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November 2, 2024

Private Sector Jobs Vanish into Thin Air While Feds Add Even More Workers to Payroll

The private sector hemorrhaged jobs in October while the federal government expanded its workforce to even bigger levels, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released Friday. The U.S. economy lost 28,000 private sector jobs while the...

November 2, 2024

Commentary: America’s Adversaries Are Rooting for Kamala Harris

Although America’s ferociously anti-Trump media refuses to admit it, there is a powerful group of people who cannot vote in the U.S. presidential election but are rooting for Kamala Harris to win: the leaders of China, Russia, Iran, North Korea,...

November 2, 2024

Music Spotlight Artists Shine at the Josie Awards

The Josie Music Awards 2024 winners were announced on October 27 at the Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville, Tennessee. Click here for the complete list of winners. The Josie Music Awards is the largest music award show in the...

November 2, 2024

Texas Sees 51 Percent Drop in Border Apprehensions After Operation Lone Star Expands

Border Patrol apprehensions of illegal border crossers in Texas dropped 51% in one year, according to federal data. The stark decline comes after Gov. Greg Abbott expanded Operation Lone Star border security efforts in the state. In fiscal 2023, Border Patrol...

November 1, 2024

Biden-Harris Admin Adds Nearly No Jobs in Last Report Before Election

The U.S. added 12,000 nonfarm payroll jobs in October as the unemployment rate remained unchanged, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data released Friday. Economists expected 110,000 jobs to be added in October, far lower than the initially reported 254,000 job gain in September,...

November 1, 2024

White House Press Office Doctored Transcript of Joe Biden Calling Trump Supporters ‘Garbage’ over Stenographer’s Objections

The White House press office altered the official transcript of Joe Biden insulting Trump supporters over the objections of the White House stenographer, according to two government officials, and an email obtained by the Associated Press. House Republicans have launched an investigation...

November 1, 2024

Polls Show Sherrod Brown Has Slight Lead in Ohio Senate Race

Democratic Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown holds a slim lead while outspending his Republican opponent, Bernie Moreno, nearly four-to-one in one of the most expensive Senate races this cycle. Ohio’s Senate race is currently the most expensive in the country, totaling...

November 1, 2024

Secret Service Brass Interfered in Inspector General Assassination Probe

Secret Service leaders meddled in an independent government investigation of the July 13 assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump and are still not following many basic agency security protocols for presidential candidates, presidents, and vice presidents in the final...

November 1, 2024

Commentary: Once Joyful Harris Now Goes the Full McCarthy (Never Go ‘Full McCarthy’)

In the last two weeks, Kamala Harris has been trying to revive her stagnant campaign by smearing Trump as being Hitlerian and a fascist. She claims Trump is planning to put his enemies in encampments.

November 1, 2024

Commentary: Tim Walz’s Progressive Education Policies Could Doom Harris

Donald Trump currently holds a razor-thin 0.6 percent lead over Kamala Harris in the RealClearPolitics Polling Average for Pennsylvania. With this key swing state potentially deciding the outcome of the Electoral College, Democrats can only wonder how different the polls might look...

November 1, 2024

Faculty at JD Vance’s Alma Mater Ohio State University Donate 100 Times More to Democrats than Republicans

Nearly all of explicitly partisan donations from faculty at the Ohio State University appear to have gone to Democratic candidates or aligned causes, according to an analysis by The College Fix. Professors at Ohio’s largest university gave $302,982.90 to Democratic candidates...

October 31, 2024

‘They Just Want To Be Left The Hell Alone:’ JD Vance Tells Joe Rogan He and Trump Could Win ‘Normal Gay Guy Vote’

Republican Sen. JD Vance of Ohio said during a Thursday interview with podcaster Joe Rogan that he and former President Donald Trump could win the “normal gay guy” vote.

October 31, 2024

Soros-Backed D.A. Trying to Pull Elon Musk Off Campaign Trail, Legal Expert Says

George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley said Thursday that Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner’s suit against Tesla CEO Elon Musk was “transparently political.”

October 31, 2024

Air Force Officials Paid About 8,000% More Than They Should Have on Soap Dispensers for Aircrafts, Watchdog Finds

The Air Force has been overpaying for basic soap dispensers for its aircraft fleet — to the tune of nearly $150,000 in extra costs, according to the Pentagon’s watchdog agency. The Department of Defense’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) launched...

October 31, 2024

Republican Gov. Mike DeWine Bemoans Lost ‘Economic Progress’ if Haitians Leave Springfield

Ohio GOP Gov. Mike DeWine claimed that the economic progress made in Springfield would be lost if the thousands of Haitians currently living there were to leave. Springfield attracted widespread media attention following viral online claims about Haitian migrants allegedly...

