Are you better off today than you were four years ago? If you’re like a majority of Americans, your answer is YES. The Gallup Organization released a poll recently asking Americans if they felt that they were better off today than they were in 2016. The results were surprising, if not unprecedented. Despite the Coronavirus…
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The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) published its plan to land the first woman (and the next man) on the moon in 2024. The estimated $28 billion manned space program is part of NASA’s three-phase Artemis program to “establish sustainable exploration by the end of the decade”. (https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-publishes-artemis-plan-to-land-first-woman-next-man-on-moon-in-2024/). In a statement released by NASA…
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As election day gets ever closer, I continue to read and hear Democrat officials, the mainstream media and other groups expressing “concern” that President Trump won’t accept the outcome of the election if he loses by a close margin and will refuse to leave office. And in most cases, this is discussed as a foregone…
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Several things happened in Key Senate races around the country this past week. Democrat Cal Cunningham, running for the US Senate in North Carolina, took a big dump in his mess kit by accidentally publicly tweeting what were supposed to be private tweets to “a female acquaintance”. While Democrats have been calling this a “Lean…
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The past week has been quite interesting – President Trump was released from the hospital after only three days, the Pence-Harris Debate did little to shift voters positions one way or the other, Nancy Pelosi threatened to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office, Joe Biden and Kamela Harris both refused to say…
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The UK newspaper The Independent published an article on Tuesday, October 6, 2020 about a new scientific study looking for new worlds that would be even more likely to foster life than our own Earth. The study identified 24 “superhabitable” planets, all 100 light years or more away, offering conditions more suitable for life than…
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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has just released its first assessment of threats to the United States by domestic terrorists. This report, Homeland Threat Assessment, is dated October 2020. In the forward of this document, Acting DHS Secretary Chad Wolf states (emphasis added): “This Homeland Threat Assessment (HTA), the first of its kind for…
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Yesterday afternoon, as I sat on my back porch drinking a beer, pondering deep thoughts about the 2020 election, a nagging question kept raising its ugly head, causing me to wonder why my take on the 2020 election differed so much from the what the national polls are telling us. While the latest national polls…
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Overshadowed by the Presidential election are the 34 Senate seats up for election in 2020. However, the outcome of these Senate races may be of as much importance as the Presidential race since control of the Senate means control of the Supreme Court. And we’ve all seen what the Democrats are promising to do if…
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The election map below shows the status of the election based upon my projections last week. As previously indicated, I showed Trump and Biden in a virtual tie – 235 for Trump to 232 for Biden – with 71 votes up for grab in the battleground states. But as I said last week a lot…
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