by | Dec 21, 2024 | Fox News
Dr. Anthony Fauci joined Georgetown University’s faculty last year as a “distinguished university professor” but has yet to teach a single course, a new report says.
Georgetown announced in the summer of 2023 that Dr. Fauci, the former Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, would be serving as “a Distinguished University Professor in the School of Medicine’s Department of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases,” as well as an appointment at the university’s McCourt School of Public Policy.
Georgetown calls the role bestowed on Fauci its “most significant professional honor” that is reserved for faculty members “whose extraordinary accomplishments in scholarship, teaching and service have earned them significant recognition in the Academy.”
However, as the College Fix reported on Friday, Fauci appears to have not taught any courses at the school since his appointment.
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Fox News Digital reviewed the course catalog available on Georgetown’s website going back to the Summer 2023 semester and didn’t find any course listed with Fauci as an instructor since that time.
The private Jesuit college said Fauci would “participate in medical and graduate education and engage with students,” in its initial announcement.
Since his appointment, Fauci has “given lectures, seminars and fireside chats for undergrads and for students and others from the School of Medicine, School of Health, School of Public Policy, Law Center and Walsh School of Foreign Service,” instead of teaching, according to an August interview with The Georgetowner. He also “made himself available for one-on-one meetings. ”
Fauci also joined the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown as a “Distinguished Senior Scholar” in April 2024.
Georgetown said that Fauci would advance “the right to health” and provide “a critical perspective on identifying and responding to urgent national and global public health concerns” in this additional position.
As the public face of the federal government’s coronavirus pandemic response, Fauci has come under scrutiny for his handling of the pandemic. He faced renewed criticism this month after a report detailing the findings of a two-year congressional investigation into the pandemic was released.
The congressional subcommittee report found that the virus most likely emerged from a laboratory in Wuhan, China, and that social distancing and masking were not backed with scientific data.
The report said Fauci “played a critical role in disparaging the lab-leak theory” among top scientific circles early in 2020 and later to the public. His congressional testimony to Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., the report states, misled the public regarding National Institute of Health funding of gain-of-function research at coronavirus labs.
Politico reported earlier this month that President Biden is considering preemptive pardons for Fauci and other political figures ahead of President-elect Trump’s return to the White House in January.
Georgetown did not respond to Fox News Digital’s questions about Fauci’s professor role or salary.
Fox News’ Danielle Wallace and Stephen Sorace contributed to this report.
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by dap | Dec 21, 2024 | Fox News
On Thursday, the Georgia Court of Appeals disqualified Fulton County district attorney Fani Willis from prosecuting President-elect Donald Trump and others for alleged 2020 “election interference.” The Court held that Willis suffered from a conflict of interest because she hired her paramour, Nathan Wade, as a special counsel to investigate Trump.
Basic legal ethics and common sense dictate that both Wade, who resigned last March, and Willis had to go. The appellate court did not dismiss the indictment, stating that the record did not support imposing such an “extreme sanction.” The Prosecuting Attorneys’ Council of Georgia will now assign the case to a different prosecutor who will decide whether to continue, narrow, or drop the flawed RICO case.
There was never any question that Willis suffered from a conflict of interest; but like the other prosecutors who pursued Trump in the name of democracy, she threw all caution to the wind. For example, in July 2022 Willis attempted to investigate Trump ally State Senator Burt Jones even while headlining a huge fundraiser for Jones’s Democrat opponent. A judge had to bar the prosecution because of the clear conflict of interest.
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A government official hiring her paramour is almost always questionable in and of itself. What’s worse is that Willis hired Wade after she already had hired Georgia’s premier RICO expert. She hired Wade even though he openly admitted that he had no prior felony or RICO prosecution experience. Willis paid Wade a higher hourly rate than a regular counsel and did nothing when Wade far exceeded even those amounts.
Some estimates place Wade’s total county income at over $650,000 per year – three to four times the salary of a regular prosecutor. Their many romantic trips and late-night meetings, which the judge examined on national television, exacerbated their conflicts of interest.
