Mid-Day Snapshot · May 20, 2024 | Truth2Freedom's Blog

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Race-Baiting Biden Addresses Morehouse Grads

The president pandered to black voters he desperately needs by smearing Republicans.

Nate Jackson

“If you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black.” So said Joe Biden in 2020.

“They’re gonna put y’all back in chains!” That was Joe Biden in 2012, slandering Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan.

“I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that’s a storybook, man.” And that was Joe Biden in 2007 about the man soon to become his boss, Barack Obama.

In short, Joe Biden has a habit of saying racist things that are meant to both pander to blacks and to put them in their place.

All that setup helps frame Biden’s commencement address at Morehouse College in Atlanta on Sunday. (He also spoke Friday at the National Museum of African American History and Culture and Sunday at the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People’s “Fight for Freedom Fund” in Detroit.)

Morehouse is a historically black college that boasts Martin Luther King Jr. as an alumnus, and Biden used the opportunity to race-bait, pander, and outright lie, all in an effort to bolster his tanking poll numbers with blacks. He did what Democrats always do — turn King’s dream into a nightmare.

“You’re the reason Donald Trump is the defeated former president,” Biden said. “You’re the reason Donald Trump is going to be a loser again.”

Biden has a history of demonizing the new election law in Georgia, having previously called it “Jim Crow,” sometimes throwing in the hyperbolic modifier “on steroids” or changing it to the goofball rendition “Jim Eagle.” At Morehouse, he simply repeated another misleading claim about the law. “Today in Georgia,” he said, “they won’t allow water to be available to you while you wait in line to vote in an election. What in the hell is that all about?”

The law prohibits electioneering at polling sites by partisans offering water bottles and ensuring prospective voters know who distributed them. It does not prohibit water in voting lines. The entire purpose of Biden’s statement is to make blacks feel oppressed. The racism behind it is the assumption that blacks are somehow as uniquely incapable of bringing their own water as they are of obtaining a photo ID. Why do Biden and his fellow Democrats think blacks lack the ability to do these basic things?

To that point, Biden also attacked the opponents of DEI. “Extremists close the doors of opportunity, strike down affirmative action, attack the values of diversity, equity, and inclusion,” he hollered. “They don’t see you [blacks] in the future of America.” He also declared, “What is democracy if you have to be 10 times better than anyone else to get a fair shot?”

Democrats were the party of slavery and Jim Crow, and they’re still the party of counting by race. They just decided to shift the focus to getting votes instead of suppressing them.

Again, the real question is this: Why do Biden and his fellow Democrats think that blacks need quotas, sometimes enforced by the government, in order for blacks to achieve anything? It sends an incredibly bigoted message to the black graduates of Morehouse that all their study and work is for nothing without Democrats to make sure they get a slot somewhere.

It’s an utter lie that Republicans or conservatives want to hold back blacks. Instead, we are for a meritocracy that is, as Morehouse alum MLK said, about character and not skin color.

Biden also addressed crime, putting the racial focus in the wrong place. “If black men are being killed on the streets, we bear witness,” he said. “For me, that means to call out the poison of white supremacy, to root out systemic racism.” Generally speaking, white men are not killing black men in the streets or anywhere else. Black men are killing other black men by the thousands. Why do Biden and his fellow Democrats only bring that up to either blame the phony bogeyman of “white supremacy” or to call for stricter gun control?

The only time black lives matter to Democrats is in one of those two scenarios. The proof is in Biden’s next sentence: “I stood up for George — with George Floyd’s family to help create a country where you don’t need to have that talk with your son or grandson as they get pulled over.” By “that talk,” Biden is implying that cops are racist. Of course, he neglected to mention the truth that Floyd was a career criminal who resisted arrest and had enough fentanyl in his system to have killed him.

That is often the case with black men who commit crimes and then either resist or attack police. That is the talk needed: Don’t commit crimes. Don’t resist arrest.

Meanwhile, in Chicago, where Democrats will be hosting their 2024 presidential convention, there were 45 people shot over the weekend. The vast majority were black assailants and victims. Again, Biden never mentions that “inconvenient truth” because it does not fit his race-bait narrative.

Finally, because this was a college commencement, Biden pandered to the pro-Hamas, anti-Semitic goons who’ve taken over campuses nationwide. “I’ve called for an immediate ceasefire,” he said, “an immediate ceasefire to stop the fighting. Bring the hostages home.” Who took the hostages, most of whom are now likely dead? Hamas. Who slaughtered, raped, and kidnapped Israelis on October 7? Hamas. Who are the only people Biden is worried about now? Hamas.

