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Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for the Daily Signal. I’m speaking about 10 days before our Nov. 3 midterms, the second midterm in the second term of the two Trump administrations. We thought, given historical precedents, that it should be a shoo-in for the Democrats. One hundred and twenty-six years since 1900, to take the modern era, 90% of the parties that were holding the White House at the time of the second-term midterms lost. And of all midterms, the in-party only won on three occasions: FDR in the ’34 election, Bill Clinton in the ’98 election, and George...

Just in time for Halloween in the eastern United States, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 27 Starlink satellites from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Oct. 31, 2026, at 12:04 a.m. EDT (9:04 p.m. PDT - Oct. 30). [Full Story] The mission marked SpaceX's 118th Falcon 9 launch of the year, with the rocket's first-stage booster completing another successful landing aboard the droneship Of Course I Still Love You in the Pacific Ocean. SpaceX Halloween Blastoff! 🎃🚀 Launches Starlink satellites from California, nails landing | 9:12 VideoFromSpace | 2.17M subscribers |...

COOPERSTOWN, NY -- The Brewers' World Series win will be forever etched in history and will forever hold a place in the National Baseball Hall of Fame. The Hall on Thursday announced nine items worn by players and coaches would head to its museum to honor the 2026 Brew Crew. On Friday, they announced a very special tenth item. A special "Ueck" jersey worn by Hall of Famer Robin Yount when he threw out the ceremonial first pitch in Game 1 of the World Series will also head to the Hall of Fame. The No. 19 jersey was worn in...

Martha Stewart is facing backlash after seemingly dressing up as a homeless person for Halloween. The lifestyle guru reportedly shared — and quickly deleted — a photo of herself wearing tattered clothing, with dirt smeared across her face, while holding a sign begging for food. “I AM HUNGRY HELP ME!” the sign read in her Instagram snap.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio was right to grant a visa to Brazilian presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro and his family. As President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, known as Lula, grows increasingly vindictive and authoritarian, the United States should make clear that political persecution has adverse consequences. Supporting freedom and democracy in Latin America means standing behind those whose right to challenge the government is under threat. Offering protection to an opposition leader in the region’s biggest and most populous nation upholds America’s principles and serves its strategic interests. Bolsonaro and his family arrived in the U.S. this week after...

You [Gemini.ai]state " they [atheists] are relying on evidence-based frameworks, not faith" Wrong, and you are just parroting, for you are defining faith in a non-Biblical way (which is confidence based upon a degree of evidential warrant, as in Acts 7:31, which is what we do daily), and the atheist places confidence in evidence that does not prove his atheism. And if you actually engage atheists on the Internet, as here https://www.quora.com/Why-do-atheists-refuse-to-debate-Christians, you will realize that they overall are intolerant of a creator even as a hypothesis. Most are anti-theist.You are entirely right to correct how the word "faith"...

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In an address in North Carolina, FDR said: In those days, 1913 and 1914, the leadership of the Nation was in the hands of a great President who was seeking to recover for our social system ground that had been lost under his conservative predecessor, and to restore something of the fighting liberal spirit which the Nation had gained under Theodore Roosevelt. It seemed one of our great national tragedies that just when Woodrow Wilson was beginning to accomplish definite improvements in the living standards of America, the World War not only interrupted his course, but laid the foundation for...

The Islamo-Leftist alliance is picking up where the Nazis left off, not just in Paris, but across large swaths of Europe—and our choices in this election matter. June 6, 1944, marked the beginning of the end for the Nazi’s dominance across Europe. By August 1944, the Allies were heading to Paris, one of the crown jewels in Hitler’s European conquest. Hitler planned to hold Paris but, failing that, he wanted the Allies to suffer a Pyrrhic victory. To that end, he ordered General Dietrich von Choltitz to leave behind “nothing but a field of ruins.” The Nazis would completely destroy...

Confidence is an important factor in any election – candidates need to project it, and supporters need to feel it for morale purposes to help them get across the finish line. Democrats had all the confidence in the world a month ago…but it’s not a month ago anymore. In the closing two weeks of the 2026 midterms, Democrats have begun to act like people concerned that they’re going to lose. In Alaska, Democrats were always worried about losing – it’s Alaska, after all. That’s why they cooked up this stupid “Find another Dan Sullivan” scam to confuse just enough voters...

