Wayne Dupree Podcast

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) is expressing extreme confidence in his chances of becoming Speaker next year if Republicans win control of the House in the midterm elections, suggesting that divine intervention is the only thing that can keep him from the gavel. McCarthy said in an interview with Punchbowl News published Monday that he believes he can win the votes of the House Re...

After OPEC+ announced the decision, White House officials said the U.S. would reassess its relationship with Saudi Arabia. "We believe by the decision that OPEC+ made last week, [Saudi Arabia is] certainly aligning themselves with Russia," White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said during a press briefing this week. "And right now, this is not the time to be aligning with Russia, especial...

Just about every election cycle, there’s an argument for why, this time, things might be different — different from expectations based on historical trends and key factors like the state of the economy or the president’s approval rating. The arguments are often pretty plausible. After all, every cycle is different. There’s almost always something unprecedented about a given election year — in just...

Joe Biden pledged to Ukraine President Volodomyr Zelenskiy on Monday that the United States will provide Ukraine with advanced air systems after a devastating missile barrage from Russia. Biden spoke by phone with Zelenskiy to give assurances about continued U.S. support and to condemn the "senseless attacks" from Russia that hit civilian targets. "Biden pledged to continue providing Ukraine with...

Two people were shot outside the Long Island home of Lee Zeldin, the Republican nominee in the race for governor of New York, on Sunday afternoon. Zeldin, a former congressman representing Long Island, said in a statement his 16-year-old daughters were inside doing homework when shots rang out. At the time, Zeldin and his wife Diana were driving home from the Bronx Columbus Day Parade at Morris Pa...

In an effort to boost its policies and chart a path to the future ahead of the November midterm elections , the White House released the Biden-Harris Economic Blueprint. The 58-page document showcases a five-part plan that will build on “historic legislative successes” and “executive actions” that the administration claims have rebuilt the economy “now and for years ahead.” But a close reading of...

The United States should be absolutely booming right now. The US just came out of the pandemic and is now in a recession, inflation is sky high and gas prices are again increasing. Eggs are at 40% higher under this administration and most groceries are 15-30% higher because of these ridiculous handouts Democrats keep giving trying to buy votes! This insanity when a recession has officially started...

The Biden administration has held off on a request from Ukraine to provide longer-range missiles over fears it could provoke a dangerous response from Russia, with senior Pentagon officials opposed to the idea, according to two military officials. Defense officials who have advised against supplying Ukraine with the longer-range missiles, known as Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMs), have voice...

Vice President Kamala Harris noted that Hurricane Ian relief efforts should focus on “giving resources based on equity” to “communities of color” in the aftermath of the deadly category five hurricane. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info . Discover...

Crowds of students walked out of Northern Virginia faculties on Tuesday in protest of Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s proposed restrictions on transgender college students’ rights. Youngkin’s proposed coverage would prohibit which pronouns college students could use and require academics to disclose a pupil’s identification to their mother and father with out the scholar’s permission. Hosted on Acast. See a...

Midterm elections are nearing, the outcome remains close, and many readers are eagerly — perhaps obsessively — watching the latest polls, trying to ascertain whether their side will prevail. With just a little more than seven weeks left in the fall campaigns, flocks of surveys on those and other close races have started to fly into view, touted in fundraising emails, bannered in headlines and clam...

This November's US elections are called "midterms" because the come in the middle of the president's four-year term in office. While the president isn't on the ballot, the midterms are seen as the American voters' verdict on how the president is going and can have a major impact on their ability to legislate and govern. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. See Privacy Polic...

The vast majority of Americans — 7 in 10 — do not believe politicians are informed enough about abortion to craft fair policies, according to a new 19th News/SurveyMonkey poll. That distrust spans the political aisle: 70 percent of Republicans and 74 percent of Democrats said politicians were insufficiently informed about abortion. It was also consistent across men, women and gender-nonconforming...

The resilience of US democracy is being put to the test. As foreign autocrats resort to increasingly brazen forms of repression to entrench themselves in office and support authoritarian influences around the world, undemocratic forces in the United States have engaged in their own efforts to undermine institutions that are designed to check their power and protect the rights of all Americans. To...

The chaos at the southern border grew in August, according to new numbers the Department of Homeland Security released Monday that showed record levels of fentanyl and illegal immigrants being smuggled into the U.S. The fentanyl numbers were particularly troubling, setting yet another monthly record and topping July, which was already the worst month by far and Customs and Border Protection said i...

The current Congress is not going to provide another stimulus check. The last payment, authorized by the American Rescue Plan Act, was passed along party line votes through a special process called reconciliation. There is no further opportunity to pass legislation this way until after the election, and there is not broad enough support to get a bill through that would authorize a fourth payment....

By advocating for a nationwide abortion ban during the 15th week of pregnancy on Tuesday, Senator Lindsey Graham gave the Biden administration a news cycle diversion away from inflation. Graham's proposal is meant to be a countermeasure to Democratic legislation that, in his words, "would essentially permit abortion up to the time of birth." While making exceptions for cases of rape, incest, and p...

Far too many Americans in each consecutive generation seek importance by dogmatically championing a society-changing or mankind-saving cause. Many of these single-minded dupes don't care about other leftist issues. Once the left takes over a cause, anarchy and abandonment of the original aim ensue. Leftists appropriate causes in three steps. 1) They falsely pretend to be irrevocably dedicated to t...

The hottest inflation in four decades is inflicting financial pain on a majority of Americans as the cost of everyday necessities remains stubbornly high, according to a new survey published by Gallup. About 56% of respondents said they are feeling the sting of price increases, up from 49% in January and 45% in November. The latest figure includes 12% of Americans who described the pain as "severe...

The Federal Reserve is on track to deliver an instant payment service called FedNow between May and July 2023, the central bank's clearest timeline yet for a new system enabling settlement of U.S. payments in seconds. “The FedNow Service will transform the way everyday payments are made throughout the economy, bringing substantial gains to households and businesses through the ability to send inst...

“I hold two contradictory things [in mind] at the same time. One is just the relentless belief that anything is possible. But at the same time, my experience here has given me a front-row seat to how deeply and unconsciously, as well as consciously, so many people in this country hate women. And they hate women of color,” said Ocasio-Cortez. “People ask me questions about the future. And realistic...

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre stepped into a hornet’s nest of mockery on Twitter Friday after stating that the U.S. has added "ten thousand million jobs" since President Biden took office. In addition to praising the overall job increase under Biden since his inauguration, Jean-Pierre referred to this as "excellent news." "Knowing that the economy added 315,000 jobs in August is f...

Nearly two-thirds of Americans believe that political violence will increase in the upcoming years, which contrasts with the widespread worry that democracy is in danger. Additionally, since 2021, the fraction of people who share such opinion has been increasing even more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Pr...

“The president thinks there’s an extremist threat to our democracy,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said at a press briefing in what appeared to be a preview of the president’s remarks, which he will make from Philadelphia’s iconic Independence Hall. The speech will focus on a “battle for the soul of the nation,” according to the White House. The theme is an allusion to Biden’s 201...

The White House is responding to relentless Republican charges that it wants to "defund the police" by embracing the message that there are, in fact, politicians angling to starve law enforcement of needed money: congressional Republicans. The White House launched the counteroffensive as advisers push to shore up President Joe Biden's low approval on crime and fight an attack that could damage Dem...