Kamala in Arizona: I Respect Your Pro-Hamas Voices (Jazz Shaw/HotAir)

Free Beacon Editor Corrects PBS Claim ‘There’s No Evidence’ Walz Padded Military Resume

Fox News hosts mocked for outrage over Kamala Harris’ cooking videos (Sarah K. Burris/Raw Story)

Is ‘Mean Girls’ a Winning Script for Kamala?  It’s all she’s got.

Walz and legions of ‘dudes’ want to give men permission to vote Democrat (Danielle Kurtzleben/NPR)

WATCH: Mystery Deepens: Who’s Running US in Joe and Kamala’s Absence?

Harris’s Big Gift To Trump… If He Uses It

Veterans in Congress Enter Walz-Vance Service Fray

JD Vance Attacked Tim Walz’s Military Record. This Former John Kerry Strategist Has Thoughts. (Catherine Kim/Politico)

Kamala Harris’ Sorority Sisters Launch a PAC (The Daily Beast)

Assessing claims about Tim Walz’s military service (Glenn Kessler/Washington Post)

George Floyd’s brother endorses Harris-Walz, says Minnesota governor is ‘built for this’ (Pilar Melendez/NBC News)

NPR Shocked That GOP Mocked Walz Putting Tampons in Boys’ Bathrooms

Tim Walz ‘misspoke’ when he discussed using weapons ‘in war,’ campaign says (NBC News)

Gov. Walz Attended Abolish ICE Protest March

Kamala Harris could make history as the first president to work at McDonald’s (Alex Woodward/The Independent)  That’s about what she’s qualified for.

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Apparently the problem is not that some Pakistani men are cowardly wife beaters, the problem is climate change.

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Facebook has nuked the account of famed evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins after he said that genetically male boxers should not be allowed to fight women in the Olympics.

Welcome to our world. Be careful not to step in the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.

The Foundry.

The top practitioners of critical race theory just held a weeklong “summer school” in Nashville, Tennessee, to strategize, assess the movement, and debate how best to proselytize the next generation. It was an instructive six days of revolutionary agitprop.

Two things immediately stood out. The first is that, yes, despite its protestations to the contrary, the architects of CRT know they must focus intently on those who participate in the teaching profession. If CRT is a tool to be used for “revolutionizing a culture,” as its intellectual godfather, Derrick Bell, once put it, it must be implemented by teachers starting in K-12 and through graduate school.

K-12 teachers, along with students at all levels, were given special ticket prices to the CRT conference at a deep discount, as my colleague and friend Jonathan Butcher pointed out. K-12 principals also were given a special package, though at a smaller discount.

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Time to leave.

UPDATE: As the sun sets on British and Canadian liberty

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Funny how they target the ‘far-right’ for violence but it’s aways the far-left that promote it.

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I think we’re backing the stupid party in this conflict.

“This is what life was like under the communists. After the initial terror, the system fell into an institutional ban on speaking freely. Everyone had to worry about who might be listening, even in their private quarters. You can never be sure if the person next to you was a government informant or could not easily become one. The result is everyone had to be guarded all the time about what they said and did.

I love the way the ‘Helpers, construction trades’ and ‘Aircraft pilots & flight engineers’ pictures are obviously women, when women are a trivial part of those demographics.

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It is astonishing that the UK government is so committed to defending immigrants who rape and murder and “groom” and terrorize other people, that they are now threatening to arrest anyone in the world who so much as criticizes their current policy. The entire media has fallen in line, portraying Muslim gangs as “defenders,” those who stand for freedom and life as “racists and fascists.”

Even the centre-right Telegraph describes anyone who so much as identifies the religion of the latest murderer (who knifed three little girls to death) as “far-right.” They are arresting and imprisoning anyone who is so daring and revolutionary as to post an opinion on Facebook that does not agree with the Received Opinion.

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Why did Kamala Harris pick Tim Walz? Well, we know this: It was not for the sake of “diversity.” Not to tack toward the ideological “middle” for the general election, as is the traditional practice. Not for any discernible electoral advantage. So why? My guess is that her choice was psychological as much as anything. I say that because there are pretty odd things about these two that are hard to ignore.

Some facts: We know that Kamala Harris goes through staffers at a 95% turnover rate. We know that as California’s Attorney General, she expected to be greeted by staffers with, “Good morning, General.” We have seen that she responds very defensively to even the most gentle challenges from the press. We know she has not exposed herself to any questioning from the press since Biden endorsed her for President. When she speaks publicly, we know she is careful to speak only in zero-calorie word salads containing nothing substantive that might invite a difficult question.

