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There is One Issue that Could Transform the 2024 Race – President Joe Biden is up for reelection and his only real hope is to go up against a GOP nominee that’s as damaged as he is. If Biden must go up against anyone other than former President Donald J. Trump in 2024, he will likely lose. At least that’s according to some new polls that were released this last week—and these polls are giving the Democratic Party’s powerbrokers real heartburn. Because the closer that we move toward the election, the harder it will be for the Democrats to find...

If there’s a clear lesson to come out of Tuesday night’s bizarre midterm election, it’s that Republicans can no longer be content with defensive victories or defensive politics. To win political power and do what must be done to save the country, Republicans will have to go on offense, present a compelling vision for the future, and engage culture war issues like abortion and critical race theory without apologies. When they do that, they win. But it stands in stark contrast to the perennial advice of Beltway GOP consultants, who think it best to avoid major culture war issues like...

Billionaire George Soros is that rare megalomaniac who not only believes he’s a god but revels in behaving like one. “It’s a sort of a disease when you consider yourself some kind of god, the creator of everything, but I feel comfortable about it now since I began to live it out,” he once boasted to The Independent. This god complex, combined with his downright amorality and bizarre ideas about society, makes the 92-year-old extremely dangerous to democracies, especially America. The warning comes loud and clear in Matt Palumbo’s recent book, The Man Behind the Curtain: Inside the Secret Network...

Speaking at a San Francisco fundraiser in 2008, Barack Obama sought to explain the reluctance of working-class Pennsylvanians to rally to his cause. "You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and ... the jobs have been gone now for 25 years, and nothing's replaced them." "And it's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment ... as a way to explain their frustrations."

“Journalists uncover the truth, check the abuse of power, and demand transparency from those in power. They are indispensable. And, at a time when the truth is increasingly under attack, our need for accurate, fact-based reporting, open public conversation, and accountability has never been greater.” That was President Biden in a statement on National Press Day not long after taking office in 2021. Hard to argue with the sentiment: Journalists are indispensable to a functioning democracy. The need for accountability has never been greater.

When Donald Trump was elected president in 2016, many Americans believed he would turn off the life support system that sustains the D.C. swamp of corrupt politicians, contractors, bureaucrats, and litigators. Instead, Washington’s wealthy ruling political class triumphed with help from the Federal bureaucracy. Trump, the disruptor, the carnival barker, was subverted, obstructed, and forced from office. A time-honored article of faith for both parties in Washington, D.C., is that American citizens are too shortsighted and uninformed to make good policy choices. Washington’s ruling political class must act for them. But the widespread expectation in both political parties of a...

Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican Senate Minority Leader, was labeled the “least popular politician in America” in December. An aggregate of polls from RealClearPolitics showed that just 24% of Americans see McConnell in a favorable light, while 59% view him unfavorably. It gave the Kentucky Senator a net negative approval rating of 35%.

This article is republished with permission from Enza Ferreri's blog. But first, My introductionPlease consider the similarities and differences among the UK Independence Party (UKIP), the Republican Party and the "Tea Parties," with emphasis on the Republican and Tea Parties. Here are two videos which are well worth watching, comparing and contrasting before reading the article: First, a video by Bill Whittle on principles, speaking and behaving consistently with them. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCyYDI-RKps] Video linkNext, a UKIP video on its recent electoral success: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXIftnEO128] Video linkHere is Enzi Ferreri's article about UKIP. I have used bold face type to indicate what I consider the portions most pertinent to the comparisons I am asking readers to...

Governors Paul LePage (R) and Chris Christie (R) are not afraid to deliver the realities to their constituents and that should not surprise anyone. Le Page will put in on the line on January 24, 2012 and Christie has already done it on January 17, 2012.

