How is it that the Wicomico Republican Central Committee has retained a political consultant with a consistent record of failure? The consultant, Dan McHugh, was county executive Julie Giordano’s campaign manager during the 2022 election cycle and subsequently served on Giordano’s staff after she took office–that is until she had him arrested for harassment and stalking. So after building his professional resume over the past few years flipping burgers at McDonald’s and working as a laboratory “specimen collector,” it is astonishing that Mr. McHugh has once again been embraced by Giordano and the Republican Central Committee. Mr. McHugh’s personal behavior notwithstanding, it seems that his political judgments have been less than helpful to the local Republican Party, but curiously, he remains a consultant. Let’s take a closer look at Mr. McHugh’s record…

 •. McHugh was unable to secure Julie Giordano’s re-election despite her incumbent’s advantage. His campaign strategies and execution clearly failed.

•. McHugh promoted Barry “Never Won an Election” Beauchamp as the 2026 candidate for House of Delegates District 38-B. Although Beauchamp had the incumbent’s advantage since he had been previously appointed by Giordano to fill the seat vacated by his predecessor, he still lost to his Democratic opponent by a wide margin.

•. McHugh enlisted Scott Hamilton to oppose the ever popular Mike Lewis for Sheriff. In the 2026 primary election, Sheriff Lewis beat Hamilton in a landslide.

•. McHugh recruited Kyle Cole to run for County Council, District 1 in 2022. Losing by a 2:1 margin to his Democrat opponent in the general election, Mr. Cole later became infamous after he was attacked by a group of SU students who alleged that he had attempted a sexual liason with a decoy underaged male.

•. McHugh supported former District 3 County Councilman Shane Baker in the 2022 election. Baker was later forced to resign his council seat after several run-ins with the law.

•. McHugh endorsed Delmar Mayor Ben Jorden for County Council, District 5 in the 2026 Republican primary election. Mayor Jorden was soundly defeated by his Republican opponent.

•. McHugh backed Republican Ross Evans for County Council, District 7 in the 2026 election. Mr. Evans, who also happens to be Barry Beauchamp’s son-in-law, was defeated in a 3-way race. Losing elections seems to be a shared family trait.

•. Another Dan McHugh pick, Howard Travers (R), lost by a huge margin in his 2026 non-partisan bid for Board of Education, Dist. 3.

Despite Dan McHugh’s colossal failures, questionable behavior and poor political judgments, it is truly astonishing that the current Republican Central Committee continues to rely on his guidance and advice. Although Mr. McHugh found a home among the slate of Giordano’s misfits who presently control the Central Committee, it is hoped that the incoming members taking office later this month will be more selective in their choices of political consultants to help guide the Wicomico Republican Party into the future. They certainly couldn’t do any worse than Dan McHugh.  

Until now, the public had to rely on lies told by the mainstream media to understand why the windows were covered at the TCF Center in Detroit on the day after the November 2020 election.

After more than 100 volunteers carefully reviewed nearly one million documents from Detroit’s November 2020 election—documents obtained through a FOIA lawsuit filed by New Jersey citizen Yehuda Miller—we are now prepared to announce one of our investigation’s most significant findings.

FIVE YEARS AGO, WHAT APPEARS TO BE A WELL-ORGANIZED PLOT UNFOLDED IN DETROIT

Daniel Baxter, Detroit’s top election official, made a general announcement to the room, suggesting it was a good time to take a break as election workers sorted through “military” ballots.

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The Ninth Circuit on October 30 refused to lift a preliminary injunction that sharply restricts the Trump administration’s investigations into potential noncitizen voting in nine states, leaving the block in place through Election Day.

A majority of nonrecused active judges declined en banc rehearing of the panel’s order denying a stay.

Seven judges, led by Judge Eric Tung and joined by Judges Consuelo Callahan, Ryan Nelson, Daniel Collins, Daniel Bress, Patrick Bumatay, and Lawrence VanDyke, dissented forcefully.

As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, Biden-appointed U.S. District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín (Northern District of California) issued the sweeping preliminary injunction on October 21 in California Nurses Association et al. v. Mullin et al.

The order bars DHS, ICE, USCIS, HSI, and related officials from conducting elections-related field operations and field interviews in California, Connecticut, Georgia, Missouri, Nevada, New York, Pennsylvania, Washington, and Wisconsin when those operations “involve or are likely to involve” persons the government “know[s], suspect[s], or should reasonably know or suspect are U.S. citizens.”

It also restricts operations based wholly on certain TECS records generated under the administration’s Voter Eligibility Matching Policy. The injunction runs through November 3, 2026 (Election Day).

The plaintiffs, primarily the California Nurses Association and National Nurses United, along with San Francisco, Santa Clara County, and Voto Latino, claimed the investigations intimidated voters and those assisting them in violation of Section 11(b) of the Voting Rights Act.

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Maryland Question 3, the Provide That Nothing in State Constitution Establishes Criteria for Congressional Redistricting Amendment, was on the ballot in Maryland as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment on November 3, 2026.^[1][2] Question 3 was approved.

Progressive group Indivisible is demanding Senate Democrats replace Chuck Schumer as leader right after the party took both chambers, citing weak ratings and a push for harder-edged “fighters.”

Melat Kiros, a 29-year-old immigrant woman from Ethiopia who ran for Colorado Democratic Rep. Diana DeGette’s seat as a democratic socialist, has become the first Gen Z woman to be elected to Congress.

On the night of Nov. 3, the Associated Press called the House race for Colorado’s 1st District’s in the democratic socialist’s favor.

According to results reported by The Colorado Sun, Kiros won 78 percent of the vote in the comfortably Democratic district, while her opponent, Republican nominee Christy Peterson, won just 14 percent of the vote.

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Please read and study this report thoroughly.

First, some background…

In 2020, after the stolen presidential election, Joe Hoft and The Gateway Pundit published a report we titled “The Drop and Roll” theory. What we discovered was that in the 2020 election, in state after state, there was a clear pattern of a massive “drop” of votes to Joe Biden in the middle of the night, and subsequent ballot drops came in perfect ratios of ballots to Trump and Biden, solidifying the results for Democrats.

On November 18, 2020, The Gateway Pundit first posted the impossible numbers that swung the election to Old Joe Biden.

Mysterious late-night ballot drops in battleground states swung the election to Joe Biden.

