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Amid the Netanyahu government’s assault on Gaza and intensifying repression in the West Bank, AIPAC is showing zero tolerance for even the mildest criticism of Israel during the 2024 U.S. elections. Amidst global outcry over the ongoing assault on Gaza and the related humanitarian crisis it has wrought, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s super PAC is set to spend a staggering...

AP Images Lara Trump The Republican National Committee (RNC) elected Michael Whatley as their new chair, and former President Donald Trump’s daughter-in-law Lara Trump as co-chair. The nominations were approved after unanimous votes for both Whatley and Trump. The new leadership comes less than two weeks after former chair Ronna McDaniel announced her resignation.The GOP congratulated Whatley and Trump, stating...

AP Images If a majority of Americans agree with some of the reactions to President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address, and stick to those opinions come November, he will be a one-term president. Come this time next year, he’ll be scaring ice cream back in Delaware.The leftist mainstream news media — Biden’s Information Ministry — thought it was...

AP Images Karine Jean-Pierre Hours after GOP candidate Nikki Haley dropped out of the race for the presidential nomination, presumptive nominee Donald Trump challenged President Joe Biden to an immediate debate.Biden’s campaign operatives pooh-poohed the idea, and a day later, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre wouldn’t say whether Biden would attend the debates already scheduled for later this year.Yet...

Nikki Haley’s most enthusiastic supporters all voted for Joe Biden. That’s why she never gained much traction and dropped out yesterday. She did better than all of the Republicans not named Donald Trump, and she represents a constituency within the party, so the former president damages himself every time he succumbs to the impulse to bash her. He needs every...

AP Images Liz Cheney Former Representative Liz Cheney (R-Wy.) responded to former President Donald Trump’s overwhelming victory in the Super Tuesday primaries last night, stating on X, “The GOP has chosen. They will nominate a man who attempted to overturn an election and seize power. We have eight months to save our republic & ensure Donald Trump is never anywhere...

Politics McConnell, Man of His Era The Kentucky Republican led the party to successes none of his critics have been able to replicate. Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY)(By Christopher Halloran/Shutterstock) Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s impending departure from his leadership position was widely and correctly seen as a changing of the guard within the Republican Party. McConnell, wrote POLITICO’s Adam Wren,...

AP Images Former President Donald Trump heads into Super Tuesday tomorrow with 247 delegates in GOP primaries, having swept Nikki Haley in Saturday’s triple-header that featured the Idaho, Missouri, and Michigan caucuses. Trump lost Washington, D.C., on Sunday, but that just means Haley is “Queen of the Swamp,” the Trump campaign said. Haley now has 43 delegates, and D.C is...

BananaStock/iStock/Getty Images Plus School fundraisers used to involve kids washing cars at the filling station or selling candy bars door-to-door. But in one of the most bizarre events in the annals of school fundraising, the powers that be at Deer Creek High School in Edmond, Oklahoma, adopted a new and improved money-making endeavor. It importuned students to lick peanut butter...

YinYang/iStock/Getty Images Plus Prejudice about prejudice is nothing new. For example, the “conventional” wisdom in 2008 held that Barack Obama’s race might be an impediment to his presidential ambitions, and a poll did show that six percent of Americans were less likely to vote for him because of his race. Yet the same poll found that nine percent of Americans...