At the 2004 Democratic National Convention, Illinois State Sen. Barack Obama said: “There is not a Black America and a White America and Latino America and Asian America — there’s the United States of America… We are one people…”

After announcing his candidacy for president, Sen. Obama appeared on “60 Minutes”:

“60 Minutes”: “You think the country’s ready for a black president?”

Obama: “Yes.”

“60 Minutes”: “You don’t think it’s going to hold you back?”

Obama: “No. I think if I don’t win this race, it will be because of other factors. It will be because I have not shown the American people a vision for where the country needs to go that they can embrace.”

Polls offered support for Obama’s optimism. The 2008 principal primary candidates for the Republicans were Arizona Sen. John McCain and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. For Democrats, the candidates were Obama and Hillary Clinton. A 2007 Gallup poll found that 42% of Americans said they would not vote for someone of McCain’s age. Twenty-four percent said they would not vote for a Mormon, Romney’s religion. As for Clinton, 11% said they would not vote for a woman. Just 5% said they would not vote for a black person.

Shortly after the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, an optimistic Rev. Martin Luther King said, “Frankly, I have seen certain changes in the United States over the last two years that have surprised me.” He said, “We might be able to get a Negro president in less than forty years.”

Fast forward to 2008. Even those who voted against Obama nevertheless felt his victory made a profound statement about the country. Polls showed both blacks and whites expected “race relations” to improve. But after Obama’s eight years in office, both blacks and whites thought race relations got worse. What happened?

From the beginning of Obama’s presidency until its end, the man America’s considered a unifier played one race card after another. He enraged American law enforcement by falsely accusing a white Cambridge police officer of “acting stupidly.” He implied the officer was racially motivated when he gave to a reasonable and lawful order to a black Harvard professor, who resisted it. When black Florida teenager Trayvon Martin was shot and killed by a self-appointed neighborhood watchman, Obama said, “If I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon.” The jury found the defendant not guilty, and the jurors said race played no role in the encounter. But Obama, who later embraced Black Lives Matter, again advanced the false narrative of anti-black “systemic racism.” Never mind studies showing cops more reluctant, more hesitant to pull the trigger on a black suspect than a white suspect.

In an interview, the man who said he would not blame race if he lost the election said: “The legacy of slavery, Jim Crow, discrimination in almost every institution of our lives — you know, that casts a long shadow, and that’s still part of our DNA that’s passed on. We’re not cured of it. … Racism — we are not cured of it.” Obama invited the race-hustling Al Sharpton to the White House over 70 times.

Obama’s Attorney General Eric Holder complained of America’s “pernicious racism,” giving as an example voter ID. In Obama’s second term, a black man motivated by the Obama-promoted police anti-black narrative murdered two NYPD cops as they sat in their squad car. In Baton Rouge, another black man driven by the same narrative ambushed and murdered three police officers. In Dallas, another black man influenced by this narrative ambushed and murdered five police officers.

There is a straight line between Obama’s rhetoric and the months of the deadly, costly 2020 Black Lives Matter/George Floyd protests. Never mind that the lead prosecutor, a black man, never argued the officer-defendant was racially motivated, and the officer was not charged with a hate crime.

Obama, post-presidency, still fans the flames of race and identity division. Less than two years ago, the man America hired as a uniter said: “I have little sympathy for reactionaries who cynically condemn identity politics or cancel culture when really all they’re doing is trying to preserve existing privilege or excuse entrenched injustice, or bigotry.”

Thanks, Obama.

Larry Elder

For a long time now, the debate has raged as to whether it’s worth going to college anymore.  The libertarian view on this question has typically been along the lines of… if people are foolish enough to waste money on worthless degrees, the world will soon enough teach them another lesson.  While valid, that view ran aground on the Democrat vote-buying scheme to insulate those with useless degrees from the consequences of their poor choices and indebtedness, with our tax money.

