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DES MOINES, Iowa – With six days to go until Iowa's caucuses kick off the Republican presidential nominating calendar, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis no longer predicts victory and instead vows that "we're going to do well here." DeSantis, at a Fox News town hall on Tuesday in Iowa's capital and largest city, emphasized that the battle for the GOP nomination "is a long process" and pledged that he's "in it for the long haul." [cut] "We’re going to win Iowa. We’ve got the organization in place," the governor declared in a Fox News Digital interview in Bettendorf, Iowa a week...

Dr. Robert Malone, a pioneer in the field of mRNA vaccines, shared a viral Twitter thread on Friday which lays out a disturbing trend; the most-vaccinated countries in the world are experiencing a surge in COVID-19 cases, while the least-vaccinated countries are not."This is worrying me quite a bit," tweeted Malone, embedding the lengthy thread authored by Twitter user @holmenkollin (Corona Realism) via the 'thread reader' app.this is worrying me quite a bit.https://t.co/c3uwlLAeCr — Robert W Malone, MD (@RWMaloneMD) July 17, 2021Here's what has Malone worried: Also take a look at what went on in the 15 most vaccinated countries...

Searches for “can I change my vote” surged on Sunday evening following the bombshell sex tape and email leaks from Hunter Biden’s laptop, including in the crucial swing state Pennsylvania.

With the nation's economy -- and arguably its politics -- in shambles, it is not very surprising to find in a recent Bloomberg poll that 34% of respondents think it would have been better for the country if Hillary Clinton hadn't lost the battle for the Democratic nomination to Barack Obama. A CNN poll released last week put Clinton's favorability rating at a tremendous 69%. Perhaps no one is questioning the 2008 results more than Democratic politicians who must face the voters next year. Right now, it looks like President Obama, rather than offering coattails to those below him on...

I used to be a liberal. I was in one of the first "open" classrooms growing up in very progressive Great Neck, New York, in the 1960s. In 1971, when I was 11, I wrote vitriolic letters to President Nixon demanding an end to the Vietnam War. My first vote, in 1980, was for Independent John Anderson, followed by Mondale, Dukakis, and Clinton-Gore. I read Thomas Friedman in the NY Times and tried to "understand" the "root causes" of the "despair" he said the Palestinians felt that drove them to blow up innocent Israelis. I wasn't an overtly political person...

DENVER (AP) - Focus on the Family founder James Dobson told listeners of his regular radio broadcast that he will never forget it if he is making a mistake in endorsing Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers. Dobson, founder of the Colorado Springs-based Christian group Focus on the Family, has said he trusted Bush and Miers appeared to be an outstanding choice. Many other conservatives, however, have been wary of her selection. On his radio broadcast Wednesday, Dobson said he prayed he was not making a mistake. He said he worried that his position "could do something to hurt the cause...

Apparently, many people missed the point of my column calling for the impeachment of President Bush for his dereliction of duty on the border and his non-enforcement of immigration laws. Some readers explained to me the impracticality of a successful impeachment. Others tried to tell me Vice President Dick Cheney would carry on the same misguided policies. Still others told me such a move would play into the hands of people like Hillary Rodham Clinton. So let me take another stab at this. I echoed Pat Buchanan's call for a bill of impeachment to be introduced by some courageous Republican...

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Sometimes even newspaper columnists change their minds. In the matter of Terri Schiavo, the permanently brain-damaged former suburban Philadelphia woman caught in a life-and-death tug-of-war, this columnist has changed his. I no longer so blithely believe Schiavo's feeding tubes should be pulled and her life allowed to end. I'm no longer so sure her parents do not deserve a say in their daughter's future. I no longer am totally comfortable assuming her husband, Michael, who now has two children by another woman, is acting unselfishly. That's not to say I have changed my opinion about the right of all of...

