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I was astonished the other night when Kamala Harris, the Democrat party candidate for president, called Donald Trump a fascist. Anyone who knows the history of fascism knows that the Democrat party's conduct both inside and outside of government more closely parallels that history. One party controls the entire federal law enforcement and intelligence system (i.e., FBI/DOJ, NSA, DHS, every intelligence agency, even CDC & NIH). These organizations use your tax dollars to bend, break, and rewrite the law to persecute political opponents of the Party. Laws, regulations, and ethics are all expendable in pursuit of this goal. In thrall...

Former President Donald Trump has informed the federal government that he intends to sue over the FBI’s raid of Mar-a-Lago in August 2022, alleging it was conducted to interfere with his 2024 election bid, Fox Business reported on Monday.Trump’s legal team is threatening to sue for $100 million, alleging the federal government is guilty of invasion of privacy, malicious prosecution, and abuse of process. The unprecedented raid of Trump’s estate took place just a year and a half after he left the White House and resulted in Attorney General Merrick Garland appointing special counsel Jack Smith to go after Trump...

The Minnesota National Guard has disputed Gov. Tim Walz’s claims about his military service, saying he did not retire as a command sergeant major as he has said. In a statement to Just The News, a spokesperson for the Minnesota National Guard confirmed that Walz retired as a master sergeant “in 2005 for benefit purposes because he did not complete additional coursework at the U.S. Army Sergeants Major Academy.” Walz claimed he retired from the National Guard as a command sergeant major; the claim even appears in his official biography on the Minnesota government’s website (archived here). Yet other veterans...

I'm vacationing with the wife and baby in Arizona. A small group of Chicago area conservatives has been coming down here to see the Cubs in spring training since before there was a Tea Party. It's an annual pilgrimage. We meet out here at a reasonably priced resort in the middle of the desert, while the snow flies and the wind howls in Chicago. While waiting for the first game of spring training -- most of us do show up a few days early -- and during the warm evenings after the games, we hang around in the heated swimming...

If radical gun-grabbers have their way, your daughters, mothers and grandmothers will have nothing but whistles, pens and bodily fluids to defend themselves against violent attackers and sexual predators. Women of all ages, races and political backgrounds should be up in arms over the coordinated attack on their right to bear arms. In Colorado this week, male Democratic legislators assailed concealed-carry supporters and disparaged female students who refuse to depend on the government for protection. The Democrat-controlled House passed a statewide ban on concealed-carry weapons on college campuses, along with several other extreme gun-control measures that will undermine citizen safety...

One of the interesting things about recent elections is that Republicans have tended to do better the farther you go down the ballot. They've lost the presidency twice in a row, and in four of the last six contests. They've failed to win a majority in the U.S. Senate, something they accomplished in five election cycles between 1994 and 2006. But they have won control of the House of Representatives in the last two elections, and in eight of the last 10 cycles. And they've been doing better in elections to state legislatures than at any time since the 1920s....

In his first term President Obama was criticized for trash-talking the one-percenters while enjoying the aristocracy of Martha's Vineyard and the nation's most exclusive golf courses. Obama never quite squared his accusations that "millionaires and billionaires" had not paid their fair share with his own obvious enjoyment of the perks of "corporate jet owners," "fat cat bankers" and Las Vegas junketeers. Now, that paradox has continued right off the bat in the second term. In the State of the Union, Obama once more went after "the few," and "the wealthiest and the most powerful," whom he blasted as the "well-off...

Don't anyone tell Marco Rubio, John McCain or Jeff Flake that nearly 80 percent of Hindus voted for Obama, or who knows what they'll come up with. I understand the interest of business lobbies in getting cheap, unskilled labor through amnesty, but why do Republican officeholders want to create up to 20 million more Democratic voters, especially if it involves flouting the law? Are the campaign donations from the soulless rich more important than actual voters? Without citing any evidence, the Rubio Republicans simply assert that granting 12 million to 20 million illegal aliens amnesty will make Hispanics warm to...

On Thursday, the U.S. Senate failed to pass a cloture resolution on the nomination of former Senator Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.) as secretary of defense, with 58 in favor and 40 against ending debate on the matter, with one senator voting "present." A 60-vote majority is required to end debate before the nomination can proceed to a simple majority vote, and it appears the Senate is going to come up short. Hagel's nomination was approved by the Senate Armed Services Committee earlier this week in a 14-11 party line vote. Although Hagel came under fire for remarks he made about Israel...

WASHINGTON - A group of Democrats angry with Election Day problems in Ohio forced Congress on Thursday to interrupt its ceremonial counting of the electoral votes that gave President Bush his re-election victory. The challenge does not jeopardize Bush's November win over Democratic Sen. John Kerry. But the House and Senate, as legally required, began separate debates on the Ohio irregularities. It marked only the second time since 1877 that the House and Senate were forced into separate meetings to consider electoral votes. The joint session began as required by law at 1 p.m. EST, with Vice President Dick Cheney...

