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The incumbent Republican has a very narrow lead. 49.1 to 48.5. According to Decision Desk most of the Republican Counties are >95% except Cochise which is now at 60%. The blue Pima County is at 92%. I tried to estimate using current vote percentages in those 2 counties and I came to the conclusion that the Republican should win by about 6000 votes. We are only up 2000 now even though total votes in at Cochise went from 51 to 60% in and Pima stayed the same at 92% in (since I did my calculations). I think we were ahead...

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Members of Donald Trump's inner circle are signaling the new administration could implement a massive election overhaul that would cement protections Republicans have been demanding since 2020. The biggest change – making Election Day a national holiday where employers are mandated to give their workers paid time off to cast their ballot. Vivek Ramaswamy, a former 2024 Republican candidate now on the short list for an administration position, said making federal elections on a single day would help restore voter confidence in U.S. elections. He also claimed that paper ballots over machines and requirements of government issued ID to match...

More than Freddie Freeman or Francisco Lindor or those Yankee jamokes who tried to rip off Mookie Betts's hand, I will remember the 2024 MLB postseason for the commercials. Specifically, it was impossible to sit through any game across the entire month of October without being forced to watch multiple Donald Trump campaign ads that fear- and hate-mongered about trans people. Here's an example, if you somehow missed them ... {that ad with Kamala Harris pitching sex change operations for prisoners} ... That incarcerated people must have access to a high standard of health care should be non-negotiable for all...

Two helmet-wearing goons shot a cellphone store worker multiple times and took his $22,000 Rolex during a stickup in Queens, cops said Saturday. The robbers got tangled in a physical altercation with the victim just before 7 p.m. Friday at the Top in Town Wireless store on 32-78 Steinway St. in Astoria, according to the NYPD. During the fight, one of the thieves fired multiple rounds at the victim, cops

Pelosi’s claim that fewer illegal aliens have entered the U.S. under Biden than Trump is false. Well over 10 million illegal aliens have entered the U.S. under Biden while there were approximately 2.5 million who entered under Trump.

A former Israel Defense Force officer just became the first Republican elected to a state assembly seat in northern Hempstead, LI, in more than 50 years. Daniel Norber, a 45-year-old dual US-Israeli citizen, will occupy the Nassau County seat bordering Queens that was once represented by Democratic state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli. Norber got a big assist from President-elect Donald Trump at the top of the ticket. Trump carried the 16th Assembly District by more than 2,000 votes over Vice President Kamala Harris.

Greenwood Lake, NY – A Park Ranger tragically lost his life in the line of duty on Saturday, while battling a raging fire in Greenwood Lake alongside his colleagues. The fire is one of several that are being battled by Fire Departments and NY agencies across the Hudson Valley. Dariel Vasquez, an 18-year-old Parks and Recreation Aid employed by the New York State Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation Department, died Saturday, November 9, while assisting in the fight against the Jennings Creek wildfire in Sterling Forest, located near Greenwood Lake. The fire, which has rapidly escalated due to drought conditions...

The final votes will be on a secret ballot Wednesday. Here is where the race stands now… Cornyn (18) Scott (11) Thune (24) Banks - Thune Barrasso - Thune Blackburn - Thune Boozman - Cornyn Britt - Cornyn Budd - Cornyn Capito - Cornyn Cassidy - Thune Collins - Thune Cornyn - Cornyn Cotton - Thune Cramer - Thune Crapo - Cornyn Cruz - Thune Curtis - Thune Daines - Thune Ernst - Cornyn Fischer - Cornyn Graham - Cornyn Grassley - Cornyn Hagerty - Scott Hawley - Cornyn Hoeven - Thune Hyde-Smith - Cornyn Johnson - Scott Justice -...

Rutte says "if Trump surrenders Ukraine to Putin he will personally expel the US from NATO".

Most important, and of greatest concern, was how intelligents thought. An intelligent signed on to a set of beliefs regarded as totally certain, scientifically proven, and absolutely obligatory for any moral person. A strict intelligent had to subscribe to some ideology—whether populist, Marxist, or anarchist—that was committed to the total destruction of the existing order and its replacement by a utopia that would, at a stroke, eliminate every human ill. This aspiration was often described as chiliastic (or apocalyptic), and, as has been observed, it is no accident that many of the most influential intelligents, from Chernyshevsky to Stalin, came...