The cynical motives behind this ploy aside, I very much doubt many students enroll in college with the intention of eventually being bailed out by their fellow citizens.  These bright, young minds have simply bought into the hype that a college degree, any degree, is the ticket to prosperity.  That might have been mostly true, back in the day when the people who ran higher education actually focused on educating.  In the past, a degree could give someone who was willing to work hard a leg up on the competition.  Somewhere along the road, we lost sight of the fact that hard work was the not-so-secret essential ingredient, not that scrap of paper with the fancy calligraphy on it.  Through greed and cowardly moral blindness, the grifters who run our colleges have transformed these venerable institutions into the educational equivalent of shady time-shares.

Although the rot is extensive and accelerating, there are still college degrees which might be worth the time and money thrown at them—medicine, science, engineering, and a few others.  Better learn fast though.  These disciplines remain only relatively uncorrupted because they’re harder to infiltrate.  In the spirit of the hard sciences, it’s informative to analyze which college degrees are the more useless, and why.  Rational analysis, scorned as patriarchal, racist, and colonialist, comes in handy when exposing scams.

Upon reflection, it appears that “useless” degrees share one or more common traits:

• Lack of Job Market (outside of academia or government subsidies)
• Not Data-Driven
• Demands Post Grad Degrees
• General Lack of Scholarly Rigor
• Rampant Groupthink and Plagiarism

Look upon these features as red flags.  The more of these red flags a field of “study” flies, the higher the likelihood recipients of these degrees will wind up as a burden on society.  More bluntly, a burden on you.  Below is a table of arbitrarily-chosen college degrees, rated on the scale described above.

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Some may quibble with the labels or applicability of the red-flag traits, or the number of flags assigned to certain degrees.  But the overall method of analysis is valid.  This can serve as a road map of sheepskins to avoid.  The more of these boxes are checked, the more money colleges will scam out of you, and the less likely you are to ever earn it back.

Further, it’s enlightening to contrast the differences between the upper reaches of the table with the lower.  Those degrees with a score of 2 are not inherently useless, but they simply provide less opportunity in the private sector.  There just aren’t that many open positions for astronomers, dancers, etc…  The jobs are there, and arguably provide a measurable benefit to society, but it doesn’t take much of a pipeline to satisfy the demand.  Historically, people embarking on these careers realize that they’ll be scrapping for the few jobs out there, and accept the low pay which the law of supply and demand enforces.

So, why would anyone choose such a fate?  The answer is passion.  The people who become dancers, archaeologists, photographers, artists, and art historians simply can’t imagine following any other calling.  They pay for that passion with an expected lack of financial security.  They will spend the rest of their careers singing for their supper.  And who am I to say they are wrong?

Of course, the already wealthy have the luxury of studying whatever strikes their fancy at college.  Financial security doesn’t enter into the calculation, having been previously addressed by successful relatives.  And, I am reliably informed that some people attend college simply to find and hogtie a spouse; but that subject is beyond the scope of this discussion.

English as a degree is a special case.  An English major has been the clichéd useless degree, even before the current unpleasantness.  Ironically, an English degree is not actually useless.  English departments are simply clogged with useless people—both students, and faculty.  The unconstrained, open nature of literary analysis and composition attracts people who see it as an easy ride.  In reality, an English degree teaches how to convey concepts effectively, which is an extremely useful skill.  However, the fuel to make that engine run is an elusive mixture of honesty, hustle, and hard work.  Build that combination and the job opportunities are nearly limitless.

Then we come to the odious top of the table.  Communications is no more than an English degree, stripped of any scholarly rigor and diluted with multi-media focus to a ridiculous easy-pass version.  As one wit quipped, the only purpose of sociologists is to breed more sociologists.  Any degree which ends in the trigger word “studies” is a contrived pyramid scheme, manufactured to wring money out of the student’s bank account while simultaneously fostering an entitled, sullen, negative view of life.  This scam only seemed to be viable while corporations fell for the DEI grift.  But all pyramid schemes collapse eventually.  Those with black-, queer-, women-, media-, fill-in-the-blank studies degrees are left holding the bag.

Saddest of all is an educational degree.  Frankly, these people should know better.  Learning is supposed to be their business.  They have coarsened it to the level of organized crime.  Not only do they pump out too many teachers for the available teaching jobs, but those teachers are trained to indoctrinate, not teach.

