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The goal of the Chinese Communist Party is to own what we refer to as the United States of America. So, Congress, please get down to business with CCP buying American land. That is a direct threat to our sovereignty. It must me stopped. Does our Congress, once known as the People’s House, have the political will to stop foreign countries from buying up our land? When you are done with that, how about shutting down the CCP police stations on our soil. —California
Re: Biden Strengthens the Russia-China Partnership
I believe what many people have characterized as our “proxy war” with Russia has been with China all along and will become more evident in the coming months. Today’s Russia equates more with North Korea or Iran. Not a world influencer such as the U.S. and China. —Illinois
Re: House GOP Challenges Weaponization of Government
It’s refreshing and important that the subcommittee is exposing the pattern of the Biden executive branch departments and agencies exceeding their authority and wielding government power against political foes like a banana republic. But with the Democrats’ comrades in the media complicit in hiding the revelations, public awareness and demands for change will be limited. Couple that with the subcommittee lacking any effective means to hold accountable those it finds to have acted in bad faith, and there’s little reason to think the weaponization will end soon. —Georgia
Re: On the Brink of Banana Republicanism
We are not on the brink; we are already there. The Democrats have crossed the line on this with Trump. I predict from here on out they will scrounge up anything and everything against Republican candidates to keep them from winning any office. I hope I’m wrong. —Illinois
Re: The WH Press Office Is Officially a Clown Show
Yes, KJB, there have been years and years of lies and inaccuracies. But they have actually been coming from the side you represent. Then again, lying is your profession. —Delaware
“Yet despite winning that woke trifecta, she’s in way over her head as press secretary.” As are Kamala Harris, Peter Buttigieg, and so many other Biden administration appointees who are failing miserably in their job responsibilities and performance. Biden’s outright denial of his family having received Chinese payments supports his description as “the most corrupt, dishonest, and dementia-addled president in American history,” and lends credence to calls for his impeachment. —Florida
Re: Ron DeSantis on Liberty and Leadership
One of the big differences between DeSantis and Trump is that DeSantis doesn’t need to insult his opponents. He just carves them up with superior intellect. —Tennessee
If Trump was evaluated on the ratio of campaign promises made versus promises kept, he would still be president — but he just could not shut up. —Washington
Trump attempts to build himself up by tearing other people down. Trump’s vitriol will alienate DeSantis’s supporters, especially Democrats who voted for him. Florida has enough Democrats to put the state in play if Trump keeps it up. —Minnesota
I have to remind myself almost hourly that God is in control. After eight narcissistic years of President Obama destroying American race relations, we were stuck with a choice between Hillary Clinton (God forbid!) and Republicrat Donald Trump, who, if he followed the old rule “if you don’t have something good to say, don’t say anything,” would not have talked for four years. Now we have the most incompetent president of my lifetime — and my lifetime includes Jimmy Carter. Voters have become so lazy. Only God changing the heart of the American people will get us out of the mess that we put ourselves into. —Texas
Re: A Tale of Two Woeful Judicial Nominees
About 20 years ago I was working for a company as a consultant and I was given the power to hire my own team. The company HR people would set up interviews, and, just like these judges, the interviewees could not answer basic questions about what I needed them to do (or since it was a phone interview, I would hear typing in the background as they looked up the answer). Congress needs to do what I did: Give HR (the president) a list of questions (I had 20) that the user needs to be able to answer. Otherwise, don’t bother setting up an interview. Needless to say, I started getting quality people and wasted minimal time in hiring them. —Illinois
Re: In Brief: Get Ready to Stink for Climate Change
Once again, the would-be planet-saving bureaucrats write a rule that does more harm to the environment than good. More energy will be spent running the washer longer than would be used to pump and treat a small amount of additional water to get the clothes properly cleaned the first time. Besides that, it’s probable that the increased mechanical operation of the newer machines will make them wear out faster, so, again, more energy must be spent repairing or replacing them. This is another rule that really needs to have a proper, objective environmental impact study done. But first, we need a constitutional compliance study — does this fit with the original intent of regulating commerce between states? I doubt it. —Minnesota
Although liberals name their jails “reformatories,” “correctional institutions,” and/or “penitentiaries,” very few criminals are actually ever reformed, and the few that are usually have found Jesus. One warden told me: “We are required to provide religious services for every denomination. If the state would put that into the schools instead of (too late) in the prisons, we could close all the prisons.” —Pennsylvania
Re: In Brief: How to Define ‘Woke’
The Oxford English Dictionary traces the earliest such usage of the word “woke” to a 1962 New York Times Magazine article titled “If You’re Woke You Dig It” by African-American novelist William Melvin Kelley, describing the appropriation of black slang by white beatniks. So in reality the term “woke” has been expropriated from Black English. —California
Re: National Medal of Honor Day — Devotion: The Real Story
Thanks so much for bringing to light these amazing stories of love of country and teammates. Those who insult our American traditions and values day in and day out cannot manage to hide from daylight the truth that country equals team, and there’s certainly not a better team on Earth than Team America. Leftists use on a daily basis race, political affiliation, sexual orientation, and creed as weaponized tools to drive Americans apart so that we cannot confront the threats and challenges the same way American heroes Jesse Brown and Tom Hudner did. But we must be confident that our love of country shall prevail. —Maine