Posts on Thursday, September 12, 2024
Which Canadian-born CNN regular is more annoying: David Frum or Daniel Dale? Frum did stop short of banging his fists or stamping his feet. But on today's CNN This Morning, the Trump-detesting pundit was more taciturn. He said thanks to the "probably stupid" rules of the Constitution, Trump could win the election with an Electoral College majority despite losing the popular vote count. Frum was responding to a statement by CNN reporter Edward-Isaac Dovere that some in the Kamala camp believe that if the election were held today, she would lose. Frum began by claiming: "We need to be more specific about what we mean by 'lose."
Best news of the day, especially since the New York Times fails to recognize its failure. In a piece that's mainly intended as fluff, the Gray Lady falls back on nearly as many clichés as its subject while getting nowhere near the real issues she faces. The NYT headline and subhead provide a good crystallization of their shallow approach: Harris, After a Debate Success, Confronts a Battleground ‘Game of Inches’ Her campaign is riding high, but still sees the race as an exceedingly close grind. Her aides have new hopes of focusing the race squarely on Donald Trump’s fitness for office. A game of inches, eh?
Former President Donald Trump proposed Thursday during a campaign rally in Tucson, Arizona, to eliminate taxes on overtime pay should he win the election this November.
Trump called for eliminating taxes on overtime wages for workers who work more than 40 hours a week. The former president said removing such taxes would bolster worker incentives and simplify recruitment for businesses.
Right now, Taylor Swift is the biggest popstar in the world. Nobody’s bigger. She’s also an astoundingly inept judge of character. Her capacity for misjudging others is legendary.
Fortunately, she sings about all the lousy, stupid choices she makes. In fact, she’s built a very successful career by being an inept judge of character.
Anyway, the same woman who thought it would be a swell idea to date John Mayer made a critically important, earth-shattering announcement earlier this week (I hope you’re sitting down): Taylor Swift is… Team Kamala!
And you should be, too!
The interest burden of the public debt of the U.S. government has topped $1 trillion already this year, the first time interest costs have crossed the trillion dollar threshold.
In the first 11 months of the fiscal year, interest payments totaled $1.05 trillion, up 30 percent from a year ago, the Treasury Department said Thursday. This is the first time interest payments have ever climbed about $1 trillion.
Despite claims by President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris to have addressed the U.S. budget deficit, the deficit is up 24 percent in the first 11 months of this fiscal year compared with the previous period,
Democrat Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) warned that the American public would be ‘shocked, astonished, and appalled’ by the level of incompetence and failure within the Secret Service surrounding the July 13, 2024, assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump.
Trump almost got killed during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, by Thomas Crooks, an armed assailant who somehow infiltrated the rally, climbed onto rooftops, and fired off multiple shots.
Crooks, who had been seen staking out the rally beforehand, was able to carry a gun onto a rooftop, leap between buildings,
The legacy media for years has smeared President Trump with lies while calling him a monster, racist, sexist, and all sorts of horrible names. But the truth is the man has a true heart of gold.
New York Young Republicans Club advisor Kevin Smith posted a video on X Thursday of an 8-year-old New York Trump fan named Liam, who received a beautiful and heartwarming birthday letter from his favorite President. According to Smith, Liam suffers from a rare brain disorder and growth hormone deficiency.
Liam’s family shared the video with Smith. He noted that Trump did not ask for or seek credit for this,
Donald Trump received a two-point bump in battleground state polling after Tuesday’s debate with Vice President Kamala Harris, a poll released Thursday shows.The polling memo obtained by Breitbart News shows Trump leading Harris by three points, 50%-47%, in a head-to-head ballot.[Snip] According to the memo:Despite the best efforts of Kamala Harris and media to portray the debate as some kind of overwhelming victory for her, voters did not see it this way as support for her remained flat. That only change we saw was a 2-point bump for President Trump in both ballot configurations.The surveys were conducted across seven target states.
Mexico’s National Institute of Migration (INM) announced the arrival of the first bus of migrants under its new “Secure Emerging Mobility Corridor” program. The program offers migrants free transportation, including meals and security from the Mexico/Guatemala border to ports of entry in the United States, where they will be admitted under the Biden-Harris CBP One app.