“Drop and Roll” – How The 2020 Election Was Stolen From Donald Trump

A cybersecurity researcher found millions of files exposed in a database tied to CitySourced, a civic engagement platform used by local governments.

Acybersecurity researcher reported finding an exposed database tied to a civic engagement platform used by local governments that contained about 42 million documents and nearly 450,000 files with information collected by cities and their residents.

The researcher, Jeremiah Fowler, published a report on ExpressVPN on Thursday that claimed a publicly accessible database associated with CitySourced — a civic engagement platform now connected to the software and digital services company Granicus — exposed over 42 million documents and 450,000 JSON files containing personal information.

The database, Fowler said, was neither password-protected nor encrypted. The repository included personally identifiable information in plaintext, such as names, physical addresses, email addresses, phone numbers and thousands of other internal records dating from 2016 to 2026. It also contained images of complaints and code violation reports, as well as logs identifying the people who submitted them, including their names, addresses and details of their complaints, he said.

Fowler said after he notified CitySourced of the discovery, the database was restricted from public access. And after an inquiry from Fowler, Granicus responded that it was investigating the matter internally and was taking action.

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Breaking: Secretary of War Pete Hegseth Tweets Out Cryptic Message to Trump Supporters

On Tuesday night Trump supporters were deflated with the shocking results of the 2026 midterm election.

President Trump and Republicans were able to increase their totals from the previous midterm but were trounced across the nation by an overwhelming tsunami of Democrat votes.

Here is an example of the improbable results we previously reported here at The Gateway Pundit.

Earlier TGP reported on squishy James Talarico’s weirdly impossible numbers. The pro-trans kids Texas candidate may have been missing for two weeks during the end of the campaign but that didn’t stop him from winning in a landslide against Republican stalwart Ken Paxton.

Minnesota voters on Tuesday elected a Somali daycare owner whose center has collected $7.29 million from the state childcare subsidy program at the heart of last winter’s viral fraud scandal.

Democratic-Farmer-Labor (DFL) candidate Abdi Daisane, a Somali American who came to the US more than 15 years ago, won House District 14A with about 52% of the vote, beating Republican Mike Conway, the St. Cloud City Council president, and flipping a Republican-held seat, MPR News reported. He becomes St. Cloud’s first Somali American state lawmaker. Daisane lost the same race in 2024 to Republican Rep. Bernie Perryman, who ran for the state Senate this year instead.

Daisane gave part of his victory speech in Somali.

Daisane launched his second run for the seat on Christmas Eve 2025, the New York Post reported at the time. Two days later, YouTuber Nick Shirley posted his video tour of seemingly empty Somali-linked daycares – drawing more than 131 million views on X in five days, and FBI Director Kash Patel said the bureau had surged agents and resources to Minnesota as the Trump administration froze childcare funding to the state. Days before Tuesday’s election, the Justice Department uncovered another $29 million in Minnesota benefits fraud.

Daisane hasn’t been charged with anything, and we found no sign his center appeared in Shirley’s videos.

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Americans will soon learn what the Democrat agenda is really about, and it certainly isn’t about working with President Donald Trump to reduce the cost of living.

The blue tsunami came to be Tuesday night as a wave of Democrats took seats in the House and the Senate that seemed impossible not long ago. They will now have sizable majorities in both houses of Congress.

The big question is, what will they do with those majorities?

While Democrats may have ridden their message about “affordability” to a massive victory on Tuesday night, they don’t intend to limit their agenda to getting grocery bills down. Not that they were ever particularly good at that.

No, they fully intend to use their victory Tuesday night to dial up lawfare to 11.

The likely incoming House Oversight chairman, Robert Garcia, didn’t even wait for the night to be through before shouting his party’s intentions on X.

“Lawyer up,” he wrote.

And of course, Sen. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., already announced before the election that she intends to target and prosecute members of the Trump administration to send a “deterrence message” to any future young Republican staffers that working for Democrat opponents could lead to jail time.

This is largely what their base wants. They want to wipe Trump, his supporters, and everything they stand for out of existence. They remain furious that what they thought would be a permanent political revolution was upended in 2024.

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It feels as if the march of history is accelerating now.  The number of meaningful current events around the globe continues to grow.

We don’t have time to process the Islamic riots across France before turning our attention to Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s attempted judicial coup d’état.  While President Trump seeks peace between Russia and Ukraine, the United Kingdom prepares its citizens for WWIII and a Russian invasion.  The United States has elections, but Democrat seditionists and subversive members of the American Intelligence Community push for a “color revolution” to topple the Trump administration.

Big events happen every day, and we have scant opportunity to understand what they mean before another comes across our screens.  The issue of “screens” is important.  If you’re reading this, you are not likely a hermit living self-sufficiently in the woods.  Unless you limit your “screen time,” televisions, computers, tablets, and phones are pumping your brain full of information all day long.  Even when we’re not consciously reading or watching something on our screens, our brains are picking up signals about the events playing out in the world.

If you are a fan of science fiction, it is not difficult to understand that we are now living in a version of the dystopian worlds that writers such as Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, Ray Bradbury, and Philip K. Dick envisioned.  People who possess power in this world have a strong incentive to shape our minds, and they use every available tool to condition our way of thinking.

Information is no longer confined to a book, catalogued in a quiet library.  It is blaring at us from all directions.

Different cable news hosts on competing cable news networks repeat the same words and phrases all day long until we find ourselves reaching for those words while having polite conversations in real life.

Songs from pop artists representing different genres push the same messages, and when those pop artists collect awards, they use their acceptance speeches to drive those messages further into the brains of their most loyal fans.  Those fans magnify those messages on their social media platforms, and pretty soon, tens of millions of people are expressing the same thoughts.

Movies and television shows teach us to fear or detest “hate speech,” “global warming,” “white supremacy,” “Russian aggression,” “science deniers,” “right-wingers,” “fascists,” “European Union skeptics,” “fossil fuels,” “Islamophobia,” “transphobia,” Christianity, immigration enforcement, Vladimir Putin, and Donald Trump.  Any Hollywood character who doesn’t condemn these things is depicted as a villain; any Hollywood character who denounces these things is a brilliant, beautiful hero.

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What in the world just happened? Words like “tsunami” and “wipeout” are being used by the pundits, but I don’t think that they are strong enough. It is clear that much of the population was frustrated with the Republican Party. But instead of seeking out another alternative, voters overwhelmingly chose to hand the keys to the political party that made a giant mess of things when they were in charge earlier this decade.