Blagojevich scandal ensnares Obama, Jesse Jackson Jr. Kansas City Star, MO By Yael T. Abouhalkah, Kansas City Star Editorial Page columnist The scandal involving Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich is spreading. ... http://voices.kansascity.com/node/3036Blagojevich Scandal Could Mean Trouble For Obama Team U.S. News & World Report, DC - Dec 10, 2008 ... ensnared in the scandal." The Wall Street Journal, meanwhile, reports Axelrod "lists Mr. Blagojevich on his firm's Web site as one of his clients, ... http://www.usnews.com/usnews/politics/bulletin/bulletin_081210.htmThe Blagojevich scandal http://clivecrook.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/12/the_blagojevich_scandal.phpUnion Linked to Corruption Scandal http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/12/us/politics/12union.html?ref=us

Today Senator Obama told a little 7 year old girl, "America is no longer what it could be, what it once was, and I say to myself I don't want that future for my children." Obama is saying that America has become a worse nation since his childhood. I'm not one to go after a spouse, but I think given that Michelle Obama said that she was proud of her country for the first time in her life eariler in this campaign. This statement is just another stupid mistake that Obama should've avoided. However Obama is right about one thing,...

In this particular ABC/Washington Post poll, 80% claimed to be registered voters. (Question number 905.) But this undoubtedly exaggerated the number of registered voters in the pool, since as of 2002, only 66% of eligible voters were registered.Next, take a look at question number three in the ABC/Post poll: no fewer than 70% of those who answered the telephone, and claimed to be registered voters, said they are "absolutely certain" to vote, while another 11% said they "probably" will vote and 5% said they already had voted. Those numbers add up to 86% of registered voters, and, if 80% of...

The ability to vote and of political expression are indeed rights, but rights are not the same thing as civic requirements. Their exercise can be declined, such as one can decline the right to bear arms or any other American privilege. Those without political interest should feel free to decline their right to political expression.

Forget the war in Iraq, the war on terror, or any other war against which Connecticut citizens are said to have voted by defeating Joe Lieberman and nominating Ned Lamont for the U.S. Senate. The operative war for American citizens is something closer to home -- a war of independence from the bickering partisans who have made political life in America a childish and tedious exercise.

America is a country of Closers. Remember, "Show me the money"? Remember, "Where's the beef?" Americans want to see results. Somewhere in France at the time you are reading this article, French students are protesting the proposed reforms of the guaranteed two-year job retention program. I can't think of anything more anti-American than guaranteeing, say a car sales job to an individual that can't close the customer.

She outlined three areas where Democrats would seek to differentiate themselves from Republicans: integrity, civility and accountability. If Democrats were to take control of the House in November, their first actions would focus on promoting those values, she said. “These are not full-blown initiatives,” she cautioned, “[but] they are a beginning to differentiate from the Republicans’ misguided priorities of taking us deeply into debt, bringing up divisive social issues instead and raising those issues instead of raising the minimum wage.”

How much do you know about the U.S.-Mexican War of 1846? http://www.mysanantonio.com/salife/stories/MYSA051606.01P.mxwar.1162a2d9.html http://tinyurl.com/jywhy Web Posted: 05/16/2006 12:00 AM CDT Elaine Ayala Express-News Staff Writer For many, knowledge about the U.S.-Mexican War of 1846-1848 runs from nonexistent to sparse. Funny, given that without that major U.S. conquest, we might be living in Mexico, not Texas. Americans' knowledge of that crucial period may be limited to the U.S. takeover or purchase (depending on your perspective) of what today is the Southwestern United States ranging from Texas to California. But like many historical events, things were a lot more complicated than that. The...

http://fancyford.com/Congressman Harold Ford, Jr. likes to live the good life...perhaps a little too much. Lavish hotel stays. Fine dining. Couture suits. Parties with Playboy Playmates...all on his campaign contributors' dime.It makes you wonder...what would the folks back in Tennessee think?

The Jewish Love Affair With the Democrats By Jason Maoz Why are Jews still wedded to the Democratic party, years after it stopped making any economic or political sense for them to remain in the marriage? It`s a question one hears often from bewildered non-Jews and Republican Jews (Democratic Jews - i.e., the vast majority of American Jews - seem oblivious to the question, let alone any possible answer). The truth is, there is no single answer. The most commonly heard explanation, one routinely offered up in "analysis" pieces by lazy journalists and High Holiday sermons by liberal Reform rabbis,...

BARF ALERT! NEW YORK - Martina Navratilova defended comments about the United States she made to a German magazine last month and said she may run for public office one day. Navratilova complained in the German weekly Die Zeit that money matters too much in her adopted homeland and that she "exchanged one system that suppressed freedom of opinion for another." "It's depressing — decisions from America are based only on how much money comes out of them in the end, and not on the question of how much health, ethics or the environment suffer," Navratilova was quoted as saying....