North Carolinians flocked to early voting sites in record numbers ahead of the Nov. 3 election — turnout driven in large part by Democrats and unaffiliated voters who weighed in on constitutional amendments and picked candidates for U.S. Congress, the state legislature, courts and local offices. Early voting ended Saturday. The next opportunity for voters to cast a ballot in person is on Election Day, which is Tuesday Nov. 3. Polls on that day will be open from 6:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Voters are assigned precincts for Election Day voting. Precincts and sample ballots can be found using the...

Nine people were shot after the Magic City Classic football game on Saturday night in Birmingham, Alabama. According to police, one person was killed and eight others were injured in a mass shooting just outside Legion Field after the game around 7:50 p.m. The Magic City Classic is an annual rivalry game between Alabama State University and Alabama A&M University, the state's largest historically Black universities. … A spokesman for the police department told the Associated Press and other reporters that one person was detained for questioning and that multiple weapons were found and secured after the mass shooting.

LONDON (AP) — London police said they arrested 139 people at a protest outside the U.S. Embassy on Saturday in support of the banned group Palestine Action. The majority of those taken into custody had expressed support for a proscribed organization, London’s Metropolitan Police said in a statement. It said that more arrests are expected as officers remain at the scene. Many of those protesting were retirees and had been holding signs reading: “I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action.” One protester climbed a tree outside the embassy and could be seen waving a placard reading “God help us. Teachers...

A liberal journalist goes to Cuba expecting to document Trump’s damage. The Cubans have other ideas. Worth's questions about American policy produced another revealing exchange. During nine days of travel, he had not met a single person who blamed Donald Trump or the United States for their situation. He sometimes reminded people about the blockade and asked whether conditions had worsened. Retired engineer Guillermo Almeida told him he saw no change since January. Venezuelan oil, he explained, had not been reaching ordinary Cubans anyway. Another man offered a concise explanation: “It seems to us that the real embargo is inside...

The MONTHLY Victory Garden Thread is a gathering of folks that love soil, seeds and plants of all kinds. From complete newbies that are looking to start that first potted plant, to gardeners with some acreage, to Master Gardener level and beyond, we would love to hear from you. If you have specific question about a plant/problem you are having, please remember to state the Growing Zone where you are located. This thread is a non-political respite. No matter what, you won’t be flamed, and the only dumb question is the one that isn’t asked. It is impossible to hijack...

A historian makes a stunning discovery -- a 1,000-year-old sword buried for centuries. This rare find offers a glimpse into a forgotten past and could reshape what we know about the era it came from. The Remarkable Find Of A 1,000-Year-Old Sword Great British History Hunters | 12:37 Journal - History Documentaries | 157K subscribers | 351,181 views | August 9, 2026

Summary Protesters loot stores in Frankfurt Gen Z-led demonstrations follow others across Europe Young people demand better education, lower living costs Some shops along Berlin's Kurfuerstendamm board up windows

In yet another case of a supposed conspiracy theory becoming established fact, the U.S. Treasury Department has confirmed that the nation’s largest banks consistently discriminated against customers based on political and social considerations, beginning in the chaotic 2020 election year. In addition to being a reprehensible weapon deployed by a political mass movement to punish half the nation’s population for their political beliefs, the debanking campaign constitutes a thoroughly staggering and shameful misuse of government power, a scandal of historic proportions. In a 47-page report titled “Debanked: Guaranteeing Fair Banking for All Americans,” released on October 14, the Treasury Department’s...

President Donald Trump lambasted his ex-attorney Alina Habba Mildon for scoring an alleged $50 million payday from the family of businessman Julio Herrera Velutini, just weeks before Trump gave him a pardon, while speaking to reporters at a Mar-a-Lago Halloween bash on Saturday night. The president ripped Habba Mildon for leveraging her ties to him in order to strike the alleged deal, saying it was “unacceptable” and a “totally obnoxious and outrageous” stunt to pull. Trump shared his disgust with her two days after The New York Times reported the stealth big bucks agreement. “What did you make of Alina...

The Talk Shows Nv 1st, 2026 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:FACE THE NATION (CBS): Margaret Brennan anchors: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent; Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.); Pennsylvania democrat Gov. Josh Shapiro; Entertainment Lawyer (?) David Becker; Anthony Salvanto, CBS News’ Executive Director of Elections and Surveys. FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Anchor Shannon Bream: Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI); Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.); Fox Business anchor Charles Payne. Panel: Jason Riley, Karl “Turd Blossom” Rove and Jessica Turdloaf. MEET THE dePRESS (NBC): Hosted by Kristen Welker: Illinois democfat Gov. JB Prickzer; Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.); Rep. Jamie...