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For a quarterback, the hardest part about playing a road game is trying to call signals over the din of the opposing team’s fans. President Trump is leading this country on a game-winning drive despite the ear-splitting roar coming from the Democrats and liberal media personalities sitting in the cheap seats. As a lifelong businessman whose first foray into politics was winning the presidency in 2016, Donald Trump is kind of like the old-school barnstormers who were always the “away” team, contending with opponents (the Democrats) playing on familiar turf (the D.C. swamp) with the backing of a supportive...

Russian social media trolls working to boost the candidacy of now-President Donald Trump celebrated the real estate mogul’s win on election night 2016 with champagne, according to a message disclosed in a new report from the Republican-led Senate Intelligence Committee. According to the committee’s report, released Tuesday, an employee of Russia’s Internet Research Agency sent a message indicating that they “uncorked a tiny bottle of champagne” when they found out that Trump had won. “We uttered almost in unison: ‘We made America great.’” The exchange was highlighted by Bloomberg. Robert Mueller’s extensive special counsel investigation laid out a mountain of...

SACRAMENTO — Californians will be able to register to vote on election day at local polling places and voting centers under legislation signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday, a potentially significant step toward boosting turnout in key contests next year. The new law provides for a significant expansion of so-called conditional voter registration, which allows a new voter to cast a ballot that is counted after eligibility is determined during the 30-day vote-counting period after an election. That process began in last year’s statewide election, but registration was available only in county elections offices. Starting next year, voters can...

The latest standoff between House Democrats and the Trump administration over the testimony of State Department officials has the White House questioning in a new letter sent Tuesday why the House is not voting to authorize a formal impeachment inquiry. The White House and its Republican congressional allies have argued that such a vote is necessary, and President Donald Trump's lawyers told House Democrats in the letter that the President and his administration won't cooperate in the ongoing impeachment inquiry, arguing the proceedings amount to an illegitimate effort to overturn the 2016 election results. The lengthy letter all but dares...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Johnson & Johnson must pay $8 billion in punitive damages to a man who previously won $680,000 over his claims that it failed to warn that young men using its antipsychotic drug Risperdal could grow breasts, a Philadelphia jury said on Tuesday.

John Kerry's comments on foreign leaders during 2004 election season resurface amid Trump-Ukraine controversy After former President Bill Clinton’s request for help from a foreign official resurfaced Monday, now it's John Kerry’s turn in the spotlight. On Tuesday’s edition of “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” the host flashed back to a 2004 comment from Kerry, then a candidate for president, claiming foreign leaders told him how much they wanted him to oust then-President George W. Bush. “John Kerry has been talking to anyone who will listen about the president’s shocking behavior with Ukraine,” Carlson said on his show Tuesday night, before turning...

Congratulations Ed Meese, recipient of the Medal of Freedom!  And thank you, President Trump! pic.twitter.com/la42k5vH4k— Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) October 9, 2019

For the first time, it may be appropriate to refer to Joe Biden as the “former front-runner” or at least as “the co-front-runner.” The most-quoted source of polling averages, RealClearPolitics, has had Biden at the top of its Democratic presidential list since it began compiling such averages in December 2018 (five months before he formally entered the race). Today its two-week averages show Elizabeth Warren overtaking the former veep in national surveys with 26.6 percent to his 26.4 percent.

Samuel Adams, born Sept. 27, 1722, was known as "The Father of the American Revolution." Spreading the slogan "No taxation without representation," Sam Adams instigated the Stamp Act Riots in 1765. In 1770, after the Boston Massacre, where British soldiers fired into a crowd, killing five and wounding six, Sam Adams spread Revolutionary sentiment with his network of Committees of Correspondence. In 1772, Sam Adams wrote in "The Rights of the Colonists," section "The Rights of the Colonist as Subjects": "Government has no right to absolute, arbitrary power over the lives and fortunes of the people; nor can mortals assume...

Two Florida men are accused of capturing an alligator from the side of the road, holding it down, and pouring beer down the reptile's throat - while one of the men encouraged it to bite his arm. Timothy Kepke, 27, and Noah Osborne, 22, allegedly filmed the incident around 10pm on August 26 in Palm City. In a police report, Kepke claimed Osborne grabbed the animal with his bare hands from the side of the road. Kepke was apparently bitten by the animal on his right forearm before pouring the beer down its throat, but it's not clear how serious...

Trump campaign claims victory in battle with leftist mayor over Minneapolis rally expenses

A drag queen performed a strip tease for a group of children at the King County Library in WA State, because apparently, that’s where our society’s at now. And make no mistake: it’s coming for you.

Business Podcast: We discuss the economy report that recently came out. We also discuss the sentiment that Christians and conservatives need to build another social media platform...

Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, October 8, 2019 Washington Man Pleads Guilty to Advertising Videos and Images of Children Being Sexually Abused A Washington, D.C., man pleaded guilty today to advertising child pornography.Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Jessie K. Liu of the District of Columbia and Assistant Director in Charge Timothy R. Slater of the FBI’s Washington Field Office made the announcement.Simon Walker, 33, was charged in July 2018 with one count of advertising child pornography and one count of distributing child pornography.  According to...

When Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., sued Twitter in Virginia court in March for negligence over multiple cases of defamation and impersonation by the social media giant’s users, he was mocked and laughed at for thinking his case would accomplish anything. But following a Virginia judge’s ruling last week that Nunes’ suit could proceed to trial in the Old Dominion, it may be Nunes who gets the last laugh. Nunes, who was first elected to Congress 2002, rose to prominence following the 2016 election as the chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI). With Nunes leading the charge...

Actor and former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said Monday that "I could" vote for Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. in the 2020 presidential election. "I would just have to see what her program is, what her vision is for the future of America because I think the most important thing is we keep America number one,” Schwarzenegger told "The Howard Stern Show," according to The Hill.

Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, October 8, 2019 Three Gangster Disciples Leaders Convicted of Racketeering Conspiracy, Attempted Murder and Other Crimes   A federal jury has convicted three leaders of the Gangster Disciples (GD) national criminal organization of offenses including racketeering conspiracy (RICO) involving murder, attempted murder in aid of racketeering, drug trafficking conspiracy and other crimes.Lewis Mobley, 42, of Atlanta, Georgia, was convicted of RICO conspiracy, including a sentencing enhancement for murder and a sentencing enhancement for drugs; committing an attempted murder in aid of racketeering and using a firearm to do so and possessing...

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP/VICE PRESIDENT MIKE PENCE and AMERICA: Government, Family, Military, Business, Education, Churches, and the Media. This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. 1 JOHN 5:14 Religion Forum threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind.

Donald Trump is so paranoid about leaks coming from the White House that he continuously talks about wanting to have everyone who works in the building subjected to a polygraph (lie detector) test, former officials say. As Politico reports, Donald Trump publically puts on a brave face when it comes to leaks coming from the White House. He suggests that the leakers are spies who deserve to be executed for treason. He refers to unflattering media accounts of his White House as “fake news.” He attacks reporters by name.

The company's communities are in chaos and US senators are taking notice, following the suspension of a pro 'Hearthstone' player who declared support for Hong Kong's protest movement. Outrage at Activision Blizzard is mounting after the company suspended Hearthstone pro Chung “Blitzchung” Ng Wai for declaring his support of Hong Kong’s protest movement. Fans are mad, U.S. politicians are angry, and there’s evidence that even Blizzard’s employees are upset. United States Senators Marco Rubio (R-Florida) and Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) both tweeted their condemnation of Activision Blizzard’s actions on Tuesday. “Blizzard shows it is willing to humiliate itself to please the...