The four years of the Biden administration were absolutely horrific, and the Republicans were given control of the White House, the Senate and the House of Representatives as a result. Now control of the Senate and the House of Representatives has been stripped away from the Republicans and given back to the Democrats.

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The global food crisis is starting to hit home in a major way. Images of starving children on the other side of the planet don’t move people emotionally the way that they did in the 1980s and 1990s. Many people simply don’t care. But now hunger is spreading like wildfire in the United States and Canada.

If you can still afford to eat three meals a day on a consistent basis, you should be very grateful because 27 percent of Americans can’t. Those that are wealthy have a really difficult time understanding how soul crushing it can be to not have enough money for food. There are millions upon millions of people in the United States that are regularly going hungry, and that is one of the reasons why there is so much anger and frustration in our society right now.

I kept warning my readers that the primary way that the global food crisis would initially manifest in wealthy western countries would be through higher food prices.

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Cardiologist Peter McCullough, told Joe Rogan that Anthony Fauci’s own emails and texts show the scientists behind the foundational “natural origin” paper knew COVID came out of a lab, calling the paper a “cover-up manuscript.” The former Baylor Medical bigwig (and current Wellness Company chief scientific officer), dropped in on Rogan for the first time in about five years – where he also said that a Texas hospital gave monoclonal antibodies to a pastor’s wife, admitted the pastor, withheld the drugs, and watched him die.

McCullough walked through the origin story – which many of you already know. Peter Daszak’s EcoHealth Alliance, he said, brokered the coronavirus research in Wuhan that Fauci’s NIAID funded. Then, when the World Health Organization went to investigate, it turned down the independent American scientists former Trump task force member Brett Giroir offered to send. “We’ll take Peter Daszak,” he said the WHO told Giroir. Daszak went to Wuhan, McCullough said, looked around and declared the virus “didn’t come from the lab.” “This all happened under the watch of people,” he said.

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The White House moved to reduce the likelihood of an artificial intelligence-made bioweapon by vetting the vendors of molecular materials

The White House science office announced on Thursday that the government would begin to screen purchases of synthetic nucleic acids, the raw material scientists use to build viruses in the lab. The policy tackles the possibility of a humanity-exterminating bioweapon — among the major fears of artificial intelligence labs for years — by closely guarding the critical inputs for making one. It offers a highly technical solution to Silicon Valley’s existential dread about a humanity-exterminating biological disaster.

“Through this Policy, the Administration is building a dynamic biosecurity defense centered on strong controls over the materials that enable synthetic biology misuse,” said White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Director Michael Kratsios in a Thursday letter introducing the policy.

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Darline Graham may go down as the most baffling Republican nominee of the 2026 midterms. The only reason she was put forward is that she was a dead senator’s sibling. She didn’t seem to have much in the way of views or motivation. She should never have gotten the endorsement, and everyone who had anything to do with that decision should have no role in the 2028 election.

Some people are still defending this train wreck. They shouldn’t. Daniel Greenfield at FrontPage Magazine has the right of it: there was no reason to run her except a shared last name and a presumed incumbency that was more of a minus than a plus in a change election.

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Protests that began in France have spread across much of Europe, drawing young people into the streets in growing numbers and unsettling investors watching for signs of political instability.

What started as demonstrations over the cost of living, housing, and cuts to education and social services has broadened into a wider expression of frustration over Europe’s sluggish economy and the limited prospects for a better life facing younger generations. In several cities, rallies have turned violent, with images of looted shops and burning streets topping media headlines and contributing to a flight from European bonds into perceived havens such as U.S. Treasuries.

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Van Jones just told the country the quiet part out loud, and he did it with a grin. On CNN’s The Source with Kaitlan Collins, the former Obama official admitted that Democrats did not win the 2026 midterms on pure vibes or superior candidates. They ran a coordinated online operation through something called the American Accountability Network that flooded social media with tens of thousands of actual people pushing one relentless message: everything is unaffordable, and it is the Republicans’ fault.

“The Republicans never figured out what we were doing,” Jones said. He described tens of thousands of “online humans, not bots” working in concert so that everywhere Americans looked, the conversation was about kitchen-table pain tied positively to Democrats and negatively to the GOP.

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The Democrat who won North Carolina’s 14th Congressional District is set to appear in court on Nov 10

Just one week after pulling off a surprise victory over incumbent Republican Rep. Tim Moore in North Carolina’s 14th Congressional District race, Democrat LaKesha Womack is set to appear in court on a pending felony charge.

Womack secured 51.1% of the vote in the House race, while Moore received 48.9%, according to election results reported by The Associated Press.

The Mecklenburg County Sheriff’s Office previously confirmed to Fox News Digital that Womack had been served a criminal summons on Oct. 11 by a deputy with the Polk County Sheriff’s Office on a pending felony charge alleging she failed to return a rental vehicle valued at $20,000 in 2019.

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GOP defectors like James, a lifelong Republican, say the party ‘lost their way’ as Democrats ride blue wave to flip Texas

AUSTIN, Texas — As the Democrats’ blue wave began to slam into Texas, Richard Torres, a Texan who has voted blue his entire life, kept peering at the results pouring in on reporters’ screens all around him.

And when it was announced Texas state Rep. James Talarico had toppled Ken Paxton, he sat down to take it in. Torres was the former chair of the Williamson County Democratic Party, where Talarico grew up and attended high school in Round Rock, Texas.

He never thought that Texas Republicans would be swept away by the oncoming blue wave.

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It turns out allegedly Julie is encouraging James Winn to support and encourage Megan Outten to become president of the council and she would recommend James Winn for vice president. Good Luck with that!

For YEARS I have been saying Julie Giardano is a RINO and this just goes to prove I was right. I have been hearing she’s been making racist comments since she lost and she’s flying off the handle. 

Now this most recent move with her suggesting Megan and James control the council is her ONLY was to save the Idiots jobs, Adam Corry, Cory Huston, Steve Larkin, Bunky, Heather Lankford and Jessica Hunter jobs. I can’t say with absolute certainty that all will be FIRED, but I’d say if it is anything like what/who I endorsed in this election I’d kinda bank on my being right.

Go away Julie, seriously. The citizens have proven you need to go by a large margin, NOT “razor thin”. And for God’s sake, can I finally get to do what I do best and get back to Blogging and boost Ernie Davis and the rest of the WINNERS!

