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President-elect Joe Biden delivered an angry, partisan speech Monday evening upon being voted the winner of the 2020 election by the Electoral College. Biden did not just acknowledge victory; he taunted his defeated opponent, President Donald Trump. Rather than celebrate the result and reach out to Trump and his supporters, Biden — coughing up phlegm throughout his speech — attempted to rub salt in the wound, continuing to argue the case after he had already won it. Biden seemed annoyed that Trump had contested the results at all. He has no right to be offended. Biden was one of the...

<p>Republicans worry that the NRA and two other groups that have long formed the core of their electoral infrastructure will be effectively on the sidelines.</p> <p>The National Rifle Association aired an avalanche of TV ads and pushed its 5 million-plus members to the polls for Donald Trump in 2016, propelling him in the Rust Belt states that delivered him the presidency.</p>

Variety published a review of Joe Kennedy III's response to President Donald Trump's State of the Union address but very noticeable avoided any mention of the elephant drool in the room. It was especially strange since Variety is an entertainment magazine in which images are important. Yet despite the fact that even completely political publications such as Politico published articles about what appeared to be either drool or very glossy lip balm on Kennedy's mouth which took the viewers' attention away from what he was saying, Variety's review of his speech sounded like a dull policy wonkish PR release from...

Marco Rubio had his awkward pause for a gulp of water. Joe Kennedy had his ... drool? The Democratic congressman's mouth corners appeared especially shiny during his response to President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address — and many online were quick to accuse him of drooling during his address. The alternative theory was an overzealous application of lip balm. “Marco Rubio had dry-mouth during his #SOTU response in 2013. Joe Kennedy has drool-mouth,” tweeted Frank Luntz, the prominent Republican pollster. >>>More...

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Did anyone happen to notice that Serpent-Head James Carville drooled through his entire interview with O'Reilly?

GEORGE W. BUSH The White House Washington, D.C. USA PAST WORK EXPERIENCE: I ran for congress and lost. I produced a Hollywood slasher B movie. I bought an oil company, but couldn't find any oil in Texas; company went bankrupt shortly after I sold all my stock. I bought the Texas Rangers baseball team in a sweetheart deal that gave me land using taxpayer money. Biggest move: Traded Sammy Sosa to the Chicago White Sox. With my father's help (and his name) was elected governor of Texas. ACCOMPLISHMENTS: I changed pollution laws for power and oil companies and made Texas...

MINNESOTANS WORRIED about an anthrax attack at the Mall of America can relax. Walter Mondale is on the case. "Don't worry about me and terrorism," he declared in the Minnesota Senate debate Monday morning. "I'm opposed to it." There were plenty of such Mondale moments over the course of the hour-long "conversation" that may help determine the result of what the former vice president twice called "the most fateful election in modern history." Some examples: When Norm Coleman boasted that he had prosecuted white-collar criminals, Mondale responded: "You may have prosecuted some people, we all have." Mondale laid out his...

A pet cat has become playmate and protector to a mouse in Thailand. The unlikely friendship has sprung up between Auan, a seven-year-old female cat, and Jeena. Auan's owners say she found Jeena three years ago when the mouse was a baby. She now licks him clean and keeps dogs at bay. The pair live on a farm in the central province of Phichit, 281 miles north of Bangkok.