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Virginia Republicans scored a monumental victory in 2021. After 12 years of sustained statewide losses, the party emerged from the wilderness and swept the three statewide races that year, led by outsider Glenn Youngkin, who became the commonwealth’s first Republican governor since Bob McDonnell left office in 2014.Virginia’s gubernatorial elections are unique in American politics in that no other state makes its governor a lame duck the moment he is sworn in, as term limits prohibit consecutive terms. No Virginia governor has ever run for reelection as an incumbent, although two governors have succeeded in winning nonconsecutive terms.The commonwealth’s proximity...

In early September, Kellen McMiller took part in a roundtable discussion with Gov. JB Pritzker at an event for anti-violence workers on the South Side. McMiller, 35, even posed for a photo with the governor in his neon yellow peacekeeper vest. The photo would later appear in a press release touting how violence prevention programs are helping drive down violent crime in Chicago. Just six days later, McMiller was allegedly involved in a smash-and-grab downtown that killed a man on his way to work. McMiller was one of a dozen offenders who authorities say robbed a Louis Vuitton store of...

The ongoing government shutdown is a symptom of a much larger dilemma facing the Democratic Party today. Locked out of power, lacking a unifying standard bearer, and struggling with historically low approval ratings, Democrats are facing a number of strategic challenges. At the heart of Democrats’ dilemma is an inability to articulate their own path forward as they are steadfast in opposing Trump’s agenda but are not communicating their own credible and attractive alternative. This “oppose at all costs” strategy has extended to the government shutdown. Although Democrats remain unified in their opposition, they are forgoing an opportunity to offer...

“Gay-Washed” Bible’s imprimatur should be withdrawn. Here’s why.I am grateful to OSV News for reporting on my concerns about the USCCB’s granting of an imprimatur to the New Revised Standard Version updated edition (NRSVue) Bible. I appreciate USCCB Scripture scholar Father Pablo Gadenz responding directly to my concerns. But I found his responses unpersuasive, and I still think the imprimatur should be withdrawn, for the reasons below.First, a recap for readers unfamiliar with the issue. The updated edition of the NRSV, the flagship Bible of Mainline Protestantism, was published in 2022. Protestant Scripture scholar Robert A.J. Gagnon (who literally wrote...

Two A-List Hollywood actors will star in a pro-assisted-suicide movie. From the Hollywood Reporter story: George Clooney and Annette Bening will star in In Love, an adaptation of Amy Bloom’s New York Times best-selling memoir In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss that is to be directed by Paul Weitz. . . . With In Love, Bloom wrote about how her she slowly lost her husband to Alzheimer’s, how the two made the decision to travel to Switzerland to end his life, and the struggle to move forward as a widow. The book was an affirmation of love and...

Grassroots organizations like Scott Presler’s Early Vote Action have been working in New Jersey as the final push over the line for the Republican Party to make serious inroads in a state abused by its incompetent Democratic overlords for far too long. Presler is aiming to do in the Garden State what he did in the Keystone State last year — turn it red. Trump lost Pennsylvania by 80,000 ballots in 2020. Presler’s activism helped him win it in November by 120,000 votes. I followed Scott Presler and his organization in the final weeks leading up to the most pivotal...

This is the best all-time Trump I have ever seen (Unfotunately, it's for Spanish-speakers.). It features Trump as lead Cuban-style singer, Hegseth and Rubio on guitars and Cruz on the drums and backup singer. The gals may be Bondi, Noem and I can't recognize the third one. The message is that illegals, Democrats and Maduro have been pulling all kinds of garbage and Trump arrived to put a stop to it. Click here.

Florida athletic director Scott Stricklin said Monday he has one goal when it comes to hiring the next football coach: Find someone who can win championships. During a news conference in Gainesville, Florida, Stricklin said his decision to fire Billy Napier on Sunday following a 3-4 start to the season was ultimately because "we didn't win to the level we needed to." Napier went 22-23 in four seasons with the Gators, including 12-16 in SEC play. Although Stricklin credited Napier for leaving Florida in a much better place than he found it -- including modernizing the football program structure --...

Joe Biden and former FEMA administrator Deanne Criswell in Florida after Hurricane Milton last yearLast November 8th, on the Saturday after Election Day, one of the more bizarre post-scripts to Donald Trump’s re-election emerged in the form of a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) decision to sideline one official accused of telling FEMA workers to “avoid homes advertising Trump” while canvassing for victims of Hurricane Milton in Florida. The Daily Wire spoke to multiple FEMA officials who produced screenshots of entries like “Trump sign, no contact per leadership”:The most painful confirmation, however, came from then-FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell, who testified...

