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Oct 20 2023
News
GOP Votes to Drop Jordan as Speaker Nominee in Secret-Ballot Vote
House Republicans voted to drop Jim Jordan as their speaker nominee in a secret-ballot vote on Friday afternoon, shortly after the House Judiciary chairman failed to secure the gavel in a floor vote for the third time this week.
Twenty-five House Republicans joined a united Democratic caucus in opposing Jordan’s third speaker bid on Friday, setting up the secret-ballot vote to strip him
National Review (News)Nov 01 2023
News
Florida cops mocked for ticketing man driving ‘Booty Patrol’ truck they say ‘impersonated law enforcement’
They just couldn’t take being the butt of the joke. A Florida sheriff’s office is being mocked online after a deputy ticketed a driver accused of “impersonating law enforcement” over his humorous “Booty Patrol” truck that resembles a Border Patrol vehicle. The deputy with the DeSoto County Sheriff’s Office pulled over the white Chevy Silverado pickup on Sunday and issued the driver, Gabriel
New York Post (News)Aug 31 2023
Opinion
The real winners of the never-ending Trump psychodrama
The release of former President Donald Trump’s mug shot last week, which plastered his faux-tough guy grimace across every screen in America, did more to solidify his position within the Republican Party than anything he could have done on his own. Indeed, the ongoing persecution and prosecution of Trump is more useful to his political prospects than if he’d bought a Big Mac for every worker
Washington ExaminerDec 14 2023
Opinion
When the New York Times lost its way
"Are we truly so precious?” Dean Baquet, the executive editor of the New York Times, asked me one Wednesday evening in June 2020. I was the editorial-page editor of the Times, and we had just published an op-ed by Tom Cotton, a senator from Arkansas, that was outraging many members of the Times staff. America’s conscience had been shocked days before by images of a white police officer
The EconomistOct 21 2023
News
Republican Reps Furious That Jordan Got 'Knifed' in Speaker Vote: 'This is Not Over'
Well, after this week, a conservative certainly can’t say that the establishment of the party that’s supposed to represent their interests in American politics — the Republican Party — won’t go out of their way to make sure they can’t be trusted by the base. As if Kevin McCarthy’s performance as House speaker wasn’t middling enough, there was the chorus of RINOs braying that Republicans voting
Western JournalFeb 13 2023
News
Officials describe what mysterious UFO they shot down looked like: Report
White House officials have given further details about the unidentified flying object (UFO) that was shot down by the military on Sunday. Michigan Democrat Representative Elissa Slotkin confirmed that on Sunday the U.S. Air Force shot down an unidentified object near Lake Huron. In a Sunday CNN report, White House correspondent Arlette Saenz gave an update on information authorities had
NewsweekAug 14 2023
News
‘Nothing can prepare you’ for devastation of Hawaii wildfire, FEMA administrator says
FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell described harrowing conditions in Maui after wildfires left at least 96 people dead, the deadliest American wildfire in over a century.
“Nothing can prepare you for what I saw during my time here and nothing can prepare them for the emotional toll of the impact that this severe event has taken,” Criswell told reporters at the White House Monday,
CNBCNov 29 2023
Analysis
The big bet on “tiny homes” to fix homelessness
Before she moved into the first shelter village of “tiny houses” in San Francisco, Sharon Sandelin — a 66-year-old who goes by “Mama T” — had been sleeping on the streets.
Now she lives in a 64-square-foot unit with heat, electricity, a twin bed, desk, and chair. There is a combination lock on the outside. The gated community where some 70 other people now live is clean and cheerful-
VoxOct 30 2023
News
Wyoming man dies in single-vehicle rollover Sunday
The incident happened around 1:25 a.m on Oct. 29. near Cody, according to a Wyoming Highway Patrol incident report. A Dodge Dakota was eastbound on US 14-16-20 near mile marker 77 when it left the roadway. The white Dodge first collided with a delineator post and returned to the roadway. As the Dodge entered back onto the roadway, it began to lose control and ultimately became sideways as it
Oil City NewsOct 16 2023
Analysis
Jordan races to lock up votes for Speaker: Live coverage
House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) is gaining momentum as he tries to lock down support for the Speakership, but opposition remains.
Jordan scored key pickups on Monday when four Republicans who had previously publicly opposed him flipped their votes: House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mike Rogers (Ala.) along with Reps. Ann Wagner (Mo.), Ken Calvert (Calif.) and Vern
The Hill