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Tonight, the presidential candidates will have their first debate. But there is one critical election issue the American people are not debating at all. They agree that non-U.S. citizens should not vote in U.S. elections. This is a convenient opinion for Americans to hold as it is also the law.The National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA) and other federal codes and state constitutions require that only citizens vote in our elections. This is unequivocal. It is in writing. It is common sense.The problem with laws is that people break them — including noncitizens who commit one federal crime by...

Embarrassing Copy-Paste Plagues Harris’s Launch of Policy PlatformKamala Harris seems to have borrowed her policies entirely from Joe Biden.Shortly after Kamala Harris released her policy agenda on Sunday evening, users on X spotted something in the metadata: Much of the language appears to have been lifted from Joe Biden’s campaign website. On Sunday night, X user Corinne Green pointed out that the issues section of Harris’s website contained metadata with language urging voters to reelect Joe Biden. This language was visible when links to the campaign site were shared, and in the website’s description on Google searches.

A great many women in America are embarrassingly foolish.There. I said it. Let’s get the feathers good and ruffled right out of the gate.Here’s a really dumb idea: Let’s elect a totally unqualified woman as president simply because she’s a woman. Yay!The fact that Kamala Harris is a woman is irrelevant. It makes her neither more or less worthy of votes. As a woman, I could not possibly care any less. I can’t think of a more empty-headed reason to vote for any woman than because she’s a woman.It hardly speaks well of women to know they will eagerly elevate...

This Is Not CapitalismThe word capitalism has no stable definition and should probably be permanently retired. That won’t happen, however, because too many people are invested in its use and abuse. I’m long over trying to push my definition over someone else’s understanding, generally viewing disputes about vocabulary and dictionary definitions as a distraction against the real debate over concepts and ideals. The point of what follows is not to define precisely what capitalism is (my friend CJ Hopkins is hardly alone in describing it as once emancipatory but now rapacious) but rather to highlight the many ways in...

What Is Really Going on at Federal Agencies?Years ago as an intern in D.C., and long before the agencies all locked their doors to visitors, I had the occasion to putter around the Department of Transportation and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. These were obviously not normal workplaces. To my amazement, they were mostly dark, empty, and quiet, and the employees did not seem in the slightest bit busy doing anything at all. It was all kind of spooky. It then occurred to me that these many hundreds of agencies and millions of employees are not really...

Soviet Britain and the Future of AmericaIn recent weeks, riots have broken out across the U.K., with rival gangs of native Britons and Muslims clashing. The police response has been telling.The following is just a selection of the hundreds of arrests and sentences already meted out:A middle-aged woman from Cheshire was arrested for posting incorrect information on Facebook.A 61-year-old man was jailed for 18 months after shouting abuse at police officers, making “threatening gestures,” and shouting “who the f*** is Allah.”A 40-year-old man was arrested for posts alleged to contain “anti-Muslim and anti-establishment rhetoric.”One man who watched riots from...

The DNC Has Just Been One Long Litany Of Stupid, Obvious Lies The biggest lie of all is that Vice President Kamala Harris bears no responsibility for Joe Biden’s failed presidency.It almost goes without saying that what Democrats are putting on at the DNC this week in Chicago is a simulacrum of democracy, a mimicry of the excitement and drama that might have come from a deliberative process of Democrat Party voters choosing their presidential candidate.None of it is real. The DNC has all the trappings of a major political party convention but without any of the substance. Not...

Republicans Must Make a Laser-Focused, Issues-Based Case to the People If Republicans can successfully frame the 2024 election as boiling down to the actual issues—the economy, inflation, immigration, and crime—then they stand a strong chance of prevailing.One of my favorite bits of ancient wisdom, which I have quoted many times over the years, is the Chinese military theorist Sun Tzu’s adage that a battle is won before it is fought because it is won by choosing the terrain on which it is fought. Accordingly, as I noted in a column a few months ago: “If former President Donald Trump...

Our Government’s “Whole-of-Society” RuleLast year, Jacob Siegel at Tablet magazine published a long investigative piece on the censorship-industrial complex, “A Guide to Understanding the Hoax of the Century,” which is well worth reading. More recently, he published a superb follow-up essay, “Learn This Term: ‘Whole of Society,’” which is crucial for understanding our current political and cultural moment, and for grasping the real dynamics of power at work today. I want to provide here just a few highlights from the piece, which opens:To make sense of today’s form of American politics, it is necessary to understand a key term. It...

50 years of fraudulent political journalismWith Richard Nixon’s resignation, the Washington Post learned that journalism had the power to make or break a president — and that it could deceive the public to serve a partisan agenda.On August 8, 1974, Richard Nixon announced his resignation as our president, the only such event in American history. While the Watergate scandal is widely recognized as journalistically impelled, few realize that the sensational reporting was not only partisan but also fraudulent. After the arrest of five burglars on the morning of June 17, 1972, the Washington Post quickly learned the true target of...