The Georgia appeals court inevitably found that the Trump prosecution was “encumbered by [a significant] appearance of impropriety” and carried “an odor of mendacity” such that Willis was “not exercising her independent professional judgment totally free of any compromising influences.”
Willis and Wade also failed to voluntarily and timely disclose their romantic and financial relationship to the defense, and therefore failed to meet their “specific obligations to see that the defendant is accorded procedural justice” under Georgia law. The rules also state that a prosecutor’s “duty is to seek justice, not merely to convict. This special duty exists because the prosecutor represents the sovereign and should exercise restraint in the discretionary exercise of governmental powers.”
Willis exercised no such restraint and Thursday’s decision saves the Georgia courts from having to later preempt her deeply flawed prosecution. Willis’s investigation threatened not just Trump, but also the office of the presidency.
Other prosecutors, such as Manhattan D.A. Alvin Bragg or U.S. Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith, lodged narrow, if creative, charges against Trump that they hoped would be easier to prove.
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Willis, in a striking example of prosecutorial overreach, charged Trump and his associates with running a vast RICO conspiracy that included almost every significant act of his campaign between Election Day 2020 and the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, and beyond. She claimed 161 alleged acts, 19 charged defendants, 30 unindicted co-conspirators, and involved 7 states and the District of Columbia. This not only ran afoul of the First Amendment free speech rights of Trump, the co-defendants, and the Republican Party, it also posed a threat to all future presidents, who would have to worry about state legal liabilities when making the most difficult decisions in the nation and engaging in his duties.
For example, Trump’s post-2020 election televised speeches and tweets are protected speech and political activity, regardless of whether his statements turned out to be accurate. Trump’s plan to create alternate slates of electors and the legal advice supporting it, the cornerstones of Willis’s RICO charge, were within the bounds of reasonable legal argument. In the 1876 election between Republican Rutherford B. Hayes and Democrat Samuel J. Tilden, Tilden won the popular and electoral college votes, but Republicans challenged the election results in Florida, Louisiana, and South Carolina, on the ground that Democrats had engaged in election fraud and intimidated Black voters.
Hayes eventually won with 185 electoral votes, but Democrats had presented alternate slates of electors from multiple states. No one was criminally charged.
In the 1960 presidential election, Democrats challenged Nixon’s initial win in Hawaii, signed alternate electoral vote certificates, and sent them to Capitol Hill. No one was criminally charged.
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After the 2016 election, the Hillary Clinton campaign and allied liberal groups recruited celebrities and others to importune electors to not cast their electoral votes for Trump; again, no one was investigated or charged.
Proposing alternate electors in the event that Congress or a court rejected a state’s vote as fraudulent falls within the free speech rights of a political campaign.
Furthermore, the prosecution failed to meet the standard requirements for a RICO prosecution. Neither Trump nor his co-defendants tried to gain money, property, or control of a business with their post-2020 election activities. Nor did they demonstrate any interest in initiating or joining a criminal enterprise to gain property, money, or businesses. Instead, Trump wanted to win the 2020 election, which is not illegal; fighting to stay in office would have ended one way or the other by inauguration day in 2021.
But the most serious flaw with Willis’s now-disgraced prosecution of Trump was its threat to the office of the presidency. Willis’s prosecution was part of the Democratic Party’s plan to break political and legal norms that had held for the history of the republic – all in the name of defeating Trump.
For the first time in American history, they brought criminal charges against a former president and the major, leading opposition presidential candidate during the actual campaign. If elected leaders, whom our constitutional system vests with the authority over prosecution, must break American political practice going back to 1789, they should do so for a compelling reason and with a case where the prosecution’s facts and law are airtight. Instead, Willis brought charges that were destined to fail in court and were clouded by her own conflicts of interest and potential financial corruption.
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But once Willis brought charges against Trump for his actions while in office, future presidents must factor prosecution into their calculus. And investigators may not even wait until after a president has left office.
State prosecutors could charge presidents while the latter are still in office; nothing in the Constitution requires states to wait.