The root cause of this mess is, as is often the case, an over-intrusive government.  Leftists cling to the belief that all people and institutions must serve the state as an unchallenged article of faith.  That certainly applies to education.  By bribing academia with essentially unlimited funds via guaranteed student loans, it uncoupled school administrations from any but feigned concern for students.  The math is brutal, but inescapable.  More students processed, and the longer you can trap them in the system, translates to more money from Uncle Sugar; the quantity of degrees puked out matters, not quality.

Some time ago, a scholar surveyed institutions in Europe which had survived the past several hundred years of tumultuous history there.  The findings were surprising.  A handful of church denominations and parliaments were still standing.  However, dozens and dozens of universities across the continent had somehow floated serenely on the blood-soaked tide of history, still functioning amidst the chaos.  Universities can be resilient institutions.  Physically there’s not much there to destroy.  All that is really needed is a place to sit, students eager to learn, and professors willing to teach.

And yet, we have found a surefire way to kill universities.  Simply pay them to teach lies and useless nonsense.  Sooner or later, they commit suicide.  What an accomplishment.

American Thinker

According to Democrat staffers, volunteers for Joe Biden’s 2024 campaign are quitting in significant numbers, mostly because they’re angry about Biden’s failure to call for a ceasefire in Israel.

Democrats are in a very tough spot over this. Polls show that most Americans support Israel, but the far left base of the Democrat party is largely anti-Israel, so Biden is caught between a rock and a hard place.

There are so many things to dislike about Biden’s presidency, but this is the issue that the far left loses their minds over.

A group of staffers working on President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign warned the president that his volunteers are quitting “in droves” over his handling of Israel’s military response in the Gaza Strip.

Biden has faced immense pressure from members of his own party over the United States’ policies in light of the surprise Hamas attacks on Israel on October 7, which killed about 1,200 people and resulted in roughly 240 hostages, including some Americans. In response, Israel launched an extensive air and ground offensive in Gaza, killing nearly 22,000 Palestinians over the past several weeks, according to Gaza health officials cited by the Associated Press (AP).

In a letter published Wednesday on Medium, an anonymous group of Biden’s campaign staffers demanded the president call for a ceasefire in Gaza, citing concerns that not shifting his policy on the issue could hurt his 2024 chances.

“Biden for President staff have seen volunteers quit in droves, and people who have voted blue for decades feel uncertain about doing so for the first time ever, because of this conflict,” the Medium letter read.

“It is not enough to merely be the alternative to Donald Trump,” the campaigners continued.

Even some of his paid people are quitting over this.

The left is all that Biden has left. If they abandon him in 2024, he’s toast.

Mike LaChance

Condoleezza Rice famously lamented, or perhaps proclaimed with admiration, that Americans are ungovernable.  Yes.  Yes, we are.

The British learned that when they set their former countrymen loose on this land, beginning with the landing at Plymouth Rock, and thought we’d remain good Englishmen and just sit down and shut up.  In spectacular fashion, we did not.  Donald Trump taps into that ungovernable-ness in us, and for those who do not fear it, we love him for it.  And hopefully, those who seek to destroy our country will learn this lesson all over again.

For those who do not understand the phenomenon of Donald Trump, what follows is a small essay explaining the chord he has struck in the American body politic, even among those who are not so sure about him.  He is ungovernable, and he reminds us that we are, too.  And thank God we are, and are beginning to show signs of remembering this.

Recently, I saw a clip of an interview between Vivek Ramaswamy and Piers Morgan.  The interview picked up with Vivek asking Piers if he would be upset or offended if Vivek pointed something out to him.

The essence of what Vivek said is the essence of what the rest of the world both envies and loathes about Americans: our insistence on adherence to the First and Second Amendments, which make all of the amendments that follow work.  We say and do as we please.  We confront our government when we think it has gone haywire.

At the end of the day, the Second Amendment is not about skeet shooting.  It is about defense — defense from enemies foreign and domestic.  This makes the rest of the world uncomfortable with Americans.  And old Piers smiled self-deprecatingly for the camera and admitted that, yes, he really is uncomfortable with Americans and perhaps doesn’t really like us, as he professes to do, except from afar, because we are a bit scary.