It is now 5:17 AM on Christmas morning on the East Coast and, true to our family's annual tradition, the rug rats dragged us out of bed precisely at 5:00 AM so that they could start shredding the carefully-constructed wrapping paper on their gifts. Bah humbug. Actually, I have about as much Christmas spirit as the next guy. But really, ladies and gentlemen: why, on one of just a small handful of holidays that working people get during the year, do we have to wake up at 5:00 AM? Am I a Grinch for asking this question? Or is there...

The flood of American liberals sneaking across the border into Canada has intensified in the past week, sparking calls for increased patrols to stop the illegal immigration. The re-election of President Bush is prompting the exodus among left-leaning citizens who fear they'll soon be required to hunt, pray and agree with Bill O'Reilly. Canadian border farmers say it's not uncommon to see dozens of sociology professors, animal rights activists and Unitarians crossing their fields at night. "I went out to milk the cows the other day, and there was a Hollywood producer huddled in the barn," said Manitoba farmer Red...

This is an excellent essay on the reason why so many Western Europeans tend to view Americans with contempt: public opinion is being manipulated by the left-wing media. It is long but definitely worth the read. Posted here in four installments, for education and discussion purposes only. I I moved from the U.S. to Europe in 1998, and I’ve been drawing comparisons ever since. Living in turn in the Netherlands, where kids come out of high school able to speak four languages, where gay marriage is a non-issue, and where book-buying levels are the world’s highest, and in Norway, where...

I work in Chicago at Northwestern University. I walk to the train station on Randolph Street every evening. One Friday at the end of May, as I walked down Michigan Avenue with hundreds of other commuters, I could see a big Palestinian flag being waved around on the other side of the bridge past the Chicago Tribune building. I could hear a megaphone sputtering (due to failing batteries -- they had been there all afternoon). And as I walked past the Tribune plaza, I noticed an uncharacteristically large number of skateboarders. I also noticed that one of them had a...

Just when you thought the German “peace” movement couldn’t get much more hypocritical they take things to a whole new level. Last week the unbelievable lack of protest at the German government’s plutonium and arms deal with Communist China made it seem as the peace freaks had all rolled up into a big ball for a long winter hibernation. Not so! The German TV news program “Panorama” uncovered some of the wonderful activities that particularly dedicated cadres of the German peace movement are currently engaged in. In the spirit of peace, a number of groups have started a fund-raising campaign...

For more than two years now, the Democrats seeking the presidency have planned on running a 2004 campaign built around the weak economy and patterned after Bill Clinton's 1992 defeat of President Bush's father. But with the economy having surged this past quarter they are suddenly confronting the possibility of a far less encouraging historical comparison: that the election year economy could be more like the one Ronald Reagan ran on in 1984, when the country was coming out of a long slump. The rapid change in the outlook — underscored by figures released on Thursday showing the fastest quarterly...

Libya has begun to transfer the $2.7bn compensation it has agreed to pay to the families of those killed in the Lockerbie airliner bombing, US officials say. "Because it is such a large sum, it will not be deposited all at once. Some will go in tomorrow (Thursday). Some could go in Friday," an unnamed official told Reuters news agency. The cash is being paid into an account at the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) in Basle, Switzerland. Last week, Libya accepted responsibility for the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie in Scotland and agreed to pay...

Iraqi Diplomat With Alleged Links to 9/11 Terrorist Leader Arrested Tue Jul 8, 9:44 PM ET By JOHN J. LUMPKIN, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON - U.S. forces have arrested the Iraqi diplomat alleged by some Czech officials to have met with the lead Sept. 11 hijacker five months before the attacks. U.S. government officials said Ahmad Khalil Ibrahim Samir al-Ani was arrested on July 2. The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said al-Ani had been interrogated but had provided little information. The arrest was first reported Thursday by CBS News. U.S. investigators have dismissed Czech accounts of an April...

Teacher suspended for anti-gay letters Evangelical Christian expressed views in local newspaper, not in classroom By ROD MICKLEBURGH Wednesday, April 23, 2003 VANCOUVER -- As an evangelical Christian lay preacher, Chris Kempling believes that homosexual acts are immoral. While many might disagree with this view, most would also defend Mr. Kempling's right to his opinion. Except that he is also a public high-school teacher and counsellor, and he expressed his strong beliefs about homosexuality in letters to his local paper. Yesterday, the B.C. College of Teachers suspended him from teaching for one month after finding him guilty of conduct unbecoming...

The DC Political Report runs an outstanding website, so I thought I'd share the results with my fellow Freepers. Some of these polls come from other sources; I've done my best to find the latest, particularly in New Jersey, Texas and Missouri. The date listed nest to each state is the date of the most recent poll. Each incumbent is marked with an asterisk (*). Cook Political Reports (Cook) and the Center for Political Reports (CPR) are also available on other sites and they've proven to be quite accurate in the past: Alabama (Univ. of Alabama, 9/12) Jeff Sessions* (R)...