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Politically incorrect words don’t kill, but Venezuelan gangs do.
Donald Trump this week warned rally-goers in a small Wisconsin community that “if Kamala is reelected, your town and every town . . . will be transformed into a third-world hellhole.”
He’s repeatedly said that Biden-Harris open borders are turning New York into a “third world nation” and America into a “third world disaster” — and the rhetoric makes left-wing elites apoplectic.
Never mind the violence perpetrated by migrant gangs and the societal disorder caused by open borders: Their problem is with the words.
NPR says the term “third world” is “offensive.” Foreign Policy columnist Howard French calls it “utterly racist rhetoric.”
For all the differences between the presidential and vice presidential debates, there was one glaring similarity: the moderators weren’t able to keep their mouths shut. In the first debate, the rules allowed the moderators to “fact-check,” whatever that means exactly. In the second debate, the rules didn’t allow “fact-checking.” But in both cases, the moderators couldn’t help themselves. They weighed in, over and over again. And every single time, they interjected to help whatever Democrat was standing at the podium. And the format of these “fact-checks” was always the same, too. The moderators would wait for Donald Trump or JD Vance to stop speaking. Then they’d hastily recite a rehearsed,
Kamala's been looking everywhere for the union label, but she just can't seem to find one.
In the latest blow to her campaign, the International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF) has followed in the footsteps of the Teamsters union and declined to endorse a candidate in the 2024 presidential race. This breaks with a decades-long tradition of the IAFF endorsing nearly all Democrat presidential candidates.
A post that appeared on the IAFF's X account Thursday stated that their executive board voted not to endorse after "taking unprecedented steps to hear our members' views and the policy issues that matter most to them" over the past year.
Desperate residents of Hurricane Helene-ravaged Western North Carolina are relying on home-grown rescue efforts instead of waiting for the Biden-Harris administration’s financially depleted FEMA to get its act together.
Not content to hold out hope for help some fear might not arrive in time, a handful of grassroots rescue operations have sprung up to render assistance by air, land and even on four legs. (Photo) With hundreds more missing in the remote, unforgiving terrain and communication services damaged or nonexistent, the search for survivors grows more dire with each passing hour.
Local airports like City of Statesville Regional Airport and Hickory Regional Airport have transformed themselves into donation drop-off and delivery zones,
Bruce Springsteen endorses Kamala Harris
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Music legend Bruce Springsteen officially endorsed Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris Thursday and launched an extraordinary attack on former President Donald Trump.
The 75-year-old rocker made his presidential election preference known by posting a video to Instagram, which he appeared to have filmed from a diner.
Sporting a flannel button-down jacket, Springsteen warned that Trump represented 'the most dangerous candidate for president in my lifetime.'
No one would ever accuse Kamala Harris or Tim Walz of being brilliant after hearing them speak. “Word salad” does not begin to do justice to whatever it is they let spring forward from their mouths or wherever those noises are emanating from. Let’s just say that they’d both be picked last if you were drafting a bar trivia team. If you needed another example of what passes for intellect over on MSNBC, look no further than the Vice Presidential debate Tuesday night. While everything Walz said made less sense than the design of a platypus, let’s just dissect one question that should have been easy to address, but
Liberal pundits who assured the public that Kamala Harris’ lack of engagement with the press was fine, are now claiming she should do more interviews.
MSNBC’s Chris Hayes agreed with colleague Stephanie Ruhle, fresh off her September interview with Harris, that Harris should do more interviews. Hayes gushed over the pair’s “great interview” during an episode of his show “All In with Chris Hayes.” The two bandied about the idea that Harris, who has notoriously participated in few one-on-one interviews, should do more press.
On Tuesday, Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) and Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) faced off for the vice presidential debate on CBS News. Walz was reportedly feeling nervous ahead of time, and it certainly showed. Arguably his worst moment was when he was confronted by co-moderator Margaret Brennan for lying about being in Hong Kong for the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989. It's just one of many examples from the pathological liar, and Walz had to know it was coming. He still seriously flubbed his response, and yet the media keep covering for him.
Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) revealed Thursday that he wasn’t trying to give a knowing look at the camera during his debate with Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz – a glance that went viral on social media.
Vance, 40, was frequently caught side-eyeing the CBS News camera as Walz responded to questions from the moderators Tuesday.
Several social media users compared the GOP vice presidential nominee’s mugging to the way Jim Halpert, a character from the hit show “The Office,” would routinely acknowledge ridiculousness on the show by smirking into the camera.
However, the Ohio senator explained during an appearance on “The Ruthless Podcast” that he was simply trying
The nonprofit election integrity group Restoring Integrity and Trust in Elections (RITE) has filed a lawsuit against the North Carolina State Board of Elections (NCSBE), aimed to ensure that eligible citizens, and eligible citizens only, can vote in the state’s elections, per the state’s constitution.