While Queen Julie conceded the loss to a black man, it turns out while she waited in hopes the numbers would change. It turns out the numbers went from 600 to 1,900 in favor of Ernie Davis.

Julie Giordano said, she “wasn’t handed the keys to the kingdom” proving once again she thought we were all her pheasants. 

Meanwhile WBOC was quoted as saying it was a razor thin margin and then it increased from 600 to 1,900 votes, it was a landslide. 

Julie and her crew has to realize she/they were NOT fit to run the county. Meanwhile Julie and Heather are obsessed with researching my business, Wife and I but they will be gone soon enough. Their obsession will finally be gone and county employees and start relaxing. Heather and Julie started installing cameras in county departments where Heather would constantly view the cameras LIVE and call employees saying, what are you talking about in the hallway. That’s how paranoid they were. Clearly, (below) the stalking hasn’t stopped. 

She hasn’t even conceited the loss to her opponent while announcing in typical crybaby style she’s written a book. Unbelievable!!!   

Look for lawsuits in the future.

What went down as an unforgettable Super Bowl Halftime Show mishap may have actually been part of the show.

Janet Jackson’s longtime fashion designer, Wayne Scot Lukas, told TMZ Sports that the singer’s infamous “wardrobe malfunction” is not at all what fans believe it to be.

The designer said deeming the pop culture moment a “wardrobe malfunction” was false because Jackson’s outfit was designed to reveal her breast due to a change that was made when it was decided the performance alongside Justin Timberlake needed more spice at the 2004 Super Bowl.

“He [Timberlake] coined the term wardrobe malfunction, which blamed it on me,” Lukas told the outlet. “So, you have to understand my mother’s bible study group was watching the show and they’re all excited to see Wayne’s big project and then Justin goes ‘It’s just a little wardrobe malfunction. We want to give you something to talk about.’”

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Florida voters have approved sweeping property-tax breaks that could save homeowners thousands of dollars a year — but out-of-staters looking to cash in on the Sunshine State’s latest perk face a five-year catch.

Amendment 3 passed during the Tuesday midterms with roughly 62% of the vote, clearing the 60% threshold required to change Florida’s Constitution and paving the way for a major expansion of the state’s homestead exemption.

Beginning in 2027, Florida homeowners who qualify for the state’s homestead exemption will be able to shield the first $150,000 of their home’s assessed value from most local property taxes, up from $50,000 today. That tax-free portion will rise to $250,000 in 2028 and increase with inflation beginning in 2029.

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The Baltimore Ravens have found a fix to their quarterback injury woes by trading for Arizona Cardinals star Jacoby Brissett.

The Ravens are down to third-choice undrafted rookie Joe Fagnano ahead of Thursday night’s game against the Jacksonville Jaguars, leaving general manager Eric DaCosta desperately scrabbling around for a long-term solution.

NFL insider Ian Rapoport was the first to report on Wednesday that the Ravens are now finalizing a trade for Brissett, with the deal set to be completed over the weekend.

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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy’s 26-year-old son-in-law, Republican Michael Alfonso, is set to make history as the youngest member of Congress.

Alfonso won approximately 56 percent of the vote in Wisconsin‘s 7th Congressional District, inheriting the seat after Republican Tom Tiffany vacated it to run for governor, ultimately losing.

The Associated Press called the race for Alfonso at around 10pm, with unofficial results showing him leading Democrat Fred Clark 56.1 percent to 43.9 percent with 79 percent of the vote counted.

President Trump reacted to the Republicans’ midterm defeats last night on Fox News, where he credited the Republicans for their own defeat, saying they failed to excite people enough and that he doesn’t see last night’s repudiation of Republicans as a “defeat for me.” 

As The Gateway Pundit reported, the Democrats officially flipped control of the House and Senate on Tuesday night, taking a massive majority in the House and flipping seven Senate seats so far.

Trump responded in a series of messages on Truth Social last night

After failing to make any real accomplishments, especially in the Senate, while Republicans controlled all three branches of government, Trump said the Republicans “just didn’t inspire people.”

“They didn’t like the candidates, and some of the candidates that I endorsed fought me, and they didn’t like that they fought me,” Trump said.

“I mean, this MAGA base is incredible, the most loyal people, the greatest people, the people that built America… I was trying to get people in that were people that, frankly, let’s say that I didn’t get along with, but for purposes of the party I went along with it, and the base would tell me, you know, hundreds of thousands of people would just say, ‘Sir, they weren’t for you,’ and you know they’d fell out all the flaws. They knew more than I did about these people in some cases”

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Members of Minnesota’s Somali community who know something about Rep. Ilhan Omar’s past are learning the hard way that speaking up can get you jumped, threatened with a coma, or told outright that you are going to be killed. A New York Post investigation published this morning details a fiercely protective network that bombards critics with online threats and physical harm in the United States, Europe, and Africa.

The group is not officially tied to Omar’s office, and it is unclear whether she directs them. What is clear is the effect. Almost no one inside the community will talk on the record.

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President Trump dropped the news on Election Day morning. On Fox & Friends, he said the roughly four billion dollars a year the United States has been sending Israel gets cut off at the end of the year.

“We were giving them $4 billion – we are – but it gets cut off at the end of the year,” Trump told the hosts. He described the package as military aid, cash, or “barter.” Then he added the part that matters. He and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had already agreed to it months earlier. Netanyahu brought it up.

“They don’t need it,” Trump said. “Israel is a very thriving country.”

The current deal is the 2016 memorandum of understanding that runs through fiscal 2028. It provides about $3.8 billion a year, mostly Foreign Military Financing plus $500 million for joint missile defense work like Iron Dome, Arrow, and David’s Sling. Nearly all of that money is spent buying American weapons. Israel has been the largest cumulative recipient of U.S. aid since 1948. Adjusted for inflation, the total exceeds $300 billion.

Netanyahu has been saying for months he wants to taper the aid down to zero over the next decade. He told The Economist and CBS that Israel has come of age, built its own capabilities, and should stop depending on foreign grants. Trump simply accelerated the timeline. The two leaders decided the annual checks stop after 2026.

Israel can still buy whatever it wants from the United States. Trump also said America will still help if Israel actually needs it. The difference is the end of the automatic transfer.

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Americans will reset their clocks again this weekend after the Senate left a Trump-backed daylight saving bill stranded, despite a big bipartisan House vote and the president’s public push.