The first bus arrived early Wednesday morning in Reynosa, Tamaulipas, Mexico, located just across from McAllen, Texas. The bus carryied migrants from several CentralThe government of Mexico provided the migrant’s travel under a program announced after a series of meetings between the Biden-Harris administration
The claim: Atlantic Ocean cooling shows climate change is a 'lie' An Aug. 26 Instagram post shows a headline attributed to New Scientist that reads, "The Atlantic Ocean is Cooling at Record Pace, and Nobody Knows Why."The post also shows a meme with a nervous-looking person it labels as a "climate warrior" who is "caught in a lie." The post's caption includes the hashtag "#GlobalWarming." The post garnered more than 7,000 likes in more than two weeks. Our rating: False
The New Scientist article referenced in the post reported that seasonal cooling in part of the Atlantic Ocean occurred more
Senators ‘appalled’ by DHS failures,
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demand answers for lack of info on Trump
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Senators from both parties said Thursday that they were “appalled” by the security failures that led to the assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump July 13 and want more information from the Department of Homeland Security ahead of an expected report on the near-tragedy.[Snip] “I think the American people will be shocked, astonished and appalled by what we will report to them about the failures of the Secret Service in this assassination attempt of a former president,” said Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), who chairs the panel’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.
Vladimir Putin has warned the U.S. and NATO would be 'at war' with Russia if the West lets Ukraine use long-range missiles.
US and British foreign ministers met President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv on Wednesday with the war at a pivotal point.
American officials have also been discussing easing restrictions on the use of weapons that could strike deep inside Russia.Putin said the move from the West would 'change the very nature of the conflict', and issued a severe threat against giving Zelensky more firepower.
'It would mean that NATO countries, the US, European countries, are at war with Russia,'
On Thursday, Attorney General Merrick Garland made some rather tone deaf remarks about the Department of Justice (DOJ) and political weaponization. His comments became a trending topic over X and prompted a response from the Trump-Vance campaign. In speaking about the DOJ's "norms," which he said "must not be taken for granted," Garland claimed that such norms are "a promise that we will fiercely protect the independence of this department from political interference in our criminal investigations" and are even "a promise that we will not allow this department to be used as a political weapon."
In Huge Blow to Fani Willis,
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Judge Drops Two Counts Against President
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Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee on Thursday dropped two criminal counts against President Trump in Fani Willis’s lawfare RICO case.
In August 2023, corrupt Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis indicted President Trump and 18 co-defendants for daring to challenge the 2020 election. Judge McAfee said two of the counts related to conspiracy and filing false documents are outside of Fani Willis’s jurisdiction since she is a local District Attorney and not a federal prosecutor.
Former top Clinton adviser calls on ABC
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Mark Penn, a former top adviser to Bill and Hillary Clinton, called Thursday for ABC to launch a formal internal investigation into its news division's planning and execution of this week's presidential debate to determine if there was some effort at "rigging the outcome of this debate.[Snip] "I don't know what they told the Harris campaign. I think the day after, suspicion here is really quite high, and I think a review of all their internal texts and emails really should be done by an independent party to find out to what extent they were planning on[Snip]fact-checking just one candidate and in effect, rigging the outcome of this debate.
ABC News rebuked by pro-life group, asked
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A prominent pro-life group isn’t happy with ABC News over its hosting of Tuesday’s presidential debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Trump. Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America on Wednesday sent a letter to ABC News president Almin Karamehmedovic and debate moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis that urges them to issue a correction and meet with abortion survivors over a viral moment where Davis fact-checked Trump.
"[The] ABC News Presidential Debate featured network moderator Linsey Davis attempting to debunk former President Trump's assertion that some states allow for the killing of an infant after birth," Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America president Marjorie Dannenfelser wrote
There will not be a second presidential debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. On Thursday, the former president announced that he wasn't interested in a rematch and then proceeded to slam Harris. When a prizefighter loses a fight, the first words out of his mouth are, “I WANT A REMATCH.” Polls clearly show that I won the Debate against Comrade Kamala Harris, the Democrats’ Radical Left Candidate, on Tuesday night, and she immediately called for a Second Debate. She and Crooked Joe have destroyed our Country, with millions of criminals and mentally deranged people pouring into the USA, totally unchecked
Kamala Harris arrived in Charlotte, North Carolina on Thursday for a campaign rally at the Bojangles Coliseum.
