Fetterman calls for Menendez ouster, says actions ‘more sinister’ than Santos 

Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) renewed his call Friday for the Senate to vote to expel Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), calling the criminal allegations against the New Jersey lawmaker “more sinister” than the charges facing Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.), who was just expelled from the House. Fetterman called on Senate colleagues to oust Menendez after…

CNN Reveals Speaker Johnson Wrote the Forward For A Book That Spreads ‘PizzaGate’ Conspiracy Theory And Uses Homophobic Slurs

House Speaker Mike Johnson wrote the introduction and praised a book that promoted conspiracy theories and used homophobic slurs, according a report by CNN. 

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NHL Player Apologizes for ‘Inappropriate’ Behavior That Got Him Cut From Team Amid Rumors He Had an Affair With a Teammate’s Mom

In his first comments since being waived by the Blackhawks, winger Corey Perry denied rumors that he was released due to an affair with a teammate’s mother.

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What to know about the fourth GOP debate

The fourth GOP presidential debate Wednesday will feature the smallest stage yet, with only a handful of candidates set to participate. Eyes will be on Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley as they vie to be the main alternative to front-runner former President Trump. With about six weeks until voting begins…

Bill Gates tells COP28: World likely to overshoot critical warming threshold

Billionaire philanthropist and former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates said Friday the world is likely to overshoot a critical warming threshold for climate change. “Fortunately, we’ve made enough progress [that] we’re not going to have the extreme cases like a 4 degrees [Celsius] warming, but we’ll sadly probably even miss the 2-degree goal. So, we’ll have…

Fetterman Calls For Fellow Democrat Bob Menendez to be Expelled From the Senate: He’s Even More ‘Sinister’ Than Santos

John Fetterman was asked about the expulsion of George Santos while he was on The View, but he was more interested in seeing someone else expelled: fellow Senate Democrat Bob Menendez.

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The Hill’s 12:30 Report — Santos ouster causes headache for Speaker Johnson 

{beacon} 12:30 REPORT It’s Friday — Happy December!! 🎄☃️🎅 What a wildly busy Friday on Capitol Hill today. Here’s what’s on deck today: The House just voted to boot Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) from Congress. This is a big, big deal. The Gavin Newsom-Ron DeSantis debate is the talk of the political world. If you didn’t…

Senate Democrat says he’ll block vote on new NSA, Cyber Command chief

Sen. Rob Wyden (D-Ore.) said he plans to block the confirmation of Lt. Gen. Timothy Haugh as the new leader of the National Security Agency (NSA) and U.S. Cyber Command until the NSA discloses information about surveillance programs. “The American people have a right to know whether the NSA is conducting warrantless domestic surveillance of…

Abby Phillip Breaks Down Why George Santos’s ‘Poor Man’s Donald Trump Impression’ Didn’t Win Over His Fellow Republicans

“Yeah, I mean, I think it’s certainly the limits of it. I mean, it was, it’s a poor man’s Donald Trump impression in some ways,” Phillip said on CNN Friday

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Republicans urge Biden to suspend China travel amid uptick in respiratory illness

Senate Republicans called on President Biden to restrict travel between the U.S. and China in response to a rise in respiratory infections among children in China. Since mid-October, China has reported an increase in respiratory diseases, which officials attributed to the lifting of COVID-19 restrictions. Chinese authorities have said these infections are being fueled by…

Tuberville receives backup from House conservatives as military holds near end 

Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s (R-Ala.) blanket hold on military promotions could be coming to an end in the near future, but conservatives are continuing to voice support for the blockade that has been in place since February. Twenty House members, including several members of the hardline House Freedom Caucus, wrote to Tuberville on Thursday lauding his…

GOP lawmaker says Santos charged his personal credit card without authorization

Rep. Max Miller (R-Ohio) says that newly expelled Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) personally defrauded him and his mother by charging their credit cards without authorization. “Late yesterday on the floor I alluded to a personal impact of Rep. Santos’s conduct,” Miller wrote in a last-minute email to colleagues before Santos’s expulsion vote Friday morning. “Earlier…

How to Fix Our Broken Culture

Recently published projections for the U.S. population from the U.S. Census Bureau present a picture that should concern every American.

