigan means the pollster is now forecasting that the former president will win...

CHICAGO — A Chicago alderman is “p***ed off to the highest of pisstivity” after learning that a senior public safety advisor in Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration was arrested on Tuesday on an outstanding warrant. As a $103,488 per year “senior adviser on community safety,” Alyxandra Goodwin, 33, helped lead the administration’s charge against ShotSpotter, but she wound up on the other side of the law Tuesday afternoon in the 6600 block of South Cornell. That’s where Chicago cops encountered Goodwin and arrested her for an outstanding DuPage County warrant, according to internal CPD communications. Goodwin appeared in warrant court on...

DUBAI, Oct 10 (Reuters) - Gulf states are lobbying Washington to stop Israel from attacking Iran's oil sites because they are concerned their own oil facilities could come under fire from Tehran's proxies if the conflict escalates, three Gulf sources told Reuters. As part of their attempts to avoid being caught in the crossfire, Gulf states including Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar are also refusing to let Israel fly over their airspace for any attack on Iran and have conveyed this to Washington, the three sources close to government circles said.

A major campaign rally at New York’s iconic Madison Square Garden (MSG) has been booked by former President Donald Trump later this month as he enters the final stretch of the 2024 race for the White House. News of the mass rally confirms hints Trump gave Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alexander Marlow and Washington Political Editor Matthew Boyle last December when he flagged the move. As Breitbart News subsequently reported he said: But we’re going to do these other states too, and it will be a heavy move. I may rent Madison Square Garden and that’s the belly of the beast,...

Gov. DeSantis says Milton 'not the worst case scenario' with rescues and restorations underway. First Coast News https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrPgUpBXHbg

Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky embraced British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer in a hug before hours-long talks on the ‘Victory Plan’ and military support in London on Thursday. Volodymyr Zelensky arrived in London from Croatia on Thursday, the second engagement on his whistlestop tour of European capitals this week, drumming up support for his defensive war against the Russian invasion. The Ukrainian delegation met with the British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, the new head of NATO Mark Rutte, the British defence minister, the head of the British armed forces, and Starmer’s national security advisor inside Downing Street for around two...

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, has criticized tightening of the migration policy in Russia. "There's a sense that someone is deliberately trying to pit Russia against its neighboring brotherly regions. If migration policy is to be changed, it shouldn’t be done in such a repulsive manner, where people are fiercely attacking anyone who looks foreign. Detentions are carried out without any ceremony, and recently, these actions have become very harsh," Kadyrov wrote in a post on his Telegram channel. In his view, migration issues cannot be resolved through "mass deportations of foreign citizens," and the problems did not arise...

Consumer prices rose slightly in September as the Federal Reserve prepared to cut interest rates and ease off the brakes of the U.S. economy. The consumer price index, a closely watched gauge of inflation, rose 0.2 percent in September and 2.4 percent over the previous 12 months, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced Thursday. The annual inflation rate was the lowest since February 2021. Economists expected prices to rise 0.1 percent in September and 2.3 percent annually, according to consensus estimates, down from 2.5 percent in August. The new inflation data comes less than a month before the election, in...

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They need more room at the inn. New York City’s use of hotels as emergency shelters to house migrants will continue for the foreseeable future, The Post has learned, as the Department of Homeless Services is seeking a contract with hotels to provide a total of 14,000 rooms to shelter migrants at least through next year. The city projects that spending on housing for migrants over the past two years and this fiscal year combined will surpass a staggering $2.3 billion — much of it on rent paid to hotels in the Big Apple. About 150 hotels are currently sheltering...

Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has accused Russian lawmakers from neighbouring regions of attempting to commission his assassination, and threatened them with a "blood feud" unless they prove otherwise, state news agency TASS reported. TASS cited Chechen-language comments by Kadyrov, a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, to a meeting of Chechen security officials. Video of the meeting was published on Kadyrov's personal Telegram channel on Wednesday. The news agency translated Kadyrov's comments as: "There are witnesses, there are people from whom they tried to commission, whom they asked how much they would take for the order." TASS cited Kadyrov...

[No official information has been received from the armies, of a later date than the following, which appeared in our edition of yesterday. -- ED. TIMES.] [OFFICIAL.] FROM SECRETARY STANTON TO GEN. DIX. WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, Oct. 8, 1864 -- 12 o'clock M. Maj.-Gen. John A. Dix: This department has received the following reports of the enemy's assault yesterday upon Gen. BUTLER's line, their subsequent repulse, and Gen. BIRNEY's brilliant action, driving the enemy to their inner line of intrenchments around Richmond. HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF VIRGINIA AND NORTH CAROLINA, Friday, Oct. 7 -- 6:30 P.M. Lieut.-Gen. U.S. Grant: At 6:30...

The Atlantic endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday, citing her belief in Democracy and stating she “won’t abuse” power and “curry favor with dictators.” The endorsement of Harris is not a surprise. The Atlantic endorsed against Trump in the past two presidential cycles with its only third and fourth endorsements since the magazine’s founding in 1857. The Atlantic‘s endorsement, which read like a hit piece on Trump, did not mention Harris in the first three paragraphs of the endorsement. Instead, it alleged that Trump is “one of the most personally malignant and politically dangerous candidates in American history”: