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I love The Washington Post, deep in my bones. Last month marked my 40th year of proud work for the institution, in the newsroom and in the Opinions section. I have never been more disappointed in the newspaper than I am today, with the tragically flawed decision not to make an endorsement in the presidential race.At a moment when The Post should have been stepping forward to sound the clarion call about the multiple dangers that Donald Trump poses to the nation and the world, it has chosen instead to pull back. That is the wrong choice at the worst...

“Saturday Night Live” made it hard for voters to ignore the differences between presidential candidates Kamala Harris and Donald Trump during the latest edition of ‘Weekend Update.’ In this week’s segment, anchor Colin Jost presented viewers with back-to-back clips of Harris and Trump “striking very different tones” as they countdown to the Nov. 5 election. Best Internet Companies - Plans As Low As $19.99/mo. highspeedinternet.com Best Internet Companies - Plans As Low As $19.99/mo. Ad While the Democrat was seen telling supporters to empower themselves at the polls, her opponent told his female supporters their husbands were “fat pig[s]” who...

Harris and Walz have made a thing of “turning the page,” but the page that must be turned is the one they are on. In recent years, beginning with Obama, the Democratic party has become unmoored from its basic center-left policies and embraced ideas and policies which are illogical, absurd, and increasingly unpopular. Things like these: - Allowing open borders coupled with a very generous social welfare system to be tapped by all who enter; - Endorsing chemical castration of children and allowing transgender women into the private spaces of actual women; - Engaging in endless wars in which we...

Michigan’s top election official, Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, a Democrat, is the subject of a bar complaint over her department’s actions to keep independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s name on the ballot. State Sen. Ruth Johnson, a Republican who immediately preceded Benson as secretary of state, filed the bar complaint alleging that Benson manipulated procedures to undermine the Nov. 5 election. Michigan is one of the most fiercely contested battleground states. Vice President Kamala Harris, a Democrat, and former President Donald Trump, a Republican, are separated by a single percentage point, according to the Real Clear Politics...

Vice President Kamala Harris reportedly erupted in a furious tirade against her campaign manager, Julie Chávez, this morning. According to a source cited by X (formerly Twitter) user @joma_gc, Harris angrily berated Chávez for over 30 minutes during a phone call. Chávez had advised Harris not to attend the Al Smith Dinner, concerned that associating with Catholic figures might alienate LGBTQ and pro-abortion voters. Instead, Chávez suggested Harris send a pre-recorded video message to the 79th Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner, a bipartisan event where presidential candidates traditionally attend in person. By skipping the dinner, Harris became the first...

Pennsylvania residents with Trump signs in their yard are reportedly receiving disturbing letters warning them that “there will be consequences” for supporting former President Donald Trump. “We know where you live, you are in the data base,” the anonymous author states in the letter, first obtained by The Post Millennial. “In the dead of a cold winters night, this year, or next and beyond, there is no knowing what will happen. Your property, your family may be impacted, your cat may get shot. And more.” The threatening message was written on a “Trump 2024” letterhead, and began with “a quick...

It is right to stop today and remember the lives lost a year ago on October 7th, 2023 in Israel. More than 1,100 Israelis were murdered that day. Unarmed men, women, and children. Why? Because they are Jews. And because they are citizens of a free, democratic, and stunningly successful Israel. Shockingly almost a hundred innocent October 7th victims are still being held hostage by the forces of Hamas, a self-avowed branch of the Muslim Brotherhood committed to the destruction of the Jewish state. How did it happen? Why did it happen? These questions remind me of the naïve Americans...

Democrat-aligned dinosaur media figures in New York City and Washington D.C. are concerned that Vice President Kamala Harris has a significant problem with male voters. Andrea Mitchell, a Democrat operative posing as a journalist, attributes this to misogyny. What’s more surprising, however, is Harris’s relative stability with female voters. The Democrat Party has twice nominated a woman for President of the United States. A comparison between Hillary Clinton and Harris reveals that both have navigated their paths to power almost exclusively through relationships, not achievements, and Harris’s approach was much more controversial than Clinton’s. Hillary Clinton was a stand-by-her-man, stay-at-home...

full video interview of Kamala Harris by Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson of ALL THE SMOKE on September 30, 2024. video length: 47:36

Much like the Ziegfeld Follies of the first half of the 20th century, the Kamala Follies are designed to distract and entertain. While for Mr. Ziegfeld that was the point of his magnificent Broadway spectacles, Kamala’s follies are malevolent by nature—and aren’t at all entertaining; her embarrassing song and dance is meant to run out the clock, keeping the American people in the dark about her intentions until a ballot comes their way. But there are now signs that the American people aren’t as gullible as Kamala and her media court jesters think we are. The post-debate polling has begun...

