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Oregon Governor Tina Kotek (D) announced her state has secured a new supply of the abortion pill mifepristone to last nearly through the entirety of the second Trump administration. In the announcement, Kotek’s office directly cited the “national results of the general election” as to why the Oregon Health Authority (OHA) and Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) updated their agreement to provide emergency mifepristone. State Watch Oregon stockpiling abortion drug, governor announces by Joseph Choi - 11/19/24 11:39 AM ET Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek speaks at the State Library of Oregon in Salem on Jan. 31, 2023. (AP Photo/Claire...

It’s no secret that the FBI has become a politicized weapon of the Democrat Party. Whether it’s interfering in elections to help leftist candidates, targeting parents at school board meetings, or treating Christians as “domestic terrorists,” the list of egregious abuses carried out by the agency is too numerous to count. With Trump set to return to the White House this coming January, many Americans are hoping the soon-to-be 47th president will replace FBI Director Christopher Wray — who has presided over these scandals — with someone willing to gut the corruption that’s plagued the agency for years. While no...

The incoming Trump administration must make election integrity a top priority through federal legislation or persuading states to pass reforms.Four years ago, I asserted that we can “never again” allow an election like 2020 to happen. I’m back to say that despite Trump’s near landslide, America’s election system is still broken.And the time to fix it is immediately, while President Trump has the wind at his back with a Republican Congress and the public on his side.You most clearly see a broken election system when the margins are extremely tight. We saw it in 2020 when approximately 40,000 votes in...

Daily Readings from the USCCBAt that time Jesus came to Jericho and intended to pass through the town. Now a man there named Zacchaeus, who was a chief tax collector and also a wealthy man, was seeking to see who Jesus was; but he could not see him because of the crowd, for he was short in stature. So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore tree in order to see Jesus, who was about to pass that way. Luke 19:1–3Once again, our Lord reaches out to someone who comes to Him in humility and need. Zaccheaus was a wealthy...

Dr. Deborah Birx, former White House coronavirus response coordinator who served in President-elect Donald Trump’s first administration, said she’s “excited” for the public health discussions that will take place during Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s confirmation hearing to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. When asked about his position on vaccines and his pledge to bring transparency about them to the American public, “Face the Nation” host Margaret Brennan said she wasn’t sure what he meant by that and asked why Birx believes the nation is seeing a decline in vaccination rates. “I think there’s two pieces to it,"...

One suspect is in custody and a second remains on the loose after a retired Chicago police sergeant was shot multiple times Monday morning. WGN-TV reported the retired sergeant, a 74-year-old man, was exiting his vehicle around 9 a.m. The retired sergeant sustained at least three gunshot wounds and was transported to the hospital in critical condition. One suspect in the shooting was apprehended Monday around 1 p.m. the Chicago Sun-Times quoted Ald. Matt Martin (47th) saying police are “continuing to search for the second individual.” The Sun-Times noted that the incident “unfolded as mourners began to gather on the...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday offered the public details about the process of appointing an individual to fill Sen. Marco Rubio’s Senate seat when he begins his duties as Secretary of State in the second Trump administration. “Senator Marco Rubio is expected to resign from the Senate to assume duties as Secretary of State when the Trump administration takes power on January 20th, creating a vacancy roughly two months from today,” the Republican governor wrote on X. “We have already received strong interest from several possible candidates, and we continue to gather names of additional candidates and conduct preliminary...

President-Elect Donald Trump enacted pro-nuclear policies during his first term and has supported an “all-of-the-above” energy policy during the campaign. At a campaign rally in Michigan on Aug. 29, he stated, “Starting on day one, I will approve new drilling, new pipelines, new refineries, new power plants, new reactors and we will slash the red tape. We will get the job done.”This is exactly the posture needed to meet energy power demands — especially on the national security front, where the threats to energy infrastructure are all too real. We worked with our colleagues at the Pentagon, the Department of...

The good news is that nuclear power — safe, clean, affordable, and carbon-free — has been coming back in a big way here in the USA in recent months. The weird news is that it's generally left-leaning tech firms and AI's ravenous need for electricity leading the charge (SWIDT?) to build new nuclear power plants or spin shuttered ones back up. The bad news is that voters of this country were twice reckless enough to put people like Barack Obama, Joe Biden, and Hillary Clinton in charge — and now Russia is putting the kibosh on the uranium exports we...

During his first term, President Trump got along fine with Mexico's previous president, socialist Andrés Manuel López Obrador. They enacted the 'remain in Mexico' agreement to deter those seeking to cross into the U.S. illegally to file for asylum, and illegal migration from the south fell sharply lower.That doesn't seem to be the case with Mexico's current socialist president, Claudia Sheinbaum, a Stanford-educated leftist.There's been talk like this going around:Sheinbaum has no clue. Trump’s economic penalties would cripple Mexico if she does not play ball. And U.S. immigrant community in Mexico entered LEGALLY. https://t.co/xbjaG91ecy— MilnerBear (@modelerr) November 17, 2024I couldn't...

