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One of the benefits of being a Washington insider, from the president of the United States to the lowliest bureaucrat, is never having to admit your policies are wrong. In the case of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) - the nation's 10th largest - the financial policy chickens of this, and previous administrations, have predictably come home to roost. Record debt, massive new spending, and the failure of regulators to see what was coming contributed to the run on SVB. It didn't help that in 2018 President Donald Trump signed the biggest rollback of Dodd-Frank bank regulations since the global financial...

For more than four decades before Donald Trump assumed the presidency, the FBI director was a position above politics. A new president might choose a political ally as attorney general, but the FBI director was different. An FBI director appointed by Richard Nixon also served under Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter. Carter’s choice remained on the job deep into Reagan’s second term, when Reagan moved him to head the CIA. Reagan’s FBI appointee served through the George H. W. Bush presidency and into the Bill Clinton administration. Clinton fired the inherited official—the first time a president ever fired an...

ABC News is in “panic mode” to hire some Donald Trump supporters for The View and other ABC News programming. This will never happen, at least not on The View, but the New York Post has been told that “ABC News brass are in ‘panic mode’ as they hunt for conservative voices to balance the rabid anti-Trump rhetoric spewed by the hosts on The View, as well as those on other shows.” After “last week’s rout by the former president,” the report continues, ABC News executives had “intense sit-downs with executive producers of the network’s various shows and other senior...

Cracks in the Democrats’ blue wall are only part of the story as last-minute campaign reallocation of advertising dollars spell out a shift to defense. “I’ve never seen such panic.” Well before early voting began or nominees were even official for the major parties, it remained clear that seven battleground states were pivotal to securing the White House. Now, with a week remaining in the race, reports show Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign is pulling money from “TWO key swing states,” to shore up a third as well as a less-considered commonwealth. Daily Signal columnist Tony Kinnett reacted to the...

Blinken raised the issue during his conversations in Israel with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken hinted that he would in fact restrict military aid to Israel over the humanitarian crisis in Gaza as he spoke with reporters in Israel prior to his departure for Saudi Arabia. “I will follow the law,” he said when pressed if he would uphold Memorandum National Security Memorandum 20, which makes military assistance contingent on compliance with international law and international humanitarian law. The United States had warned Israel in April that it risked being...

Democrats and media elites are starting to get “heartburn” over Vice President Kamala Harris’s chances of preventing former President Donald Trump from completing the greatest political comeback in modern history. With preliminary early voting trends on Tuesday indicating Republicans are outperforming Democrats in key swing states, the Harris campaign will likely hit the panic button in the coming days with increased rhetoric meant to drive turnout. The Wall Street Journal’s Tarini Parti and Alex Leary reported on the positive early voting trends for Republicans:

The most fecund arsenal of dirty tricks in the history of the country has failed to derail President Trump’s campaign for a second term. How refreshing it is to see the Democratic Party in full panic mode. Nothing is working and as a result, the entire and profoundly unsuccessful Obama-Biden interlude is stricken and faltering. In fairness to the voters, the country could not have voted Republican in 2008 after the disaster of President George W. Bush — the Iraqi war topped out by the financial collapse and panic traceable to President Clinton’s requirement that the financial markets be flooded...

Democrats Recent attempts to burnish Kamala's image have failed big time!Kamala Harris and the Democrats have no platform and no message. Her campaign is scrambling to find some traction, but the only thing Democrats want to talk about is abortion and Trump is Hitler. The panic sets in It's so satisfying to watch the Democratic Party in a complete panic, but that's what happens when they sully America and attempt to install a Marxist who received zero votes into the White House while claiming they're saving democracy.Two months ago -- even a month ago -- Democrats were feeling bullish about...

No, I am not going to make a "Red Wave" argument. I got caught up in the excitement in 2022 and got burned. It happens, but it shouldn't happen to ME! Kamala Harris CAN win, but you don't have to be able to read the entrails of chickens or the scatterings of tea leaves to see that the campaign is panicking, and rightly so. It is obvious to the meanest intelligence. Imagine how alarming internal DNC polling must be for them to run “its first-ever” attack ads on Jill Stein.They assumed Arab, Muslim and leftists would snap into line and...

Kamala Harris’s recent attempt to boost her presidential campaign has become a public relations nightmare, leaving top Democrats scrambling and even President Biden subtly undermining her. Harris’s whirlwind media tour launched with an unexpected appearance on Call Her Daddy, a podcast known for its provocative discussions. It was a puzzling choice that instantly raised questions about her campaign strategy. Why, many wondered, would Harris choose a podcast associated more with edgy celebrity gossip than political discourse to showcase her leadership and appeal? The decision raised eyebrows within the party and among voters, casting doubt on Harris’s sense of judgment...

