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- Opinion · Dec 27, 2024Immigration Moratorium Now
habits and our way of life. It affects the most foundational questions in all of politics: who we quite literally are as a people and as a nation. The greatest … Fathers certainly had thoughts on this great question. Alexander Hamilton, writing pseudonymously in 1802, opined: “The safety of a republic depends essentially on the energy of a common National sentiment
- Article · Dec 3, 2024The Reckoning
refreshingly forward-looking. President-elect Donald Trump — notorious for grousing about his mistreatment by political opponents — has been working overtime on staffing, planning, and preparing for his new administration … deeply flawed COVID-era election that produced a highly questionable outcome. Four years later, the questions still linger. Last week, for example, CNN published an analysis of this year
- Article · Oct 24, 2024Harris Gaslights Over Biden’s Mental Decline
your eyes are so beautiful.’” Woodward also relays that Biden took only two prearranged questions and “carried a handful of note cards with the answers printed out, but even then … identity politics. Biden’s pledge to choose a “woman of color” as his running mate was clearly an easy criterion for Harris to meet. Harris, who had essentially called Biden
- Opinion · Oct 17, 2024JDFI Defends Religious Liberty
have even gotten to the point where leftist politicians and government bureaucrats are essentially persecuting Christians. If you resist their immoral demands, they will bring the full weight … Biden/Harris gang will throw anyone and everyone under the bus for the sake of political power, and they won’t think twice about it. They need the votes of America
- Opinion · Oct 2, 2024Kamala Harris, Faux Border Hawk
problem instead of fixing a problem.” She made much the same case during the debate. This line of argument, meant to mitigate a key weakness, is shameless on multiple levels … into the United States. The lack of interest in enforcing the law raised the question of why the administration could be trusted to abide by any enforcement provisions
- Opinion · Sep 25, 2024State AGs Demand AAP Retract Claim That Puberty Blockers Are Reversible
involvement in pressuring WPATH to make last-minute changes to SOC8 based on political considerations — and then assuring the public that those same standards are ‘evidence-based.’” This … Cass Report.” In other words, these state attorneys general essentially challenged the AAP to a debate over the evidence for their assertion that puberty blockers are safe and reversible
- Article · Sep 20, 2024RCI: On Justice Department ‘Norms’ and Weaponization
Garland’s words came in response to former President Trump’s assertion during his debate with Kamala Harris that the FBI and Justice Department had been weaponized against … said he didn’t want to be: namely, in the crossfire of a partisan political campaign. Moreover, in the view of many, his assertions clearly belie the Justice Department
- Alexander's Column · Sep 12, 2024Harris: Lying Dog-Faced Pony Soldier 2.0
leftist political cadres of hate hustlers . The Democrat Party is constructed on a foundation of hate and division . Despite all the hand-wringing about Trump’s miserable debate performance … after his first debate with Hillary Clinton , he trailed her by nine points but pulled off an Electoral College win. In 2020, after the first debate with Joe Biden
- Article · Aug 6, 2024Decoding and Discussing DEI
Harris is a chameleon who changes her colors based on what benefits her political career. In fact, The New York Times just published an article that explores the many ways … competency when attaining this position. This recent discussion about “DEI hires” raises important questions about how those who oppose identity-based hiring and admissions practices should discuss these issues
- Opinion · Jul 25, 2024Dems and Joe Biden: A Classical Lesson in Modern Betrayal
despot, nor was he killed. While I find his character and politics anathema, no honest person would call him a dictator. Crazy-in-the-head conspiracy theorists can blather … race. They pretend their efforts began in earnest only after they saw his horrific debate performance in June. But they knew, and we knew they knew, for many months. Independent
- Opinion · Jul 10, 2024Led by Trump, 2024 GOP Platform Slashes Decades of Pro-Life Priorities
minority report to supplement that campaign’s platform.” On one of the biggest debates of the day — transgenderism — the delegates approved a document that includes no public endorsement … underscored. “It matters to Texas, what’s permitted in Kansas. And essentially it comes back, though, to the question, is the protection of life a universal principle? And what happens
- Article · Jul 9, 2024Tuesday: Below the Fold
elites in the party.” CNN’s Jake Tapper, who was one of the debate moderators, responded to Biden’s “elites” framing by pointing out CNN poll results showing that … Biden’s choice of Harris was one of the most blatant examples of identity politics in recent memory, a begrudging move to fulfill his pledge of choosing a “woman
- Article · Jul 8, 2024Curious George Helps Clarify Things
attack on Trump’s truthiness, even though Biden told the biggest whoppers of the debate — whoppers like the one about how no troops have died on his watch … some tough questions. For once. But that’s only because he’s a Democrat operative at heart and because he’s already made the political calculation that Biden
- Article · Jul 3, 2024Trump’s Economic Record and Agenda
cumulative inflation and a 30% rise in home prices before asking Joe Biden an essential question: “What do you say to voters who feel they are worse off under your … warned about his second-term economic agenda. I covered that the morning of the debate. Those economists were all Biden backers with a track record of wrong predictions
- Opinion · May 24, 2024Is AI Developing Without Christian Input?
quite conceivable that its conclusions will only be vaguely Christian, if at all, essentially valuing all religions equally. The group speaks to “the world’s great religions … aesthetic approach seeing “the Amish as our lodestone.” 4. It is reasonable to ask questions concerning where AI can go. Major players in the field, typically non-Christians, cast
- Article · May 21, 2024RCI: Should You Believe Faulty U.S. Crime Stats or Your Own Lying Eyes?
problems with the official numbers that are at the center of public debate: They give a distorted impression of true levels of crime. They note that crime stats have become … strictly prohibited.” Similarly, the police departments in Milwaukee and Nashville did not respond to questions about divergences between their stats on robberies and those from the federal bureau. Milwaukee police
- Opinion · May 9, 2024The Columbia University Push to Elect Donald Trump
book on the 1968 campaign, “The Year That Broke Politics,” “The great debate of the campaign, the issue that consistently struck the nation’s nerve, and where there were … center,” in other words, “the millions of people in the middle of the American political spectrum who do not demonstrate, who do not picket or protest loudly.” In a different
- Opinion · Feb 15, 2024Will Biden’s Age Finish His Campaign?
when his son Beau died. And his memory appeared hazy when describing the Afghanistan debate that was once so important to him.” Biden knew that he had to fight back … conference, he proceeded to light himself on fire. First, he tried to claim that questioning his memory regarding his son’s death was somehow unkind or nasty; next, he forgot
- Article · Feb 9, 2024The Emperor Has No Memory
took while vice president and senator. Mark Alexander thoroughly dissected the docudrama last year. Political analyst Ed Morrissey notes , “Thanks to long-standing Department of Justice doctrine from the (unrelated … when his son Beau died. And his memory appeared hazy when describing the Afghanistan debate that was once so important to him.” Biden’s reelection slogan is “ Finish
- Article · Feb 9, 2024Avoiding the Abortion Pill’s Inconvenient Truths
that were cited by Judge Kacsmaryk, this affiliation was disclosed at the bottom. In debating the retraction, the researchers pointed out to Sage Publishing that they had no problems publishing … political ideology and not the methodology and protocol, then it’s not really science anymore. In this case, the timing is awfully suspicious, and the studies in question are being