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• Registered Democrat Placed Under Arrest After Poll Worker Finds Suspicious Message on a Voting Machine

  08-11-2022 23:45
  With election day finally upon us, election officials are sure to be on the lookout for any illegal tampering with election equipment to sway the result.
  Pueblo County, Colorado officials have happened upon one such instance, a poll worker named Richard Patton, who has been charged with a class 5 felony after attempting to interfere with a voting machine.
  The Pueblo Police Department confirmed the arrest on their Facebook page:According to CBS news, Patton, a registered Democrat, allegedly inser
  
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• Op-Ed: The Real Divide in Washington Goes All the Way Back to Genesis

  08-11-2022 23:35
  The book of Genesis is foundational to developing a biblical worldview. This book sets the stage for the 65 following books of the Bible. Herein the big questions of life are answered.
  Questions regarding the meaning of our existence cannot be answered satisfactorily apart from revelation regarding the origins of life.
  Take, for example, the debate between creation and evolution. Was the world created by God, or did it evolve from a single cell that evolutionists have yet to explain that was flo
  
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• Voting Problems Hit Pennsylvania: Voters Switched to Casting Provisional Ballots - Report

  08-11-2022 23:18
  Election officials in Pennsylvania — a state already at the center of attention, given the high stakes of the outcome — faced unexpected problems with voting machines Tuesday morning after a paper shortage was reported.
  According to WNEP-TV, voters in Luzerne County told the outlet that some of the voting machines had run out of paper. As a result, those voters were reportedly instructed to fill out provisional ballots while election officials drove to nearby areas to retrieve extra
  
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• Co-Founder of Country Band Alabama Dies, 'Heaven Gained Another Guitar/Fiddle Player Today'

  08-11-2022 22:57
  Guitarist Jeff Cook, who co-founded the successful country group Alabama and steered them up the charts with such hits as “Song of the South” and “Dixieland Delight,” has died. He was 73.
  Cook had Parkinson’s disease and disclosed his diagnosis in 2017. He died Tuesday at his home in Destin, Florida, said Don Murry Grubbs, a representative for the band.
  Tributes poured in from country stars, including Travis Tritt, who called Cook “a great guy and one heckuva
  
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• Watch: Arizona Voters Allegedly Turned Away from Polling Place as Tabulation Machine Debacle Continues

  08-11-2022 22:55
  Midterm election day is here and in Maricopa County, Arizona, there have been issues with some of the machines.
  The Wall Street Journal reported that there are 223 voting stations in Maricopa County (the county that holds Phoenix), but that about a fifth of the locations are having problems with the voting tabulation machines.
  Maricopa County officials told KSAZ-TV that technicians have been sent out to try to fix the machines.
  Meanwhile, Bill Gates (not the billionaire), who is the chairman of
  
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• Activists Bailed Out Accused Criminals, Then Asked Them to Canvass for Dem Candidate: Report

  08-11-2022 22:47
  The bail reform-supporting Texas Organizing Project reportedly paid alleged criminals to work in support of Democratic Bexar County District Attorney Joe Gonzales’ campaign after bailing them out of jail.
  Some people the TOP bailed out of jail were being paid $20 per hour to canvass for them, staff member Greg Williams said in a recorded phone call with a man pretending to be a Bexar County inmate bailed out by the organization, according to WOAI-TV.
  “We have certain asks of people t
  
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• Red Wave Begins: GOP Wins Seat That Has Been Held by Dems for Nearly 30 Years

  08-11-2022 22:30
  For the first time in more than 30 years, a Republican has won the contest to represent Guam as a non-voting delegate to the House of Representatives.
  Republican James Moylan defeated Democrat Judi Won Pat, with all 67 of the island’s precincts reporting, according to the Pacific Daily News.
  A partial and unofficial tally from the Guam Election Commission showed Moylan with 17,075 votes against 15,427 votes for Won Pat.
  Moylan earned 52.19 percent of the votes to 47.15 percent for Won Pat.
  