I vividly recall walking through the corridors of Saddam Hussein’s palace in the Green Zone in Baghdad in 2006. I was there as part of a team helping to develop a strategy to reinvigorate Iraqi businesses that had been decimated by war and the dysfunction of Iraq’s state-run economy. The palace had been occupied and renamed the temporary U.S. Embassy in Iraq. The wide corridors and ornate offices were occupied by U.S. government employees and military personnel. As I walked down one of the corridors, I came across a startling sight. Adorning the wall outside an office door was an...

VIDEOA lot of people think that Morning Joe and Mika completely humiliated themselves by being forced to kiss Trump's ring at Mar-a-Lago. However, their humiliation was way way WORSE than you can even imagine. Here is Morning Joe explaining to us from the Humorverse, where all are forced to tell only the complete truth, what really happened after he and Mika crawled their way to Mar-a-Lago.

The reason the world refuses to acknowledge the rights of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel is because they have no vocabulary for a people returning to its land after 2000 years according to divine prophecy. They’ve been bamboozled into believing there is no God and the Hebrew Bible is man-made. And that is partly our fault because, beginning a few centuries ago, we cooperated with the West’s agenda to wish away God and our obligations to Him, as the Scientific and Industrial Revolutions appeared to supplant faith in explaining human origins and providing felicity. (They haven’t! Do...

Crooked Judge Juan Merchan again on Tuesday suspended any decision on the Trump lawfare case in Manhattan. Merchan adjourned the case today. He will make decision where this lawfare case heads next. Breaking via Laura Loomer. BREAKING: Judge Merchan, the crooked judge overseeing President Trump’s hush money trial in NYC, just ADJOURNED President Trump’s November 26th sentencing date. pic.twitter.com/yWQnQBKfnp — Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) November 19, 2024 Earlier this month, Judge Juan Merchan paused his ruling in President Trump’s New York lawfare case based on his election victory. Merchan paused the deadlines for President Trump’s sentencing date scheduled for later this...

One of the most popular election-rigging theories on the right in 2020 was the "Italygate" theory that posited Italian military satellites "interfered" with American voting machines, switching votes from Trump to Biden. Some in government took the theory seriously enough to investigate. Acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller called U.S. officials in Rome to ask about it. The White House also asked Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen to look into it. Some on the left ridiculed the notion that Italian satellites would be able to hack American voting machines. I wonder what they're saying today about the fantastical election-denying theory...

The practice of liquor distillation has existed for thousands of years, and as for the art of collecting these spirits? Some say that can be traced as far back as the 1400s. While we may not be able to enjoy a 600-year-old bottle, many spirits producers are leaning into the premium and ultra-premium trend by releasing their oldest and most impressive spirits to date. Brands like Scotland’s The Glenlivet and France’s Delamain both celebrated 200-year anniversaries with rare, small-production artisanal bottles, with hefty price tags to match. The Glenlivet 55-Year Old, the first in The Eternal Collection and the oldest...

The New Orleans Police Department is grappling with a staffing crisis, with officer numbers at their lowest since the 1940s and facing mounting financial penalties for falling short of state-mandated thresholds. According to a report from the Louisiana Legislative Auditor's office, between 2019 and 2023, the department lost 26.6% of its staff in police districts, with a total of 776 employees — both civilian and commissioned — leaving during this period. Of those departures, 496 were resignations, 205 were retirements, 46 were dismissals and 22 were attributed to death. The exodus has coincided with a steady decline in new recruits,...

This morning, I woke up, for the first time in days not stuffed up or coughing, only to view as my first sight with clarity the pale light of Trump's victory's and it's hollow aftermath. The Republican Party which is now poised to assume control of key branches of government after the election has once again demonstrated a distressing proclivity for squandering authority even before the new government arrives. This time, not in the name of Trumpian populism, but in deference to indifference itself. What should have been a decisive rebuke of a judicial nominee, ensuring the opportunity for conservatives...

War Sweden & Finland Warn Prepare for War Sweden & Finland Warn Prepare for War Posted Nov 19, 2024 By Martin Armstrong | SPREAD THE LOVE Sweden wants war All the European leaders wanted war desperately so they could (1) try to hold together the failing Eurozone and (2) end up with an excuse to default on their debts. The average Russian, European, American, Canadian, Japanese, and Chinese are uninterested in war. The average person wants to get along and deal with everyday life. Sweden and Finland are telling their people to prepare for war. There is nobody in power...

The Democratic National Committee workers’ union on Monday condemned layoffs by the organization, saying permanent employees were terminated last week with one day’s notice and no severance pay. While staff jobs at campaign offices routinely end after elections, the DNC laid off permanent employees, including people who had been told their positions would continue after the election, the staff union said in a statement..... In a statement, the DNC noted that, every election cycle “political organizations scale up to meet the demands, and as the cycle comes to a close, it’s a tough reality of our industry that we must...