Former President Donald Trump sent a “cease and desist” message on Truth Social and X, issuing a legal warning to anyone attempting to cheat in the 2024 presidential election. “CEASE & DESIST: I, together with many Attorneys and Legal Scholars, am watching the Sanctity of the 2024 Presidential Election very closely because I know, better than most, the rampant Cheating and Skullduggery that has taken place by the Democrats in the 2020 Presidential Election,” Trump wrote. “It was a Disgrace to our Nation!” “Therefore, the 2024 Election, where Votes have just started being cast, will be under the closest professional scrutiny and, WHEN I WIN, those people that CHEATED will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the Law, which will include long term prison sentences so that this Depravity of Justice does not happen again,” he added. “We cannot let our Country further devolve into a Third World Nation, AND WE WON’T!” Trump clarified that the legal exposure “extends to Lawyers, Political Operatives, Donors, Illegal Voters, & Corrupt Election Officials.” He also warned, “Those involved in unscrupulous behavior will be sought out, caught, and prosecuted at levels, unfortunately, never seen before in our Country.” CEASE & DESIST: I, together with many Attorneys and Legal Scholars, am watching the Sanctity of the 2024 Presidential Election very closely because I know, better than most, the rampant Cheating and Skullduggery that has taken place by the Democrats in the 2020 Presidential…— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 25, 2024 Trump’s warning follows the style of a “cease and desist” letter. For example, if a newspaper printed something that someone considers to be defamation, the allegedly defamed person’s attorney would write a letter to the newspaper, warning of a lawsuit unless the paper retracts the claim and ceases to continue publishing such claims. Trump did not clarify which laws he considers the alleged cheaters to have been violating, but the Biden-Harris administration has recently attempted to stop states like Virginia and Alabama from removing aliens from their voter files. A federal judge ruled Friday that Virginia must put the names of aliens back on the rolls. Gov. Glenn Youngkin, the commonwealth’s Republican governor, pledged to appeal the ruling to higher courts, and to the Supreme Court, if necessary. The post CEASE AND DESIST: Trump Sends a Legal Warning to Anyone Trying to Cheat in the Election appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Although many families have vegetable gardens in their yards today, there are also many more who feel they need to decide whether they create the beautiful landscape that they've always wanted or a culinary garden. They need to make this decision simply because they do not have the space for both. However, this doesn't have to be as difficult as it is may seem. Read on and learn how to create your own beautifully edible landscape. A Beautifully Edible Landscape There are many, many plants that you can have as part of your landscape, that you will be able to eat as well! Although some plants may be more for one climate over another, don't forget that you can use containers as well. So don't be afraid to include tropicals even if you live in a colder climate. In this article, we will discuss 8 plants that you might think are decorative only, but have culinary uses as well, along with a few plants you might think belong in the vegetable garden, but work great in the landscape as well. And they are all easy to either find or start yourself. You can have your landscape and eat it too! 1. Swiss Chard: Although usually found in the garden, swiss chard can work itself well into a landscape or even a window box. When combined with other flowers and plants, its' large, deep green leaves makes for a very nice display. Add a bit of color by using rainbow chard with its' brightly colored stalks. Harvest as you would in the vegetable garden. Swiss chard plant plugs may be purchased or the plants may easily be started from seeds. 2. Papaya: Although it needs a warm climate to survive year round in the ground, the papaya is a fun tree to have in your garden. The large unique leaves of the plant will stand out among the other plants in the garden, and for those in colder climates, the papaya may be grown in a container. Papayas grow fast and begin to bear fruit within a year of planting. Trees may be male, female or hermaphrodite. If you have male or female plants, you will need one of the opposite to fertilize the blossoms. However if your tree is a hermaphrodite, it will fertilize itself. The papaya can get quite large, 16 to over 30ft tall. This is great if you can actually plant it in the ground, but not so much if you want to keep your tree in a container. Because the trees grow so quickly from seed (the seed that you get out of a papaya fruit from the grocery store will work fine), if the tree becomes too difficult to manage in its' container, or even in the garden, take it out and start a new one. Papaya will produce fruit regularly, so if you you find yourself over run with the fruit, to where you can't give it away, the fruit will dry/dehydrate nicely, as well as make excellent preserves. 