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A Michigan State Supreme Court justice accepted an $82,500 donation earlier this year from a PAC tied to Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, at a time when the seven-member Supreme Court was deciding an appeal filed by Benson.The campaign committee for State Supreme Court Justice Kyra Harris Bolden reported receiving the donation on May 17, 2024. The source of the donation, Legacy PAC, was founded and operated by Benson. Campaign finance reports show that an $82,500 donation was given on April 26, 2024, to the Keep Kyra Harris Bolden for Justice committee.At the time, Bolden sat on the seven-member...

The Deep State is the permanently entrenched bureaucracy that really runs a country.It is THE establishment.While the Deep State concept is commonly associated with the US government, many other countries have their own versions.Looking at what happens in those countries when an outsider comes to power can help us better understand what the Deep State might do in the US.If an outsider somehow comes to power, there are three possible outcomes:The Deep State kills the outsider.The outsider succeeds in crippling the Deep State and can implement an independent agenda.The Deep State co-opts the outsider.Numerous examples of this dynamic have played...

The next president will likely preside over one of the most consequential periods in the nation’s relations with communist China, an adversary that has the intention and capacity to displace the current U.S.-led world order.Eight in 10 Americans view China unfavorably, according to a Pew Research Center report released in July.Washington also has a consensus that the Chinese regime poses a threat as it closes the power gap with the United States in military, diplomatic, and technological domains.The current approach to China began with former President Donald Trump. Identifying China as a “strategic competitor,” the Trump administration took a new...

I am not a ballistics expert and don't play one on TV. I didn't even sleep in a Holiday Inn Express, so what I write here is based entirely on the analysis of others. But I am pretty sure they are right, given the balance of the evidence and the provenance of the opinion piece published by the New York Times. 65 Doctors, Nurses and Paramedics: What We Saw in Gaza https://t.co/5P10AijNyh— Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib (@afalkhatib) October 11, 2024At issue is a piece published by the Times in which 65 medical personnel who have worked in Gaza during the Israeli...

In living memory, no Republican president has evoked the blind hatred from the left that Donald Trump has. Not even Richard Nixon, for all his flaws, provoked this seething anger, contempt, and willingness to casually toss aside historical and constitutional norms to damage him. Some on the left made noises about impeaching George W. Bush, but few of them were in Congress, and there was no official proceeding, other than an attempt by the far-left pols Dennis Kucinich and Robert Wexler, which went nowhere.But Trump? Twice. The second impeachment farce was after he left office. He was acquitted in the...

Kamala Harris has made a lot of mistakes in her great cluster-foul-up of a presidential campaign, and one of the worst mistakes she has made was selecting Tim Walz, who went "pheasant hunting" in a too-obviously brand-new vest and cap and with a shotgun he didn't know how to load. The guy is a joke for any number of reasons, and on Tuesday we can add one more to the dogpile: The libertarian Cato Institute has released its annual scoring of state governors on spending and tax policy. Guess who came in dead last?Walz, who is Vice President Kamala Harris’s...

The property management firm managing several buildings in Aurora, Colorado, that have been taken over by members of the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang, is speaking out. The company has taken to X to provide a full description of how the buildings were invaded and taken over by the illegal alien gangsters, how the tenants fled, how people were threatened and assaulted, and how the local government reacted. It all starts here.Gangs have taken control of several of our properties in Aurora, Colorado.In an attempt to discredit this fact for political purposes and avoid governmental accountability, some have spread false...

This is my favorite lane of propaganda to debunk. There is no proof that the 2020 election was stolen except: 1. Six states changed their election laws two months before the 2020 election by executive fiat, instead of going through the proper channels in the legislature. That is a violation of their state constitutions and that in and of itself is enough to invalidate the results of the 2020 election. 2. Mark Zuckerberg, hard left, spent $450 million dollars of private money on our elections. After the 2020 election analysis revealed that most of that money went to benefit Democrats....

Kamala Harris keeps trying to run away from her abysmal performance as the Biden administration's border czar, but facts are stubborn things. Take, for instance, the fact that 30% of the cameras that are part of the Customs and Border Patrol's (CBP) Remote Video Surveillance System are broken. In other words, significant portions of the southern border are invisible to CBP agents, resulting in untold numbers of "gotaways" disappearing into the United States without being vetted or tracked. This information comes straight from an internal CBP memo, so it can't be dismissed as simply campaign fodder or ginned-up controversy. NBC...

