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A prominent Minnesota Democrat who served in the state's House of Representatives revealed on Thursday he believes the federal probe into Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., has legitimacy. It's the latest signal that the political dam may be breaking as scandals and investigations into the congresswoman continue to pile up. "Democrats should understand that the allegation is almost certainly true—whatever conclusion they draw from that point could vary—and her denials calling it a right-wing, Islamophobic or racist conspiracy are almost certainly not," Joe Radinovich posted on X in reference to the claims that Omar married her brother as part of an...

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi blasted New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Michigan Democratic Senate hopeful Abdul El-Sayed over their controversial comments about Israel, declaring their positions “wrong” and insisting they don’t represent the Democratic Party in Congress. Pelosi, 86, delivered the rebuke during an appearance on Donny Deutsch’s “On Brand” podcast Thursday, after the Jewish host pressed the longtime California Democrat about growing concerns over antisemitism within the party. Deutsch specifically questioned how Jewish Americans could continue supporting Democrats when prominent members of the party have refused to affirm Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state. “When...

Democrats squirmed when Donald Trump accused them of fraud in the 2024 elections. It seemed almost comical that they would insist there were no irregularities, no cheating, no fraud. It was obvious, it was blatant, it was in your face. We saw pictures of men and women stuffing collection boxes with ballots. We were told not to believe our lying eyes. But people of the truth believe the truth, no matter how they find it. Perhaps it seems comical to them. Now, we have the Dan Sullivan fraud. They’re telling us not to believe our lying ears now. Perhaps we...

As some of you may know, I live in Petersburg, AK. I’ve met Decoy Dan, the former music teacher at our K-12 school, once but I don’t really know him. Even though this is a very small town he’s just not in my circle of friends. Since the news broke the town has been invaded by reporters from major news outlets. They must have parachuted in because there are only two commercial flights a day passing through our airport and the only other way to get here is by boat. The radio station was contacted by the BBC. The local...

Has anyone besides myself wondered what qualifies for Front Page news nowadays?Apparently nothing has happened in the country, or the world in the last 30 days that warrants that status. And Breaking news is similar. The Sunday Morning Talk Show thread dominates with 6 of the top 9 subjects. Anyone know what's going on with this?

The average journalist has nearly zero connection to the real world. A British pie shop owner, Paul Bowen, was interviewed on Good Morning Britain on Thursday after a new minimum wage law was announced. The clip was something else: Utterly heartbreaking. A must watch. https://t.co/K4W2sxKG4w— Mario Creatura (@MarioCreatura) October 29, 2026Me, as a family, as a director, I'm taking a 2% cut. So my family, my one year old girl, I'm taking a pay cut, the business is taking a pay cut. How - how - how is that breathing room? Where is my breathing space? John Healey, if you're...

Alaska Public Media is not just affiliated with PBS and NPR. When their federal funds were threatened, the Democrats put their CEO Ed Ulmer on the panel to testify before the House DOGE Subcommittee last year, as if the NPR and PBS CEOs weren't enough.The assumption might be that a remote red state so distanced from the continent isn't part of the Eastern media elite. Think again. They performed such absurd propaganda on behalf of embattled Alaska Senate candidate Mary Peltola (D) as to reach Soviet levels of the ridiculously unsubtle. What happened is they went through the motions of...

Apocalypse now? The end of the world is going down in just two weeks — at least if a certain dystopian study is to be believed. In a 1960 study in the journal Science, University of Illinois physicist Heinz von Foerster forecast that Doomsday would occur on November 13, 2026 (fittingly, Friday the 13th!) The Austrian-American scientist specifically believed that our population would increase exponentially to infinity. But rather than dying of starvation — the prevailing fear at the time — von Foerster believed the boom would culminate in a massive crowd crush of sorts. “At this date human population...

President Donald Trump will be rallying in Kansas and Iowa on Sunday, as the rallies were originally scrapped to accommodate a significant amount of tele-rallies in the closing days of the midterm campaign, a source familiar told Townhall on Friday. “Rallies are BACK ON! President Trump loves his supporters, and in addition to nearly 20 tele-rallies, he will hold back-to-back rallies in Kansas and Iowa on Sunday. No one works harder, fights harder, or loves the American people more than President Donald J. Trump!” the source stated. “The rallies were rearranged for scheduling purposes to accommodate dozens of additional tele-rallies...