WATCH: (X Video) Harris had to bus in supporters….AGAIN.
Thousands of people were bused to Kamala Harris’s rally on Thursday. WATCH: (X Video)
Last Wednesday Kamala Harris held a campaign rally in Portsmouth, New Hampshire with two months until Election Day.
Kamala Harris has given a single televised interview and no press conferences since becoming the Democrats’ nominee for president. Given the establishment media’s unprecedented blocking, tackling, and gaslighting (including the 9/10 debate), we’ve assembled over 100 videos of Kamala Harris in her own words so that the American people can see where she stands and who she is.
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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Thursday said there will not be another debate against his Democratic rival, Vice President Kamala Harris.
The former president in a Truth Social post claimed that he won his first debate against Harris on Tuesday night. He cited as evidence the fact that Harris’ campaign had challenged him to another debate shortly after the first one ended.
In fact, numerous conservative commentators and some of Trump’s own supporters have said Harris outperformed him.
But Trump in Thursday’s post wrote, “When a prizefighter loses a fight, the first words out of his mouth are, ‘I WANT A REMATCH.’”
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has launched a series of airstrikes in recent days against Iranian targets in Syria, including a daring ground raid in which troops seized equipment and documents, according to reports in Israel.
Syria is home to Iranian and Russian bases, and is a conduit for arms and reinforcements to Hezbollah in Lebanon.
The Jerusalem Post reported Thursday:
Israeli ground forces targeted an Iranian missile production facility in Syria during a strike this week attributed to Israel, according to Middle East expert Eva J. Koulouriotis, who specializes in jihadist groups and cited a security source.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday that his government’s support for Ukraine’s “territorial integrity, sovereignty, and independence” is “unwavering.”
Erdogan added that Russia should return occupied Crimea to Ukrainian control, in accordance with international law.
Erdogan’s support for Ukraine was blended with his support of the Crimean Tartars, whose leader Mustafa Abulcemil helped organize Wednesday’s summit. The Turkish leader noted that Wednesday marked the 80th anniversary of the expulsion of the Tartars from Crimea, a brutal ethnic cleansing ordered by Russian dictator Josef Stalin.
What's going on with CNN lately?
We saw CNN's Erin Burnett highlight Andrew Kaczynski's deep dive on some of the bad, far-left things that Kamala Harris said she was for in that 2019 ACLU questionnaire, including paying for gender transition surgeries for detained illegal aliens.
That's exactly what journalists should be doing when she's flip-flopping all over the place and you can't figure out what her current positions are, especially when it's critical to such an important election for the American people.
NYPD Commissioner Edward Caban resigns
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NYPD Commissioner Edward Caban has resigned a week after the feds hit the top cop as part of a corruption probe involving possible influence peddling, The Post has learned.
Caban submitted a letter of resignation Thursday that Mayor Eric Adams said he accepted.
After Caban’s resignation takes effect Friday, the top cop role will be filled by former FBI official Tom Donlon on an interim basis, Adams said.
“The news around recent developments has created a distraction for our department, and I am unwilling to let my attention be on anything other than our important work,
Has inflation begun to ease back to normal? The Biden-Harris administration wants voters to believe it, arguing that consumer-goods prices appear to have stabilized. Have they?
Today's Producer Price Index shows annualized unadjusted wholesale inflation dipping down to 1.7% in August. That would be welcome news for consumers, but inflation for wholesale consumer foods hit 4.2%. Most of the overall decline came in wholesale energy prices (-8.4%), which consumers will also welcome but may not be all that good of a trade-off from their weekly visit to grocery stores.
Yesterday's Consumer Price Index offered a mixed bag, too, but not for the middle and working classes.