The group made this announcement in a Wednesday press release, explaining that North Carolina’s constitution “specifically requires individuals to reside in the state in order to vote.” The issue centers around a state statute, which RITE says conflicts with the state’s constitution, as it allows “those to vote who claim to be citizens but have never resided in North Carolina or even the United States.”
“Fact-checking” is like “fake news”: Something that is now entirely in the eye of the beholder.
At the vice presidential debate this week, the CBS moderators once again tried to show that they were the fair and impartial people in the room
Except that — as with the Trump-Harris debate — they only seemed interested in fact-checking in one direction. Against the Republican.
On Tuesday night the subject of Springfield, Ohio, once again came up. And once again Springfield revealed one of the big problems of this media era.
James O’Keefe strikes again!
O’Keefe Media Group (OMG) on Thursday released undercover video of Basel Hamdan, a producer for MSNBC, admitting the network is doing all they can to elect Kamala Harris.
Hamdan also told the OMG undercover journalist that MSNBC has made their viewers “dumber over the years.”
Via OMG: During an undercover date with an OMG journalist, Basel Hamdan, a writer and producer for MSNBC’s show “Ayman,” was asked what the network has done to assist the Kamala Harris campaign. Hamdan revealed on hidden camera that “what her [Harris’s] message of the day is,
Vulnerable North Carolina Democrat Don Davis (NC-01) reportedly has ties to the radical arm of the Nation of Islam as threats of terrorism encompassing the U.S. intensify.As Israel continues to defend itself from Iranian-backed terrorist groups, Democrats also continue to protect and support Islam and Muslims. In Davis’ 1994 Air Force Academy yearbook, he wrote about Islam and claimed that it fits into the modern U.S. world. He called for the elimination of the “PARADIGM and Modern Lynching,” which is a common topic of conversation in the Islamic world
Kamala Harris’s husband, Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff, denied allegations on Thursday that he “forcefully slapped” his then-girlfriend “for flirting with another man” in 2012.
The denial comes as Harris seeks the presidency in a tight race and is performing poorly among men, who appear to view her as an opponent of masculinity.
“This report is untrue,” and “any suggestion that he would or has ever hit a woman is false,” Emhoff’s spokesperson told Semafor’s Max Tani.
Breitbart News’s John Nolte outlined the original allegations first reported by the Daily Mail:
Three friends of the alleged victim, whom the Daily Mail only identifies with the pseudonym “Jane,” have come forward
On Wednesday, Elon Musk blasted the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for its decision not to move forward with an award for SpaceX’s Starlink, which would have provided rural broadband. Musk suggested that the decision may have cost lives in the wake of Hurricane Helene.
Musk wrote on X, “Had the FCC not illegally revoked the SpaceX Starlink award, it would probably have saved lives in North Carolina. Lawfare costs lives.” (X) After Musk acquired Twitter, now X, the Biden-Harris administration gave federal agencies a greenlight to go after him. During a press conference at the White House in 2022, Biden said Musk “is worth being looked at.”
The three-day longshoreman strike that spiked panic in the US over potential supply chain issues is set to end immediately as dock workers and port operators reached a tentative deal, the union representing the workers and the US Maritime Alliance said Thursday. (:Photo) Members of the International Longshoremen’s Association union will see an approximately 62% wage hike under the new deal, a source told Reuters.
“Effective immediately, all current job actions will cease and all work covered by the Master Contract will resume,” both parties said in a joint statement.
Trump in Michigan: If I Win America Will
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Enter ‘Golden Age,’ if Kamala Wins
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Former President Donald Trump is expected to say that America will enter a “Golden Age” if citizens vote for him in November, but the country will quickly descend into a “Dark Age” if Vice President Kamala Harris wins.
Trump, who is slated to speak at a rally in Saginaw, Michigan, around 3 p.m., is expected to highlight the failures of the Biden-Harris administration, asking “every citizen across our land to join me in launching a new Golden Age for America.”
“As catastrophic as Kamala Harris’s failures have been, we have a plan to fix it, and fix it fast,” Trump is expected to say, previewing an America with “soaring incomes, skyrocketing wealth,
Gov. Brian Kemp (R-GA) is reportedly expected to appear with former President Donald Trump when he visits Georgia on Friday in the wake of Hurrican Helene.
ABC News campaign reporter Lalee Ibssa first reported Thursday that sources familiar with the plans tell her and her colleague Kelsey Walsh that Kemp will join the 45th president.
(X) “Gov. Brian Kemp and former President Donald Trump are expected to appear together tomorrow in Georgia as Trump makes his second stop this week to survey Hurricane Helene’s impact on the state,” Ibssa wrote in a post on X.
While Trump and Kemp have had their differences, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) announced
The federal government's disaster response agency doesn't have enough money to help Americans left in distress by Hurricane Helene after blowing billions on illegal migrants.
