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Given the popularity of former President Donald Trump, and with former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley and Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., in the field, commanding a key battleground was always going to be difficult for Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis. The latest Monmouth University poll conducted for The Washington Post has DeSantis in the single digits (9%), and now sitting in fourth place in the GOP presidential primary field. Trump leads by 28 points with 46% support, while Haley has surged to 18%, and Scott has hit double digits, at 10%. Despite being a plurality choice and not a majority...

President Donald Trump remains Republican voters’ choice for President in 2024.A new Zogby poll found Trump leading the GOP primary by a wide margin with 53.9% saying they would support him.DeSantis came in second out polling Mike Pence. It is likely that if Trump chose not to run the vast majority of his support would go to DeSantis.From The Washington Examiner:Former President Donald Trump can’t be beat in a GOP primary. That’s clear in new polling.But if the 45th president decides to skip 2024, the race between Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former Vice President Mike Pence could heat up.In...

Swatting, for those unfamiliar, is when people call law enforcement to report a fake emergency to get SWAT deployed to a specific location, like someone’s home—something Lil Wayne was a victim of earlier this year—sometimes resulting in victims being attacked or arrested by police. Swatting is now a federal crime, for which one Connecticut man is facing one year in prison for. Matthew Tollis a 22-year-old arrested last year in September is getting prison time for his involvement in six swatting incidents in 2014, according to the Department of Justice. -snip-Tollis was sentenced to 12 months and one day in...

According to most of my views, I may be, to most of you here, a liberal. I laugh at your horrible ignorance of a "liberal". I used to be a conservative until I had the sense to question my beliefs and search for logical evidence to support both sides. I'm not going to say that Kerry is cleaner than a preacher's sheets, but I'm one of those who was eager to get Bush out of office before Kerry was even the main candidate to run against him. I still don't understand why some of you can't admit that the Iraqi...

Opening Statement Dear FRiends: I once suffered two great frustrations in being a freelance political writer. First, the loneliness: you put an article out there, and you might as well have thrown it down a black hole for all the response you get. Second, the ghettoization: when you do get response, it would be from folks you agree with. Not fun for folks like me who reliish--no, crave and need--political argument. Then came the Internet, the blogs--and: problem solved. I have especially enjoyed having my articles in the Village Voice posted on Free Republic by "dead," and arguing about them...

From those, whose supposed duties are to govern man in the civil matters of this world, we should expect no less from them, that they themselves submit to the one who governs the universe, and that is, God. Amen and Amen!!