This may well make presidents risk-averse, especially when partisan, elected prosecutors are the ones launching the investigations. At the very least, defending against one or more state criminal investigations will draw on the time and resources that a president could – and should – instead devote to carry out his constitutional responsibilities and protecting national security.
These concerns led the U.S. Supreme Court to grant former presidents sweeping immunity from federal prosecution for their official acts in Trump v. United States. But the Trump Court’s decision – broad as it was – does not reach (a) investigations by state prosecutors, (b) for alleged violations of state law, (c) by presidents acting in their private capacities. While the Trump Court held that courts should not allow any evidence, even when used to prove state crimes, from official presidential activities, it did not prohibit state prosecutors from proceeding against Trump.
Not only did Willis’s prosecution harm the presidency in the ways that concerned the Trump Court, it also promised to spark a cycle of retaliation that would further destroy important legal and political norms.
Nothing will prevent elected Republican district attorneys from opening investigations into Hunter, James, or even President Joe Biden for corruption, bribery, and money laundering – all they need is some link between the Bidens’ criminal enterprise (to borrow the Georgia description of the Trump campaign), and their jurisdictions. Opening such probes would make for good campaign fodder in deep-red counties; some D.A.s might even pursue charges just to engage in tit-for-tat retaliation for the New York City and Georgia charges.
While Democrats may embrace state prosecutors like Bragg and Willis, they should instead consider the whirlwind that they have now unleashed and choose to do the right thing: drop their legally flawed cases against President Trump.
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by dap | Dec 21, 2024 | Fox News, Mediate
Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) dismissed scathing criticism of him from President-elect Donald Trump – including calls for his ouster – on Friday during an interview with Fox News after he and nearly 40 other Republicans voted against a Trump-backed bill to avert a government shutdown.
Roy reminded Fox News host John Roberts that former Texas Governor Rick Perry (R) called Trump a “cancer” before he ultimately joined the first Trump administration to run the Department of Energy.
On America Reports, Roberts noted Trump was furious at Roy and other Republicans for voting against the bipartisan bill to keep the government running.
“He’s now taken aim at you, saying that you, Chip Roy, you’re getting in the way of what he wants done, and he’s encouraging Republicans in Texas to primary you,” Roberts said. “I mean, you’ve really poked the bear here,” Roy replied:
Yeah. Look, at the end of the day, my job is to honor God, my family, the Constitution, and my voters – the voters who sent me here. That is what drives me. But I am working tirelessly to get what the president wants. I think the president knows that at the end of the day – look, politics are politics. Rick Perry called President Trump a cancer and then ended up in his cabinet. I’m not worried about politics.
I’m worried about the American people. I’m worried about inflation. I’m worrying about a $5 trillion debt ceiling increase with no spending cuts. The president is rightly motivated to block Chuck Schumer’s abuse, but we Republicans here in Congress, in the House have an obligation to get it done correctly. That’s what we’re working to try to do on behalf of the president and our constituents and our obligations under the Constitution.
Thursday, Trump took aim at Roy in a pair of posts on his Truth Social account. In one post, Trump wrote:
The very unpopular “Congressman” from Texas, Chip Roy, is getting in the way, as usual, of having yet another Great Republican Victory – All for the sake of some cheap publicity for himself. Republican obstructionists have to be done away with. The Democrats are using them, and we can’t let that happen. Our Country is far better off closing up for a period of time than it is agreeing to the things that the Democrats want to force upon us. Biden is President, and it’s his obligation to properly lead.
We’re there to do the right thing, and we can’t agree with what Biden and the Democrats are demanding. Weak and ineffective people like Chip have to be dismissed as being utterly unknowledgeable as to the ways of politics, and as to Making America Great Again. Put “America First,” and go for the Victory, even if it means shutting the Government down for a period of time. We had an overwhelming Victory just four weeks ago, and we’re not going to let the Democrats forget it so quickly!
Trump also called on Texas voters to oust Roy in the 2026 GOP primary:
Chip Roy is just another ambitious guy, with no talent. By the way, how’s Bob Good doing? I hope some talented challengers are getting ready in the Great State of Texas to go after Chip in the Primary. He won’t have a chance!