October 31, 2024

U.S. Economic Growth Was Weaker than Expected in Third Quarter

The U.S. economy grew at a rate of 2.8% in the third quarter of 2024, according to Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) statistics released Wednesday. The growth in the third quarter comes after a better-than-expected 3.0% growth rate in the second quarter of...

October 31, 2024

Commentary: The Left Wants to Delegitimize the Supreme Court

The Biden-Harris administration has made undermining trust in institutions a central tactic. While they claim to fight authoritarianism, their real battle is against the checks and balances that limit their power. For them, separation of powers, Article III, and the First Amendment are...

October 31, 2024

‘Cannot Continue’: Major Automaker Hits the Gas on Cost Cuts amid Tepid EV Demand, Increased Chinese Competition

Volkswagen (VW) said Wednesday that it needs to cut costs amid slackening consumer demand for electric vehicles (EVs) and weaker car sales in China. VW’s profits fell 64% in the third quarter of 2024, driving the company’s share price to its lowest level since...

October 31, 2024

Music Spotlight: Colonel Cobalt

Music Spotlight artist Austin Moody was the first to tell me about Colonel Cobalt. Then, when B! Noticed PR messaged me about him, I decided to check him out. The first song they sent me was "Phatt." Their sound reminded...

October 30, 2024

From ‘Deplorables’ to ‘Nazis’ to ‘Garbage,’ Democrats Embrace Insults, Intolerance in the Trump Era

Since former President Donald Trump’s first presidential run in 2016, his opponents have thrown an endless series of derogatory terms toward him and supporters. But while some terms attracted scandal eight years ago and even energized the Trump base, the...

October 30, 2024

Pennsylvania Judge Accelerates Elon Musk Giveaway Lawsuit, Will Hold Hearing on Thursday

A Philadelphia judge on Wednesday rescheduled and relocated a hearing on Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner’s lawsuit seeking to halt Elon Musk's $1 million giveaway to swing state voters. Krasner sued Musk and his America PAC on Monday, claiming that its $1...

October 30, 2024

Congress to Subpoena ActBlue as Feds Confirm Suspicious Activity Tied to Democrat Fundraising

House investigators prepared Wednesday to subpoena the Democrat donations platform ActBlue in a rapidly expanding probe into possible illicit foreign funding in the 2024 election after the Treasury Department confirmed to Congress its money laundering detection system has generated hundreds...

October 30, 2024

GOP Lawmakers Urge Biden Admin to Investigate Dem Rep. with Deep China Ties

Republican lawmakers called on the Biden administration to launch an investigation into a Chinese civic association linked to a New York Democratic congresswoman on Wednesday, according to a letter exclusively obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. Reps. Jim Banks...

October 30, 2024

Catholic Hospital Forced to Provide Emergency Abortions After California AG’s Lawsuit

A Catholic hospital in California has agreed to provide emergency abortions after the state Attorney General sued the hospital in September for allegedly breaking state laws. California AG Rob Bonta sued Providence St. Joseph Hospital’s Eureka location, claiming that the hospital illegally...

October 30, 2024

Pro-Palestinian Messages Reportedly Found on Devices at Ballot Box Fires

Devices recovered at two ballot box fires in the Pacific Northwest reportedly both contained pro-Palestinian messaging, according to The New York Times. The words “Free Gaza,” were reportedly emblazoned on the devices that presumably caused the fires Monday in Portland,...

October 30, 2024

Microsoft Plans Three New Data Centers in Ohio

Microsoft plans to spend $1 billion to build three data centers in Central Ohio, and the state is kicking in tax breaks for the project. Eventually, according to Microsoft, the entire project could create hundreds of full-time jobs at the...

October 30, 2024

Supreme Court Rules to Allow Virginia to Remove Suspected Non-Citizens from Voter Rolls

The Supreme Court allowed Virginia on Wednesday to remove individuals identified as noncitizens from the voter rolls.

October 30, 2024

Medical Schools Are Politicizing Health Care, Putting Lives ‘On the Line,’ Watchdog Warns

The report “Activism Instead of Anatomy” from Do No Harm states that diversity, equity, and inclusion politics are crowding out scientific medical education at many schools across the country. “If medical schools are short-changing rigorous training in science for the political indoctrination...

October 30, 2024

Navy Reserve Commander Sentenced for Helping Afghan Nationals Obtain Visas into US In Exchange for Bribes

A federal court on Monday sentenced an American Navy Reserve officer to two-and-a-half years in prison for his role in helping Afghan nationals obtain special visas into the United States in exchange for cash. Jeromy Pittmann, a 53-year-old U.S. Navy...

October 30, 2024

Commentary: The Cool Kids Are Voting for Trump

It is hard for highly ideological people, including me, to understand undecided voters. But some of it seems to come down to the “cool” factor. Cool candidates win and uncool candidates do not.