House Republicans already did their part. In July they passed the Sunshine Protection Act by a wide bipartisan margin, 307 to 117, with only 22 Republicans and 95 Democrats voting no. The measure would let states keep daylight saving  time year-round so families stop the twice-a-year ritual of changing clocks.

The Senate has not advanced it. Progress has ground to a halt even as President Donald Trump has pressed the upper chamber to pass the bill or at least take a vote, Fox News Digital reported.

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A drunken Massachusetts state trooper was arrested after he broke into a woman’s Boston apartment — and passed out in her bed, according to court records.

Officer Michael E. McGuire, 37, was slapped with a breaking and entering charge after climbing into the South End pad around 1:30 a.m. Sunday, the Boston Globe reported.

The woman — the trooper’s unidentified ex-girlfriend — told police the couple called it quits a month ago, but met up for drinks Saturday night.

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Correct me if I am wrong BUT I recall at least TWO times when elections were within ONE VOTE, (Shanie Shields) two different times locally. When WBOC stated today a few times today that the race was “RAZOR THIN” between Ernie Davis and Julie Giordano, NO IT WASN’T REZOR THIN! 

When I ran for Maor I immediately conceited and immediately congratulated Jim Ireton, period. Julie continues her racism by NOT congratulating Ernie Davis and in fact says it’s not over until every vote is counted. Ernie beat her A$$ by 600 votes, NOT ONE VOTE. 

Give it up GREASEBALL and congratulate Mr. Ernie Davis.

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They woke up a sleeping giant, (ME) just in time to expose the witch and her minions and together we defeated them. Ernie Davis will do a great job as will all the other candidates we endorsed. Wicomico County Employees have to be ecstatic. Well, maybe 99% of them!

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Do you think her message intends a recount? 

Whether one considers it a prerequisite for being a Democrat or for conning immigration authorities, the skill of deception is one that Ilhan Omar admits she acquired as a child.

Ever since the Oct. 12 raid on her Washington, D.C., home amid an investigation that touches of potential immigration fraud, the Minnesota Democrat’s autobiography has been a gold mine of stories that indicate lying was simply a way of life.

Attorney Laura Powell posted a gem she found on X, in which she notes that on pages 20 and 21 of Omar’s tale of woe, she recounts that in Somalia as a child she lied about her family and clan, saying it was needful.

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Clocks across most of the country fell back an hour Sunday, but a Trump-backed bill to make daylight saving time permanent could force them forward again this winter if the Senate passes it unchanged.

The Sunshine Protection Act passed the House on July 14 by a 308-117 vote and has sat in the Senate since.

The bill would repeal the section of the Uniform Time Act of 1966, the federal law that sets the twice-yearly clock changes, and move each U.S. time zone’s standard time forward one hour for good.

That design now carries an awkward side effect.

Because daylight saving time ended Sunday, enacting the House-passed language this fall would mean an immediate one-hour jump across the country unless lawmakers rewrite it, The Washington Post reported.

Senate leaders could wait until the clocks spring forward in March, but that would come after the current session of Congress ends, forcing lawmakers to start the bill over and pass it through the House again.

President Donald Trump has kept up the pressure anyway.

“The United States Senate is letting the Daylight Saving Bill die,” he wrote on Truth Social on Oct. 26, urging a vote.

The White House formally endorsed the measure in a written policy statement the day the House voted, and spokesman Davis Ingle told the Post last week that Trump still wants the Senate to send it to his desk.

The main obstacle is Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., who has blocked the bill and argues, along with other lawmakers, that the current spring-forward, fall-back system is the better compromise.

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A Hollywood convenience store owner has been charged in connection with a years-long scheme to defraud the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) by purchasing more than $500,000 in cash and using the benefits to buy merchandise for resale.

According to court records, Al Amin, 52, of Hollywood, conspired with others to purchase Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) cards from SNAP recipients for approximately half their available benefit amounts in cash. Amin and his co-conspirators then allegedly used the fraudulently obtained cards to purchase bulk merchandise from various retailers. Amin allegedly used the merchandise to stock his convenience store and sold additional merchandise to other store owners in the area.

Amin is charged with conspiracy to obtain unauthorized use, transfer, acquisition, or possession of benefits and conspiracy to commit wire fraud. If convicted, he faces up to five years in federal prison on the SNAP conspiracy charge and up to 20 years on the wire fraud conspiracy count.

The leader of one of the nation’s oldest and largest unions stunned political observers by issuing a surprise endorsement for a Senate Republican stalwart over the weekend.

Teamsters General President Sean O’Brien, who famously nearly came to blows with now-Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin during a Senate hearing before ultimately becoming acquaintances, issued a ringing endorsement of Sen. Ashley Moody, R-Fla., signaling a major break from national union sentiment that has tended to favor Democrats.

“Just voted in the State of Florida for the first time, and very proud to have cast a ballot for Sen. Ashley Moody,” O’Brien, whose 123-year-old union is about 1.3 million-strong, announced Sunday.

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Dr. Ron Elfenbein, an emergency physician in Maryland, found himself at the forefront of the COVID-19 response, providing life-saving monoclonal antibody treatments to patients in 2021 and calling out the Biden Regime for killing people when they scrapped the treatment’s authorization. 

He was persecuted by the Biden administration’s Department of Justice on junk charges after criticizing the Biden Administration’s decision, saying, “People are definitely going to die” after the government ended distribution of the antibodies.

Elfenbein was later charged by the Biden DOJ in a five-count $15 million health care fraud case back in 2022, then convicted by a jury, but later acquitted by District Judge James K. Bredar, an Obama appointee, who wrote: “the evidence weighs so heavily against the verdict.” His acquittal was later overturned in a federal appeals court earlier this year, with the case being sent back to the District Court for a new trial.

The doctor spoke to The Gateway Pundit over the weekend to tell his story and reveal the true motives behind his indictment and how the Biden Administration essentially banned a life-saving treatment option and enriched themselves and big pharma at the expense of Americans.

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Below is my column on the return of Marc Elias in another campaign controversy with the Alaskan decoy scandal. The Elias Law Group and other lawyers were tied to the effort to confuse Alaskan voters by The New York Times in its recent investigative report. These lawyers presumably have a growing conflict of interest as dozens of subpoenas shower down on Alaska. What is clear is that this scandal will not end on Tuesday and, if the results are close in favor of Democrat Mary Peltola, there could be a major fight over her taking her seat in the Senate.