Planned Parenthood’s abortion empire continued its downward spiral as the abortion organization announced the closure of seven centers in California, That pushes the total number of its facilities shuttered across the country this year to 50 and highlights the mounting financial toll of federal defunding efforts championed by pro-life advocates. Planned Parenthood clearly relies on our tax dollars to prop up its abortion business. The closures, affecting Melody Health — an arm of Planned Parenthood of Orange and San Bernardino Counties — will shutter locations in Anaheim, Costa Mesa, Mission Viejo, Santa Ana, Westminster, San Bernardino and Upland. The centers...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has had a bad day. That's how the boss of another big US tech firm Cloudflare put it – probably feeling very relieved that today's outage, hitting over 1,000 companies and affecting millions of internet users, had nothing to do with him. The places hit by the outage vary significantly. It took out major social media platforms like Snapchat and Reddit, banks like Lloyds and Halifax, and games like Roblox and Fortnite. AWS is a US giant with a large global footprint, having positioned itself as the backbone of the internet. It provides tools and computers...

According to federal law, anyone “who is an unlawful user of or addicted to any controlled substance” is prohibited from possessing a firearm The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a case on drug users possessing firearms to determine whether the federal law criminalizing such possession is unconstitutional.The Trump administration urged the court to hear the case, making it the latest regarding the Second Amendment that the court agreed to hear this term, according to The Hill news outlet. The court is expected to rule on the case by the end of its term next summer.According to federal...

Across advertising and popular media, seemingly everyone is grabbing their fringe, denim and Stetson boots, in a wholehearted embrace of the American West. It’s cowboys – and they’re “everywhere,” said Emily Keegin, a photo director for both magazines and brands. “It’s more pervasive than I think I’ve ever seen a trope in recent history.” Long associated with a hardworking, old-school, rugged American masculinity, the cowboy’s current popularity could be a reflection of our national politics — conservatives, including members of the Trump administration, have embraced cowboy hats and similar imagery. But today’s prevailing cowboy image also highlights how cultural myths...

"An older male was seen picking up approximately $7,400 in cash that had fallen from the roof of the car of its rightful owner," police said.Police in Kennebunk, Maine are looking for a man who, they say, pocketed more than $7,000 in cash that was left in a roadway after falling off the roof of a car. A report of stolen property came in on Oct. 15, the Kennebunk Police Department said on Facebook. “An older male was seen picking up approximately $7,400 in cash that had fallen from the roof of the car of its rightful owner. The money...

LOS ANGELOS, CA — A local homeless man reported over the weekend that he had been made fun of by all of the other homeless men for not having an iPhone 17. According to witnesses, transient Ralph Nichols was brutally mocked by his fellow hobos for not having the latest iPhone like everyone else. "Hey guys, check out the loser bum over here who doesn't even have a 17!" one disheveled man allegedly said. "I bet he still goes to the library to use the computers all day instead of getting a free government handout to buy one for...

Few people understand the far-left extremist group Antifa as well as investigative journalist Andy Ngo, author of “Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy.” He has been beaten, attacked, and nearly killed by Antifa for his undercover reporting of the group’s operations. In an executive order signed on Sept. 22, President Donald Trump designated the group a domestic terrorist organization. On Oct. 8, the president hosted a roundtable focused on Antifa and invited Ngo and other journalists to participate. In this episode, Ngo recounts his harrowing personal experiences. What will it take to actually dismantle Antifa? How is Antifa...

"Politics is a weapon in the cause of Islam"Zohran Mamdani’s decision to visit the Al-Taqwa Mosque, which used to be under NYPD surveillance, and then embraced its imam, Imam Siraj Wahhaj, an unindicted co-conspirator in the WTC bombing, ends any debate about who he is.At this point the alternative is ignorance, lies and denial.Much as with Obama and the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, there’ll be plenty of that. But much as people were able to hear Wright scream hate for America in his own words, here’s Zohran’s new favorite imam expressing his hatred for America, enthusiasm for Jihad, and description of...

WASHINGTON — Spirit Christmas is kicking off its holiday season early, with the first of dozens of stores opening over the weekend. Spirit Halloween, known for seasonally popping up in hundreds of locations around the country and offering a wide variety of costume pieces and decorations for folks to prepare for the October holiday, is expanding its spinoff Christmas-themed stores. The company will open 30 Christmas-themed stores across the Northeastern U.S. this year. Spirit Halloween first teased the return of its Christmas-themed pop-up stores in August. The company recently shared on social media a tour inside its newly opened Mays...

@RandPaul Washington’s spending addiction is out of control. I refused to support the $2T GOP deficit or the $3T Democrat deficit. I don’t want a shutdown, and I’ll support legislation to ensure our troops are paid, but I won’t rubber-stamp reckless budgets from either party.

Helen Andrews argues woke culture is the inevitable result of women taking over pivotal industries such as law, media, and medicine.Writer Helen Andrews turned a viral speech into an essay for Compact that’s been driving the Internet wild since it published Oct. 16. She argues woke culture is the inevitable result of women taking over the majority of academia and other pivotal industries such as law, media, and medicine: “Everything you think of as ‘wokeness’ is simply an epiphenomenon of demographic feminization.”“Everything you think of as wokeness involves prioritizing the feminine over the masculine: empathy over rationality, safety over risk,...