In a 2013 video released by Michael Wallace, a KC-135 pilot tells a story from 1975 at Loring AFB, Maine about his UFO encounter during a return flight to base after air-to-air refueling.“I'm going to tell you an incredible story that I have first-hand information on. The story begins at Loring Air Force Base and northern Maine near Limestone in 1975. The 42nd Bomb Wing consisted of two air-fueling squadrons and a bomber squadron. The mission was to support emergency war orders armed with nuclear weapons. I'd like to give you some background about the UFOs over Loring before we get into the details of the formation flight.A couple of weeks or maybe even as few as a couple of days before this particular formation flight, a meeting was called by the 42nd Bomb Wing for all the flight crews...all three of the flying squadrons to be held with the alert facility. This was unusual. It was the first time that it happened to me and all the time that I had been there so I was kind of curious as to what this was going to be about. So at the beginning of the meeting, a uniformed Major says "Listen if you don't have the security clearance of at least secret you need to leave." There were only a couple people that got up of a couple hundred people that were there. That Major started off by saying "If you haven't heard, there has been a UFO reported over the base"...over the nuclear-armed B-52s that are on alert over the nuclear weapons storage facilities that had nuclear weapons stored at them at this time. So it was a very serious situation and that's what this meeting was all about. "It's hovering without making any sound. It does have a few lights. It can move very quickly, unconventionally, rapid straight-line movements with straight vertical movements, and turn without any apparent radius in the turn. So it's a pretty incredible technology. The wing staff is pretty concerned about it so they have notified SAC headquarters and we were told, don't talk to anybody about it. If you have one of these incidents. You can talk to us and have a debriefing but outside of this room, don't talk about it. We're also concerned that the local press is going to get wind of all the extra ground forces and the fighters that we're bringing in to help us deal with this issue, so we're going to tell them that there's a Canadian helicopter crossing the border and harassing us. So I think that's pretty incredible, but that's the background for the story that I'm going to tell you."We had departed Loring earlier in the day. It was a nighttime refueling mission. There were three KC-135s in this formation. I was the aircraft commander on the number two aircraft in this three-airplane formation. Tanker formations were referred to as 'cell flights.' There was a lot of vertical separation and a lot of horizontal separation. There was none of this high flying like the fighters do, this kind of stuff. Now we were way, way vertically clear, I think, a thousand feet, and I don't know, half a mile, maybe, you know, so it wasn't very much fun. It was just kind of boring actually to be in a formation flight and tanker, however, the mission was pretty routine. I don't remember. It was unremarkable in almost every way until we started back and that's where the fun begins, that's where the action happens.So we are coming back from a refueling mission somewhere south of New York offshore a little ways and I believe it was with F4 Phantoms. Just a routine training mission for both the Phantoms and for us, so as we are somewhere close, I think somewhere between Bangor and Portland, northbound coming back to Loring Air Force Base. The command post at Loring contacted us which was not routine but not completely out of the ordinary. But when they asked the aircraft commander of the cell leader, the aircraft commander of the number one tanker, to change radio frequencies to standby, they had an important radio call that they wanted to talk to him about. That was pretty unusual. So it didn't take me long to say, "Hey, you know, I think one of my spare radios is good so let's see what this guy is going to get briefed on." So I tuned in. Number three tanker, probably with the same curiosity, did the same thing, I'm sure. And we're listening to the command post telling the cell formation leader, "Listen, the UFO is over the base again, right now, and we want you to pass off the leadership of the formation of the cell flight, to the number two aircraft, and then we want you, then, for one aircraft, to turn your lights out too, radios off and head straight to the base at your own discretion, out to airspeed, path whatever, at your own discretion"...which is unusual, very unusual to hear that. Incredible, as a matter of fact, so I was quite shocked.So the cell leader acknowledges and says, "Will do." So the next thing you know, I'm getting a call from him. He contacted me and said, "Listen, I just got special orders, I have to depart the formation. You're going to take over the leadership