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Get ready to see more, so much more, of Vice President Kamala Harris. According to a report Wednesday, Harris is being deployed by the White House to tout President Joe Biden’s “achievements” at home while he jets off to Europe and a role on the international stage formerly claimed by her. Sources familiar with the plans told The Hill the vice president will be spending coming weeks crisscrossing the country and touting the successes of the administration.

President Joe Biden over the weekend touted the supply chain crisis and costly gas prices as 2021 accomplishments. Though 104 ships were waiting to port in Southern California, according to Marine Exchange, the White House announced it would include the number of ships waiting to dock as a 2021 accomplishment. The number of containers sitting on the docks at ports for over a week has been cut by half since the beginning of November, and store shelves are stocked for the holiday season,” the White House wrote. The number of ships delayed outside the ports has not been reported below...

<p>Ever since Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election, the Democratic politicians and the mainstream news media have been fabricating falsehoods about our duly elected president.</p> <p>Let’s start with the sexual misconduct allegations by many prominent Democrats who have called on Trump to resign.</p>

Looks like a good place to keep tabs on all of Trump's achievements. Apologies if it's already been posted. I searched and couldn't find it.

This is so severely delusional, Kerry should seek professional help. Afghanistan has not been an “achievement.” What has the Obama Administration “achieved” in Afghanistan? The needless deaths of U.S. soldiers in green-on-blue attacks. The wasting of billions of dollars that has been given to the corrupt Afghan government. And what about the Taliban, that the U.S. went in to Afghanistan to fight? Is it defeated? No: as soon as the Americans are gone, it will take power again. These people are nuts. Secretary of State John Kerry recently spoke at the Oxford Union and addressed a range of issues from...

The Palestinian Authority (PA) is boasting over the “achievements” of the current terror wave, which Palestinian Arab terrorist groups have named the “Al-Quds Intifada”. The Gaza-based Al-Quds Center on Thursday published statistics regarding the wave of terrorism against Israel for the month of February 2016. According to the Arab organization, during the month of February there were 30 stabbing attacks (and attempted attacks), 13 shooting attacks, five car attacks (and attempted attacks), over 11 firebomb attacks and 10 attacks involving explosives. The Center further listed the following “achievements” of the “intifada”: The torching of a synagogue in Gush Etzion, the...

The desire of intellectuals for some grand theory that will explain complex patterns with some solitary and simple factor has produced many ideas that do not stand up under scrutiny, but which have nevertheless had widespread acceptance — and sometimes catastrophic consequences — in countries around the world. The theory of genetic determinism which dominated the early 20th century led to many harmful consequences, ranging from racial segregation and discrimination up to and including the Holocaust. The currently prevailing theory is that malice of one sort or another explains group differences in outcomes. Whether the lethal results of this theory...

Among the many irrational ideas about racial and ethnic groups that have polarized societies over the centuries and around the world, few have been more irrational and counterproductive than the current dogmas of multiculturalism. Intellectuals who imagine that they are helping racial or ethnic groups that lag behind by redefining their lags out of existence with multicultural rhetoric are in fact leading them into a blind alley. Multiculturalism is a tempting quick fix for groups that lag by simply pronouncing their cultures to be equal, or "equally valid," in some vague and lofty sense. Cultural features are just different, not...

There are so many fallacies about race that it would be hard to say which is the most ridiculous. However, one fallacy behind many other fallacies is the notion that there is something unusual about different races being unequally represented in various institutions, careers or at different income or achievement levels. A hundred years ago, the fact that people from different racial backgrounds had very different rates of success in education, in the economy and in other endeavors, was taken as proof that some races were genetically superior to others. Some races were considered to be so genetically inferior that...

Once we recognize that large differences in achievement among races, nations and civilizations have been the rule, not the exception, throughout recorded history, there is at least some hope of rational thought — and perhaps even some constructive efforts to help everyone advance. Even such a British patriot as Winston Churchill said, "We owe London to Rome" — an acknowledgement that Roman conquerors created Britain's most famous city, at a time when the ancient Britons were incapable of doing so themselves. No one who saw the illiterate and backward tribal Britons of that era was likely to imagine that someday...

Arts and Culture   Increased funding for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to the highest level since 1992. ref, ref, ref Created an artist corps for public schools. refChampioned the importance of arts education. refPromoted cultural diplomacy. ref Section curator: ^pash Banking and Financial Reform   BROAD POLICY:Established the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform. refEstablished President’s Advisory Council on Financial Capability to assist in financial education for all Americans. ref, ref , refRestoring American Financial Stability Act of 2010. ref, ref Dodd-Frank (DF) Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, the biggest financial reform law since...

