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NFL Hall of Famer and Packer legend Brett Favre has made plenty of big plays in Wisconsin, but the next time he appears before a raucous crowd in Green Bay, it’ll be for a bigger cause: Delivering the Badger State to Donald Trump. The Trump campaign announced on Friday that when the former president appears in Green Bay at the Resch Center on Wednesday, Packers great Brett Favre will be a guest speaker.

Former President Donald Trump touted an endorsement during a Saturday campaign rally in Michigan from a group of Muslim religious leaders. Trump, speaking to a crowd in Novi, Michigan, called the group of clerics “highly respected,” before bringing them onstage to applause. “I’m thrilled to accept the endorsement of these highly respected leaders,” Trump said. One of the leaders, Imam Belal Alzuhairi, gave a speech. “We, as Muslims, stand with President Trump because he promises peace, not war!” Alzuhairi said, discussing a “positive meeting” he and the other Muslim religious leaders had with Trump. “We are supporting Donald Trump because...

Welcome to Thunderdome, or as David Axelrod calls it, Word Salad City. Kamala Harris’s closing argument played out in a CNN town hall last night, and it wasn’t much of an argument at all. On question after question, Harris reverted to talking points that often had little or nothing to do with the query posed to her. On the border? No answer on why the administration took so long to act. On taxpayer-funded benefits for illegal migrants? I was a prosecutor. On a border wall? It’s a dumb idea that I now say is a good idea. On taxes?...

Stores across America are shutting down left and right as shoppers are unable to afford to spend money on non-essentials. CNN Business reported on Friday that so far in 2024, major retailers have said they are closing down 6,189 stores. That number surpasses the 2023 total of 5,553, per Coresight Research, the article said. “Chains are on track to close the highest number of stores in 2024 than any year since 2020, when the Covid-19 pandemic decimated the industry.”

Barack Obama has been hitting the stump hard for Kamala Harris lately, including a joint appearance with her Thursday night in Georgia. He’s recorded dozens of videos for the Harris campaign and has spoken at more rallies than at any time since 2012. CNN reported that Obama feels that his legacy is on the line in ways it wasn’t in 2016 or 2020, ... It may not work, and it might even prove counterproductive. Obama was never very good at getting people to vote for anyone but himself. ... The contrast just highlights how bad Harris really is. It’s not...

On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “AC360,” CNN International host Christiane Amanpour discussed Israel’s strikes on Iran and the fact that the strikes did not hit Iran’s oil facilities and said that “the United States did not want, potentially, the global oil supply, and, therefore, the global economy to be shaken” by Israel hitting Iran’s oil facilities. Host Anderson Cooper said, “[A] number of those oil facilities are actually quite vulnerable. It could be — in terms of, certainly, compared to the nuclear facilities, could be relatively easily hit and a lot of economic damage done. But Israel is saying that...

An Ontario man in his late 40s with a history of mental illness died by euthanasia after his assisted death assessors decided that the most reasonable explanation for his physical decline was a post COVID-19 “vaccination syndrome.” The term is controversial — Canada’s current vaccine reporting system for adverse events doesn’t include “post-vaccine syndrome” — and multiple specialists consulted before his death couldn’t agree on a diagnosis, raising questions as to whether the man’s condition met the criteria for an “irremediable,” meaning a hopeless, incurable condition.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued the Biden-Harris administration this week over its refusal to verify the citizenship status of roughly 450,000 voters on state rolls who potentially are ineligible to vote. Paxton filed the lawsuit Tuesday against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Director Ur M. Jaddou. At issue is that the voters in question “registered without a State of Texas-issued driver’s license or identification card.” “While the majority of the voters on the list are likely citizens who are eligible to vote, Texans have no way of knowing whether or not any...

I created the following table in response to the thread posted below:The Only Patriotic Choice for President10/26/2024, 11:17:33 AM · by E. Pluribus Unum · 44 repliesThe New York Times ^ | Sept. 30, 2024 | The Editorial Board Incredibly, the NYT's article thought it would be wise to advise the public to compare Harris and Trump directly in order to prove which is the 'Only Patriotic Choice'. I did as they asked.In case anyone else wants to share the table with their own responses typed in, I'll put the HTML code in post #1. Just search and replace my...

Find out if you're accidentally sharing your location with Google, Apple apps and services blog.google, support.apple.com When mobile apps first hit the scene, many were designed to make our phones more useful. This included new tools for productivity, as well as apps for entertainment. Many of today’s apps, though, are packed with sneaky permission requests and hidden trackers. These tactics are legal because app developers (and the companies behind them) have to give you a choice to opt in or out of these tracking permissions. Unfortunately, not everyone knows how to do that … or the developers make it really...

