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As a lawyer, including the former lawyer for the Maricopa County Elections Department, it has been appalling for me to see the MSM breathlessly blabbing over and over that there is no “evidence” of election fraud. They even had the nerve to claim that Sidney Powell, a former high-level attorney in the DOJ who served as lead counsel in more than 500 appeals before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, had no evidence of fraud in the presidential election. They pretended she just put her hard-earned reputation on the line to hold a press conference with Rudy...

Looking out the windows today, the skies are blue, but it's eerily quiet. In Washington, D.C., where I live, businesses have boarded up their windows in preparation for violent protests. Anxiety and trepidation hang in the air. It's almost palpable. There has been so much tension in the run-up to our recent election. But I remain hopeful. This has been a year unlike any other. We have seen unrest and conflict in America at a level that most of us have never experienced. Between the uncertainty and devastation brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, violence in the streets leading to...

At this writing, there is no newly elected president of the United States. And with lawsuits and recounts in the works, it's not clear when we will know that we have one or who it will be. But a number of conclusions are clear as we watch this latest drama unfold, and they raise deeply serious issues about the political future of this country. 1. The path to minority support is not through identity politics and class warfare. Notwithstanding the efforts of the left to demonize President Donald Trump as a racist and a bigot, he has drawn record support...

Nobody knows how the election will turn out, but we can say with confidence that this is the first election where so many trusted authorities in our country have tried to tip the scales so hard. Regardless of the outcome, the partisan unfairness we have seen through this election cycle will further erode what we need most in our country: a renewal of trust. Trust is down in almost every national institution. When the people don't trust government, private business, educational institutions and the media, our country becomes less stable. But those bemoaning the erosion of trust spend little time...

Voters might be forgiven if in the closing weeks of the 2020 election cycle they are experiencing a sense of déjà vu. After all, this year, as in 2016, the pollsters are nearly unanimous: the Democrat is way ahead, and the chances for an upset victory by the Republican — who supposedly no one likes — are slim to non-existent. Leftists (and journalists — the two categories largely overlap) are licking their chops, dreaming not just of winning the White House, but of securing the House, the Senate, and the Supreme Court, all in one fell swoop! What makes our...

I’m at a picnic this last Saturday with my buddy Natalia, who emigrated from Ukraine to the U.S. in 1990. Once a month, a group of Russian-speaking U.S. citizens like Natalia, now residing in and around the Research Triangle area in North Carolina, meet to eat and to converse in Russian. I don't speak a word of the language, however, all four of my grandparents were from Belarus, and that's close enough. My Instant EducationMidway through the picnic, a senior lady clearly blurts out in English, “If you want to return to Russia, vote Democrat this year.” I am semi-stunned...

Inside one month to the 2020 election, an already circuitous plot takes on even tighter twists as President Trump rides out a hospital stay following his COVID-19 diagnosis. Current polls to the contrary, the November result has always been unpredictable, and now the winner is even harder to discern. An election that was once an overall referendum on the Trump record is now tilted by a variety of factors that will reveal themselves in the coming days. The realm of possibilities begins with the president’s actual health. If he rebounds quickly, he is on that second debate stage having thrown...

We hear much chatter from the media elite about the media elite’s responsibility to not equivocate, to not try too hard to give equal shrift to both sides when one side is being faster or looser with the truth. We could use a dose of that responsibility now as we’re being assured that the cost of nominating a Supreme Court justice will be a full-on assault on our institutions of government. That if the Left cannot accomplish at the ballot box the results they want, that they will see them through via other means, just as soon as they are...

Welcome, folks, to the new and improved Democratic Party. The party that dwells in the past--yet calls itself “Progressive.” The party that watches flag-burners, arsonists, murderers, rapists, rioters, looters and anarchists commit violent acts--and calls it “mostly peaceful.” And the party that burns down their own failed cities—and calls it “Trump’s America.” That makes one want to be a Democrat said no normal person ever. Even still, Democrats continue with their party’s death march toward the abyss. Democrat leaders have blood on their hands. All of them. Those who could stop the violence took a knee instead -- as if...

Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard explained in an interview with ABC News in Hudson, New Hampshire, why the representative from Hawaii voted present during the recent House vote on two articles of impeachment against the president.  "I think impeachment," Gabbard began, "unfortunately, will only further embolden Donald Trump, increase his support and the likelihood that he'll have a better shot at getting elected while also seeing the likelihood that the House will lose a lot of seats to Republicans." Ahead of the impeachment vote, Gabbard introduced a resolution calling on the House to officially censor the president. Gabbard was the only...