If you ever receive a piece of spam that says it comes from Bruceh.com, I want to assure you that we do NOT ever send out any spam to anyone. Some of the e-mail addresses, such as for the webmaster used to be on this site and over the years, spammers have harvested those addresses and now they are used as the phony "From" addresses in their spam. Occasionally, you may receive an e-mail that your anti-virus warns you about that also looks like it comes from Bruceh.com. The newer mailer viruses get their bogus "From" addresses directly from the address books and browser caches of infected computers. This means that if someone infected with a virus happened to have been visiting Bruceh.com, then our address might end up in the from field. I have tried to make sure that all e-mail addresses have been removed from this site, even in the old pages so I hope one day this will stop. The spammers had years of access to the addresses on this site, so I won't hold my breath, however.

The historical data pages (year picks, pick stats, and pair pick stats) have been updated to use a responsive design. The old SuperLotto pages (1991-2000) will not be updated and will remain static HTML.

The latest picked lotto number ticker that appears on this page and the lotto page has been updated to use Javascript instead of Java.

The main four pages have now been redesigned in a responsive format and uploaded. There might be a few glitches, but I'll be working to stabilize things. Please try them out on your mobile device and let me know if you see any weirdness.

The first couple pages have been redesigned to use a responive layout and are being tested in a local environment. I should be able to take some pages live soon.

There won't be any need for a separate mobile site anymore as we are going responsive. What does responsive mean you might ask. It means the site will automatically adjust for the device you are viewing it on. Fonts should remain readable and you shouldn't ever have a left/right scroll bar unless you get the window down below 320 pixels horizontally. Even the smallest smartphone screens are usually at least 320 pixels wide. I've been wanting to make this change for a long time and finally have some time to do it. Not to mention that Google won't even index the site anymore if it's not mobile friendly. I'll be updating the site incrementally starting with the 4 main pages from the menu.

While I still love Java as a programming language, it seems to be more troublesome than it is worth to keep the Java applets on here. It's almost as if the browser folks have declared war on Java. Firefox disables the java plugin if it's too far out of date. A lot of times you have to go through a lot of confirmations just to run a java applet, and even after doing all that, the browser still might not let you run it. My graph of picked lottery numbers is a good example.

So, it's time to make a change and convert the couple Java applets I had on here to javascript. I'll start with the ticker that shows the current winning numbers for SuperLottoPlus and Mega Millions. Then I'll work on the graph applet.

President Trump said Monday he will start paying for the pro-Trump ads that have blanketed the airwaves in recent weeks with money raised by his super PAC, after his administration drew intense pushback for using public funds on the ads.  

"The Radical Left is upset with the fact that I am taking Ads, which I consider to be a positive promotion for our Great U.S.A., and paying for them with U.S.A. money," the president wrote on Truth Social. "This is a rather standard thing to do but, rather than doing that, although nothing will make them happy, I have decided to do the Patriotic Ads, among others, and pay for them myself, and with money I raised for MAGA, Inc."

Emblazoned with the message "Paid for by the U.S. Government," the ads began popping up late last month on national cable and broadcast networks, including CBS, as the November midterm elections approach.

Several variations have aired, including one that features a recording of Mr. Trump saying, "We will defeat communism, socialism and Marxism in America," as photos of the president flash across the screen. Another recounts the U.S. capture of former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.

CBS News reported last month that there are multiple versions of the ads. The U.S. government produced the content and paid for the airtime through an ad agency. 

The Department of Homeland Security awarded LMD Agency $20 million for a "National Media Campaign" starting on Sept. 20, contracting records show. A day earlier, the White House Office of Management and Budget granted DHS's Customs and Border Protection $20 million for "OBBB Commemorative Events," according to a nongovernment database. The source of the funds was first reported by The Washington Sun.

The White House has defended the ads, calling them public service announcements and denying that they constitute campaign advertisements.

A White House official said last month the PSAs "are clearly not political," and noted: "The President is not on the ballot and the ads don't have a call to action."

Asked about the anti-communism ad, a spokesperson for the White House said: "The ad is educational and unapologetically patriotic. We should be proud of our country."