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• Longtime Political Observer Identifies Most Pressing Questions Midterms Will Answer

  08-11-2022 22:29
  Fox News contributor and former President George W. Bush’s chief speechwriter Marc Thiessen identified some key questions Tuesday’s midterm elections will answer.
  Thiessen wrote in The Washington Post that one of the interesting ones will be if the Trump-backed U.S. Senate candidates — including Hershel Walker in Georgia, J.D. Vance in Ohio, Mehmet Oz in Pennsylvania, Don Bolduc in New Hampshire and Blake Masters in Arizona — win their races.
  The Real Clear Politics avera
  
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• Florida Medical Boards Draw Line in the Sand on Transgender Procedures

  08-11-2022 22:14
  The use of permanent transgender medical procedures will now be banned in Florida.
  Two state medical boards have voted to bar the use of puberty blockers, hormone treatments and gender reassignment surgeries for minors.
  Florida’s Board of Medicine and Board of Osteopathic Medicine passed two different rules banning the procedures on Friday, according to the Washington Examiner.
  The Board of Osteopathic Medicine’s rule has an exception for individuals already enrolled in a Food and Dr
  
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• Video: Trump Walks Out of Polling Place, Tells Reporters What Was On His Ballot

  08-11-2022 22:04
  Election day is here and former President Donald Trump voted in Florida, and on his way out he commented briefly to the press and revealed that he voted for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for governor.
  Videos that are circulating on Twitter show Trump and his wife Melania coming out of a Palm Beach polling location.
  “Did you vote for Governor DeSantis?” a reporter is heard asking in one video.
  “Yes, I did,” Trump responded over his shoulder, speaking over the wind that his mic
  
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• Bill Maher Goes Off the Rails, Claims Democracy Will End on Election Day

  08-11-2022 21:42
  Talk show host and “HBO star” Bill Maher reminded the world again this week that he’s as intellectually dishonest as he is hypocritical.
  The atheist “comedian” went on a deranged rant this week dooming the midterm election results in the face of an undeniable “red wave” of conservative candidates and “election deniers” gaining traction in the polls.
  If a “red-wave” did truly hit the ballot boxes this week, the country would likely
  
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• AOC Gets Pushed Around By Her Followers, Apologizes After 2 Words 'Fall Off' Her Instagram Bio

  08-11-2022 21:17
  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez had to apologize for a problem.
  It was an accident, she said, and she fixed it as quickly as possible.
  What was AOC’s offense? Making absurd statements? No, she usually gets a pass there. Keeping Amazon out of her district and costing jobs? Nobody seems to care about that.
  Not respecting the traditions and nobility of our country? She’s a Democrat, so that’s not an issue.
  The grand offense Ocasio-Cortez committed was this: Someone noticed she did not ha
  
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• RNC Committeeman Posts Photo of Disturbing Way His AZ Ballot Was Printed

  08-11-2022 21:08
  Arizona Republican National Committee member Tyler Bowyer said that the tabulator where he went to vote would not accept his ballot because the print quality was too poor.
  “I just voted in person in MESA & this is how it printed,” he tweeted.
  “The reader rejected it & had we not inspected the ballot before voting we likely would have been told just to leave the ballot behind. The Poll Chief reprinted a new ballot. She said this is an ongoing issue with printers!”
  
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• Kari Lake Advises Voters to Cast Ballots in Democrat Areas After Noticing Suspicious Problem in Republican Strongholds

  08-11-2022 20:37
  Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake encouraged her supporters to go to Democratic strongholds in Maricopa County to vote after ballot tabulation machines in other parts of the county malfunctioned.
  Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer and Maricopa County Board of Supervisors Chairman Bill Gates confirmed about 1 in 5 of the ballot tabulation machines were not working as of Tuesday morning.
  Maricopa County is Arizona’s most populous, encompassing the Phoenix metropolitan area.
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• 'Mattress Mack' Gets Historic 8-Figure World Series Payout After Betting on His Hometown

