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Let’s make this very clear: Sen. Manchin knew exactly what he was voting to do when he cast the deciding vote on the Orwellian-named Inflation Reduction Act last August. He knew exactly what was in the bill; after all, he had been negotiating every provision in it across the previous 12 months, delaying and blocking and objecting to myriad paragraphs and sentences contained in it. Nor is it believable that the Senator has somehow been caught by surprise by the aggressive interpretations of various IRA provisions by the EPA and various other Biden administration bureaucracies. (snip) This pretense that he...

So ironic for a guy who is literally old enough to have memories of the stone age to accuse others of thinking like Neanderthals. This downward trend in Texas and other red states who either never had mask mandates or whose governors have recently rescinded them is horrible news for Democrats, of course, which is why you see them out there still issuing dire warnings and attempting to shame anyone who follows the Governor’s latest advice. Democrats are communists at heart, and as communists they want control over everyone’s life. Nothing in their lifetimes has provided them with the means...

If you’re counting on Joe Manchin to save the Republic… – Well, you might want to think again. For all his bluster and fake media coverage about being some sort of “moderate” Democrat, West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin has always been nothing but a reliable, down-the-line leftwinger who operates in what I like to call the Lloyd Bentsen mode of being a senator. You might remember Lloyd Bentsen, the long-time Texas senator who ran for the vice presidency in 1988 as Michael Dukakis’s running mate. During his 22 years in the senate from 1971 through 1993, Bentsen was the quintessential...

Two days before the South Carolina primary that would reverse his political fortunes and redirect the course of the Democratic nomination, Joe Biden’s campaign for president announced a hastily planned event in McClellanville, South Carolina. The national campaign press was alerted that Biden would enter full battle mode at this stop, that the proverbial gloves were about to come off ahead of the kill-or-be-killed primary on Saturday, and no one would want to miss this one.

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The Evening Campaign Update Gee, I wonder what tipped them off? – I kid you not, this is an actual, real tweet put out by New York Magazine today: New York Magazine ✔ @NYMag Joe Biden is at his best when he’s neither speaking nor appearing in public. Will his campaign have to abandon its most effective strategy? @zakcheneyrice writes https://nym.ag/2YnBChC Tara Reade Is Making It Harder to Hide Joe Biden That doesn’t mean his campaign will abandon its most effective strategy. You know what that “most effective strategy” the author is talking about happens to be? HIDIN’ BIDEN! I...

And now, a word from Joe Biden’s basement. – Some would call this ‘mixed messaging.’ Others would call it vacant eyes and an inability to form words into coherent sentences. But the Democrat Party wants you to believe it’s all just totally normal. Trump War Room - Text TRUMP to 88022 ✔ @TrumpWarRoom Joe Biden: “We cannot let this, we’ve never allowed any crisis from the Civil War straight through to the pandemic of 17, all the way around, 16, we have never, never let our democracy sakes second fiddle, way they, we can both have a democracy and ......

Alex Wagner of Showtime’s “The Circus” has released an op-ed urging Democrats to view former Vice President Joseph R. Biden as a “vessel” and an “idea” if they want President Trump defeated at the ballot box. The writer penned “Stay Alive, Joe Biden” for The Atlantic this week, which serves as a blueprint for realizing a Democrat as the 46th commander in chief.

Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends) The Creepy Plagiarist strikes again. Joe Biden’s biggest problem…well, ok, his biggest problem is that he can’t keep his hands off of women and children in inappropriate ways…Joe Biden’s second biggest problem is that his mind has always been an empty vessel waiting to be filled by the ideas of others. The simple fact of the matter is that Joe Biden has precious few original thoughts, and the few he does have invariably end up blurting out of his gaping mouth at inconvenient moments. Like the time he said that all 7/11...

Today, President Donald Trump called the Iraqi government’s bluff, authorizing the commanding general of joint coalition forces in Iraq to send a formal letter to the Iraqi commanding officer notifying him of pending operations for coalition forces to depart from Iraq. This comes in the wake of the vote of the Iraqi parliament over the weekend to demand U.S. forces leave the region. Here is a photo of the letter that is circulating on social media: Image Text: sLTG Abu Amir Deputy Director, Combined Joint Operations,Baghdad Iraq-Ministry of Defense Sir: In due deference to the sovereignty of the Republic of...

[Note: The following piece is from contributor Gregg Updike. I hope you enjoy his thoughts on the situation with Iran – I know I did.] While it is great that President Trump has recently taken out a couple of head honchos in the Middle East, can anyone doubt that their #2s (in every sense of the word) won’t just take over and continue their fight? Had Hitler been successfully assassinated in July 1944, Goering would have taken over, then Himmler… Point being, just because America took out these leaders, it does not mean Iran and ISIS will stack their bats...

Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends) Tired of all this WINNING yet? – This damn Trump economy just will not cooperate with all the Democrats and their media toadies who keep rooting for a recession. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics jobs report released on Friday showed the Trump economy adding another 130,000 new jobs even as the economy approaches full employment. FED Chairman Jerome Powell called the report another sign of a growing and healthy economy, indicating that he sees no sign of any recession on the horizon. Democrats everywhere recoiled in horror. Other highlights of this...

The Campaign Update Week in Review (Because The Campaign Never Ends) The most outstanding feature of this week was the media going nuts. What was so interesting about it to me was that they went nuts every time President Trump told the truth For example, at the formal swearing-in of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, the President told the truth about the fact that he had been subjected to a shameful smearing organized by the Democrats. An absolute, unarguable fact. The media went nuts. At his rally in Ohio Friday night, Trump told the truth about the unarguable fact that...

In case you still harbor reservations about how much you love the job Sarah Sanders is doing as White House Press Secretary, read this column from Kathleen Parker at the Washington Post. Ms. Parker complains that Ms. Sanders “humiliates the media on a daily basis.” Ummmmm…yeah, so? Is there a point here? Ms. Parker’s big complaint – her last straw with Ms. Sanders, apparently – was that Sanders began her press briefing on Wednesday by – gasp! – asking various members of the press corps to talk about one thing for which they are actually thankful. “For a press secretary...

When fake news corrects fake news.: The fake journalists at the WaPo issued a “blockbuster” report – based solely on anonymous sources – that Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner contacted Russian officials in December to discuss the concept of creating a “secret” communications channel with the Trump transition team. The fake reporters for the Post spend about 1,000 words without ever landing on two key bits of information: 1) was such a channel actually established, and 2) what did they wish to discuss? To get that information, you have to go to a follow-up report, filed not by the fake reporters...