My prediction: All of the small government conservatives with blown down houses will be yelling about the government not doing enough.
Climate Change Fortified Hurricane Idalia Set to Make Florida Even More Unlivable
The boiling waters of the Gulf of Mexico have added to Idalia’s punch making it a category 4 storm expected to bringing 12 to 16 foot storm surge to a state already suffering under a Ron DeSantis Governorship.
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DEGOP Candidate Recruitment Sputters – Winner of Dem Governor Primary May Run Unopposed
While it is well known that the DEGOP is having problem raising money, Julianne Murray chaired DEGOP is also having significant problems raising candidates. While the DEGOP would typically have a collection of angry crackpots lined up to “take one for the team” and lose in each of the statewide races, this year the party’s cupboards are bare.
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They said they were annulling the results of Saturday’s election, in which President Ali Bongo was declared the winner.
The electoral commission said Mr Bongo had won just under two-thirds of the votes in an election the opposition argued was fraudulent.
His overthrow would end his family’s 53-year hold on power in Gabon.
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Randy Steven Small killed his neighbor Bob Adair in a dispute over property in rural Indiana. (Mugshot from Brown County Sheriff’s Office; victim photo from his obituary; crime scene photo from the Brown County Prosecutor’s Office)
A man in Indiana was sentenced to 60 years in prison for shooting his 70-year-old neighbor in the head with a 12-gauge shotgun while the man sat in his pickup truck in a dispute over where the victim had placed a post for his mailbox.
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Having been in a coma for 30 years, Gay Republican shocked GOP would block the Log Cabin Republicans from attending party convention
Richard Grenell, the U.S. ambassador to Germany under Donald Trump and acting director of national intelligence for about two months, decided to call out the Republican Party for putting its 2028 national convention in Houston, Texas because the state’s party is particularly anti-LGBTQ+.
The problem, though, isn’t that Texas has enacted some of the harshest anti-LGBTQ+ – and particularly anti-transgender – legislation in the country in the past several years. What Grenell called out was how the Texas Republican Party bans the Log Cabin Republicans – an LGBTQ+ Republican organization – from setting up a booth at its state convention.