  08-11-2022 20:29
  Jim McIngvale, known throughout Texas as “Mattress Mack,” raked in a multi-million payday when he chanced that the Houston Astros would win Major League Baseball’s 2022 World Series.
  Ahead of Saturday’s big game, the 71-year-old Houston area businessman placed ten million in bets that the Astros would win it all, KBMT reported.
  They did, beating the Phillies in Game 6, concluding the series with the Astros taking the series four games to two and giving McIngvale a hu
  
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• 'Job Well Done': Police Responding to Public Indecency Call End Up Going Shopping for Suspect

  08-11-2022 19:43
  You never know what you’re going to see on Halloween. It’s the one day of the year that going all out and dressing up like familiar or shocking characters is embraced and celebrated.
  But locals in one area of Atlanta got a different sort of scare when they encountered a man dressed in clothes far too small for his frame, resulting in a multitude of indecent exposure calls.
  Officer Nguyen and trainee Officer Prophete with the Atlanta Police Department responded and found the man weari
  
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• Missouri Sec of State Tells DOJ to Go Home, Says Voters Will Not Be Intimidated by Feds on Election Day

  08-11-2022 19:26
  One Missouri county generated headlines in the lead-up to the midterm elections after county leaders were informed that the U.S. Department of Justice informed it that it would be dispatching poll watchers from its Civil Rights Division to monitor voting on Election Day.
  According to KTTN-TV, Cole County Clerk Steve Korsmeyer opened a letter sent from Teresa Moore, the U.S. attorney for Missouri’s western district, who had informed Korsmeyer that her office had received complaints stemming
  
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• Kari Lake Issues Urgent Instructions to Voters Who 'Have Already Checked In' at Polling Places

  08-11-2022 19:18
  The Republican candidate for Arizona governor, former Phoenix news anchor Kari Lake, shared instructions with voters amidst Arizona’s Tuesday-morning election turmoil.
  Early Tuesday morning, reports began indicating that voting tabulators in Maricopa County were failing.
  County officials claim 20 percent of voting locations have malfunctioning tabulators.
  If unable to drop their ballots within a tabulator, voters have three options, according to Maricopa County Board of Supervisors Ch
  
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• Breaking: 1 in 5 Polling Locations Goes Down in Major Battleground State County

  08-11-2022 19:07
  Ballot tabulation machines in about 20 percent of the polling stations in Maricopa County, Arizona, were not working as of Tuesday morning.
  KSAZ-TV in Phoenix reported, “While the specific addresses and number of locations having issues have not been confirmed, the Maricopa County Recorder’s Officer says technicians have been called to fix the precinct tabulator machines that aren’t working.”
  The Maricopa County Elections Department tweeted, “Advice for Voters: If a
  
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• Accused Paul Pelosi Attacker Gets Best News of His Week - Leftist DA Not Playing Ball with Feds

  08-11-2022 18:58
  District Attorney Brooke Jenkins is refusing to hand over accused Paul Pelosi attacker David DePape to federal officials, citing San Franciso’s status as a sanctuary city for immigrants.
  The 42-year-old DePape allegedly attacked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband in their home on Oct. 28. Police responded to a 911 call at around 2:30 a.m. and said they found the two men struggling over a hammer. They said DePape wrested the hammer free and then allegedly hit Pelosi in the head with
  
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• Election Alert: Votes Being Collected and Moved to Fortified Location for Counting

  08-11-2022 18:46
  Election Day had barely begun Tuesday when troubles befell polling places in Arizona’s Maricopa County, a region that already has a bad reputation when it comes to voting.
  Before the morning’s voting was even fairly underway, voters began posting alerts on social media that there are problems at their polling places.
  Conservative commentator Benny Johnson, for one, found a tweet by a voter in Maricopa County who was shocked to find that scanning machines were not working there.
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• Crypto exchange Binance to buy struggling rival FTX

  08-11-2022 18:43 via cnn.com
  
  In an unexpected twist, the cryptocurrency exchange Binance said it is buying its rival FTX after the firm faced a liquidity crisis.
  
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• A plan to tax the rich to fund electric cars is on the ballot in California

  08-11-2022 18:42 via cnn.com
  
  California has long been a leader among states, and even countries, in promoting a shift to electric cars, including with its plans to ban the sale of purely gas-powered cars by 2035. But now Californians are voting on a ballot proposal that promises to accelerate that shift even more by taxing the wealthiest Californians to help pay for electric vehicle tax incentives and EV chargers in the state.
  