Some of our editions, last week, carried a flyer from the Delaware County Trial Lawyers Association blaming insurance companies for the malpractice premium crisis that is chasing doctors from our state. Now, insurance companies are refusing to do business in this state. And I know of several doctors who have left the state or retired before they were ready. Mercy Community Hospital right off the Blue Route has closed and it's never going to reopen. But hey, it's the insurance companies. What the lawyers are basically saying is "who are you going to trust, your own eyes or us?" I...

There were 347 murder victims in Philadelphia last year. That's not as bad as Chicago which is a real quagmire. The Windy City finished 2003 with 599 homicides. There were 327 GIs killed by terrorists in Iraq in 2003. Maybe our GIs should start policing our big cities. *** Conservative Judge Robert H. Bork has endorsed U.S. Rep. Pat Toomey who is campaigning against liberal Arlen Specter in the April 27 primary election. If Specter is re-elected, he will probably chair the Senate Judiciary Committee and have a powerful say on the kind of judges we get. Judge Bork agrees...

EditorialSecond Thoughts By William W. Lawrence 12/23/2003We send our heartfelt thanks to the men and women of the 4th Infantry Division who, by capturing Saddam Hussein, gave us a wonderful Yuletide gift.* * *We also want to thank the unknown persons who placed the following stories on the Internet. These ought to be read to your children and grandchildren.Merry Christmas everyone. Two Babes In A MangerAuthor Unknown In 1994, two Americans answered an invitation from the Russian Department of Education to teach morals and ethics (based on biblical principles) in the public schools. They were invited to teach at prisons,...

I became a Marxist out of sheer perversity. Well, perhaps that is unfair to my adolescent self: it was a mixture of conscientiousness and perversity. The official atmosphere in the California high school where I spent my junior and senior years was—hard as it may be to imagine this now—hysterically anti-communist. This was 1961, but the sixties as we know them had not yet begun. The doctrinal orthodoxy of the day was McCarthyism in its final, decaying phase. Accordingly, my senior civics class regularly showed us propaganda films, whose crudeness constituted a provocation to (not to say an insult to...

Second Thoughts By William W. Lawrence 12/17/2002Kudos to the parents in Garnet Valley who are striving to start a charter school. It is estimated that it would serve 2 percent of the student population at only 1 percent of the cost. It looks like a win-win for everybody if the school board gives the OK. I implore the Garnet Valley administration and teachers' union not to look at this as a threat. Support this! Think of the children! * * *The Democrats, trying hard to boot Trent Lott out of the majority leader's seat, have gleefully jumped all over his...

Last week I warned that the Democrats are an endangered party. I even listed several things necessary for it to get well. Here is an important one that I left out: The Democrats must immediately leap out of the trial lawyer's bed. The trial lawyers, along with the deep-pocketed National Education Association, give the big money that goes with the marching orders. The tort lawyers, with the help of the Democrats, are now placing America's children in harm's way. With our country at risk from plague terrorists, the tort lawyers are eagerly waiting for a child to become ill after...

It appears we are going to have a governor's race after all. Ed Rendell was leading Mike Fisher by double digits, but that lead has been cut to eight points. We still have a long way to go. Be sure to watch the televised debates. The first one held on Thursday was informative and entertaining.Actually Michael Morrill of the Green Party would be a better Democratic candidate than Ed Rendell and Libertarian Ken Krawchuck would be a better Republican candidate than Mike Fisher. I say that because Krawchuck thinks like I do on many issues. He doesn't want the government...

Can There Be A Decent Left? Michael Walzer’s Second Thoughts FrontPageMagazine.com | March 26, 2002 FIFTEEN YEARS AGO, Peter Collier and I assembled a group of disillusioned New Leftists for a conference in Washington we called "Second Thoughts." These second thoughts had been provoked by many factors and events, but most instrumental among them was the wholesale slaughter of innocents in "liberated" Cambodia and Vietnam by political forces that had been supported by the left. It was not the first sprouting of such radical second thoughts. Generations of leftists before us had been repelled by the similar crimes of Stalin...