3. Cactus: Did you know that a good many cactus plants are edible? Especially popular in the garden are the paddle type cactus, which includes the prickly pear. These paddle type cactus have edible fruits as well as the paddles themselves being edible. Although some of the paddles can be easier to clean than others when it comes to removing the little spines, they are not difficult to prepare, and there are many recipes available for this addition to your culinary landscape. And for those who live in colder climates, there are choices for you as well. You can either keep the cactus in pots, or there are some that do very well in northern gardens and will survive year round outdoors. 4. Hibiscus: Along with it being a pretty and popular flower, especially in tropical gardens, the hibiscus is high in vitamin C and minerals. There is a bit of a controversy as to if all or just certain types are edible, but either way, there are still many that will fir into this category. Also, what is used on the plant and how it is used, depends on the flower. Tea, salads and garnish, and cranberry substitute are just a small sampling of what some of the flowers are used for. Although they prefer direct planting in the garden, the hibiscus will also do pretty well in a container. If you are in a cold, northern area, this will allow you to bring the plant indoors for the winter. However, there are now some more cold tolerant plants being sold in the north, with a huge, almost dinner plate size flower, that might be worth looking in to if you live in that region. Like their smaller, warmth loving counterparts, they come in some beautiful colors as well, however it would be advantageous to double check to make sure that these are just as safe for culinary use. 5. Pineapple: When you think of pineapples, you probably don't think about them as part of a culinary garden. But, it makes a delightful addition, as well as a conversation piece. And it really is an easy plant to start. The next time you purchase a fresh pineapple, after you cut the green top off, place it in a soil filled pot. Water as you would any other plant, and there it is. You have a new pineapple plant underway. As with all tropical plants, if you live in a warm climate, your pineapple may be placed directly into the soil. However, if you are in a northern climate or have very limited ground area, your new pineapple will do very well in a container (although like any other plant, it will need some transplanting a few times as it grows) and can come indoors in the cold. It is quite interesting to see a pineapple grow (1 per plant only), and the little pineapples are quite cute, looking like mini me's of the adults. Keep in mind however, that once the pineapple has grown and has been harvested, the plant will no longer produce fruit. It may produce “pups” though, which are baby pineapple plants that you can remove and replant to grow even more fruit. If your old pineapple plant is no longer producing fruit, but does produce lots of pups (as one of mine does), it may be worth keeping it for a bit, just for the new plants. However, if after the plant fruits and it fails to produce pups, or it has been producing pups and you see it winding down, the plant will only take up precious garden or container space, and it should be pulled. One thing is for sure, once you have successfully grown your own pineapple and have tasted the freshly picked fruit, you'll want to start a new one ASAP! (And you can use the top from the fruit you grew!) 6. Kale and 7. Pansies: Both of these plants are commonly seen together in flower gardens in various colors, around mail boxes, sign posts, and more. But few realize that both of these plants are edible. While kale can be used in salads, made into chips, used as a garnish and more, pansies may also be used in salads, garnish, cake decorating and sugared. | Kale and pansies are very easy to find in almost any home and garden store as young plants and seeds. Both are very easy to grow, and can be grown directly in the garden or in a container. (It is worth mentioning, however, that if you are growing kale, pansies or any edible plant around a mailbox that is on the side of the road, it is advisable not to consume those particular plants, due to contaminates that they may pick up.) 8. Chives: One of the most common and easy to grow herbs, chives come in many “flavors”, with each having its own edible flowers. (I personally love the purple globes of the onion chives.) They are also one of the first herbs a new herb gardener will put into a garden. Chives can be found most anywhere herbs are sold, either in seed or plant form. They come up quickly, return year after year and can easily be tucked around the other plants in a garden, grown in a container outdoors or in a pot on the kitchen counter. And when their flowers bloom, they lend a beautiful and surprising pop to the landscape. Chives pack a big punch for a rather small and un-intimidating plant and are a great choice for the beginning gardener or even a kid's garden. So, there you have it. Although it is just a small selection, that barely scratches the surface, you can see that it isn't necessary to have to choose between a decorative garden with flowers, and food. You can have both! And don't forget, most fruits and veggies begin life as a flower, in a whole host of shapes, sizes and colors, so depending on exactly what you're looking for in your garden, as far as the garden, you just might be able to have it all! What did you think of our post on making your garden an edible landscape? Let us know in the comment section below! 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UPDATED: CBS News has a serious addiction problem. They can’t stop using dishonest techniques to help out their liberal friends while harming conservatives.  