As for Walz, we know he is, ideologically, as perfect a twin to Kamala Harris as any of the candidates. From the reports of the VP interviews, we know that Walz disclaimed any personal ambitions beyond VP, and pledged to Harris he would do whatever she required of him. One staffer admitted Harris went with her “gut,” with an aid characterizing Harris’s decision as akin to choosing–wait for it–a husband.

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Travelling back from the reality inhabited by the Guardian, it can be reported that last year’s gains were eye-catchingly large. On the Northern GBR, hard coral cover leapt from 35.8% to 39.5%, in the central area it rose from 30.7% to 34%, while in the south it went from 34% to 39.1%. The report is the result of monitoring of hard coral cover reefs from August 2023 to June 2024 by the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS). The percentage of hard coral cover is a standard measurement of reef conditions used by scientists and is said to provide a simple and robust measure of reef health. Similar reports have been published by the AIMS over the last 38 years.

For the first two years of record coral growth, the narrative-driven mainstream media ignored the recovery story. But this year, the suspicious might contend, something had to be done to blunt the sensational news of the stonking rises. Help has come in the form of a paper just published in Nature which uses proxy temperature measurements and climate models to suggest temperatures around the vast reef area are the highest recorded in 400 years. This time period is the blink of an ecological eye-lid given that coral has been around for hundreds of millions of years during periods when temperatures and atmospheric carbon dioxide have been markedly different. Nevertheless, this is said to pose an existential threat despite it being known that sub-tropical corals thrive between 24°C-32°C, and in fact seem to grow faster in warmer waters.

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Dr. Anthony Fauci often claims a “DNA of caring” yet his actions reveal a stark contrast. Avoiding direct patient care, Dr. Fauci focused on populations—effecting a mindset aligned with abstract compassion for humanity that nonetheless neglects individual rights. His so-called ‘DNA of caring’ has most recently doubly stranded those subjected to it: first, by amplifying fear about Covid-19 while burying mitigating data; second, by pushing a vaccine in a draconian, methodical, and threatening manner, taking away liberty and jobs to an extreme never seen before in the history of mankind.

Additionally, by fast-tracking and strong-arming an mRNA vaccine-platform technology heretofore devoid of Phase II or III safety studies, Dr. Fauci prioritized hypothetical scientific advancement over actual current health, medical knowledge, and personal liberties—effectively double-crossing both the public’s trust and violating his own integrity: contradicting medically foundational principles he had spent his career enunciating—perhaps influenced by pharmaceutical interests.

Is this ‘Shit on Fauci Day’? I’m in.

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For months, governmental officials around the world have appeared to want to forgo discussing the specter of long COVID. As a new review makes clear, that is wishful thinking—and the latest COVID variants may well kick long COVID into overdrive, a scenario that researchers and experts have been warning about for some time.

“I think they (government agencies) are itching to pretend that COVID is over and that long COVID does not exist,” says Ziyad Al-Aly, director of the Clinical Epidemiology Center at Veterans Affairs St. Louis Health Care System and lead author of the review. “It is much more pleasant to pretend as if emergency department visits and hospitalizations haven’t been rising sharply this summer.”

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In the latest indication that new President Jose Raul Mulino may be serious about his campaign pledge to end the country’s role as a major funnel of masses of illegal immigrants bound for the United States, Panamanian border police on Wednesday arrested 15 people linked to an illicit “VIP” migrant-smuggling operation that caters to Chinese clients, AFP reports. The detainees — who face 15 to 20 years in prison — are all Panamanian, but are accused of working for Colombian gangs.

While the Pan-American Highway stretches some 19,000 miles through South, Central and North America, there’s a 66-mile gap that starts just inside Colombia and stretches into Panama. That means migrants have to make a harrowing journey on foot through a mountainous and marshy region called the Darien Gap. They not only have to survive dangerous natural conditions, but also criminal gangs known to rape, murder, kidnap and rob them.

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Funny how we never see Republicans switch to being Democrats (at least formally).

The Foundry.

Vice President Kamala Harris just announced her selection of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate in the Nov. 5 presidential election.

As governor, Walz routinely touts his gun ownership and affinity for duck hunting as a reason why people should take his opinions in favor of more gun control seriously.

He completely misses the point.