Over the last two years, the Federal Emergency Management Agency has handed out more than $1 billion taxpayer dollars to specifically support illegal migrants with housing.
But now there's no money to help out the 150,000 American citizens who have reached out for federal assistance after their homes were damaged by Hurricane Helene.
'FEMA does not have the funds to make it through the season,' Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas admitted on Wednesday.
The devastation that Tropical Storm Helene inflicted on western North Carolina is still heartbreaking several days after the storm has passed. Countless North Carolinians are stranded in the mountains and valleys of that part of the state, many of them without medications or other things that they need to survive.
Towns and cities like Asheville are dealing with widespread damage and power outages. The Great Smoky Mountains National Park has several road and trail closures, even as U.S. 441, the main highway between Cherokee and Gatlinburg/Pigeon Forge/Sevierville, remains open and passable.
It's hard to describe how difficult people in North Carolina have it,
Traumatized hurricane survivors are found
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Distressing footage shows a group of Hurricane Helene survivors standing chest-deep in water inside a trashed house while awaiting rescue.
The unidentified people were filmed at the flooded home in Hendersonville, North Carolina late last week, stood in complete silence.
One woman was seen holding onto her pet cat, while another survivor was keeping a dog afloat. Upturned furniture floats silently around the Helene victims, with the camera panning outside to show deep water as far as the eye can see.
It gets messy when families divide over politics, but Tim Walz’s family backs Donald Trump. In the former president’s corner, his niece, Mary Trump, has been attacking her uncle for years. Yet, this example is a bit much, even for those afflicted with Trump derangement syndrome. Mary used Hurricane Helene to attack the former president over his remarks about climate change and beachfront property last month. Helene was one of the deadliest hurricanes to hit the United States, and it was not a climate change phenomenon. It’s hurricane season—these storms form. Overall, this season isn’t even near what the experts projected to be an insane one for storm activity.
Eva Edl is a survivor. The 89-year-old widow grew up in the former Yugoslavia, where she saw the horrors of Communism firsthand. She came to the U.S. because she thought it was a bastion of freedom and liberty, however, she now finds herself facing time in prison for trying to convince women not to kill their unborn babies.
When Edl was six, the Nazis invaded her homeland. Even though her family had German heritage, the Nazis considered her father an “impure Aryan” and sent him to the front lines. As he lay sick in a hospital bed, he sent a message to his family to flee,
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WASHINGTON — Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas set off outrage Wednesday when he told reporters that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) “does not have the funds” to see Americans through the rest of this Atlantic hurricane season — after draining his department’s emergency kitty this year to address the migrant crisis.
“We are meeting the immediate needs with the money that we have,” Mayorkas said during a press gaggle on Air Force One en route to tour damage from Hurricane Helene in South and North Carolina.
“We are expecting another hurricane hitting,” he added. “We do not have the funds. FEMA does not have the funds to make it through
Former President Donald Trump wasted his debate last month with Vice President Kamala Harris.
That was Trump’s opportunity to call out her numerous (and significant) flip-flops in front of a national audience – and more important to tie Harris to the failed economic and immigration policies of the current administration. The only scheduled vice presidential debate Tuesday between GOP Ohio Sen. JD Vance and Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz was likely the last chance the two sides will have before the Nov. 5 election to make their case on this type of widely viewed platform, because Trump has said that he won’t meet Harris for another debate.
In yet another blatant display of political persecution, former Mesa County, Colorado Clerk Tina Peters, 68—a gold star mother—has been sentenced to 9 years in prison.
After bravely raising questions about election irregularities, Peters was relentlessly pursued by local and federal authorities, culminating in charges that were politically motivated from the outset.
Peters’ crime? Exposing the truth about what happened in the 2020 election.
Last month, Tina Peters was found guilty on seven of ten charges for preserving critical election data.
Even though states across the southeastern U.S. are still reeling from Hurricane Helene's destructive path, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas warned that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) "does not have the funds" to get through hurricane season. On "Fox & Friends First" on Thursday, Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody shredded the secretary over the comments, pointing out the more than $1 billion spent on migrants. ASHLEY MOODY: Everyone should be waking up this morning outraged by that comment. This is not something that has just happened recently. And Florida's been warning about this since this administration took over. Mayorkas has come in like a virus and
MSNBC host Ari Melber twisted himself into a major hissy fit on Wednesday after being shocked on-air by a former Trump administration official. But why Melber was shocked was even better.Turns out that Gordon Sondland, who served as ambassador to the European Union and then became a key witness against the then-president in his first impeachment, now supports Trump again.
The MSNBC host was flabbergasted.
