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Robert Bigelow – who gave Florida Governor Ron DeSantis a whopping $20m and never even so much as received a phone call of thanks – has told the Financial Times that President Donald J. Trump “would probably be the strongest commander, with the most experience… that’s only one guy.”Bigelow had warned the DeSantis team as early as three months ago that he would be taking his support elsewhere if the campaign issues were not resolved. Now, it appears he is ready to pull the trigger on that pledge.“Who would you want as a commander? I’d want somebody that would be...

President Joe Biden warned Vladmir Putin to avoid using nuclear weapons as his forces are beaten back in Ukraine or face 'consequences.' In a preview for this Sunday's 60 Minutes, Scott Pelley asked the president what words he would have for his Russian counterpart if he is considering using chemical or tactical nuclear weapons in the Ukraine. Biden responded: 'Don't. Don't. Don't. You will change the face of war unlike anything since World War II.'

...New York Times left-wing columnist Thomas Friedman suggested this in his Tuesday column titled “Kamala Harris Deserves a More Important Job”: Harris is too smart and energetic to be just the vice president, a position with few official responsibilities. I’d love to see President-elect Joe Biden give her a more important job: his de facto secretary of rural development, in charge of closing the opportunity gap, the connectivity gap, the learning gap, the start-up gap — and the anger and alienation gap — between rural America and the rest of the country. Friedman went on to argue that Harris was...

Over the last 11 years, Russia has suffered two devaluations of the ruble and the most prolonged decline in the standard of living in this century, with the economy at the start of this year only 8.8 percent larger than that in 2008. That means that the Russian economy has grown on average 0.88 percent a year, just over a third of the world economy’s growth rate, roughly half of the growth of the American GDP and nine percent of the growth of the Chinese economy over this period, official statistics show. Not only is this period of stagnation now...

Multi-billion dollar corporation CNN is Extorting a Private Citizen over a Joke Tweet! CNN reported Tuesday that they declined to publicly identify the Reddit user who created the Trump CNN wrestling video because he promised not to do it again.   CNN reporter Andrew Kaczynski then went on to say, “CNN reserves the right to publish his identity should any of that change.”That is extortion. They threatened to dox him. It turns out that CNN has targeted the wrong person! Analysis of the video shows evidence that the wrestling video President Trump posted to his Twitter account did not originate from this particular Reddit user.The Daily Wire...

Soviet leader Josef Stalin has been named the most outstanding person in history in a Russian poll despite executing more than a million people in political purges. The survey by the Levada Center in Moscow released Monday showed 38 percent of those two took part chose Stalin. (...)

Tune in all this week for our User's Guide to Obamacare special coverage starting 6pmET. The new Obamacare health insurance exchanges open Tuesday, Oct. 1. This is the first time that individuals will be able to sign up for health insurance offered under the controversial Affordable Care Act. Opening of the exchanges marks the starting gun for the law's implementation, which is the biggest overhaul of the nation's health care system since Medicare in 1966. The devil will definitely be in the details -- and there are a lot of them -- and none has been more controversial than the...

This topic comes up occassionally, but now is as good a time as any to bring it up again. I often wonder whether changing your handle on FR matters. I believe in the current environment that changing your handle is about as safe, sound, and secure as changing your password in certain instances. I also know how well changing a username corrupts the database both for boon and bane. - WOULD YOU CHANGE YOUR USER NAME? YES or NO

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Twitter will provide biannual reports about U.S. and foreign government demands for information about its users, just as Google has been doing for the past two years. The first batch of data posted Monday on Twitter's website shows the online messaging service processed 849 government requests about its users during the first half of this year. Twitter says it gave officials at least part of what they wanted 63 percent of the time.

Newt Gingrich vowed on Friday to campaign for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination on his own terms, saying he would do “whatever it takes” to remain in the race despite the exodus a day earlier of nearly his entire senior staff. “There is a fundamental strategic difference between the traditional consulting community and the kind of campaign I want to run,” Mr. Gingrich said. “Now we’ll find out over the next year who’s right.” Even as some prominent Republicans, including Gov. Terry Branstad of Iowa, questioned his viability, Mr. Gingrich made plans to deliver a foreign policy speech in Los...