Most recently, CBS got in trouble for their deceptive edits of their interview with Vice President Kamala Harris. The so-called “Tiffany network” aired two different answers to the same question on Israel in its 60 Minutes, First they aired a word-salad answer on the October 6 Face the Nation. But when the interview aired on October 7, the answer was entirely different. With Harris CBS News used dishonest edits to make the Democratic presidential candidate look better. However, in the case of conservatives, CBS has a record of employing their video editors to make them look bad.  Speaker of the House Mike Johnson exposed how CBS sliced and diced up his October 13, edition of CBS’s Face the Nation interview. Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis has also been the victim of CBS chopping up videos.  It’s not just selective edits. CBS will target conservatives with investigative pieces based on “fake news” sources (See Rathergate). They will also set them up with ambush interviews (See Connie Chung’s interview with former House Speaker Newt Gingrich’s mother) or even cut their mic off during a live debate, as they did with VP candidate J.D. Vance.   A look through MRC’s archives shows CBS has a long history of using dishonest techniques to interfere with the election of conservative candidates.    1. RatherGate  In 2004, Dan Rather’s most corrupt act as a journalist occurred when he and producer Mary Mapes attempted an election-year hit job on then-President George W. Bush. Just eight weeks before election day, in a September 8, 2004 report on 60 Minutes, Dan Rather claimed “new” evidence showing Bush received “preferential treatment” during his Vietnam-era service in the Texas Air National Guard. “Newly discovered documents spark new questions,” Rather hyped that night on his CBS Evening News. “CBS News has exclusive information, including documents, that now sheds new light on the President’s service record.” The documents in question were supposedly from Bush’s commanding officer, Lt. Col. Jerry Killian, typed on his office typewriter decades before computers and word processors became common in the workplace. It didn’t take long before observers on the Internet highlighted how the “newly discovered documents” looked more like something whipped up in Microsoft Word using the default Times Roman font than on an early 1970s typewriter. The supposed author of the documents, Col. Killian, was no longer living, but others from the Texas Air National Guard office disputed the documents. Killian’s boss, Major General Bobby Hodges, told the Los Angeles Times that he didn’t believe the documents were real. Killian’s secretary, Marian Carr Knox, told the Dallas Morning News that “those are not real....They’re not what I typed, and I would have typed them for him.” Instead of honestly admitting error, Rather dug in but, by September 20, Rather finally acknowledged that CBS “could no longer vouch for their authenticity.” He revealed that his source had been Bill Burkett, a left-wing Texas activist who, Rather admitted, had been trying “for several years now to discredit President Bush’s military service record.” In the end, Mapes was fired and after the election, Rather announced he would step down in March 2005 after 24 years as anchor of the CBS Evening News.    2. Dan Rather’s Failed Ambush of George HW Bush     On Monday, January 25, 1988, Dan Rather, the anchor of the CBS Evening News at the time, laid a trap and attempted to ambush then-Vice President George H.W. Bush on live TV. Of course, Rather’s goal was to embarrass the leading Republican contender for the 1988 Republican presidential nomination.  The segment was supposed to be a “candidate’s profile.” Instead, Rather screamed at the Vice President over the Iran-Contra scandal, making it the sole topic discussed. Visibly angry, he berated the Vice President: “You’ve made us hypocrites in the face of the world!”  But Bush didn’t just sit back and take the bias. He zinged the journalist by mentioning a truly embarrassing moment for Rather. In 2008, Rich Noyes quoted from The Quest for the Presidency, recounting: “...a notorious incident several months earlier when Rather, on location in Miami, had got sore at having his newscast held up by a tennis match and had walked off his set to call New York to bitch about it. The tennis match had ended in his absence, and CBS, with nothing else to put on the air, had gone to black — an empty screen — for six minutes. It was the ultimate embarrassment for a network…”  So when an unhinged Rather yelled and berated Bush, the Republican retorted: “It’s not fair to judge my whole career by a rehash on Iran. How would you like it if I judged your whole career by those seven minutes when you walked off the set in New York?” Bush lowered the boom: “I have respect for you, but I don’t have respect for what you’re doing tonight!”  Even Rather’s colleagues in the press were appalled. According to the February 1988 issue of the Media Research Center's MediaWatch, 60 Minutes co-host Mike Wallace chided, “The style was wrong. Dan lost his cool.” ABC's Sam Donaldson derided, “Rather went too far.... I don’t think we can get to a situation where we make — on our own authority— accusations.”  The cover of the February 8, 1988 issue of Time labeled it “the ambush that failed.” Then-Time associate editor (and future Obama official) Richard Stengel criticized the CBS anchor, describing the scene as “a powerful TV journalist hectoring the Vice President, who had been lured into the interview expecting that it would focus on his presidential campaign.”    