It’s a snapshot of a dying society. It’s surprising and shocking that it’s not getting more attention.

The Census…

Santos expelled from House: What comes next

The House voted to expel Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) on Friday, leaving the GOP conference with one fewer lawmaker in an already slim majority. Santos was booted from Congress in a 311-114-2 vote, just weeks after the House Ethics Committee’s damning report said there is “substantial evidence” showing the New York Republican committed serious federal…

North Carolina Medicaid expansion makes nearly 600K now eligible for coverage

Hundreds of thousands of people in North Carolina are eligible for Medicaid benefits beginning Friday, almost a decade after ObamaCare let states expand eligibility. Advocates say North Carolina’s expansion will give much-needed aid to adults who previously earned too much to be eligible for Medicaid but not enough to benefit from federal subsidies to help…

When & How Did Universities Become So Crazy Left?

(Steven Hayward) I was fortunate yesterday to take in part of a two-day conference at AEI in Washington DC in honor of Princeton’s Prof. Robert P. George (Robbie to his friends, but still “Professor George” to me and most other mortals), and in particular a retrospective of his early book published thirty years ago, before he had achieved tenure in Princeton’s political science department, entitled Making Men Moral. It set out a

George Santos Has Finally Been Expelled

After two indictments, a scathing House Ethics report, and countless scandals, George Santos has finally been expelled from the US House of Representatives. On Friday, in a 311-114 vote, the House removed the disgraced New York Republican, making Santos the sixth member of the House to be expelled in US history.  “It’s over,” Santos reportedly told […]

Political Commentator Who Supported DeSantis Says It’s Time to Go All In On Trump, Lists Trump Cabinet Dream Team – Who’s On Yours?

A conservative political commentator who had initially listed Florida Governor Ron DeSantis as his preferred candidate in 2024 is saying […]

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Appeals court rules Trump doesn’t have immunity from civil suits over Jan. 6 riots

Former President Trump is not immune from civil lawsuits blaming him for the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, an appeals court ruled Friday. A three-judge panel affirmed that presidents can carry out their official duties without exposure to civil liabilities, but when they are not acting in that capacity, the protection doesn’t…

DOJ asked to investigate water utility hack

Three members of Pennsylvania’s congressional delegation have asked the Department of Justice to investigate how foreign hackers breached a water authority near Pittsburgh which prompted warnings to other water treatment facilities. In a letter released Thursday, Democratic Sens. John Fetterman and Bob Casey and Rep. Chris Deluzio (D), said Americans must know their drinking water…

‘Madame Vice President To You!’ Gavin Newsom Confronts Trump Rival For Mispronouncing ‘Kamala’ At Fox Debate

Gavin Newsom called out Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) at a Fox News debate for mispronouncing VP Kamala Harris’s name, which he does on a consistent basis.

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Elon Isn’t Perfect, But He’s Right

(John Hinderaker) Elon Musk provoked a firestorm by agreeing with a tweet that many construed as anti-Semitic: Musk subsequently described his tweet as “foolish” and “literally the worst and dumbest post that I’ve ever done.” Nevertheless, it, together with a smear by Media Matters that purported to show prominent advisers that their ads were showing up adjacent to neo-Nazi content (they were, but only on Media Matters’ computers, having twisted the X

Sandra Day O’Connor, first woman to serve on Supreme Court, dies at 93

Retired Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court and who emerged as the swing vote on some of the court’s biggest cases, died Friday. She was 93. O’Connor’s died of “complications related to advanced dementia, probably Alzheimer’s, and a respiratory illness,” the court announced in a statement. Just over…

Biden campaign hits Trump on Medicaid as North Carolina implements expansion

The Biden campaign seized on the expansion of Medicaid coverage in North Carolina on Friday to blast former President Trump over his renewed vow to get rid of the Affordable Care Act, potentially threatening health care coverage for millions of Americans. “Elections have consequences and today, because the people of North Carolina elected Governor Roy…