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It's not a money issue. The usual D.C. response to government failures is to call for more money. This time it’s for the Secret Service. There’s now a back-and-forth between congressional Republicans and Democrats over Secret Service funding. The Dems and the media are playing the usual Catch-22 game. Either Republicans increase spending or the Dems and the media can blame them for the next Trump assassination attempt. Does the Secret Service actually need more money? It has a $3 billion budget. That’s around double what it was in 2000. Only about $1.2 billion of that goes to protective operations...

Celebrities turn people into fans by manufacturing a false sense of intimacy. Kamala acts like she’s running to be America’s best friend, not the person tasked with fixing its problems. Some have been won over by the “joy” routine, but others, especially men, are not interested in pretending that a millionaire politician who notices them every 4 years is their best friend. Kamala’s fake smiles, fake laughs and fake friendship are turning off men of all ages and races. And there’s no joy in coconutville as “brat summer” turns to falling poll fall.

While the election is still underway, D.C. insiders are buzzing about the names being put forward for a leading role in a possible Kamala administration. Some emerging names being reported on by the media include the first female secretary of defense who wanted to dismantle “warrior culture”, either Kamala’s brother-in-law or a former member of a racist hate group for attorney general and an anti-Israel activist as a possible director for national intelligence. D.C. insiders expect that a Kamala administration will appoint a first female Secretary of Defense, and are pretty sure that it will be current Army Secretary Christine...

Not a right to defend itself. A right to win. “Israel has a right to defend itself,” Kamala told CNN. And then insisted that the “war must end.” What Kamala was really saying was that Israel has a right to defend itself against an attack, but it doesn’t have a right to win. Democrats and some Republicans have offered the same formulaic responses since Oct 7. And long before that. “Israel has a right to defend itself from rocket attacks,” Obama said in 2014 before calling for a ceasefire. Israel has a right to defend itself, Bush and Clinton used...

65% of Muslim students either hate Jews or Israel. Campus antisemitism is a problem, but reports focus on the experiences of Jewish students rather than the identity of the perpetrators. Media reports hesitate to name anyone. Jewish organizations zero in on campus hate groups like Students for Justice in Palestine, but that only tells us so much about why antisemitism has become so widespread at certain universities. Brandeis University’s Center for Modern Jewish Studies recently conducted a survey asking college students about their views of Jews and Israel. And the results are revealing. 66% of students, the vast majority, did...

Something interesting is going on in San Francisco where DA Brooke Jenkins, a black woman who ousted the former pro-crime Chesa Boudin and promised to actually enforce the law, is taking on the MacArthur Foundation. While we often call pro-crime DAs “Soros DAs” and indeed the Nazi collaborating radical billionaire did indeed play a major role in building a pro-crime network of DAs who ignore the law, there are a variety of major foundations who destroyed public safety in America. The MacArthur Foundation is one of them. Under DA Chesa Boudin’s reign of terror, the MacArthur Foundation had been providing...

Jewish delegates at the DNC have to meet in hiding. “As the highest-ranking Jewish official in American history, I want my grandkids and all grandkids to never, never face discrimination because of who they are,” Senator Schumer concluded his speech. “But Donald Trump. This is a guy who peddles antisemitic stereotypes.”Meanwhile Jewish Democrats were literally hiding out at the DNC.Most Jewish events at the DNC were held at undisclosed locations with organizers having to approve attendees and only then provide them with the secret location shortly beforehand.Agudath Israel, a traditional religious and not particularly Zionist group, whose members wear black...

The Kamala campaign is just Oprah with even less substance so it was little surprise when the portly talk show racist showed up at the DNC to cheer her on to her target audience that has dedicated its lives to abortion and celebrity gossip. Oprah warned, “we won’t go back, we won’t be sent back, pushed back, bullied back, kicked back. We’re not going back.” Then the celebrity who spent a generation shamelessly milking her audience claimed that “values and character matter most of all.” And if anyone can find an example of that in Oprah’s life, good luck. “Let...

During the 2020 election, the DNC announced a partnership with the Action Network, a leftist nonprofit, aimed at raising money to “elect Democrats up and down the ballot”. Now the Action Network is boasting that “in the first 24 hours after President Biden endorsed Vice President Harris, organizations raised over $70 million using Action Network.” “Action Network has been foundational to the DNC’s fundraising and organizing success over the years,” a DNC official gushed. Action Network was also crucial to the fundraising of Antifa. Going by the International Anti-Fascist Defence Fund on the Action Network, the mostly peaceful but also...

Night 1 of the DNC was a horror story. Call it the Night of the Democrat Undead. Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden returned from the land of political oblivion to haunt the stage by giving the same speech they had given before and that had failed to win them the support of the nation and the party. Joe Biden raved about democracy while Hillary Clinton once again claimed that “it takes a village.” It takes a village alright. In theory this was supposed to a party unity night with two key failed presidential candidates, Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden, advancing...