3. Speaker Mike Johnson Exposes CBS for Editing Out Arguments They Didn’t Like On October 14, 2024 House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) lashed out at CBS on X.com for how they sliced and diced his interview on the October 13 edition of Face The Nation. He tweeted about how CBS edited out five “important minutes” out of a 15-minute interview — and he exposed the video edits.  Among the sentences CBS cut were Johnson’s arguments about non-citizens voting, pointing out the “Biden Harris administration sued the governor and the state, the Commonwealth of Virginia, to try to prevent them from cleaning up their voter rolls.” CBS did it again in a follow-up when Johnson said “We passed the SAVE Act. You know, in the house, the SAVE Act says you gotta have proof of citizenship before you register to vote. And Chuck Schumer and the Democrats blocked that in the Senate.”   The CBS transcript shows what they edited out [and the viewer wouldn’t notice during the broadcast because it’s edited where the shot changes to a full-screen shot of Johnson]:  MARGARET BRENNAN: Well, the FEMA Director says there’s only $11 billion left from that $20 billion that was allocated. So that's a different accounting than this 2% you say was distributed. SPEAKER JOHNSON: Yeah. So they’ve obligated some funds, but they’ve only distributed 2%, [and when I was there on the ground, and you should go, I mean, bring the cameras and talk to the people there, they'll tell you, don't- don't take politicians words for this or the administration's word, talk to the people there on the ground they had not been provided the resources almost two weeks out from the storm that they desperately needed. And when I was there 13 days, post- you know, post the storm hitting that state, people are still being rescued. They're stuck in the higher elevations in the mountains because the roads are down and all the rest. So they need every- every available resource and all hands on deck.] The rescue and recovery efforts are still going on, and then we address the rest of it. But FEMA was slow to respond. They did not do the job that we all expect and hope that they will do, and there’s going to be a lot of assessment about that as well in the days ahead. That wasn’t the only edit. When Johnson said there was going to be “some cheating” in this election, Brennan pounced. CBS didn’t want to spread any notion that Republicans are the ones for election integrity. MARGARET BRENNAN: You know that it is against– SPEAKER JOHNSON: Glenn Youngkin, the governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia - BRENNAN: The law for noncitizens to vote in federal elections that’s established law. JOHNSON: Of course it is, of course it is, but of course it is. But here’s the problem, there's a number of states that are not requiring proof of citizenship when illegals are noncitizens register to vote. We know that’s happening. [Look, Glenn Youngkin in Virginia, I was going to say he issued an executive order to clean up their voting rules heading into the election. Less than 30 days out, a couple of days ago, the Obama, I mean, the Biden administration, Department of Justice, Biden Harris administration, sued the governor and the state, the Commonwealth of Virginia, to try to prevent them from cleaning up their voter rolls. Their voter rolls. See, that kind of thing creates a lot of doubt and concern in the minds of a lot of the American people. Why would they do that?] BRENNAN: But respectfully, Speaker – JOHNSON: Everybody should want the law to be followed. The biggest removal of Johnson’s argument came shortly after, when Brennan suggested Johnson was undermining the integrity of elections by suggesting non-citizens will vote!  CBS didn’t want any discussion of a “SAVE Act,” or how Chuck Schumer and the Democrats oppose any attempt to insure illegal immigrants don’t vote.  MARGARET BRENNAN: Respectfully, Speaker, you both, in the course of this interview, said that you do believe that states have taken measures that will help the integrity of this election SPEAKER JOHNSON: That’s true- BRENNAN: – and then you just also seem to undermine confidence in the integrity of the state elections – JOHNSON: No, no. Margaret. Hold on. Wait a minute. Wait, wait just a minute. It's not me undermining it. It’s the actions of the Biden-Harris administration and some of these states. Noncitizens are not allowed to vote under federal law. [BRENNAN: Right. JOHNSON: But the states have prohibited it. We passed the SAVE act. You know, in the house, the SAVE Act says you gotta have proof of citizenship before you register to vote. And Chuck Schumer and the Democrats blocked that in the Senate. We could have prevented this, the questions that people have about that, but the Democrats chose not to. They opened the border wide. A lot of people theorize that that was so that they could have non citizens to vote. These are realities, Margaret. I wish it weren’t true, but that's what’s, that’s the concern that people have. And Wisconsin– [CROSSTALK] BRENNAN: – But, but. People can have lots of concerns, but it is already law that noncitizens cannot vote in federal elections. JOHNSON: It is a law. That’s correct, but we have to make sure the law is followed. And that is the whole point. That has always been the whole point of the SAVE Act and all the measures that we've tried to ensure. I believe, by my count, we have about 16 million illegal aliens in the country since Mayorkas and Harris and Biden opened the border wide. And because of that, there's concern, because those people are distributed all around the