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by dap | Dec 21, 2024 | Fox News
Have you ever had your turkey sandwich vanish mysteriously from the office fridge or found your bag of almonds missing from the breakroom cabinet? If so, you’re no stranger to the antics of the elusive office food thief.
It happens almost every holiday season and is now becoming a routine thing at the workplace. This culprit, lurking in workplaces everywhere, has a knack for sending employees into a fury of frustration.
It’s a universal dilemma. Many of us have silently wished for karma to strike these food pilferers with a lifetime of stomach troubles. What kind of person, we wonder, would stoop so low as to steal a coworker’s meal? While the occasional leftover dessert may tempt even the most principled among us, most would never cross that line without asking permission or leaving compensation.
But who exactly is the office refrigerator bandit? Could it be:
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Regardless of their motives, combating office food theft requires creative strategies. Below are five practical – and sometimes playful – ways to protect your cherished casserole or frozen meal from falling victim to workplace larceny.
1. Label Your Food
Writing your name on your food may not be a foolproof deterrent, but it can ward off less experienced thieves. However, beware – if someone in the office harbors a grudge against you, your name might become an invitation rather than a warning. Even so, labeling your food adds a layer of risk for the perpetrator, which could make them think twice before taking what isn’t theirs.
2. Choose Healthier Options
Office food thieves often gravitate toward indulgent, calorie-laden snacks and meals. Items like leftover desserts, Lean Cuisines and Hot Pockets are prime targets. In contrast, healthier options such as turkey sausages, hard-boiled egg whites or a plate of Brussels sprouts are far less enticing. By sticking to nutritious, less appealing fare, you might just save yourself the trouble of becoming a victim.
3. Install a Camera System
Modern technology makes it easier than ever to catch food thieves in the act. Affordable and discreet cameras can be hidden in the office kitchen, on bulletin boards or even inside the refrigerator itself. With many systems accessible via smartphone, you can monitor the situation from virtually anywhere. For less than $10, you can take the first step toward solving the mystery of your missing meals.
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4. Set a Playful Trap
Take a page from crime dramas and set a clever trap – without breaking any workplace rules. For instance, add an extra-hot dose of spicy sauce to your food or attach a humorous note claiming the contents to be something unusual (like baby formula or magical brownies). While harmless, such tactics can make would-be thieves think twice before risking embarrassment or discomfort. Just be sure to avoid anything that could land you in trouble with HR!
5. Opt for “Assembly Required” Meals
Convenience is a thief’s best friend. Pre-packaged or ready-to-eat foods, like sandwiches or snack bags, are easy pickings. In contrast, meals that require preparation – such as those stored in multiple containers or needing assembly – can be a deterrent. A thief is less likely to go through the trouble of preparing your meal when there are easier targets available.
Fridge theft in the workplace is more than just an inconvenience – it’s a growing phenomenon, particularly in offices with shared or open workspaces. But what drives someone to steal food from their colleagues? Is it pure hunger? Apathy toward getting caught? Or perhaps a bizarre sense of adventure akin to a sequel movie called – “Smoked Turkey and the Bandit”?
Whatever the motivation, it’s clear that office food thieves are here to stay. As workplaces become more collaborative and personal refrigerators become a luxury, employees must remain vigilant. By employing these strategies, you can safeguard your meals and avoid the frustration of opening an empty lunchbox.
Remember: the next time you prepare your famous casserole, consider these tips to ensure it doesn’t mysteriously disappear before lunchtime.
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by | Dec 21, 2024 | Fox News
One of the leading candidates to fill Vice President-elect JD Vance‘s Ohio Senate seat recently traveled to President-elect Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence as a decision from the state’s governor draws closer.
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine traveled to Trump’s Florida home with fellow Republican Lt. Gov. Jon Husted, who is believed to be a top candidate to replace Vance, in recent days, although the specifics of any conversation are unclear, News 5 Cleveland first reported, and Fox News Digital has confirmed.
