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John Whitehead What you smell is the stench of a dying republic. Our dying republic. We are trapped in a political matrix intended to sustain the illusion that we are citizens of a constitutional republic. In reality, we are caught somewhere between a kleptocracy (a government ruled by thieves) and a kakistocracy (a government run by unprincipled career politicians, corporations ...

inhauscreative/iStock/Getty Images Plus The “Left hates the Constitution and constitutionalism,” I wrote in 2018. And there’s a simple reason for this: “The Constitution is a conservative document.” Contrary to what most think, “conservative” above only means that the document serves to maintain a status quo. It limits the change the government can effect, and the Constitution itself is difficult to ...

P_Wei/iStock/Getty Images Plus A new group called “Keep 9 Amendment” has been formed in an effort to propose an amendment to the U.S. Constitution to ban left-wing attempts to increase the number of justices on the U.S. Supreme Court. Disenchantment among the Left over some recent rulings from the Supreme Court, such as the Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade, ...

AP Images Blase Cupich delivering invocation at 2024 DNC Cardinal Blase Cupich, who delivered the invocation at this week’s Democratic National Convention (DNC), is under fire from traditional Catholics. In dish-watery remarks about “human dignity and liberty” and “our failures to root out ongoing injustices in our national life,” inside a convention celebrating abortions and vasectomies, Cupich failed to once ...

AP Images Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. announced he is suspending his presidential campaign in swing states, and is supporting former President Donald Trump. Kennedy’s announcement comes after his presidential campaign faced ballot access attacks through lawsuits in multiple states, allegedly coordinated by the Democratic National Committee (DNC). Kennedy stated he would suspend his campaign in swing ...

RealClearPolitics/X The U.S. Secret Service (SS) has finally disciplined agents involved in the protection of former President Donald Trump on July 13 in Butler, Pennsylvania, when would-be assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks tried to murder the former president. Multiple news organizations have confirmed a report from RealClearPolitics’ Susan Crabtree that multiple agency employees in the Pittsburgh Field Office are now on ...

AP Images Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. suspended his presidential campaign today and endorsed former President Donald Trump. The former Democrat supports Trump because the Democratic Party has betrayed its ideals, Kennedy said, while Trump opposes neoconservative foreign adventurism, vowed to stop the war in Ukraine, and agreed with Kennedy on important public-health matters.  ...

eranicle/iStock/Getty Images Plus A federal judge ruled Tuesday that Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s censorship lawsuit against the Biden administration may proceed. “The Court finds that Kennedy is likely to succeed on his claim that suppression of content posted was caused by actions of Government Defendants, and there is a substantial risk that he will suffer similar injury in the near ...

Kemal Yildirim/iStock/Getty Images Plus On Wednesday, the National Toxicology Program (NTP) published a long-delayed report establishing a connection between elevated fluoride levels in drinking water and reduced IQ scores in children. This report marks the first time the government has acknowledged this risk, reigniting discussions about the safety of fluoride, a substance widely used in public health for decades. Key ...

Politics In Chicago, the Blob Rules The same faces and same policies dominated foreign policy discussion at the DNC. “American politics has an occasion to match every mood: ceremony, circus, farce, melodrama, tragedy. Nothing rolls them together more opulently than a presidential convention.” So wrote the historian Arthur Schlesinger in 1965. Times have changed.  Sure, there were elements of the ...

Stefanie Spear/X During an appearance with Tom Bilyeu on the Impact Theory podcast, presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s running mate, Nicole Shanahan, spoke about attacks the Democratic National Committee (DNC) has coordinated against the Kennedy-Shanahan campaign. Rumor: Kennedy in Talks With Harris Campaign Bilyeu asked Shanahan about rumors Kennedy was in talks with both Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign ...

MCCAIG/iStock/Getty Images Plus “If you look for the bad in people, you will surely find it.” This quotation, generally attributed to Abe Lincoln, alludes to a simple truth: Everyone is a sinner — no one is perfect. A corollary of this is that there’s no such thing as a “perfect” candidate (not literally speaking, anyway). Despite this, some people behave ...

Washington Post/X In an editorial that is partly honest, partly dishonest, and patently delusional, The Washington Post has finally confessed that President Joe Biden’s cognitive and physical decline was obvious during his debate with Donald Trump on June 27. Yet the Post also claimed that Biden’s decision to quit the presidential race was “selfless,” even if he was removed from ...

AP Images Day Three of the Democratic Convention wasn’t quite as bad as Days One and Two. Still, highlights abounded. Television star Oprah Winfrey mumbled something about a “childless cat lady”; Bill Clinton, strangely, bragged about being younger than Donald Trump”; and CNN’s Dana Bash admitted that vice-presidential candidate Tim Walz and Douglas Emhoff, presidential nominee Kamala Harris’ emasculated husband, ...

kenlh/iStock/Getty Images Plus Biden-appointed Judge Adrienne Nelson of the U.S. District Court in Oregon found a way to keep the state’s onerous and unconstitutional ban on ghost guns in place. She ruled that although “bearable,” they are not “bearable for lawful purposes.” The language of the Second Amendment is clear: A well-regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a ...

AP Images Tim Walz Democratic vice-presidential nominee Tim Walz has a strained relationship with the truth. During his first run for Congress, he lied to the public about his drunk-driving arrest in 1995. And he has falsely said he retired as a command sergeant major from the Minnesota National Guard. Now, he’s been called out for another falsehood, and it ...

Mlenny/iStock/Getty Images Plus Last night Ukrainian forces launched a massive drone attack against Russia. Russian forces intercepted 45 drones, with at least 11 of those shot down over the Moscow region. Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin said the attack is one of the largest attempts to attack Moscow, stating on Telegram: Two more drones flying to Moscow have been shot down. ...

AP Images Michelle Obama The second night of the Democratic National Convention was not only almost too painful to watch, but also a reminder that Democrats completely lack the self-awareness that stops a person from uttering the ridiculous. Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris said she would bring down the price of groceries as president — despite being vice president now. ...

Alexyz3d/iStock/Getty Images Plus What could possibly go wrong (other than the end of the world)? Many may assume that the woke, dumb-down-standards mentality is a sideshow, that it would never affect life-or-death matters. But we’ve already seen corruptive DEI applied to law enforcement, air traffic controllers, pilots, and medical care. Now there’s a desire to apply it to what may ...

Faced with ongoing attacks against charter schools from lawmakers and teachers’ unions, “school choice” proponents in Colorado are pursuing a ballot initiative to enshrine a constitutional “right” to “equal opportunity to access a quality education.” Critics on both sides of the issue, though, are concerned it may be a trojan horse. “The people of Colorado cannot afford to wait for ...