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• 'Sounds Suspicious': Mysterious Delay Halts Record $1.9 Billion Powerball Drawing, Putting Players On Edge

  08-11-2022 18:33
  With an estimated record $1.9 billion jackpot, Monday night’s scheduled Powerball drawing left players confused.
  According to CNN, that’s because Powerball officials didn’t draw any numbers. As of Monday night and early Tuesday morning, the Powerball website stated only that the drawing was supposed to take place on “November 7, 2022 @10:59 PM EST,” and added “Results Pending” below the message, sparking a wave of skepticism on social media.
  “We lo
  
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• Red Wave Fear Enrages Biden, Takes Out Midterm Anger on Staffer After Calling Protesters 'Idiots': Report

  08-11-2022 18:14
  President Joe Biden let his anger over Democrats’ projected midterm losses boil over and lost his temper on a high-ranking staffer, sources familiar with the matter told Bloomberg.
  Reports of the outburst come as Democrats take turns pointing fingers over the expected red wave in Tuesday’s elections. Biden is known for letting his anger flare in front of aides, and he reportedly lost his temper at Brian Deese, director of Biden’s National Economic Council. Bloomberg reported, c
  
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• Video: Voting Issues Hit Arizona, Poll Worker Delivers Bad News About Machines to Waiting Voters

  08-11-2022 18:09
  Several pictures and videos posted on social media early Tuesday morning show various Arizona polling stations encountering issues as voters attempted to cast their ballots.
  In one such video posted to Twitter by Tyler Bowyer, chief operating officer of the conservative group Turning Point USA and a member of the Republican National Committee, a poll worker explained to voters in Maricopa County that the voting machines are not working.
  The video was recorded in Anthem, Arizona, at a polling sta
  
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• Elon Musk Reveals Huge Turn: Twitter Has Reached an 'All Time High'

  08-11-2022 17:57
  As the social media world continues to adjust to Elon Musk’s ownership of Twitter, Musk just announced that Twitter use has actually hit a record.
  “Twitter usage is at an all-time high lol,” Musk tweeted on Monday.Twitter usage is at an all-time high lol
  — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 8, 2022The technology news site The Verge has looked into Twitter use since Musk’s takeover. On Monday, it reported that an internal company document showed that the number of Twitte
  
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• 'We Need New Leadership': AZ Candidate Masters Announces Which GOP Leaders Need to Go

  08-11-2022 17:53
  Republican Arizona Senate candidate Blake Masters believes that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell should be replaced with “new leadership,” according to The Wall Street Journal.
  “I certainly think we need new leadership,” Masters said, according to the WSJ. Cook Political Report considers the race between Masters — who won the endorsement of former President Donald Trump and backing by PayPal co-founder and Republican donor Peter Thiel — and Democratic in
  
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• Watch: Trans Thug Gets Vicious with Women's Rights Activist, Then the Pepper Spray Comes Out

  08-11-2022 17:48
  The axiom that freedom has a price was lived out recently in Washington state when an activist was physically assaulted and had her personal information publicized because she had the temerity to stand up for her belief that the “transgender” movement represents a threat to women’s rights.
  Activist Jeanna Hoch was part of a demonstration in Tacoma on Oct. 26 in an event that was marred by violence from radical transgender counter-protesters, according to the website Reduxx.
  Dur
  
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• Rob Schneider's Pointed Message to Californians Fleeing State Goes Viral: 'YOU Moved Out...'

