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by Jeff ChildersThe New York Times ran (another) deep post-election analysis over the weekend headlined, “How Democrats Lost Their Base and Their Message.” It described what is gaining speed to potentially become the Democrats’ worst-case scenario. The article began by contrasting Trump’s 2016 and 2024 strategies. In 2016, Trump won using an electoral “Moneyball” approach, surprising Democrats by gaming out exactly which handful of key counties were needed to win the Electoral College. The 2020 election proved the Democrats learned their lesson and weren’t about to let Republicans win again through cherry-picking. During his 2020-2024 wilderness years, amidst fending off...

CHICAGO — Two men are facing robbery charges, possibly because they took a break from their getaway to grab some McDonald’s on the victim’s credit card. Last Sunday evening, November 17, a 28-year-old man told police that two people pinned him against a fence at 31st Street and King Drive while a third went through his pockets and took his wallet, according to a Chicago police report. While the victim spoke with officers, he received an email notification that one of his stolen credit cards was being used at a McDonald’s. Knowing there was a “golden arches” on the corner...

ANew Hampshire high school banned two parents from its grounds after they wore wristbands protesting boys participating in girls' sports. Two months later, the school remained adamant about its decision in a court hearing on Friday. The controversy began in September when parents complained to the Bow High School athletic director about their daughters' soccer team having to compete against a team with a boy on the roster, the New Hampshire Journal reported. “Where’s your courage? Where’s your integrity? Stand up for real women or get out of the way,” soccer dad Anthony Foote wrote in an email to athletic...

RIVERSIDE COUNTY, Calif. — A 46-year-old man faces charges of trying to meet a child for sex acts after a “sting” operation organized by youths, California sheriff’s officials reported. Deputies received a tip that a man was meeting with a child for sex acts at Nicolas Road Park in Temecula at 4:25 p.m. Friday, Nov. 15, the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release. When deputies arrived, they found about 20 juveniles recording the encounter, the sheriff’s office said. The sheriff’s office confirmed in an email to McClatchy News that the youths had organized their own undercover operation....

WASHINGTON, Thursday, Nov. 24. A letter from City Point, dated yesterday, says that Richmond papers of Tuesday have accounts of SHERMAN's movements, although not of a very definite character. The head of his column was reported to be within eighteen miles of Macon, and advancing in that direction. Information similar to this was telegraphed from this city last night, as the latest and most important information yesterday in the possession of the Government. It may be further stated, that rebel telegraphic communication was open only as far as Milledgeville, beyond which place the lines seem to have been interrupted --...

Soon after the 2020 election I saw, but didn't save a copy of, an article that argued that some precincts in battleground states showed evidence of fraud because when the data for how many ballots voted for Biden vs how many voted for other down-ballot candidates, you should expect to see circular or oval blobs, expressing some randomness in the data, but instead these precincts showed crescent-shaped blobs with cusps at the ends, which looked very unnatural, as if the voting numbers had been tampered with. I have searched high and low for this article but am unable to find...

Footage was released of a two-year-old girl arriving at the southern border with little more than a slip of paper with a name and "contact" information. This comes as the Biden-Harris administration has been criticized over the last four years over the border crisis that has ensued. Video of the two-year-old girl encountering authorities at the border showed her telling officers that she arrived at the border alone, and said that she was going to her mother and father in the US. When authorities asked her where her parents were, she responded in Spanish, "Estados Unidos" meaning the United States....

A tiny 2-year-old migrant girl who was picked up at the US border clutching a piece of paper with a name and phone number scrawled on it told cops she was there to find her parents, a tragic video shows. The child from El Salvador, clad in a bright pink jacket, was among a group of more than 200 illegal migrants — including 60 unaccompanied minors — detained after crossing the border into Maverick County, Texas, on Sunday, authorities said. The Texas Department of Public Safety released the footage of the little girl admitting to cops that she was traveling...

US President-elect Donald Trump's pick for national security advisor on Sunday urged to stop the escalating war between Ukraine and Russia and said that the country "needs to restore deterrence and peace." In an interview with Fox News, Mike Waltz said, “We need to bring this to a responsible end. We need to restore deterrence, restore peace, and get ahead of this escalation ladder, rather than responding to it." -snip- "President Trump has been very clear about the need to end this conflict," he stated to Fox News. "We need to be discussing is who's at that table, whether it's...