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Vice President Kamala Harris’ role as President Biden’s “border czar” has sparked the worst border crisis in American history, a fact well known by now. However, a new report highlights a concerning new threat stream: drug cartels on the southern border are increasingly weaponizing drones with explosives, similar to what’s being seen on modern battlefields in Eastern Europe and the Middle East. All of this is happening under VP Harris’ watch.

Trump Turns Up Heat on Harris Over Dodging the Press (Mary Ann Akers/The Daily Beast)

Embattled Dem Sherrod Brown Bails on Democratic Convention. Why?

Biden-Harris Admin Quietly Proposes Cut to NatSec Program—and Boost to Equity and ‘Environmental Justice’ Initiatives

CBS Fangirls over Lefty Teen Influences on TikTok Helping Dems

Harris campaign tweaks Walz biography amid scrutiny of military credentials (Jared Mitovich/Politico)

“I Would Have Told Him, ‘Suck It Up’”: Walz’s Decision to Retire Before Deployment Frustrated National Guard Superior

States Sue Over Biden Rule Extending Health Insurance to DACA Immigrants

Tim Walz Promoted Media Misrepresentations of His Military Service in 2006 Run

“They take the strategic national reserves. They’re virtually empty now. We have never had it this low.” (Lisa Lerer/New York Times)

Tim Walz is giving MAGA a master class in manhood (Ja’han Jones/MSNBC) Yeah, how not to.

Masculinity’s check-engine light is on. Let Tim Walz have a look. (Monica Hesse/Washington Post)

Tim Walz’s Camo Cap Is More Important Than You Think (Derek Guy/Politico)

Democrats Try To Make 2024 the ‘Cat Lady’ Election

As Minnesota Governor, Tim Walz Signed Law Mandating Racial Quotas Throughout State Health Department

Tim Walz, ‘Folksy’ Socialist

‘That is a frightened Donald Trump’: Scaramucci reacts to Trump’s remarks at Mar-a-Lago (CNN)

Trump unravels in Mar-A-Lago press conference, ranting about Kamala Harris’ crowd size (MSNBC)

Trump Team Says Trainwreck Press Conference Is a Sign of Discipline (The New Republic)

“I F**king Told Them!”: Enraged Butler Cop On Bodycam Says He Told Secret Service To Cover Warehouse Used By Shooter, And They Agreed

Trump Tries to Wrestle Back Attention at Mar-a-Lago News Conference (New York Times)

Trump lashes out at Harris and falsely claims no one was killed on January 6 (Martin Pengelly/The Guardian) No one was killed by the rioters.

Trump holds seemingly pointless press conference filled with false claims (Andrew Feinberg/The Independent)

Stalking and Squawking – The weird, puzzling and so far ineffective counterattacks by the Trump campaign (Jay Kuo/The Status Kuo)

Why isn’t the media reporting on Trump’s increasing dementia? (Robert Reich)

Project 2025 is everywhere. Don’t believe the distancing or “winding down” claims. (Chris Geidner/Law Dork)

Is Donald Trump ‘quiet quitting’? Here’s what his ‘meltdown at Mar-a-Lago’ reveals (David Badash/Alternet.org)

Trump Spews Lies, Disparages Harris’s Intelligence, Insults Jews, and Rambles About “Insane Asylums” in Unhinged Press Conference (Bess Levin/Vanity Fair)

Lawrence: ‘Stupidest’ candidate Trump did not answer reporters’ questions (MSNBC)

The Real Reason Trump and Vance Hate Being Called ‘Weird’ (Jamelle Bouie/New York Times)  Somebody might mistake them for Democrats.

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NavyMatters.

Value – The LCS has almost no combat capability.  Hence, the value for the money is near zero.

Opportunity Cost – The opportunity cost = $27.5B.  What could we have done with $27.5B if we had not spent it on the LCS program?  Well, the alternative opportunities are nearly endless:  munitions, mines, a dedicated minesweeper, ASW destroyer/corvette, air wings, dry docks, etc.  At this point, it’s not even debatable that almost any alternative choice would have been a better use of the funds.  In other words, the opportunity cost-value far exceeded the actual cost-value.

Bear in mind that this is not a case of hindsight.  Almost everyone except the Navy pointed out massive problems with the program from day one:  concurrency, lack of CONOPS, a multitude of design issues, insufficient weight and stability margins, a badly flawed manning model, a badly flawed maintenance model, lack of armament, complete absence of modules, etc.  There was no hindsight involved or required.  The problems were painfully obvious and predictable.  In fact, the term ‘predictable’ implies a small degree of uncertainty.  Regarding the LCS problems, there was no uncertainty.  The problems were 100% certain to occur, as was pointed out by … well … everyone.

