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Dominion whistleblower Mellissa Carone has announced her intention to run for State Rep in Michigan’s 46th District. Carone hopes to replace conservative MI State Rep. John Reilly, who defeated his Democrat opponent in 2020 with 62% of the vote. Reilly is a popular conservative who is unable to run for office again because of term limitations. Carone told us that if she is elected in 2022, her number one priority will be election integrity. The fearless whistleblower who’s been threatened with a lawsuit by Dominion Voting Systems says her goal will be to make sure Dominion voting machines are removed...

My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell is under attack by the left for the crime of saying he has evidence of mass voter fraud that happened in the November election. Shortly after the breach of the Capitol building on January 6, Bed Bath & Beyond, Kohls H-E-B, and Wayfair all announced they would stop carrying My Pillow products in their stores over Mike Lindell’s close relationship with President Trump after Democrats, RINOs, and many in the media blamed President Trump’s speech for the “spontaneous” attack, even though it has been proven that the attack was planned days before Trump’s speech. ....

McConnell's speech prompted Nelson County GOP leaders to hold an emergency meeting, voting unanimously to issue a resolution censuring the senate majority leader for his comments. "This has shown his true colors," Nelson Co. GOP Chairman Don Thrasher said. "We felt today during his floor speech on the senate where he impugned the character of President Trump was unacceptable to us. His whole behavior overall through this whole process of the last week is not consistent with what he promised us when he was running for re-election." McConnell hasn't said how he will vote in the second impeachment trial of...

This past Saturday during a meeting of the Central Committee of the Carbon County Republican Party in Wyoming, Joey Correnti IV, presented, and the Carbon County Republican Party Central Committee unanimously passed, the attached resolution of censure of Representative Cheney. To his knowledge, this is the first formal action taken anywhere in the nation, by any committee of the Republican Party, against any of the U.S. Representatives who supported the impeachment of President Trump. And on Wednesday Liz Cheney already has two primary opponents in her 2022 race. Let’s hope Liz does not flood the primary with candidates, a common...

Republicans retiring in 2018: Retiring Senate Republicans: Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tennessee Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Arizona Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-UtahRetiring House Republicans: Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas Rep. John Duncan, R-Tennessee Rep. Blake Farenthold, R-Texas Rep. Rodney P. Frelinghuysen, R-New Jersey Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Virginia Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-South Carolina Rep. Gregg Harper, R-Mississippi Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas Rep. Darrell Issa, R-California Rep. Lynn Jenkins, R-Kansas Rep. Sam Johnson, R-Texas Rep. Frank LoBiondo, R-New Jersey Rep. Ted Poe, R-Texas Rep. Dave Reichert, R-Washington Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Florida Rep. Ed Royce, R-California Rep. Bill Shuster, R-Pennsylvania Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas Rep. Dave Trott,...

With six days to go and really no mention of Kamala Harris leaving the Senate, I figured it may be a good distraction from everything going on to have some fun with potential Senator picks!

WASHINGTON -- Protesters registered their rage against the new president Friday in a chaotic confrontation with police who used pepper spray and stun grenades in a melee just blocks from Donald Trump’s inaugural parade route. Scores were arrested for trashing property and attacking officers. Officers arrested 217 protesters, CBS affiliate WUSA reports. Six police officers were hurt during the protests, including three who were hit in the head with flying objects. All of them have minor injuries.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight (CCIIO) contracted with CGI Federal Inc. to build the government’s health insurance exchange, Federal Exchange (FX). The deal has an estimated total value of $93.7 million over a two-year base with three, one-year option periods. The $55.7 million base contract has been awarded. [Commentary: Fire, aim, ready! Will states make the right invesemtnt in HIX IT?] Under the contract, CGI will work with CCIIO to develop and implement the Federal Exchange in line with the provision in the Affordable Care Act that requires the creation...

- Impeachment must be the centerpiece of the 2014 elections — and candidates for both houses must sign a pledge to impeach! - Boehner must be dumped as Speaker and replaced with the next president of the United States, whoever that may be, chosen by the House — the 'people's chamber'! Could 2014 be a returning point for America's self-government? WND.com is reporting on the activities of people who have been gathering on highway and other overpasses in different parts of the country with signs advocating the impeachment of Barack Obama. Practically every day brings fresh evidence that Obama and...

So, at halftime of the Sunday Night Football game between the Dallas Cowboys and the Washington REDSKINS, Bob Costas decided to lay down some wisdom on America. He started out okay in his discussion of Obama's new pet project, to pressure Washington into changing the name of the football team, but almost at the end when you were suffiently sucked in, he threw out the bombshell.....the use of the term "Redskins" is indeed offensive...a nasty slur. And there you have it. Just like Global Warming, um, I mean Climate Change, the debate about the term "Redskins" is now settled science....

