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To be fair, pretty much every question is too tough for Kamala. But this one is a real softball:WATCH Kamala Harris STRUGGLE to answer: "Should folks stand for the National Anthem?"The horrifying thing about Harris is that, not only is she a far left-winger, she is also hopelessly stupid. I have tried to be charitable and give her the benefit of the doubt, but we have seen it over and over: she is as dumb as Joe Biden is senile. I tremble for our country if she wins the election, which she very well might.

No, this headline is not a prediction that Harris is going to win the election. I still firmly believe that Trump is going to win, barring some unforeseen event to derail what I am calling the “deep metaphysics” of this election, or the manifest destiny of Trump. Here is the point: America does not have a president right now. Biden’s senility is galloping ahead. It is grotesque irresponsibility for him to continue in office another day. Vice President Harris is derelict in her duty not to invoke the 25th Amendment. The speculation behind this headline is that if Harris loses...

To say I was not a fan of Jimmy Carter would be an understatement, but today he turns 100. In comparison to Biden and the progressive death grip on today’s Democratic Party, he looks a whole lot better in retrospect. Cy Vance, Harold Brown, and Zbigniew Brzezinski were head and shoulders above Biden’s senior foreign and defense policy appointees Blinken, Austin, and Sullivan.It is possible to speak well of some of Carter’s deeds (as Phil Gramm does today in the Wall Street Journal), such as deregulating or partially deregulating transportation and other basic sectors of the economy. Here’s a chart...

Brendan Carr @BrendanCarrFCC NEW The FCC just released the text of its 3-2 decision to approve a Soros backed group’s purchase of 200+ radio stations. The Commission’s decision today is unprecedented. Never before has the Commission voted to approve the transfer of a broadcast license—let alone the transfer of broadcast licenses for over 200 radio stations across more than 40 markets—without following the requirements and procedures codified in federal law. Not once.

A Hamas commander in Lebanon who was killed in an Israeli airstrike overnight was an accredited member of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, the embattled agency confirmed after his death. Hamas’s Fateh Sherif and his family were killed in an airstrike at a Palestinian refugee camp in the southern city of Tyre, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced on Monday. “Sherif was responsible for coordinating Hamas’ terror activities in Lebanon with Hezbollah operatives, as well as Hamas’ efforts in Lebanon to recruit operatives and acquire weapons.” While leading terrorist activities, Sherif...

A 41-year-old Syrian national wounded 31 people, including two children who were left in critical condition, in arson attacks on Saturday in the German city of Essen, according to police and media reports from Sunday morning. At around 5:10 p.m. on Saturday, the man set fire to a residential building on Altenessener Strasse, at the corner of Pielsticker Strasse, according to Bild. He later drove a few streets over, where he set fire to a second residence. The fire service said that 31 people were wounded in the arson attacks, while Essen police placed the number at 30. Tagesschau reported...

What did Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Ivan the Terrible, Genghis Khan, Idi Amin and Caligula have in common? That’s right: they were all able to speak. The riots in the UK were directly caused by bad words on the internet. This quite obviously proves that free speech is a tyrannical concept, one that can lead directly to murder, terrorism, genocide and — worst of all — misgendering. And so it is a relief to see that one of Keir Starmer’s key priorities as prime minister is to crack down on online speech. Already he has ingenuously granted early release from...

I’m currently working on a long series of articles I’ll be posting on my new “Political Questions” Substack on the topic of “leftist fragility,” but there’s an example of what I’m after yesterday that is perfect for our short form here. The editor of Mother Jones magazine, Clara Jeffery, was offended and alarmed when an Alaska Airlines flight attendant triggered her with visions of fascism and the whole Handmaid’s Tale nightmare:I’ve circled what is known in the Twitterverse as “the ratio,” that is, when Comments exceed the number of Likes by an almost 10-to-1 margin as it does here, you’ve...

Some years ago, Ta-Nehisi Coates was the hottest thing on the Left, viewed as an intellectual of world-historical importance. Scott performed the excruciating task of reading Coates’s Between the World and Me. It won the National Book Award for nonfiction, but Scott called it the worst book he had ever read.Coates made a lot of money from his racist grifting, and then disappeared from sight. He hasn’t been heard from for a while. Apparently he was writing comic books.But now Coates is back, with a new political cause: kill the Jews!His urgent cause, according to New York magazine, which just...

A society can reach a point where it is literally too stupid to survive. Are we getting close to that fatal juncture? Here is one of many thousands of data points: a judge in Indiana has ordered that state to pay for sex-change surgery on a convicted murderer.Not just any murderer, but Jonathan Richardson, who is serving a 55-year sentence for strangling his own stepdaughter. He now goes by Autumn Cordellionè. The accent is a nice touch.The inmate has sought sex reassignment surgery, including an orchiectomy and vaginoplasty, arguing it is the “only remedy” to treat “persistent gender dysphoria”.The state...

s a tactic, it just might work. Kamala Harris has become famous for her word salads, some of which are more incomprehensible than others, but all share one common characteristic: they’re all presented as if they were portentous words of wisdom, offered for the enlightenment of the masses. Will the public buy the vacuous Harris as the sage she evidently aspires to appear to be? Given the state of American education since the left took it over, why not? Fox News reported that Harris “on Wednesday addressed the Economic Club of Pittsburgh, where she outlined her economic agenda as the...

