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Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are each offering a closing argument for securing your vote. I too have a closing argument. Kamala Harris is not particularly intelligent. She went to mediocre schools, both undergrad and law. She was accepted into law school under a hardship program: Vice President Kamala Harris was admitted to law school through University of California-San Francisco’s Legal Education Opportunity Program for students with “educational disadvantage, economic hardship, or disability,” according to the law school’s magazine. Despite both parents being tenured professors. She failed the bar on her first attempt. The UCSF Law School did not respond...

"Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?" So said Henry II about Thomas Beckett. Wikipedia explains it this way: "It is also commonly understood as shorthand for any rhetorical device allowing leaders to covertly order or exhort violence among their followers, while still being able to claim plausible deniability for political, legal, or other reasons." Indeed. Now let's rewrite it slightly for the democrat party. "Will no one rid me of this turbulent President?" There is no question about it. democrats would love to see Trump killed and they are doing everything they can to encourage it happening....

by Jeff ChildersThe Great Reckoning continued last week, with the latest development being an article by the BBC’s medical editor headlined, “Is the system letting down people who were harmed by Covid vaccines?” While the article never explicitly answered the question (they never do), the clear answer was, yes, the system is letting down people harmed by covid vaccines. Of course. Amidst harrowing tales of devastating (but “very rare!”) vaccine injuries, the BBC reported that the UK’s vaccine compensation program, which is limited only to people who can convince doctors their injury was caused directly by the jab, and resulted...

Donald Trump and Elon Musk, two men with the world at their feet are risking everything for America. They don't have to, but they do. Not so different than some others about 250 years ago. Rush Limbaugh used to talk about a story his father told about the signers of the Declaration of Independence: “Of those 56 who signed the Declaration of Independence, nine died of wounds or hardships during the war. Five were captured and imprisoned, in each case with brutal treatment. Several lost wives, sons, or entire families. One lost his 13 children. Two wives were brutally treated....

by Capt. Seth KeshelIn ten days, if I’m still above ground, I will stroll into my local polling station and cast my ballot for the Trump-Vance ticket and all down ballot races and measures on Election Day. I believe fundamentally that it is the soundest, most secure way to vote, and most importantly, is the fulfillment of practicing what I preach. Even though things are looking great right now, I don’t think freedom lovers can win every election from now until the end of time with so many open ended ways to control and manipulate election outcomes. If America is...

First off, I’m not even going to dignify the silly claims about President Trump being an admirer of the leader of the National Socialist Workers’ Party, nor the allegations regarding a slain US soldier. If you want to read about it, there’s nothing I can add to the post that Ace wrote yesterday, appropriately titled Do I Really Have to Talk About This Bullsnot? (censorship mine). This even goes beyond Coupmala’s insane efforts to slander Trump and inspire yet another assassination attempt. What’s happening now is far more sinister. To back up a bit, a few months ago I was...

Memory is a strange thing. Arthur M. Schlesinger writes in A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House that JFK once said that his brain was filled with random bits of what he called useless information and he often had memories of how he’d come to know it in the first place. The example he used is that he knew for some reason that the level of salt in our blood is the same as in ocean water. For myself, memory is like a roulette wheel where I’ll forget someone’s name two seconds after being introduced but somehow...

Jeffrey Goldberg is a monster. An evil monster. So is the Atlantic magazine. Both should be destroyed. They have loosed a horrible hoax on America and the left-wing media have seized upon it. Goldberg wrote an article allegedly quoting former Gen John Kelly: Retired Gen. John Kelly, who served as White House chief of staff in the Trump administration, said former President Trump praised Adolf Hitler’s generals for their loyalty in a new interview in The Atlantic on Tuesday.In the interview with editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg, Kelly affirmed reporting from Peter Baker and Susan Glasser’s book, “The Divider: Trump in the...

The headline says it all, and it's one of those questions where "If you have to ask the question, you won't understand the answers." But that doesn't stop The Times! They come up with five possible explanations, and to nobody's surprise, they get it wrong. Let's take a look! In 2016, Donald J. Trump became the Republican nominee and ultimately won the presidency after calling many Mexican immigrants rapists and falsely claiming that Barack Obama was not born in the United States. Eight years later, the polls suggest that he might well return to the White House by faring better...

Why is the Biden-Harris administration so woke? Didn't Biden campaign as a moderate? This chart explains what happened. Bear with me: I know it looks like a conspiracy theory, but I have the receipts. In short: The Left's dark money network funds a system of woke nonprofits that staff and advise the administrative state, getting their far-left policy agenda implemented in the federal government. My book, "The Woketopus: The Dark Money Cabal Manipulating the Federal Government," outlines exactly how this works and zeroes in on a few key issues. (click to enlarge)One of the biggest issues for me has been...