Certainly, Trump and his support have made elements of our government uncomfortable.  The full-throated support of the First and Second Amendments certainly hasn’t done anything to allay that discomfort.  But the truth is that Americans are not uncomfortable with the First Amendment.  We celebrate it.  We are not uncomfortable with the 2nd Amendment, even those of us who do not own guns; we recognize its necessity.  And we are quite comfortable that the First and Second give  power to the our constitutional republican system.  They are how we can be ungovernable.

Unfortunately, some in America are very uncomfortable with our ungovernable nature and our insistence on saying and doing what we want.  Those folks want Americans to be compliant, governable, modeled after European submission and passivity.  Believing that they are better than the ungovernable among us, they want a  European capitalist-socialism, where the rich live on yachts and in luxurious homes, go to fancy restaurants, and comport themselves like the royals they discarded years ago, while the peasants — everybody else — eke out a government-supported existence at the sufferance of their betters.  Those people are not comfortable with Trump or the campaign or the First and Second Amendments, or really any of our constitutional framework, because they know that this system allows Americans — un-transformed — to be a bulwark against the old world of a decayed and degenerate Europe.  And they know that these Amendments are the prime tool to mitigate against such a transformation.

These Europhile globalist and one-world socialists hide their faces and their deeds from the light, pulling the strings of weaklings like Joe Biden and elevating the weak links of our society:  the beta males; the über-alpha, faux-educated females with degrees in “communications” and “studies” who hate men; the mentally ill; the depressed; the forlorn; the unsuccessful, whiny losers who could not get a date in high school and have never gotten over it; and their fellow lunatics and enablers, who wish to “fundamentally change America,” who are hoping we Americans forget our ungovernable nature and accede to this European model of socialism, submission, confusion, narcissism, and nihilism. 

But we have not forgotten everything about who were are.  Trump came along and reminded many Americans that we are the living human embodiments of our constitutional system, which allows us to be ungovernable but live within the bounds of the law.  Our entire system is one of limitation of the power of government so that our citizens are governed only in keeping with our desire to be un-governed.  The entire Trump campaign is an exhortation to remember ourselves, our freedom, and our independence, and what we have sacrificed to secure our liberty and to be buoyed by America’s past achievements and to look to its promising future.

When Trump says Make America Great Again, he reminds us of who we were, who we are, and what we can yet become.  He reminds us that we are different, and that because of that difference, we will not succumb to decay and despair.  He reminds us of America’s reality and promise at the same time.  We have it in us to roll up our sleeves and create ourselves and this nation, every day, all over again.  He reminds us that we can do — we can fix it.  We have done great things, and we can do great things again. 

Let us continue to remain the ungovernable, somewhat scary creatures we are.

Mary Sholl, American Thinker

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Let’s look at the latest garbage about Israel from Politico, as it is illustrative of the “reporting” by the corrupt, know-nothing media and their surrogates.

First, read Politico’s headline and the attack on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his judicial reform effort: “Israel’s Supreme Court overturns a key component of Netanyahu’s polarizing judicial overhaul.”

If you know nothing about this subject, the headline alone suggests Netanyahu is undermining Israel’s judiciary. “Polarizing”? The truth is that since the 1990s, Israel’s Supreme Court has been seizing power from the elected parts of Israel’s government — their Knesset and the prime minister — without any legal authority. That’s polarizing.

Israel does not have a constitution. Therefore, in this void, over time an all-powerful judicial oligarchy or politburo, if you will, has been born. As you can imagine, this judicial politburo is populated with left-wing lawyers.

In fact, so undemocratic and incestuous is this judicial politburo that it has majority control over the appointment authority for its own court, thereby ensuring that the leftists on the court are always in control and can never be displaced with a conservative or even non-leftist majority.

Israel’s judicial tyranny is as bad and pernicious as any other form of governmental tyranny.

So powerful has the judicial politburo become that standing is not even required for any party — person, group, or whatever — to raise any issue. In other words, a party is a legitimate petitioner even if it has no substantive, personal connection to any facts or events in the matter being raised with the court. Nowhere else in the Western world is such a practice permitted because it allows a court to delve into areas of governance where it does not belong.

But for Israel’s judicial politburo, this is purposeful because it enables these left-wing judges to pick and choose among tens of thousands of matters brought before it to legislate on any matter they wish. And the people who bring cases to judicial politburo know it.