Biden did mention “Hamas’s vicious attack on Israel, killing innocent lives and holding people hostage,” but his “solution” is to reward the terrorists with a “two-state solution.” The same “solution” Hamas has repeatedly rejected because “from the river to the sea” is its genocidal motto.

All told, Biden said a few things typical of a commencement address, but a good bit of his slurred speech was little other than pandering and race bait meant to placate a constituency he desperately needs if he really wants to “finish the job.”

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Executive News Summary

Iran’s president and foreign minister dead, small businesses predict closure under Biden, Mayo apologizes for science, and more.

Douglas Andrews, Thomas Gallatin, & Jordan Candler

Cross-Examination

Iran’s president and foreign minister die in helicopter crash: Last night, 12 hours after a helicopter carrying both Iran’s president, Ebrahim Raisi, and its foreign minister, Hossein Amirabdollahian, went missing, Iranian state media stopped calling it “a hard landing” and admitted that there’s “no sign of life” at the mountainous, fog-shrouded crash site in the far north of the country. There’s no indication of navigation-jamming drones at this point — only recklessness at the decision to fly under such conditions. Raisi, who Reuters describes as “a hardliner seen as a potential successor to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei,” will not be missed by anyone outside the “Death to America” crowd. Stepping in to fill the presidential void is Mohammad Mokhber, 68, Iran’s first vice president. As National Review’s Jim Geraghty notes, “Raisi’s sudden death isn’t expected to lead to any dramatic changes in the policies of the Iranian government, but it may well have narrowed the options for who will succeed the 85-year-old Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.” More mischievously, Geraghty adds, “A Hamas-affiliated Telegram account ‘took seriously an Israeli joke about a Mossad agent named “Eli Copter” being responsible for the crash, repeating the claim before deleting the post.’ Also, the word ‘gullible’ is not in the dictionary.“
Disparate impact impacts Chicago: Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx is floating a new policy that would order prosecutors in her office “to reject drug and gun charges that stem solely from some routine traffic stops.” Because, of course, what Chicago most needs now is to go even softer on crime. As the Chicago Sun-Times reports: “In an interview, Foxx said the draft policy aims to undercut a dramatic rise in stops that disproportionately target people of color and rarely lead to arrests. ‘It felt like it was time to do something about it,’ Foxx said. ‘And so our office — armed with data, armed with the knowledge that these stops have not significantly or in any way reduced violence in our city — decided that it was time to look at this issue and see if we could model a best practice that we’ve seen in other jurisdictions.’” We’re sure that beleaguered South Side residents will take great comfort in the fact that Foxx’s office is “armed with data.”
Half of small businesses predict closure under Biden: A second term of Joe Biden likely spells disaster for America’s small businesses. A recent survey conducted by Red Balloon and Public Square found that 22.4% of small businesses said they would go bust under a second Biden term, while another 26.2% said they would likely not survive. The survey asked what changes a small business could make under a second Biden term; the answers included “close my business” and “actively look at selling out to a larger competitor.” The primary issue behind the negative outlook is sustained high inflation, which currently sits at 3.4%. The simple reality is that for many, the cost of doing business is unsustainable.
Big guy’s student loan scheme doesn’t help little guys: We hate to break it to Joe Biden, but he’s not getting his money’s worth if he’s trying to buy some much-needed votes for the November presidential election. As the Foundation for Economic Education reports, Biden introduced “new provisions to his student debt relief plan earlier this month, and the primary beneficiaries are high-income earners, according to a new analysis released by the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.” That’s right: His vote-buying scheme is targeting rich folks instead of the less well-to-do folks who could really benefit from the graft. As FEE continues: “While Biden’s 2023 SAVE Plan already put taxpayers on the hook for $475 billion, the new plans add another $84 billion to the tally — largely by ‘canceling’ the student debt of some 750,000 households making more than $312,000 a year on average. The average debt relief for these households is $25,500, the study found.”
