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 By Teri  Christoph Once Vice President-elect JD Vance  resigned  his Senate seat last Friday, the race was on for Ohio Governor Mike DeWine (R) to name a replacement. Republicans won a 53-47 majority back in November, but leaving a seat open for too long could jeopardize their ability to get important legislation, including the Laken Riley Act, passed. There was rampant speculation over who DeWine would tap to serve through the 2026 special election to replace Vance, and many thought former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy was a shoo-in for the job. As it turns out, DeWine selected his own lieutenant governor, Jon Husted, to head to Capitol Hill. I'm proud to announce that I have selected @LtGovHusted to serve in the U.S. Senate, replacing Vice President-elect @JDVance . pic.twitter.com/W5918DDaCz — Governor Mike DeWine (@GovMikeDeWine) January 17, 2025 DeWine  said  of his selection: "I have worked with him, I have seen him. I know his knowledge ...

By Becky Noble With just three days before President-elect Donald Trump will be sworn in as the 47th President of the United States, the Republican National Committee (RNC) announced on Friday that members have reelected Chairman Michael Whatley and elected KC Crosbie as Co-Chair. Crosbie will succeed outgoing Co-Chair Lara Trump, who stepped down in December.  In a statement from the RNC, Whatley said: "I am honored to have been reelected as Chairman of the Republican National Committee. After a successful cycle in which we helped send President Trump back to the White House, flip the Senate, and maintain a Republican majority in the House, we will now launch an aggressive and comprehensive effort to win the 2026 midterm elections. The RNC will focus solely on raising the money we need to win, getting out the vote, and protecting the ballot to support and advance President Trump’s America-First Agenda.” Congratulations to my good friend K.C. Crosbie ( @kc4gop ) on her unanimo...

We anticipate transitioning from Joe Biden’s green nightmare to Donald Trump’s “energy dominance.”     By Nate Jackson On Day One of his lousy administration, Joe Biden canceled the Keystone Pipeline deal that would have brought Canadian oil into the U.S. for refining. He killed thousands of (union) jobs and disrupted years of hard work and preparation, but Keystone was  more than a pipeline . Killing it fired a shot across the bow of the energy industry: There was a green sheriff in town, and he was going to  make American energy dependent again . Biden proceeded to pass the American Rescue Plan, lighting a wildfire of inflation. The annualized inflation rate hit an appalling  9.1%  in June 2022. Biden has repeatedly lied, saying it was over 9% when he took office, but in January 2021, it was about 1.4%. One of the primary drivers of inflation was the price of energy, specifically gasoline. Gas prices averaged $2.39 when Biden entered the White House. On...

By Ward Clark There is reality, and, several thousand light-years away, there is whatever world the Biden administration inhabits. The level of delusion from this administration has always been astounding, but on Friday, a new decree from the White House was so baffling, so astoundingly ignorant of the Constitution, that it had me searching the interwebz to make sure it wasn't a fake. It wasn't a fake. Joe Biden, or whatever Gen Z interns are running the show in the White House until Monday morning, has unilaterally declared that the Equal Rights Amendment is now  "the law of the land." On January 27, 2020, the Commonwealth of Virginia became the 38th state to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment. The American Bar Association (ABA) has recognized that the Equal Rights Amendment has cleared all necessary hurdles to be formally added to the Constitution as the 28th Amendment. I agree with the ABA and with leading legal constitutional scholars that the Equal Rights Amen...

By Matt Margolis Donald Trump’s first term was plagued by a series of poor hiring decisions. Many administration staffers were establishment insiders focused on sabotaging Trump's presidency and securing lucrative book deals, while others were never truly committed to advancing the Trump agenda. Determined to avoid repeating those missteps, Trump has laid out strict new hiring guidelines, which he detailed in a candid post on Truth Social. In a characteristically bold and direct message, Trump shared that his team has already hired over 1,000 people for his prospective administration. “They are outstanding in every way,” he assured, promising that the American people “will see the fruits of their labor over the coming years.” With his trademark optimism, Trump reiterated his pledge to “MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN,” emphasizing that it will happen “very quickly.” However, the real attention-grabber in the post came in the form of a clear directive regarding personnel recommendation...

By Victoria Taft  It appears that we've got another case of leftist projection. A famous Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist who labeled Republicans "groomers" has been arrested and charged in California for possessing sexually explicit video images of children. He's being held on a $1 million bond and will answer multiple charges in a court hearing on Friday. Darrin Bell's work is a Kings Features syndicated and Washington Post Writers Group cartoonist whose work appears in top U.S. newspapers including the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Oakland Tribune, and the San Francisco Chronicle. He has been arrested in California for possessing sexually graphic videos of children. The arrest will test California's new law forbidding the possession of AI images of child sexual abuse. It's unclear at this point if he created the sickening videos. The Sacramento Sheriff's Office busted the cartoonist Wednesday at his home.  "...

By Bob Hoge Joe Biden just can’t seem to let go.  Although his presidency and his legacy have been thoroughly repudiated—whether it be through the polls, which show he’s one of the  lowest-rates presidents of all time , or at the ballot box where his hand-picked successor Kamala Harris was brutalized in the November elections—his tenure has been thoroughly tainted by an astounding record of failure. Inflation has killed the dreams of regular folks as just paying for groceries has become a traumatic experience; young people have no hope of buying a home or living the American Dream—considering the crushing interest rates and noxious cost of living. Meanwhile, wars rage on the international stage. There is almost nothing good that he leaves his successor, Donald Trump. Yet he continues in his final days to flail away at convincing us that somehow his presidency was a success. On Thursday night, he appeared with one of the most vacuous hosts in the history of cable news, MSNB...

By Rusty Weiss CNN anchor Jim Acosta, a longtime thorn in the side of President-elect Donald Trump, just got some bad news.  In his latest move to shake up the ratings-deprived network, CNN chief Mark Thompson is reportedly considering moving Acosta out of his relatively successful morning slot and burying him to host a show running from midnight until 2 am ET. The news comes via Oliver Darcy, writing for his  Status newsletter . Darcy, himself a former CNN journalist, with his influential “Reliable Sources” newsletter, indicates that his own reliable sources have told him Thompson floated the idea in a phone call that shocked Acosta. "The move would effectively exile Acosta to the Siberia of television news. He'd be manning down a shift when much of the country is fast asleep and viewership is at its lowest," he writes. While Thompson could effectively defend such a move as he  shuffles lineups  in an attempt to revive the dying network, it's impossible to avoid...

By Elle Purnell From incompetence to non compos mentis. Another year of the Bidens snowbirding between Delaware and 1600 Pennsylvania, another list of presidential ineptitudes to look back on. Last January, we brought you “ A Crisis For Every Month: The Worst Debacles, Disgraces, And (Literal) Train Wrecks Of Biden’s Third Year ,” and this year, we’ve survived to the final installment. To catalog crises overseen by Joe Biden this year risks giving him too much credit, considering the incapacitated president clearly isn’t overseeing much of anything. Biden’s year has been marked more by disgraces and embarrassments than major actions, scandalous or otherwise. His greatest success of the year is a tossup between avoiding a 25th Amendment ouster and staying alive. But his many displays of incompetence (and possible  incontinence ?) this year have been just as damaging for the republic as the failures his handlers have committed with considerably more energy over the past four yea...