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AP Images “Leave this world a little better than you found it,” advised the creator of the Scouting movement, Robert Baden-Powell. Critics might say, and are saying in so many words, that ex-President Barack Obama has failed on this score. He still is failing, too, and his recent campaigning for Kamala Harris is a case in point.In fact, writes one observer,...

AP Images With CBS News refusing to release a full, unedited transcript of the 60 Minutes interview with Vice President Kamala Harris, a former top network reporter says it should do so because of “precedent,” And, she wrote today, it should do so to honor the “trust of viewers.”Fired when she was probing the Hunter Biden laptop scandal, former CBS...

Axios/X Jamie Raskin Top Democrats hint that they might not certify a victory by former President Donald Trump if he defeats far-left Vice President Kamala Harris on November 5.Attempting to overturn the result of a legitimate election would be nothing new for the party’s near-Marxist leaders, who vigorously objected to certifying Trump’s triumph in 2016.But the latest report by leftist...

Minerva Studio/iStock/Getty Images Plus Dr. Phillip W. Lowcock is “no longer an employee” at the University of Kansas (KU) after being placed on administrative leave following remarks he made calling for political violence during a lecture earlier this semester. Lowcock was recorded on video stating, “We can line all those guys up and shoot them,” in reference to men who...

AP Images Former Democratic Party politician and CNN contributor Nina Turner criticized former President Barack Obama and Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign on CNN’s NewsNight yesterday. Turner said she was concerned with Obama’s remarks directed to black male voters during a campaign event, and ask why the Obama and the Harris-Walz campaign are singling out black men:Why are black...

AP Images Videos that demonstrate Vice President Kamala Harris’ appetite for totalitarian powers have again gone viral. And they again explain why critics call her a “communist.”In the more chilling of the two, Trump backer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recalls Harris’ arresting a woman because her daughter missed school because of sickle cell anemia. The second reprises Harris’ unalloyed threat...

AP Images Democrats in general and most likely insiders in Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign are terrified that the world’s most famous word-salad maker is headed for a loss in November. One reason: She is behind in polling in the all-important battleground states that can decide an election, The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday.GOP opponent and former President Donald...

John Whitehead In a perfect example of the Nanny State mindset at work, Hillary Clinton insists that the powers-that-be need “total control” in order to make the internet a safer place for users and protect us from harm.Clinton is not alone in her distaste for unregulated, free speech online.A bipartisan chorus that includes both presidential candidates, Kamala Harris and Donald...

AP Images Donald Trump & Elon Musk “As I was saying,” former President Donald Trump began his speech in Butler, Pennsylvania, at what might have been one of the largest campaign rallies in American history.The GOP presidential candidate returned not just to the scene of his attempted assassination, but to the immigration chart to which he was referring when would-be...

Public domain Camp Grayling, Michigan The Federal Bureau of Investigation certainly appears to know how to target Trump supporters in the run-up to November’s election. It’s also adept at launching shock-and-awe, pre-dawn raids on the residences of harmless, wizened, elderly men (Roger Stone). But what of protecting the homeland from spies working for our main geopolitical adversary?Not so much, critics...

AP Images Secret Service agents at Trump rally, July 13, 2024 After the Secret Service failed to protect former President Donald Trump from a would-be assassin in July, the agency did what all government agencies do when caught with their pants down: blame it on a lack of funding. Congress, naturally, obliged by giving the agency another $231 million.But, as...

John Whitehead You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.—Bob DylanA water main breaks every two minutes somewhere in the U.S., resulting in contaminated drinking-water supplies and boil-water notices.One out of three bridges in the U.S. needs repair, endangering hundreds of millions of commuters. More than 42,000 bridges across the country, carrying about 167 million vehicles...

AP Images Tim Walz The shellacking that GOP Senator J.D. Vance gave Democratic Minnesota Governor Tim Walz during Tuesday’s vice presidential debate apparently triggered a panic attack among the leftist Mainstream Media.Case in point: Politico. Having witnessed a confused, walleyed Walz blow the debate — “I’m a knucklehead,” he declared in a refreshingly candid moment — the website rushed out...

sabthai/iStock/Getty Images Plus Federal prosecutors have asked the judge in their case against Ryan Wesley Routh, accused in the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, for an indefinite delay in the would-be assassin’s trial.The reason is the complexity of the case, which permits a judge to waive the speedy-trial provisions of federal law.The filing in the U.S. District for...

Is there any daylight between admitted communists and Democrats? The New American compared the platforms of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) with the positions of the Democratic Party.The first issue mentioned on communist’s 2024 platform is one near and near to Democrats, one of the few that Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris hasn’t publicly backtracked on. The communists declare: “We...

AP Images Ron Wyden Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) unveiled a sweeping piece of legislation on Thursday designed to reform the U.S. Supreme Court, addressing what he has described as a “legitimacy crisis” plaguing the institution.The bill, dubbed the “Judicial Modernization and Transparency Act,” proposes increasing the number of justices from nine to 15. This expansion would occur over three presidential...

martinedoucet/iStock/Getty Images Plus There’s “wisdom from the mouths of babes” and then there’s, well, what CNN found in a recent study. That is, despite liberals’ chest-thumping about their “tolerance,” they’re not the ones raising tolerant kids. Oh, it isn’t just that “Democrat-leaning” children are far more negative about Donald Trump than “Republican-leaning” children are about Kamala Harris. It’s also this:Liberals’...

United States Department of Homeland Security Nearly 650,000 illegal-alien criminals are roaming American streets, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has confessed.In a letter to GOP U.S. Representative Tony Gonzales of Texas, ICE reported that almost 450,000 are convicted criminals, while another nearly 227,000 are criminal suspects. More than 13,000 are murderers, and more than 25,000 are sex fiends.The data might...

AP Images Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris is scheduled to visit the U.S.-Mexico border in Douglas, Arizona, on Friday. Harris has made only a few trips to the border during her tenure as the Biden administration’s “border czar.” She continues to face strong criticism from Republicans, who argue that she has not effectively managed the border crisis....

Only one man stands in the way of the globalist agenda: Donald Trump. Globalists are doing everything they can to prevent his return to the White House. On Sunday, Ukraine’s Zelensky visited the large munitions plant in Scranton, Pennsylvania, where he was welcomed by Democrats Gov. Josh Shapiro and embattled Sen. Bob Casey Jr.  Their implicit message is that sending...