The LCS is the poster child for a program that should never have left the back-of-the-napkin stage.  It produced no value and a staggering $27.5B wasted opportunity cost.

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After analyzing 39 brands of straws made of various materials such as plastic, paper, glass, stainless steel, and bamboo, the team found that paper straws contain the most perfluoroalkylated and polyfluoroalkylated substances, also known as PFAS. These synthetic substances are considered harmful to humans, animals, and the environment.

ZMan looks behind the curtain.

One of the strange truths about democratic governments is that they can remain unpopular for much longer than other forms of government. This seems counterintuitive as the whole point of democratic government is to have public policy reflect the general will of the people. In theory any divergence should be rectified in subsequent elections so that over time, the majority support the policy. As we see in the modern West, this is not how things work in “our democracy.”

There is a great example of this in the UK. Immigrant crime has reached a point where even the most teary-eyed immigration romantic has had enough. All of the polling shows that the majority wants an end to immigration. The new Labour government won power largely by hinting they would be tough on immigration. They were lying, of course, and that is clear now. The government only had about thirty percent support at the election, and you can be sure it is lower now.

In other words, the current rulers of the UK have less popular support than the current ruler of Venezuela. The UK is allegedly a democracy, while the democracies all claim Venezuela is a dictatorship. While technically correct, if we redefine democracy to mean having some sort of voting process, the undeniable fact is the ruling class of Venezuela has far more popular support than the ruling class of the UK. Yet, for now at least, the UK government does not fear being overthrown.

Public Notice.

Elon Musk is busy. No, not because he’s attending to any of his multibillion-dollar companies.

For Tesla and SpaceX and Starlink, he’s full of wild promises with very little actual progress. But what Musk is really spending time on these days is attacking the core foundations of American democracy on multiple fronts.

There’s his thus-far successful effort to get rid of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). There’s his political action committee, America PAC, which pretends to help register people to vote but is just hoovering up voter data to give to the Trump campaign. And there’s his lawsuit seeking to force companies to advertise on X, despite the fact advertisers generally do not want their ads running next to the Nazi content X is full of now.

All of these efforts have the potential to succeed because the federal courts are broken, and the administrative state is dying a slow and painful death.

So–what exactly are these ‘core foundations of American democracy’? Apparently they include the NLRB, a keystone of centralized governmental intrusion into business; hatred of Donald Trump; hatred of the ‘Nazi content’ on X (the social media platform formerly known as Twitter); the (pre-Trump) federal courts; and the administrative state.

Good to know.

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The Middle East teeters on the brink of a ruinous all-out regional war. Yet Israel did not want a wider and high-intensity war. Iran-backed Hezbollah does not appear to have wanted a wider and high-intensity war. And Iran, too, appeared not to have wanted a wider and high-intensity war. Only Iran-backed Hamas wanted a full-blown regional war. It may well get its way.

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On Jan. 21, 2017, hundreds of thousands of feminists wearing pink “pussyhats” protested the prior day’s presidential inauguration of Donald Trump by rampaging throughout Washington, D.C. The “Women’s March on Washington,” an extension of the riots and protests that shook the capital on Inauguration Day itself, was not exactly a peaceful affair. Hundreds of anarchists in total were arrested over the multiday period, typically on rioting or vandalism charges. The “pussyhat”-clad feminist rioters thus constituted the first Trump-era manifestation of destructive Democratic shock troops. Call it Democratic Street Thuggery 1.0.

That particularly virulent strain of radical feminism reached a crescendo during the #MeToo societal struggle session of 2017-2018, culminating in the infamous Christine Blasey Ford-led attempt to derail Brett Kavanaugh’s U.S. Supreme Court nomination in Sept. 2018. Arguably the single leading misandrist crusader during that sordid affair, peddling the ludicrous “believe all women” smear from her senatorial dais and casually throwing out five millennia of “innocent until proven guilty” civilizational norms in the process, was none other than dimwitted California Sen. Kamala Harris.