Muslims have been threatening boulangeries and restaurants in France, even those owned by non-Muslims, to become strictly halal. That means all pork products must be banned. Some outlets have had to ban alcohol, while others have declared that only men should shop in their stores during the week, and women only on weekends. [SNIP] After months of pressure and the latest altercation in his bakery in Vénissieux (Lyon), Alexandre Dallery announced on Friday that the boulangerie would stop selling pork products.
Dials monitoring the reaction of a Fox News focus group during Tuesday's presidential debate showed independent voters overlapping with Republicans in support of former President Trump's immigration policies.
Trump took aim at Vice President Kamala Harris during the ABC News Presidential Debate, blaming the Biden-Harris administration for "destroying the fabric of our country" with the influx of illegal immigration.
The former president blamed the administration for the rise in "migrant crime," a sentiment that seemingly resonated with not just Republicans, but a large number of independent respondents.
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Everybody is talking about Springfield, OH. While the mainstream media is focused on the controversy over cats and dogs being eaten (unproven, but not impossible), there is no question that residents of the city are suffering under the weight of too many Haitian migrants being crammed into a city too small and underfunded to absorb them.
To put the problem of the residents into perspective, Mayor Adams has said that New York City is being destroyed by the influx of about 100,000 migrants, which amounts to one for every 830 New Yorkers.
Springfield is dealing with an influx of one Haitian for every three residents.
It’s funny just how insanely wealthy our “public servants” are. This is the kind of thing you expect from European royalty, not former American government officials. But how much of a difference is there really?
Jewelry, political mementos and a “stunning collection of American art” once belonging to Sen. Dianne Feinstein are hitting the auction block.
The “Legacy of a Stateswoman” auction from Bonhams, happening Oct. 8 in Los Angeles, will include some of the California Democrat’s most beloved — and glitzy — personal items.
“Legacy of a Stateswoman”. How classy.
The United Nations frenziedly condemned a new Israel Defense Forces (IDF) strike as one of Israel’s “dramatic violations of international humanitarian law.” The problem is that the UN workers killed were also Hamas terrorists.
The UN and many other organizations and governments love to emphasize that the IDF strikes schools and “aid workers.” What they are not telling you is that Hamas jihadis have long used schools and other “civilian” buildings in Gaza as terrorist bases and that the “aid workers” almost always turn out to be active terrorists.
When I was a kid, I had a bad temper. I suppose in today’s psychobabble, they would say I had an “anger-management issue” and perhaps they would give me a handicapped parking pass or other special privileges. But back in the day, I was just a kid with a temper.
One summer day when I was about 11, when my parents weren’t home, my brother and sister locked me out of the house for reasons I don’t remember (but they were probably good ones).
A back door to the house was sliding glass.
One of the primary roles of our state legislatures and the various secretaries of state around the republic is to ensure the validity of our elections. A primary part of making such an assurance is to make sure our voter registration rolls are accurate and up-to-date and only include those who are legally entitled to vote. There have been, in recent years, many efforts to do precisely this, and it speaks volumes that there is always one party in favor of ensuring our voter registration rolls are accurate and valid - and the other party is against any such efforts.
Suspect in custody and one victim rushed
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An active shooter on the loose at an apartment complex in Colorado has been apprehended following a shootout with police.
The male suspect and one female hostage were taken to a local hospital before 10.30am MDT with the shooter place in custody.
Their conditions and the nature of their injuries are not known at this time.Police were called to a disturbance at the Arista Flats in Broomfield, northwest of Denver, at 6.34am on Thursday.
Upon arrival they heard 'a male making threats' and heard gunshots which were fired at surrounding units and into the parking lot.
The moderators of the presidential debate hosted by ABC News have been criticized for not asking Donald Trump about the failed attempt on his life.
David Muir and Linsey Davis quickly moved on after the Republican candidate for president mentioned being shot at one of his rallies in Pennsylvania during Tuesday's debate.
Neither the moderators nor VP Kamala Harris acknowledged the shooting even after Trump brought it up himself when questioned about the January 6 riots at the Capitol.