The only limitation is the judicial politburo’s own discretion. In a hilariously absurd justification for its tyranny, the judicial politburo calls this “the reasonableness test.” And they’ve gotten away with it for the last 25 years or so.

This judicial politburo is so antithetical to enlightened democratic government and republicanism that it has been condemned by several top legal and judicial scholars, including in our country. It is a judicial tyranny as bad and pernicious as any other form of governmental tyranny. In fact, our own hideous Woodrow Wilson wrote often about controlling and lording over the will of the people and the popularly elected parts of our government through the judiciary by secreting like-minded ideologues into judgeships.

After years of tolerating the increasing authoritarianism of the court, and its constant intervention in and overruling of the Knesset, in matters as wide-ranging as national security and military decisions, religious practices, and anything one might imagine, the Likud Party and smaller conservative parties ran, in part, on an agenda of reforming the most egregious abuses of the judicial politburo.

Having won a significant majority in the election, and after much discussion and negotiation, Prime Minister Netanyahu ultimately endorsed a fairly moderate reform plan that looked much closer to the judicial system in our country. It passed the Knesset but was taken up for review by — you guessed it — the judicial politburo.

Throughout this process, Israel’s hard left, supported by groups not only in Israel but in the United States and Europe, worked against any judicial reforms. And they raised millions of dollars, including dark money from overseas, to kill it. They held huge, organized protests, supported by Israel’s notoriously leftist and anti-Netanyahu media, and enlisted all parts of Israel’s society. In fact, certain military and intelligence groups were urged to participate in the opposition and asked to defy any orders given by Netanyahu as an act of defiance.

The judicial politburo is the only way Israel’s hard left can control governance because it represents roughly 25% of the voters. Hence, it brought Israel to a near civil war to protect judicial corruption. And, of course, it positions itself as defending democracy!

The same sort of propaganda is used in our country when Joe Biden and his regime issue dictatorial fiats or a rogue court abuses its power — for example, denying Donald Trump a ballot position or depriving him of attorney-client privilege.

The campaign in Israel has been led, in part, by the likes of Ehud Barak, an unpopular and discredited former prime minister who had negotiated the horrendous deal with Yasser Arafat to surrender nearly 100% of Judea and Samaria, the ancestral Jewish homeland, as well as significant parts of the Jewish capital of Jerusalem, to the PLO.

But for Arafat pulling out, Israel would not be modern-day Israel. It would be a besieged nation with undefendable borders, among other things. Barak is celebrated in American, Israeli, and European media, as well as by Democratic Party politicians (Biden among them) and operatives, as some kind of defender of democracy and judicial independence. At the same time, Netanyahu is smeared as a dictator and an opponent of the people.

Thus, Israel’s judicial politburo, in a monumental act of judicial autocracy — and in the middle of a war for Israel’s survival, no less! — has done more to destroy Israel’s democracy than any other foe. No wonder it’s being celebrated by Israel’s hard left, their media, our hard left, our media (like Politico), and other societal and cultural entities that hate Israel and America.

Mark Levin

Civil rights groups are suing under US law in behalf of immigrant-invaders who are not US citizens and have no protection of US civil right laws.  The issue is a Texas state law that permits Texas authorities to arrest and deport illegal immigrants.  The claim is that illegal immigrant-invaders are protected from Texas law by federal civil rights law, a nonsense claim that destroys the concept of citizenship.  

Remember the “Covid pandemic” when New York was restricting entry of US citizens into New York?  How is it that New York can control the entry of US citizens into New York by such measures as imposing a two-week quarantine on arrivals, but Texas can’t control the entry of non-US citizens into Texas?  Under the 10th Amendment, Texas has the power to control entry just as northern states such as New Jersey, Connecticut, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois passed laws designed to prevent free blacks from entering the states to settle. 

Those who prefer federal over state power claim that the 10th Amendment is a dead-letter Amendment overturned by the federal government’s assumption of powers not granted to it by the Constitution.  A more accurate way to describe this is to say that the federal government’s assumption of powers granted to the states is unconstitutional and must be overturned by the Supreme Court.  The only constitutional way an Amendment can be overturned is by repeal.  What has happened is a coup against the US Constitution by the federal government.  The 10th Amendment has not been repealed.  It is still a part of the Constitution. It is simply ignored as all other Amendments increasingly are.