1. Nasdaq in crash mode? Futures say yes: down more than 2.5%. Intel dashes hopes of a quick turn. Alphabet’s Gemini falls behind. Election Day data center fears. Plus, we are still far from a base. Crescendo of selling? Or getting ahead of Black Monday? Flight to safety stocks. 2. Intel is cratering more than 25% premarket. The chipmaker should have preannounced this terrible guidance, like what IBM did this summer. The story last night wasn’t about data center demand. Instead, Club name Intel positioned its PC business as a casualty of high memory prices, the same week as SK...

NewsNation correspondent Joe Khalil posted a text he received from a Republican member of Congress on Thursday painting a grim picture of the party’s chances in South Carolina. Khalil posted the screenshot on X/Twitter. In the tweet, he called the congressman’s words a “brutal assessment” on the “party’s own prospects” in South Carolina Senate’s race. The messages read: Republicans won this seat by 18 points. The fact it’s this close and the speaker has to come to SC 1 to drag the R across the finish line is embarrassing. ----ing embarrassing it’s so close. Darline race is probably dragging this...

The US Army has started practicing digging mass graves to bury fallen troops for the first time in decades amid fears of a looming war with Iran. The exercise tested how effectively diggers and excavators could help keep bodies intact pending identification and return to the US. Images of the training captured an Army D6 bulldozer pulling dirt from the ground to form massive trenches. Operators kept the bulldozer blade 18 inches above the ground, allowing loose soil to fall into the trench instead of forcing it down. To test whether soil weight could crush human remains, the team...

How nice of Judge Mohammed. Dahir Ibrahim, West Midlands Police. Nothing to see here. Just one of those misunderstandings that seem to happen with people from a society and a belief system that says raping women is okay as long as they’re not Muslims and not wearing hijabs or burkas. Meet Dahir Ibrahim: the UK’s most prominent Somali Muslim figure. A convicted Somalian rapist who managed to overturn a deportation order went on to rape two more women in Birmingham, with his lawyer arguing ‘he had a lack of understanding of what is acceptable in the UK. This made for...

A Florida man on trial for murder in the US has made an unusual offer in court in exchange for a guilty confession. Robert Kessler, 74, told a Hillsborough Circuit Judge that he would plead guilty if he could get a "Philly cheesesteak", "fries, and a Pepsi". Kessler is accused of killing 47-year-old Stephanie Crone-Overholts, who had been staying at his Tampa-area home in 2021. He faces charges of first-degree murder and abuse of a corpse, according to a WFLA report. The unusual incident happened earlier this week, when Kessler, who has reportedly turned blind now, appeared before Hillsborough Circuit...

WASHINGTON (TNND) — Former FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino warned his podcast listeners this week to take action and stock up on essentials like food and water as other countries have warned their citizens to stockpile amid threats of cyberattacks. During his podcast, Bongino said that people should have 30 days of food and water ready in case of an emergency. “There have been some warnings put out by the UK government and elsewhere about 30 days of preparedness and having food ready and power,” Bongino said, according to Mediaite.

They’ve gotten arrogant and lazy and entitled about corruption, as if it’s an accepted part of their brand. Late this week we’ve witnessed two of the more blatant examples of left-wing cheating of recent years: Maria Peltola and James Boasberg. The New York Times, of all publications, has revealed that the Peltola campaign did in fact search high and low among the tall pines and glaciers for somebody named Dan Sullivan to appear on the ballot to divert votes from the legit incumbent. Furthermore, they go on to assert that Peltola herself was aware of it and may well have...

Within the last week, Edge quit finding freerepublic.com. https://freerepublic.com/home.htm works, but clicking any link gives the NXDOMAIN failure. If I go to chrome, on the same pc, it works? Any ideas?

It doesn't get much more Polk County than this... 3:00 Video at link...............

With the midterms days away, federal officials are arresting and charging noncitizens accused of illegally registering and voting. DHS says it’s checking about 300,000 more cases against state voter rolls. That puts noncitizen voting at the center of the election-integrity debate going into Election Day.

My boss's wife just had a large melanoma removed from her back. They think she may have a small ocular melanoma. My family had a bad experience with that type of cancer in a relative. Do any of you have any knowledge of the best place in the country to be treated for melanoma? Thanks.