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The astonishing political events of the last four weeks make plain, once again, how much of America's history depends on what voters have come to accept as the choice of one person: each presidential nominee's choice of a vice presidential candidate. Even as the nomination process was expanded, half a century ago, to include millions of primary ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- "This is not a clash of civilization. It's a clash between barbarism and civilization," Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a joint session of Congress on Wednesday, in a speech directed at speeding up U.S. military aid for his country.

Bibi's appearance also put a spotlight on the rift in America, especially among ...Read more

"Freedom is always just one generation away from extinction."

-- Ronald Reagan (1911-2004)

In December 1776, just six months after the Declaration of Independence had been signed and a year and a half into the Revolutionary War, Thomas Paine sensed a desperation throughout the colonies. It prompted him to write a candid and now iconic ...Read more

The recent days in the presidential sweepstakes have witnessed the equivalent of a coup de theatre.

The near-miss assassination of Republican candidate Donald Trump.

President Joe Biden's withdrawal from the 2024 race but one month before the Democratic National Convention.

The immediate virtual unity among the ordinarily fractious ...Read more

Members of the new right wing of the Republican Party have proclaimed themselves the champions of the working class. I am sure they mean it, despite many of them being among the elite of the elite. And because so many are lawyers -- including those like VP nominee J.D. Vance who come from elite Ivy League schools -- we can forgive them for ...Read more

The American public has been subjected to massive propaganda efforts by both our government and our media for years. It's important to understand the impact this has on the current presidential campaign.

That starts with understanding the difference between deception and indoctrination .

Those who have been merely deceived ...Read more

In President Joe Biden's announcement on social media of his decision to not run for reelection, he ticked off the many wonderful achievements during his three and a half years in the nation's highest office.

But if things are so great, as Biden seems to think, why are Americans so dispirited?

Biden's personal polling is horrible. General ...Read more

Joe Biden's presidency is all but finished.

Unfortunately, the harm wrought by Biden's and his subordinates' short-term media cycle tactic of projecting "a different picture" has damaged U.S. national security in the long term. The distrust and cynicism the "different picture" scam bred will scar U.S. domestic politics for at least three ...Read more

Vice President Kamala Harris is a race hustler, a divider when the nation needs a unifier.

If Democrats make Harris the nominee for the nation's top job, Americans will be given a stark choice in November: between racial preferences and fairness. A President Harris would rub raw the racial divisions in this country and ignite new violence in ...Read more

Now it's Donald Trump versus Kamala Harris. But there will be another choice on your ballot: Chase Oliver. Both Trump and former Democrat-turned-independent Robert F. Kennedy Jr. addressed the Libertarian Party convention, asking for their nomination, but Oliver won their votes. He's a 38-year-old political activist and businessman. Rolling ...Read more

When Vice President Joe Biden met with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao in Beijing in 2011, the two men joked about their age.

"I note that we were born in the same year," Wen said when they made a joint public appearance. "You have spent about 35 years in public service, and I've been working in the government compound of Beijing for more or less ...Read more

Joe Biden is no longer the Democratic presidential nominee.

After weeks of heartburn from the Democratic political establishment -- and the unique spectacle of the media finally holding the Democrats accountable for their dishonesty -- Biden announced this week that he would be dropping out of the presidential race. That announcement followed...Read more

The bitter Sunday afternoon announcement that President Joe Biden would end his reelection bid spurred hours of live network television coverage. With all that time to talk, it was guaranteed that the TV newsers would start worrying out loud about a new Kamala Harris presidential campaign.

CBS really demonstrated the protective liberal urges. ...Read more

Sometimes God's miracles raise hard questions.

Last weekend, former President Donald Trump came within milliseconds of being assassinated. Slow-motion video showed that moments before the bullet whizzed by him, Trump was looking to his right. At the perfect moment, he turned his head a bit more. That caused the bullet to hit his ear, not ...Read more

BUTLER, Pennsylvania -- The drive between Butler, Pennsylvania, and the Ohio village of East Palestine is less than 42 miles long. In between are the villages and boroughs of Lyndora, Connoquenessing and Evans City on the Pennsylvania side before you cross the state line directly into the village of East Palestine.

It is a stretch of ...Read more

I have attended about a half-dozen national conventions, Republican and Democratic, and watched at least a dozen more. And I can say two things: 1) They have all generally bored me. 2) The 2024 Republican National Convention didn't. The RNC not only held my interest, it often moved me emotionally.

If you weren't moved to tears by the families ...Read more