Alas, Joe Biden — or what little remained, even back then, of Joe Biden — was so awestruck by Harris’ vile interrogation of Kavanaugh and her own hilariously unimpressive 2020 presidential campaign that he tapped her to be his running mate. Cackling Kamala’s grand contribution to the Biden campaign was to dutifully launder her own swarthy complexion to “empathize” with left-wing America during our next great struggle session, the antifa-Black Lives Matter “racial reckoning” that followed the May 2020 death of St. George Floyd our Martyr. Such “empathy” included Kamala’s unctuous rhetorical support for the rioters, as well as her posting to social media a link to support bail for those rare BLM rioters who were actually arrested. The antifa-BLM rioters, who caused up to $2 billion in property damage during that infamous Summer of Love, constituted Democratic Street Thuggery 2.0.

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Ford has filed a new patent called “Systems and Methods for Detecting Speeding Violations” that reveals the company is looking at ways to “automatically snitch” on speeding drivers, a new report from TechRadar shows.

Ford’s patent filing with the USPTO details a system using vehicles’ cameras and sensors to detect speeding motorists and report them to authorities.

Basic sketches and flow charts illustrate how this technology senses speed violations, activates cameras to capture images, and transmits data to nearby pursuit vehicles or logs it to a server. The captured data, including speed, GPS location, and clear imagery or video, can then be sent to authorities for potential action.

Yet another reason not to buy a Ford.

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Cargo thefts are becoming a trend in Philadelphia…and it doesn’t look like the swearing in of new Mayor Cherelle Parker – who is supposed to be far tougher on crime than her predecessor Jim Kenney – is deterring them.

This time around thieves made off with “large cartons of tuna from a refrigerated truck” in South Philadelphia, according to 6ABC.

The crime took place at about 3:30am on Thursday near Pattison Ave. when the truck was parked on the roadway. The report said that “multiple male suspects got away in two vehicles – a white sedan and a SUV.”

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Three deans at Columbia University have resigned from the school after text messages that officials said contained antisemitic tropes were revealed.

A spokesperson for the school confirmed the resignations of Cristen Kromm, former dean of undergraduate student life; Matthew Patashnick, former associate dean for student and family support; and Susan Chang-Kim, former vice dean and chief administrative officer.

The messages occurred in a group chat during an event at the university called “Jewish Life on Campus: Past, Present, and Future,” and were discovered by The Washington Free Beacon.

Huffington Post.

Alabama Republican congressional candidate Caroleene Dobson, who has been vocal about her support of school choice on the campaign trail, graduated from a private, so-called “segregation academy,” in 2005.

Ah. ‘So-called”. I guess that makes it true.

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Israel has informed Washington that if Hezbollah harms more civilians in a retaliation campaign for the assassination of its top military commander Fuad Shukr last week, Israel’s military will have no choice but to launch a disproportionate response.

“In the internal discussions with the U.S., Israel stressed that the cost of another Hezbollah mishap would be heavy and that Hezbollah would pay a disproportionate price if it harmed civilians as part of its retaliation,” a senior Israeli official told Axios.

The report continues, “Two Israeli officials said that in recent days Israel told the U.S. via several military channels that it is concerned Hezbollah could hit civilian population centers if it tries to target military bases in central Israel.”

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The American Bar Association first endorsed adding the Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution in 1972, the year that Congress proposed and sent it to the states for ratification.

At its Aug. 6 annual convention, the ABA went further and now claims that the 1972 ERA is already part of the Constitution. The ABA is dead wrong.

Congress proposed the ERA in March 1972 with a seven-year ratification deadline. With that deadline looming, and fewer than the necessary 38 states ratifying, Congress passed a controversial resolution in 1978 purporting to extend the deadline by 39 months. No additional states ratified the 1972 ERA and five that already had subsequently withdrew their support. As the Congressional Research Service has repeatedly observed, the 1972 ERA “formally died on June 30, 1982.”

Because Congress will likely never propose another one, supporters are desperate to maintain the fiction that the 1972 ERA is, as Miracle Max would say, “only mostly dead” rather than “all dead.” It remained pending before the states, and available for ratification, because Congress did not put the deadline in the right place in its proposing resolution. Or so they contend.

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Authorities in the UK are now arresting people for posting “inaccurate information” on social media, according to a new report.

Sky News reports that a woman has been arrested by Cheshire Police for posting “inaccurate information on social media” about the attacker who stabbed three girls to death in Southport last week.

The 55-year-old woman was arrested near the northern town of Chester on “suspicion of publishing written material to stir up racial hatred and false communications.”

One might say “Not my circus. Not my monkeys.”, but eventually that circus is coming to our towns, and we will have to deal with those particular monkeys. Our border is as porous as a screen door, and ideas have always crossed it with impunity.

