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Mudslinging and character assassination is an expected part of politics. It’s what you signed up for. Running for public office means opening yourself up to intrusive probings into your personal life, hit jobs from political reporters, and even attacks on your close friends and family members. These types of dirty tricks, common in politics should be nowhere near our legal guardianship systems. Unfortunately, that is not the case. The legal system is supposed to provide a refuge of justice and protection for the innocent and the abused. It should never be used as a weapon to steal an unsuspecting person...

It takes a special brain to lose it’s train of thought at an Amtrak station. And Joey’s got one of those special brains. In case you missed it, here’s an exact transcript:“When I was Vice President with Barack, he allowed me to put together a budget for Amtrak and it had money for high-speed rail at 200 MPH, from…Charlotte, another line going from…in Florida, down to Tampa, another line — if we had moved…we’d have that tunnel fixed in New York now.”Needless to say, that was a complete train wreck, and there’s no light to be seen at the end...

No Parole, No Appeal, No Hope: Great White Throne Judgment “And I saw a great white throne and Him that sat upon it, from whose face the earth and heaven fled away, and there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God, and the books were opened, and another book was opened, which is the Book of Life, and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it, and Death and...

While there is not much time left until June 18, the day of the presidential elections in Iran, the war between the two factions within the regime for winning this seat has escalated. On April 25, a letter signed by 220 members of the Iranian parliament was published in the media. The MPs asked Ebrahim Ra'isi, the head of the regime's judiciary, to run for the presidency. The letter was published contrary to the usual custom of non-interference of the legislature in the affairs of the executive branch. Ra'isi's endorsement is also interpreted as an attack against the current president,...

I heard Joe Biden gave a speech to Congress this week. Or at least some of Congress. I heard Ted Cruz fell asleep in the middle of it. Maybe he was merely emulating (P)resident Biden, our first fully somnambulist president? Meanwhile, Biden’s blowout spending proposals are giving a whole new meaning to “go for broke.” (Hat tip: RS.)

I confess that like most Americans, I had no interest in watching Joe Biden's non–State of the Union address to a mostly empty House chamber hosting a joint session of Congress. That's why I missed a golden moment during the commentary afterward on Fox News Channel, one that surely stands as what the progressives like to call a "Profile in Courage." You may have noticed that in recent weeks, FNC has been trying out various personalities from its stable of commentators as hosts of Fox News Primetime that airs in the 7 P.M. Eastern timeslot, the lead-in to Tucker Carlson's...

MALÉ — The roll-out of vaccinations to prevent COVID-19 infections rising in the Maldives is a good example of “vaccine equity in action” according to Catherine Haswell, the UN resident coordinator for the Indian Ocean island nation. The Maldives had reported some 29,000 cases of the virus with 72 deaths up until April 29. As World Immunization Week comes to an end, Haswell explains how the UN has supported the authorities in the fight against the pandemic. “The COVID-19 crisis has been difficult for Maldivians, resulting in widespread health and socioeconomic challenges. On April 15, 2020, just two months after...

The blue backlash is coming because Biden's policy is putting a lot of Democrats in political trouble. Over the last few weeks, we've heard from a lot of border mayors and congressmen about the mess in their neighborhood. My guess is that a lot of them would have preferred for VP Harris to come to Laredo, Texas than having a virtual talk with the President of Guatemala. Anyway, it's not surprising that blues are starting to complain about the Biden policy, especially facing reelection in 2022 like Senator Mark Kelly in Arizona. President Biden said nothing of consequence about the...

Here in Pinellas County, Florida, homeowners are being bombarded with offers to install solar panels on the roofs of their homes. We are offered this ‘service upgrade’ for no money down and very liberal credit terms for the panels and the battery packs that come with it. Are the power companies that generous, or are there other motives involved? I believe that this is all about those companies’ attempts to keep the advantages of nuclear energy, both financial and environmental, from being known and utilized. An eye-opening documentary on Amazon Prime. Pandora’s Promise, reveals some fascinating truths about nuclear energy....

Last year, a 15-year-old clip of America’s Next Top Model was dug up in which host and supermodel Tyra Banks was being painfully honest when she told one of her show's contestants that the gap between her front teeth was "not marketable." Predictably, legions of less comely fans slammed Banks for "shaming" the contestant. To Banks's credit, she didn't give the quivering self-debasement the mob rabidly craved. She agreed her comments were “insensitive” but never disavowed them, and tossed the mob some rhetorical table scraps about "showcasing different ideals of beauty" which did nothing to alter the unfortunate fact of...