State law dictates that DeWine will select a Republican to take Vance’s spot in the Senate until a special election is held in November 2026 to determine who will serve the rest of Vance’s term, which ends in 2028. The winner of that special election could then run again in 2028 in order to start a new six-year term.
Multiple sources told Fox News Digital that a final decision on the Senate appointment is expected in the next few weeks as the new Congress will be sworn in on Jan. 3.
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DeWine’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.
The Governor’s spokesperson, Dan Tierney, told Fox News Digital last month that DeWine will be looking for a “workhorse” who is “qualified and ready to earn the trust of Ohio voters for another term.”
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Fox News Digital previously reported that DeWine is considering, along with Husted, several candidates for Senate, including attorney Mehek Cooke, Ohio’s Republican Secretary of State Frank LaRose, former Ohio GOP Chair Jane Timken, Rep. Mike Carey and others.
“Governor DeWine has a crucial decision ahead in selecting Ohio’s next Senator,” Cooke told Fox News Digital on Friday night. “If Jon is the workhorse he picks, he is the right choice.”
“He’s battle-tested, with decades of experience fighting for Ohioans and securing a stronger future for our state. If Jon is the pick, I’m 100% behind him—there’s too much at stake, and we need someone who will put Ohio first. It was an honor to interview with the Governor, and he knows my commitment is to always put Ohio’s interests first.”
An endorsement from Trump and Vance will be critical for any DeWine appointment, given that both are popular in the Buckeye State, where their ticket won by 11 points in November.
Husted has served as Ohio’s lieutenant governor since 2019 after serving eight years as Secretary of State and a member of both the state Senate and Ohio House of Representatives before that.
Husted has widely been expected to run for governor to replace DeWine, and his team has recently taken steps to allocate resources to that race. Sources tell Fox News Digital that former presidential candidate Vivek Ramawamy’s interest in running for governor has caused some potential gubernatorial candidates to re-evaluate their options, given Ramaswamy’s deep pockets.
Husted has remained tight-lipped about the potential Senate appointment other than to say, “I will continue serving this state as long as the people of Ohio will have me. As for the future, I intend to make my plans known early next year.”
Fox News Digital reached out to the Trump transition team for comment but did not immediately receive a response.
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by dap | Dec 21, 2024 | Fox News
The soon-to-expire Biden administration is behaving as if an invading foreign power is about to take over and the house must be burned down to keep the “invaders” from succeeding.
In the past few weeks, the cynicism meter has ticked up several notches because of the decisions made by the outgoing president and others in his administration. First came the pardons of Hunter Biden, and then roughly 1,500 others, including a former Pennsylvania judge who used his private jail system to incarcerate juveniles, pocketing the profits. Pennsylvania Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro ripped the pardon, saying Biden got it “absolutely wrong” in what has been called a “kids for cash” scandal.
Among the other questionable pardons and clemencies was one Biden issued for Rita Crundwell, the former comptroller of Dixon, Illinois. Crundwell was convicted in 2013 and sentenced to nearly 20 years in prison for stealing over two decades almost $54 million from the town of 15,000 people. It is said to have been the largest municipal fraud in U.S. history. Crundwell, now 71, admitted to embezzling from the city, and using the stolen funds to support a lavish lifestyle. According to WTTW, “Officials recovered only $40 million of the stolen city money from court settlements, the work of auditors and proceeds from the liquidation of Crundwell’s assets.
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Biden has been engaging in a fire sale of steel barriers ordered during the previous Trump administration to build a wall and secure the southern border. These were materials paid for with taxpayer money. It is part of what appears to be a cynical plan to frustrate the incoming Trump team and make their border-control job more difficult. I don’t recall a transition like this in our history.
Then came the drones. The administration claims they are not from U.S. adversaries and pose no threat to public safety. They have also claimed to know nothing about them. If they know nothing, how can they assert they are not from foreign entities and will not harm people?
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The drones have been seen for weeks over New Jersey and New York and have lately been spotted over California and Nevada. A woman called into a D.C. talk show and said she and her daughter had seen 30 drones flying over Southern Maryland. Ex-Maryland Republican Governor Larry Hogan has posted pictures of what he says are drones flying over his home in the D.C. suburbs. With no credible information coming from the Biden administration, conspiracy theorists are in full swing, along with accusations of a cover-up.