country, as you know, there's concern some of those people will try to participate in the elections. Look, some of our House races. I believe the Republicans are going to win the House, grow the House majority, win the Senate and the White House. But in some of our House races, I mean, I have a colleague who was elected by six votes in 2020. Some of these are decided by hundreds or a few 1000s of votes. So if you have non citizens participating against the law, and you have no mechanism in some states to stop it. That is the root of so much of the concern. And of course, you know, in California, they have ballot harvesting right? Ballot harvesting is notorious for opening the door for fraud in Wisconsin, they're going to put — BRENNAN: — Mr. Speaker, you seem to be JOHNSON: – In some counties unmanned ballot boxes in public parks, again BRENNAN: Contradicting yourself. The states are run by the state government – JOHNSON: No. I'm stating the facts, Margaret. BRENNAN: – Not the federal government. JOHNSON: That’s right. That's correct. And that's yeah we hope and pray- ] BRENNAN: So if your issue is with certain governors, shouldn't you be talking to them?  JOHNSON: We have been- we have been and the Republican governors have done heroic work. They’ve done their own audits of the voter rolls to try to ensure and do their best duty to make sure that this is a free, fair and legal election. We're calling on all the governors to do the same thing, Democrat governors as well, and Democrat led states in the legislature, they need to do the same thing.   4. CBS Moderators Trample All Over Debate Rules to Fight with GOP VP Pick, Cut Off Vance’s Mic     Liberal moderators Margaret Brennan and Norah O’Donnell were so desperate to make Senator J.D. Vance (R-OH) look bad, that they repeatedly broke the rules of the debate to fact-check him. And their so-called fact-checks were so wrong that Vance had to call them out for it. CBS News agreed that they would not fact-check either candidate and would leave it up to the debaters to do that. But throughout the debate, the moderators either offered up fact-checks against Vance.  Things came to a head when Brennan delivered a dubious fact-check overlooking how the asylum process was being abused by illegal immigrants. Vance spoke up to lay out the real facts of how the system was being manipulated, ultimately leading to O’Donnell to cutting off his microphone.   5. CBS’s Lesley Stahl Scolded Trump In 2020: Hunter Biden Laptop Emails “Can’t be Verified” CBS tried to suppress the news about Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop and the emails it contained when it came to light in 2020 after the New York Post broke the story in the final weeks of the presidential campaign. It was such a taboo subject for CBS that when President Donald Trump brought up the subject during an October 2020 60 Minutes interview with Lesley Stahl, it was edited out of the final broadcast.  Fortunately, the Trump campaign recorded the segment left on the 60 Minutes cutting room floor so you can see Stahl claim over and over that the information on Hunter Biden’s laptop “can’t be verified”:     PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Lesley, you’ve discredited yourself. When you say that you’re not going to cover Biden, you’re going to ask him what flavor ice cream he has, okay. LESLEY STAHL: That’s not me. TRUMP: Instead of, “Why did Hunter get three and a half million dollars from Moscow?” Instead of, “Why is an energy company paying your son $183,000 a month, or whatever they’re paying him?” And he has no experience in energy. You discredit yourself. I don’t have to discredit you. STAHL: So this story about Hunter and his laptop, some repair shop found it, the source is Steve Bannon and Rudy Giuliani. TRUMP: I don’t know anything about that. I just know it’s a laptop and they haven’t- STAHL: And you’re making this one of the hottest, most important issues... TRUMP: I don’t know about the two gentleman you mentioned. STAHL: It’s an important issue- TRUMP: It’s a very important issue to find out whether or not a man is corrupt, who’s running for president. Who’s accepted money from China, and from Ukraine, and from Russia. Yeah, I think that’s an important issue. STAHL: All these things have been investigated and discredited. TRUMP: It’s incredible the way you can try and say this and sit there and look me in the eye and say it. He accepted money, his family, from Russia, from Ukraine, from China and from other places. His brother who didn’t have experience became a big builder in Iraq, without experience. Take a look at what’s going on, Lesley. And then you say that shouldn’t be discussed? It’s the biggest scandal out there, Lesley. STAHL: And you think it’s the biggest issue to campaign on? TRUMP: I think it’s one of the biggest scandals I’ve ever seen, and you don’t cover it. You want to talk about- STAHL: Well, because it can’t be verified. TRUMP: You want to talk about insignificant things. STAHL: I’m telling you. TRUMP: Of course it can be verified. Excuse me, they found a laptop. Lesley, listen. STAHL: It can’t be verified. TRUMP: What can’t be verified? STAHL: The laptop. TRUMP: Why do you say that? Even the family hasn’t… The family on the laptop… He’s gone into hiding for five days, he’s gone into hiding. STAHL: He’s preparing for your debate. TRUMP: Oh, it’s taking him five days to prepare? I doubt it, I doubt it. Okay, go ahead.   