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I just want to say of course the movie The Shining is on here and there and I've seen people talking about it. I've seen some of it but what bothers me is how come the wife and kid don't feel any sorry for this husband and father of theirs having some kind of tragedy happen to him? I know, he tries to kill her but still if that was your husband wouldn't you think there'd be some emotional attachment to the guy? Some horrible derangement happened to him? I know they're claiming it's possession or something but wouldn't you...

Ballot boxes in Oregon and Washington were set on fire with incendiary devices early Monday in what authorities believe are connected incidents, police said. The two arson incidents, which occurred near the Oregon-Washington border, are also believed to be connected to a third ballot box incident that occurred earlier this month in Vancouver, Washington, police said. In the first reported incident on Monday, Portland police responded to a fire at a ballot box around 3:30 a.m. local time, police said. Security at the Multnomah County Elections Division responded and extinguished the fire, officials said.

I have not voted as yet. Just filling out the ballot. 45 judges in Arizona and I don't know any of 'em. So I'm looking them up. First two are the Justices of the Supreme Court, Clint Bolick and Kathryn H. King. If they are removed by voters, Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs would appoint their replacements.

TEMPE, ARIZ. - An Arizona prosecutor said the man arrested in the shooting of a Democratic National Committee office in suburban Phoenix had more than 120 guns and over 250,000 rounds of ammunition in his home, leading law enforcement to believe he may have been planning a mass casualty event. Maricopa County prosecutor Neha Bhatia said at Jeffrey Michael Kelly's initial court appearance on Wednesday that federal agents told her about the large seizure made after Kelly's arrest. Scopes, body armour and silencers were also found, she said. A machine gun was discovered in the car he was driving.

Greatest Country in the world...OURS! Prettiest girls. Handsomest guys. Lovers of God. ALL OF US! It's true!

You know, sometimes New Jersey gets a real bad rap. And well, sometimes, that rap is wholly deserved. Case in point, Thomas Manzo. The ex-husband of The Real Housewives of New Jersey's Dina Manzo was sentenced to seven years in prison for the most New Jersey crime one could think of: he hired a purported member of the mob to beat up his ex's then-boyfriend/now-husband in exchange for throwing the attacker a lavish wedding reception.

Cops in Southeast Portland stopped a couple who were driving a suspected stolen car. During the stop, the cops searched the car and allegedly found a whole bunch of incriminating stuff. A lot of cash. A loaded revolver. Some scales for weighing drugs. And they found a bag full of drugs that had the words “Definitely Not a Bag Full of Drugs” written on it. They say the bag contained 10 grams of fentanyl and methamphetamine. The couple was arrested. The guy, a 35-year-old named Reginald Lamont Reynolds, is facing multiple charges including delivery and unlawful possession of methamphetamine, unauthorized...

The International Guild of Realism Fall online show. The paintings are some of the best out there. My painting, Golden Cholla, is in the show.

One person was killed Thursday and several others were injured after equipment malfunctioned at a tourist mine near Cripple Creek, the Teller County sheriff said at a news conference. Rescue operations are underway to assist 12 others still trapped about 1,000 feet underground at the Mollie Kathleen Mine, Teller County Sheriff Jason Mikesell said. He said the incident occurred around noon at about 500 feet below ground when the elevator system failed. The sheriff said he would not release more information about the person who died other than “all I can tell you is we lost someone.”

Florida Highway Patrol troopers rescued a dog tied to a pole in Tampa on Tuesday in the hours leading up to Hurricane Milton making landfall on the region as a "catastrophic" storm. In a heartbreaking video posted to social media, an FHP trooper gets out of his patrol car and walks over to the black and white dog standing in a flooded area with water up to his chest. The scared pup growls and barks at the trooper as he reassures him, "It's okay, buddy. I don't blame you."

ASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI has arrested an Afghan man who officials say was inspired by the Islamic State militant organization and was plotting an Election Day attack targeting large crowds in the U.S., the Justice Department said Tuesday. Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi, 27, of Oklahoma City told investigators after his arrest Monday that he had planned his attack to coincide with Election Day next month and that he and a co-conspirator expected to die as martyrs, according to charging documents.

Local activist Sir Maejor Page, also known as Tyree Conyers-Page, was sentenced to prison time after creating a fake non-profit organization associated with the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement to defraud donors and supporters of the cause to fund his shopping sprees. Page was given 42 months of prison time for his crimes after being found guilty in April. He was charged with with one count of wire fraud and three counts of money laundering, according to WTOL.

Kamala Harris ripped for claiming government hurricane aid will prioritize ‘communities of color’ Twitter hammered Vice President Kamala for a recent speech in which she described that federal Hurricane Ian relief would be based on “equity” and prioritize people in “communities of color.”

Harris / Walz Campaign BUSTED for using 2 paid actors to pretend they were former Pennsylvania Farmers & Trump Voters who switched to Kamala. A recent twitter post by user Johnny Midnight has stirred up controversy, alleging that the Harris/Walz campaign used paid actors to portray former Pennsylvania farmers and Trump voters who switched their allegiance to Kamala. According to the tweet, these supposed farmers turned Kamala supporters were not only actors but also long-time Democratic donors.

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) seemingly approved a deal that would "fast-track" left-wing billionaire George Soros’ acquisition of more than 200 Audacy radio stations across America, irking a Republican commissioner who "objected." The New York Post first reported that the FCC last week "adopted an order to approve Soros’ purchase of more than 200 radio stations in 40 markets just weeks before the presidential election," potentially allowing the far-left kingmaker to reach more than 165 million Americans at a critical time.

Former senior-ranking U.S. Border Patrol official Aaron Heitke alleged in testimony given before House lawmakers that the Biden-Harris administration purposely covered up the crisis at the southern border as millions of migrants illegally entered the United States. Heitke, the chief patrol agent of the San Diego, California region who retired last summer, told the House Homeland Security Committee on Capitol Hill Wednesday that the Biden administration forbid him from speaking with the media on certain implications of the illegal immigration crisis.

Rapper and hip-hop mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs has been detained pending trial after pleading not guilty to three federal charges. He was charged in New York with racketeering, sex trafficking by force, and transportation to engage in prostitution. The judge overseeing the case ordered Combs to be held without bail after hearing arguments from prosecutors that he would be tempted to flee the country.

The Biden-Harris parole program that allows as many as 360,000 illegal aliens a year from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela (CHNV) to enter the United States is not only illegal, but is fraud-ridden. The fraud is so massive that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) quietly paused the program in the hope they could get it fixed before the American public learned about the extent of the problems.

Ladies and gentlemen, over the weekend, we saw the results of a fascinating social experiment involving 20,000 illegals from Haiti that have swarmed one Ohio town like locusts. (Because Joe Biden and Kamala Harris sent them there.)

The media have always engaged in mass lying about immigration, but they're really going the extra mile this election cycle. Lie No. 1 is the toughness of the “bipartisan” border bill, covered in my last column. (Quotes on “bipartisan” because not a single congressional Republican supports it, even the guy who co-sponsored it.) Immigration Lie No. 2 is even more comically, straw-graspingly wrong: The Biden-Harris administration is deporting MORE illegals than Trump!