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A few months into Kamala Harris's 2024 presidential run, her handlers faced a dilemma. Should they continue cocooning the candidate or unleash her on the public? Both options came with serious political risks.

Sure, Democrats could keep pretending Harris was a generational talent, but her refusal to sit down for an interview, much less give a ...Read more

It shouldn't be considered incredibly brave for Vice President Kamala Harris to consent to an interview with Bret Baier on Fox News. J.D. Vance has been doing hostile Sunday shows for months while Harris resorted to the basement strategy.

Then, once Team Kamala booked a "media blitz," they bizarrely went on offense. Mediaite posted this ...Read more

Not everything significant politically is happening just in the target states.

"Never seen anything like this in thirty years," said California Republican consultant Mike Madrid in an X post, referencing the sharp increase in Republican registration among California's minority voters, including the state's numerous Latinos, growing numbers of ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- A "man bites dog" story always gets the media's attention. When the unexpected happens, good journalists will be curious about why it happened and wonder what happens next.

That's why many of my colleagues in the Fourth Estate can't look away from a train wreck that a lot of Democrats would like to ignore: Kamala Harris' trouble ...Read more

In 1791, when Congressman James Madison was drafting the first 10 amendments to the Constitution -- which would become known as the Bill of Rights -- he insisted that the most prominent amendment among them restrain the government from interfering with the freedom of speech. After various versions of the First Amendment had been drafted and ...Read more

Racism and sexism endure. Think of the "Unite the Right" white supremacist, neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. But sometimes unexpected voices fan the flames.

As the civil rights movement gathered steam, colorblindness was the end game. Ballots could not identify candidates by race. Employers could not ask for the racial identities ...Read more

The United States is at a crossroads. You may have heard that Social Security is politically impossible to reform. But that belief will be hard to sustain. In a few years, the Social Security Trust Fund will be exhausted. When that happens, Social Security benefits will be cut across the board by 21% -- that is, unless Congress changes the law...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Joe Biden is a much better person than Donald Trump. But that didn't keep Biden's poll numbers from tanking -- and ultimately driving him off the 2024 campaign trail.

Kamala Harris' performance as vice president? I don't recall ever hearing that Harris was a great U.S. senator or great California attorney general or great San ...Read more

What issue could be more important to a nation's future than education?

A country is about people. How Americans act, work, think, choose -- live -- reflects their values.

K-12 education, of course, is about learning to read and do math. This is what we measure in test scores.

But education is a lot more than acquisition of technical skills...Read more

On Oct. 13, a Hezbollah-launched unmanned aerial vehicle (drone) evaded Israel's air and space defense system. The slow suicide bomb struck a troop mess hall on an Israeli base about 40 miles from the Lebanon-Israel border.

In this attack, Hezbollah launched two drones -- "wingmen," in airpower slang. Israeli defenders shot one down over the ...Read more

Vice President Kamala Harris is rushing to fix a growing hole in her support: Black men. She's buying votes with thinly veiled, taxpayer-funded giveaways. Your tax dollars will pay for "fully forgivable" $20,000 loans for businesses.

And worse, she's targeting Black men with these giveaways, as if no one else deserves to participate in her "...Read more

Donald Trump and Kamala Harris keep making new promises. Trump fans applauded when he said he'll eliminate taxes on tips. Then Harris proposed that, too. Her audience applauded. Trump then proposed not taxing overtime. More applause. But narrow tax exemptions are bad policy. Economist Allison Schrager explains how they create nasty, unintended ...Read more

The great sportswriter Grantland Rice would eventually call them the "team of destiny."

But when that 1922 Princeton University football team headed West to play Coach Amos Alonzo Stagg's University of Chicago team, Rice had predicted they would lose.

"The Tiger will give Chicago a first class battle, but the heavier attacking Maroon team ...Read more

When Kamala Harris first jumped into the 2024 race, the joy was palpable.

Every major Democrat leapt to celebrate. The legacy media uncorked the Champagne. Rank-and-file Democratic voters had a pep in their step. After all, the Democratic Party had pulled off an unprecedented feat: After rigging the Democratic primaries to avoid any serious ...Read more

Liberal journalists love to paint the Republicans as opposed to facts -- which implies that liberal journalists own the facts and determine who is actually using them properly.

The Washington Post put this aggressive headline on the front of the Oct. 15 edition: "Campaign takes stand against fact checks: In live settings, Trump aims to let his ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- Whether you like him or not, you have to admit that JD Vance is an interesting guy.

For what it's worth, and I suspect it's not worth much to my MAGA friends, I'm in the "or not" camp. I'm not a fan.

I think the Ohio senator, and 2024 GOP vice presidential nominee, is smug, condescending and not nearly as smart as he likes to ...Read more

President Joe Biden may have endorsed Kamala Harris, but it's increasingly obvious he wants her to lose.

Last week, Vice President Harris ripped into Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for reportedly not taking her calls regarding Hurricane Helene. She accused him of "playing political games." She continued, "This is utterly irresponsible, and it is ...Read more