If you're running a political campaign, the one person you never want to be compared to is Hillary Clinton. The twice-failed presidential candidate went down in history after losing to Donald Trump in 2016, and plenty of speculation has revolved around whether her defeat was preventable. Most infamously, she never set foot in Wisconsin because she was confident the so-called "blue wall" states would hold. Ultimately, they didn't, and Trump walked away with Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and the entire election. Now, Democrats are beginning to panic, and the comparisons to Clinton are getting scarier by the minute. Democratic operatives, including...

Shoppers are ‘panic buying’ items, including toilet paper, after 45,000 East Coast port workers launched a strike on Tuesday. A woman named Shayna Turbovsky in Fort Worth, Texas, went to the store to get meat, rice, beans, bananas, and toilet paper when a coworker warned her about shortages and rising prices, USA Today reported on Wednesday. “I don’t know how bad it’s going to get, but the south east just got smacked by a hurricane and now the supply chain is going to be impacted through this strike…I would rather be overprepared than scared,” she said in a social media...

The dockworkers strike that has shut down dozens of ports on the East and Gulf Coasts has reportedly triggered panic buying of toilet paper and paper towels at a Costco on Staten Island — despite experts’ insistence that paper products won’t be affected by the strike. Video footage on Wednesday showed vast, empty shelves of toilet paper, paper towels and facial tissues. One segment posted by FreedomNews.TV shows just a few pallets of Kleenex at the Costco on Richmond Avenue near the Staten Island Mall.

Undercover video of potential criminal acts being planned. These organizers and activists are talking about sending butyric acid (the smell of human vomit) into the ventilation system and setting off fire alarms and sprinklers at a Trump inaugural ball later this week.

There was an incident earlier this afternoon involving a contract employee near an ash landfill, located to the south of the Ray Nixon and Front Range Power Plants. We contract with this company to maintain our heavy equipment/large trucks that move material – such as ash and coal – at the site. The Colorado Springs Fire Department will lead the investigation effort. The contractor’s employee has been airlifted to Denver for medical treatment. We cannot speak to his condition at this time. While our focus is on the health of this individual, we can report to our community that the...

Democrats are apparently so worried about Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s endorsement of former President Donald Trump last week that the party’s “War Room” has sent out a massive list of talking points against him — one week later. Last Friday, after the Democratic National Convention ended in Chicago, Illinois, Kennedy announced that he would be suspending his campaign in battleground states and endorsing Trump over Vice President Kamala Harris. He cited the fact that Harris had not been voted on by anyone, but merely selected by the party bosses, and kept away from the voters and the media. He also...

Former Gov. Larry Hogan (R-MD) and Prince George’s County Executive Angela Alsobrooks are locked in a dead heat in the U.S. Senate race in Maryland, where Democrats have held both Senate seats for nearly 40 years. The AARP poll, which Fabrizio Ward (R) and Impact Research (D) jointly conducted, finds Hogan and Alsobrooks tied at 46 percent apiece in the Old Line State. Another seven percent of the 600 likely voters are undecided, while one percent will back another candidate. 📊 MARYLAND poll by Fabrizio Ward (R) & Impact Research (D) for @AARP President Harris: 64% Trump: 32% — Senate...

Democrats are panicking about Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s endorsement of former President Donald Trump, blasting out a press release Friday attempting to make it sound as if it does not benefit Trump in the slightest. RFK Jr. formally suspended his presidential campaign on Friday during a speech, blasting the Democrat party for dismantling democracy and now standing as the party of censorship, Big Pharma, Big Tech, Big Money, and more. “I left the party to run as an independent. The mainstream of American politics and journalism derided my decision,” he said, unleashing on the Democratic National Committee (DNC) for essentially...

Vice President Kamala Harris has a commanding lead nationally over former President Donald Trump, according to a new poll — as Republicans accuse Harris of avoiding media interviews for more than two weeks to avoid stumbling and potentially ending her “honeymoon” period as the Democratic candidate. Harris would take 50% of the vote to Trump’s 42% among likely voters if third-party candidates are options, Marquette Law School found in a poll conducted July 24-Aug. 1, shortly after President Biden dropped out of the race on July 21 and endorsed Harris as his successor. Although the poll’s margin is an outlier...

How do I know that the reports over Democrat despair are credible? This one comes from Politico, but the New York Times has covered it wall-to-wall for the past two weeks as well. This isn't just conservative schadenfreude, but a real phenomenon unfolding on and being reported by the Left.Before we get to Politico's more explicit report, we can certainly extrapolate establishment Democrat despair from this NYT report about Joe Biden's appearance in Michigan. He drew a crowd, but not any other high-ranking Democrat officeholder:Conspicuously absent, however, were many of Michigan’s highest-profile Democrats, including Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, whose popularity in...