Melber spoke with three former Trump officials, including White House advisor Peter Navarro, White House spokeswoman Sarah Matthews, and Sondland about how working for the Trump administration has impacted their lives and
Joe Biden will go down in history as the most bipartisan president of the 21st century. That's because history is going to be written largely by leftists who don't think Biden calling MAGA Republicans "a threat to democracy" is partisan.Similarly, Biden is ecumenical when it comes to climate change. Hurricane Helena devastated North Carolina, and Biden wants to bring us all together to help the victims.
“In a moment like this, we put politics aside, at least we should put it all aside, and we have here,” the retiring 81-year-old president said after a FEMA briefing in Raleigh.
“There are no Democrats or Republicans, there are only Americans,
As of Tuesday, tens of thousands of longshoremen workers are on strike, which will have significant and painful consequences on the economy. Such a strike took place weeks before the presidential election, months before Christmas, and days after regions of the country were ravaged by Hurricane Helene. After a particularly troubling response about the looming strike over the weekend, President Joe Biden finally put out a statement on Tuesday calling for the strike to end after labor unions' demands are met. He won't use the Taft-Harley Act, though. Vice President Kamala Harris has meanwhile come out in full support of the workers.
The price of oil has jumped 5% after US President Joe Biden said the US was discussing possible strikes by Israel on Iran’s oil industry.
Asked on a visit if he would support Israel striking Iran’s oil facilities, Biden said: “We’re discussing that."
Iran is the seventh largest oil producer in the world, exporting around half its production abroad, mainly to China.
Since Iran’s missile attack on Israel on Monday, the price of benchmark Brent crude oil has risen 10% to $77 a barrel, although this remains below levels seen earlier this year. Any extended rise in energy prices raises the possibility of higher petrol prices and increased
Governor Ron DeSantis (R., Fla.) is making sure the disruptive east coast dockworker strike does not get in the way of his state’s ongoing hurricane recovery efforts.
DeSantis announced Thursday an executive order sending Florida’s National Guard to ports affected by the dockworker strike and directing Florida’s department of transportation to waive select tolls and weight regulations for trucks. He is also instructing the Florida highway patrol to oversee the flow of traffic from ports into the state.
“At my direction, the Florida national guard and Florida state guard will be deployed to critical ports affected to maintain order and if possible resume operations
ERIE, Pa. — Democrats have been losing voters in Pennsylvania over the past four years, leaving Republicans salivating over the prospect of former President Donald Trump recapturing the biggest swing state in the Nov. 5 election.
Nearly 300,000 registered Democrats have dropped off the rolls since 2020, even as Republicans have netted about 50,000 new registered voters — all in a state President Biden won by roughly 80,000 votes.
The changes come in places like Luzerne County, near Mr. Biden’s hometown of Scranton. In 2020, Democrats held a 20,000 registered vote advantage, but as of last week, they trail the GOP by a few hundred votes. Mr. Trump won
A deadly hurricane, a massive labor strike and wars raging around the globe are among the crises engulfing the Biden-Harris administration one month before the election.
Former President Donald Trump is flipping the script on Democrats, who for months have warned voters that he would bring chaos if he returns to the White House.
“It’s a choice between freedom and chaos,” Ms. Harris told her audience at a rally in Milwaukee this summer. Her argument isn’t resonating with voters as war erupts in the Middle East, illegal immigrants swarm across the southern border, and rural residents in Georgia and North Carolina beg for help
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas warned Wednesday that the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which has spent more than one billion dollars on services for illegal immigrants over the past year, now has insufficient funds to last through the hurricane season.
“We are meeting the immediate needs with the money that we have. We are expecting another hurricane hitting,” Mayorkas told reporters. “FEMA does not have the funds to make it through the season.”
Hurricane Helene has ravaged the west coast of Florida and several states in the Southeast, flooding towns, destroying properties, and killing over 160 people.
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Those who love our country’s principles of justice — equality of rights, equality under the law, merit and responsibility — must not be taken in when old and precious words are given radically new and pernicious meanings. Such manipulation of language is a hallmark of ideological despotism that aims at the destruction of the capacity of citizens to speak and reason together about the “advantageous and the just,” as Aristotle put it so well more than two millennia ago at the beginning of his Politics.
The clear meaning of words must be respected if civic life is to endure in any meaningful way. Language, which is never merely
Golf legend John Daly reveals Florida
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Hurricane Helene’s path of destruction across the southern U.S. affected thousands of people, including golf legend John Daly. Daly said Wednesday he lost his Clearwater, Florida, home in the "devastating" storm. "I’m just glad everyone is healthy, that’s the main thing," he told the PGA Tour’s website. "You live in Florida, you have to understand that’s going to happen, but not like this. I didn’t think it would be this bad." He added that nearly a half-dozen other homes belonging to his friends and family were also destroyed in the storm.
