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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) intends to remain at the helm of the lower chamber and asked his colleagues Wednesday to help him keep his gavel. ​​”The American people have shown by their votes that they are ready to turn from the misery of the past four years and embark on a brighter, bolder path that is marked not by big government, bureaucratic control, poverty, inflation and wokeness—but by liberty, security, strength, prosperity and opportunity,” the Louisiana Republican wrote in a letter to lawmakers. “I’m ready to take the field with all of you, and I am humbly asking for...

CHICAGO (AP) — For the second year in a row, Earth will almost certainly be the hottest it’s ever been. And for the first time, the globe this year reached more than 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) of warming compared to the pre-industrial average, the European climate agency Copernicus said Thursday. “It’s this relentless nature of the warming that I think is worrying,” said Carlo Buontempo, director of Copernicus. Buontempo said the data clearly shows the planet would not see such a long sequence of record-breaking temperatures without the constant increase of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere driving global...

Expect four more years of combative showdowns between California’s Democratic leadership and a second Trump White House.

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Republicans could see a boost in Pennsylvania from a demographic rarely seen at the polls: the Amish.The state’s famed “Pennsylvania Dutch” registered to vote in “unprecedented numbers” in response to a January federal raid on a local raw milk farm in Bird in Hand, Pa., a source familiar with the situation told The Post.The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture stormed Amos Miller’s farm Jan. 4 after reports of illnesses in children linked to raw dairy products purchased there, according to the local media outlet Lancaster Farming.The Amish community saw the move as an overzealous reach by the government and was planning...

The CEO of Queer Works, a Palm Springs-based nonprofit, has been charged in a fraud scheme involving the theft of more than $940,000 in public funds, officials announced.

All of the Harris/Biden unlawful giveaways must be immediately canceled and clawed back. Yes, this means all of the college loan "forgiveness" (which is no such thing, it is forcing you to pay someone else's debt.) I have a solution to this that the colleges will not like but again this is an outline posting; the details will follow in other entries. All Executive Orders are subject to this risk; none create a due process right and thus there's nothing to sue about.

CNN - Donald Trump believes presidents have almost absolute power. In his second term, there will be few political or legal restraints to check him. The president-elect’s sweeping victory over Vice President Kamala Harris suddenly turned the theoretical notion that he will indulge his autocratic instincts into a genuine possibility. When Trump returns to the White House in January as one of the most powerful presidents in history, he’ll be able to take advantage of his own filleting of guardrails during his first presidency, which he continued through legal maneuverings out of office. It’s not guaranteed that just because Trump...

Love him or hate him, the second election of Donald Trump as president of the United States establishes him as one of the most significant and astounding figures in American history. With this second win, Trump has also done more to change the conventional wisdom than any American political figure in nearly a century. Only 15 presidents have served two or more terms, so Trump’s victory already places him in elite company. Time served in office is certainly one of the ways we rate our presidents, but there is much more to the Trump story. The 2024 election will change...

Nevada Democratic U.S. Sen. Jacky Rosen and Republican challenger Sam Brown were literally tied after initial election results were released Tuesday night, and by that time the race in Nevada was already irrelevant to control of the Senate, which Republicans had wrested from Democrats earlier in the evening.

A disappointed, pouting Nancy Pelosi waited to greet the now-defeated Vice President Kamala Harris at Howard University in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday afternoon, prior to Harris’s concession speech. The former Democrat House Speaker was photographed while looking emotionally distraught in relation to Harris’s defeat, which saw President-elect Donald Trump win the popular vote by a landslide, which a Republican hasn’t accomplished since 2004. ...she previously championed President Biden’s obvious cognitive decline, prior to the disastrous July debate performance in which it became even more evident. Pelosi then went on to contradict her previous claims, revealing that she “took a punch...

Not surprisingly, opinions are decidedly mixed on why President-Elect Donald Trump enjoyed such a decisive victory over Democrat presidential nominee Kamala Harris in Tuesday's presidential election. Perhaps the most disagreements out there on the "how did this happen?" question are coming from stunned Democrats and media figures alike who no doubt felt certain going into Election Day that their mix of lawfare and demonization of the former president as the "next Hitler" would ultimately be his undoing. Not only did it not turn out that way, but the tactics backfired bigly, with Trump crushing the Harris-Walz ticket, winning not only...

Remember that Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) was one of the seminal people involved in the "coup" effort to move Joe Biden aside from the 2024 presidential race, and that ended up with him being replaced by Kamala Harris. She was pretty much crowing about it after she did it. They weren't honest about Biden's issues and then they swapped him for Harris without one primary vote of the American people. But you were just supposed to accept it because it was for your own good. The "muh democracy" crowd did the most anti-democratic thing ever with this. ... So, when...

Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem (11/7/24)[Prayer]Names and Titles of God the Holy Spirit (Communicator) Acts 2:15-1816 But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel; 17 And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams: 18 And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy: 19 And I will...

A Florida appeals court on Wednesday reaffirmed a previous decision that the state Agency for Health Care Administration cannot claw back asserted overpayments of Medicaid funds hospitals received for emergency services provided to eligible unauthorized immigrants... The current lawsuit, filed by North Broward Hospital District, arose from AHCA's Undocumented Alien Project, in which it audited all inpatient hospital claims for emergency services that were provided to unauthorized individuals in the state between July 2005 and June 2010. The review was started in response to a federal audit that found Florida was claiming federal funding for services that the federal Centers...

Failed presidential candidate Kamala Harris admitted on Wednesday that she knew every single attack she launched against President-Elect Donald Trump and his presidency was a bald-faced lie. More than twelve hours after Trump delivered a stunning blow to the regime and swept both the popular vote and Electoral College, Harris took the stage at Howard University to begrudgingly concede. She could have conceded in the wee hours of the morning, but that would have required showing up when it mattered — something she clearly doesn’t do (see her disastrous handling of Afghanistan). But it wasn’t her hollow speech about “unity”...

Time to take a victory lap. We worked really hard and had the best polling this time out.Incredible!!

On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The Last Word,” Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) argued that one problem Democrats had in the 2024 campaign is “a lot of things that people attributed to Donald Trump really belong to Joe Biden. And I don’t think we did a good enough job of delineating that for the voting public,” but they will do so in the event that Democrats are the minority party in the House. Clyburn said that if Democrats are in the minority in the House and Trump’s “agenda is anything akin to what his campaign was all about, we are going...

DEI Meets the Secret Ballot In retrospect, maybe running the DEI hire for president was not a good idea. On the other hand, President Joe Biden's revenge plan worked perfectly. As reported by The New York Times, after his catastrophic debate, Biden's White House staff kept presenting congressional Democrats with data proving he still had a much better chance of beating Trump than his vice president did. Then, the moment he was defenestrated, guess who Biden endorsed? Kamala Harris, the candidate he'd told them could not win. But she was a black lady, so ... checkmate! Inasmuch as the sole...