of the cell. Let the navigators coordinate our positions when you're ready, you got it." So when the navs did that, I was convinced that we were where they said we were. I could see some of the city, I knew we were close. I trusted the nav and off we went to the initial approach fix and the aircraft commander of the number one tanker turns his lights off, don't hear any more communication, so he's now radio silent. In the moonlight, I could see his silhouette and down he descended into the darkness heading straight for Loring Air Force Base. Would have loved to have traded places with them. So number two, now, the old number three, and number two, and I, started the initial approach fix which is quite a ways south of the south end of runway 36. Runway 36 lands to the north, so going straight to the base is a lot faster and everything is...everything unfolds with that aircraft as he approaches the base.Well, before I make it through the initial approach fix, I start hearing tower channel frequency communications that are really exciting. I've heard some combat radio discussions during some bomb strikes with F4s so, you know I can recognize a little stress in the voices and there was definitely stress on these voices. I wouldn't call it panicked but it was bordering on frantic. They're talking about, "Did you see it? Where is it now? Which way did it go? Oh my god, there it goes and it's down on this end of the runway, it's over east Loring, no it's back over the alert bombers" and that kind of communication, back and forth, quite a few different people talking on the tower frequency. I don't believe I could hear the tanker's crew members chiming in. I'm not sure I would have recognized them, maybe. Maybe I would have. I do know that when the tankers at elevation, the KC-135 is set elevation their radar forward, forward-looking radar was at a 240-mile range. I'm not sure what it is, it's substantially reduced at ground level and they were flying in really, really low I believe. So the fact that they lost radar contact with the UFO in almost an instant is remarkable in itself and then they said, I did hear the communication say something to the effect that we've lost it and then as quickly as the communications, it's starting on tower frequency, they ended.So that was kind of the end of the excitement and my wingman and I continued our normal approach through runway 36, we broke up the formation, I guess, after we hit the initial approach fix, so I landed. A couple minutes later the second airplane landed and taxied in. It's the middle of the night, and there's not a lot of action going on at the base we can see we proceed to our squadron's normal debriefing room, have a couple of beers, fill out some paperwork and we're dying to talk to somebody that knew anything about what just happened out on the base. We couldn't find anybody that either knew it or dared talk about it so that was kind of the end of that night. The tanker that had departed the formation and gone off to chase the UFO was absent from the briefing room when we got there and then all of a sudden I realized that, well, he must be debriefing the Major, the same Major that gave that meeting that I talked about earlier however the story gets even a little bit more bizarre.I see the aircraft commander of the first tanker. I'm not going to say his name. I've almost slipped a couple of times but I don't have permission to get him involved in my UFO story. So I'm not gonna say the name. I see him walking along in front of the base exchange the PX over at Loring, just a couple of days after the flight I believe. So I pulled my truck over got out and went running over to him and I said, "What the hell happened that night with that UFO" he looked at me and said "I can't talk about it. I can't talk about it. You wouldn't believe me if I could talk about it." So that's the end of the story and it is incredible. It is. That's as true as I can remember. It's been a long time but I had a lot of experience at the time of that incident and I've had a lot of experience in the cockpits after that experience, but I've never had anything as incredible as that happen.”**********PHANTOMS & MONSTERS VIDEO LIBRARYPOLL: WHAT DO YOU THINK? Vote & comment on paranormal, cryptid & unexplained mysteries!REPTOIDS - TERRESTRIAL MUTANTS & ALIEN TYRANTS | LIVE CHAT | Q & A (TERRIBLE REAL-LIFE EXPERIENCES)LISTEN TO NARRATIONS OF PHANTOMS & MONSTERS REPORTS & CASES - PLEASE SUBSCRIBE, LIKE & SHAREPHANTOMS & MONSTERS RADIO Podcasts on SpotifyPHANTOMS & MONSTERS READING LISTCHICAGO MOTHMAN / O'HARE BATMAN YouTube PlaylistHave you had a sighting or encounter?Contact me by email or call the hotline at 410-241-5974Thanks. LonJOIN AMAZON PRIME - Unlimited Movie/TV Streaming& FREE 2-Day ShippingRegister a SNAP EBT CardTry Audible PlusBigfoot and Other Cryptid Videos on YouTubeLYCANS! - PENNSYLVANIA'S CRYPTID CANINES UPDATE'KILLER BIGFOOT' HUNTED BY U.S. SPECIAL FORCES / GLIMMER MAN / MANTIS HUMANOIDSCRAWLER