Progressive Democrats introduced a bill to restore U.S. funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, months after the U.S. banned funding for one year over allegations some of their employees were involved in Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel. That measure received widespread support in Congress, with Democratic Rep. Ritchie Torres of New York emphasizing the “incestuous relationship between UNRWA and Hamas,” saying the U.S. must stop funding “institutions that perpetuate hate, that perpetuate the radicalization that ultimately led to October 7th.” In addition to the dozen staff members who were directly involved in the attacks, the Israel...

"This entire administration is naifs, weaklings, idiots, and Marxists," I posted at Instapundit earlier this week about a different Middle East report, but today's news proves that my estimation was entirely too optimistic. In an Atlantic piece headlined "The War That Would Not End," Franklin Foer takes readers on a deep dive "inside the year-long American effort to release the hostages, end the fighting in Gaza, and bring peace to the Middle East." It isn't that Foer's peace isn't well-sourced or lacking details — it's that he needed to go back much further than one year to tell the story....The...

In June, the two most important heads of state in the Western Hemisphere met in San Salvador. Merco Press reported at the time, “On his way back from California, Argentine President Javier Milei stopped in El Salvador for Nayib Bukele's new inauguration ceremony, which was also attended by other heads of state and government, such as King Felipe VI of Spain with whom he exchanged a brief moment that caught the eye given the recent diplomatic crisis with the Socialist administration of Pedro Sánchez.” The two men have emerged as reformers of sloppy governments in their country. They threw down...

In his first speech at the United Nations, Argentine president Javier Milei said:Now, at some point, as is often the case with most bureaucratic structures that we men create, this organization stopped upholding the principles outlined in its founding declaration and began to mutate. An organization that had been essentially intended as a shield to protect the realm of men, was transformed into a multi-tentacled leviathan that purports to decide not only what each nation state should do but also how all citizens of the world should live.The UN’s 2030 agenda:Is nothing more than a supranational government program of a...

It's crazy for Donald Trump not to agree to another debate. While he may not be everybody's cup of tea, his opponent is an absolute lunatic who could do permanent damage to our country, in addition to the damage that she's already done. The media sure aren't going to alert the public to this looming danger. It's up to Trump. Among her other plans for us, Kamala Harris is for: -- Slavery reparations; -- Defunding the police; -- Taxpayer-supported transgender operations for prisoners and detained illegal immigrants; -- Paying bail funds for violent BLM rioters; -- Decriminalizing illegal immigration; --...

The origin of the rocketry term Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly (RUD) is shrouded in mystery but it's just the funny engineer's way of saying the rocket blew up. What you've been witnessing in southern Lebanon these last several days is the Rapid Scheduled Disassembly of the Hezbollah terrorist organization, involving thousands of explosions instead of just one big one. The RSD got started last week with Israel's three-part virtual decapitation of Hezbollah's organization. That is, if "decapitation" is the correct word when exploding pagers removed Hezbollah bits a bit further down than their large heads. That was followed up, as I'm...

Jimmy Carter will be 100 years old on Oct. 1. That in itself might have been enough to stage a concert in his honor. After, no other president has hit the century mark, and so why not? Yet when the roster of D-listers, has-beens and never-weres took the stage to honor Jimmuh last Tuesday, they weren’t content with praising his unprecedented longevity. Instead, they spent a great deal of time hailing “the singularity of his achievements” and praising the ways in which he supposedly made the country better. That’s right: once again leftists exchanged fantasy for reality. The New York...

Polling shows that Vice President Kamala Harris maintains a strong lead over former President Donald Trump among Jewish voters. The former president had something to say about that: “Any Jewish person who votes for a Democrat … should have their head examined.” He’s right. Frankly, they should get a full psychiatric evaluation. Kowtowing and cozying up to people who seek the destruction of their people and the Jewish state of Israel is an exhibition of suicidal tendencies. Consider the radical ideologues and anti-Israel progressives who would likely fill a Harris administration. The Harris campaign reportedly told Arab American leaders in...

Victory for the Democrats will depend on the perpetuation of the illusion that Kamala Harris is in any way a plausible candidate for the presidency of the United States.Every honest commentator, and even some dishonest ones, acknowledges the supreme oddity of Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign.As has been oft remarked, the oddity begins with the campaign’s origin. Exactly how is it that Kamala Harris even became the candidate? By what process was Joe Biden, the undisputed winner of the Democratic primary, ousted, eliminated and defenestrated from contention? The rumors and stories are plentiful, but the actual facts—to say nothing of the...