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Brittney Pearson was a mother of four and 24 weeks pregnant when she was diagnosed with breast cancer—a tragic enough situation. To make a bad situation worse, though, the Sacramento native was pregnant as a surrogate mother for a gay couple.

Upon being informed of the cancer diagnosis, the two men demanded that Pearson abort the child.

While the baby was still in Pearson’s body, she had full rights under California’s bodily autonomy laws. But the intended parents attemptedto coerce her to have an abortion with financial penalties or lawsuits.

Despite these threats, Pearson refused to terminate her pregnancy. She carried the baby as long as she could before having to begin chemotherapy.

After all, Pearson also had to keep herself alive for her own four children.

At around 25 weeks, Pearson went into induced labor. The intended fathers, who were contractually and legally recognized as the child’s parents by California law, decided to withhold lifesaving care and let the infant die.

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A high-ranking administrator of Columbia University found his apartment complex vandalized with anti-Israel sentiments, red paint, and insects early Thursday morning, the New York Post reported.

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En route to a recent vacation to New England, I stopped in my old hometown of Princeton, New Jersey, for coffee and picked up a copy of the Town Topics, the local paper where I found my first car and my first job back in the ’80s.

The front-page story was about an attempt on July 10 by Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Enforcement and Removal Operations agents to arrest two illegal immigrants from Guatemala. Both men were high risks for hurting someone in future and any sane community would welcome their removal from the streets.

The ICE report was as follows: “ERO arrests twice-removed noncitizen in Princeton while second absconds due to civilian interference.” (Now steeped in Biden-era woke language, ICE calls such men “unlawfully present noncitizens.” Conflating this with another euphemism, I have coined the acronym UNJIP—“Undocumented Noncitizen Justice Involved Person”—for use henceforth. You saw it on the BorderLine first).

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A chilling letter this week from Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel is a reminder that Americans cannot forget about the importance of the judiciary in upholding free speech and our other constitutional freedoms.

On Tuesday – ironically, the day Michiganders went to the primary polls to participate in our constitutional right to vote – Nessel issued a “cease-and-desist letter” against a citizen whom the letter claimed was violating a state law against “misleading or false information” about “polling locations.” The recipient of the letter, Kerry Lynn Elieff, was threatened with “criminal prosecutions” if she did not follow the order.

What raises the biggest red flags is that Nessel’s letter doesn’t ever state what information was false or misleading. Elieff told me after the cease-and-desist letter became public that all she was trying to do was verify that due process was followed in changing polling locations. She actually took down her public posts out of fear of prosecution – and who can blame her? She wasn’t sure what to do after being under surprise threat by a state official.

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“If someone comes to kill you, rise up and kill him first.” — Babylonian Talmud

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Gee, I wonder why….

Get Ready Now: Republicans Will Refuse to Certify a Harris Win (A.B. Stoddard/The Bulwark)  Especially if they try to steal this one as they stole the last one.

Sen. Mark Kelly Calls Out Vance for Calling Out Walz

Trump isn’t campaigning as hard as he used to (Philip Bump/Washington Post)

What the Jeffrey Epstein Documents Reveal About Donald Trump (Margaret Hartmann/New York Magazine)  Scraaaaaaape that barrel….

MSNBC Selectively Edits Vance To Label Him ‘Entirely False’ On Walz’s Military Record  As they do.

Pelosi says it’s her life goal to ensure ‘that man’ Trump never steps in the White House again (Lisa Mascaro/Associated Press)

Biden ‘not confident at all’ that there will be a peaceful transfer of power if Trump loses election (Zoë Richards/NBC News)

Trump’s meltdown during Harris-Walz rally sounds alarm: Will family get him help or just ‘cash his checks?’ (Kevin Manahan/New Jersey Online)

Trump took a private flight with Project 2025 leader in 2022 (Washington Post)

Trump, Off The Campaign Trail, Comes Up With New Puerile Insult For Harris: ‘Kamabla’ (S.V. Date/HuffPost)

J.D. Vance Awkwardly Retreats After Bizarre Attempt to Storm Harris’ Empty Plane (Josephine Walker/The Daily Beast)

Trump complains about campaign as advisers try to focus on attacking Harris (Washington Post)

Harris Shuts Down Trumpian ‘Lock Him Up’ Chants (The Daily Beast)