HUMANOIDS - GRUESOME INVADERS! (REAL EYEWITNESS ENCOUNTERS!)WEREWOLVES: DO THEY EXIST?'DOGMAN IN OUR YARD!' - AN OHIO FAMILY'S 12-YEAR SAGA WITH CRYPTID CANINESHey, folks. Thanks for the congrats on 'The Mothman Revisited' episode on Unsolved Mysteries. As a result, we are receiving more sighting reports and are very excited and grateful for the new information!I sincerely thank the Unsolved Mysteries team and Netflix for allowing us to tell the world about this phenomenon.If you have information about this or any other cryptid or unexplained sighting or encounter, please feel free to contact me by email or at 410-241-5974. Thanks again! LonCHICAGO MOTHMAN / O'HARE BATMAN YouTube PlaylistChicago / Lake Michigan Winged Humanoid Regional Interactive Map----------Become a Phantoms & Monsters Radio member - just $2.99 monthly, and receive these perks. Thanks for your support!-Members-only live chats-Exclusive members-only videos-Priority reply to members' commentsHave perks suggestions? LMK-----YOUR SUPPORT IS APPRECIATED! THANKS

I was contacted by an eyewitness who, as a child of 13 years of age, had a remarkable encounter with a winged humanoid in Cicero, IL. The year was 1981 and the witness, who I will refer to as 'MR', experienced a life-changing event.This is from a previous post. Since the Unsolved Mysteries episode was released, I thought that I would repost this account:The witness MR contacted me by email and asked to speak by telephone. I instantly had the sense that this interview would be significant, so I requested MR call me at his earliest convenience. We talked within 10 minutes.MR introduced himself and immediately started to tell me his account. He prefaced his story by saying that he had not known of the winged humanoid sightings reported throughout the Chicago metro area until he stumbled upon an article two days previous. He was stunned by the revelations in the article; dozens of sightings that closely resembled his encounter in Cicero in 1981. But MR's narrative was different because his encounter with the winged humanoid altered his overall beliefs and perspective of the world.MR was a 13-year-old boy in 1981 who, through his own description, had suffered terrible abuse during his young life. On this particular evening, like many previous evenings, he sought solitude in his backyard. For whatever reason, he was able to employ a self-taught form of meditation that helped him cope with the abuse by his parents. As he sat on the grass, he entered into a deep level of spiritual awareness that had become more heightened than he had ever remembered. He soon became aware of an unknown presence. As he exited his meditative state, he immediately noticed a pair of intense red eyes staring back at him from across the alleyway.The being was standing against the neighbor's white garage, about 75 feet from where MR was sitting. It was a thin black human shape that stood 7 feet in height when compared to the 4-foot high chained-linked fence at the end of his yard. There were wings folded on its back that extended above its long thin head. But those intense red eyes captured MR's concentration, to the point where he was literally paralyzed and frozen in place. The being was soon communicating with MR, in a telepathic form; more intent on garnering his attention than actually expressing information. The 5-7 minute experience was suffused with an assortment of emotions, that ranged from tranquility to terror. MR recognized that he was not dreaming or in a reflective state; this was actually occurring. That was the moment when his perspective of the world around him changed forever.He never forgot the encounter, and it influenced his life; though he was reluctant to disclose the incident until he started college and became part of an environment that would pay attention to what he had to say and not judge his experience. But MR still did not understand why he was the recipient of the winged humanoid's scrutiny. Then one evening, while he and his wife were watching a video, MR began to appreciate and grasp what had happened to him in 1981.'The Mothman Prophecies' is a theatrical film that was released in 2002. It is based on John Keel's book by the same title, even though the movie never really captured the full intensity of the book or the actual events that occurred in Point Pleasant, WV in 1966-67. Nonetheless, the film gave an overall impression of the story and some of the narrative that Keel expressed in the book. MR told me that he was sitting at home watching the video when the car accident scene unfolded. The winged being suddenly came into focus and MR instantly went into sheer panic and uncontrollably burst into tears. His wife tried to comfort him, but he was beyond consolation. They continued to watch the video, but it was a terribly difficult experience for MR. Later that evening, he disclosed his boyhood encounter in detail with his wife. Since that time, he has not talked to anyone about the incident; until we