Wacky Walz: The 10 most radical acts of Kamala’s running mateYou could not possibly conjure up a more radical ticket than Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.The election is a choice between San Francisco and Minneapolis anarcho-tyranny and Middle American ordered liberty. That must be the message every day from the Trump campaign now that Harris has tethered her San Francisco poop and drug fest to the infernos of Tim Walz’s Minneapolis riots. Minnesota’s governor embodies anarcho-tyranny like no one before him. Democrats now contradict the social compact outlined in the preamble of the Constitution — “to establish Justice, insure domestic...

America Criminalizes Too Much and Punishes Too MuchWhen those on parole or probation are included, one out of every 47 adults is under “some form of correctional supervision.”Not only have we adopted more criminal laws at an astonishing clip, but the punishments our criminal laws carry have also grown markedly. Beginning in earnest in the second half of the 20th century, legislatures began to adopt laws that had, as Judge Jed Rakoff has noted, "two common characteristics: they imposed higher penalties, and they removed much of judicial dis-cretion in sentencing." Notable among these laws were statutes imposing mandatory minimum terms...

Biden and the Media’s ‘Anti-Disinformation Campaign"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." ― George Orwell, 1984For years the media, “fact-checkers,” and “anti-disinformation” initiatives told the public there was nothing wrong with Joe Biden. A few weeks ago, in the space of five minutes, they flipped. Rapid-onset dementia had struck the President and it was time for change.The people who claim they can sort truth from fiction spent years lying despite the crippling obvious. What is more baffling is why so many people went along with it for...

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The one thing Trump barely mentioned says it allIt’s been decades since the contrast between the parties has been so great.Milwaukee, Wis. — Former President Donald Trump only named his campaign opponent a single time during his Thursday-night nomination acceptance speech. In fact, President Joe Biden barely appeared at all in any of the dozen-plus speeches given on the final night of the Republican National Convention. The decision makes sense on the surface. Trump might not even be running against Biden in November. In the hours before Trump spoke, rumors swirled about the president’s imminent withdrawal as the Biden and...

Trump’s Triumph At The RNC Suggests Something Bigger Than Politics Is Unfolding In AmericaOn a convention night infused with an air of divine providence, Trump gave a speech for the history books.It’s difficult to describe historical moments as they’re unfolding, but let me hazard a few initial observations about former President Donald Trump’s speech at the Republican National Convention on Thursday night.Watching a presidential candidate (and former president) describe his near-assassination less than a week after a bullet came within millimeters of ending his life is quite simply the most captivating, awe-inspiring thing that has ever happened at a political...

Eff Bee WhyOur premier federal law enforcement agency can’t be trusted to investigate major crimes.The nation remains on edge, awaiting more information regarding the motive of Donald Trump’s would-be assassin, 20-year-old Pennsylvania man Thomas Matthew Crooks. Crooks, who opened fire from an unsecured rooftop, very nearly killed the former president during a campaign speech in Butler, Pennsylvania. Trump was wounded in the right ear and escaped death by millimeters. One audience member was killed and another wounded.Many serious questions have emerged. How was Crooks able to penetrate the security bubble surrounding a former president who is also the leading candidate?...

Why Does The Biden Admin Have ‘100 Percent Confidence’ In Secret Service After Assassination Attempt?For Democrats, every failure is actually a success, which means there is never accountability.No failure, regardless of how monumental or catastrophic, is ever so bad that President Joe Biden and his lieutenants won’t try to spin it into some kind of success. Because no Democrat will ever admit failure, there’s never any accountability when things go unimaginably bad.Witness the spectacle of Biden’s Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Monday defending U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle, who is facing a growing chorus of calls to resign,...

Over the course of only seven years, corporate media hate campaigns against prominent Republicans have incited and provoked three assassination attempts, two of which drew blood.STEVE SCALISEIn June of 2017, a supporter of far-left Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) opened fire on a group of Republicans, including lawmakers, as they practiced for an annual Congressional Baseball Game for Charity. Along with four others, then-U.S. House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) was severely wounded and nearly died.Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) told Fox News at the time:I was there at the ballfield when Steven Scalise almost died from a very, very angry, violent...

There Can Be No Unity With The Violent Democrat-Media Industrial ComplexYou can’t incessantly use rhetoric designed to incite violence and then call for calm when violence inevitably erupts.The blood on former President Donald Trump’s face was barely dry before calls to “take down the temperature” and “unite” began rolling in from Democrats and their courtesans in the press.President Biden issued a statement after the assassination attempt Saturday evening calling for unity, as did Vice President Kamala Harris and scores of other Democrats. Even the clueless and cowardly Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson got in on the unity wave,...