Time magazine was forced to correct its coverage of the ABC News Presidential Debate after implying former President Trump’s statement that Vice President Kamala Harris supported free gender transition treatment for detained migrants was "false." During the ABC News Presidential Debate Tuesday night, Trump remarked on Harris’ old position as one of many left-wing issues she appeared to have walked back on since running for president.
"Now she wants to do transgender operations on illegal aliens who are in prison," Trump said.
Though Harris pledged she would support taxpayer-funded gender care for detained migrants in an ACLU candidate questionnaire during her first presidential campaign, TIME Magazine first reported the statement as "false."
Haile Selassie, Ethiopia's former emperor, was dethroned 50 years ago. The king, who befriended leaders in the US, Europe and China, left a mixed legacy in his home country. On September 12, 1974, Haile Selassie, Ethiopia's last monarch, met with a delegate from a newly formed military committee called the Derg at his palace in Addis Ababa. The meeting was the Derg's final step to overthrowing the imperial regime.
Representatives of the delegate addressed Haile Selassie as "your Majesty" and "humbly begged" for him to move to a designated place for his health and security.
It is not surprising that there was a surge of punditry opinions arguing that Kamala Harris won the September 10 debate with Donald Trump. [Snip] Many conservative analysts have joined in and agreed that Trump lost the debate. From the standpoint of debate practice, Trump performed one of his most successful debates and arguably won the debate. [Snip] The debate format is unusual because each candidate had an option to make a one-minute rebuttal at any point during the debate. Trump used this option masterfully to have the last word on most of the major controversies in the debate.
GOP Poised To Flip Vulnerable Dem’s
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Incumbent Democratic Rep. Mary Peltola of Alaska is at risk of losing reelection after a state judge allowed Democratic candidate Eric Hafner on the ballot to compete for her seat in November.
Peltola was originally up against Republican candidates Nick Begich and Nancy Dahlstrom after Alaska held its ranked-choice primary in August. Hafner, who has never lived in Alaska, originally finished in sixth place in the state’s primary with less than 500 votes but was bumped up to third place after Republicans Dahlstrom and Matthew Salisbury dropped out of the race.
Jake Tapper calls out Kamala Harris for
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CNN host Jake Tapper took Vice President Kamala Harris to task for not answering direct questions during Tuesday's presidential debate on ABC. On Wednesday, Tapper said Harris was less than forthcoming about her policies, beginning the debate "by punting the first question on the economy."
"It went on from there," Tapper said after playing a clip of her response. "Despite the economy being the number one issue facing the country, the sitting vice president generally reverted to talking points about a few of her policy proposals. Even Harris allies today are saying that she needs to talk more about what she will do for Americans if elected."
Not one question Tuesday night about the execution of Hersh Goldberg-Polin and five other hostages two weeks ago, or about any of the Americans murdered by Hamas terrorists on October 7? Not one question on Iran, which is within weeks of acquiring a nuclear weapon and which is paying and perhaps precisely directing repeated attacks by its proxies on American forces in the Gulf or Arabia, the Red Sea, Iraq or Jordan?
Not one question about the capacity of President Joe Biden to continue as president?
And not one, single fleeting question about the People’s Republic of China, and its genocide against the Uyghurs, its oppression of Hong Kong
At this moment, when life is on the line, when we are just under 60 days from Election Day, it is political insanity to attack Donald Trump on the pro-life issue. Now, I am not going to imply that Lila Rose is a communist, as James Lindsay did. But to suggest that the Trump-Vance ticket does not “stand for pro-life principles,” and that pro-lifers should withhold their votes, as Lila did, is equally outrageous. In an interview with Politico published on Thursday, Lila Rose said she “would not vote for Harris or Trump” if the election were held today and said there are “other candidates” (snip) Such comments are a priceless gift to Kamala’s
NASA has shared a poignant letter from the only American not on Earth when 9/11 happened.
Space Station astronaut Frank Culbertson penned his thoughts in the hours and days after the terrorist attack on New York’s Twin Towers.
He also captured the scene on camera from 250 miles up, with a chilling image showing a smoke plume rising from the Manhattan area.
NASA astronaut Frank Culbertson was in the International Space Station during the 9/11 terror attacks.
