By: Victor Davis Hansen Donald Trump has signaled he will announce his presidential intentions after the November midterm elections. Yet his record of endorsements is quite mixed. By the sheer numbers of winning primary candidates his stamp of approval is impressive, but in a few of the most important races, not so much. The disaster that is the Biden Administration has been a godsend for Trump. Had Biden simply plagiarized the successful Trump agenda, there would have followed no border disaster, no energy crisis, no hyperinflation, and no disastrous flight from Afghanistan. Had Biden followed through on his "unity" rhetoric, he could have lorded over Trump's successful record as his own, while contrasting his Uncle-Joe ecumenicalism with supposed Trump's polarization.
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By: Jeffrey H. Anderson In a Wall Street Journal op-ed on Tuesday, Joe Biden curiously cast himself as a deficit hawk. He even suggested that his fiscal prudence is key to lowering inflation. If so, fasten your seatbelts, for we're in for quite an inflationary ride. "We need to keep reducing the federal deficit, which will help ease price pressures," Biden writes. So far, so good (more or less). Federal spending is indeed out of control, and this has contributed to inflation. But Biden then claimed credit for allegedly getting our fiscal house in order: "Last week, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office projected that the deficit will fall by $1.7 trillion this year—the largest reduction in history." He added, "This deficit progress wasn't preordained." In other words, it happened because of his leadership.
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By: Daniel Oliver
Following the leak of the draft Supreme Court's upcoming decision on abortion, first-year Yale Law School student Shyamala Ramakrishna referred to members of the Federalist Society as "Christo-fascists." The Washington Free Beacon added nonchalantly, "Some of her classmates were less moderate." You might agree. The Free Beacon quoted another first-year student, Melisa Olgun, as saying: "Neither the constitution nor the courts—nor the f—ing illusion of 'democracy'—are going to save us. How can we possibly expect a document, drafted by wealthy, white, landowning men, to protect those who face marginalization that is the direct result of the very actions of the founders?"
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By: Brian Lonergan Those who argue for an America without borders are like teenagers lecturing their parents about how the world works. They brim with passion and confidence, augmented by like-minded peers and social media that affirm their beliefs. Only years later, after experiencing the harsh world for themselves, are they gobsmacked with the reality that much of what they believed turned out to be wrong. At least some young people have such an epiphany. The anti-borders lobby, by contrast, learns nothing and digs deeper into their positions no matter how much reality proves them wrong. We had a powerful reality lesson recently when an Iraqi national, Shihab Ahmed Shihab Shihab, 52, was arrested in Ohio and charged with aiding and abetting a plot to murder former President George W. Bush with the help of Islamic State (ISIS) operatives that he planned to smuggle across the United States-Mexico border.
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By: Lloyd Billingsley`
"You know what an assault weapon is?" Kamala Harris asked reporters on May 29. "You know how an assault weapon was designed? It was designed for a specific purpose—to kill a lot of human beings quickly. An assault weapon is a weapon of war with no place, no place in a civil society." The nation, Harris said, was experiencing an "epidemic of hate," and so on. Biden's vice president calls for a ban on "assault" weapons, which she failed to define. Harris doubtless had the AR-15 in mind but she does have experience with the AK-47 and other firearms. Kamala Harris' career began with lucrative sinecures courtesy of steady boyfriend Willie Brown, a powerful California Democrat 30 years her senior. The former Assembly speaker and San Francisco mayor backed Harris for district attorney and in 2003 Harris unseated Terence Hallinan.
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By: Gavin Wax
Americans witnessed an unspeakable tragedy last week. In Uvalde, Texas, a small town barely an hour from the U.S.-Mexico border, 19 schoolchildren and two teachers were executed by a madman. While most of us will never fully understand the pain and suffering of the victims, their families, and the people of the town of Uvalde, they deserve our prayers and support in what should be a moment of national unity. But instead, as if by clockwork, radical anti-gun Democrats and RINO Republicans immediately began exploiting the deaths of these children and the pain felt by their families for cynical political gain. Their goal: to punish you and me for the work of a lunatic by eliminating our Second Amendment and confiscating our guns.