Mayo apologizes for science: When the Rainbow Mafia objects to objective reality, scientific cowards dance to their irrational tune. This is the case with the Mayo Clinic, which issued an apology to Rochester Pride after the LGBT organization objected to Dr. Mary O’Connor, an employee of the clinic who dares to hold to the science on the binary nature of sex. Recently, Dr. O’Conner, who is an orthopedic surgeon and limb reconstructionist, was a keynote speaker at a conference titled “Advancing Academic Career Excellence For Women 2024” at Mayo’s Florida campus. The Mayo Clinic is a Platinum sponsor of Rochester Pride, and rather than stand up for Dr. O’Conner, it chose to kowtow to the gender-benders. In its apology, the Mayo Clinic played along in the smearing of Dr. O’Conner, writing, “Since that time, we have learned of Dr. O’Conner’s social media activity which is inconsistent with Mayo Clinic values and does not represent the views of the organization.” And what are Dr. O’Conner’s “values that [do] not represent the views” of the Mayo Clinic? Well, science. Dr. O’Conner has specialized in the biological sex distinctions regarding how diseases affect males and females differently.
Suicide and trans kids: The Rainbow Mafia insists that failure to affirm a confused child’s “transgender” identity is tantamount to wishing death upon them. Activists claim that should these gender dysphoric youth not be allowed to “transition,” then suicide awaits. However, a recently released study is now throwing cold water all over that dubious claim. Actually, it’s worse than that. The National Institutes of Health and the University of Texas looked at the life impact of “gender-affirming” surgery. The study reviewed data from more than 90 million patients and found that the rate of attempted suicide was 12 times higher in individuals who received gender-mutilating surgeries. The lie of the gender-bender cult is actually leading to even more suicides, not fewer. This makes sense because gender dysphoria is a mental illness that physical mutilation of the body will not fix. It turns out that transing the kids is leading to higher rates of suicide.
Free vacation double standards: Democrats and their Leftmedia cohorts have spilled copious amounts of ink over Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, alleging vacuous ethics violations via his vacationing with wealthy friends. Leading the spurious attack against Justice Thomas was ProPublica, which was ridiculously awarded a Pulitzer Prize for peddling this propaganda. Never mind the fact that Justice Thomas had not violated the Court’s transparency rules or the Ethics in Government Act of 1978. It was a classic example of a smear campaign aimed at delegitimizing the Court. Meanwhile, days after ProPublica walked home with a Pulitzer, the outlet conveniently ignored the fact that, last year, Joe Biden took four vacations with wealthy supporters, and he didn’t list any of them as gifts. According to former chief White House ethics lawyer Richard Painter: “If there’s a deliberate omission of a gift, an intentional lie, that can very well be prosecuted as a criminal offense. It just seems to me to be stupid to leave it off the form because everyone knows about [presidential] trips and everyone’s going to ask who paid.” Mark Paoletta, White House general counsel under Donald Trump, asserts that this nondisclosure is not accidental: “This is another intentional refusal to disclose gifts by President Biden. His habit of taking over donors’ homes for vacations and not paying nor disclosing is consistent with his family’s long history of grift and corruption.”
Bill Maher pours cold water onto leftist outrage over Butker: We hate giving Bill Maher too much publicity. After all, he’s still a leftist. And yet, sometimes we can’t help ourselves. A case in point occurred this weekend, as Maher weighed in on the hard-Left’s caterwauling about Kansas City Chiefs placekicker Harrison Butker’s stirring commencement speech at Benedictine College. During his speech, the devoutly Catholic Butker suggested that many of the school’s female graduates might be looking forward to the indescribably important roles of motherhood and homemaking more than a professional career. “I don’t see what the big crime is,” said Maher in response. “I really don’t. And I think this is part of the problem people have with the Left is that lots of people in this country are like this. … And now, can’t that be a choice, too? And I feel like they feel very put upon, like there’s only one way to be a good person, and that’s to get an advanced degree from one of those a**hole factories like Harvard.” Once again, he’s got a point.