6. Connie Chung Cons Newt’s Mom: “Whisper It to Me, Just Between You and Me” Hoping to boost the ratings for an upcoming Eye to Eye with Connie Chung, CBS News managed to mar Newt Gingrich’s first day as Speaker on January 4, 1995. The day before, CBS released the text of an exchange taped 14 days earlier between Connie Chung and Newt’s mother. Chung coaxed Kathleen Gingrich into telling what Newt thought of Hillary Clinton. Posing the now infamous “Why don’t you just whisper it to me, just between you and me,” Mrs. Gingrich whispered “She’s a bitch.” CBS was engulfed in criticism for using a statement which many thought Chung made clear was “off the record.”  CBS News President Eric Ober bizarrely complained to The Washington Post: “It’s a legitimate, very good interview that has unfortunately been reduced to one five-letter summary.” Chung introduced the actual piece on the January 5, 1995 Eye to Eye by saying, “You may have heard one small portion of this interview. Now you will see it in context.” It seems both forgot it was CBS which promoted the excerpt and showed it on CBS This Morning, CBS Evening News and Up to the Minute.   7. DeSantis Smashes CBS Reporter’s Fake Vaccine Narrative, So CBS Takes Him Out of Context     CBS ran a malicious and deceptive hit piece against the Florida governor Ron DeSantis on the April 4, 2021 edition of 60 Minutes. Correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi’s whole report proposed DeSantis led a “pay for play” rollout of the COVID vaccine in his state. She spent the majority of the time speaking to his critics, including West Palm Beach Mayor Keith James who alleged wealthy communities were “jumping the line” to procure the vaccine. “It sounds like the Hunger Games!” an alarmed Alfonsi, seriously said. She touted other critics like Democrat State Rep. Omari Hardy blasting DeSantis for not prioritizing minorities for getting the vaccine before seniors. At a press conference, the CBS correspondent confronted DeSantis, accusing him of a “pay for play” scheme with the vaccine rollout, because he gave the most popular grocery chain in the state, Publix, the rights to distribute the vaccine in certain counties, weeks after receiving donations to his campaign from the store (which also donated to Democrats.)  However, CBS completely cut out DeSantis’s thorough takedown of Alfonsi’s claim. In the original press conference, he explains for nearly two minutes how wrong the media’s assessment of this has been. “You don't care about the facts,” he blasted Alfonsi. Emails from the camp of DeSantis revealed the shady way the CBS 60 Minutes team operated before their hatchet job suggesting (without actual connecting evidence) that DeSantis engaged in a “pay to play” scheme with the Publix supermarket chain on vaccine distribution.   8. CBS Pushes Phony Cocaine Story About George W. Bush Back in 2000, 60 Minutes devoted a whole segment to crackpot author J.H. Hatfield and his book trashing George W. Bush called Fortunate Son. They put on this Lesley Stahl segment despite Hatfield being unable to prove Bush was arrested for cocaine possession and despite Hatfield paying for a hit man. Their website announced: “Just because he lied to his editors about being a convicted felon isn’t a good enough reason for those editors to doubt his book.”   While there is less than three weeks to go until Election Day 2024, there is still time for CBS to get in a few more cheap shots against conservative candidates. Consider this a warning to be on the lookout for more CBS shenanigans.

Denver Broncos wide receiver Josh Reynolds survived two gunshot wounds last Friday after he was followed by several vehicles on Interstate 25 in Colorado.Reynolds — who's on the injured-reserve list with a broken finger — is not expected to miss any extra time despite a graze wound to the back of his head and another wound in his arm.Broncos officials sent a statement to KUSA saying Reynolds was a victim of a shooting.After leaving the strip club around 3 a.m. Oct. 18, the receiver reportedly was followed by two drivers when shots were fired. Reynolds and two other victims told police soon four vehicles were following Reynolds' blue Ford Bronco on the highway.The victims said the Ford soon broke down, causing Reynolds, along with the passengers, to flee on foot.Police later found the victims and separately located the vehicle southbound on I-25 with multiple bullet defects in the back and front windshields. Two fired cartridges were reportedly found behind the vehicle. Aside from Reynolds, a second victim reportedly was shot in the back while a third victim was injured by broken glass.Team sources said Reynolds was treated and released from a Denver-area hospital hours after the shooting, ESPN reported.Despite his wounds, KUSA-TV reported that Reynolds isn't expected to miss any extra playing time and actually was at the Broncos' facility last Friday, the day of the shooting, presumably after his hospital visit. KUSA added that he's been "watching practices on the field all week."Denver Police later announced the arrest of two men, Burr Charlesworth and Luis Mendoza, KUSA added. ESPN said they were "being held for investigation of attempted first-degree murder and first-degree assault." Court documents state that video from the strip club shows Mendoza at the club, but he was not causing any problems. However, it was noted that the suspect was keeping his eyes on the victims before following them out.Several other vehicles were reportedly seen pulling into the parking lot and apparently waiting for Reynolds to leave, with three vehicles eventually following him.Broncos officials sent a statement to KUSA saying Reynolds was a victim of a shooting and that he "received treatment for minor injuries"; the team declined further comment.Reynolds, 29, is in his eighth NFL season and recently signed a two-year, $9 million contract with Denver.He played five games in 2024 before his recent injury and has gained over 3,000 receiving yards with 20 touchdowns in his career.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