The joy is overwhelming. And nothing says joy like riots. Joyous mostly peaceful riots that require lots of plywood. Businesses in downtown Chicago have started boarding up their doors and windows ahead of next week’s Democratic National Convention, when thousands of anti-Israeli protesters are expected to descend on the Windy City. Boarded up windows and doors could be seen downtown Thursday “As we know, this city has a poor track record when it comes to protecting businesses,” said Scott Shapiro, owner of Syd Jerome. The looming unknowns ahead of next week’s convention are why Shapiro said he knew he had...

And he might be the next attorney general. When the new administration was looking for an attorney general, Ben Crump, the ultimate BLM lawyer who represented the families of George Floyd, Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin and nearly every BLM case, recommended Tony West. Al Sharpton also mentioned West.West, Crump argued, had been the third-highest ranking official in the Obama DOJ, “led various efforts to reduce racial bias, improve procedural fairness, strengthen the relationship between communities of color and law enforcement, and hold police departments accountable.”Or as the New York Times put it, West “launched an investigation into the 2014 shooting...

After 9/11, Nasrina Bargzie, an Afghan Muslim immigrant, was interviewed by law enforcement over troubling comments on the War on Terror reported by her friends. Today she’s the Deputy Counsel to Vice President Kamala Harris. After coming to America from a wealthy family in Kandahar, later a stronghold of the Taliban and Al Qaeda, Nasrina Bargzie was raised in Concord, CA, one of the state’s hubs for Afghan migrants, and quickly got involved in anti-American and pro-terrorist activism. In 2001, while attending college, she was interrogated by the FBI about comments she had made to her friends. It’s unknown what...

Kamala praised college where brutal murder of 76-year-old American was celebrated. A year after Richard Lakin, a 76-year-old retired Connecticut elementary school principal, was brutally murdered, Senator Kamala Harris visited the terror university that had honored his killer.After being shot in the head and stabbed in the face while riding a bus in Jerusalem, Lakin, a beloved educator and grandfather, lay in the hospital for weeks before his death, and visiting American politicians had paid a call to his bedside. Kamala would not be one of them.Instead, when Kamala went to Jerusalem next year, she visited Al Quds Bard College.2,500...

It’s been widely reported that Gov. Tim Walz lied about his military service. We know that Walz rapidly exited the military once he knew he would be deployed in a war zone. And yet he launched his political career by lying about being a military veteran who had gone off to war. At Dossier.Today, Jordan Schachtel connects the dots to the start of Walz’s political career. Schachtel dug up an Atlantic profile of Walz telling the big lie that launched his political career. Command Sergeant Major Tim Walz is a twenty-four-year veteran of the Army National Guard, now retired but...

When it was convenient, she pretended to be the "first Indian-American senator". Last week we had the big loud debate over what race Kamala Harris is. As I’ve said before, I don’t think she’s anything. Her identity is as negotiable as anything else. And like Obama, it doesn’t fit the American identity politics calculus anyway. Like a lot of Jamaican and Indian immigrants, she’s a member of a high-achieving minority group (who is admittedly a lot dumber than the average Indian and Jamaican immigrant) with some family ties, but little sense of belonging to anything beyond a social class. Kamala’s...

Money stolen from your accounts might be funding pro-illegal advocacy. The Center for Gender & Refugee Studies has spent years battling on behalf of illegal alien invaders. Earlier, Freedom Center Investigates exposed how the lawfare group housed at a University of California law school provides full service open borders support. “During Trump, my CGRS colleagues and I expended a tremendous amount of energy challenging the anti-immigrant policies that were issued on what seemed like an almost daily basis,” Karen Musalo, the CGRS founding director, boasted. The Center also offers a database of “expert witnesses” willing to testify on behalf of...

"We love death like our enemies love life.” After attending the inauguration of Iran’s new president among the festive chants of “Death to America” and “Death to Israel”, Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh found death waiting for him. “We always shout: ‘Death for the sake of Allah is our loftiest aspiration,’” Haniyeh had claimed. The Hamas billionaire who lived in luxury in Qatar hadn’t actually wanted to die, but he should have been careful what he wished for before the missile granted him the death he cheered for. After the Hamas atrocities of Oct 7, Haniyeh had declared that we need...

The PLO’s money arm was the largest foreign principal for his law firm. “Will Doug Emhoff’s Legal Career Be an Issue for the Biden-Harris Ticket?” the New York Times asked four years ago.The newspaper noted that Emhoff, the husband of Kamala Harris, was a partner at DLA Piper whose “lobbying clients” had included the governments of Afghanistan and Bahrain, as well as the Qatari government-funded Al Jazeera Network and the Palestine Monetary Authority.DLA Piper was good to the Emhoff-Harris family with the family taking home $2.7 million in 2019 and $1.2 million in 2020. “To aspire to create wealth is...

The contrast between Israel taking out Fuad Shukr, a top Hezbollah leader, wanted for the Marine Corps Barracks bombing in Beirut which killed 241 U.S. military personnel, and Biden is cutting a deal with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the 9/11 mastermind, is a compelling indictment. But it was also inevitable. One of the obsessions of this administration, like that of the Obama administration, was shutting down Gitmo and dismantling the last remains of the War on Terror. Biden has sidelined 9/11 memorials and was freeing terrorists from Gitmo at a furious pace. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and a few other terrorists who...