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Twenty-five years ago this month, President Ronald Reagan told the nation he’d been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. “I now begin the journey that will lead me into the sunset of my life,” he wrote in a letter addressed to his “Fellow Americans,” dated November 5, 1994. Reagan wrote that he and his wife, Nancy, decided to disclose his condition in hopes it would increase attention for the disease that slowly, but surely, robs the mind of its memories. “In opening our hearts, we hope this might promote greater awareness of this condition,” he wrote. “Perhaps it will encourage a clearer...

Michael Bloomberg’s still-nascent presidential campaign got more bad news Monday as another survey found more than half of likely Democratic primary voters in New Hampshire would give the former mayor the cold shoulder. The survey from Quinnipiac University found that 54 percent of voters “definitely” wouldn’t support the billionaire’s White House bid if he jumps in the race — while only 2 percent said they would vote for him. Another 37 percent of likely Democratic voters told the pollsters they were open to considering Bloomberg if he formally jumps into the race. “It’s a tough way to come out of...

244 years ago in a small Philadelphia tavern our beloved Corps was born.

Former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is again considering running for the Democrat nomination for president in 2020 after previously ruling out a run, a move that comes as former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg has filed presidential primary paperwork in Alabama signaling he may be a late entrant to the race. All of this comes as speculation builds that former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, the failed 2016 Democrat presidential nominee, may run again in 2020 as well.

New letter to the Court from DOJ on the Flynn case. They misidentified the FBI agents' notes. Strzok's notes are really Pientka's notes, and Pientka's notes are really Strzok's notes. Info here: https://twitter.com/Techno_Fog/status/1191860980554354688

November 5, 2019 --- The Day Democracy died in York County, PA Thank you, Jill Stein. Your unfounded allegations of election insecurity led to an unfunded mandate by the Pennsylvania Department of State requiring many counties to replace--yet again--their voting machines with systems deemed more “secure”. Thank you, Governor Tommie (“the Commie") Wolf. Your capitulation without compensation led some Counties to choose the path of least resistance and greatest inconvenience by selecting paper ballot scanners which were inefficient at best and inoperable at worst. Thank you,York County Commissioners (only one of which might return to office). You “got your Dutch...

With our country currently wading through the miasma of another potential Impeachment inquiry, it can be difficult to remember a time when the President of the United States could rise above his circumstance and truly lead a country and move it forward. As it stands, this happens to be the 39th anniversary of the election of just such a president. Thirty nine years ago, Ronald Reagan did what few other men had done in American history. He not only won the presidency, but defeated Jimmy Carter, an incumbent president running for re-election. Carter’s presidency was hamstrung by a myriad of...

Below is an email I sent to our 4 major TV Stations, and our major talk radio station in Richmond, VA. "You need to send a news team to 1st Presbyterian Church Polling Place on Cary Street. As of 7:45 AM, they claim they 'ran out of ballots.' I, and many others, had to leave without voting. Incompetence or fixed? This needs investigating, especially in this day and time." This is an outrage. There was a substantial line of voters, which normally isn't the case in an off year election in this precinct, which leads me to believe that conservatives...

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EVERY election is important! From school committee to president! Get out and vote tomorrow! No excuses!!

No Whoopi. No Meghan. Still a whole lotta drama. With Whoopi Goldberg and Meghan McCain off for Friday’s installment of “The View,” Joy Behar assumed the role of gabfest ringleader. The episode began innocuously enough with the gals cheerfully yakking about their Halloween costumes from the previous day. And then the mood quickly turned doom-and-gloom. Less than five minutes into the show, Behar dropped a bombshell. Scheduled to appear on the Nov. 7 episode — the 5,000th of the series, no less — will be none other than Donald Trump Jr. and his current squeeze, former Fox News pundit Kimberly...

Former President Jimmy Carter said Sunday during a church service in Plains, Georgia, that he “was absolutely and completely at ease with death” after doctors informed him in 2015 that his cancer had spread to his brain. “I assumed, naturally, that I was going to die very quickly,” the 39th president said while delivering a church sermon. “I obviously prayed about it. I didn’t ask God to let me live, but I asked God to give me a proper attitude toward death. And I found that I was absolutely and completely at ease with death.”

Here are two questions I have been asking people I know when talking about impeachment : How can there be a quid pro qou when: 1. Ukraine never opened any investigation 2. And more importantly that Ukraine didn’t even know that the aid was frozen until a month after the phone call Everyone I talked too had no idea that this was the case And several didn’t believe me until they lpoked it up for themselves Why can’t republicans get these facts out better?

As Chief Justice, John Roberts appoints the FISA judges, whose fraudulently-obtained surveillance approvals are central to the coup against President Trump. While I remain convinced that the House will not impeach him, if that were to occur it seems inevitable that Roberts would be a material witness and would recuse himself. While normally the Vice President presides over the Senate, he would have an obvious conflict of interest in this instance. So, the Constitution stipulates that the Chief Justice must preside over any impeachment trial of a President, but it is silent about any succession were he to be unavailable....

On Monday’s broadcast of ABC’s “The View,” the co-host discussed some in the crowd chanting “lock him up” at President Donald Trump during game five of the World Series. Meghan McCain said, “That’s in the middle of the Washington, D.C. swamp If he had been in, I don’t know, Diamondbacks game, it might have been a different reaction.” Whoopi Goldberg said, “Just look — I think people are pissed at him. People are legitimately angry at him.” She added, “It was a whole bunch of folks — black, white, Latino, Asian. It was just a whole bunch of people, and...

This explains why Trump didn't inform Dems before the raid.

I heard this in passing on Rush's show and am not a 24/7 subscriber so I am unable to verify this through his app or website or even know if he sourced it from another website or publication. I'm not trying to confirm what he said, only hoping to confirm the truth of what he said.

Ambassador William Taylor’s testimony to House investigators on Tuesday didn’t answer every question about the Ukraine scandal, but it answered the big one: Will President Donald Trump be impeached? Impeachment is now effectively inevitable. Taylor’s testimony fleshed out the biggest open questions, including whether there was a quid pro quo with Ukraine (there was), what it involved (military aid), and what Trump wanted (investigations of the Biden family and the 2016 election.) Congress has now heard from career civil servants and from political appointees, all telling a similar story, and Taylor removed the last scintilla of doubt. With that, it’s...

Serious question; asking for a friend who's wondering what Brennan, Comey and Clapper would look like hung by their necks with pissed-in pants. We used to be able to do this. Is it illegal these days? Can it be brought back?

Mayor Bill de Blasio doesn’t “understand how on earth” a German porn star got deep inside sensitive areas of NYPD headquarters, he said Thursday, as an NYPD boss vowed to find answers. “I’ve only heard the beginning of this, and I don’t like what I hear,” fumed Hizzoner of Annina Ucatis’ private tour of the Lower Manhattan cop shop — first reported by The Post — where she was free to film inside the clandestine Real Time Crime Center, and even outside Commissioner James O’Neill’s office. “I don’t understand how on earth this could have happened,” continued de Blasio of...