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Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine leaned on a distinctive chief executive power Thursday evening, ordering state lawmakers back to Columbus for a special session Tuesday and Wednesday to pass legislation that puts current U.S. President Joe Biden on the November ballot. A similar proclamation hasn't been put out by an Ohio governor in nearly 20 years, but DeWine said the situation at hand warranted the extraordinary measure. It follows weeks of back-and-forth, after the Ohio Democratic Party was notified that the Democratic National Committee convention is scheduled later than Ohio's legislative deadline to certify candidates. DeWine called out fellow members of...

Steve Bannon, the former campaign manager for Donald Trump who is now a podcaster on Real America's Voice, is hammering House Republicans, claiming they secretly wish the former president loses to Joe Biden in the 2024 election. ... "Why is [Rep. Jim] Jordan, why does he not have a criminal conspiracy investigation from Fani Willis in Georgia to 'Big Tish James' in New York City?" Bannon railed. "The Justice Department, why they've not been sent letters – 'Preserve your documents.' Why have hearings not gone on? Why have they not broken these things up? You know why. Because they don't...

US man returns from Europe to $143,000 T-Mobile bill for using phone overseas Gigantic bill apparently reflected using 9.5 gigabytes of data on a phone that had not been set up for international roaming Guardian staff Thu 18 Apr 2024 08.52 EDT Share A Florida man was stunned to come back from a European trip and – upon checking his phone bill – realize that he had been charged a staggering $143,000 by his phone company for using his device while overseas. ABC Action News reported that Rene Remund and his wife had toured Switzerland last September and had even...

The Georgia State Election Board admitted to violation of election law in the 2020 election. The State Election Board admitted to this in a recent letter to investigator Joseph Rossi. The Georgia Election Board says in their letter to Rossi, “The matter is in the violation found category.” ... Emerald Robinson at The Absolute Truth on Frank Speech reported late Friday that the long awaited report from an investigation (SEB2023-025) into errors found in both the hand count & a machine count from the 2020 presidential election in Fulton County is officially on the agenda for a May 7th State...

Representative Anna Paulina Luna has called for a rare procedural move to delay the Senate’s consideration of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Section 702 extension, pushing for a new vote in the House of Representatives. This move comes in the wake of the House’s approval of a bill that further empowers the ‘Deep State’ by allowing it to surveil Americans without a warrant. On Friday, the House cast a vote of 273 to 147 in favor of extending Section 702 of FISA, a provision originally enacted in the aftermath of September 11, 2001. This legislation permits U.S. agencies to...

Gallagher announced he will leave in mid-April. If Gallagher would have left before April 9th he would have triggered a special election in his district. Because he is leaving after April 9th but still in April, there will be no special election so the seat will remain empty. This ensures that Republicans will lose another seat in Congress. This is how the Uniparty works. They do everything they can to screw their voters. Dirty Ken Buck already said more Republicans will follow him out of Congress before the year ends. This will give Democrats the majority just as the 2024...

The swamp is back in full force we have a thousand-page Bill of $1.2 trillion filled with all manners of spending priorities that are at odds with the American people. This bill is over a thousand pages long, contains hundreds of pages of report language, 1,400 ear marks, and we've had about 24 hours to review it. That is not the way to do business, and the American people and American families are the ones left holding the bag. This is business as usual in the swamp, and here's the deal to my Republican colleagues: You will own every single...

Thursday, March 21, 2024, shortly after noon, the Battleship New Jersey began traveling down the Delaware River. The ship arrived at Paulsboro Marine Terminal in Paulsboro, New Jersey, just before 4 p.m. for hull preparation. A week later, the historic ship will head to the Philadelphia Navy Yard for historic dry dock maintenance. "This battleship is just a tremendous piece of history," Battleship New Jersey CEO Marshall Spevak said. “This is a once in a generation opportunity really to see the ship move.” When did Battleship NJ depart? The ship left from Camden on March 21 around high tide --...

So I want to know why I shouldn't burn cardboard in the wood stove. I know it makes a lot of ash, but so what? It burns and it's free heat. The cardboard is wood fibers held together with glue or resins, and coloring agents. Those may produce toxic fumes. If the fumes go up the chimney, so what? How is the air pollution from the burning the cardboard worse than the pollution from transporting it elsewhere for some other process that results in pollution? So my biggest question is can burning cardboard damage the stainless steel chimney liner? Burning...

The SS United States is facing eviction from its mooring at Pier 82 in Philadelphia in a lawsuit filed by Penn Warehousing, the pier’s landlord. The ocean liner has been rusting away in the Delaware River since 1996 but has a storied past. In 1952, it broke the once-highly sought record for the fastest transatlantic crossing, the last passenger ship to do so. The SS United States Conservancy, a non-profit attempting to restore the ship, admits that relocation will be necessary but is still aiming to preserve the vessel. The potential eviction stems from rent increases that could be against...