While Democratic New York City Mayor Eric Adams says he will cooperate with the incoming Trump administration in removing migrants in the country illegally, even from his “sanctuary city,” other Democrat mayors and governors are promising to resist deporting even those who have committed crimes and to “Trump-proof” their cities and states.
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Incoming “border czar” Tom Homan has promised to send teams of agents into resisting cities and states controlled by Democrat politicians and remove migrants. An October Fox News poll indicates they have the support of an overwhelming majority of Americans.
According to the poll of registered voters, support for deportation has increased dramatically since 2015. “Among nonwhite voters, 57 percent now support mass deportations, while only 33 percent said they did in 2015. Additionally, 91 percent of Republicans now say they support deportations – a 21-point increase since 2015. Rural voters’ support has risen by 20 points, urban voters by 19 points, and men’s support increased by 16.” Even Democrat support for deportations has increased to 42 percent from 34 percent in 2015.
It doesn’t appear to matter to the Biden administration, which has five weeks to go. They are behaving as if Vice President Kamala Harris, not Trump, won the election and voters can be ignored.
The second Trump administration will have a lot of cleaning up to do. If their promised policies are shown to work, look for public approval to remain high as they and a GOP congressional majority seek to reverse the damage caused by the Biden administration.
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by | Dec 21, 2024 | Fox News
It’s been rather commonplace to say that the 13-1 Kansas City Chiefs should not be what their record is – but that’s just fuel to the fire for the back-to-back champions.
Sure, the Chiefs have won multiple games on their last possession, and the ball has bounced their way plenty of times – literally and figuratively.
But Chiefs safety Justin Reid, quite literally, is thanking those who doubt what the Chiefs can do in the playoffs.
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“Thanks for the motivation. We appreciate the motivation that people give us,” Reid told Fox News Digital in a recent interview. “Despite winning two championships in a row, despite everything that they said last year, they still don’t believe. And we appreciate it. That fires us up when we hear it. I like the extra motivation. It gets me fired up, and it gets me to go out there to prove a point.
“They don’t ever have to [learn]. We’ll just keep showing up.”
Reid has won two Super Bowls with the Chiefs, but his ring back in February wasn’t the only championship he won this year. He also took home Chess.com’s BlitzChamps title.
Reid was always intrigued with chess but took it more seriously when he got into the NFL – and now, it’s become somewhat of a staple in the locker room.
“We have a tradition where we play every night before the game. Right when we finish team meetings, I have a chess board sitting at my locker, guys come, and we play quick five-minute games. Guys from the front office come down, players play, and if you win, you stay, you lose, you get back in line,” Reid said.
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The safety added it’s become a combination of both superstition and firing up the brain before a game.
“You can’t always be too deep in anything. It’s nice to get your mind off one subject and do something else. I think it’s fun for that and it has become a bit of a tradition that we just always do that now,” he says.
NFL Films will be releasing a documentary about Reid’s chess title and how other NFL stars have gotten involved. The title also gave Reid the ability to raise money for his own charity.
“Everyone uses the same ‘it’s a game of chess’ whether it’s football or business or whatever’s going on,” Reid said, adding it’s a good way for people to connect. “It’s a way of using tactics and being three steps ahead of your opponent. It’s fun they’re promoting it. I think that it’s good, and I think it’s a fun game for anyone to play.”
Reid faces his former Houston Texans on Saturday afternoon as the Chiefs are in the final homestretch. And considering he’s a back-to-back reigning champ, he knows exactly what it takes to bring home another Lombardi Trophy.
“You want to be playing your best football going into the playoffs, and we don’t feel like we’ve played our best football yes, which is great,” said Reid. “There’s still ways to build, still things to do to keep getting better. It’s just about not being satisfied and the preparation each week. The physical side will take care of itself, but whoever’s mentally prepared and doesn’t make those mental mistakes when the pressure’s on is going to be the difference. We’ve been here before, we’ll just keep continuing to do it.”
