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Nine months until the nation votes for President again, and here's where I think we are. Donald Trump's MAGA support encompasses around 35 percent of Republicans, and they will stand by their man. So, mathematically, Nikki Haley has no chance. I cannot see anything stopping a third Trump nomination. President Biden is drowning. A one-two punch of terrible policies and early-stage dementia has put him in the deepest hole since the hapless Herbert Hoover. The excesses of Donald Trump do bolster Biden a bit, and his party has nowhere else to go, but things will get worse this year for...

Very well worth 4 minutes of time to watch. Old Bill O' on fire and I agree...

A new poll from the Wall Street Journal says if Nikki Haley wins the Republican nomination, she would beat President Biden by 14 points. Donald Trump is four ahead, and Ron DeSantis ties Mr. Biden. The poll is simply a snapshot but demonstrates a few important things. Because Ambassador Haley is not controversial, she polls well among non-political Americans who reject Mr. Trump's demeanor and don't really care how he governs. But committed Republicans continue to overwhelmingly back the former president because they perceive Ms. Haley as an establishment politician who will not aggressively challenge the ingrained liberal system in...

A few things are clear about the Trump indictment. First, after his press conference, I think it's fair to say that Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg is not exactly Eliot Ness. Or even Barney Fife. His entire case rests on the assertion that Donald Trump used illegal business practices to cover up or commit a greater crime. But what crime? Bragg told reporters that he doesn't have to say. Oh. It's instructive to put Alvin Bragg in the TV show "Law and Order: Criminal Intent." The fearless lawman is convinced that an alleged dalliance between Mr. Trump and an actress that...

Feeling a bit sluggish these days? I am. I'm tired of many things in this country, and I bet you are, too. Naps don't help. Soft lighting and soothing music don't either. What's going around is perma-weariness. So now I'm going to vent. Consider this an exercise in listing some of the things that are wearing me out. Let's start at the top: Joe Biden and Donald Trump. President Biden is doing a bad job. Period. If you dissent, you need to stop watching The View and check yourself into reality rehab. The man is a policy disaster on most...

You may have noticed that the Academy Award nominations were announced this week. It is also notable that few cared. That's really too bad because one of America's great cultural contributions to the world is our film industry. Well, it used to be, anyway. Gone are the days of the glamorous movie star and incredible films. Today we have superheroes blowing stuff up and dinosaurs rampaging through San Diego - frightening everybody except the homeless who are not moving from the Gaslight District, no matter what. The televised Oscar show will be hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, who'd better watch himself,...

Pity the fool who's vote remains undecided, as Mr. T might say. Surely, all Americans understand the pain Mr. Joe Biden has brought. Even those who are standing by their man cannot deny it. A recent CBS poll says 79 percent believe America is "out of control." However, if that survey were taken only among CBS News personnel, the out-of-control number would be around ten percent, if that. Liberal voters know things are not well, but nothing is worse than supporting "the big lie." To them, inflation, violent crime, open borders, energy dependence, woke incoherence, and massive federal spending pales...

Bill O’Reilly, host of No Spin News and author of Killing the Legends: The Lethal Danger of Celebrity, said on Friday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow that former President Donald Trump is “addicted” to fame. “Trump is addicted to the spotlight,” O’Reilly stated. “He has to have it, and that’s hurt him, because once you have to get attention at all times, you’re going to make mistakes. For example, this Maggie Haberman, New York Times reporter, he gives her three interviews. He knows she’s going cut his throat. He’s got to know what she’s been...

The headline reads this way: "Independent women voters have massively shifted from Democrats toward Republicans in the race for Congress as a faltering economy becomes an ever-larger issue, according to a New York Times/Siena poll released Monday." If that's true, and that poll has been suspect, it is all over for the Dems on November 8. The GOP will win both houses of Congress. I think that will happen. As I reported on the No Spin News, President Biden has gone from befuddled to delusional. Baghdad Bob territory. He told a reporter in Portland, Oregon the economy is "strong as...

It was strange, Old Joe Biden standing outside Independence Hall in Philadelphia warning Americans their "freedom" is in peril. Warm summer night. Labor Day Weekend upon us. Few following the news cycle. But the President was on a mission. And here's what it is. Internal Democrat polling now shows a looming disaster in November's midterm elections. Even weak Republican candidates like Herschel Walker in Georgia and Dr. Oz in Pennsylvania have a chance to win. Despite pro-Biden propaganda spewing from the corrupt media, the House is likely to be painted red. The leftists running Joe know this. In December 1944,...