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By: Liz Sheld
Good Wednesday morning. Here is what's on 46 agenda today: - 9:30am: The President receives the President's Daily Brief
- 11am: The President participates in the U.S. Coast Guard change of command ceremony where Adm. Karl L. Schultz will be relieved by Adm. Linda Fagan as the Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard
- 2:30pm: The President meets virtually with administration officials and major infant formula manufacturers to discuss his Administration's progress to accelerate infant formula production and ramp up imports of formula through Operation Fly Formula
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By: Julie Kelly
The day before FBI Director Christopher Wray explained to a Senate appropriations subcommittee why his department deserves a $527.8 million raise in 2023, his agents were credited with foiling an ISIS-linked plot to assassinate George W. Bush. An Iraqi national was arrested on May 25 and charged with attempting to smuggle four other Iraqis into the United States then "murder" the former president in retaliation for the war in Iraq. (I will address the sketchiness of this story in a separate column.) The timing for Wray was suspiciously fortuitous; appointed by Donald Trump in 2018 to lead the scandal-ridden agency, Wray continues to promote the unsubstantiated notion that domestic terrorists, i.e., Trump voters, pose a lethal threat to national security. For nearly a year and a half, armed FBI agents across the country have raided, interrogated, and arrested more than 800 Americans on mostly nonviolent offenses related to January 6, 2021, a four-hour protest that Wray considers an "act of domestic terror."
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By: Paul Gottfried
Last week, according to USA News, "the Senate failed to pass a bill to create domestic terrorism offices within federal law enforcement agencies in the wake of mass shootings at a New York grocery store and a Texas elementary school." This bill, which went down to defeat after a 47-47 deadlock in the Senate, was long overdue according to the prevailing media narrative. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) insisted that for the sake of our moral health we need to call "domestic terrorism" by its correct name. This evil is now "feeding off the poison of conspiracy theories like the White replacement theory." Now we get to the heart of the matter. The stalled bill was not about such mundane matters as arranging for more surveillance checks on prospective gun owners. Whatever one may think of such proposals, they at least bear some relationship to the mass shootings that recently took place. This latest Democratic initiative, by contrast, is intended to unmask "white supremacists," who according to Joe Biden and his fellow Democrats, represent the greatest terrorist threat in our systemically racist country. Senate Republicans countered by pointing out that the executive is already equipped with the authority to investigate terrorist threats. Are we dealing with something here which existing arrangements don't address? Why otherwise would we need a special agency to resist domestic terrorism, and one that would exist specifically "to combat White supremacist and neo-Nazi membership in uniformed services and federal law enforcement"?
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By: Edward Ring
The moment we met Robbie Hunter, then president of the State Building and Construction Trades Council, we knew we were in the presence of a man who does not lose. Assemblyman Devon Mathis had urged me to contact the construction unions before we finished our research to write the initiative and began an actual campaign, and through one of his mutual contacts, the meeting was arranged. Three of us arrived at the SBCTC's offices in downtown Sacramento back in August 2021, all of us dressed in our Sunday best; suits, ties, dress shoes. Hunter met us in their lobby, dressed like a man who does real work, wearing a t-shirt with a union logo on the front. As someone without experience meeting a union president, much less negotiating with one, Hunter, a burly man with a trace of an Irish accent, fit the stereotype I'd imagined. And that first meeting was encouraging.
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By: Jim Fitzgerald
There is a simple fact with which evangelicals need to come to grips immediately or risk blaspheming the evangel itself. This fact is undeniable and unconcealable, and it is supported by insurmountable evidence. Attempts to defend any proposition to the contrary amount to a denial of the faith once delivered. And it is this: wherever on the globe American foreign policy goes, death and displacement of millions of people follow. When it comes to foreign policy there are not two parties: one Democrat, and the other Republican. Rather, there is a Uniparty bent on keeping America engaged in endless wars resulting in untold horrors to human beings around the world—many of whom are Christian. Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yemen, and Ukraine all have one thing in common—American intervention or interference resulting in mass death and displacement. This is not to say that there are no other causes, complexities, or mitigating circumstances, but this is the one constant in the midst of all other variables.
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1 comment:
Billingsley missed this one.
Gangbanger shot and killed man and his two sons in a case of "mistaken identity". The bad guy was an illegal released from detention and never deported.
The first thing The "VP" said was no death penalty. that was her major concern.
https://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Hearing-starts-in-street-killings-of-man-sons-3229020.php
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