talked today.I would first like to state that my interview with MR was one of the most insightful I've experienced during my time as an investigator. We connected on a rare level, to the point where I could literally predict what he was going to say to me in each sentence. His experience confirmed to me that this phenomenon is not that of an indigenous being, but instead a flesh & blood extra-dimensional and/or extra-terrestrial entity that is either attracted to certain persons or summoned by specific forces. MR had no previous inclination of my theories but rather defined what I had begun to believe during the investigation.He also brought up, and totally discounted, the general speculation by many that this was a harbinger of future events. I asked MR if he thought that, while he was in a state of meditation, the being could have possibly been a self-manifesting thought form. He believes, that in his case, the being sought him out because of the abuse he had suffered through his parents. As he began to read the recent sighting descriptions in the Chicago metro area, he formulated that there may indeed be more than one winged being and that many of the witnesses came upon it by happenstance. But he also feels that some of the encounters occurred because the being sought out the witness for a specific reason. MR didn't sense that the winged humanoid was evil, but believed that it was an ancient being that had sought out others in the past and that it is the venerable entity that people since have referred to as a 'demon.'I forwarded my book Mothman Dynasty: Chicago's Winged Humanoids to MR in the hope that he may offer more information on this being. I'd like for him to read about the investigation that is detailed in the book, as well as understand the historical significance of this anomaly. It is my hope that MR's personal perspective may assist us in our continued desire to explain the winged humanoid phenomena. LonNOTE: Since this was a historical encounter, it will not be added to the Chicago & Regional Winged Humanoid / Flying Entity Sightings & Encounters Interactive Map. Regardless, the significance of this encounter cannot be overstated.Have you had a sighting of a flying humanoid or huge bat-like creature in the Chicago, Illinois metro area or nearby? The entity has also been referred to as the 'Chicago Phantom', 'Chicago Mothman', 'Chicago Owlman' & 'Chicago Man-Bat.' Please feel free to contact me at lonstrickler@phantomsandmonsters.com - your anonymity is guaranteed. Our investigative group is conducting a serious examination of his phenomenon. We are merely seeking the truth and wish to determine what eyewitnesses have been encountering. Your cooperation is truly appreciated. You can call me directly at 410-241-5974 as well. Thanks...Lon Strickler #ChicagoMothman #ChicagoPhantom**********PHANTOMS & MONSTERS VIDEO LIBRARYPOLL: WHAT DO YOU THINK? Vote & comment on paranormal, cryptid & unexplained mysteries!REPTOIDS - TERRESTRIAL MUTANTS & ALIEN TYRANTS | LIVE CHAT | Q & A (TERRIBLE REAL-LIFE EXPERIENCES)LISTEN TO NARRATIONS OF PHANTOMS & MONSTERS REPORTS & CASES - PLEASE SUBSCRIBE, LIKE & SHAREPHANTOMS & MONSTERS RADIO Podcasts on SpotifyPHANTOMS & MONSTERS READING LISTCHICAGO MOTHMAN / O'HARE BATMAN YouTube PlaylistHave you had a sighting or encounter?Contact me by email or call the hotline at 410-241-5974Thanks. LonJOIN AMAZON PRIME - Unlimited Movie/TV Streaming& FREE 2-Day ShippingRegister a SNAP EBT CardTry Audible PlusBigfoot and Other Cryptid Videos on YouTubeLYCANS! - PENNSYLVANIA'S CRYPTID CANINES UPDATE'KILLER BIGFOOT' HUNTED BY U.S. SPECIAL FORCES / GLIMMER MAN / MANTIS HUMANOIDSCRAWLER HUMANOIDS - GRUESOME INVADERS! (REAL EYEWITNESS ENCOUNTERS!)WEREWOLVES: DO THEY EXIST?'DOGMAN IN OUR YARD!' - AN OHIO FAMILY'S 12-YEAR SAGA WITH CRYPTID CANINESHey, folks. Thanks for the congrats on 'The Mothman Revisited' episode on Unsolved Mysteries. As a result, we are receiving more sighting reports and are very excited and grateful for the new information!I sincerely thank the Unsolved Mysteries team and Netflix for allowing us to tell the world about this phenomenon.If you have information about this or any other cryptid or unexplained sighting or encounter, please feel free to contact me by email or at 410-241-5974. Thanks again! LonCHICAGO MOTHMAN / O'HARE BATMAN YouTube PlaylistChicago / Lake Michigan Winged Humanoid Regional Interactive Map----------Become a Phantoms & Monsters Radio member - just $2.99 monthly, and receive these perks. Thanks for your support!-Members-only live chats-Exclusive members-only videos-Priority reply to members' commentsHave perks suggestions? LMK-----YOUR SUPPORT IS APPRECIATED! THANKS

Hello Everyone. Ken and myself, Chad, who joined the TRN Patreon around the same time back a few years ago, got the itch to do some podcasting and want to introduce everyone to the trailer CONTINUE READING... The post Introducing “The Retro Resurgence Podcast” appeared first on The Retro Network.

DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—The Pennsylvania Democratic Party may be illegally recruiting out-of-state poll watchers, according to a letter Thursday from the Republican National Committee flagging “misinformation” on the state party’s website. The Pennsylvania Democratic Party’s website says that recruited poll watchers must be physically present in the state to work, but “do not necessarily have to be PA voters.” The state party’s guidance contradicts Pennsylvania law that requires poll watchers to be “a qualified registered elector of the county” where the election is taking place, according to the RNC letter. “That’s a completely inaccurate statement regarding Pennsylvania poll watchers,” Linda A. Kerns, Pennsylvania election integrity counsel for the RNC, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “Our law is extremely strict on that. A candidate can’t even enter the polling place unless he’s actually there to vote. If you want to be a poll watcher, you have to be a resident of the county where that district is.” “The Pennsylvania Democratic Party is soliciting individuals to violate state law,” Hans von Spakovsky, a senior legal fellow and manager of the Election Law Reform Initiative at the Heritage Foundation, said. Not only did the Republican National Committee dispute the legality of Democrats‘ guidelines in the letter, but it also claimed that recruiting poll watchers based on their restrictions could interfere with the legitimacy of the election results. The presidential race is particularly close in the battleground state of Pennsylvania, with former President Donald Trump polling just 0.1 percentage points ahead of Vice President Kamala Harris, according to RealClearPolitics averages of polls from July 22 to Aug. 28. Most recently, the two candidates tied in the Rust Belt state with Harris and Trump at 48%, according to an Emerson College/Hill poll from Thursday. “It’s incorrect, and the last thing voters need is to have incorrect information like that spread,” Kern told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “And I think that the Democrats know that. People have the right to go to their polling place and have it be a smooth experience. That’s what our laws are designed for.” [The Republican National Committee’s letter was addressed to Pennsylvania Secretary of State Al Schmidt, a Republican, who oversees elections in the state.] “The misinformation on the PA Dems’ website threatens the integrity of November’s general election,” reads the RNC’s letter. “The Democratic Party cannot be permitted to recruit poll watchers in violation of the law and flood polling places with unqualified out-of-state poll watchers across the Commonwealth. We urge your office to issue a public statement clarifying that poll watchers must be registered voters in the counties in which they serve as poll watchers.” Pennsylvania has the largest electoral count out of all seven battleground states, with 19 votes in the Electoral College that decides who wins the presidency. Former President Barack Obama, President Joe Biden, and Trump all secured their presidencies with the help of Pennsylvania’s electoral votes. In the letter, the RNC expressed concern about Pennsylvania Democrats’ statements on their website about “early vote monitors” who are responsible for assisting “voters outside Boards of Election and satellite locations during voting.” The RNC asserted that the recruitment of these “early vote monitors” could “threaten chaos” at these election offices and risk the opportunity for monitors to “engage in observation of voting activities.” “This is an egregious misstatement of Pennsylvania election law,” the letter reads. “For the benefit of all candidates and political parties, please clarify the scope of permissible activities with respect to observation at satellite election offices and whether the PA Dems’ proposed activities are consistent with the position you took as a Commissioner in Philadelphia.” The Pennsylvania Democratic Party didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. Originally published by the Daily Caller News Foundation The post Swing State Dems May Be Illegally Recruiting Poll Watchers, GOP Letter Warns appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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America’s universities are not even fully reopened yet, but the hamassholes are already back to terrorize their campuses. Jewish students returned to Temple University this week, only to find a lynch mob of jihadi cosplayers ready and waiting to give them this warm welcome: Today at Temple University, pro-terrorist group SJP intentionally gathered protestors to harass Jewish students outside the school’s Hillel. Temple says they are investigating the incident for intentionally targeting students “because of their Jewish identity”. pic.twitter.com/vvlMYUIbvh — AG (@AGHamilton29) August 30, 2024 ‘I’m about to have a panic attack,’ one exasperated student nervously sighed