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Dennis Prager on the hate for President Trump. #WIND

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The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was closed for almost two years for a $34 million renovation under the Obama administration. A month after it reopened, here's what people standing in front of it had to say. #WIND

I’ve been in the public eye most of my life and there isn’t any dirt you can find on me that hasn’t already been aired. Seems like the only thing people don’t know is my voter registration, so here go: I registered Republican in 2020 and never changed it. And I wasn’t going to change it now just to check a different box. This is a non-partisan race - there will be no D or R next to my name. As Mayor, I will not serve either party. I will work with anyone who wants to help the City. No labels necessary.

Release us. #WYLL

70 million Americans kicking a** with record 401Ks, but media focuses on Chiraq welfare roaches. 19 shot this weekend, deadlier than Iran! Racism is the argument of frauds and failures. @AM560TheAnswer, 4PM CT. Chinstrap tight. => ShaunThompsonShow.com

Bakari Sellers couldn't handle Kevin O'Leary on CNN NewsNight, so he resorted to name-calling on live TV. #WIND

Will there be a federal gas tax suspension? salemnewschannel.com/watch/trump-pu… #WIND

Scott Jennings reveals what Democrats are doing to “fix" America. #WIND

Will he? salemnewschannel.com/watch/will-tru… #WIND

Alex Marlow: Israel continues to pummel Hezbollah. #WIND

Larry Elder: Is New York driving out its own future? #WIND

NYC Public Schools 🤝 Chicago Public Schools, both dedicated to failing students.

#BREAKING: Inflation jumps to 3.8%; consumer prices rose at the fastest rate since May 2023

NEW: President Trump heads to Beijing for talks with Xi as U.S. urges China to pressure Iran and stabilize global trade amid rising tensions.

This week's edition of @MorningAnswer's "In Depth History" with Frank the History Teacher from Arlington Heights...because there's nothing new in this world just the history you don't know and Frank does. +++ Color Guard Good Morning!  The strangest looking Electoral College map no doubt is that of 1872.  President Grant won quite easily. But since his opponent, Horace Greeley died three weeks after the election but before the Electoral College met 4 additional men got votes making the map quite colorful.  But the Congressional map was clearly red across the country as the freedmen now had the franchise and voted heavily Republican.  That 1872 map also had more uniformly shaped districts.  Here in Illinois, our current map, well, it would be easier to draw a smiley face while playing Twister and Operation at the same time than to draw out almost any of the 17 districts. Now Britain faced similar problems with their parliamentary boroughs in the early 1800s.  Rotten boroughs were those that had their population thin out due to urban migration.  Pocket boroughs were similar but the right to elect the MP was due to special privilege given to a local aristocrat who controlled the votes. We have our own Rotten Boroughs in a way - Wyoming, Vermont and Alaska all have less than the required population for a district.  But we also have our version of the Pocket Boroughs – the unconstitutional racially gerrymandered districts across the country that are now being dismantled by State Legislatures in light of the recent Supreme Court ruling. Yet despite all the hyperventilating, once these are resolved in new maps, a more small d democratic polity should emerge.  In 1874, in the midst of an economic depression, with a normal map, the House went Dem in what was a complete reversal of 1872. In 1912 the Dems gained 61 seats but then lost the same amount back 2 years later.  1894 and 1932 had triple digit swings.   But since the Voting Rights Act, with only a few exceptions, the swings have been more mild as our political class chooses its own voters.  Change is then hard to come by so is it any wonder Congress has such dismal approval ratings?  Thankfully, SCOTUS took a sledgehammer to this long-standing insult to the ideals of our Declaration of Independence.

More people are testing positive. salemnewschannel.com/watch/2-more-p… #WIND

Today's Conservative Cartoon: Allies. #WIND

He pled not guilty. salemnewschannel.com/watch/man-plea… #WIND

Scott Jennings: US forces in the Gulf of Oman. #WIND