How many times has President Trump been called a marketing genius? This weekend he proved it beyond any argument. Behold, this morning’s liberal-triggering headline from the Associated Press: “Trump works the fry station and holds a drive-thru news conference at a Pennsylvania McDonald’s.” President Trump was anointed the real working-class champion. And the Burger King. If President Trump is the Burger King, then Kamala Harris must be the Hamburglar. The whole thing started after, as part of her carefully-manicured middle-class persona, Kamala often claimed to have worked a summer college job at McDonald’s. Trump called her a big, fat, Indian-Jamaican...

by Elizabeth NicksonA Big Store, Pig in a Poke, with a Pidgeon Drop and a Kansas City Shuffle This is what happened in 2020 and 2022. It was classic criminality, cons run for a thousand years brought out and fluffed for a digital audience. Do you remember the shining faces of RINOs on broadcast TV after the 2022 elections? Lindsay Graham was practically ululating with glee. But did they not look relieved? Their grins are wide, their auras shimmering with greed and power. They are back in command. And damned happy about it too. Did we really think that the...

Sex, sexual ambiguity, race, incompetence, war mongering and foreign interventions. While those are familiar issues in 2024, they’re merely echoes of earlier times… like the election of 1800! The presidential campaign of 1800 was the sequel to the first truly contested American presidential election in 1796 and featured the same two primary players. John Adams won and Thomas Jefferson lost and became vice president – the only time in history that’s happened. Although friends, the men became viscous rivals – although never actually campaigning themselves – and the campaigns were as brutal as any seen in modern times. With the...

After weeks of dodging real interviews and refusing a debate on Fox News, Kamala Harris sat for an interview with Bret Baier. Her handlers saw that she was sinking in the polls with her basement dwelling strategy, and she is now in a mad scramble for interviews anywhere. It didn't go well. It started with her arriving 15 minutes late for an agreed upon 30-minute interview beginning at 5 pm. Her handlers then insisted on truncating the interview time to 20 minutes, almost certainly because of their fear of a train wreck. Which happened anyway. Harris was combative - the...

OK everybody, we’re down to the wire. Time is a luxury we no longer have, as in a few weeks America as we know it (Or perhaps more accurately, as we knew it) is on the line. Sitting on the sidelines is no longer an option, and before going any further take four minutes to watch this video for some tough love for our side in general: Click to watchExactly - I can’t speak for anyone else, but this video really shined a light in my eyes. “But what can I do? I’m just one person!” you may be wondering....

by Jeff ChildersWe need to check in on developments with China. The New York Times ran a story yesterday headlined, “With Jets and Ships, China is Honing Its Ability to Choke Taiwan.” I’m not sure “honing” is the right verb for that mixed metaphor, but we got the idea. China put Taiwan in check yesterday with military chess pieces. In our intense focus on the upcoming elections, it’s easy to forget how rapidly the rush of events is overtaking the world in other places. Yesterday, the United States, Japan, South Korea, France and Britain held massive joint military drills near...

First off, while some would argue that the current occupant of The White House has been worse, I refuse to acknowledge that someone who's not even in control of his bowel movements is somehow in charge of the country. Yes, I know that t here's a strong case for James Buchanan in that role but unlike Barry O, JB didn't intentionally tear the country apart. And as much as Obama had the world in the palm of his hand in 2008, now he's lost his luster. Dr. John broke down Barry's anger yesterday, centered around his scolding black men to...

Barack Obama is an opportunist. An intelligent, slick opportunist. He's also phony as hell. Obama is in the class of hustlers like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, but worse. He is both a race hustler and a social hustler. Right now, Barack Obama is out on the trail for Kamala Harris, pounding the race message. He's summoning black men back to the democrat plantation. He's out there shaming and insulting them for daring to think on their own. “And you are thinking about sitting out?” he said. “Part of it makes me think — and I'm speaking to men directly...

Last week, the phrase “Democrats panic” surged into corporate media headlines, despite the polling showing Harris up a couple points at that time. But yesterday, Democrat panic reached even higher levels of awkwardness when the New York Times published liberal stalwart Ezra Klein’s latest op-ed with this astonishing title: Ignore the polls? One detects a marked lack of confidence on the Democrat side. But why? What’s really going on? The answer might be found in less partisan foreign headlines, like yesterday’s from Al Jazeera: If the polls show your candidate losing, then the polls don’t mean anything. Democrats’ current problem...

by Torrance Stephens, PhDOver the past several years, sex has become more politicized than ever before. This effort has been mainly due to rhetoric from the progressive left. From pronouns to biological men competing against women in sports to a person who can say they are a man or a woman and promote that we should believe them. There is also the liberal attack on men in general, on so-called toxic masculinity, misogyny, and the patriarchy. Now the Democrat party is upset they are losing the vote of men, black men in particular. The party that nominated a Supreme Court...