  08-11-2022 17:43
  If you live in a right-leaning state, you may have seen the bumper sticker: “Don’t California my Arizona,” was the one I saw most recently before moving from Phoenix earlier this year.
  “Saturday Night Live” alum and star of “Duece Bigalow: Male Gigolo” Rob Schneider apparently feels the same way.
  “Dear Former California Residents,” Schneider tweeted Monday, one day before Election Day. “YOU moved out of California for a reason; crime, o
  
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• Nancy Pelosi Finally Speaks Out, Anchor Asks Her Point Blank if the Retirement Rumors Are True

  08-11-2022 17:39
  One of the most chilling phenomena of the past few years is the aggressively soulless ambition of some Democrats in power.
  A glaring example involves multi-millionaire Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who insists she’s deathly worried about the well-being of her 82-year-old injured husband while diligently working from her office 3,000 miles away in Washington, D.C.
  On Monday, the career politician told CNN host Anderson Cooper she’s distraught that her husband had to undergo brain
  
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• How Florida wildlife is faring after Hurricane Ian

  08-11-2022 17:34 via cnn.com
  
  Southwest Florida looks a lot different than it did before Hurricane Ian ripped through the area six weeks ago.
  
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• Trump-linked SPAC stock goes bonkers ahead of midterms

  08-11-2022 17:27 via cnn.com
  
  Many political experts are predicting big Republican wins in the midterm elections that could give the GOP control of at least one, if not both, chambers of Congress. Investors have taken notice too.
  
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• Federal Judge Suspends Restrictive Gun Laws Over 'Unprecedented Constitutional Violations'

  08-11-2022 17:27
  Calling it “patently unconstitutional,” a federal judge on Monday gutted New York state’s anti-gun legislation in issuing a preliminary injunction against core elements of the law, which was passed this summer after a previous law was thrown out by the Supreme Court.
  U.S. District Court Judge Glenn Suddaby of the Northern District of New York issued a preliminary injunction on Monday, according to Reuters. As of Tuesday, when Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul, an architect of the la
  
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• Dominion Programmers Descend on County After Voting Machines Suffer Vote Counting 'Glitch'

  08-11-2022 17:09
  In Mercer County, New Jersey, voting machines are having technical difficulties, preventing them from properly counting votes.
  According to the New Jersey Globe, voting machines spread throughout the county are facing a “programming glitch” as voters look to cast their ballots for New Jersey’s midterm races.
  New Jersey is a key state in the midterms.
  According to a New York Times analysis, many of the state’s congressional elections have narrowed in the lead-up to Tuesday
  
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• Kohl's CEO leaves for Levi's

  08-11-2022 17:08 via cnn.com
  
  In a surprise executive shuffle, Kohl's chief executive Michelle Gass will leave the department store chain to become the CEO-in-waiting at Levi Strauss.
  
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• Philly Makes Last-Minute Election Change, Expect Vote Count to Be Slowed Down

  08-11-2022 16:57
  Just what everyone was hoping to hear today, now that Election Day 2022 has finally dawned: Vote counting in one of the most contested races in the country may be delayed due to a last-minute election change.
  That’s the bad news. The good news is that this move will probably enhance, rather than detract from, election integrity.
  The idea is to “catch possible double votes,” according to The Philadelphia Inquirer. (The story itself is behind a paywall, but a summary and link are
  
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• DeSantis Administration Tells Biden DOJ Election Monitors to Get Lost with Forceful Message

  08-11-2022 16:54
  
  
  Florida officials are telling the Biden administration’s Department of Justice that its plan to send election monitors to the Sunshine State is unwelcome, unnecessary and not even legal.
  The Justice Department announced Monday that it would monitor 64 jurisdictions in 24 states to look for civil rights violations. In Florida, the department said it would target Broward, Miami-Dade and Palm Beach counties.
  But according to a letter from the Florida Department of State, that will not be allo
  
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• The Tricks Have Already Started - Fetterman Sues to Have Ballots Counted Over State Supreme Court Ruling

  08-11-2022 16:48
  Well, well, well. It looks like Democrats are already attempting to circumvent election rules.
  It’s funny, really — when liberals are winning elections, our elections are “secure” and Americans with reasonable concerns to the contrary are crazed “election deniers and “conspiracy theorists.”
  But when the shoe is on the other foot, all of a sudden democracy itself is in danger and our election rules must be changed.
  Like, for instance, a rule against count
  
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• Florida GOP's recent attack on college degrees shows conservatives’ deepest fears

  08-11-2022 16:37 via nbcnews.com
  
  Ahead of the midterms, pro-DeSantis mailers using a photo of a nonbinary student to attack college degrees like gender studies plays into the deepest fears of conservatives.
  