‘I think this settles it’: Vance busted over resurfaced post jabbing ‘undisputed war hero’ (Maya Boddie/The Raw Story)

Trump can’t take a joke. Democrats need to use that. (Ruth Ben-Ghiat/MSNBC)

Trump Says He’ll Focus on Issues. His Allies Are Not Holding Their Breath. (Shawn McCreesh/New York Times)

The world has a lot to lose from a second Trump presidency (Public Notice)

Pelosi Admits ‘My Goal in Life’ Is to Get, Keep Trump Out of White House

Daily Show Claims Trump Is Invoking Themes From Mein Kampf

Tim Walz’s normal dad energy is causing MAGA to come unglued (Amanda Marcotte/Salon) Normal dads don’t push for tampons in boys bathrooms.

JD Vance’s TikTok flop (Anusha Mathur/Politico)

Walz Endorsed Radical Ilhan Omar  Of course he did.

EXCLUSIVE: Lawmakers Receive Warning on Kamala Harris’ Record as ‘Border Czar’

Harris Campaign Said Walz ‘Chaired Veterans Affairs.’ He Did Not

Harris Campaign Does Clean Up After Kamala Signals Support for Israeli Arms Embargo

hicago Approves Anti-Israel Group’s Rally Permit for DNC While Dragging Feet on Pro-Israel Group’s Request

Notes from Chairman Walz: “One person’s socialism is another person’s neighborliness”  If your ‘neighbors’ are holding a gun at your head with their hands in your pockets. By that standard, nothing is more ‘neighborly’ than the Mafia.

Another clever use of words by the left: abortion bans

‘WHO NEEDS A TAMPON??’ Bellows Tim Walz Kicking In Middle School Boys’ Bathroom Stall Door  Babylon Bee

Networks Man the Trenches to Defend Walz from ‘Stolen Valor’ Claims

Raw Racial Reidout: Mark Kelly’s ‘Super White, Mayonnaise Sandwich on Wonder Bread White’

CNN: ‘No Evidence’ of Walz’s Combat Claims

CNN Commentator: Walz Meant ‘Training’ When Claiming He Carried Weapon ‘In War’

Abbott Educates Tapper About Walz’s Abortion Radicalism

National Guard Disputes Walz’s Military Bio; CNN Calls Out ‘Absolutely False’ Claim Over Deployment

Swift Boat 2.0: Trump Camp Hits Tim Walz Over Connection to Kerry

Will Big Media Give Walz the Vance Treatment? Don’t Bet On It

Why Harris isn’t taking questions (Politico)  Better to be silent and thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.

‘If you want Donald Trump to win, then say that’: Harris fires back at Gaza protesters at rally (Joey Garrison/USA Today)

MSNBC’s Chris Hayes Frantically Tries To Firefight For Walz’s Military Service

Tim Walz’s Sudden Rise in the Democratic Party Was No Accident (New York Times)

REGIME MEDIA: Networks Scramble To Cover For Walz Ditching His Unit Ahead of Deployment to Iraq

BREAKING: The New York Times helps JD Vance Swiftboat Tim Walz (Jamison Foser/Finding Gravity)

Tim Walz Knew His Battalion Was Being Eyed For Iraq When He Retired From National Guard

Mea Culpa: Van Jones Atones for Speaking Ill of Harris VP Pick Motives

Republican Strategist SCHOOLS CNN Lib on the Failures of Bidenomics

‘Bringing back the joy’: Walz’s first day keeps Democrats’ buzz going (Washington Post)

FACT FOCUS: False claims follow Minnesota governor’s selection as Harris’ running mate (Associated Press)

Stolen Valor: Tim Walz launched political career on false claim as combat veteran in the War on Terror (Jordan Schachtel/The Dossier)

How Not to Pick a Jew for Vice President

Tim Walz wrote a master’s thesis on Holocaust education, just as his own school’s approach drew criticism (Andrew Lapin/Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Kamala Harris Donated To ‘Defund Police’ Group Pushing For ‘Permanent’ DC Sanctuary City

WATCH: Tim Walz and the ‘Joy’ of Gaslighting

Kentucky Governor Plans To Collect Sales Tax On Gold And Silver Despite New Law

EXCLUSIVE: Kamala Harris Sent Agents to Raid Pro-Life Journalist’s Home After She Met With Planned Parenthood, Emails Show

Right-wing media push old debunked smear of Walz’s military record despite his 24 years of service (Media Matters for America)

PBS Anchors Defend Walz From ‘Pouncing’ Trump, Unfair Media Labeling of ‘Moderate’ Pick

Pelosi on Biden: ‘We did not have a campaign that was on the path to victory’ (Paul Kane/Washington Post)

Tim Walz Falsely Claimed He Served in Afghanistan. When a Local Vet Called Him Out, His Office Did Nothing.

