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ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, IL, Dec. 12, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- A new poll by The Heartland Institute and Rasmussen Reports found one-in-five voters who cast mail-in ballots during the 2020 presidential election admit to participating in at least one kind of voter fraud. When asked, “During the 2020 election, did you fill out a ballot, in part or in full, on behalf of a friend or family that member, such as a spouse or child?”, 21% of respondents who said they voted by mail answered “yes.” (Filling out a ballot for someone else is illegal in all states, although many states...

Michelle Obama will headline an Atlanta rally on October 29 for the Kamala Harris campaign after she initially had no plans to help the coronated Democrat nominee. The announcement, first reported in the Associated Press, suggests the Harris campaign is becoming more desperate to prevent former President Donald Trump from completing the greatest comeback in modern American politics. The rally to boost turnout will occur on November 1, five days before election day, just before early voting ends in Georgia. The AP reported on Michelle Obama’s decision to enter the 2024 fray: The Oct. 29 event will be hosted by...

Kamala Harris has been criticizing Donald Trump for ducking interviews. Today, however, she avoided a sit-down with the Economic Club of Chicago. Trump, by contrast, showed up and spent an hour facing difficult questions from Bloomberg News’s editor-in-chief John Micklethwait. It was, like all the best Trump appearances, a magnificently weird occasion. Who needs LSD when you can watch him as a presidential candidate, eight years in, still melting reality live on YouTube ? Micklethwait is a brilliant man: polished, Ampleforth and Oxford, highly successful. His hair is coiffed and his loafers look expensive. For the benefit of the affluent...

For over a decade, Jack Phillips, the owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop, has been embroiled in a relentless legal battle that illuminates, with the power of a million suns, the irreconcilable clash between Christian sexual ethics and our American First Amendment religious freedoms and the aggressive efforts of the radical LGBT lobby to conquer, subjugate, and humiliate Christians in the West. On Tuesday, the Wall Street Journal reported that the Colorado Supreme Court has dismissed a suit that was just one part of an interminable lawfare harassment campaign waged against the cake maker. “Jack Phillips won another legal victory for religious...

You know, sometimes New Jersey gets a real bad rap. And well, sometimes, that rap is wholly deserved. Case in point, Thomas Manzo. The ex-husband of The Real Housewives of New Jersey's Dina Manzo was sentenced to seven years in prison for the most New Jersey crime one could think of: he hired a purported member of the mob to beat up his ex's then-boyfriend/now-husband in exchange for throwing the attacker a lavish wedding reception.

The Free Press, not to be confused with the Detroit Free Press, is reporting that child sex trafficking at the Southern border exploded under the Biden-Harris administration, but you probably already knew that.The Free Press's Madeleine Rowley did a ride-along with a woman named "Lisa" (not her real name) who founded the anti-sex trafficking, non-profit group Shepherd's Watch. Their mission wasn't to charge into motel rooms and free girls from forced prostitution — that would likely result in a bullet to the head somewhere in the Texan desert. Their role is purely investigatory. Their goal is to locate the girls...

The Polymarket betting odds quickly tilted so heavily in Donald Trump's favor — bettors prefer him 60/40 over Kamala Harris this morning — that Nancy Pelosi just put in another order with Long Knives. She ordered two sets, one for doing in Harris and the second for Tim Walz. Enter stage left, Gavin Newsom. I'm kidding, of course. It's much too late (I think) to pull yet another presidential candidate switcheroo. But you'd better believe it's a notion Pelosi entertained last night while finishing off her first bottle of chardonnay. Harris, you see, is flailing. Her latest pitch is to...

A few days ago, I heard a Spanish politician complain about the birth rates, currently way less than the 2.1 per woman needed to maintain a population. Then, the lady went on to say that we will have to import immigrants to boost the births, and support our aging population.Enter former President Clinton and let’s hear what he had to say, in similar fashion:The plummeting American birthrate has become a partisan political issue.On the campaign trail Monday for Vice President Harris, former President Bill Clinton pointed to waning fertility rates as a pretext for more immigration. ‘We’ve got the lowest...

The new law decreases the number of ballot drop boxes available, tightens the ballot application deadline, includes voter ID requirements and bans the handing out of water to voters.

Day #35 of the Top 50 songs on my iTunes playlist -- ranked in reverse order by play frequency from #50 to #1 and presented here on a series of FR threads. I've been posting them here on a new thread that compiles the growing list one day at a time over the course of several months. I only post them on weekdays and may miss a day or two here and there, so this will probably be done in early November. And to show my gratitude to the FR management for giving us all a forum to post vanity...

