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In the lead-up to this week's presidential debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, the polls showed a dead heat, both nationally and in seven swing states. The 2024 race is, by all measures, the closest presidential race we have seen in our lifetimes. But the usual presidential math applies: The person upon whom the race becomes a ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Donald Trump walked onto the debate stage in Philadelphia deeply aware that he should show undecided voters that he is focused on issues and not his list of grievances.

But time was his enemy.

Trump did a solid job of hitting Vice President Kamala Harris on the U.S. economy and the chaos at the Southwest border under President ...Read more

A newspaper story several years ago reported about an elementary school teacher who held elections in his class.

The students picked their candidates -- one little boy competing against one little girl.

The little boy stood up before the class and shared his ideas for changes that would improve their lives. The little girl stood up and ...Read more

How will the next president deal with communist China's slow war of attrition against the world?

The question is serious but too complicated for TV talking heads to ask presidential candidates, assuming the talking heads understand the threat is much more than a headline.

In the Sept. 10 debate, China's threat was treated as an economic ...Read more

Presidential candidate Kamala Harris is promising to provide "first-time homebuyers with $25,000 to cover the down payment." Her promise is proving popular. Eighty percent of Democrats and even 20% of Republicans favor it, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday. But the devil is in the details, and the media are not asking any questions. The ...Read more

Do you carry a gun? Bad idea, says Hollywood. Civilians with guns are fools. You are more likely to hurt yourself than the bad guy. "Leave it to a good guy with a gun to really screw things up," says a cop on ABC's "The Rookie." Liberal politicians agree.

"A good guy with a gun will stop bad guys with a gun?! It doesn't hold up," smiles New ...Read more

Do native-born Americans have higher household incomes than naturalized citizens? It is a simple question the Census Bureau answered this week. The answer? No.

Do they have higher household incomes than noncitizens? Yes.

In fact, when it comes to ranking household incomes by the nativity of the householder, according to the Census Bureau, ...Read more

Even battle-hardened conservatives can find it shocking when Democrat-boosting reporters fail to identify Kamala Harris as a "liberal" or a "progressive" or even, dare one say it, a "left-wing radical."

In a new Media Research Center study of ABC's "World News Tonight," since Harris was anointed in a back room as Biden's replacement on July 21,...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- As if the 2024 presidential election didn't have enough surprises, it now delivers something completely unexpected that we don't see often in politics: a squishy electorate.

Usually, it's the politicians and elected officials who bend and twist and contort themselves to get elected. Forget about kissing babies. The real tradition...Read more

When conservatives notice, it's a conspiracy theory. Once liberals acknowledge it, it's old news. Look at illegal immigration.

Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) recently released a report detailing the scope of illegal immigration under the Biden-Harris administration. Since President Joe Biden took office, "over 8.5 million illegal aliens have crossed...Read more

A great many Americans claim that they cannot vote for former President Donald Trump because they loathe him.

That was also their argument in 2016 and 2020.

That argument was childish in 2016 and 2020, and it remains childish in 2024.

I say "childish" because mature people don't vote on the basis of whom they like. They vote on the basis of ...Read more

In 1982 the federal budget deficit rose above $100 billion for the first time (those were the good old days!), and then-President Ronald Reagan agreed to an infamous budget deal with then-House Speaker Tip O'Neill. Democrats would agree to $3 of spending cuts for every $1 of tax increases. Reagan foolishly agreed to the deal. The taxes went up. ...Read more

JOHNSTOWN, Pennsylvania -- Former President Donald Trump said in an interview with the Washington Examiner that his message to undecided voters in Pennsylvania ahead of November's general election is that his administration would bring prosperity to Pennsylvanians through common-sense approaches to energy, border security and strengthening ...Read more

President Trump has a debate coming up Tuesday night with Kamala Harris. Here is the shortest advice I've ever given.

Steve Jobs, the visionary and billionaire founder of Apple, followed this principle: Always KISS -- Keep It Simple, Stupid!

Begin the debate, and end the debate, and every chance you get in between, too, by painting a picture ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- President Joe Biden has said he will not pardon his son Hunter, who pleaded guilty to nine felony and misdemeanor tax charges Thursday in Los Angeles.

I hope Biden relents on his no-pardon pledge before the younger Biden spends a night behind bars. My guess is that's the president's plan -- to flip and pardon his son after the ...Read more

In 2019, Vice President Kamala Harris told CNN's Jake Tapper that social media companies "are directly speaking to millions and millions of people without any level of oversight or regulation and it has to stop."

Does it?

Every two-bit authoritarian in history has justified censoring its citizens as a way of protecting them from the menace of ...Read more

Postmodernism is a weird place to be. There is no real truth anymore, only narrative. Each person can have their own truth, and who are we to judge? Exceptions are now the rule; the sky cannot be blue, because some colorblind person does not see it that way, so none of us are allowed to declare it blue. It is oppressive and maddening.

Into ...Read more