Headlines

AOC, Jasmine Crockett, and MTG got into a yelling match for the history books … the faces of the men say it all (Not the Bee)
Mercedes-Benz workers in Alabama vote against joining UAW, a blow to union’s expansion in the South (ABC News)
David DePape, man who attacked Paul Pelosi with a hammer, sentenced to 30 years in prison (NBC News)
Federal judge blocks Biden ATF rule expanding gun background checks (Daily Caller)
Judge strikes down part of Florida law targeting noncitizens helping with voter registration (Florida’s Voice)
Israeli forces recover bodies of three Gaza hostages (Jerusalem Post)
International Criminal Court seeks arrest for Netanyahu over Gaza “war crimes” (Fox News)
Scottish Green Party expels 13 members for saying “sex is a biological reality” (Hot Air)
Humor: After Michael Cohen testimony, Trump trial prosecutors file motion for a do-over (Babylon Bee)

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Cohen Collapses the Prosecution’s Case

The worst witness in the history of witnessing was exposed by Donald Trump’s legal team last week, as the hush-money show trial moved toward its conclusion.

Douglas Andrews

It’s said that the show must go on, but, mercifully, show trials must eventually come to an end.

Such will be the case this week in Manhattan, as the prosecution’s “star” witness — perjurer, convicted felon, disbarred lawyer, and avowed Trump-hater Michael Cohen — lived down to his expectations last week under a withering cross-examination from Donald Trump’s legal team.

The privilege of clobbering Cohen fell to Trump attorney Todd Blanche, and he didn’t disappoint. Indeed, he masterfully exposed this most consequential of Cohen’s lies and, in doing so, destroyed Cohen’s credibility regarding a key component of the prosecution’s argument: that Trump ordered a hush-money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels to hide the scandal of his alleged infidelity from voters — as if that were a crime for anyone not named Former President Donald John Trump.

As the New York Post reports, the “Perry Mason Moment,” as it were, came Thursday when Blanche broke the following news to the jury: “Michael Cohen was actually whining about a 14-year-old prank caller when he claimed to have had a key conversation with Donald Trump about the hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels.”

Blanche shared call logs and text messages between Cohen and Trump’s then-bodyguard, Keith Schiller. The texts showed that Cohen wanted to talk to Schiller about a 14-year-old kid who was prank-calling him, but there’s no mention whatsoever of Daniels. As for the contents of the accompanying call, which lasted a mere 96 seconds, Blanche said: “That was a lie. You did not talk to President Trump — you talked to Keith Schiller, you can admit it. … A 1:36 phone call and you had enough time to update Schiller about all the problems you were having and also update President Trump about the status of the Stormy Daniels situation because you had to keep him informed.”

Jury trials often hinge on complex matters, but this one seemed to hinge on something that couldn’t be simpler: the utter lack of credibility of Trump’s main accuser. “I don’t think I’ve ever seen a star cooperating witness get his knees chopped out quite as clearly and dramatically as what just happened with Michael Cohen,” admitted CNN legal analyst Elie Honig. “I’ve certainly seen very effective cross-examinations of cooperating witnesses. I’ve seen aspects of their story cut into and called into question. But this goes to the heart of the allegation here.”

No less a Trump-hater than CNN’s Anderson Cooper, who was in the courtroom during that exchange, understood the gravity of the moment: “I think it’s devastating for Michael Cohen’s credibility on this one particular topic,” he said.

On this one particular topic?

Perhaps Cooper wasn’t paying as much attention to the jurors as Matt Gaetz was. The Florida Republican congressman said afterward that one juror seemed to be holding back laughter as Cohen was being undressed on the stand.

It’s said that when a witness gets caught lying on the stand, the jury no longer sees a witness; it sees a liar. Surely that’s the case with Cohen. But Cohen isn’t the prosecution’s only problem; the case itself is a problem. As constitutional law professor Jonathan Turley notes:

For any discerning juror, the trial has been conspicuously lacking any clear statement from the prosecutors of what crime Trump was attempting to commit by allegedly mischaracterizing payments as “legal expenses.” Even liberal legal experts have continued to express doubt over what crime is being alleged as the government rests its case.

There is also the failure of the prosecutors to establish that Trump even knew of how payments were denoted or that these denotations were actually fraudulent in denoting payments to a lawyer as legal expenses. The judge [a political donor to Biden and other Democrat causes, whose daughter’s firm has raised millions for Democrats by attacking Trump] has allowed this dangerously undefined case to proceed without demanding greater clarity from the prosecution.

As no less than Michael Cohen’s former attorney, Robert Costello, noted during Cohen’s implosion: “There’s nothing that I know about this case that could give the prosecution more life. This case is dead. It was dead on arrival. It never should have been brought. It should have been dismissed by this judge. He still has an opportunity to do that, but I doubt very much he will do that.”

So the question is: Has reasonable doubt been introduced to at least one juror, either about the veracity of the charges against Trump or the witnesses arrayed against him? Today, Trump’s defense team will take their final shots at Cohen, after which the prosecution will try to “rehab” him. Good luck with that.

“New Yorkers are a curious breed,” observes Turley. “Yes, they overwhelmingly hate Trump, but they also universally hate being treated like chumps. When they get this case, they just might look around the courtroom and decide that they are the suckers in a crooked game.”