You've probably seen this massive ship here docked at Pier 82 in Philadelphia. It's the SS United States. Once known as the queen of the seas, the vessel's caretakers are sending out an sos as it faces the threat of eviction. There has been an on going dispute between the SS United States conservancy and Penn warehousing about unjust docking fees. The once grand ocean liner is simultaneously knotted in a legal mess. Its fate lies in the hands of a federal judge who could decide the ship must be booted due to hundreds of thousands of dollars in outstanding...

Why did Johnson invite Slow Joe to the People's House for a propaganda speech when he should be either impeached or removed from office as mentally incompetent. The Senate could host the speech, because he is the president of the elites. The Speaker of the House ought not to have hosted this spectacle. Three is no requirement that the House host the speech, which is a modern tradition began by Woodrow Wilson in 1913. FDR gets credit for labeling the speech the "State of the Union" address. President Carter sent his last State of the Union speech in writing to...

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Monday temporarily blocked a judicial decision that would let a Texas law take effect to give state officials broad powers to arrest, prosecute and order the removal of people who illegally cross the border from Mexico. Alito issued his order - requested by Democratic President Joe Biden's administration - after the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Saturday paused a federal judge's ruling that had blocked the Republican-backed Texas law. His order is set to expire on March 13 but he or the full Supreme Court could take further action...

NATO officials have long feared that the Baltic region in northeastern Europe is one of its most vulnerable areas, and if Russia wins in Ukraine, its next move could be to launch an attack on the region. Oscar Jonsson, a defense specialist at the Swedish Defence University, told Business Insider, that Sweden would provide NATO with a large range of new options for striking back. "Sweden will bring the strategic depth needed for launching air operations and missiles against Russian operations, but also be a difficult target across the Baltic Sea," he said. "Moreover, Sweden brings an already interoperable Armed...

As Democratic leaders in cities around the country hand out tens of millions of dollars in ‘safety net’ benefits for migrants who entered the country illegally, one of their key voter constituencies is moving away from the party and President Joe Biden. In addition to losing black voters, according to a top pollster, support for former President Donald Trump’s border wall is now at a record high, the Washington Times reported last week. Donald Trump. His critique that the surge of illegal immigrants is a drain on America rings true to them, said Raghavan Mayur, president of TechnoMetrica Market Intelligence...

Mike Sapraicone won 84% of the New York Republican County Chair vote for Senate Nominee. Sapraicone, who serves as CEO of a private security company, last year had considered a run to unseat Rep. George Santos (R-NY) As The Gateway Pundit reported, Sapraicone is a dirty cop and a bad nominee for Republicans in the Big Apple. While serving with the 114th Precinct Detective Squad, Sapraicone faced at least four complaints alleging unlawful use of force and abuse of authority, and he was accused of suppressing evidence and fabricating a confession in one case where the judge found that the...

WASHINGTON, Feb 6 (Reuters) - Donald Trump does not have immunity from charges he plotted to overturn his 2020 election defeat, a federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday, bringing the former U.S. president a step closer to an unprecedented criminal trial. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit rejected Trump’s claim that he cannot be prosecuted because the allegations relate to his official responsibilities as president. "We cannot accept that the office of the Presidency places its former occupants above the law for all time thereafter," the unanimous panel wrote. The court...

So the Texas National Guard seems to have locked this area down and said okay this is now ours, of course. Border Patrol says yo you can't do this now, obviously. Border Patrol right, they they seem to have said, "Hey listen we're not going to fight the Texas National Guard this is for the courts to decide", and so the overall showdown is between literally between the Texas National Guard, who's currently occupying and has actually put up constantina wire to block border patrol from entering this park and Border Patrol who says, "Hey listen we are empowered to...

First Lady Jill Biden's political advance team was ridiculed on social media after she appeared to speak at a local high school in Utah, named Hunter High. While visiting the Beehive State to attend a fundraiser for President Biden, the first lady stopped by the school in West Valley City, southwest of Salt Lake City, to visit faculty and hear the school choir perform. During her visit, Biden — a former teacher for over 30 years — spoke about the value of education and the importance of educators. But observers on social media were distracted by the rather unfortunate placement...

Joe Biden approved the “Nancy Pelosi budget” to avert a government shutdown after 107 Republican members of the House of Representatives broke ranks to join Democrats without a border deal. ... On Thursday, the House of Representatives successfully passed a stopgap funding bill, averting a partial government shutdown that was set to take effect on Friday, Jan. 19th. The motion was carried with a tally of 314 to 108, with 107 Republicans joining Democrats to vote in favor of the resolution, while 106 Republicans opposed it. ... The Senate approved the bill earlier in the day by a significant margin...