Counts will decide the issue between Texas and the US Department of Justice (sic) on the basis of whether state or federal government has the power to control immigration.  As the record shows, northern states prohibited black immigration from the South. Were free blacks considered in the North to be US citizens?  The answer seems to be partly but not wholly.  

The knee-jerk response of almost every jurist is that the 10th Amendment is no longer part of the Constitution.  The ruling is expected to go against Texas.  But the question remains why the federal government insists on its unique responsibility for immigration laws that it refuses to enforce.

The greater threat is the claim of some immigrant-invader advocates that the illegal non-citizens have the right under US civil rights laws to residency in the US.

The effort by Democrats in Colorado  (and other states) to prevent Donald Trump from being on the ballot in the 2024 election shows a total absence of legal comprehension on the part of the non-diverse 100% Democrat Colorado state supreme court.  One wonders where they get these “judges.”  

The legally illiterate Democrat judges ruled that Colorado could ban Trump from being on the ballot in Colorado in 2024 for the reason that he engaged in insurrection against the United States.  The legally illiterate Colorado Secretary of State said that “Donald Trump engaged in insurrection and was disqualified under the Constitution from the Colorado Ballot. The Colorado Supreme Court got it right.”Viva Naturals Organic …Buy New $12.09 ($0.76 / Fl Oz)(as of 09:50 UTC – Details)

Maine’s Secretary of State Shenna Bellows has taken it upon herself alone to remove Trump from the ballot for insurrection.

Think about what this means.  Trump has not been convicted of insurrection. Every member of the Colorado entirely Democrat supreme court and Colorado’s and Maine’sDemocrat secretaries of state assumes that assertion alone is proof of guilt.  Clearly, Democrat Colorado and Maine are not states  whose officials and judges understand law or are capable of serving justice.  

Neither do the Colorado Republicans understand.  In their appeal to the US Supreme Court for a ruling on the Colorado state court decision, the Republicans argue that the President is not an officer of the US under the meaning of the provision in the 14th Amendment, that only Congress has the power to apply the insurrection provision, and that Colorado’s ruling, if allowed to stand, would violate the people’s ability to select candidates in primaries. Little doubt this is correct, but why not simply point out that the Colorado supreme court’s ruling is total nonsense, as Trump has not been convicted of insurrection?

The persecutions of Trump are not legitimate. They are weaponizations of law designed to keep power in the hands of the ruling establishment.  That these persecutions are not denounced  by bar associations, law schools, politicians, media and the American people indicates that the weaponization of law is generally accepted as a legitimate tool in the struggle for power. The Democrats who falsely accused Trump of election interference are now interfering themselves.  With the public alerted, the Democrats are unable to steal a third election in a row, and have resorted to the desperate attempt to claim authority they do not have to prevent Trump from running for president.

Democrats have proven that they are tyrants. The acceptance by the American establishment of the obvious use of weaponized law associated with Joseph Stalin indicates that the rule of law is dead in the United States. As time passes, Americans will understand that they are prisoners, and not a free people.

Paul Craig Roberts

In 2020, the early Democratic primaries were disastrous for former Vice President Joe Biden. He lost the first few states and there was real concern that socialist U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) would become the party’s presidential nominee.

At that point, a major party leader, U.S. Congressman James Clyburn (D-SC) stepped forward to single handedly save the Biden campaign and deliver the state of South Carolina to Joe Biden. His endorsement was powerful and effectively ended the nomination contest. After South Carolina’s victory, it was clear sailing for Biden toward the Democratic Party presidential nomination.

Democrat voters were told that Biden was “solid,” a “moderate” and “reasonable.” If elected, it was promised, Biden would deliver traditional Democrat policies, within the mainstream.

In the 2020 general election versus President Donald Trump, Biden was promoted to the American people as an “adult” who would restore America’s standing and leadership in the world. With Biden as President, America would rebuild our relationship with allies that had supposedly been tarnished by the “unhinged” and ‘unpredictable” Trump.