as she hid behind the windowsills of the school’s Jewish Hillel center. Multiple videos show the building fully surrounded by the masked mob chanting for genocide while waving the flag of Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which is a designated terrorist organization,  "P.D., KKK, IOF (Israeli Defense Forces), THEY’RE ALL THE SAME!” shouted demonstrators. Temple’s administration announced they will take disciplinary action against the miscreants involved. “Targeting a group of individuals because of their Jewish identity is not acceptable and intimidation and harassment tactics like those seen today will not be tolerated,” their president wrote in a statement. Before the school even responded, however, the mob’s defensive ringleaders were heard outside Hillel whining that their targets would accuse them of ‘endangering Jewish students.’  That was immediately followed by calls for an “intifada,” a wave of deadly bombing attacks targeting Israeli Jews. As Shakeapseare would say, the demonstrators ‘doth protest too much.’ Related: Pro-Abortionists Attacked Chicago Catholic Pregnancy Center During DNC "Our clear-cut goal was to highlight Hillel’s hand in sponsoring and legitimizing the Zionist Entity, an apartheid state that has killed countless friends and family members of Palestinian students at Temple University," the instigators wrote in an Instagram post.  Given the mob’s proud display of terrorist flags, it wouldn’t be surprising if their ‘friends and family’ members were violent members of those organizations… assuming they’re not making that statement up entirely.  A Zionist is someone who believes Jewish people have the right to self-determination in Israel, their ancestral homeland. At least eight out of 10 American Jews say Israel is an "essential part" of their identity. So it’s clear when the mob screeches about the "Zionist entity," they mean Jews. Follow MRCTV on X! Europe self-owned with multiple 'diversity' festivals this week. The 'newcomers' they virtue signaled toward weren't very virtuous back. #NottingHill pic.twitter.com/EGNfPLrbYb — Justine Brooke Murray (@Justine_Brooke) August 30, 2024  

Kamala Harris did her CNN interview, so now the legacy media would appreciate it if we could all please stop asking her to speak in public again. The journalists are terrified of her talking policy, lest she alienate her base, independents, or both. To justify their desperate pleading that she avoid discussion of actual political issues, the media have declared 2024 a “vibes election” year, in which policy is meaningless and the incumbent candidate can run on vague notions of “joy” and “hope,” rather than her actual record. But even unscripted talk of joy might be too much for Harris. At least, her supporters in the commentariat seem to think so. That’s why they’ve been insisting that she avoid any sit-down interviews. It’s also why, despite their lame attempts at spinning last night’s two-on-one with Dana Bash as a plus for her, they’ve redoubled their efforts in discouraging their favorite candidate from any more press events. See the latest spin below:

Prior to CNN’s Thursday interview with the Democratic ticket of Kamala Harris and Tim Walz, we suggested 30 questions that Dana Bash might ask the duo in their much-hyped first interview. But when it came time to sit down to talk in Savannah, Bash only asked five of them. Bash did manage to ask Harris about her fracking flip-flop, “Do you still want to ban fracking?... In 2019, I believe in a town hall, you said -- you were asked, would you commit to implementing a federal ban on fracking on your first day in office? And you said: There's no question I'm in favor of banning fracking. So, yes. So, it changed in the -- in that campaign?”   Here's the full Dana Bash-Kamala Harris exchange on fracking..... Dana Bash: "[I]n 2019 you said, 'there's no question. I'm in favor of banning fracking'. Fracking, as you know, is a pretty big issue, particularly in your must-win state of Pennsylvania do you still want to ban… pic.twitter.com/JrSigUZduH — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) August 30, 2024   Likewise, Bash recalled Harris’s 2019 border stance, “There was a debate. You raised your hand when asked whether or not the border should be decriminalized. Do you still believe that?” On President Biden, Bash asked in the gentlest way possible, “Given where we are now, do you have any regrets about what you told the American people?”   Vice President Kamala Harris says she has zero regrets about defending Joe Biden's fitness for office, arguing he maintains "the judgment and disposition" to serve.... CNN's Dana Bash: "[Y]ou were a very staunch defender of President Biden's capacity to serve another four years.… pic.twitter.com/JX7t5XVzlA — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) August 30, 2024   To Walz, Bash recalled, “You said that you carried weapons in war, but you have never deployed actually in a war zone. A campaign official said that you misspoke. Did you?”   