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Re: Harris Crashes, Burns in First Solo Interview

“I didn’t hear any evidence of word salads in Kamala Harris’s interview. I did hear some vague promises on money giveaways and a little stalling to avoid answering questions. She obviously didn’t want to talk specifics. Does she have a gun buyback plan? What about the actual economy? I don’t want to hear about promises to give people money. What does the way she was raised and the people she knew have to do with her proposed policies as president? She threw softballs right back at the interviewer.” —Kansas

“If she ‘loves’ small businesses so much, why did she shut down and/or destroy so many family businesses during the COVID pandemic? And then keep them shuttered for so long after the rest of the world considered the pandemic over? How does she intend to recover all the tax breaks? Any tax break you give Peter must be paid for by Paul, and Paul is running short on cash and STILL living under the thumb of Bidenomics.” —California

“You can’t expect much from Harris unless you’re a woman who wants to murder her baby or a man who says he’s a woman because he wants to ogle females in their bathrooms and hurt them playing in their sports. When that’s their sole interest in a candidate, I guess her inability to form coherent sentences is irrelevant.” —Pennsylvania

Re: ObamaCare Is Still Wreaking Havoc

“One of Obama’s signature accomplishments — in addition to making Iran great again and reviving racism — was breaking healthcare. But enough about America’s enemies. Healthcare has been broken for 50 years. The problem has been primarily with the costs, but now the insurance companies play god, deciding such things as how much time a physician can spend per patient visit and squeezing down what they’ll pay for. There are other problems too, like the fact that there are far too many drugs behind prescription walls, ever-increasing wait times due to too many sick people, and a shrinking pool of doctors.” —Oklahoma

“ObamaCare has been a disaster from inception. The ones laughing are the health insurance industry and the freeloaders who pay nothing. A perk for over 30 years of loyalty was company-paid healthcare. It was great until ObamaCare was passed, after which the working middle class got screwed. The meeting detailing the upcoming changes to our health insurance benefit included corporate HR and lawyers, reps from Medicare, and insurance company reps. We were informed our healthcare benefits were superseded by O'Care and we had no recourse. When exploring suing to enforce our retirement contract, we were told by consulting lawyers not to waste our money. Our cost has ballooned from $175 to $590 per month. Thanks Obama, Roberts, and McCain!” —California

“The (Un)Affordable Care Act cut off a painful but necessary correction in the healthcare financing market. The primary reason people bought health insurance in those days was to prevent medical bankruptcy. However, the many overpriced and underperforming products were not doing that, so millions of Americans were foregoing health insurance. Insurance and healthcare providers were seriously considering major changes to their lucrative business models to stay in business, but Mr. Obama put up the ACA as a way to bail them out so they wouldn’t have to become economically efficient. The result was worse than letting the problem go untreated.” —Minnesota

“Democrats knew they would lose both houses of Congress, but that was built in. Once the entitlement was given, no change in Congress was going to undo it.” —Connecticut

Re: Tren de Aragua Is More Than Just an Aurora Problem

“Failure to protect American citizens is criminal offense. Enabling foreign gangs to flex their muscle across America should be a reminder of how weak our public servants have become. Are they being paid to look the other way? Don’t we have people to look into that?” —Washington

Re: The Demo Demolition of Our Constitution

“I am an attorney in New York, and until I read Cuomo’s comments exonerating Trump in Alexander’s column, I had not heard this anywhere. And no wonder why: ‘If his name was not Donald Trump and if he wasn’t running for president — I’m the former AG of New York — I’m telling you that case never would’ve been brought.’ Clearly the mainstream media buried this one.” —New York

“Finally, I understand why Alexander always refers to Democrats as ‘Demos’ instead of the often used ‘Dems.’ Frankly, given that all they do is demolish freedom and economy, I will forever henceforth also refer to them as ‘Demos.’” —Massachusetts

“How was Donald Trump a threat to democracy between 2017 and 2021? I’ve heard libs mouth the phrase ‘threat to democracy’ ad nauseam, but I have yet to hear one of them define how Donald Trump was a threat. What did he do that posed a threat? Waiting… Waiting… Waiting…” —West Virginia

“Unfortunately, many, if not most, Americans are deceived by the Orwellian use of language to believe that ‘democracy’ is a good thing. A survey of naturalized U.S. citizens from Latin American nations, conducted to determine why they registered as Democrats when their political views are more like conservative Republicans, was typically answered as follows: ‘We came from the Republic of [Venezuela, Colombia, Nicaragua, Honduras, Bolivia, or wherever] to the U.S. to get away from that kind of government. So when we hear that the U.S. is a democracy, that’s what we want.’” —Arizona

“Including the Founders quotes distinguishing between a Republic and a democracy, affirming the former and condemning the latter, was very helpful.” —Oregon

Re: In Brief: The Constitutional Quandary Only School Choice Can Resolve

“As a kid, we knew Catholic schools were better. They didn’t have the discipline problems. Follow the rules or get out. Their scores were higher on tests that both systems participated in. The amazing thing is that some teachers were nuns who didn’t get yearly pay raises. Many were without teaching certificates. A high school business class teacher might have 25 years in business but not a certificate. The parochial school would take him. I needed a job and applied to the Columbus, Ohio, school board. My degrees was short one quarter of one English course. I was told that because I had spent time in the military, I would have to take two years of additional courses. Why do teachers get raises every year as grades continue to fall, and then pay more to the unions?” —Nevada

“I’ve been saying since its creation decades ago that the federal government has no authority whatsoever to interfere in education. Just look at standardized test scores, the Holy Grail by which government schools are rated, to see what a failure the interference has brought about. Is anyone really surprised, though? Look at the list of successes following government interference and you get a blank page. The list of failures is endless. Return control of education to where it belongs — the states — and get the federal government’s interference out of it so it can succeed.” —Michigan

“The problem is present-day public schools are far from free of religion. The curricula is typically thoroughly ingrained with humanism. The humanist dogma on origins is taught as ‘scientific fact.’ Likewise, the humanist myth of early human history is presented as fact despite the lack of written evidence. The humanist doctrine on morality is the basis of public school discipline and sex education. Christian parents aren’t just turned off by public schools because Christianity isn’t taught there; they are displeased and concerned because an anti-Christian, pagan religion is pushed on their children, a religion in which the idols are man, nature, the state, and a dubious presentation of science.” —Minnesota