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Former President Donald Trump was booed by his own supporters during a rally in Cullman, Alabama Saturday night after he encouraged the crowd to get vaccinated against COVID-19. "I believe totally in your freedoms, I do, you gotta do what you gotta do, but I recommend take the vaccines. I did it. It's good," he said, drawing loud boos from the crowd of supporters. "That's okay, that's alright," Trump continued, brushing off the disapproval. "But I happen to take the vaccine. If it doesn't work, you'll be the first to know. But it is working. You do have your freedoms,...

Many knew that we would not have immediate election results to determine who the next president of the United States would be. Now, four days later, we have just received a final determination, however, the amount of illegal activity surrounding the votes and the counting of the ballots is astronomical. Many GOP leaders have been staying tight-lipped about all of it, and it is not going unnoticed. As President Trump and his team are laying the framework for a historic legal battle over the extreme bias and down right unlawful compromise of the election system, the “deafening” silence from key...

NEW YORK, Aug 27 (Reuters) - Moody's Investors Service on Monday changed its outlook on the New York Times Co. (NYT.N: Quote, Profile, Research) to negative, from stable, citing increased pressure on the publisher's advertising from other media as well as from a downturn in the housing market. A negative outlook indicates the company's debt is likely to be downgraded over the next 12 to 18 months. The New York Times is currently ranked "Baa1," the third-lowest investment grade rating. "The negative rating outlook results from increased pressure on the company's retail and classified advertising from cross media competition and...

Never underestimate the power of the blogosphere and a quarter of a degree to inflame the fight over global warming.A quarter-degree Fahrenheit is roughly the downward adjustment NASA scientists made earlier this month in their annual estimates of the average temperature in the contiguous 48 states since 2000. They corrected the numbers after an error in meshing two sets of temperature data was discovered by Stephen McIntyre, a blogger and retired business executive in Toronto. Smaller adjustments were made to some readings for some preceding years.All of this would most likely have passed unremarkably if Mr. McIntyre had not blogged...

...snip...The Big Media are a mob. That should be Politics 101. They are a tiny, unchecked power elite, locked into life-long careers in the remnant of a crumbling monopoly over America's national conversation....snip...It's all very effective; with a more truthful media the Democrats wouldn't stand a chance in electoral politics. The entire American Left owes its existence and power to the Media Mob.

Publishing Advertising Revenues Decline 10.3%; Television Revenues Down 3.7% CHICAGO, Aug. 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Tribune Company (NYSE: TRB - News) today reported its summary of revenues and newspaper advertising volume for period 7, ended Aug. 5, 2007. Consolidated revenues for the period were $467 million, down 5.9 percent from last year's $496 million. Publishing revenues in July were $319 million compared with $349 million last year, down 8.6 percent. Advertising revenues decreased 10.3 percent to $247 million, compared with $275 million in July 2006. -- Retail advertising revenues decreased 6.0 percent with the largest declines in the department stores and...

By DEAN SCHABNER July 27, 2005 -- For Sonya Dias, when the choice came down to leaving the city she loved and the Victorian home she had painstakingly restored or giving up her dog, there was no contest. Her house is on the market and her bags are packed, because Denver says she cannot keep her beloved pet, a pit bull named Gryffindor. After several high-profile pit bull attacks, the city enacted a law banning the breed, but Dias insists concern about her pet is unwarranted.