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Kamala Harris, the 2.0 version, is self-assured, unflappable and funny. (To the hecklers at one of her recent rallies in Wisconsin: “Oh — you guys are at the wrong rally. No, I think you meant to go to the smaller one down the street.”) But being smart and compelling may not be enough in the scary closing days of this race. She can’t win against Trump just by having a successful record as a prosecutor and lawmaker and creative ideas about how to increase housing supply, support entrepreneurs starting businesses and help people buy their first home. And that’s maddening....

It is early Sunday morning, here in The Piney Woods of East Texas. The birds are calling out to one another to greet the cool of the new day. Another beginning of a day of life here at my home, where lack of rainfall has turned the landscape straw-yellow and crisp, and the trees from the stress of drought and the relentless high summer temperatures have caused the oaks and ash trees to begin shedding their leaves. Burn bans are in place, but I know God is Faithful. Rain is coming to the thirsty land. He answers prayer. Today I...

Many generations of young Americans have learned in school under the grading system. We took tests in subjects and would find out how well we had done when the instructor returned them, often with red marks to show where we’d made mistakes. The instructor would go over the tests, often spending extra time on the questions that had given students the most trouble. Then we would move on to new material, followed by another test. At the end of the class, we’d receive an overall grade to indicate how well we had done—an A for excellent work, a B for...

Police arrived at the home of an Oxford-educated museum curator last night after she tweeted a guide on how to use domestic chemicals to destroy bronze statues in the wake of recent Black Lives Matters protests. Madeline Odent, the privately schooled curator of Royston Museum in Hertfordshire, sent an inflammatory series of tweets last night to her 5,164 followers, which was then shared thousands of times. In the posts, the American-born banker's wife revealed how to dissolve bronze statues, saying that the damage would be 'irreversible' and 'practically impossible to stop'. She then hinted that her next target was Winston...

Claudine Gay, the former president of Harvard University, was recently given a “Leadership and Courage” award despite her controversial response to anti-Semitism and the plagiarism allegations that surrounded her time in Harvard’s leadership.The Harvard Black Alumni Society granted the award to the former Harvard president on Sept. 28 at a gathering of the school’s black alumni. Harvard Black Alumni Society President Monica M. Clark praised Gay and said: “This reunion — all these people who were expressing all this support for her — they were all there. Celebrating her, and clapping for her, and cheering her on.”One alumnus, Thomas G....

New York City Deputy Mayor Sheena Wright has become the 10th high-level official in Mayor Eric Adams' administration to resign Tuesday amid a growing federal probe. Wright, whose home was searched and her electronics were confiscated last month by federal officials, did not disclose the reason for her departure. "We are grateful for First Deputy Mayor Wright’s years of service to the city and all she has done to deliver for children, families, and working-class New Yorkers. (snip) This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.

There is some serious drama unfolding at CBS News after one of its anchors committed an act of journalism – no, definitely not at last week's vice presidential debate – and the guilty party will now face his comeuppance at the hands of the DEI judge and jury. Here's what's going on. Tony Dokoupil, anchor of CBS's morning show – aptly named "CBS Mornings" – recently interviewed radical leftist Ta Nahesi-Coates, an outspoken proponent of reparations. Nahesi-Coates was appearing on the show to promote his new book, "The Message," which The Free Press calls "a masterpiece of warped arguments and...

Local activist Sir Maejor Page, also known as Tyree Conyers-Page, was sentenced to prison time after creating a fake non-profit organization associated with the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement to defraud donors and supporters of the cause to fund his shopping sprees. Page was given 42 months of prison time for his crimes after being found guilty in April. He was charged with with one count of wire fraud and three counts of money laundering, according to WTOL.

The former head of Black Lives Matter of Greater Atlanta has been sentenced to prison on charges of wire fraud and money laundering. WTVG reports that Tyree Conyers-Page, also known as Sir Maejor Page, was sentenced to serve 42 months in prison in Ohio on Thursday. Prosecutors said that Page took money donated to his organization through Facebook and used it for travel, personal items, and a home in Toledo, Ohio. In court, Page claimed some of the money he spent on his own lifestyle was part of a "reasonable salary" for managing the organization - though he admitted to...

An associate professor for urban and multicultural studies who was appointed by Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s education department to craft a new curriculum for “ethnic studies” called for the “overthrow” of the United States.‘The first tenet of critical race theory is that the United States as constructed is irreversibly racist,’ Lozenski said.

