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“Boy, let me tell ya, an empty wagon makes a lot of noise.” My Dad, US Army Corporal, World War II Veteran, Herman West Sr.

A map pops up now and then on the internet that speaks volumes about the Middle East. It shows Israel amid its Arab neighbors, which number 22 countries with a combined population of nearly half a billion people on more than 5 million square miles of land.

By: Charlie Spies – wsj.com – July 8, 2024 He can’t legally shift his campaign war chest to Harris until he’s the official Democratic nominee. Democrats are in a panic. President Biden’s disastrous debate performance has members of his own party debating whether and how to move him off the ticket. The more important question might be when. Campaign finance…

Importantly, the Bible was Rush’s battering ram in the abolitionist cause. Source: Benjamin Rush Condemned Slavery as Enemy of the American Revolution | National Review

By: Maggie Haberman, Shane Goldmacher, and Jonathan Swan – nytimes.com – July 8, 2024 The document reflects the former president’s ideological grip on his party, outlining the same nationalistic priorities that his campaign website does. Donald J. Trump told officials on Monday that he supports a new Republican Party platform, one that reflects the presumptive nominee’s new position on abortion…

By: Wilfred Reilly – nationalreview.com –  July 7, 2024 Editor’s note: The following is adapted from Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me, by Wilfred Reilly, with permission from Broadside Books. We often, bizarrely, hear the claim that American history is taught mostly from the political right — and that it presents our nation as bucolic. But, in fact, many of…

By: Ryan Mills – nationalreview.com – July 7, 2024 Activists are spending millions on misleading ads telling voters that Biden could reshape the Court for generations. Frustrated by recent decisions on guns and judicial deference, and still stinging from the 2022 ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade, left-wing activists and media are ramping up calls for Democrats who aren’t enthusiastic about President Joe Biden…

By: Allysia Finley – wsj.com – July 7, 2024 They ignored the president’s obvious cognitive troubles and then attacked anyone who pointed them out. Asked last week by CBS News’s Major Garrett whether President Biden had the “vigor and mental capability” to continue serving, Anthony Fauci equivocated: “In my interactions with him, I have no doubt.” Did the former National…

George Stephanopoulos’s interview of President Biden was painful to watch—unless, probably, you’re Donald Trump. Even partisan Trump supporters could feel sorry for the president—though that would be…

Although news articles often call Donald Trump a “liar,” I don’t think I have ever seen that term used when discussing Joe Biden. Following the first presidential debate in June, fact-checkers at the New York Timesand the Wall Street Journal accused Trump of numerous falsehoods. But they couldn’t find a single Biden falsehood.

By: Gerard Baker – wsj.com – July 1, 2024 Mr. Biden succeeded because he made toeing the party line his life’s work. Like all politicians whose egos dwarf their talents, he ascended the greasy pole by slavishly following his party wherever it led. In the 1970s and 1980s, the Democrats were a party of post-Vietnam peacenik activists, seeking accommodation with…