The Biden-Harris administration took more than a billion tax dollars that had been allocated to the agency responsible for American disaster relief and used it to offer services for illegal immigrants.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) allocated nearly $364 million in the fiscal year 2023 and $650 million for the 2024 fiscal year to the “Shelter and Services Program” “to provide humanitarian services to noncitizen migrants following their release from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS),” according to the government’s website.
Some Michigan Democrats are worried about a repeat of Hillary Clinton's loss in the state as election day nears and Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Trump remain neck-and-neck in the polls, according to reports. "Smart Democrats have a healthy sense of paranoia," Michigan Democratic strategist Adrian Hemond told the Associated Press (AP). "If polling is as far off as it was in 2016, we’re cooked."
A new poll released by the New York Times and Siena College found Harris had 48% support in Michigan and Trump had 47%. Clinton narrowly lost Michigan to Trump in 2016 despite consistently leading in polls,
Talk about watching a narrative die in real-time. This segment was like watching the OceanGate submersible implode. Of course, MSNBC would have a segment on January 6 since Democrats cannot move past that little riot that was inconsequential to the stability of the nation. Liberals have no grasp of history, so it’s in keeping with their obsession with this minor scuffle. Yet, I’m sure host Ari Melber was not expecting Gordon Sondland, a key witness in the Trump impeachment effort, to declare his support for the Trump-Vance ticket this year.
Melber was aghast—Sondland had said that the January 6 event was why he could never support Trump again.
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris got around to going to North Carolina and Georgia on Wednesday to review the damage from Hurricane Helene.
But in the face of all the devastation that has happened in the region, what Harris had to say seemed to be pitifully lacking.
Just as Biden did in Maui after the huge fire there when he promised $700, Harris promised a paltry sum of $750 payment to people, some of whom may just have lost everything. [Tweet, video]
If you lost your home, that would barely pay for a few days in a hotel and food for a family.
A young hostage kidnapped by ISIS terrorists at age 11 and then held by Hamas for a decade has been rescued by Israeli forces in Gaza after a months-long operation led by the US, officials said Thursday.
Fawzia Amin Sido, 21, was freed earlier this week, with footage showing her being embraced tightly by her emotional family soon after touching back down in her native Iraq.
“Fawzia, a Yazidi girl kidnapped by ISIS from Iraq and brought to Gaza at just 11 years old, has finally been rescued by the Israeli security forces,” tweeted David Saranga, the director of the digital diplomacy bureau at Israel’s foreign ministry.
To no one’s surprise, the corporate media are engaged in a full-on propaganda campaign to bury the credible bombshell news that Kamala Harris’s husband, Doug Emhoff, allegedly battered a former girlfriend.
On Wednesday, the Daily Mail released a story that included statements from three friends of the alleged victim, along with travel documents and photos to back up the claim. The claim is this: in 2012, while attending the Cannes Film Festival, Emhoff slapped a then-girlfriend so hard she spun completely around. Two of the alleged victims’ friends say they were told of the abuse at the time. The third learned of it in 2018.
Former first lady Melania Trump revealed that she is a staunch supporter of abortion rights in an excerpt released Wednesday from her forthcoming memoir--a day after her husband, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, vowed he would veto a federal abortion ban, should Congress pass one. [Snip] “It is imperative to guarantee that women have autonomy in deciding their preference of having children, based on their own convictions, free from any intervention or pressure from the government,” she wrote in her memoir, according to The Guardian, which received an advance copy.
Former first lady Melania Trump spoke out about her pro-abortion views in a short clip promoting her upcoming memoir, saying “there is no room for compromise” on the issue of women being allowed to abort their unborn children.
Melania said she has “carried” her pro-abortion views “throughout [her] entire adult life,” a break from her husband’s pro-life record while he was in office. Her remarks on abortion come less than five weeks before the 2024 election as Democrats are focusing on the issue to motivate their base.
On Wednesday evening, Virginia Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine was destroyed by Republican challenger Hung Cao during their first and only debate.
According to a poll published shortly after the debate, Cao was the winner, with 75 percent support to Kaine’s 25 percent support, according to WRIC.Cao, who is an immigrant, came to the United States with his parents as a refugee from Vietnam in 1975. He is a retired Navy captain and served with special operations in Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia. He attended the United States Naval Academy.
In the debate, the candidates were questioned about military recruitment numbers
We brought you the story of how a hilarious campaign parody video by the social media account “Mr Reagan” so triggered California Governor Gavin Newsom that he quickly signed a bill banning the production or dissemination of videos made with the use of artificial intelligence during election season.
Many pundits including myself immediately called it what it was: unconstitutional.
On Wednesday, a federal court agreed and slapped an injunction on the law.