Here is video of Ann Coulter unveiling the name of her new book, “Demonic,” and talking about the 2012 Presidential Election. Coulter agreed with a point Sarah Palin recently made in a speech, that Barack Obama had virtually no record he had to run on in 2008. But in 2012, he will have to answer for the liberal record he has compiled during his first term in office.

Britain’s welfare system is ‘bust’ and faces its most radical overhaul for 60 years to undo Labour’s legacy of benefit dependency, Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith has declared. The former Tory leader vowed to end the scandal that means welfare claimants are no better off – and sometimes poorer – if they come off the dole to take jobs paying up to £15,000 a year. He also signalled that benefit payments to the middle classes were likely to be pared back in favour of income tax cuts – and the state pension age might have to rise more...

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama will deliver the eulogy Sunday for the 29 miners who died in a coal mine explosion earlier this month. The service, announced today by West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin, will be held in Beckley, W.Va., and will include prayers, musical performances, tributes to the miners, and remarks from Mr. Manchin and other dignitaries. Vice President Joe Biden will join the president to participate in the service, according to a White House news release issued today. The service will be held at the Beckley-Raleigh County Convention Center, at 200 Armory Drive in Beckley, at 3:30 p.m....

The complexity of modern mobile phones is leaving users frustrated and angry, research suggests.Some 61% of those interviewed in the UK and US said setting up a new handset is as challenging as moving bank accounts. Compiled by mobile firm Mformation, the survey found 85% of users reporting they were frustrated by the difficulty of getting a new phone up and working. Of the 4,000 people questioned, 95% said they would try more new services if phones were easier to set up. Web browsingMformation spokesman Matthew Bancroft said users were frustrated by having to call an operator or look online...

Get what you want this Mother's Day. Twist the ex's arm REBECCA ECKLER From Tuesday's Globe and Mail May 6, 2008 at 9:05 AM EDT On behalf of my four-year-old, who has a Yahoo account in her name, I recently sent an e-mail to her father, who lives in Alberta. "Hi Daddy," I typed, as my daughter was fast asleep. "Mommy has been talking about Mother's Day. I only have 143 pennies in my piggy bank. She's the best mommy ever. She's been pretty exhausted. I'd like to get her something nice. Can you help? Love you." It was a...

WHEREAS, Preston County provides the citizens of Morgantown, Monongalia County with the crystal clear waters of Decker’s Creek and the Cheat River--and cool mountain breezes for their free use; and, WHEREAS, Preston County’s majestic mountains provide the citizens of Morgantown, Monongalia County with shade from the rising sun--greatly reducing their air conditioning bills in the summer! And, those same mountains selflessly absorb dangerous and cancer causing Global Warming UV rays; and, WHEREAS, Preston County provides the citizens of Morgantown, Monongalia County with access to I-68 and the shortcut through the Cumberland mountains to all points east; and, WHEREAS, Preston County...

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Jan. 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- 65 percent of consumers are spending more time with a computer than with their significant other, according to new independent research commissioned by support.com. Conducted by independent research firm Kelton Research, the "Cyber Stress" study confirmed consumers' growing relationship with technology in their everyday lives. In fact, more than 8 out of 10 Americans (84%) say they are more dependent on their home computer now than they were just three years ago(1). Like any relationship, the test comes not when things are going well but when times are tough. And unfortunately in the...

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AUGUSTA - A majority of the Legislature's Taxation Committee wants to shelve overhaul of the state sales tax for this year, even though several studies indicate Maine is losing tens of millions of dollars in Internet sales because the state has not joined an interstate agreement on collection of sales taxes. "I think if we still didn't have the working waterfront, LD 2 [property tax relief] and the personal property tax [on business equipment] I think we would deal with it this year," Sen. Joe Perry, D-Bangor, said Friday. "We just have too much to do." Perry also said he...

Translation from Hebrew to English by me: The office of Chairman of the Palestinian Authority, Yasser Arafat, has contacted lately leaders of the Fatah movement and the Palestinian security apparatus, telling them they should instruct their activists to volunteer their family members, to serve as a "human shield" to the chairman. The Authority intends of supplying Yasser a permanent "guard" of women and children from these familes to obstruct any tries by Israel to harm him. Since last week, when Israel decided that Arafat is to be removed, daily visits have been occuring to his Mukata in Ramallah by groups...