Why the Harris Walz Camo Hat Is Becoming a Status Symbol for Liberals (Alyssa Hardy/Teen Vogue)

Elon Musk’s X accused of bias after pro-Harris accounts labeled as ‘spam’ (Trisha Thadani/Washington Post)

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Outrage as Iraq considers allowing girls aged nine to be married — “Would politicians let their nine-year-old daughter get married? I’m sure not but they would allow the oppressed Iraqi population to do so,” Suhalia Al Assam, a women’s rights activist, told The National on Wednesday.

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48 hours after X and Rumble filed a lawsuit against the Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM) ‘advertising cartel’ and several members, the World Federation of Advertisers announced it will shutter GARM, saying in a statement reported by Business Insider that they’re “a not-for-profit organization with limited resources.”

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PBS “special correspondent” Simona Foltyn, who covers the Middle East, appeared on Tuesday’s edition of the taxpayer-funded PBS News Hour to make the case for the anti-Jewish terrorist group Hamas, after the assassination of Hamas terrorist chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran.

Anchor Amna Nawaz introduced the report from Lebanon by making the familiar fatalist argument that there’s no point in killing Hamas leaders because it only strengthens the Palestinian populace against Israel.

Nawaz explained that Foltyn (who has a virulently anti-Israel X feed) had gained “rare access” to factions of “the militant group” Hamas within Lebanon for her report. You gain access by sounding like a propagandist.

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every American military base in the Middle East if the United States joins Israel in an attack on the Islamic Republic.

The fresh threat comes ahead of an expected Iranian attack on Israel in response to the killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran last week. Iran says it is preparing for a large-scale attack on the Jewish state as retribution.

“If the United States gets involved in any attack on Iran, have no doubt that the United States will be wiped out in Iraq, and the U.S. bases in the Persian Gulf region will be destroyed and those regimes that host the U.S. bases will be destroyed,” Mohammad Marandi, an adviser to the Iranian nuclear negotiating team, said in a Wednesday interview.

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On July 10, a Catholic man in Pakistan was gunned down. Marshall Masih, 29, was the father of four children and was targeted by Muslim neighbors after he objected to their harassment of local Christians, his family said.

Masih is one of the latest victims of severe Christian persecution in Pakistan, which is rated 7th on the Global Watch List produced by Open Doors, an organization that monitors global Christian persecution.

According to Open Doors’ 2023 “Pakistan: Full Country Dossier,” Christians in Pakistan were killed for faith-related reasons (including state-sanctioned executions). Churches and other Christian properties (houses, shops, businesses, schools, hospitals, and cemeteries, among others) were attacked, damaged, bombed, looted, destroyed, burned down, closed, or confiscated.

Christians have been detained, sentenced to jail or labor camps, and sent to psychiatric hospitals as punishment. They were otherwise physically or mentally abused (including beatings and death threats). Some were forced to leave their homes, go into hiding, or leave the country because of their faith. They were exposed to all these abuses for the ‘crime’ of being Christian.

Imagine what would happen if a ‘Christian’ country did that to Muslims.

We’d hear about it 24./7 for years.

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A 19-year-old man arrested in Vienna on Wednesday had been planning a suicide attack at a Taylor Swift concert in the Austrian capital, local intelligence services announced on Thursday, August 8th.

“He said he intended to carry out an attack using explosives and knives. His aim was to kill himself and a large number of people during the concert, either today or tomorrow,” the head of the domestic intelligence agency, Omar Haijawi-Pirchner told a news conference. He was referring to three concerts by the U.S. pop singer that were supposed to take place at the Ernst Happel Stadium on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, but were cancelled due to the terror threat.

Funny thing how Christian and Jewish teenagers never plan bloodbaths at concerts.

I wonder why that is….

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Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s German Government is under increased pressure from both within and outside his ruling coalition to reintroduce nearly all the hard borders around Europe’s largest country. A growing number of lawmakers see it as the only way to curb the inflow of illegal migrants—reinforcing fears that the EU’s failure to prevent illegal crossings at the bloc’s external borders will eventually result in the death of Europe’s precious Schengen area.