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Harvard Brass’s Anti-Semitic Failure

The administration slow-walked putting protective policy into action and is now disappointed for being called out.

Emmy Griffin

The House of Representative’s Committee on Education and the Workforce has found that Harvard University was unconscionably slow to react to the wave of anti-Semitism on campus starting last fall. This just in.

The main theme of the committee’s findings was that the administration slow-walked putting policy into action to protect students and disregarded the Antisemitism Advisory Group (AAG) that the school had set up to protect Jewish students.

Here are just a few of the charges leveled at Harvard’s administration:

The AAG was little more than a virtue signal. The group itself could be judged as an exercise in moral equivalence. That being said, the majority of AAG members were brave enough to threaten to resign over the administration’s lack of action to protect Jewish and Israeli students and counter the anti-Semitic speech on campus.

What matters — and what speaks volumes — is that the administration’s actions demonstrated the lack of care necessary to restore order on campus. The advisory committee’s good advice was ignored, and its counsel was not sought out by the administration.

Jewish students were yelled at, and some even spit on or followed menacingly by “protesters.” This poor behavior, which violated the college’s code of conduct and was clearly anti-Semitic, was not quickly investigated, nor was action swiftly taken against the instigators. Jewish students had to complain not only to the administration but also to the advisory board for changes to be made. Even still, the rampant chants and calls for genocide continued.

Chants like “From the river to the sea” and “Long live the intifada,” which rang across Harvard common spaces, were not addressed by the administration.

Then there was former President Claudine Gay’s congressional testimony — for which she did not seek advice from AAG — wherein she said that students’ chants for genocide against Israel were only anti-Semitic “depending on the context.”

Harvard spokesperson Jason Newton said in response to the House committee’s findings: “Across 17 submissions, including more than 30,000 pages of information, Harvard has continued to cooperate with the Committee’s inquiry and address their ongoing questions. It is disappointing to see selective excerpts from internal documents, shared in good faith, released in this manner, offering an incomplete and inaccurate view of Harvard’s overall efforts to combat antisemitism last fall and in the months since.”

Harvard brass is disappointed for being called out. But these anti-Western bastions of DEI and moral equivalence are where the leftist radicals are bred and allowed to vent their most violent, hateful spleens, all in the name of the leftist ideologies that they’ve been fed at university. The chickens have come to roost, and Harvard has been exposed for the world to see. However, unearthing the rot is part of the much-needed renewal of our Ivy Leagues and other higher ed institutions across the U.S. It’s the only way that change for the better can happen.

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Quantico Breach: A Terrorism Dry Run?

The White House remains mum over two foreign nationals, one on the U.S. terrorist watch list, who attempted to gain entry into Quantico.

Thomas Gallatin

On May 3, two men, one a Jordanian national, posing as Amazon delivery drivers sought entry to Quantico Marine Corps Base in Virginia. After MPs at the gate, suspicious of their claims, ordered the two in their box truck to pull into a holding area for further review, they ignored the order and sought to drive into the base. The truck was quickly disabled and the two were detained.

This incident did not make national news until the end of last week. Why?

What has been reported thus far is that at least one of these men is a Jordanian national who illegally entered the U.S. via the southern border. Furthermore, one of these two is also on the U.S. terrorist watch list.

After being detained, they were turned over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. No more information has been released to the public, and even the names of these individuals have been withheld.

Questions abound. Who are these two men? What business did they have on the base? Did they have any weapons? Was their truck a weapon? Was this a foiled terror attack or a dry run for a future attack?

Fox News’s Peter Doocy raised the incident with White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, asking, “Does the White House believe this may have been a potential terror attack?”

Jean-Pierre’s answer amounted to a “no comment,” as she called it “a law enforcement matter” and refused to delve any further. This seems suspicious. Why is the White House so tight-lipped? There are a number of answers, none of them favorable to Joe Biden.

First of all, thanks to Biden’s de facto open border policy, an unknowable number of terrorists have entered the U.S. Since Biden took office, at least 340 individuals on the terror watchlist have been interdicted after crossing the border. Furthermore, at least eight of these individuals have been accidentally released by an overwhelmed Border Patrol. Clearly, the administration doesn’t want the media spotlight on a thwarted terrorist attack against a U.S. Marine Corps base by jihadists who gained entry into the U.S. thanks to Biden’s border malfeasance.