The advertising campaign has drawn bipartisan criticism. Democrats have argued the ads could violate federal laws that bar the use of government funds for "propaganda" purposes and limit political activity by executive branch employees.

"This is the sort of government propaganda one might expect in North Korea, not the United States of America, and it is an egregious and illegal misuse of Americans' hard-earned tax dollars," a group of Senate Democrats said in a letter last month.

A handful of Republicans have also voiced criticism.

"I don't think any public official, including President Trump or [former DHS Secretary] Kristi Noem or John Kennedy, should spend public money on private ads for themselves," GOP Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana said on "Face the Nation."

By using his own super PAC to pay for the ads, Mr. Trump is tapping a nine-figure war chest that many Republican candidates hope will be spent in battleground states ahead of the midterms — despite a late start in this election cycle. 

Since last month, the group has reported tens of millions of dollars in spending on the Texas Senate contest, where Trump-allied Republican state Attorney General Ken Paxton is in a tight race against Democratic state lawmaker James Talarico.

The group had more than $400 million on hand at the end of August, according to Federal Election Commission filings. Mr. Trump said last month he is "going to spend whatever amount of money necessary to try and help us."

This article originally appeared on CBS News at https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-super-pac-maga-inc-taxpayer-funded-ads/

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Sen. Thom Tillis says in a new book that his deciding vote to confirm Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in January 2025 is the “biggest regret of my career” and that he also “should’ve stopped” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. from becoming Health and Human Services secretary in the early days of President Donald Trump’s second term.

In “How to Lose Friends and Antagonize Presidents,” to be published Tuesday, the North Carolina senator defends his decision at the time to not be “the lone voice in the wilderness” preventing Trump’s nominees from confirmation. But Tillis makes clear he was always skeptical of allegations about Hegseth’s turbulent management style, treatment of women and excessive drinking. Hegseth denied all the allegations.

“I know for a fact that there are others like me,” Tillis writes, “Republicans who agreed to go along with the early demands of the Trump team no matter how ridiculous they were, believing that failing to do so would mean the end of their political career, and who now see that things have gone way too far.”

He writes that he can count at least 30 of his GOP colleagues who have “expressed reservations (to put it mildly) about many of the president’s actions in private. Then, when the reporters showed up with their cameras and microphones, they’d have nothing but nice things to say.”

Tillis, who announced last year that he would not run for reelection in a “breaking point” with the president on his sweeping tax and spending cuts package, is publishing the book in his final months in office. He joins a long list of Republicans who have ratcheted up their public denunciations of Trump once they had less to lose politically.

Still, Tillis mostly deflects full blame from Trump, saying, “my beef is not with him, but the idiots he’s got working for him.” He calls the president “an amazing political talent.”

At the same time, he warns of a slippery slope toward authoritarianism and urges his colleagues to “wake up” and push back on Trump more often, for their own political good. Executive overreach, he says, doesn't work and sooner or later, “comes back to bite the majority party in the ass.”

Tillis also predicts a “bloodbath” for Republicans in November’s midterm elections.

“All along, we’ve had multiple chances to get off the path and avoid the giant bronze monster chasing us down,” he writes.

Regrets his votes for Hegseth and Kennedy

The book is filled with cuss words and condemnations. He criticizes Trump’s tariffs, the aggressive immigration raids that Tillis says were an effort to “intentionally sow disorder” and the Iran war, which he initially supported. He said the war can only end with a coalition of willing nations and if Trump gets “Pete Hegseth the hell out of the way.”

Tillis pushed Hegseth’s confirmation vote late into the evening on Jan. 24, 2025, as he weighed his decision, talking to the White House, people who had worked with Hegseth and Hegseth himself. In the end, he said he couldn’t corroborate the worst allegations and would support Hegseth's confirmation. His vote brought the total to 50-50, and Vice President JD Vance broke the tie.

On his vote for Kennedy, Tillis writes that “I guess it’s easy to say now, but I’m the one who has to live with that vote and all the havoc Kennedy’s tenure has caused the country as a result.”

On both votes, he says he didn’t want to be the deciding factor.