Here is the column:

Marc Elias is back. The notorious Democratic lawyer who played a critical role in the 2016 Russia hoax is again in the news. His law firm has been identified by the New York Times as part of the expanding scandal involving Democratic effort to confuse voters in Alaska with a decoy candidate named Daniel J. Sullivan.

For those familiar with Elias’s checkered history, this is a case of rounding up the usual suspects.

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in federal prison for spending millions of dollars in donations on himself. Keith Taylor, 59, of New York, founded Modest Needs around 2002, and U.S. District Judge Jennifer L. Rochon sentenced him, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York announced Wednesday. He pleaded guilty in August 2025 to defrauding the charity and its donors and to evading more than $1 million in federal income taxes.

Modest Needs was a 501(c)(3) that used crowd-sourced funding to help people living paycheck to paycheck with unexpected costs such as medical bills or a broken appliance. Prosecutors say Taylor embezzled more than $2.5 million from the charity and its donors since at least 2015 and used it to fund his own lifestyle.

The list of what the money bought is the heart of the case. Taylor regularly ate at Per Se, Jean-Georges, Masa and Marea, sometimes twice a day, and spent more than $320,000 of charity funds at New York restaurants and steakhouses. Donations also paid over $300,000 of the rent on a 30th-floor apartment in a midtown Manhattan skyscraper, more than $100,000 to food delivery services, and bills for his electronics and his own medical care. Another $270,000 went straight into his personal brokerage account.

“Keith Taylor embezzled millions from a charity for low-income families to pay for his own lavish lifestyle,” U.S. Attorney Jamie McDonald said. “This is the height of hypocrisy.” He added that Taylor “shattered the trust of those who believed in the mission of the charity, denying essential help to vulnerable individuals and families in genuine need.”

Taylor was arrested in June 2024, and prosecutors say the spending did not stop. He purportedly resigned and was barred from the charity’s bank accounts as a condition of pretrial release, yet he kept using its money for meals, medical expenses and the rent on the luxury apartment, in violation of those conditions.

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Villanueva argued on a podcast that Cooper Flagg’s race disqualifies him despite his rising stardom with the Mavericks

Dallas Mavericks forward Cooper Flagg is 19 years old and already one of the best basketball players in the world.

Last week, ESPN analyst Jeremy Lin called him “generational” and said he and Victor Wembanyama could become the NBA’s next great rivalry.

Flagg has also drawn favorable comparisons to LeBron James at the same age, including from Brian Windhorst.

“In my view, Cooper is better at defense than LeBron was at the same age. I don’t even think it’s debatable,” Windhorst said.

“There were defensive plays LeBron made at that age. He certainly would get into passing lanes, he certainly would block shots, he was a defensive playmaker, but Cooper is better defensively, empirically; I don’t think that’s debatable.”

Flagg is averaging 27 points, six rebounds and seven assists during his second season.

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Rachel Apa, who collapsed near the finish line of the New York City Marathon, died from a rare muscle condition, her father has revealed.

The 24-year-old former college field hockey player was pronounced dead at a New York hospital after collapsing in Central Park.

As reported by The New York Times, a hospital social worker rushed to Apa’s aid but was unable to find a pulse, while two physicians from the crowd also performed CPR.

She was declared dead on Sunday night, with her father – Steve – revealing that the cause was rhabdomyolysis, which can be brought on by excessive exercise without rest.

The rare condition, which affects around 0.0076 percent of the US population every year, causes your muscles to break down and leads to ‘toxic components of your muscle fibers’ entering the kidneys and the body’s circulation system.

‘It’s unfathomable,’ Steve Apa told the New York Times. ‘Perfect health, perfect shape, 24 years old.’

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Homeowners in a North Carolina community are facing a financial nightmare after their homeowners association (HOA) doubled monthly fees to an eye-watering $2,500, leaving some afraid they could lose the houses they worked years to afford.

Residents of Magnolia Cove in Sherrills Ford say they are being priced out of their homes as the latest increase threatens to swallow up household budgets and make their properties almost impossible to sell.

The new charge, which takes effect on January 1, 2027, means homeowners will have to find an astonishing $30,000 a year in HOA dues alone, on top of their mortgages, property taxes and other bills.

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Syed Murtuza Kablazada, an Indian national living in Des Plaines, Illinois, pleaded guilty Friday to a Medicare fraud scheme that billed $227 million for over-the-counter COVID-19 test kits nobody ordered, the Justice Department said. Prosecutors say he paid about $11 million to a purported telemarketing company in Pakistan for the personal information of hundreds of thousands of Medicare beneficiaries, then used it to file the claims.

Kablazada, 36, and his co-schemers bought three Chicago-area laboratories – Chicago Care, V Care and Al-Ameer – in a six-month stretch starting in January 2023, according to court documents and his plea. The labs submitted $227 million in claims for test kits that beneficiaries never requested and never received. Medicare paid about $136 million of it.

To hide their role, prosecutors say, the group paid themselves through overseas money transfers and unlicensed money transmitters and spent part of the proceeds on luxury vehicles. As part of the plea agreement, Kablazada agreed to forfeit more than $46 million in fraud proceeds that law enforcement seized from ten bank accounts.

He pleaded guilty to two counts of health care fraud and faces a maximum of 20 years in prison. A federal judge will set the sentence at a later date after weighing the sentencing guidelines and other statutory factors.

The case began in May 2025, when the Justice Department announced an indictment against Kablazada, then 34 and listed as living in Arlington Heights, and Syed Mehdi Hussain, 32, of Carol Stream. They were charged with four counts each. That indictment said the labs rarely sent kits to anyone and billed for beneficiaries who hadn’t asked for them, including dead people, and that the defendants placed foreign nationals at the labs as nominee owners who were expected to leave the country if investigators closed in. The earlier release puts the billing between September 2022 and June 2023 and does not mention Pakistan; the plea release, which does, dates the scheme from January 2023. Hussain’s case is not covered in the plea announcement.

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Julie Giordane rented out rolling billboards at taxpayers’ expense to promote Governor Moore, what a f/n fool.

Tomorrow you’ll go out and cast your vote in the general election and with any hope you’ll fire Giordano, the RINO. This is a woman I’ve said from the very beginning was not qualified and she has surrounded herself with unqualified people, (seriously) bullies and control freaks, even a cat murderer and your vote should wipe them out and replace them with people who truly want to lower your taxes, respect the employees and not just the upper staff.