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by | Dec 21, 2024 | Fox News
Ana Kasparian of “The Young Turks” erupted at her co-host when he suggested Vice President Kamala Harris could be the future governor of California, whether one likes it or not.
As some liberals continue to grieve over President-elect Donald Trump’s victory over Harris, others are debating the vice president’s political future. DNC fundraiser Lindy Li mocked “delusions” of Harris “running for governor of California, possibly in 2026,” but others have speculated it just might be possible.
“I think Kamala Harris would probably win in a cakewalk for governor,” “The Young Turks” co-host Cenk Uygur argued Thursday.
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“No! No!” Kasparian shouted at her co-host. “What are you doing? What are you doing?”
“I’m telling you the reality, whether you like it or not,” Uygur responded. “Democratic voters in California love to obey.”
“I’m gonna move, Cenk! I’m gonna quit my job,” Kasparian said. “I’m gonna quit my job, and I’m gonna move.”
“I’m not saying I’m in favor of it,” Uygur replied. “I’m telling you what’s, like, if they, the Democratic Party, said, ‘We anoint Kamala Harris,’ a giant percentage of Democrats in California would go, ‘Yes! We obey. We will take the loyalty oath. It doesn’t matter how bad she is!’”
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“This state cannot survive another incompetent Democrat leading it,” Kasparian said. “No, we just can’t.”
“So, like, people are egging her on, OK? Apparently she’s, like, in a wait-and-see mode,” Kasparian said.
Kasparian then looked into the camera, as if she were talking directly to Harris.
“How about you wait and see, like, your way out of public life? And go do what you’re supposed to do. Go work in the private sector. Go do the lobbying thing — whatever it is. But don’t run as governor of California. Do not!”
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The rate of violent crime in Washington, D.C., has hit a 30-year low, according to data from the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
Violent crime in the district has declined 35% year-over-year, Mathew M. Graves, U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, said Friday. There were 3,388 incidents so far in 2024, compared to 5,215 incidents in 2023.
Crimes that saw significant drops this year included homicide down 30%, sexual abuse down 22%, assault with a dangerous weapon down 27%, robbery down 8% and burglary down 8%.
“There’s no doubt from my perspective, the most impactful thing we do when it comes to violent crime is really targeting drivers of gun violence,” Graves said, according to Fox 5 DC. “More importantly, figuring out in our community…who’s really driving violence and holding them accountable to some crimes, so you can take them off the street before they commit the next crime.”
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Graves said data shows the drivers of violent crime include “several hundred individuals across the city.”
“Many of them, affiliated with … what we in the District call ‘crews;’ organizations of individuals usually based in the neighborhood or block where they grow up engaged in a bunch of different crimes,” he said.
“Their activities, in some ways, are directly engaged in violence. In other instances, the activities they’re engaging in, fueling open-air drug markets, are magnets for violence,” he added. “So, going after those individuals who really account for an outside portion of crimes of violence is an incredibly effective strategy for bringing the numbers down.”
Graves said prosecution is not the only way to reduce crime.
“These are often deeply embedded issues that have drivers based in poverty, lack of services, health issues, education issues,” he said. “We can influence these numbers. We can take violence off the street. We can try to deter other people from being drivers of gun violence. But if there are unresolved things, mental health issues, lack of economic opportunities, there are going to be more drivers.”
Graves attributed the decline in violent crime to his office working with the Metropolitan Police Department to target the small number of people driving violent crime in the district.
“It’s a relatively few people who are driving violence in our community,” he told WTOP. “And what we’ve been doing for the last two years plus is really targeting those individuals — those crews of individuals — that are driving violence.”
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Local leaders also cite the Secure DC Omnibus Act and other factors, such as more officer visibility, technology upgrades and ensuring students are attending class.
Graves still says there is more work to be done to address the number of illegal firearms in the district.
“We have way more illegal firearms in our community now than we did 15 years ago,” he said. “You have to think of it a lot like a virus. The more viruses in the community, the more people are going to be sick.”
