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Anyone seeking a mid-career sabbatical should seek a presidential nomination to a position that requires Senate confirmation. GOP Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is teeing up more votes this week, and the GOP needs to move fast because the glacial pace of staffing the government will slow to near-zero if Democrats retake the Senate. Mr. McConnell has filed cloture on three nominees, including two assistant attorneys general who have been in a rubber room for more than a year. President Trump nominated Jeffrey Bossert Clark to run the environment and natural resources division in June 2017. Ditto for Eric Dreiband for...

10/5 8:46pm Democrat Senators Tester, McCaskill, Donnelly, Nelson and Heitkamp are discussing change of Kavanaugh vote tonight.

One of the incredible stories du jour is the latest phase of the Hawaiian volcano. I have seen that volcano many times. It’s truly amazing. The desolation it can cause is incomprehensible. There are places where you can see immense vistas that have been devastated... The volcanic activity has recently increased...It’s awesome and unsettling. Code red. That’s the official designation for what’s happening. Code Red. It’s about to blow. But I’m speaking of the leftist cabal, not Kilauea. The Democratic/media complex is about to get worse than it has before. Soon. That’s hard to believe, but just watch. Yes, they...

Jonathan Pie (real name Tom Walker) offers an interesting insight into the forces behind Donald Trump's election triumph.

KANSAS CITY Mo. (Reuters) - A Kansas City man was charged on Wednesday with trying to fire-bomb the local office of Missouri U.S. Democratic Representative Emanuel Cleaver using two bottles filled with charcoal lighter fluid, prosecutors said.

(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch today released a new batch of Internal Revenue Service (IRS) email documents revealing that under former IRS official Lois Lerner, the agency seems to acknowledge having needlessly solicited donor lists from non-profit political groups. According to a May 21, 2012, memo from the IRS Deputy Associate Chief Counsel: “such information was not needed across-the-board and not used in making the agency’s determination on exempt status.” Later, in her May 10, 2013, remarks in which Lerner first revealed in response to question she planted about the IRS targeting of conservative groups, she conceded that the requests...

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) on Wednesday accused Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) of pursuing an anti-woman agenda that is akin to a slap in the face and a violent hair-pulling. “Scott Walker has given women the back of his hand,” she said, using slang for a backhanded slap. “I know that is stark. I know that is direct. I know that is reality.”From the "It's OK when WE do it" department

MADISON, Wis.—Wisconsin's highest court upheld a law ending most collective-bargaining rights for government employees in the state, a blow for public-sector unions that have been stymied in their efforts to reverse the controversial measure championed by Republican Gov. Scott Walker.

Over the weekend, New York City, defying those who think such a move is insulting to the poor, approved a move by the developer Extell to build a separate entrance at an Upper West Side condominium for its affordable housing tenants.

Chalk up a big victory for the First Amendment. On Friday a Wisconsin judge struck a major blow for free political speech when he quashed subpoenas to conservative groups and ordered the return of property to the targets of a so-called John Doe campaign-finance probe. John Doe probes operate much like grand juries, allowing prosecutors to issue subpoenas and conduct searches while gag orders require the targets to keep quiet. We wrote about the kitchen-sink subpoenas...

Another Obama-supporting newspaper jumps ship...

While Romney still leads 206-201 on the RCP Electoral Count Map, the "No Toss-up" map still projects a narrow 277-261 victory for the President.

For the first time, Romney has the edge on the RCP Electoral Map.

Just announced on Hannity a few minutes ago.

Just announced as a news alert on Hannity...

From the CyberAlert section: Vice President Dick Cheney is scheduled to appear Tuesday night on NBC’s Olympic Tonight Show, which will air 35 minutes after the conclusion of Olympic coverage, at about 12:05am EST/11:05 CST and at about the regular time in the Mountain and Pacific time zones.

On 11/27, Marie Cocco wrote an inflammatory article in Newsday, referring to the "mob" in Dade county and claiming that SOS Harris had let democracy die a little bit.That's all I could stand... this is long, but I think it's worthwhile...Ms. Cocco, Allow me to take issue with you regarding the aforementioned column, wherein your concern for democracy and democratic processes degenerates into apocalyptic demagoguery regarding protestors, ballots and the Florida Secretary of State.You spoke of, "the near-riot by the mob" and their "effort to stop the counting of ballots cast by fellow citizens". This isfundamentally and intellectually dishonest on ...

Thomas Sowell: notice something about the shooter's targets?

Thomas Sowell says, "Don't disarm law-abiding citizens!"

It looks like the Dems have flip-flopped on carpetbagging too... And finally…Our friends at the RNC have done their homework again: "Is it right that he should be able to come into this state without a history, without roots, without a philosophy, without commitment, without knowing anything and buy…a general election?" - Former New York Governor Mario Cuomo in 1982 commenting on Lewis Lehrman, his Republican gubernatorial challenger