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Pundits are beginning to agree that Joe Biden's campaign is in a death spiral. "Biden’s campaign is running on fumes," writes The Daily Beast's Sam Stein. "A candidate with all the trappings of a traditional frontrunner—the long résumé, party backing, relevant experience, and steady poll numbers—suddenly is on electoral life support." So what happened? Should Biden's campaign crash and burn there will be much speculation over what went wrong. How did the frontrunner go from smooth sailing to the nomination to an epic disaster? Well, I think the answer is already clear. When you look at the Real Clear Politics...

Former one-term Republican congressman and radio host Joe Walsh recently withdrew from running against Trump in the Republican primary. He apparently got the message that his candidacy was dead when the Iowa caucus crowd responded with raucous cheers for Trump to his comment "if you want four more year of the Donald Trump show" and roundly booed his claim that the president "makes every day about himself." Any birdbrain knows that Trump makes every day about us and the U.S. The only reason he has had to talk about himself is because he's been under constant attack, and Democrats demanded...

One of the astounding things after the 2016 election was the Democrats’ failure to engage in self-reflection to understand what they did wrong and figure out how to improve. Instead, they’ve indulged in a three-and-a-half-year orgy of blaming everything (mostly the Russians) and everybody (mostly Trump), for their election failure. Matt Taibbi, who writes for the Progressive Rolling Stone magazine, is one of the few Progressives who has managed to resist this impulse. Taibbi consistently looks at the Democrat party with the eye of a man who wishes he could fix it, rather than someone who is looking for...

The city of Portland, Oregon, has been taken over by the scum of the Earth and the mayor and city police have allowed it to happen. The masked group of thugs who call themselves “antifa,” which is supposedly short for “anti-fascist” though their actions are as fascist as they come, was at it again on Saturday in another violent protest in the city. Three demonstrators were arrested in the fracas, but judging by the videos shared on social media, a lot more arrests should have been made. More suspects are being sought in the defacing of a war memorial where...

Wuhan forced quarantine is becoming a "Martial Law", What's really happen inside Wuhan, China amid Coronavirus Outbreak Lastest coronavirus outbreak updates: As of 2020-02-09 08:33 National Statistics Coronavirus Updates – Confirmed cases: 37,251 in China, 316 abroad - Suspect 28,942 – Deaths: 812 in China, 1 abroad – Discharged from hospitals in the Chinese mainland: over 2,651 - China flies back 61 Hubei tourists stranded in Bali, Indonesia

Here's hoping 2020 is the best year yet!! Now that he has been forever acquitted, President Trump should put the failed partisan impeachment attempt behind him, then concentrate on winning the 2020 election with wide coattails. Then bide his time as the cases against the various coup plotters wind their way through the justice system. Highest priority political items: Win the election, hold the senate, take back the house!! And then continue the work of making America great again: Build the wall, enforce the law, deport them all!! End DACA!! End sanctuary cities!! End anchor babies!! Continue cutting regulations, cutting...

Leftists renewed their decades-long attacks on Rush Limbaugh last week as he announced a serious illness and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Leftists celebrate his illness and somehow deny that a non-soldier should receive this civilian award. They deny the worth of his contribution to the nation while castigating his political views. Conservatives try to support the award with reference to Limbaugh's charity work, the size of his audience, or his many years on the air. While the conservatives are correct, both sides miss the point. In order to understand how important Rush has been to America, we...

In this Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2020, file photo, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, of California, tears her copy of President Donald Trump's State of the Union address after he delivered it to a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington. SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The issue of misleading political messages on social media has arisen again, as President Donald Trump tweeted an edited video showing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi repeatedly tearing up his State of the Union speech as he honored audience members and showed a military family reuniting. Pelosi did tear the pages of her copy of the...

What just happened? The US Department of Justice on Monday announced it has indicted four members of the Chinese military with hacking into the computer systems of credit monitoring firm Equifax in 2017 and stealing the personally identifiable information of nearly 150 million Americans. The government alleges that Wu Zhiyong, Wang Qian, Xu Ke and Liu Lei were members of the People’s Liberation Army Research Institute, a branch of the Chinese military, and conspired to hack into Equifax’s networks, maintain access to the computers and steal sensitive information. Specifically, the indictment claims the defendants exploited a vulnerability in the Apache...

I know, I know, but don’t laugh. – The Democrat Party has a long history of seeing surprise candidates emerge out of the New Hampshire primary. What’s interesting about this history is that the “surprise” has often not come with who won the primary, but in a candidate who finished as a surprisingly strong also-ran. In 1972, Edmund Muskie won the primary as he was predicted to do, but it was radical-leftist candidate George McGovern who stole the thunder coming out of the Granite State, finishing in a surprisingly strong second place with over 37% of the vote. McGovern rode...

