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How Biden’s Border Crisis Might Deepen With Kamala Harris as President
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—The border crisis could reach new heights or largely remain unchanged if Vice President Kamala Harris ends up winning the presidential election on Nov. 5, border hawks warn. President Joe Biden withdrew from the presidential race Sunday and immediately endorsed Harris, making her the leading contender to snag the party’s delegates and the nomination… -
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Even a Good Speech Won’t Erase Biden’s Signs of Ill Health
On Wednesday, he’ll deliver a prime-time speech at 8 p.m. Eastern—significantly, a time more aligned with the time of his disastrous debate performance than his alleged preferred time to function. “From 10am to 4pm, [President Joe] Biden is dependably engaged … outside of that time range or while traveling abroad, Biden is more likely to… -
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Biden Drops Out of Race, and Suddenly, DOJ Finds Transcripts of His Talks With Biographer
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—The Department of Justice told a federal judge on Monday that it does have transcripts of President Joe Biden’s discussions with his biographer from the classified documents probe into the president after saying last month that it did not. The DOJ filed a court document in which it says that it found transcripts of… -
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4 Takeaways From Second House Hearing on Trump Assassination Attempt
House Homeland Security Chairman Mark Green, R-Tenn., expected to get answers Tuesday from top Biden administration officials about security failures before the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump. Those officials didn’t show up. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle resigned earlier in the day. But Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and FBI Director Christopher Wray… -
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Biden’s Electric Vehicle Mandate Will Leave Western States’ Drivers Stranded
Temperatures are over 100 degrees this month in Twin Falls, Idaho, sapping the distance electric vehicles can travel. EVs in the Gem State remain relegated to the back seat when it comes to consumers’ choice in vehicles, despite a new Environmental Protection Agency mandate requiring that 70% of new cars sold be all electric by… -
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Giving a Late Lawmaker’s Commitment to Legislative Transparency the Belated Credit It’s Due
Retired Sen. James Inhofe passed away recently and, in addition to the glowing tributes from others, I wanted to share a personal anecdote about how the Oklahoma Republican made a difference in an unexpected way. Here’s the backstory. Civics 101 tells us that bills and resolutions introduced by a House member or senator are first… -
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On Economics, Kamala Harris Skews Left of Bernie Sanders
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of the accompanying video from professor Peter St. Onge. President Joe Biden is out of the presidential race, dismissed by the donors who run the modern Democrat Party. As for the millions of primary voters who chose Biden, the deep state guardians of democracy, those acolytes of… -
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Safety of Supreme Court Justices Under Scrutiny After Trump Assassination Attempt
House Republicans are raising concerns about the potential for more political violence against Supreme Court justices following the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., pointed to the “recent incendiary rhetoric directed towards other federal officials, including in particular the men and women… -
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A Great GOP Convention—But With One Big Missed Opportunity
I have attended about a half-dozen national conventions, Republican and Democratic, and watched at least a dozen more. And I can say two things: 1) They have all generally bored me. 2) The 2024 Republican National Convention didn’t. The RNC not only held my interest, it often moved me emotionally. If you weren’t moved to tears by… -
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Can US Department of Education Really Be Closed? Yes, Starting Here.
A congressional committee’s recent vote should be a message to taxpayers: Yes, it is possible to close the U.S. Department of Education. The House Appropriations Committee approved a proposal to cut an entire program from the agency, demonstrating how lawmakers can downsize and then eliminate the department. The Appropriations Committee voted to defund Title II,… -
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Why Second Amendment More Crucial Than Ever After Attempt to Kill Trump
A 20-year-old man with a rifle, perched atop a nearby roof, fired several rounds July 13 at Donald Trump as the former president spoke at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, killing one attendee and wounding at least two others. As we know now, one round nicked Trump’s right ear and he avoided a serious… -
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Kamala Harris Is the Opponent Donald Trump Wants
By rallying around Vice President Kamala Harris, Democrats are setting themselves up for a replay of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 defeat—and they’re OK with that. As humiliating as Clinton’s loss to Donald Trump was, she didn’t drag down congressional Democrats, who gained six seats in the House and two in the Senate that year. Former House… -
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It’s Too Late, Joe
WASHINGTON—President Joe Biden’s letter announcing that he is standing down from the general election documented all the reasons the incumbent had to go. But it’s too late, Joe. Your legacy is lost. Biden should have announced he was not running for reelection a year ago—or, at the very least, before he blew the June 27… -
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BREAKING: Secret Service Director Resigns Following Attempted Trump Assassination
Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle announced Tuesday she is resigning from her post over the agency’s failures to properly protect former President Donald Trump from an attempted assassination on July 13. In an email sent to staff obtained by The Oversight Project, a division of The Heritage Foundation, Cheatle admitted that the Secret Service fell… -
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The Left and Right Have Very Different Definitions of Terrorism
As people grow increasingly wary of dangers around them, a split-screen has again opened up on how the Left and Right approach the threat of terrorism. On the Left, you have the Army being trained on the purported terrorist threat posed by Christian pro-lifers. On the other, elected officials are finally probing pro-Hamas groups. The pro-life groups… -
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‘NO SENSE’: Sloped or Not, No Reason Why Roof Shouldn’t Have Been Secured, Sheriff Says
It makes “absolutely no sense” that the roof of the building from which the gunman fired was not secured by the Secret Service, Dodge County, Wisconsin, Sheriff Dale Schmidt told The Daily Signal in an interview discussing the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump. Following the attempt on Trump’s life during a campaign rally… -
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Kamala Harris Tried to Scare Conservatives Into Silence
Shortly after President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 presidential race on Sunday, he endorsed his vice president, Kamala Harris, in what is now an open Democratic primary. In addition to Biden’s endorsement, Harris enjoys many advantages, such as the fact that her candidacy will face fewer fundraising and ballot-qualifying challenges than other potential… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Democrats’ Gun Control Push After Trump Assassination Attempt Draws Rebuke
House Republicans criticized Democrats on Monday for using a hearing on the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump to call for gun control. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle was at the House Oversight and Accountability Committee hearing to testify about security failures that led to a 20-year-old gunman opening fire at a Trump rally… -
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Are We on Verge of Stagflation?
Editor’s note: The following is a lightly edited transcript of the accompanying video from professor Peter St. Onge. Two of America’s biggest banks just warned of incoming disaster. Even poker-face Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell is starting to crack, sprinkling his usual sweet nothings with warnings that the Fed’s close to being forced to restart… -
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Here’s Why Congress and the Administration Can’t Be Trusted to Conduct Investigation Into Trump Assassination Attempt
The horrid attempted assassination of Donald Trump in Bulter, Pennsylvania, has the entire nation justifiably outraged and demanding answers to fundamental questions about the colossal security failure that nearly ended the life of the 45th president of the United States. Few actions rise to the level of a clear and present danger to our nation’s…