The Biden-Harris Department of Justice sued the Commonwealth of Virginia earlier this month in an attempt to arrest and reverse its efforts to keep noncitizens off the voter rolls. A Biden-nominated judge obliged the DOJ Friday, ruling that Virginia must restore the registrations of over 1,600 individuals allegedly identified as noncitizens. According to Bloomberg News, Judge Patricia Tolliver Giles claimed the removals were a "clear violation" of the National Voter Registration Act's quiet period provision, which requires states to complete programs intended to systematically remove the names of ineligible voters from registration lists by no later than 90 days prior to a primary election or general election for federal office. The Biden judge ordered the state to dispatch notices to everyone whose registration was canceled under Youngkin's individualized voter roll cleanup program. Giles indicated that these notices must go out even to those who election officials have reason to believe are noncitizens, telling the state's lawyer, "I'm not dealing with beliefs. I'm dealing with evidence." Charles Cooper, a lawyer for the state, told the court, "Congress couldn't possibly have intended to prevent the removal ... of persons who were never eligible to vote in the first place," reported the Associated Press. 'It should never be illegal to remove an illegal voter.' Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin indicated that Virginia will appeal the ruling and, if necessary, take the the matter all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court for an emergency stay of the injunction. "Let's be clear about what just happened: only eleven days before a Presidential election, a federal judge ordered Virginia to reinstate over 1,500 individuals — who self-identified themselves as noncitizens — back onto the voter rolls," Youngkin said in a statement. The governor noted further that the state was simply following through on a law "passed in 2006, signed by then-Governor Tim Kaine, that mandates certain procedures to remove noncitizens from the voter rolls, with safeguards in place to affirm citizenship before removal — and the ultimate failsafe of same-day registration for U.S. citizens to cast a provisional ballot. This law has been applied in every presidential election by Republicans and Democrats since enacted 18 years ago." Blaze News previously reported that Youngkin issued an executive order on Aug. 7, exactly 90 days before the general election, requiring both that the commissioner of the Virginia Department of Elections routinely update voter lists to remove individuals identified as noncitizens and that the state Department of Motor Vehicles expedite the interagency data-sharing with the DOE with regard to noncitizen transactions. "Call me crazy, but I think American elections should be decided by American citizens and Virginia elections should be decided by Virginians," Youngkin said in an interview. The DOJ swooped in with a lawsuit on Oct. 11, claiming the initiative violated Section 8(c)(2) of the NVRA. Former Virginia Attorney General Richard Cullen, Youngkin's lawyer, contended that the program was kosher because it is not a systematic program but rather an individualized process that begins with "individuals themselves indicating that they are a noncitizen during a DMV transaction." Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares said of Giles' ruling, "It should never be illegal to remove an illegal voter. Yet, today a Court — urged by the Biden-Harris Department of Justice — ordered Virginia to put the names of non-citizens back on the voter rolls, mere days before a presidential election. Miyares suggested that this is a clear case of the Biden-Harris administration weaponizing the legal system "against the enemies of so-called progress." "That is the definition of lawfare," continued the state attorney general. "To openly choose weaponization over good process and lawfare over integrity isn't democracy: It's bullying, pure and simple, and I always stand up to bullies." Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Cook Political Report shifted New York Republican Rep. Mike Lawler's race from "toss up" to "lean Republican" on Friday, despite Democrats' efforts to recoup their losses from the 2022 midterm cycle. Lawler won his seat in New York's 17th Congressional District, a +3 Democrat district, by fewer than 2,000 votes, unseating Democratic incumbent Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney. Lawler and Republican Reps. Brandon Williams, Anthony D'Esposito, and Marc Molinaro all flipped their seats in the 2022 midterms.The New York races may be particularly consequential given the Republicans' narrowing majority in the House.Of the four New York Republican incumbents, Lawler's odds of re-election are the strongest. Molinaro's and D'Esposito's seats are both ranked "toss up," while Williams' seat is rated "lean Democrat." The latest polls show the freshman congressman with a slim advantage over Democratic challenger Mondaire Jones. Jones formerly served New York's 17th Congressional District from 2021 to 2023 before running for New York's 10th Congressional District after a new congressional map was drawn in 2022. "Mondaire Jones has spent the better part of the past two years trying to rewrite history, and no one is buying it," Savannah Viar, a spokeswoman for the National Republican Congressional Committee, said in a statement. "The momentum is on the side of common-sense leader Mike Lawler, who will be re-elected in November." The New York races may be particularly consequential given the Republicans' narrowing majority in the House. Of the 435 seats, three are vacant, while Republicans currently hold 220 seats and Democrats hold 212.