Not one to discard a useful political prop a moment before its allotted time, President Biden is milking the ominous optics of the black mask for all its worth. The Biden-Harris administration --- as COVID-created a phenomenon as anything that’s escaped the Wuhan lab --- is not ready for a return to complete normalcy just yet. At his sparsely attended address to a joint session of Congress last Wednesday night, Biden signaled his wish to yet extend the crisis atmosphere that’s held Americans by the throat for over a year. Though fully vaccinated (as was everyone in the chamber,) he...

California losing a House seat for the first time in history could spark political tumult as incumbent Democrats and a few Republicans jockey to survive the decennial redrawing of congressional boundaries by the state’s independent redistricting commission. Democrat-held congressional districts in and around Los Angeles County are most endangered, party insiders say, threatening to end the careers of veteran Reps. Alan Lowenthal, Grace Napolitano, Lucille Roybal-Allard, and Maxine Waters, who range in age from 79 to 84. California’s 15-member Citizens Redistricting Commission, divided equally among Democrats, Republicans, and independents, is prohibited from drawing maps that benefit or disadvantage any particular...

His habit of saying that he is “in trouble” when he screws things up in public raises an awkward question: who's pulling his strings? The speech President Biden gave to a couple hundred solons acting as a “joint session of Congress” apparently sapped his energy enough to cause some embarrassing moments for the man playing the part of Leader of the Free World… for the next two days. Commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of Amtrak yesterday, he lapsed into an incoherent word salad, unable to complete a sentence or stay on the same topic. A jumble of thoughts, none of the...

For those who think now-former Brooklyn Center police officer Kim Potter should be charged with a crime – let alone murder – I have a simple question: if a surgeon accidentally nicks an artery and kills a patient when she mistakes the scalpel in her hand for a prober, should she be charged with murder, or even manslaughter? Answer: no. After all, the surgeon did this thing we all do: she made a mistake. She had no ill intent, let alone malice. Despite the best intentions and protocols, it sadly happens on occasion, and especially in the heat of the...

We seem on the verge of losing it — not from foreign invasion, not from revolution, but because we stopped caring about it. Ben Franklin famously said, "You've got a republic, if you can keep it." That warning is particularly haunting now, because we seem on the verge of losing it — not from foreign invasion, not from revolution, but because we stopped caring about it. America was founded on the principles of individual liberty and equal treatment under the law. These are the foundational principles required for equality and prosperity. Yet we've been creeping away from those principles for...

With the recent revelations that John Kerry has for years been in bed with the terrorist regime of the Islamic Republic of Iran, its long past time for there to be an independent and complete investigation into Obama’s former Secretary of State - and now the current Climate Czar of the new Biden (Obama) Administration, and his activities during the Trump Administration. John Kerry’s loathing of the United States dates way back to the Vietnam era when he was chasing the skirts of another well-known traitor Jane Fonda, and his aiding and abetting of our North Vietnamese enemies by lying...

Since 1815, the island of Malta had been viewed as one of the jewels in Britain’s crown of empire — a vital way-station to the East and a sun-baked fortress that showcased the Royal Navy’s dominance of the Mediterranean. But in the summer of 1942 it was the only surviving British bastion in the central Mediterranean, beleaguered, tottering and close to capitulation. Constant attack from as many as 300 aircraft in 24 hours — the Italians by day, the Germans by night — had left more than a thousand people dead, 4,500 injured and 15,500 homes destroyed. Its Grand Harbour...

The first suspect in Saturday morning's shooting at an off-campus party was charged with 10 counts on Wednesday afternoon, including two that potentially carry sentences of life.Kenneth Wayne Thomas, Jr., was charged with two counts of assault with intent to commit murder, two counts of discharging a gun at a building known to be a home and causing serious injury, one count of discharging a gun at a building known to be a home and five counts of felony firearm before Chief Judge Eric Janes.Assault with intent to commit murder potentially carries a life sentence; discharging a firearm at a...

The mother of a 19-year-old who was fatally shot last summer in Seattle’s so-called CHOP zone filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the city, claiming medics failed to provide prompt aid and encouraged the unsafe conditions. Q13 Fox reported that that suit was filed on behalf of Lorenzo Anderson’s mother, Donnitta Sinclair. The lawsuit claimed that the city’s decision to abandon the East Precinct near the Capitol Hill Organized Protest and provide protesters with portable toilets enabled the violence. Dan Nolte, a spokesman for the Seattle City Attorney’s Office, told the station, "We intend to investigate these brought claims and...

Going by what attendees said, Fulton County GOP members this month had a convention to keep an establishment Republican incumbent as its chair or go a different path and elect new blood, a strong Trump supporter. At the end of the day, no one left that convention happy. Republicans tussled over who ultimately prevailed. Members of the Georgia GOP State Committee will likely have to settle the matter. Fulton County GOP members held their convention April 17 at The Metropolitan Club in Alpharetta. They select a new Fulton County GOP chair every two years. This year members had to choose...