Some weeks there’s not much of great importance. Others, like this week, there is almost too much to absorb, but in my view the key items are the destruction of the terrorist Hezb’allah organization, the vacuity of Kamala Harris and the media’s great efforts to glide her into office while hiding her agenda, the pernicious ruling class and why they have forfeited our trust, and lastly, the pending scandal which ties celebrities and key Democrats to sex trafficking and racketeering. Destruction of Hezb’allahAlmost four decades since Hezb’allah killed hundreds of Americans in the bombing of our barracks in Lebanon, the...

Megyn Kelly comments on the moderators' performance at Tuesday night's presidential debate: (video at link) MEGYN KELLY: I'm disgusted. I'm ashamed of those moderators at ABC News. They did exactly what their bosses wanted them to do. The person who runs ABC News is a close personal friend of Kamala Harris and is responsible for Kamala Harris and her husband meeting. They did Dana Walden's bidding tonight. It was three against one on that debate stage this evening. Hi, everyone. I'm Megyn Kelly. A special program tonight for you, reacting to the debate. It was three against one. It's very...

Like any competent magician, Attorney General Merrick Garland is a master of distraction. His clever trick on Wednesday involved announcing a nonsensical indictment against Russia to draw attention away from his party’s growing foreign influence predicament. “As alleged in our court filings,” Mr. Garland said, “President Vladimir Putin’s inner circle, including Sergei Kiriyenko, directed Russian public relations companies to promote disinformation and state-sponsored narratives as part of a campaign to influence the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election.” A second indictment accused Russian nationals of funding a media company featuring a handful of conservatives and disaffected former liberal journalists. Only the founder...

Whether speaking in 2019 or today, Kamala’s on record wanting to have the government determine what Americans may or may not say. As a modern tyrant attains power, he won’t just push back against opposing ideas; he’ll say they shouldn’t be voiced at all. Once he holds some power, he’ll work with friends in the government, the media, and corporations to silence opposing ideas. Finally, once he gains complete power, as his ideas invariably fail when put into practice, he must use the government’s police power to silence those who challenge him lest he be toppled. That trajectory is why...

What does “full communist” even mean to generations of young people who have no idea what communism has wrought in the world? Kamala Harris has “vowed to lower prices at the grocery store with price controls and open up the increasingly out-of-reach housing market with tax subsidies for homebuyers.” Harris asserts that she “will work to pass the first-ever federal ban on price gouging on food. Her plan will include new penalties for opportunistic companies that exploit crises and break the rules.” As a result, Donald Trump said that Harris has gone “full communist.” But what does “full communist” even...

Ever since Kamala Harris took the Democratic nomination away from Joe Biden, the Democratic messaging shifted gears from “protecting democracy” to promoting “freedom.” This was especially true as Democrats unveiled an ad titled “Freedom” at the Democratic National Convention coupled with one of Harris’ go-to stump speeches where she proudly proclaims, “We chose freedom.” As an immigrant, these promises of freedom and a brighter future resonate deeply. They echo the dreams of millions who have come to this country seeking the American dream—a place where freedom and opportunity are available to all. Yet, Harris's promise of freedom is hollow and...

Do we actually lead the free world in standing up for free speech, or do we accept the authoritarianism we claim to detest so much? American politicians speak constantly about the indispensable role of the United States in leading the free world against authoritarianism. If that is true, why is the White House so silent in the face of new global threats to free speech? In January, American citizen Gonzalo Lira died in a Ukrainian prison for posting YouTube videos; the State Department didn’t lift a finger to help. Last week, Telegram founder Pavel Durov was arrested in France for...

What is Kamala Harris’s position on any important policy issue? It’s not so easy to figure out. She studiously avoids interviews and reporters’ questions. Go to Harris’s official campaign website, and it’s almost entirely about raising money, without a word about what she stands for. Back when she was in the Senate (January 2017-January 2021), and a candidate for the Democratic nomination for President in 2019-20, she made many definitive statements on various subjects (all in accord with the radical left wing of the Democratic Party). Now, it’s silence. Unidentified campaign spokespeople imply that her previous positions are no longer...

A book written by progressives, about progressives, blasted Kamala Harris at a time when political observers speculated whether she would be replaced as Joe Biden’s vice president. In it, White House aides outlined Harris’s inability to define a political agenda and her total reliance on personality. Now, with Harris in a tight race for the presidency with Donald Trump, the book has been resurfaced eight months after its release. As recently as the summer of 2023, a cavalcade of Democratic party superstars like California Gov. Gavin Newsom were brandishing their leadership credentials as calls grew for Biden to step aside....

DANA BASH: “You’ve been Vice President for three and half years. The steps that you are talking about now, why haven’t you done them already?” KAMALA: “I’m very proud of the work we have done.” She was speaking, you understand, but the main thing you noticed was the musical quality of her voice: sonorous, resonant, like one of the more obscure woodwind instruments, an alto clarinet or a basset horn, producing a sound like unto creamy dressing over the familiar word-salad of iceberg lettuce. It would be ungentlemanly to bang on the particulars of Kamala Harris’s CNN interview performance, so...