Join us for a Special Q&A live from CONNECT to answer your questions about the Israel War and more! 50 mins. This is a question and answer session by Amir answering questions sent in by his followers. He answers a lot of questions that I had and provides a lot of useful information for understanding the situation over there.

The latest effort of Vice President Kamala Harris to attack former President Donald Trump as somehow "hiding away" from the public is so silly, it's hard to believe that her campaign would run with that. Trump is all over the place, doing all kinds of interviews and far more than her. But she is desperate as the numbers seem to be running in Trump's direction. She's down to telling despicable lies and getting nailed on them, such as spreading the false story that Trump froze during an event and was confused, when he stopped because there were two medical emergencies....

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The most fecund arsenal of dirty tricks in the history of the country has failed to derail President Trump’s campaign for a second term. How refreshing it is to see the Democratic Party in full panic mode. Nothing is working and as a result, the entire and profoundly unsuccessful Obama-Biden interlude is stricken and faltering. In fairness to the voters, the country could not have voted Republican in 2008 after the disaster of President George W. Bush — the Iraqi war topped out by the financial collapse and panic traceable to President Clinton’s requirement that the financial markets be flooded...

Two giant pandas departed China for a zoo in the US capital on Monday (Oct 14), a Chinese conservation group said in a statement. Bao Li, a male panda, and female Qing Bao, both three years old, were headed to the Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington under a decade-long breeding and research agreement. "China and the United States have made orderly arrangements ... to ensure that the two giant pandas will arrive at the Washington National Zoo safely and smoothly," the China Wildlife Conservation Association (CWCA) said in a statement. Only a few of the beloved black-and-white bears remain in...

Vice President Kamala Harris slung many untrue statements during her Tuesday interview with Charlamagne tha God. The interview, which was another softball discussion with a media ally, was not fact checked by the host, allowing Harris to roll from one misstatement to the next. Below are the top three untrue statements during the hour interview:

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Vice President Kamala Harris expressed openness to reparations during a Tuesday interview with Charlamagne tha God. Sixty-eight percent of Americans oppose reparations, a Pew Research poll found in 2022. “It has to be studied, there’s no question about that, and I’ve been very clear about that position,” Harris told the radio host: In terms of my immediate plan, I will tell you a few of the following one as it relates to the economy, which is a lot of what you have addressed. Look, I grew up in the middle class. My mother, you know, worked hard, raised me and...

Vice President Kamala Harris denied a rumor Tuesday surrounding singer Janet Jackson, after the famous artist claimed she was not black. The vice president reacted to Jackson's statement and the subsequent controversy during a town hall conversation with Charlamagne Tha God in Detroit, Michigan. Charlamagne asked Harris to address the rumor on social media that Janet Jackson was mad at her, because she prosecuted her brother superstar singer Michael Jackson. ''That's just not true on either count,' Harris said, laughing. When asked if Jackson was mad at her, Harris admitted that she had not talked to Janet Jackson since the...

Sources close to the White House report an ongoing rift between President Biden and his staff and Kamala Harris and her staff – with issues tracing back to the initial weeks following Harris' nomination by the Democratic Party. The squabbles have ranged from whether Biden's main surrogates should continue going on TV or be replaced with new Harris surrogates, to debates over whether Biden is undermining Harris' messaging. Other issues have included complaints from the Harris camp that the White House has not moved quickly enough to add staff to the vice president's office to help deal with the bigger...

Tom Landry, Don Meredith, and Tex Schramm are all spinning in their graves. (Roger Staubach is still alive, but if he was dead, he’d be spinning like a dreidel, too.) America’s Team has hit rock bottom. Jerry Jones purchased the Dallas Cowboys in 1989 and assumed the title of general manager. (Nobody realized it at the time, but apparently, it was a lifelong title.) The first head coach he hired — Jimmy Johnson — worked out extremely well. The early-to-mid-'90s Cowboys were disciplined, talented, and very successful. But Johnson only lasted five seasons. (He was fired after not drinking shots...