Explanation: These brightly outlined flowing shapes look ghostly on a cosmic scale. A telescopic view toward the constellation Cassiopeia, the colorful skyscape features the swept-back, comet-shaped clouds IC 59 (left) and IC 63. About 600 light-years distant, the clouds aren't actually ghosts. They are slowly disappearing though, under the influence of energetic radiation from hot, luminous star gamma Cas. Gamma Cas is physically located only 3 to 4 light-years from the nebulae and lies just above the right edge of the frame. Slightly closer to gamma Cas, IC 63 is dominated by red H-alpha light emitted as hydrogen atoms ionized...

Online daters are used to swiping right or left — but could their decision hinge on whether that person leans right or left politically? Political views of a potential partner are becoming more important for daters, Terri Orbuch, a relationship expert and professor of sociology at Oakland University. "Our identities and who we see ourselves as are tied to these issues that have now become political, which are issues of social justice and diversity and inclusion and equity, gender, race, sexual orientation," Orbuch said. So, how do you bring up politics during a date. She suggests a three-step approach: 1....

Former President Trump sat with Joe Rogan Friday (snip) Here are five takeaways from the interview. [1] Trump and Rogan hit it off Rogan has previously said he is not a Trump supporter and in 2022 indicated he would not be interested in having the former president on the show. But the two appeared extremely comfortable with one another Friday, trading compliments and discussing their shared love of Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) events. “You cannot be voting for Kamala. You’re not a Kamala person. I know you. I’ve watched you,” (snip) [2] Trump says RFK Jr. would have administration role,...

Emily Reeve and her husband usually spend Thanksgiving in Hawaii, Florida or Disneyland, but not this year. “I have a toddler now and I’m worried about being in a potentially volatile situation should we be traveling post-election,” said Reeve, 32. The couple doesn’t have family near their home in Portland, Oregon, so they like to skip town for the November holiday. But they say they’re staying put this time to avoid getting caught in an airport or a popular destination “and suddenly facing riots or looting, etc., because the people in the area aren’t happy with the election outcome.” Anxiety...

Since 1986, whistleblowers have been in the forefront of the government’s war on fraud, accounting for $53 billion, or more than 70%, of the $75 billion recovered from swindlers on defense contracts, from Medicare and from other federal programs.There’s no debate over what’s driving this record: It’s a 1986 federal law that awards whistleblowers up to 30% of the recovery. For the federal government, this is a bargain. Without the law, the government might never even know about most of the $75 billion in fraud that was unearthed. That makes the law “one of the government’s top fraud-fighting tools,” says...

With ten days and change to go, Donald Trump has taken the lead in the RealClearPolitics (RCP) average poll of national polls. While he may be up by only a tenth of a point (as of this writing), what makes this achievement worthy of note is two things. The first is momentum. This close to Election Day, there is no question the momentum is with the former president. Since early August, incumbent Vice President Kamala Harris has enjoyed a steady national lead over Trump. Two weeks ago, that lead was two points. That might not sound like a lot, but...

When President Trump branded these propaganda outfits the enemy of the people, he was right. A few days ago, the Los Angeles Times was in focus when the paper's proprietor, Patrick Soon-Shiong, prevented the paper’s editorial board from endorsing Kamala Harris for president. The L.A. Times is still the largest paper in California and one of the largest in the U.S. The paper exclusively endorsed Republican presidential nominees from its founding in 1881 through 1972 when Richard Nixon ran for re-election in 1972. The paper's pubhlisher, surfin' Otis Chandler, scion of the wealthy Chandler family, was said to have regretted...

Listen to a Chicago resident tell you that illegals are getting $15,000 food cards and $5000 cash cards and getting their rent paid for two years.

Twelve years ago, Senator Sherrod Brown, the Ohio Democrat, took the stage at his election night party in Columbus to celebrate winning a second term. Barack Obama had just carried Ohio for the second time, after emphasizing his administration’s rescue of the auto industry. Mr. Brown wanted to proclaim that success onstage, but he was losing his voice, so his wife, the writer Connie Schultz, took over for him. As she got to Jeep expanding its Toledo operations and General Motors building the Chevy Cruze at its rejuvenated plant near Youngstown, Mr. Brown started interjecting croaks to make sure she...

Democrat Americans’ support of requiring voters to provide photo identification has jumped over the last two years, results of a new Gallup poll reveal. […] … (S)upport among Democrats for requiring photo identification has jumped from about half (53%) in 2022 to two-thirds (67%) today. This 14-point jump suggests that Democrat Americans are becoming more concerned about ensuring election integrity. Among both whites (86%) and non-whites (80%), at least four in five support requiring voters to show photo identification. […] Democrats (79%) and non-whites (69%) are more enthusiastic than Republicans (55%) about the idea of automatically registering people to vote....