In every sense of the word, Trump absolutely killed it last Tuesday at the SOTU. Sitting behind President Trump, watching him master the room, the grimace of Pelosi's face betrayed the culmination of a dawning revelation that unsettled her, and it was this: Trump is really, really good at this. Optics. Stagecraft. Working the crowd. On a stage, he's untouchable. All her political prowess at crunching poll numbers, strong-arming legislation, and setting media narratives felt impotent. For the first time, Pelosi comprehended not only the potential of Trump's ingenuity, but also the fact that she had been decisively outmaneuvered by...

The progressive socialist left, along with their media accomplices, have gone into another apoplectic unhinged rage. I know, what else is new? This time it is all about the dismissal of one US Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman. LTC Vindman has now risen to the dubious acclaim of being referred to as a hero. In the fall of 2018, here in Texas, there had to be an emergency session of the Texas State Board of Education because some leftists wanted to remove the term “heroic” from Texas state history curriculum in reference to the defenders of the Alamo. The left...

About AOC's comment about the "Sacred Honor" of the Medal of Freedom, with specific regards to Rosa Parks: Check out one of her fellow recipients, along with Muhammad Ali, in 1986

Bolstered by news that he was the choice of 26% of Iowa Democrats in this week's presidential nomination caucus, former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg struck a "no tolerance for congressional defiance" stance and vowed to "land Air Force One in the backyard of anyone of them who opposes my policies" during an interview with CNN's Chris Cuomo. Oddly, the Mayor characterized his approach as "the very essence of what democracy is all about. The President is the elected leader of all of America. Senators and Representatives are elected by much smaller constituencies. We cannot allow these smaller constituencies to...

High school Pete Buttigieg and 2020 Pete Buttigieg have a very different view of Bernie Sanders. The surging presidential candidate has been openly critical of the Vermont senator on the campaign trail ever since the two finished neck-and-neck in last week's Iowa caucuses. But the former South Bend mayor once penned an award-winning essay that praised Sanders' character and politics -- back when he was in high school. In 2000, then-high school senior Buttigieg won the John F. Kennedy “Profiles in Courage” essay contest with a piece touting Sanders’ then-bipartisan streak and his bravery for calling himself a “socialist,” despite...

Somewhere in the darkness, where private thoughts can be snuffed out before spoken out loud, there is a Democrat who understands that President Trump is now legend. After the State of the Union, one woman in Carthage, North Carolina said it clearly: "We need to put a cape on his back, an 'S' on his chest, and call him Superman. No mortal man could take what he has took in the last three years and do what he has done." The entire diner where she was being interviewed exploded in enthusiastic cheers. She seemed to have expressed a feeling that...

Voters chose Donald Trump as an antidote to the growing inflammation caused by the . . . swamp-creature governing class . . . On taking office, Mr. Trump proceeded to hire smart people and create a massive diversion (tweets, border walls, tariffs) as a smokescreen to let them implement an agenda of tax cuts, deregulation and originalist judges. Those reforms have left the market free to do its magic and got the economy grooving like it’s 1999. The daily Trump hurricane . . . makes the media focus on the all-powerful wizard while ignoring the policy makers behind the curtain....

Professor Jonathan Turley of Georgetown University Law School wrote in The Hill of the Speaker’s State of the Union behavior, “Pelosi has shredded decades of tradition, decorum and civility that the nation could use now more than ever.” He also described her with the words “petty,” “distempered,” and “inappropriate.” She failed to introduce the President properly, and then was particularly out of line when she tore up his speech after grimacing and showing petulant expressions throughout the President’s speech. Turley asserted that she should resign from office as the Speaker as her breaches of decorum at the State of Union...

President Trump is scheduled to meet Monday with some of the families of those killed in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting. ....Fred Guttenburg, whose daughter Jamie was one of the victims, was not invited to the meeting, according to CBS4 news partner The Miami Herald. Last week attended the Trump’s State of the Union address as a guest of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. He was removed from the audience after shouting at Trump to do something about gun violence while the president talked....

BEIJING - China’s Wuhan city, the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak, has not been able to confirm all existing suspected cases of the coronavirus despite a rush to speed up testing, the city’s Communist Party Secretary told a news conference on Monday. Ma Guoqiang said the Wuhan government would, however, aim to test all suspected cases by Tuesday. There have been growing complaints that many patients in the city of 11 million have not been tested or admitted for full-time treatment due to the pressure on medical resources. Ma added that 1,499 patients in critical conditions who were not admitted...