Walz ducks addressing stolen valor, pivots to abortion pic.twitter.com/Qbiyso4VKP — Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) August 30, 2024   She also questioned him on the fact that, “You had to clarify that you had said that you and your wife used IVF, but it turned out you used a different kind of fertility in order to have children. And then when you ran for Congress in 2006, your campaign repeatedly made false statements about a 1995 arrest for drunk and reckless driving. What do you say to voters who aren't sure whether they can take you at your word?" That was the good, but the bad was more glaring. The president’s most important role is that of commander-in-chief and keeping the country safe. The words “China,” "Russia,” and “Iran” did not appear once. The only foreign policy question was from the left: “Would you withhold some U.S. weapons shipments to Israel? That's what a lot of people on the progressive left want you to do.” On the economy, Bash declined to press Harris on her radical price control plan or how she could address the debt while not cutting spending or if she and Biden overspent, causing inflation. Likewise, when Walz hyped the ticket’s stance on abortion, Bash refused to question him on his radical record as governor of Minnesota and Harris on if she supports any limits. Nor did she ask about Title IX and the issue of transgender individuals competing in women’s sports. Bash further declined to press Harris on what she would do when Democratic interest groups collide with each other. She did not mention union concerns about electric vehicles. While she mentioned far-left concerns about Gaza, she did not mention potential Title VI violations during anti-Israel demonstrations on college campuses. She did not ask Harris if she still thinks America is a systemically racist country or favors Supreme Court expansion. Walz escaped questions about comments made by his former National Guard superior on CNN, no less, that he went around him in order to retire prior to his unit’s deployment to Iraq, his history of saying nice things about Communist China, and his associations with a pro-Hamas, pro-Hitler imam. Instead, Bash led Harris with softballs such as Trump “suggested that you happened to turn black recently for political purposes, questioning a core part of your identity,” “What are you learning in a place like Georgia?,” and food.   Tim Walz getting asked about spices is the new chocolate-chocolate chip pic.twitter.com/mUep7ckDDE — Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) August 30, 2024   Another easy question to Harris was, “One of your grandnieces that you were just talking about was watching you accept the nomination. You didn't explicitly talk about gender or race in your speech. But it obviously means a lot to a lot of people. And that viral picture really says it. What does it mean to you?" Meanwhile, CNN asks Walz’s GOP counterpart, JD Vance, if he was making light of suicide by posting a nearly 20-year-old video clip of a Miss Teen USA beauty pageant.

Germans are calling for greater restrictions on immigration after the ISIS terror group took credit for a lethal attack allegedly committed by a Syrian refugee. The Islamic State said on social media that the 26-year-old suspect is a "soldier of the Islamic State" and claimed the motivation of the terror attack was "to avenge Muslims in Palestine and everywhere." 'This was terrorism, terrorism against us all.' German Chancellor Olaf Scholz of the Social Democratic Party said that immigration should be restricted following the attack. "We will have to do everything we can to ensure that those who cannot and are not allowed to stay in Germany are repatriated and deported," he said. "This was terrorism, terrorism against us all," he added.Police said the attacker, identified as Issa Al Hasan, aimed for victims' throats as he slashed his way through a festival in Solingen on Aug. 23. Three people died, and another eight were wounded. One witness said he heard Hasan yell "Allahu Akbar" while stabbing his victims. Investigators later said that the suspect had been living at a home for refugees and had sought asylum after moving to Germany in 2022. German officials are facing outrage from the public after admitting that the government failed to deport the suspect after his asylum request was rejected. The government says 74,622 requests had been made to deport failed asylum applicants in 2023, but of those only 5,053 were actually deported. "According to what we know now, the Solingen attacker should no longer have been in Germany," said Scholz. Right-wing opposition groups are gaining popularity by offering more extreme solutions such as a ban on all immigration and a temporary suspension on naturalizations. While Scholz has promised to seek further restrictions on immigration, he has been slow to act thus far. Germany will conduct its next national elections in about a year. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!