The space agency said on Tuesday: “The following is the text of a letter from Expedition Three Commander Frank L. Culbertson (Captain, USN Retired), reflecting on the events of September 11.”
Linsey Davis, the ABC host who fact checked former President Donald Trump’s abortion claims during Tuesday’s debate, ignored that infants born alive in Minnesota following an unsuccessful abortion can be left for dead.
Trump claimed during Tuesday’s debate that some Democratic states allow infants born after failed abortions to be killed, pointing to Democratic vice presidential nominee and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s home state specifically. The statement prompted Davis to say “there is no state in this country where it is legal to kill a baby after it’s born.”
Walz, however, signed an omnibus bill in 2023 that allowed physicians
In February, 2017, the Washington Post adopted its now infamous mission statement: “Democracy Dies in Darkness.” Was it a coincidence that one of the nation’s most influential newspapers — the paper that broke the Watergate scandal and brought down Richard Nixon’s presidency — decided that its role was to save democracy just one month after President Trump was inaugurated?
According to then-editor of the WaPo, Martin Barron, writing in his book Collision of Power: Trump, Bezos, and the Washington Post, this was not an attack on Trump and his presidency but rather, was motivated by owner Jeff Bezos because, “[w]e have such high standards that we’re outraged
In Minnesota, where Kamala Harris VP pick Tim Walz serves as governor, five male convicts were transferred to a female prison after identifying as transgender.
The five men were transferred to a women’s-only prison in Minnesota after the Department of Corrections adopted a gender identity policy in January 2023. Two of the men were convicted of sexually abusing children. The five men transferred were Elijah Thomas Berryman, 26, Sean Windingland, 35, Bradley Richard Sirvio, 52, and Christina Suzanne Lusk, who was born Craig Lusk.“In June 2022, Lusk launched a discrimination lawsuit against the Minnesota Department of Corrections which ultimately resulted in the implementation of measures permitting male convicts to be housed
Ohio Gov Takes Action After Springfield
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Residents Speak Out About 20,000 Haitian
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Ohio Governor Mike DeWine (R) is sending law enforcement and millions of dollars to Springfield, Ohio, after residents’ public grievances about the influx of 20,000 Haitian migrants to their community garnered national attention.
DeWine said Tuesday that state troopers will be sent to help address the growing reckless driving issue, largely sparked by the migrant influx. He’ll also be dedicating $2.5 million toward health care. Wait times for health care have significantly increased for residents due to the migrants.
“I want the people of Springfield and Clark County to know that as we move forward, we will continue to do everything we can to help the community deal
Brothers Phil and Terence Banks — both targets of a federal investigation into close allies of Mayor Eric Adams — have a taste for the finer things and like to hang out at swanky Manhattan nightclubs, The Post has learned.
Phil Banks, the city’s deputy mayor for public safety, frequents Casa Cipriani, a posh, members-only establishment on South Street that charges patrons a cool $3,900 per year in dues — on top of the one-time initiation fee of $2,000, according to sources and the club website.
SpaceX Polaris Dawn: Watch LIVE as a billionaire
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More than 435 miles (700km) above our heads, the crew of SpaceX's Polaris Dawn mission is making history as they embark on the world's first private spacewalk.
Starting from 10:58 BST (05:58 ET), billionaire Jared Isaacman is set to become the first non-professional astronaut to step out into the vacuum of space.
During a two-hour float at nearly twice the height of the International Space Station, Isaacman and mission specialist Sarah Gillis will take turns exiting their spacecraft.
Well done, Sen. Vance. Last night, CNN’s Kaitlan Collins asked the 2024 vice presidential nominee about the Ohio Haitians ravaging the town of Springfield, where there are rumors of pets being eaten by these people. Ducks and geese are also being consumed, and we have police reports to that effect. The media has dismissed the claims, calling them myths, but we’ll have to wait and see. If geese are being chopped up, so can dogs and cats—it’s not that big of a stretch.
During Tuesday night’s debate, ABC News moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis interrupted Donald Trump five times to “fact-check” his answers.
They did the same to Kamala Harris … never.