“I had no intention of letting my colleagues outsource their courage to me while they pretended to go along with the questionable nomination President Trump had put forward,” he writes.

If you oppose Trump on everything, “you lose all influence,” Tillis says. “If you oppose him and lose, you are in even worse shape.”

He strongly criticizes several of Trump’s other initial picks for the Cabinet in the book, including former Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick.

Tillis describes his 'breaking point' over the tax bill

Tillis’s surprise announcement in June 2025 that he wouldn’t be running for reelection came as he escalated criticism against Trump and his “ Big Beautiful Bill ” of tax and spending cuts. Trump attacked Tillis on social media after the senator said he couldn’t support the bill’s cuts to Medicaid. Tillis says he thought to himself, “I’m done.”

“Everyone reaches a breaking point,” he writes.

He texted the president asking him to look for his replacement in the Senate, to which Trump replied “I am! DJT.”

In May 2026, Trump again attacked Tillis, calling him a “QUITTER!” on social media, among other insults.

Tillis ends the book with a profanity-laced text he sent to the president in response.

“I care if you fail and right now we are failing,” Tillis wrote to Trump.

This article originally appeared on Associated Press at https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/republican-sen-tillis-calls-vote-184632202.html

The US Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) dropped by almost 800,000 barrels last week, and the Trump administration moved forward with plans to sell another 40 million barrels in the coming months.

New data released on Monday by the US Department of Energy showed the US energy backstop sitting at 283 million barrels, down from 283.77 million the week prior.

That leaves about two weeks of US oil consumption in the reserve amid widespread worries about global stockpiles, which the head of Saudi Arabia's state producer on Monday called "scarily thin."

Amin Nasser, chief executive of Saudi Aramco, added at an Energy Intelligence Forum in London on Monday that releasing stockpiles will buy economies some time but won't fix the imbalances that have developed between supply and demand.

Yet these withdrawals in the US could soon accelerate after the Trump administration unveiled a request for bids from companies to buy up to 40 million barrels of crude oil from the SPR, with the aim of having the companies return those supplies "with additional premium barrels." The solicitation process is ongoing, and it's unclear if companies will agree to those terms.

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The Trump administration continues to wrestle with high energy prices, less than a month before the midterm elections, and is reportedly preparing an executive order to expand access ‌to tax-exempt diesel, with the president confirming on Monday afternoon, "I'll be helping [farmers] with diesel."

In recent days, G7 countries — including the US — announced a new set of plans to release up to 100 million barrels of emergency fuel, including "a frontloaded substantial diesel release."

A White House official told Yahoo Finance that Trump intends to follow through on a commitment to release a total of 172 million barrels from the SPR, which was announced earlier this year. 

The US energy backstop already sits at the lowest level seen since October of 1982, and a withdrawal of another 40 million barrels would put the reserve at its lowest level since records began being kept earlier in 1982, as the backstop was still coming online under President Ronald Reagan.

For his part, President Trump continues to project confidence that the US reserves will be quickly refilled. He told a crowd in Alabama over the weekend that, because of an energy deal with Venezuela, "we're going to be filling up very shortly our strategic reserves for nothing." 

Experts say that, despite Trump's promises, refilling the reserves will be a complex and far-from-free process that could take years.

Historically low levels

It was back in March that the Trump administration announced the US part of a worldwide release of government oil in response to the war in Iran, with plans to sell 172 million barrels from the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve to steady global markets.

But the announcement came amid plenty of signals that the withdrawals could be pared back.

"The releases out of the US strategic petroleum reserve go over about four months," US Secretary of Energy Chris Wright said in a Fox News interview at the time. "But this conflict, I don't think, goes that long."

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Wright added that the Trump team had plans in place to "replace these strategic reserves with approximately 200 million barrels within the next year." 

Analysts at Goldman Sachs also cast doubt on the numbers at the time, suggesting all those barrels would be withdrawn only "under longer/much longer disruptions."

Yet seven months later, the administration has maintained a steady pace of withdrawals, and refills have yet to begin.

Ben Werschkul is a Washington correspondent for Yahoo Finance.

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