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• Prince Andrew's Meeting with King Charles Went so Bad It Left Him in Tears, 'Has No Real Plans' - Report

  08-11-2022 16:16
  Prince Andrew broke down in tears when King Charles III refused to entertain the idea of the disgraced royal returning to his official duties.
  Charles, then the Prince of Wales, shot down the possibility in a one-on-one meeting with Andrew that left the Duke of York “bereft” and “tearful,” according to the U.K. Daily Mail.
  The meeting occurred in the days preceding Queen Elizabeth II’s death in September.
  Prince Andrew was all but fired from his royal duties in 2019
  
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• WH Press Sec Believes Biden's Coal Comments 'Were Twisted' So Let's Give Them to You Straight

  08-11-2022 16:06
  Attention, undecided voters: The White House would like you to not believe your lying ears.
  I know, it can be tricky at times. You hear the president — or another Democrat, for that matter — say something and you think to yourself, “Wow, that sounds bad.” But that’s just because you’re believing those lying ears. They’re a Democrat, duh. They can’t be saying bad things — particularly when compared with those “mega-MAGA Republicans,&rdqu
  
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• What This Poll Worker Allegedly Got Caught Doing Got Him Ejected - Watch Out for This While Voting

  08-11-2022 15:56
  What, will Democrats be following people into the voting booths next?
  That really feels like the next logical step. They’re not content with just controlling the mainstream media and its messaging or perfecting the art of ballot-harvesting. They want to federalize election laws to make voting less secure. And now, at least in one locale, they have a poll worker who was supposedly telling people how to vote — something that’s highly illegal.
  According to education-centric outlet
  
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• Getting laid off? Know your rights

  08-11-2022 15:49 via cnn.com
  
  The abrupt and unceremonious way that thousands of Twitter employees got laid off last week was a spectacle.
  
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• Powerball used to have a jackpot limit. Then it exploded

  08-11-2022 15:47 via cnn.com
  
  The Powerball lottery jackpot is expected to hit $1.9 billion -- whenever the delayed drawing takes place -- making it the largest lotto prize ever.
  
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• Biden Lands Himself in Hot Water for What He Said to HBCU

  08-11-2022 15:40
  Democratic gubernatorial nominee Wes Moore is leading his Republican challenger Dan Cox in polling by something like 30 points. It’s such a commanding lead that no one has even bothered to poll the state in the past couple of weeks.
  So why was President Joe Biden campaigning there Monday night?
  If I were one of Biden’s handlers, I’d be working hard to get him back into his basement and keep him there — because when he comes out, he invariably says something like he did la
  
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• Elizabeth Holmes' request for a new trial is denied

  08-11-2022 15:35 via cnn.com
  
  A federal judge has denied Elizabeth Holmes' request for a new trial, according to court filings on Monday, paving the way for the founder of failed blood testing startup Theranos to be sentenced later this month.
  
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• Doughnuts, pizza and cheap rides: Election Day deals are here

  08-11-2022 15:25 via cnn.com
  
  It's Election Day in America, and some companies are offering deals and freebies to mark the occasion, while others are giving employees time off to vote.
  
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• Expert Reveals His Team Has Been Tracking Google Election Interference, And They Found a Very Worrying Pattern

  08-11-2022 15:22
  Is Google attempting to change the outcome of the 2022 midterm elections with its biased algorithms?
  Robert Epstein believes the answer is “yes” and claims to have proof.
  Epstein, a Ph.D. from Harvard University, has quite an accomplished resume. He formerly served as editor-in-chief of Psychology Today, has published 15 books and currently serves as senior research psychologist at the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology.
  Leading up to the midterm elections, Eps
  
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• Great Balls of Dire

  08-11-2022 15:12
  For more A.F. Branco cartoons, go to WesternJournal.com/cartoons.
  The post Great Balls of Dire appeared first on The Western Journal.
  
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