Second, since many Palestinians are Jordanian Arabs, it may be that these two are connected to Hamas directly or even Iran. Biden has been trying to placate the radical anti-Israel contingent of his base while also pledging support for Israel. Furthermore, Biden wants to bring into the U.S. a number of Palestinian refugees from the Gaza Strip, a move that some are warning against, likening it to inviting the fox into the henhouse. This incident could derail those plans.

Third, the last thing Biden needs as he sinks further behind Donald Trump in the polls is news of an attempted terrorist attack on U.S. soil on his watch. One of the president’s primary duties is to safeguard the American people. Biden’s border malfeasance has done the opposite.

Even more troubling is that this latest incident is the fourth attempt by foreign nationals to forcibly gain entry to a U.S. military base since January 2023. And according to reporting last year from The Wall Street Journal, upwards of 100 Chinese nationals posing as tourists have sought entry to U.S. military bases over the last few years.

The question is not whether the enemy is within the gates; the question is how many are currently within them.

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VIDEOS

Biden’s Senior Moment of the Week (Vol. 94) — Biden botched the name of his own labor secretary, celebrated the contributions of “NAAHNANHPI students,” and touted government investments that “helpbassdvjeverything.”
‘Protesting Peacefully’ — Jamaal Bowman claims he saw Columbia students “protesting peacefully” while others saw something entirely unpeaceful.
They Want a Real-Life Planet of the Apes — Freya Allan and Owen Teague, two human stars of “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes,” recently said that they are on the side of the animals due to the current state of the planet. Just like all of the libs, they hate humans.
Gangsta Judge — A judge has been indicted for two drive-by shootings in two different states.
Kicking Buttker — Through a manufactured fog of lies, the simple truth about women, celebrities, and Donald Trump comes shining through.
Satire: Satan Asks Democrats to Tone Down All the Evil — In a regularly scheduled marketing meeting with Democrats, Satan asks them to tone down all the evil just a little bit.

BEST OF RIGHT OPINION

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SHORT CUTS

Jordan Candler

Non Compos Mentis

“My administration’s taken the most significant action, notwithstanding the Supreme Court tried to stop me, to provide student debt relief. Most supreme ever.” —Joe Biden

“We raised 400 million billion dollars over the next 10 years.” —Joe Biden

Spin Doctor

“How Republicans Echo Antisemitic Tropes Despite Declaring Support for Israel.” —The New York Times

For the Record

“There are reports that Joe Biden is about to issue an executive order to close the southern border when illegal crossings are exceeding 4,000 a day. … 4,000 crossings a day is still 1,460,000 illegal aliens entering our country a year. So, Biden thinks we’re supposed to tolerate nearly 1.5 million illegal aliens crossing our border. That’s not a ‘closed border.’ More importantly, Biden has repeatedly said that he has no such power.” —Gary Bauer

Re: The Left

“Nobody assumed [Harrison] Butker was speaking on behalf of the NFL. He wasn’t wearing his Chiefs uniform, and he wasn’t speaking at an NFL event. So, why was the NFL so anxious to disavow his views? It’s very telling, and it shows how committed the left is. Once it captures an institution, like the NFL, that institution is made to hate the values of millions of Americans. … Remember Colin Kaepernick? He didn’t express his radical far-left views to just anti-American groups in his private time. He expressed his views on NFL playing fields in front of thousands of fans and millions of viewers at home. The NFL never denounced Kaepernick for his anti-Americanism.” —Gary Bauer

“It’s the Left that claims conservatives will ‘end democracy’ and crush freedom of speech, while they demonstrate their absolute intolerance of an opposing point of view. They can’t achieve true ‘progress’ until dissenters are heckled and banned.” —Tim Graham

Green New Despotism

“I don’t know about you, but I’m not sure I’d trust the president to drive my car much less dictate the future of industrial policy. Yet, Biden implemented draconian emissions limits for all vehicles, ensuring that within nine years, 67% of all new passenger cars and trucks will be electric. In the old days, a centralized state controlling manufacturing and commerce, production, prices, wages and conditions in our biggest sectors would be called ‘fascist.’ Today, we simply refer to it as the Green New Deal.” —David Harsanyi

“Why do we even assume winning the EV war is a good thing? If an EV future were inevitable, the state wouldn’t have to bribe and force companies to produce them.” —David Harsanyi

Political Futures

“When the history of the 2024 election is written, the fact that the debates (or debate) occurred may be more noteworthy than any effect they had on the race.” —Matthew Continetti

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