It's a tough time for President Obama. He's worked long and hard at cultivating a nuanced, thinking-man's presidency, and now he's getting praise for shooting a terrorist in the head? .... 9. Reduced the efficacy of the nation's pedophiles by making sure fewer of them can afford a creepy van. ....

Nancy Pelosi celebrates her dubious "achievements" with a party for the 111th Congress and a self-promoting opinion piece. Today, Pelosi will be holding a closed-to-the-media, private party for the Democrat bunch of losers in the 111th Congress who recently had their rear ends handed to them in one of the most record-breaking midterm elections in the last 70 years. If you can make it, you can head to the Cannon House Office Building for what’s sure to be an insane time. Today, also, a self-promoting opinion piece written by Pelosi will appear in USA Today, where she laughably praises Obama...

BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan, March 12, 2009 – More than 100 Afghan women and girls celebrated their accomplishments and culture during an International Women’s Day celebration March 8 in the Bazarak district of Afghanistan’s Panjshir province. Former judge Rahila addresses the crowd at the International Women’s Day celebration in Pajshir province’s Bazarak district, March 8, 2009. U.S. Air Force photo by Capt. Stacie N. Shafran  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. The event, organized by the Panjshir director of women’s affairs, featured a series of speakers who highlighted economic, political and social challenges, as well as accomplishments of the valley’s...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 27, 2007 – Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates told a small group of Boy Scouts they were on the right track, during a meeting at the Pentagon yesterday. “Congratulations for the awards that you’ve gotten (and for) being chosen to do this,” Gates told the eight Scouts representing the Boy Scouts of America’s various programs and regions of the country. The group was in town to present the organization’s annual report to the nation. The report is mandated by the organization’s congressional charter, Renee Fairrer, the National Council’s associate director of communications, said. The group presented Gates...

Terrorists win by just being there. It's the kind of sound-bite interviewers love. Short. Pithy. Seemingly profound. And, best of all, arresting: It paints terrorism as a frightening, irresistible force. There's no shortage of freshly minted "terrorism experts" spouting lines like this on the talk shows, but there's a problem. This view of terrorism is rubbish. Fact is, terrorists rarely win. True, they succeed at killing people -- murdering innocents, destroying property and creating misery -- but that's not their intended goal. Terrorism by definition is violence with a political purpose. And terrorists are terrorists not by choice, but by...

U.S. Education Secretary Margaret Spellings said Monday the "achievement gap is beginning to close" between Hispanic and white students, while Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton countered that she's not convinced the federal government is doing enough to help Hispanic youth get through school. Spellings and Clinton each spoke at the convention of the National Council of La Raza, a four-day event that ends Tuesday. The two did not dispute statistics that show Latino students have the nation's highest high school dropout rate and the lowest college enrollment rate, but diverged on whether the government is fixing the problem. Praising No Child...

I was surprised last week to learn how easily some Westerners believe terrorism can be explained. The realization unfolded as I looked into the sad face of a student at Oxford University. After giving a speech about Islam, I met this young magazine editor to talk about Islam's lost tradition of critical thinking and reasoned debate. But we never got to that topic. Instead, we got stuck on the July 7 bombings in London and what might have compelled four young, British-raised, observant Muslim men to blow themselves up while taking innocent others with them. She emphasized their "relative economic...

For most of the history of this country, differences between the black and the white population--whether in income, IQ, crime rates, or whatever--have been attributed to either race or racism. For much of the first half of the 20th century, these differences were attributed to race--that is, to an assumption that blacks just did not have it in their genes to do as well as white people. The tide began to turn in the second half of the 20th century, when the assumption developed that black-white differences were due to racism on the part of whites. Three decades of my...

is what was stated on a Madison, WI Radio Talk Show today. If she is being categorized as today's Aunt Jemima, this is great! Aunt Jemima is remembered with love and respect. Her role was a powerful one. Nancy Green, Rosie Lee Moore, Lillian Richard and many others who portrayed this image created an endearing and enduring icon. These women held jobs with high profile positions and traveled with expense accounts as celebrities in a time when women didn't hold high profile positions. These women were also historians. The character of Aunt Jemima was more than and advertisement for pancakes,...