The vice president was allowed to skate through the debate without substantive follow-up questions or pushback on some of her obviously false claims. Kamala claim: “As of today, there is not one member of the United States military who is in active duty in a combat zone in any war zone around the world, the first time this century.”
Fact check: Our troops in Middle East are absolutely in a combat zone, under attack from Iran,
Maria Bartiromo of the FOX Business Network recently appeared on the Sage Steele podcast and the two discussed the topic of Trump Derangement Syndrome, among other things.
Bartiromo suggested that there is a ‘small cabal’ of people working in media, Hollywood and academia who are trying to keep Trump out of office by any means necessary.
Steele made the point that this has caused the massive lack of trust in the media across the country right now.
White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby was met with intense criticism Wednesday after he inadvertently emailed a reporter that there is “no use in responding” to veteran concerns about the Harris-Biden administration’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Kirby, 61, apparently intended to send his dismissive response to White House staffers but accidentally hit “reply all” on an email chain that included the Fox News reporter making the inquiry.
“Obviously no use in responding. A ‘handful’ of vets indeed and all of one stripe,” read Kirby’s email, according to the outlet.
Happy Thursday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends. Reckwynd spent much of his free time attempting to find the perfect blend of calisthenics and Spirograph. There was such a flood of debate post-mortem material yesterday that I began to think that today's Briefing would be a post-mortem post-mortem. That prospect made me entertain the idea of fleeing to Mexico, becoming a beer blogger, and enjoying life as much as I can until President Harris invites China to occupy North America.
Obviously, I needed something more positive to focus on.
Today, Wednesday September 11, 2024, is the 1,332nd day of Joe Biden in office. It is also the 12th anniversary of the attack at a U.S. embassy outpost in Benghazi, Libya, and the 10th anniversary of my 2-year research project.
The “Benghazi Brief” remains the most in-depth research report CTH has ever produced. The brief took two years of research to assemble and contains hundreds of very specific citations supporting it. Ten years after the brief was originally written in 2014, nothing within the outline has ever been identified as inaccurate. The full brief has been updated below adding context depth from current events.
“Project 2025.” It was mentioned during last night’s debate between former President Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, just as it has repeatedly come up over the course of this year’s remarkably unusual presidential campaign. True to form, it was criticized by Harris and disavowed by Trump.
Much has been written about Project 2025, which is detailed in a 887-page book – Mandate for Leadership, The Conservative Promise -- published last year by the Heritage Foundation, a Washington-based, conservative think tank, as a guide for a hoped-for conservative-oriented presidency to follow that of President Biden.
I don't think it helps to just say what people want to hear. The truth matters. And the truth is that it was not a great debate for Donald Trump on Tuesday night. I suspect he did little to no debate prep in advance, and every time Kamala baited him, he took the bait. It goes without saying that Kamala Harris lied her way through the debate, but the moderators didn't fact-check her once, yet Trump was "fact-checked" between five and seven times — and the fact-checks weren't always accurate.
Perhaps because of what I do for a living, I'm extra critical of Donald Trump's performance.
One of the most fiercely contested battlegrounds in this fall’s presidential race won’t remove more than 4 million ineligible names from its voter rolls.
“Wisconsin’s population is a little less than 6 million, with 3.5 million active voters,” Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., told The Daily Signal in a written statement. “So why do election officials refuse to clean up Wisconsin’s voter rolls and [instead] allow up to 4.1 million inactive voters to remain, with the potential for fraudulently using those names?”
The pretence that the UK's new Labour government has moved away from the blatant anti-Semitism that was rife under its former leader, Jeremy Corbyn, has been brutally exposed by the actions of David Lammy, the party's new Foreign Secretary.
It was during Corbyn's stint as Labour leader that his party faced constant accusations of anti-Semitism. A damning report produced by the Jewish Labour Movement in 2019 said the party harboured "endemic, institutional anti-Semitism" and that there was "overwhelming evidence that anti-Semitic conduct is pervasive at all levels of the party."