Bankrupting America, a project of Public Notice, today launched a new national online advertising campaign highlighting Congress’ hypocrisy in its decision to protect itself from higher healthcare costs resulting from the Affordable Care Act. The ad, titled “Inconvenient,” uses simple, stick-figure style animation to educate and engage the audience and make the case for fairness in Washington. When the Affordable Care Act was passed, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, inserted an amendment that would require members of Congress and their staff to join the exchanges, with the point being that Washington should live under the laws they pass. But fearing the...

First, though, we want to look at why the deadly mall attack in Kenya is raising questions about radicalism here in the U.S. That siege was orchestrated by the Somali militant group al-Shabab. Kenya's foreign minister has said that two or three Americans were involved in the attack. U.S. officials are still looking into that claim. They say there's no definitive proof of that. But our next guests say Americans have been recruited into al-Shabab, and they've gone off to places like Somalia to fight with the group. We're going to hear from reporter Mark Brunswick. He's with the Star...

As highlighted by Wired, this doesn’t really surprise anyone. Researchers almost immediately noted that the Tor malware, which leveraged a vulnerability in Firefox, had to be operated by a law enforcement agency. That’s because the threat didn’t cause too much damage, despite the fact that it had the potential. Instead, it simply collected MAC addresses and Windows hostnames, sending the data back to a server in Northern Virginia. Back in August, Irish authorities arrested 28-year-old Eric Eoin Marques, the man believed to have operated Freedom Hosting, one of the largest Tor hidden services hosting providers. Marques is accused of facilitating...

Good afternoon. Let me begin by saying that although this has been billed as an anti-war rally, I stand before you as someone who is not opposed to war in all circumstances. The Civil War was one of the bloodiest in history, and yet it was only through the crucible of the sword, the sacrifice of multitudes, that we could begin to perfect this union, and drive the scourge of slavery from our soil. I don’t oppose all wars. My grandfather signed up for a war the day after Pearl Harbor was bombed, fought in Patton’s army. He saw the...

Problems with defense lawyers’ e-mails and computer files prompted a military commission judge on Thursday to postpone a pretrial hearing that had been scheduled for next week in the case of a Guantánamo Bay detainee accused of helping [He is the accused MASTERMIND] to plot the 2000 bombing of the destroyer Cole. It was the latest delay to bog down the death-penalty case against the detainee, a Saudi named Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri. His last hearing, in February, was cut short when prosecutors asked that his mental health be evaluated, apparently to foreclose any future appeal based on the potential argument...

Rumor has it that I’ve been removed from the House Committee on the Budget. Remarkably, I still have not received a single call, e-mail, or text from Republican leadership confirming this story. In fact, I wouldn’t even have learned about it if not for the news reports. I look forward to hearing from my party’s leadership about why my principled, conservative voting record offends them. That’s sur e to be a lively and entertaining conversation. In the meantime, I can only speculate as to what specifically would make Republican leadership punish several of its party’s most principled members. Rep. Tim...

Vermont is the only state in the nation on a path to a single payer health system. That could take a while, though. And in the meantime, the state has to set up an insurance exchange to comply with the Affordable Care Act. While some states are still struggling with the basic question of whether to do their own exchanges, Vermont is moving ahead at a rapid clip, digging into the details of how much various health plans will cost on its exchange. The Green Mountain Care Board this week released the basic outline of benefit packages that will be...

Facing one of the biggest budget shortfalls of any state, Illinois took the risky step of jacking up income and corporate taxes even as its economy struggles to shake off the recession. In a deal hammered out by the state's Democratic leadership, the lame-duck legislature pushed through a 67% increase in the state income tax and a 45% increase in the corporate tax. The new income-tax rate would add about $1,040 to the tax bill of a family of four earning $60,000 a year, and the new corporate rate would move the state into the top 10 among corporate taxers...

Don't Sign a Petition Email With permission, I post this email circulated in a private company: All, As some of you may have heard since the Presidential election there are currently 32 states that have a petition to Secede from the United States. There may be some of you who are considering signing the petitions but we FSO’s need to remind you that Allegiance to the United States is one of the 13 adjudicative guidelines that DISCO uses to grant you a security clearance and give you access to classified information. For that reason, we strongly suggest you do not...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — A top official with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is optimistic that a nationwide project examining natural gas hydraulic fracturing and potential drinking water impacts will provide comprehensive guidelines to help scientists and the public identify the key issues to focus on. But the industry said past studies have already shown the process is safe. Glenn Paulson, the EPA's science advisor, said Friday that a progress report on the study — mandated by Congress in 2010 — should be released before the end of the year, and a final report in 2014. He spoke at a University...