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said he thinks the mayor of Denver could be removed from office if he attempts to block President-elect Trump’s plan for mass deportations. “I would say that the mayor of Denver, if he’s going to resist federal law — which, there’s a long-standing history of the supremacy of federal law — he’s going to resist that, it will go all the way to the Supreme Court,” Paul said Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”

Axios CEO has a meltdown over Elon Musk saying X is the media “Everything we do is under fire. Elon Musk sits on Twitter every day or X today saying like, ‘we are the media. You are the media.’” “My message to Elon Musk is bullsh*t! You're not the media!”

Imagine my unpleasant surprise when Trump nominated a woman to be Secretary of Labor who can count American Federation of Teachers head Randi Weingarten among her fans. Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer (R-Ore.) is the worst Republican Trump could have picked for Labor. ... For any conservative who had high hopes for the Trump 47 administration, Weingarten's approval of Chavez-DeRemer's nomination undoes a lot of the goodwill that had been built up. That's not the worst thing about this choice, however. Chavez-DeRemer (an annoying name to type repeatedly, by the way) is one of only three Republicans in the House to support...

Britain and France have not ruled out sending troops to Ukraine as part of a European coalition, French media has reported, amid fears that the war is edging closer to becoming an all-out conflict between Russia and NATO. Discussions on sending troops from Western armies and private defence companies have been 'reactivated', according to French daily newspaper Le Monde, months after President Macron faced opposition from Western leaders over the suggestion. The talks have also been revisited amid concerns that US support for Kyiv could be pulled by president-elect Donald Trump when he enters office on January 20, sources reportedly...

House races in California Districts 13 and 45 have been reported at >95% counted for several days now. Real Clear Politics shows >99% and Decision Desk HQ shows >95%. I would have posted a news article from today, but there doesn't appear to be any.

Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem (11/25/24)[Prayer]Names and Titles of God the Holy Spirit (Advisor) Acts 10:17-2017 Now while Peter doubted in himself what this vision which he had seen should mean, behold, the men which were sent from Cornelius had made enquiry for Simon's house, and stood before the gate, 18 And called, and asked whether Simon, which was surnamed Peter, were lodged there. 19 While Peter thought on the vision, the Spirit said unto him, Behold, three men seek thee. 20 Arise therefore, and get thee down, and go with them, doubting nothing: for I have sent them....

Listen, US women gotta step their topless protest game up. France is dunking on y’all. VIDEO AT LINK........................ Warning.....................

"If these people had to be honest, it would all be over." -- Mike Benz. “Now that our cheques are bouncing and we are starting to default on our debts, our entire civilization appears to be manifesting suicidal behavior in an effort to control the firing squad.” — Luke Dodson. “Joe Biden” is feeling blue. Not a joke. In the lurid sunset of his dwindling term-in-office, the long shadow of his legacy points toward a gigantic glowing cinder where North America used to be. Such are the grievances of the outgoing president. I pass unto you and your legions of...

On April 13th, 2029 an absolutely gigantic asteroid known as “Apophis” will come very close to our planet. In fact, we are being told that Apophis will actually be ten times closer than the Moon as it zips past the Earth. The good news is that scientists are assuring us that there is zero chance that this enormous space rock will hit us. The bad news is that we cannot see Apophis right now, and if there is even the slightest change in the projected trajectory it could end up slamming into our planet. Needless to say, if Apophis actually...

A law banning cars from turning right at all red lights across D.C. was set to start with the new year. But city transportation officials, who never supported the blanket ban, have pumped the brakes because the D.C. Council failed to earmark money to alert drivers to the change.As it stands, the city will only enforce a ban at about half of the District’s 1,600 intersections, where they have erected signs notifying drivers they can’t turn right on red

Everyone ages 6 months and older should get the 2024–2025 COVID-19 vaccine. This includes people who have received a COVID-19 vaccine, people who have had COVID-19, and people with long COVID.