Take that, Gavin:[snip - tweet] “Mr Reagan,” whose real name is Chris Kohls, filed suit claiming the law was an obvious violation of the First Amendment. The court appeared to agree in no uncertain terms:
“I guess we now know the story about Walz being nervous and a bad debater wasn’t an expectation-lowering exercise — it was a leak,” said one top Republican leaving the just-concluded vice presidential debate between Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) and Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) late Tuesday night. Indeed, when the debate began at 9 p.m., it was clear from its first moments that Walz was just what the stories had said — nervous and a bad debater. It was also clear that Vance was going to win the debate decisively.
Chris LaCivita, the co-manager of the Trump campaign, said he could tell what was happening almost immediately.
About a week after Hurricane Helene first made landfall in the Southeast, Kamala Harris took a break from her fundraising events and staged photo ops at the border to travel to Georgia to address the federal government’s response to the storm that ravaged the people of the South. Lost everything to Hurricane Helene? You may be eligible for a one-time $750 payment for the basics. After that, you’re on your own. (As a reminder, after the fire in Lahaina, Maui residents received only $700.)
I seem to vaguely remember a phrase coined by a high-profile Democrat…now what was it? Oh that’s right, “insulting crumbs.”
There’s nothing like having your life flash before your eyes to bring clarity and, as people watch Harris and Biden in action, that clarity is bringing real fear. One of those people facing that fear is Gordon Sondland, the former U.S. Ambassador to the European Union during the Trump administration, who testified during Trump’s Ukraine impeachment and disavowed him after January 6. Despite Sondland’s deep dislike for Trump, he fears Harris more.
A South Carolina volunteer firefighter was threatened with arrest after he used his own helicopter to assist with rescue efforts in western North Carolina following Hurricane Helene’s devastating impact on the area. This comes as the Biden-Harris administration's Department of Transportation has set up a no-fly zone for drones in the area, and issued a temporary no-fly zone for private flights.
Jordan Seidhom told Queen City News that when he woke up on Saturday, he saw a post on Facebook regarding a family stranded in Banner Elk, North Carolina. After researching the mountains where the family was located on his mapping software
After credible allegations that Doug Emhoff, who is Kamala Harris's husband, struck a woman so hard she spun around, along with the claim that the household nanny he impregnated earlier had accused him of "causing" her miscarriage, maybe Kamala Harris, who's running for president, ought to be looked at closer by voters for her strage enabling behavior around a lot of men.
RedState writer Jennifer van Laar has some pointed questions she ought to be asked:
In the ever-evolving cover-up of the cover-up of the Hunter Biden laptop, it was instructive to hear a recent interchange between Rep. Dan Goldman, the odious New York Democrat, and Texas Republican Rep. August Pfluger, a decorated former fighter pilot, in the House Homeland Security Committee last week.
Pfluger had introduced legislation to block funding for any bogus “intelligence experts” group that border-wrecker Alejandro Mayorkas’ Department of Homeland Security will use to censor Americans and interfere with our elections under the guise of protecting us from “disinformation.”
Judging from past outrages, such as the “Dirty 51” letter from the 51 “spies who lied” about Hunter’s laptop, Pfluger’s
It has been a week since Hurricane Helene hit western North Carolina, and Joe Biden has finally announced, on behalf of whoever is running the country, that he has authorized 1,000 federal troops from Fort Bragg (I will never call it anything else) North Carolina, to assist in disaster relief operations a mere 250 miles away.
Today, the President is announcing he has directed the Department of Defense to deploy up to 1,000 active-duty soldiers to support response efforts. These soldiers are part of an Infantry Battalion Task Force, based out of Fort Liberty, North Carolina, which includes a Forward Support Company
They're not exactly "October surprises." The National Weather Service might have understated Hurricane Helene's ferocity, but the war against Hezbollah and the port strike didn't blindside anyone. Nevertheless, each of these events has the potential to upend a presidential campaign.
And it's not Donald Trump's.
Remember when Joe Biden promised to restore a sense of "normalcy" to the country after the pandemic? How "normal" does this feel? Eight million illegal aliens are in the country with the Department of Homeland Security losing track of hundreds of thousands of them.
On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” Harris-Walz Surrogate Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) argued that there will be fewer strikes if 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris is elected and that the head of the dockworkers union is “a Trump guy” who might want to cripple the economy for political purposes.
New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R) stated that the strike is “going to drive inflation. It’s going to drive costs, there’s no question, if this goes on. The Democrats are in a bit of a pickle because they’re so pro-union, we’re going to be pro-union, it’s kind of thinking very old school
On September 26, Georgia citizens filed suit in Federal Court against Brad Raffensperger, Georgia Secretary of State. The plaintiffs argued that according to data from Georgia state voter rolls and U.S. Postal Service (USPS), there are many individuals who have moved out of the state, but remain registered to vote in Georgia. This violates the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA).
Their suit demands that Raffensperger follow the NVRA and Georgia law to maintain accurate and timely registrations in Georgia’s voter rolls. The lawsuit seeks to enforce laws that protect Georgians’ right to vote from dilution.