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., is not allowing Senator-elect Dave McCormick of Pennsylvania to attend Senate orientation in the coming week, pointing to outstanding ballots in the state, even though the race has already been called.

Columbia University activists are planning a protest of Veterans Day — which organizers want to “reclaim” from the “Israel-US wr machine” in the name of Palestinians killed in Gaza. The unsanctioned student group Columbia University Apartheid Divest is circulating flyers for the event — set for Monday on the Ivy League school’s main Morningside Heights campus. “Veterans Day is an American holiday to honor the patriotism, love of country, and sacrifice of veterans. We reject this holiday and refuse to celebrate it,” a flyer for the agitator group’s event said.

Someone moved the UK's oldest satellite and there appears to be no record of exactly who, when or why. Launched in 1969, just a few months after humans first set foot on the Moon, Skynet-1A was put high above Africa's east coast to relay communications for British forces. When the spacecraft ceased working a few years later, gravity might have been expected to pull it even further to the east, out over the Indian Ocean. But today, curiously, Skynet-1A is actually half a planet away, in a position 22,369 miles (36,000km) above the Americas. Orbital mechanics mean it's unlikely the...

Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem (11/11/24)[Prayer]Names and Titles of God the Holy Spirit (Encourager) Acts 4:3131 And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they spake the word of God with boldness.King James Version________________________God Bless America.ML/LTOS

President-elect Trump’s transition team would not confirm or deny that the 2024 election victor told Russian President Vladimir Putin not to escalate the war with Ukraine during a call last week. -snip- When asked by Fox News for comment about the report, Trump’s team released the following statement: "We do not comment on private calls between President Trump and other world leaders," Trump communication’s director, Steven Cheung, said in a statement. "President Trump won a historic election decisively and leaders from around the world know America will return to prominence on the world stage. That is why leaders have begun...

Tzvi Kedar, a Maccabi Tel Aviv fan, who was injured after being brutally beaten in Amsterdam, recounted the terrifying moments he experienced. "When we exited the metro after the game, nothing felt problematic. Suddenly, in Dam Square, a woman approached us and told us 'Come to my bar, it's dangerous for you to walk around here'. We thought she was joking and trying to sell us alcohol, but when we went in, we saw many frightened and scared Israelis. She saved us; we were really on our way to hell,” Kedar recounted in an interview on Kan Radio. "The police...

The myth of the secular Shakespeare continues to cast a long shadow over most people's perception of Shakespeare's plays. Until I inherited the Shakespeare course in my department halfway through my career, I assumed that despite certain Christian patterns and occasional biblical allusions in the tragedies, Shakespeare's plays were broadly humanistic in their intellectual allegiance. Nothing has been a bigger surprise in my scholarly career than my gradually coming to regard Shakespeare as a Christian writer. I make no claim to know Shakespeare's state of soul in life and death. Consequently, I need to ask my readers steadfastly to resist...

Since President-elect Donald Trump’s political comeback on Tuesday, Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro and his supporters have celebrated his victory as their own. In many ways, nowhere has Trump’s political strategy been more rigorously mirrored than in Brazil. Reenergized, Bolsonaro’s base has set its sights on the 2026 election, seeing Trump’s resurgence as evidence that a similar return could unfold in Brazil. Although barred from running until 2030, Bolsonaro congratulated Trump in a series of videos and posts drawing comparisons between their paths and saying he hoped Trump’s return to power would inspire Brazil “to complete our mission.” Over the...

There’s a long ongoing saga of liberals trying to come to term with reality. Besides mad leftists shaving their heads and freaking out on camera, there are also those who try to understand America’s moment using whatever mental faculties the TDS did not destroy. It’s the case of Academy Award winner Michael Douglas. The Hollywood star has allowed himself to admit – even if it was notably painful for him – that the GOP under President-elect Donald Trump is now the ‘party of the people’, while Douglas’ beloved Democrats are now seen as ‘elitist’.