2025 Counting and Certification of Electoral
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Washington – The 2025 Counting and Certification of Electoral Votes in Washington, DC on Jan. 6, 2025, has been designated a National Special Security Event by the Secretary of Homeland Security.This marks the first time a National Special Security Event designation has been granted for a Certification of Electoral Votes and follows a request made by the DC Mayor to designate this event a National Special Security Event. Various reports including from the House Select January 6 Committee and the Government Accountability Office also called for the DHS Secretary to consider a National Special Security Event designation for future Certification of Electoral Votes.
Texas Democrat candidate Sally Duval smokes
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Democrat Texas House of Representatives candidate Sally Duval released a new ad that shows her smoking weed to boast her marijuana reform platform.
Duval - who is running for state house district 73 - shared the ad on X on Monday with the caption: 'it's HIGH time for a change.'
The video started with candidate sitting on a patio as she lit up a joint and slammed current policies that put police in charge of marijuana regulation. You might already know what's in this, but do you know who has no idea and no way to test it? Law enforcement,' Duval said.
The wife of an FDNY chief killed on Sept. 9, 2021, ripped President Joe Biden for his “flippant” remark during the annual Ground Zero memorial ceremony in Manhattan on Wednesday. Joanne Barbara, Gerard Barbara's wife, criticized Biden for a comment he made a day earlier. The 81-year-old president told reporters he was “doing 9/11” when he arrived in New York City.
“The elected officials here today show their respect and reference to the families on Sept 11, or in our president’s words do 9/11. Quite a flippant remark,” Barbara said. “But please remember the September 11 families live it every day, not just on the anniversary.”
On Wednesday’s broadcast of Newsmax TV’s “The Record,” Commission on Presidential Debates Co-Founder and Co-Chair Frank J. Fahrenkopf Jr., who also was Chair of the RNC, stated the performance by moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis was “the worst performance that I’ve seen” and that they “clearly were oversized, I think, on the way they treated” 2024 Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump and “bent backwards to help” 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris.
Fahrenkopf said, “I thought one of the things that really shocked me last night was the way the moderators handled it. We always explain to our moderators, and we’ve done 33 of those, Greta,
A wireless audio earring company responded after rumors spread that Kamala Harris wore an earpiece during Tuesday night’s presidential debate against Trump.
Social media users posted photos of Nova audio earrings next to a screenshot of Kamala Harris’s earrings and suggested she used an earpiece during the debate. (X) Others pointed out that Kamala Harris wore a pair of Tiffany pearl earrings. (X) Others pointed out that Kamala Harris wore a pair of Tiffany pearl earrings.
Tulsi Gabbard: Kamala Harris Took ‘Acting
Lessons’ with ‘Hollywood Advisors’
Before ABC Debate replies
Lessons’ with ‘Hollywood Advisors’
Before ABC Debate replies
The Kabuki-worthy facial expressions modeled by Kamala Harris during Tuesday’s presidential debate had many viewers alternately perplexed and rolling in the aisles as the Democratic nominee sought to steal ABC News’ split screen from former President Donald Trump. Now former Democratic Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard has revealed Kamala Harris received acting lessons ahead of the debate and was coached by Hollywood advisers. Kamala’s goal? To “act her way through this election,” she said. “That’s why she has locked herself in a hotel room, taking extreme acting lessons,” Gabbard said in a Fox News interview just ahead of Tuesday’s debate.
Campbell wants to say goodbye to the ‘soup’
in its name. It isn’t the first to
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in its name. It isn’t the first to
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NEW YORK (AP) — Campbell is ready to drop the soup — at least from its official name. Campbell Soup Co. announced its intention to change its name at an annual meeting of investors on Tuesday. The 155-year-old food seller, which is most famous for its namesake canned soups, says it would now like to be known as Campbell’s Co.
Yes, they discussed policy. Sort of. But former President Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris also had plenty to say about each other during their debate Tuesday night. The presidential debate didn’t generate an immortal line--think Lloyd Bentsen to Dan Quayle in 1988: “Senator, you are no Jack Kennedy”--though Trump did echo Ronald Reagan’s dismissive reply to Jimmy Carter in 1980, “There you go again.”
Still, the first meeting between the Republican and Democratic candidates did have its spicy and blunt moments.