Of course, the reality of the last three years has shown the American people the Biden campaign’s promises of 2020 were complete lies.

As President, Biden has supported policies as destructive and progressive as any in American history. Most progressives, like Senator Sanders, are supportive of Biden’s agenda and surprised that the “moderate” President never materialized.

As President, Biden has rarely collaborated with Republicans on bi-partisan legislation as he promised. In his first year, he issued 77 executive orders, more than any of his recent predecessors.

While Democrats controlled both Houses of Congress, Biden worked to pass gargantuan pieces of legislation. The American Rescue Plan cost $1.9 trillion, the Infrastructure bill cost $1.2 trillion and the ludicrously named Inflation Reduction Act cost $1.2 trillion.

Not surprisingly, such an explosion of federal government spending has led to a huge expansion in the federal debt to $33.96 trillion, an increase of $6.2 trillion since Biden took office.

The rapid surge in spending also caused a steady increase in inflation throughout the first two years of Biden’s term, reaching as high as 9.06% in June of 2022. Today, the inflation rate is 3.14%, still much higher than the 1.4% level at the end of the Trump administration.

To combat the skyrocketing increase in inflation, the Federal Reserve increased interest rates 11 times, to the highest levels since 2001. This effectively boosted mortgage rates outside of the price range of many families trying to buy a home and enjoy the American dream. In just one year, mortgage payments soared 19% for homebuyers

Without question, President Joe Biden’s economic policies created financial chaos for American families. The impact of “Bidenomics” has been incredibly negative, which is a major reason Biden’s poll numbers are so horrific. A recent Monmouth University poll showed Biden’s approval rating at a record low 34% level.

Biden is also unpopular because he created chaos at our southern border. Instead of maintaining President Trump’s successful policies, he decided to roll out the welcome mat for the world.

He ended Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” policy, reinstituted “Catch and Release,” and stopped construction of the border wall. The result has been an influx of millions of undocumented migrants into our country.

Border states and major cities are overwhelmed with migrants and are looking for more federal assistance to deal with the influx. Our border patrol is understaffed and unable to do more than process the tremendous surge of migrants crossing into our country.

Instead of making improvements, the Biden administration is only making the problem worse. Over the past month, 300,000 migrants crossed the southern border into the country. This is a new record, surpassing the September 2023 total of 270,000 border crossings.

Under Biden, our immigration system is totally broken. Most migrants are allowed into the country with no asylum screenings and court dates for several years in the future. It is so ridiculous that less than 800 immigration judges are supposed to oversee a backlog of 3 million cases.

Worldwide, Biden has also created tremendous chaos in the last three years. His withdrawal of our troops from Afghanistan in 2021 was the biggest foreign policy debacle in recent United States history.

In our hasty exit, thirteen military service members were killed in a terrorist attack, and we left behind American citizens and Afghan allies. We gave a terrorist group, the Taliban, control of the entire country, including all the military equipment we left behind and the enormous Bagram air base.

The embarrassing exit and resulting damage to our international reputation undoubtedly encouraged Russian President Vladimir Putin to invade Ukraine in February of 2022. The war is still raging, almost two years later, despite $113 billion in American military and humanitarian assistance to Ukraine.

There is also the Israel-Hamas war, largely caused by the Biden administration’s soft policy toward Iran, which lessened sanctions and enriched the world’s foremost sponsor of terrorism.

Along with the two ongoing wars, North Korea is saber rattling and “preparing for war” against the United States. It just launched its first successful spy satellite into space.

In addition, China is continuing to threaten Taiwan, after successfully sending a spy balloon across our country. Venezuela is also threatening to invade the neighboring country of Guyana.

While Donald Trump was President, none of this domestic or international chaos was occurring. In fact, there was prosperity at home and peace abroad.

Trump engaged the North Korean dictator in three successful summits. While Trump was President, Putin invaded no countries and Hamas did not have the resources to invade Israel because of the considerable sanctions he placed on their major benefactor, Iran.

During the Trump presidency, our southern border was secure, and our economy was strong.

In this upcoming election, the choice for the American people will be chaos (Biden) versus stability (Trump).