After Senators John Cornyn (R-TX) and Chris Murphy (D-CT) finally released the text of their new gun bill — the "Bipartisan Safer Communities Act" — on Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) quickly rushed to hold the first procedural vote on the legislation within an hour of the text going public and before many senators had a chance to digest the full 80-page bill. Tuesday night's vote prevailed 64 to 34, but the speed with which Schumer moved to a vote drew the ire of those who prefer to study legislation before voting on it, including GOP Senator Josh...

The bad news is that the Biden administration’s notorious Disinformation Governance Board, a flagrantly unconstitutional effort to restrict the freedom of speech that was “paused” in May after an avalanche of criticism, is back (although its Orwellian name is still on ice). The good news is that heading up Biden’s handlers’ new foray into authoritarianism is none other than Vice President Kamala Harris. This is good news because Harris has handled the previous jobs she has been given with spectacular ineptitude. If she stays true to form this time, she may end up actually strengthening speech protections, rather than destroying...

After reading the Los Angeles Times over the past few days, I understand why the once-respected newspaper will most likely go out of business. At least, its print edition will. The paper is incredibly out of touch with working, non-ideological people who simply want a decent life for themselves and their families. Example. In both LA and San Francisco, homeless drug addicts are battering law-abiding citizens. Everyone knows this. We can see it with our own eyes. The crime statistics are staggering. And for every crime, victims suffer. Yet, the LA Times is not outraged by the addicted criminal or...

The U.S. was in shock, again, by the mass shooting at the Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on Tuesday, May 27. People from the entire political spectrum condemned this mass murderous action. But the unity is quickly dismantled when it comes to how to fight gun violence. Modern history has shown that, at the breakout of each incident of mass gun violence, gun rights advocates and gun control proponents would seize the opportunity to advance their respective doctrines. This time is no exception. The immediate focus of the debate over gun violence is whether "assault weapons" like the one...

President Biden reacted to surging crime numbers by pushing more gun control Thursday, and Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) responded by tweeting that “Joe Biden’s crime crisis” cannot be blamed on the Second Amendment. Biden spoke about cannons, “illegal guns,” “ghost guns,” “gun crime,” and “gun violence,” among other things. He compared gun manufacturers to cigarette makers, seeking to open up gun makers to lawsuits, and described a Glock handgun as a “weapon of war.” He pressed for background checks and pledged a crackdown on “rogue gun dealers.” Biden then suggested the Second Amendment is not “absolute.” Stefanik responded to Biden...

Former Fox News host Bill O'Reilly said downplaying or diminishing the seriousness of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol is something that "could never have happened" during his time at the network. "Fox News is a different place than it was when I was there," O'Reilly said Tuesday evening while appearing on Dan Abrams' primetime show on NewsNation. “I don’t follow it that that closely anymore, but when I was there, there was a discipline from management that diminishing the Capitol riot could never have happened. And I'll state that firmly on the record.” O'Reilly had joined Abrams'...

Amendment I1. The government cannot make you believe in a religion.2. The government cannot keep you from practicing any religion you choose.3. The government cannot keep you from saying what you wish.4. The government cannot keep you from writing what you want.5. The government cannot stop you from publishing what you want.6. The government cannot keep you from joining together peacefully with others to express your views.7. The government cannot prevent you from complaining about what the government or others are doing to you.Amendment II8. The government cannot take away your right to own and keep guns.Amendment III9. The government...

Dozens of Massachusetts Highway Patrol troopers tendered their resignation in the face of a looming Wuhan coronavirus vaccine mandate that takes effect in early October as state and city leaders around the country face staffing shortages in critical fields as a result of mandates that do not allow a testing or masking protocol exception for those who choose not to get a vaccine. Throughout COVID, we have been on the front lines protecting the citizens of Massachusetts and beyond. Simply put, all we are asking for are the same basic accommodations that countless other departments have provided to their first...

A report that the Biden administration is discussing the possibility of vaccine passports for interstate travel drew outrage on Friday across social media. The Associated Press, noting President Biden has become more "aggressive" in his push for COVID-19 mandates, reported "more severe measures — such as mandating vaccines for interstate travel or changing how the federal government reimburses treatment for those who are unvaccinated and become ill with COVID-19 — have been discussed" by the White House. But the administration is "worried that they would be too polarizing at this time." An administration official told the AP "the interstate travel...

(Search didn't turn this up. Full list in comment) “Social control is best managed through fear.” – scientist/author Michael Crichton in his 2006 novel Next. “We have nothing to fear but fear itself.” -- FDR. “Fear whatever we tell you to fear.” -- Shaman Anthony Fauci. Every day it’s a different story – another flip flop or belly flop – from another eminent authority or revered agency (the CDC, Dr. Fascista, the Geezer-in-chief, Nanny Nancy, the National Institutes for Driving Us All F---ing Nuts). Get vaccinated (but forget the tens of thousands streaming across the border who are infected). Wear...