Former Ozzy Osbourne guitarist Jake E. Lee has been shot multiple times in Las Vegas. The news was confirmed in a short statement from his publicist. The statement reads: "As confirmed by management, legendary rock guitarist Jake E. Lee (Ozzy Osbourne, Badlands, Red Dragon Cartel) was shot multiple times early this morning in a Las Vegas, NV street shooting. Lee is fully conscious and doing well in an intensive care unit at a Las Vegas hospital. He is expected to fully recover. "Las Vegas authorities believe the shooting was completely random and occurred while Lee took his dog out for...

France will begin supplying Ukraine with ‘kamikaze’ drones in the next few weeks to use in its battle with Russia, the French defence minister announced Wednesday. Sébastien Lecornu, the Minister of the Armed Forces for Emmanuel Macron’s government, said that the first round of French remotely-controlled attack drones will be sent to Kyiv in the “coming weeks”. The French defence minister hailed the development for demonstrating that Paris has begun “regaining sovereignty over this key segment for our armies in less than two years” by producing the drones domestically.

Key Points * Auto giants have descended on the Paris Motor Show to showcase their latest concepts and production models. * The biennial trade show, which opened on Monday and runs through to Sunday, comes as Europe’s carmakers contend with some hard truths on the road to full electrification. * Peugeot said the rectangular shape of its Hypersquare steering wheel, which resembles a video game controller, will be in production from 2026. =============================================================================== PICTURES AT LINK.......Can't Post - Getty Images........... PARIS, France — Auto giants have descended on the Paris Motor Show to showcase their latest concepts and production models,...

First off, while some would argue that the current occupant of The White House has been worse, I refuse to acknowledge that someone who's not even in control of his bowel movements is somehow in charge of the country. Yes, I know that t here's a strong case for James Buchanan in that role but unlike Barry O, JB didn't intentionally tear the country apart. And as much as Obama had the world in the palm of his hand in 2008, now he's lost his luster. Dr. John broke down Barry's anger yesterday, centered around his scolding black men to...

The Washington Chronicle publishes a full and official expose by Judge Advocate-Gen. HOLT, of the great conspiracy in the West, the discovery of which his there led to such curious developments, and caused so much excitement. Judge HOLT states that the existence of this conspiracy has been known to the Government for more than a year past. He discusses the subject under the following heads: 1. Its origin, history, names, &c. 2. Its organization and officers. 3. Its extent and numbers. 4. Its armed force. 5. Its ritual, oaths and interior forms. 6. Its written principles. 7. Its specific purposes...

A new poll reveals that nearly a two-thirds majority of American Jews agree that former President Donald Trump is on Israel’s side — and yet 62% of American Jews still intend to vote for Vice President Kamala Harris, regardless. The poll, conducted as part of a larger survey of American adults over roughly six weeks, is a sign of American Jews’ loyalty to the Democratic Party, which appears unshaken even by issues of specific concern to the Jewish community. Harris is “struggling” with the Jewish community, according to the Forward, and her 62% level of support “would be significantly below...

Gallego presses for stay of lower court ruling that would unseal his divorce records... Arizona Senate candidate Ruben Gallego on Tuesday sought the intervention of the state’s Supreme Court to prevent the unsealing of his divorce records. Lawyers for Gallego filed a motion to stay an appellate court decision that ordered the unsealing of the documents, arguing that "sensitive details about the Gallegos’ and their minor child’s life stand to be published if Free Beacon succeeds" and that the press and the public lose "nothing" by further delay, including a delay beyond the "upcoming general election." Tuesday’s filing marks a...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky presented his long-anticipated “Victory Plan” to Ukrainian parliament on Wednesday, after failing to drum up additional, tangible support last week during meetings with European allies. The plan, which consists of five points and three additional “secret” points shared only with certain partners, would be a bridge toward future peace talks with Russia, Zelensky told lawmakers in Kyiv, as he aims to bolster Ukraine’s position enough to end the war. At the heart of Zelensky’s plan is Ukraine’s desire for an invitation to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), which would be a precursor to full...

VIDEOMark Halperin told Tucker Carlson that the election of Donald Trump on November 5 would result in America's greatest mental health crises aka Trump Derangement Syndrome. Could electroshock therapy cure or at least relieve extreme TDS? The jury is still out on that matter but I suspect that nothing short of mass lobotomies would resolve this dire mental health crises.

Meanwhile, the party in power has spent years openly plotting to throw their political opponents in jail. The New York Times published a 5,000-word article asserting that Donald Trump is a unique threat to democracy because a second term Trump Department of Justice could potentially prosecute members of the Democrat Party. Authors Emily Bazelon and Mattathias Schwartz make this argument not only after a first Trump term with zero political prosecutions by Trump appointees but after a shocking and unprecedented nationwide lawfare campaign by Democrats against Trump and other Republicans. The Times headline is “Why Legal Experts Are Worried About...