GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida, who led the effort to oust House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, offered multiple reasons why he felt McCarthy needed to go. In an exchange with reporters on Monday night before the historic vote to remove McCarthy, Gaetz said the die was cast following his motion...

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Injured New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers took a lighthearted dig at the NFL's most recognizable spokesman for Big Pharma. Tuesday on ESPN's Pat McAfee Show, Rodgers casually referred to Kansas City Chiefs star tight end Travis Kelce as "Mr. Pfizer." The segment featured Rodgers, host Pat McAfee and former...

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Both were smiling -- but in a teeth-gritting kind of way -- as GOP Rep. Nancy Mace and Steve Bannon briefly sparred on Bannon’s War Room podcast. Appearing with Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz, Mace of South Carolina exchanged some snide comments with Bannon regarding Mace’s 2021 vote to hold Bannon...

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If you happen to occupy the increasingly slender Venn Diagram overlap of "ESPN viewer" and "conservative," few stories have been more heartwarming to see than former ESPN host Sage Steele's newfound voice. Steele, who long stood out at the sportsnetwork simply by being conservative, recently left "The Worldwide Leader" and...

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If a team loses in the playoffs, but nobody's around to watch it, does it actually count? Obviously yes, and it's not like nobody was in attendance when the Texas Rangers traveled to face the Tampa Bay Rays in the AL Wild Card game on Tuesday. But when the Rangers won...

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Joe Biden puffed up his foreign policy credentials in 2019, claiming that as president, he would make the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia a "pariah" on the world stage. Today, as president, Biden is quietly and sheepishly sending secret envoys to plead for a deal with the Saudis. Biden's bravado about...

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Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich lashed out at House Republicans who voted Tuesday to unseat former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy in a historic first. McCarthy’s speakership was cut short after only nine months when eight Republicans voted with the entirety of the Democratic conference to oust him. Republican Rep. Matt...

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At least a couple of federal government meetings were interrupted Wednesday by ... the federal government. A White House news briefing was in progress when the Federal Emergency Management Agency's nationwide test of alert capabilities caused a bit of a ruckus. "Oh! There you go!" press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre commented,...

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The FBI is now targeting supporters of former President Donald Trump ahead of the 2024 election, a new report claims. A person described as a “current FBI official” who said they did not want to speak on the record told Newsweek in a jarring report that was published on Wednesday...

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If you, like me, are someone who has concerns about the destruction caused by radical feminism over the last century, I beg you to consider that it is not enough to be anti-feminist. As an ardent anti-feminist myself, I have been saying this for a long time. The reason is...

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It was an exchange that rivaled some of most theater-of-the-absurd moments of Karine Jean-Pierre's career. The Baghdad Bob of the Biden administration on Tuesday tried to turn a question about the carjacking of Rep. Henry Cuellar on Monday into an attack on Republicans in Congress. But Fox News' Peter Doocy...

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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell advised House Republicans to take away the rule that allows one member of Congress to call a vote to remove the speaker of the House. GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz's motion to vacate the chair resulted in Kevin McCarthy losing his speakership Tuesday, marking the first...

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Pope Francis had harsh words for Americans in a new document calling for action to address what he called a "climate crisis" in which “the world in which we live is collapsing and may be nearing the breaking point.” The pope released "Laudate Deum," which is Latin for "Praise God,"...

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A son of the man police have arrested in connection with the kidnapping of a 9-year-old New York girl voiced contempt for his father after Craig Ross Jr. was arrested. “He’s in jail. We want nothing to do with him,” Joshua Ross said to a reporter who asked questions from...

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Before Donald Trump was president, he was a successful businessman and media figure. Part of what made Trump effective in all three of those roles is he understood the power of being unpredictable while simultaneously dropping tantalizing hints about what he might do. Tuesday's sudden ouster of Republican House Speaker...

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Well, that was quick. In August, several outlets reported that President Joe Biden's Pentagon had begun selling off parts that had already been fabricated as part of a wall on the nation's southern border -- all to subvert efforts on the part of Republicans to restart construction. "Steel 'square structural...

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Climate-obsessed people with lots of free time have concocted and shared a bizarre -- yet somehow plausible -- conspiracy theory regarding pop superstar Taylor Swift. Happily, to understand the theory, we need not enter the addled minds of climate alarmists. All we need to know, according to the conspiracy theorists,...

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If White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre were a call center operator, she'd probably be out of a job. The spokeswoman for the man in the highest office of the land has been snapping at reporters like a two-headed snake in a box full of mice. It's bad enough when...

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President Joe Biden has banished his dog, Commander, from the White House after multiple biting incidents one report said exceeded the 11 reported to date. “Commander is not presently on the White House campus while next steps are evaluated,” Elizabeth Alexander, spokeswoman for first lady Jill Biden, said in a...

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Even if former President Donald Trump wants to give up crisscrossing the country as he campaigns for the White House to spend his days in Washington as speaker of the House, a House rule might get in the way. The fall of former Speaker Kevin McCarthy this week has given...

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