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by | Dec 21, 2024 | Fox News
In honor of their dad’s retirement, a group of siblings teamed up to plan a surprise reminiscent of some of their most treasured childhood memories.
Matt Houlihan, from San Jose, California, came up with an idea to celebrate his dad working 41 years at Saint Francis High School in Mountain View, California, the same school he, his brother and sister attended.
A TikTok trend inspired Matt Houlihan to do something special for his dad, with a special Houlihan family twist, he said.
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“I was scrolling TikTok a week before, [and] I saw a video on a group of grandkids showing up and surprising their grandparents for a sleepover. That kind of got the wheels turning for me, and my dad’s retirement was coming up. And I wanted to do something special for him,” Matt Houlihan told Fox News Digital.
Matt Houlihan’s idea required his two older siblings, Brian Houlihan and Kelsey Houlihan, to wake up early with him and show up to their parents’ home. The idea was to take one final carpool with their dad, like they did when they were kids.
The three siblings decided to go all out by looking back at some of the “rituals” they developed all those years traveling to school in the car with their dad.
“For about eight years, my dad was driving all of us up to high school,” Matt Houlihan shared.
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“And, in that time, obviously, you kind of developed some routines and rituals.”
After working out the logistics for the surprise, like figuring out how their own kids would get to school, the siblings finally worked together with their mom, Stephanie Houlihan, to make the surprise a success.
The Houlihan children showed up to their family home at 6 a.m. and met their dad with their backpacks, ready to make a trip filled with memories.
They made a playlist, including the songs they’d listen to with their dad while carpooling to school when they were younger, the No. 1 song being “Hey Ya” by Outkast, which was a No.1 hit on the Billboard charts in the early 2000s.
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“At one point, my dad had a CD that was just Outkast’s ‘Hey Ya’ on repeat. So, literally, it was 21 Outkast ‘Hey Ya’ songs burned onto a CD, and we listened for, like, I think, for probably six months. That’s the only thing we listened to in the car,” Matt Houlihan said.
The next family stop was their favorite bagel shop, House of Bagels, before heading to school and pulling into the same parking spot they had throughout high school.
When the three kids were in school, Tim Houlihan would send them off to class by reciting a quote from the classic film, “The Princess Bride.”
“He would always send us off by saying, ‘Have fun storming the castle,’” Matt Houlihan said, adding that he and his siblings repeated it before their dad walked into his final day of work.
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Tim Houlihan spent 41 years at Saint Francis High School in various roles, starting as a math teacher and bus driver and moving through positions such as office coordinator for the football team and athletic director.
He served as dean of students and the gold coach before finally settling into the role of construction management for new projects on the school’s campus.
“We actually got to walk through the last building that he just completed, which was super cool just to see the final kind of crown jewel piece of the campus that he coordinated and helped build,” Matt Houlihan said.
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“And, obviously, then [we] just got to see all the people coming up and saying congratulations to him and seeing all of his at-work relationships like we used to when we were [students] there.”
Matt Houlihan said he and his brother and sister loved celebrating their dad, someone who they always thought of as a “servant leader.”
“He always just wants to help everyone who is around him,” he said, adding that his dad would appreciate his colleagues each year by bringing plates of food to the school security guards who were working the night shift on holidays.
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He has always looked up to both of his parents for the way they care for others. And he saw that in the response of those at the school who said their farewells to his dad on his last day by showing their appreciation for all he did, some even getting emotional saying how much he affected them.
Matt Houlihan is now appreciating those special carpools with his father, especially now that he is a parent to two little girls.
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“Being a parent and getting to take your kids to school or taking them to sporting events, you know, those are always the [moments] where so much came out of those conversations in those car drives because, as kids, sometimes you take it for granted that you could spend that time with your parents.”
While Tim Houlihan may no longer use “The Princess Bride” quote with his kids, his youngest son Matt is passing that tradition onto his little girls.
“I always tell them, ‘Have fun storming the castle,’ and then I drop them off at school, so that [the tradition is] carried,” Matt Houlihan said.
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