Ladies and gentlemen, I retired the first time at 40 years old. Financially I could have retired for life but after 20 years I was going nuts at home and I started to dabble, now the Route 346 Emporium. When I had my manufacturing company I not only paid extremely well, I hired the very best in the business, even as consultants. I treated everyone with respect, and everyone was able to afford to retire as well. Giardano is hiring at top dollar and getting redneck sh!t for advisors and upper staff that aren’t even qualified and then she starts BITCHING at the council who are simply protecting the taxpayers, don’t anybody tell you different. 

Giordano needs to be fired, and your vote will settle that. She just went out and rented vehicles is support for the worst governor we’re ever seen in Maryland, especially for the Easter Shore. She is TWO FACED, she is a RINO, she is a HOME WRECKER leaving her sick husband for another man and in my humble opinion she is EXACTLY what all women are against ANY man for doing the same. 

So go out and vote and get her A$$ out of office and give Earnie Davis a shot. You know I’m a diehard Republican and this time I’m saying, vote for Ernie Davis, Josh Hastings, Joe White and Joe Venosa, anyone else is up to your good judgement. I’m just saying I ran a very successful business, (even owning a thrift store that is killing it) and I would NOT hire Julie, Bunky, Adam, Cory, Jessica, Heather, Steve and others. I can assure you that pretty much every department head wants to work with Ernie Davis. I’ve waited a LONG time to hold back until my Wife had to retire to express my thoughts. The mere fact that she hired these billboards says SHE’S GO TO GO.

Does this mean Julie is supporting Ernie Davis because she paid for these billboards!

Rep. Ilhan Omar’s former husband has described himself as a gay man in a new academic paper, adding fresh weight to long-running claims that their 2009 marriage was an immigration scheme rather than a genuine union.

Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, the man Omar married in Minnesota in 2009 and divorced in 2017, referred to himself as a “gay man of the East African diaspora” in a paper on queer violence in Kenya, the New York Post reported.

The self-description lands on a record already thick with questions about who Elmi is to Omar, why they married, and whether federal immigration law was used as a family tool. Investigators have examined those questions before. Omar has denied wrongdoing. The paper does not settle the brother allegation on its own. It does make the old story harder to wave away.

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While I’ll open the store from 10 to 4 today, I figured I’d give it a slight rest on local politics for a few days, (maybe not) but I have other things to do since we open the store on Sunday from 12 to 3 as well. 

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A Chicago-area concealed carry permit holder shot one of two assailants Sunday, sending him to the hospital in critical condition.

A 23-year-old man was walking in the North Lawndale neighborhood Sunday when two assailants accosted him, NBC Chicago reported. Police said the armed citizen, who had a valid Illinois Firearms Owner Identification (FOID) and concealed carry permit, opened fire after he was attacked.

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An Ohio pastor stunned her church congregation as she announced that her self-proclaimed ‘prophet’ husband had married a second wife.

Lydia Ford, 45, the pastor of LifeWorks Church in Cleveland, Ohio, revealed to her flock that she and her husband Israel Ford, 47, had begun a polygynous marriage with another minister at their church, Shakayla Talley, 28.

‘And I want to share that, know, Prophet and I, you know, we are living even right now in what we would call a polygynous marriage,’ Lydia told her church.

‘My husband, our prophet, he has a second wife. Y’all know her. Y’all love her. Y’all benefit from her ministry every week.’

Lydia then welcomed her ‘sister in marriage’ onto the stage, and Talley admitted to the congregation that she understood they would have ‘questions.’

She described the reveal as an ‘elephant in the room’ as the church sat silently, and conceded that she could tell ‘people have comments and concerns.’

‘But I want to address that it is amazing to know that this is the will of God,’ she said, as Israel and Lydia stood around her, adding that the trio are ‘family.’

The LifeWorks Church was founded by Israel, real name James, in 2009, and the self-described ‘prophet’ claims to give his followers ‘deliverance and miraculous healings.’

Ohio pastor and self-proclaimed ‘prophet’ Israel Ford stunned his followers by announcing his marriage to his pastor wife Lydia (left) had become polygynous with a minister at their church, Shakayla Talley (right)

On the surface, a recent video clip of Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota appears to be a peek into her peaceful, idyllic existence.

But the soundtrack to the contrived nonchalance of the stroll she and her husband take around a deck in Minnesota is much darker.

Omar is currently the target of a federal investigation into potential immigration fraud, as noted by The Washington Free Beacon, which decided to translate the lyrics of the rap song playing while Omar and husband Tim Mynett gazed into each other’s eyes.

From the right: Omar Dad’s Dubious Past

What we know about “Nur Omar Mohamed’s military career” in the Somali army makes it “very doubtful” that Rep. Ilhan Omar’s father “met the US legal definition of a ‘refugee’,” argues National Review’s Jim Geraghty. One obituary noted that his “prestigious career in the military ended in 1991 after the Barre regime was ousted.” Notes Geraghty: “The Somali government was using its military to commit genocide for the better part of three decades, intensifying in the late 1980s.” Credible sources discredit the notion that her father could “rise to the rank of colonel with no role in that military’s massive-scale genocide.” How was a Somali colonel “qualified as a refugee” when he may have “ordered, incited, assisted or otherwise participated in the persecution” of civilians?

Midterm watch: Trump’s Sensible Appeal

President Trump “has been widely mocked for asking voters to ‘pretend I’m on the ballot,’ ” notes the Washington Examiner’s Byron York. Yet appealing to “low-propensity voters” — such one ones who won’t normally vote unless Trump’s on the ballot — “makes sense.” A 2025 Pew Research study found eligible voters nationwide who didn’t vote in 2020 and ’22 but did in ’24 backed Trump 55%-41%. “This was not just a tiny group of people”: “2024-only voters made up 12% of the entire electorate in the presidential race that year. It made a big difference for Trump.” So, “if Republicans are trying to turn out low-propensity voters” now, “it makes sense to ask them to pretend that Trump is on the ballot.”

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One of the two disgraced former senior FBI officials arrested this week for allegedly lying to Congress once admitted to having effectively run a “shadow government” within the first Trump administration.

Nikki Cole Floris, who served as the deputy assistant director of the FBI’s now-defunct Foreign Influence Task Force, made the admission “on record,” according to FBI Director Kash Patel.

