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By Spencer Brown After neutralizing most of the Hamas threat from Gaza, Israel’s operation to decapitate Hezbollah in Lebanon has proven to be another successful exercise in delivering justice to terrorists — many with American blood on their hands in addition to Israeli. Each terrorist brought to justice by Israel, and each loss dealt to the terrorists’ backers in Tehran is a gift to the Western world that supposedly stands with Israel athwart radical Islamic terror. Yet the West keeps trying to stop Israel from taking out our common enemies that slobber at the thought of violently overthrowing all free, liberalized democracies.  Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon are just two fronts from which Israel has faced assaults in the year since Hamas’ October 7, 2023 attack. Israel has responded with swift justice, strong deterrence, and tactical precision, the likes of which haven’t been exhibited by the United States or other Western nations supposedly allied in the fig

By Bob Hoge Conservative civil rights attorney Harmeet Dhillon appeared on the Tucker Carlson Show Friday, and she laid into Kamala Harris’ past—and brought receipts. Dhillon, who was just appointed to head the Trump campaign's Election Integrity team in Arizona, had a wide-ranging conversation with the former Fox News host about the many problems of the extremist Border Czar and Democrat presidential appointee nominee, but there was one section that stuck out to me where she discussed the slippery ways in which the now-VP came into prominence in the first place. It was in the 2003 race for the job of San Francisco District attorney, which Harris won—by cheating. She had agreed, under penalty of perjury, to spending limits, as had her rivals, but then she simply ignored them. Dhillon: Well it turns out that Kamala Harris, who by the way started out in this campaign third, behind her boss Terence Hallinan, who was in the lead, and then a guy named Vic Fazio, wh

By Nick Arama As we've noted, Kamala Harris is getting desperate as her campaign is imploding.  So she's resorting to more and more desperate measures. Her latest move is to try to claim that former President Donald Trump is somehow "weak and unstable," which is incredible and ridiculous, given the coverup that she has been involved in regarding Joe Biden.  On Monday, Trump has a town hall event in Pennsylvania. He dinged Harris on her failures over immigration and inflation. He also answered a variety of questions, including from a Gold Star father to whom he promised he would look into the crash that killed 17 Navy SEALs.  Then, there were two medical emergencies. So Trump stopped the questions and played music while the people were receiving attention.  But this was the lie Harris and her campaign put out in response to the situation. They were the ones putting out "misinformation," editing out context and claiming that Trump stopped and was "los

She’s wildly, catastrophically, incontestably out of her depth By Charles C.W. Cooke Over the last couple of years, as familiarity has bred contempt, and contempt has bred exasperation, I have got into the habit of distilling into uncustomarily blunt terms what I think of our most prominent political aspirants. My modest verdict on the incumbent president, Joe Biden, was that he was “an asshole.” My considered take on his predecessor, Donald Trump, was that he is “a lunatic.” Herewith, to complete the trilogy, I will offer another candid take: Kamala Harris is an idiot. Like the little boy staring at the naked emperor in the famous fairy tale of yore, I can scarcely believe what I am seeing before my eyes. Since she replaced Joe Biden on the ticket, reporters have struggled mightily to find kind ways of describing Harris’s ineluctable inability to convey anything comprehensible, complex, or concrete. Harris, the New York Times has variously proposed, has been “strategically va

By Mollie Hemingway Meanwhile, the party in power has spent years openly plotting to throw their political opponents in jail. The New York Times published a 5,000-word article asserting that Donald Trump is a unique threat to democracy because a second term Trump Department of Justice could potentially prosecute members of the Democrat Party. Authors Emily Bazelon and Mattathias Schwartz make this argument not only after a first Trump term with zero political prosecutions by Trump appointees but after a shocking and unprecedented nationwide lawfare campaign by Democrats against Trump and other Republicans. The Times headline is “ Why Legal Experts Are Worried About a Second Trump Presidency .” The subhed added, “In a survey of 50 members of the D.C. legal establishment, many warn that Trump could follow through on his threats to prosecute his political adversaries.” The term “gaslighting” has gained popularity in recent years, a reference to the 1944 movie “ Gaslight ” about a hus

A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket with the Europa Clipper spacecraft aboard launches from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral on October 14, 2024.     By Abril Elfi NASA has launched the Europa Clipper spacecraft rocket to explore Jupiter.  On Monday, the spacecraft left for Jupiter to explore the planet’s moon Europa and reveal whether its vast hidden ocean might hold the tight conditions for life. “Europa is the sixth-largest moon in the Solar System and Jupiter’s fourth-largest satellite. Despite its cracked and discolored appearance, it is the smoothest solid object in the Solar System; its highest peaks, of which there are few, only reach a few hundred meters tall, and large craters are rare,” according to  planetary.org .   After traveling 5 1/2 years to reach Jupiter, Europa Clipper will enter a low orbit around the massive gas planet and make numerous fly-bys that are drenched in radiation, allowing it to get extremely close to Europa. Under Europa’s