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Jennifer Sey is a former pro athlete and brand president of Levi’s — who is now a fierce advocate for saving women’s sports from being infiltrated by men. “I swear I’m going to lose my mind,” Sey tells James Poulos of “Zero Hour.” “The spokesperson for the IOC just said this morning there’s no reliable test to tell the difference between males and females.” While Poulos and Sey agree that what’s been happening is absolute insanity, Sey believes it’s “deliberately obtuse and politically motivated.” “The other argument they use is, ‘Any test we might do is just too intrusive,’” Sey continues. “Well, I will tell you, as an internationally competitive athlete that competed before this, before we didn’t think the tests were accurate, we were tested regularly for drug use.” “We had to pee in a cup in front of a person at every national and international competition,” she says. “I didn’t even think it was intrusive. I wanted it to be fair, I wanted a fair fight in the competition.” “I can always accept losing if it’s a fair fight,” she adds, explaining that something like 85% of female athletes are in favor of testing for sex eligibility simply because “they too want a fair fight.” Two major stories from earlier this year surrounded the boxers who failed the sex eligibility tests but were allowed to compete against women in the 2024 Olympics regardless of the results. “They did not challenge the testing results in the court of arbitration, which might suggest they knew that the testing results were accurate, and since then, the IOC has snatched regulation and oversight of boxing away from that individual sports governing body,” Sey says. Boxing is now the only sport in the Olympics being governed directly by the International Olympic Committee. “This male boxer punches a woman repeatedly while she’s up against the ropes, with her throat against the rope, in the back of the head. Not disqualified,” She says, adding, “these female boxers are being told to sit down, shut up, take it. This is what you have to do to be inclusive.” “Craziness,” Poulos comments in disbelief. Want more from James Poulos?To enjoy more of James's visionary commentary on politics, tech, ideas, and culture, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

President Joe Biden's "lock him up" remark against Donald Trump this week has prompted the former president's legal team to file a motion to dismiss the ongoing federal case against him.On Tuesday, while campaigning in New Hampshire for Vice President Kamala Harris, Biden told a group of supporters that Trump believes the Supreme Court's presidential immunity ruling gives him the authority to "actually eliminate, physically eliminate, shoot, kill someone who he believes to be a threat to him."'This unjust case was dead on arrival.'"I mean, so I know this sounds bizarre, it sounds like I said this five years ago, he'd lock me up," Biden stated."We gotta lock him up," the president declared.Moments later, Biden attempted to backpedal, adding, "Politically, lock him up — lock him out, that's what we've got to do."On Thursday, Trump's legal team filed a motion to dismiss the federal case that claims he attempted to overturn the 2020 presidential election.In the motion, his lawyers pointed to Biden's Tuesday comments as evidence that the case is nothing more than a political vendetta. Trump's legal team wrote, "The proposed motion establishes that this unjust case was dead on arrival — unconstitutional even before its inception."His attorneys further alleged that the appointment of special counsel Jack Smith was unlawful because it circumvented Congress."In November 2022, the Attorney General [Merrick Garland] violated the Appointments Clause by naming private-citizen Smith to target President Trump, while President Trump was campaigning to take back the Oval Office from the Attorney General's boss, without a statutory basis for doing so," the motion continued.Trump's attorneys argued, "Garland did so following improper public urging from President Biden to target President Trump, as reported at the time in 2022, and repeated recently by President Biden through his inappropriate instruction to 'lock him up' while Smith presses forward with the case unlawfully as the Presidential election rapidly approaches."Last week, U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan rejected Trump's request to delay Smith's public release of additional documents pertaining to the case.Trump's lawyers contended that the documents' release could amount to election interference with the upcoming presidential election just weeks away. However, Chutkan ruled that not releasing the records could "constitute — or appear to be — election interference."Smith's other federal case against Trump was dismissed in July after U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon ruled that his appointment was unlawful.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!