Yearly Archives: 2023

Maine Secretary Of State Hit With Swatting Call

NBC News reports: Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows was the target of a “swatting call” on Friday night, state police said in a statement. The incident happened just a day after Bellows, a Democrat, ruled former President Donald Trump is constitutionally ineligible to appear on the state’s primary ballot next year. State police said they received a call at …

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CHATTER AWAY: Overnight Open Thread

Variety reports: Tom Wilkinson, the British actor who appeared in films including “The Full Monty,” “Shakespeare in Love” and “The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel,” died Saturday in the U.K., the BBC reported. He was 75. Wilkinson was Oscar-nominated for his roles in “Michael Clayton,” in which he played an attorney who has a manic episode; and Todd Field’s “In the …

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CO Sec Of State: Death Threats Won’t Intimidate Me

The Hill reports: Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold (D) said she received death threats in the wake of the lawsuit that was filed in her state that eventually led to former President Trump being kicked off the ballot in her state. “Within three weeks of the lawsuit being filed, I received 64 death threats. I stopped counting after that,” …

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FL Woman Sues Because Candy Doesn’t Have Smiles

Reuters reports: Hershey has been sued by a Florida woman who said its holiday-themed Reese’s peanut butter candies lack the artistic details shown on the packaging that make them worth buying. In a proposed federal class action filed on Thursday and seeking at least $5 million, Cynthia Kelly accused Hershey of deceiving reasonable consumers by falsely promising that its candies …

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Giuliani Sorry He Never Applied For NYC Pension

The New York Post reports: Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who filed for bankruptcy in the wake of a $148 million civil court ruling and faces a mountain of unpaid legal bills, said he now regrets not having the safety net of a government pension. Most recent Big Apple mayors pocket pension checks after leaving office, but Giuliani, 79, failed to …

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Google Settles $5B Lawsuit Over “Incognito” Browser

Business Insider reports: On Thursday, Google agreed to settle a $5 billion class-action privacy lawsuit alleging that it spied on people who used the “incognito” mode in its Chrome browser to track their internet use. The lawsuit filed in 2020 claimed Google misled users into believing that it wouldn’t track their internet activities while using incognito mode. The suit argued …

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Trump Attacks GOP Ohio Gov For Veto Of Anti-Trans Bill

“DeWine has fallen to the Radical Left. No wonder he gets loudly booed in Ohio every time I introduce him at Rallies, but I won’t be introducing him any more. I’m finished with this ‘stiff.’ What was he thinking. The bill would have stopped child mutilation, and prevented men from playing in women’s sports. Legislature will hopefully overturn. Do it …

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GOP Rep: Axing Trump From Ballots Is The New COVID

“I’ve just come to the conclusion this is the new COVID for 2024. In 2020, they had us locked down. We couldn’t get out and vote. We could do all this absentee voting. Everything was built around fear. So now the new fear and what the Democrat Party is trying to do here is to tear Trump down and say …

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GOP Rep: I Didn’t Defend Uganda’s Gay Death Penalty

From the office of GOP Rep. Tim Walberg: Despite inaccurate reports circulating, the transcript clearly shows that Congressman Walberg never endorsed any legislation or law while in Uganda. He did call out the World Bank for repeatedly holding Uganda, a Christian nation, to a different standard than much of the rest of the world. There is an undeniable double standard …

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Daughter’s New Memoir Claims Nancy Reagan Tricked The Future President Into Marriage By Getting Pregnant

The Daily Mail reports: Nancy Reagan convinced the future president, Ronald Reagan, to marry her after getting pregnant by him in 1952, their first-born, Patti Davis, reveals in a new memoir. “I tend to doubt that getting pregnant was a result of carelessness,” writes Davis in her new book, Dear Mom and Dad: A Letter About Family, Memory, and the …

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Carlson: Ben Shapiro “Doesn’t Care About America”

Mediaite reports: Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson declared that conservative commentator Ben Shapiro’s focus on the war in Israel in recent days revealed that Shapiro doesn’t “care” about the United States “at all” in an appearance on Breaking Points this week. Carlson was asked by host Saagar Enjeti about Shapiro’s previous criticism of Carlson — who has persistently attacked …

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NYT: Trump Fears SCOTUS Will Uphold Ballot Bans

The New York Times reports: Mr. Trump has expressed concern that the conservative justices will worry about being perceived as “political” and may rule against him, according to a person with direct knowledge of his private comments. Unlike with the Colorado decision, which caught many on Mr. Trump’s team by surprise, the former president’s advisers had anticipated the Maine outcome …

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Maine Secretary Of State Gets Threats From The Cult

Rolling Stone reports: Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows said in an interview that she has faced threats since issuing her decision to remove Donald Trump from the state’s primary ballot on Thursday. “We have received threatening communications, those are unacceptable,” Bellows told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins on Friday. “I certainly worry about the safety of people I love, people around …

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Court Okays Bid By McCarthy’s Would-Be Successor

Politico reports: California Assembly member Vince Fong’s congressional hopes remain alive after a judge ruled Thursday he could proceed as a candidate to replace Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.). The ruling by Superior Court Judge Shelleyanne W.L. Chang caps off a chaotic start in the race to succeed the former House speaker. The decision rejects the argument by California Secretary of …

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DeSantis: I Won’t Let The Left Take Your “Good Meat”

Florida Politics reports: Gov. Ron DeSantis is giving carnivores something to cheer about, as he promises to protect animal products from the left. “A lot of this ESG (environmental, social, and corporate governance) movement has agriculture in the crosshairs. They don’t want people eating meat,” DeSantis said at a “meet and greet” event in Clayton County, Iowa. The Governor promised …

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Fox Regular Jonathan Turley Hit With Swatting Call

The New York Post reports: Legal scholar Johnathan Turley has become the latest victim of “swatting” as a 911 call was made falsely reporting someone was shot at his Virginia home. “Yes, I was swatted this evening. It is regrettably a manifestation of our age of rage,” the George Washington University law professor said in a statement on Friday. The …

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Trump Claims Dems Will Use Migrants To Steal Election

Posted last night to Trump’s Truth Social account: It’s becoming more and more obvious to me why the “Crazed” Democrats are allowing millions and millions of totally unvetted migrants into our once great Country. IT’S SO THEY CAN VOTE, VOTE, VOTE. They are signing them up at a rapid pace, without even knowing who the hell they are. It all …

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OK Bill Requires Schools To Post Ten Commandments

Oklahoma City’s Fox affiliate reports: A bill has been filed in the Oklahoma legislature that would require the Ten Commandments to be displayed in public school classrooms. Rep. Jim Olsen (R-Roland) filed the bill for consideration during the 2024 legislative session. He wants every public school to display the Ten Commandments in a “conspicuous place in each classroom of the …

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Federal Judge Blocks Iowa’s “Don’t Say Gay” Law

The Associated Press reports: A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked key parts of an Iowa law that bans some books from school libraries and forbids teachers from raising LGBTQ+ issues. Judge Stephen Locher’s preliminary injunction halts enforcement of the law, which was set to take effect Jan. 1 but already had resulted in the removal of hundreds of books …

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CHATTER AWAY: Overnight Open Thread

The New Jersey Advance reports: The vacant Seaside Heights nightclub Karma, made famous on MTV’s hit show “Jersey Shore,” was demolished Wednesday in preparation for the property’s new life as a much tamer mixed-use condo development. Demolition crews made quick work of tearing down the sprawling entertainment complex, video of the destruction showed. Located at 401 Boulevard, the former Karma …

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