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...

The superintendent of Staten Island public schools was abruptly removed from her post amid ongoing accusations of lashing out against staff and vowing “No more white principals,” The Post has learned. Marion Wilson, who led District 31 schools for three and a half years, was swept out of her office on Sept. 20, and told to report to the Department of Education’s Tweed headquarters in Manhattan. Wilson “will be transitioning to a central team,” Danika Rux, deputy chancellor for school leadership, said Monday in an internal announcement, without any explanation for the swift and stunning ouster. Sources said she will...

A Michigan teacher and LGBTQ activist is the latest Lansing-area public employee accused of grooming a child for sex. A Michigan teacher and LGBTQ activist was arrested and charged with child sex crimes following a months-long law enforcement child predator sting.Robert Maurice Herzing, 32 (b. Nov. 3, 1991), formerly known as Robert Moore, is an English and journalism teacher at Waverly High School in Lansing.Robert Maurice Herzing in the classroom at Waverly High School in Lansing, Mich.He was arraigned on Sept. 16 in Eaton County on charges of accosting a minor for immoral purposes, third-degree attempted criminal sexual conduct and...

More than five years after Jussie Smollett staged a phony hate crime against himself, and nearly three years since his conviction by a Chicago jury, lawyers for the former Empire actor are asking the Illinois supreme court to overturn the guilty verdict. Defense attorney Nenye Uche argued on Tuesday that Smollett’s case should never have gone to trial because the actor had already entered into a binding agreement with the Cook County state’s attorney’s office not to prosecute him in exchange for him voluntarily agreeing to forfeit his $10,000 bond and perform community service, according to a report in the...

Springfield, Ohio, Mayor Rob Rue is a Black Lives Matter supporter and radical masker. X posts from Rob Rue’s account show that he posted pro-BLM messaging during the 2020 ANTIFA-BLM riots. Rue’s pro-BLM posts also inferred that white Christians are racist as he shared messaging calling on Christians to “confront racism in the churches.” Mayor Rue’s X account also shared masking demands during the Covid pandemic in 2021. It is important to note that the slogan of Springfield, Ohio, is “Forward Together,” which sounds similar to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 slogan of “Stronger Together” and Kamala Harris’s current slogan of “We...

Robin DiAngelo is a grifter who has made millions off a hateful book titled White Fragility. She is one of the left-wing “anti-racists” who were interviewed by Matt Walsh in the Daily Wire film Am I Racist?, which opened yesterday and which I reviewed at the link.Walsh’s interview of DiAngelo is one of the film’s highlights. She has no idea who Walsh is, and he introduces himself as “Matt.” You can’t be too careful these days, she says. The high point of the interview is when they talk about reparations, which DiAngelo favors. It happens that a member of the...

Editor’s Note: The thought police at Google immediately slapped a restraining order on this editorial — as they now do with everything we publish about “climate change” to punish us for not toeing the line. Here is the notice we received from them:What do the climate activists really want? Do they have nothing more in mind than a noble crusade to prevent the burning sky from falling on us? Or is the global warming scare just another piece of the revolution? It’s of course the latter. We know this because they’re constantly telling us it is. The most recent admission...

“FIRST ON FOX – Vice President Kamala Harris recently hired a director on her campaign who has attacked swaths of White Christians and claimed that America is an imperial "cult" and "bloodthirsty… beast."

Boeing employees are “humiliated” after NASA announced that two astronauts who have been stranded on the International Space Station by the company’s troubled Starliner space capsule will have to be rescued by Elon Musk’s upstart rival SpaceX, one worker told The Post. Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams — who went up the ISS in June for what was supposed to be an 8-day mission — will have to wait another six months until a SpaceX Crew Dragon space craft can carry them safely home because their original ride is leaking helium and has problems with its thrusters. The Florida-based staffer...

Federal authorities on Sunday arrested D.C. Council member Trayon White in the Navy Yard neighborhood. Mr. White, Ward 8 Democrat, was taken into custody around 2 p.m. near the Yards Park in Southeast, according to the Washington City Paper. The nature of the charges haven’t been revealed by either the FBI or the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Local NBC affiliate WRC-TV reported that the council member’s car was searched at the scene. The City Paper reported that Mr. White, 40, will be held overnight and arraigned Monday. The Washington Times reached out to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for comment, but did...