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Re: The Real Enemy of the Palestinians: Hamas

“This article gets to the heart of the problem: ‘Gaza has a 47% unemployment rate, and starving people live in abject poverty, yet Hamas is hoarding all the resources. Its terrorists take all the goods coming in from foreign aid, and instead of using those goods to build a successful region, they use them to prepare for war. … Any concrete that comes in doesn’t go toward damaged buildings; it goes toward creating more miles of tunnels under the schools and hospitals.’ Unfortunately, neither the MSM, the UN, NGOs, nor any of the numerous ‘humanitarian agencies’ have the integrity to publicize this as the root cause of the problem. The monies just keep pouring into the Hamas coffers as the world fiddles and Gaza burns.” —California

“The scope of the radical Muslim hate extends well beyond Israel. It includes everyone else not Muslim. Their corrupt leadership makes a lot of money with hate. If you don’t stop it in Israel, expect it in your neighborhood soon. Remember the spot where the Twin Towers used to stand?” —Washington

Re: Effective Deterrence and the Lack Thereof

“In college, I took a course on national security policy. The author of one of the assigned texts stated that deterrence was the product (in the mathematical sense) of two factors: force and the perceived willingness to use it. It’s a product, not a sum; if either factor is zero, there is no deterrence. Which brings us to Creepy Joe and zero deterrence.” —Illinois

Re: Who Are the Election Deniers?

“There is a difference between the Democrats denying elections and questions Republicans have raised about the 2020 and 2022 elections. The Democrats have made vague claims of ‘voter suppression’ and ‘Russian collusion’ with no specifics. The Republicans, on the other hand, have made specific charges: illegal rule changes; possibly fraudulent mail-in ballots through lax enforcement of registration and signature verification procedures; ballot harvesting; alleged ballot box stuffing; and even removal of Republican observers who called foul on questionable ballot counting operations. The Democrat response has been election fraud denialism — denouncing the complaints as lies but not truly refuting them.” —Minnesota

Re: In Brief: Anatomy of a Biden Family ‘Cover-Up’

“The Biden family corruption cover-up by the DOJ and the FBI, particularly in light of the 2020 presidential election, is a credible, existential threat to our democracy. Far more so than President Biden’s distracting and false conjecture that those who would restore rule of law and greatness to our nation represent the greatest threat to democracy. It is imperative that Congress thoroughly investigate Biden corruption and federal agency complicity in order to protect and preserve our increasingly threatened democracy from the unethical and dangerous activity of the current administration.” —Florida

Re: Who Is Teaching Elementary Kids What?

“Leftists pretend to ‘protect kids’ while they infuse them with destructive gender cult ideology, at least those children they did not promote killing before birth.” —New York

“This was truly an eye-opening exposure of how leftist (Democrat) agendas are being infused into elementary school curriculums, and kids are being systemically programed to capture their young minds. Unfortunately, the minds of today’s college-educated teachers and too many parents have also been infused with these leftist agendas, so much so that it now seems the rule rather than the exception in many ‘public’ schools.” —Ohio

“The key missing ingredient in this situation is a foundational definition of ‘right’ and ‘wrong.’ First on the list of wrongs is the exploitation of children and suppression of family rights to protect their children.” —Washington

“Thank you for being a commonsense voice that needs to be heard! We need to stand together to fight this indoctrination of our children and stop their exposure to these toxic and destructive agendas.” —Colorado

Re: Where Are the Parents?

“I read about a poll that was taken among high school students in the late 1950s wherein they were asked, ‘What is your overall hope for your life?’ Each one answered with lofty ideas about helping the world to be a better place, helping the poor and downtrodden, and letting their lives create beneficial changes for the world. The same question was asked in a poll of students in the early 2020s. The most popular answer was, ‘I want to be famous.’ They didn’t seem to care how they achieved this fame, as long as they had the attention of thousands of people. Explains a lot, doesn’t it?” —Pennsylvania

Re: Monday: Below the Fold

“While gun-grabbing advocates try to draw attention to Mr. Card’s access to a firearm while he had a dangerous mental illness, the real liability may be with the hospital that released him in two weeks. It is apparent that the treatment failed. This needs serious investigation. What treatment was provided? Is this another case of SSRI-related violence? A relatively large number of mass murder followed by suicide cases involved patients on SSRI medications. One question that urgently needs to be answered is whether this is a causative relation, or whether SSRI drugs are simply inadequate for this type of case. The real problem is the cause of mental illness leading to violence. Gun control politics distracts from finding the answer.” —Minnesota

“Regarding Scranton Joe’s starvation diet, at the church I attend, every first and third Thursday volunteers prepare meals and make up boxes of food and dry goods for people who are in need. I help prepare the meals while an army of volunteers make up the food boxes. Last spring we were handing out around 600 meals each Thursday while distributing around 200 or so boxes. But over the summer the numbers have been climbing, and this last Thursday we distributed over 1,000 meals and 350 boxes.
For Thanksgiving we are preparing over 1,000 boxes filled with all the ingredients to make a Thanksgiving dinner and a $20 gift card for the turkey. Bidenomics at work!” —Colorado

Re: Tuesday Short Cuts

“Because of our economic policies, we now are reducing inflation. We have created over 14 million new jobs. … Wages are up. And so we’ve seen great progress.” —Vice President Kamala Harris

“What she doesn’t get as well is that most of those 14 million jobs are for people working second (or third or fourth) jobs just to be able to afford putting food on the table or buying gas to be able to get to their primary job that puts the roof over their heads.” —Illinois

Re: Monday Short Cuts

“I have always admired the collective ability of the Democrats to look like a cohesive group. Turns out they do what they are told and it looks like agreement. The Republican side always looks less cohesive because it is more representative of the people; looks more disorganized because it includes a degree of freedom lacking on the Left. I choose freedom, as messy as it can appear. You get a better product.” —Washington