Growing lines of container ships continued to form outside major U.S. ports on Thursday as the biggest dockworker strike in nearly 50 years entered its third day.
The choke points are threatening shortages of everything from bananas to auto parts and are anticipated to grow in coming days if no resolution is forthcoming. Reuters reports no negotiations were scheduled between the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) and employers, but the port owners, under pressure from the White House to hike their pay offer to land a deal, signaled they were open to new talks.
Exclusive: ASU 'stabber' has bond and
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A judge has thrown out charges of attempted murder against the Arizona college student who nearly killed a classmate in an unprovoked knife attack in front of horrified students.
Kaci Sloan was facing multiple charges after launching herself at Mara Daffron, 19, as the pair arrived for class at ASU’s West Valley campus on September 19.
The 'bubbly’ student needed emergency surgery for a ruptured spleen and injuries to her chest and arm after Sloan stabbed her twice in a premeditated attack before being hauled off her target by fellow students.
Hurricane Helene has wrought deadly and destructive havoc across the South and Appalachia, killing dozens and doing billions in property damage. Fast on Helene’s heels, we now have another disaster hitting the U.S.: The longshoreman strike that now threatens to shut down much of the U.S. economy.
And very conspicuously, Joe Biden did nothing about it. No jawboning. No ideas. No attempt to cool tempers and bridge differences to get a deal. Apparently, Biden’s leaving it to others as he whiles away the remainder of his only term as president at his beloved Rehoboth Beach vacation home.
Kind of like his administration’s reaction to the devastation from Hurricane Helene
In the vice presidential debate Tuesday, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz pulled the fire alarm.
His opponent, Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, cited the massive system of censorship supported by Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate.
Walz proceeded to quote the line from a 1919 case in which Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes said you do not have the right to falsely yell fire in a crowded theater. It is the favorite mantra of the anti-free speech movement. It also is fundamentally wrong.
No matter which major party’s candidate wins this election, there’s one sure loser: The media. By nearly two-to-one, voters say they have little or no trust in either the mainstream big media or the alternative media. Can a country survive when two thirds of its people distrust the reporting of its main news outlets?
In the September I&I/TIPP Poll of 1,582 adults, taken from Aug. 28-Aug. 30 with a margin of error of +/-2.6 percentage points, there was more glum news for the nation’s major news outlets. Americans profoundly distrust the stories they tell and how they tell them.
That’s not an exaggeration.
If you've been wondering about Democratic vice presidential candidate and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz's many voyages to the Middle Kingdom, you're not alone. It's a bit of a curiosity, an American politician who is so cozy with China, a Communist country under the single-handed control of Chairman Xi, and a nation that's not exactly friendly to the United States. It's a bit like the daffy old Bolshevik from Vermont, Bernie Sanders, honeymooning in the Soviet Union - only Tim Walz went back to China, again and again. It's enough to provoke questions.
What [Biden-Harris administration climate envoy John Kerry] does not mention, of course, is who decides what is "disinformation," or if it is just whatever the current government wants the public to think.
Recently, a video of vice-presidential candidate Tim Walz has also been circulating in which he alleged that there is "no guarantee to free speech on misinformation or hate speech, and especially around our democracy." Some have implied that Walz does not understand the First Amendment, but his statement,
Chinese Nationals Charged With Lying to
Authorities After Being Caught Near Michigan
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Authorities After Being Caught Near Michigan
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Camp Grayling, Michigan, is the largest National Guard training base in the United States. It encompasses 148,000 acres of training grounds and is used for combined arms field training exercises. If you were an intelligence agent for a nation unfriendly to the United States, it's a place that you would want to observe, the better to observe United States forces in the field. In August 2023, five University of Michigan students - all of them Chinese nationals - were confronted by a non-commissioned officer (NCO) in the woods near the base, and at the time, were questioned and let go.
Hurricane Helene has wrought deadly and destructive havoc across the South and Appalachia, killing dozens and doing billions in property damage. Fast on Helene’s heels, we now have another disaster hitting the U.S.: The longshoreman strike that now threatens to shut down much of the U.S. economy.
And very conspicuously, Joe Biden did nothing about it. No jawboning. No ideas. No attempt to cool tempers and bridge differences to get a deal. Apparently Biden’s leaving it to others as he whiles away the remainder of his only term as president at his beloved Rehoboth Beach vacation home.
Former congresswoman Liz Cheney, one of Donald Trump’s fiercest Republican antagonists, will join Democrat Kamala Harris at a campaign event in Wisconsin on Thursday aimed at reaching out to moderate voters and rattling the GOP nominee.
Cheney was the top Republican on the House committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection, earning Trump’s disdain and effectively exiling herself from her own party.