She’s “on record privately claiming to be ‘running a shadow government’ during the 2020 election,” Patel revealed in a post published to X on Friday.

It was the same post in which he announced the arrest of both Floris and Bradley Benavides, who served as the FITF’s section chief.

Around America, drivers are feeling the pinch at the pump. But Michiganders and others across the Rust Belt have it worse than most, with prices far above the national average. One factor that can more easily be dealt with than others to reduce fuel prices is the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), a federal program managed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that requires transportation fuel sold in America to contain a minimum amount of renewable fuels such as ethanol. The concern is straightforward: another federal compliance cost in a market where families can least afford one.

The RFS is estimated to cost each Michigander $190.23 every year. At today’s fuel prices, that would cover more than a tank and a half of gas for the average SUV — the most popular vehicle type in Michigan. While consumers might notice that cost most directly at the gas station, we’re paying it in far more situations. Since RFS applies both to regular gas and diesel fuel, farmers, truckers, and other businesses who need to transport everyday goods to the consumer are seeing their costs increase as well, and that winds up in our prices for groceries and other goods at the store.

According to RealClearPolicy, the EPA has estimated the cost to consumers to be around $20 billion in 2026 and 2027, while other organizations have that number closer to $66 billion or even $70 billion. As writer Taylor Millard puts it, “Whichever way you cut it, the bottom line is, the RFS is expensive for refiners and consumers.”

No one can promise that fuel prices will fall quickly. The cost of diesel has been higher than that of standard fuel for more than 20 years, but that gap has widened in 2026 due to global refinery disruptions, export restrictions, and low inventory. That makes it all the more important to scrutinize costs Washington can actually control. And this policy is one that deserves the most scrutiny, as it’s widely considered to be a failed policy.

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The cover-up is always worse than the crime.

A Democrat insider signed a sworn affidavit at a second publication that the David Crowley pay-not-to-play scandal is true and was orchestrated by Lt. Gov Rodriguez with David Crowley’s full knowledge, understanding, and cooperation.

Oh, what a web we weave when telling the truth would have been so much better.

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The year is 2010, New Year’s Eve or thereabouts, going on 2011.

Here I sit in a cheap yet serviceable hotel room in Taichung, Taiwan, waiting to be greeted the next day by the agency errand girl who will ferry me to my new life of teaching the future leaders of the island nation English.

As my idea of late-night television at this moment is trashy sitcom re-runs and overly enthusiastic advertorials for hi-tech mops from hype men who appear to be on stimulants, consider my shock as, in search of entertainment, I lazily dredge the late-night airwaves of Taiwanese cable television.

It is at this point that I discover a game show, the likes of which I have never witnessed in all my days in the land of the WASPs.

Scantily clad young Asian women blow things vaguely yet unmistakably intentionally shaped like phalluses.

They get put in compromising positions.

They play with liquids meant to symbolize particular bodily secretions.

As one is wont to experience in Asia, a rush of confusion and titillation in equal measure grips me at the same time.

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A new study has found 75 percent of former NFL players who died between 2008 and 2023 had the neurodegenerative brain disease known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE.

The study was published Wednesday in JAMA Network Open by researchers at Boston University, Mass General Brigham and the Concussion & CTE Foundation.

Some of those same researchers also published a paper in August that estimated one in four former NFL players who died between 2016 and 2021 had CTE.

CTE is a disease that can only be diagnosed after death, meaning research on the subject depends on brains donated by players or their families.

Symptoms include memory loss, depression and suicidal thoughts but it can only be definitively diagnosed after death.

Julia Gallini, the lead author on the paper, said the estimated figure of 75 percent was ‘concerning’. She insisted more needs to be done ‘to support families, diagnose CTE during life, and treat CTE-related symptoms.’

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Alaska’s Republican governor wants to know whether former Rep. Mary Peltola’s Senate campaign broke the law.

Gov. Mike Dunleavy has ordered an investigation into whether the Democratic candidate’s campaign violated state law and could face criminal or civil penalties. The allegation is that it helped recruit a candidate with the same name as the Republican incumbent.

The situation also escalated in Washington.

The Justice Department issued a raft of new grand jury subpoenas, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press on Thursday. The subpoenas seek grand jury testimony and documents and demand the preservation of records. More subpoenas are coming, according to a person briefed on the investigation.

Rep. James Comer, the Kentucky Republican who chairs the House Oversight Committee, announced a separate probe. He accused Democrats of trying to “rig” the election.

All the investigations were triggered by a New York Times report earlier this week. It said operatives and aides tied to Ms. Peltola’s campaign and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee helped recruit retired teacher Dan J. Sullivan Jr. to run against GOP Sen. Dan S. Sullivan.

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Almost three in 10 vehicles traded toward a new car are worth less than the amount still owed on their loans, a new report suggests.

In the third quarter of 2026, about 29.1 percent of trade-ins with outstanding loans carried negative equity, according to an Oct. 21 analysis by car-shopping platform Edmunds. That was down from 30.9 percent at the beginning of the year but above 28.1 percent in the same quarter of 2025.

While the share of so-called underwater trade-ins has eased slightly this year, the amount borrowers owe has continued to climb.

Drivers trading in underwater vehicles owed an average of $7,107 more than their cars were worth in the third quarter, the highest third-quarter figure in at least a decade, according to Edmunds.

That was more than $1,800 above typical levels before the COVID-19 pandemic. Between 2016 and 2019, the average deficit generally ranged from about $5,000 to $5,500.

The financial burden grows when drivers roll that unpaid balance into a new car loan.

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Del Tom Garrett demands an independent audit of Abigail Spanberger’s restoration process before Election Day ballot measure

A Southside Virginia lawmaker is demanding an investigation after a constituent received an official rights-restoration certificate for his dog, Biscuit, a beagle-hound mix from Goochland County that died about five years ago.

The discovery follows the “Betty No Last Name” controversy in Chesapeake — where a purported convict lacking a surname had “her” rights restored — and raises fresh questions about the governor’s vetting process just days before voters decide whether to make felons’ voting-rights restoration automatic via an Election Day ballot measure supported by Richmond Democrats.

Del. Tom Garrett, R-Buckingham — who received the letter from the constituent who owned the pet — is now calling for an investigation into how Gov. Abigail Spanberger could have restored voting and jury-service rights to a deceased animal.

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