After the debacle of the Joe Biden presidency, is there any doubt which choice the American people will make in November? 

Jeff Crouere

Back on July 23, the Obamas’ personal chef Tafari Campbell “disappeared while paddleboarding in the waters of Edgartown Great Pond on Martha’s Vineyard.” The death of the 45-year-old was “ruled an accident,” but troubling questions failed to float away.

Campbell had posted videos of himself swimming laps, so it was strange that an able swimmer perished in eight feet of water, in a pond for the most part half that depth. Several reports mentioned another paddleboarder who saw Campbell go under. According to the Daily Mail, the observer was a 26-year-old female who worked for the Obamas, but the eyewitness remained unidentified.

It was also unclear who had called 911, but the dispatch was directed to the Obamas’ estate. The official police report is heavily redacted but does reveal that the medical examiner found a “small ½ centimeter abrasion” on Campbell’s upper lip.

Any personal chef is in a position to gain intimate details about his employer, especially a chef regarded as a beloved part of the Obama family. Tafari Campbell could easily have seen or heard something he wasn’t supposed to see or hear.

Like Luca Brasi in The Godfather, the chef now sleeps with the fishes, and like Paulie Gatto the Obamas aren’t going to see him anymore. A week after Campbell’s death, more realities about the former president came to the surface.

In Tablet’s August 2 “The Obama Factor,” David Samuels interviewed Pulitzer Prize winner David Garrow, author of the massive Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama. On page 538 readers learn:

Dreams from My Father was not a memoir or an autobiography; it was instead, in multitudinous ways, without any question a work of historical fiction. It featured many true-to-life figures and a bevy of accurately described events that indeed had occurred, but it employed the techniques and literary license of a novel, and its most important composite character was the narrator himself. (Garrow’s emphasis)

The composite character didn’t like Garrow’s revelation. “He wants people to believe his story,” Garrow told Samuels. “For me to conclude that Dreams from My Father was historical fiction—oh God, did that infuriate him.” A reporter also told Garrow that Obama’s staffers were “terrified of people poking around Obama’s life. The whole Obama narrative is built around this narrative that Obama and David Axelrod built, and, like all stories, it’s not entirely true. So they have to be protective of the crown jewels.”

For David Samuels, the fictitious character of Dreams is responsible for “the disaster we are living through now.” The Tablet editor provides a roster of Obama officials still running White House policy to this day.

The composite character would surely like a fourth term through wife Michelle, whose books also bear the auto-hagiographical style of “Obama’s narrator” David Axelrod. A fourth term would give the Dreams author, formerly known as Barry Soetoro, the opportunity to fulfill his transformative role as national undertaker. While the election awaits, other events portend what the people might expect in 2024.

Last January, China’s spy balloon crossed the United States surveilling military bases and wasn’t shot down until it reached the east coast. Under Joe Biden, the Chinese can do pretty much anything they want, so expect more Chinese incursions in the new year.

On March 27, in the run-up to “Trans Day of Vengeance,” Audrey Hale murdered nine-year-olds Evelyn Dieckhaus, William Kinney and Hallie Scruggs and also shot dead adults Mike Hill, Katherine Koonce and Cynthia Peak. The Biden White House failed to condemn the shooter or name the victims, and portrayed the “trans community” as “under attack.” Expect more trans murder sprees in 2024.

On August 9, the FBI shot and killed Craig Robertson a 75-year-old woodworker who had allegedly made online threats against Joe Biden. The FBI now regards anyone less than worshipful of Biden as a domestic terrorist or violent extremist. Expect more deadly violence from the FBI in 2024.

On October 7, Hamas terrorists committed the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, launching a tsunami of Jew hatred on American campuses. Harvard president Claudine Gay tries to see anti-Semitism “in context,” and gets support from the composite character as she faces charges of plagiarism. Expect more plagiarism and anti-Semitism on Ivy League campuses in 2024. There could also be more mysterious deaths like that of Tafari Campbell.

According to the police report, his case is closed “pending any future information that would warrant it being re-opened.” Investigative journalists should look into it. As David Garrow confirms, when you poke around the composite character’s life, there’s no telling what you’ll find. Happy New Year everybody.

Lloyd Billingsley