Cheney lost her House seat to a Trump-endorsed candidate two years ago and she endorsed Harris, the Democratic nominee, last month. The two women will appear together in a historic white schoolhouse in Ripon,
In a formal introduction of his newly chosen Cabinet, President Biden proudly declared: “This is the first [time] in American history that the cabinet looks like America.” Scrutinizing the actual appointments and not just the sex, skin color, and ethnic origins of the Biden team reveals a group that may look like America but doesn’t think like America. In fact, it is a team whose outlook is transparently anti-American.
Take Biden’s vice president, Kamala Harris, whose antipathy for America — despite her superficial attempts to hide it — oozes from every pore. At a February 2019 presidential campaign stop, she said Columbus Day should be replaced
A Virginia school board must fork over more than $500,000 to a former French teacher who was fired in 2018 for refusing to use a transgender student’s preferred pronouns.
The teacher, Peter Vlaming, along with Christian legal group Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) filed a lawsuit against the district, arguing his termination was a violation of his religious beliefs.
“I was wrongfully fired from my teaching job because my religious beliefs put me on a collision course with school administrators who mandated that teachers ascribe to only one perspective on gender identity—their preferred view,” Vlaming said in a statement following the settlement agreement.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz did not have a good night against Sen. JD Vance (R-OH). The vice presidential debate on CBS News wasn’t a disqualifying performance by Walz, but Democrats cannot be happy. It started rough, and it was like that for the Minnesota liberal for most of the night. He was able to find his footing, though toward the debate’s end, where he made a rash of odd remarks, like being a school shooter’s best friend, the female gender being a preexisting condition, and a baffling and shambolic response
Tuesday was the official beginning of National Day, a Chinese holiday marking the anniversary of Communist Party rule.
This year marks the 75th anniversary of the takeover, but the celebrations seemed muted as the week-long holiday got underway, as China faces economic stumbles, security woes, supply chain disruptions, a massive demographic crisis, and a growing sense of anger and futility among its young people. The Associated Press noted that no festivities at all were announced on Tuesday, except for a ceremonial flag-raising at Tiananmen Square, which was a symbolic center of ancient Chinese imperial power before it became infamous for a horrifying Communist massacre in 1989.
Former U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland, who was a witness in former President Donald Trump’s first impeachment, said Wednesday on MSNBC’s “The Beat” that he will vote for Trump because he disagrees with President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’ policies.
Host Ari Melber said, “Why was it important for you to say no more Trump because of this January 6? Do you stand by that?”
Sondland said, “No. I’ll tell you why. I’ve lived four years under the Biden-Harris policies, and I have to say those policies are not only becoming an existential threat to our country’s way of life but to our allies as well.”
Terror royalty: Nasrallah's son-in-law
killed in airstrike on Damascus, days
after brother - report replies
killed in airstrike on Damascus, days
after brother - report replies
Hassan Nasrallah's son-in-law, Hassan Jafar Qassir, may have been killed in airstrikes in the Mezzeh neighborhood in Damascus on Wednesday, according to early reports published by Sky News Arabic. Hassan is the brother of Muhammad Jafar Qassir, who was killed in a strike in Beirut on Wednesday during the Iranian attack on Israel. Hassan's assassination is another severe blow to Hezbollah as its leadership has been slowly picked off in Israeli operations. Muhammed became a leading figure in the deliveries of Iranian weapons from Syria, and Hassan married Hassan Nasrallah's daughter, cementing their connection to Hezbollah and Iran.
We're getting into the home stretch of the 2024 presidential election, and with just over one month to go, former president Donald Trump is seeing a surge in cash to help fund his final push.
According to his most recent filings, the Republican nominee collected about $160 million in September, and it is likely most of the cash will be spent in key swing states, particularly on ad buys.
Trump’s official campaign, joint fundraising committees, and the Republican National Committee reported that 96 percent of the donations were under $200, and the average September donation was around $60.
Jazz wrote about a new NBC poll over the weekend which showed Donald Trump was overperforming with Latino voters. Harris still won Latinos 54-40 as a group but that margin is much narrower than it has been in the last four elections.
This week there have been a couple of stories about Latino voters in swing states who seem to be shifting toward the Republican Party. In Nevada for instance.
President Biden barely squeezed out a victory in Nevada, in part by winning 60% of the Latino vote, but polls suggest Donald Trump has stronger Latino support than previous Republican campaigns.
Megyn Kelly blasts media's softball coverage
of Doug Emhoff after explosive accusations revealed replies
of Doug Emhoff after explosive accusations revealed replies
Megyn Kelly roasted Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff on Wednesday following a Daily Mail report about alleged details of an incident where he slapped a woman he was dating in public.
The former Fox News host bashed the media's softball treatment of Kamala Harris' husband after The Daily Mail reported that during a prior relationship Emhoff got into an altercation with a woman he was dating, according to friends of the woman.
'If this was a Republican it would be leading every news channel,' she said.