On Thursday, Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) accepted the invitation to CBS News’ 2024 vice presidential debate on October 1 and dared Minnesota Democratic Governor Tim Walz to appear for at least one more. Vance said in a post to X that the “American people deserve as many debates as possible,” which he noted is why former President Donald Trump challenged Vice President Kamala Harris to three of them. “Not only do I accept the CBS debate on October 1st, I accept the CNN debate on September 18th as well,” Vance added. “I look forward to seeing you at both!” Vance was responding to a Wednesday post from Walz, who said he accepted CBS News’ proposal for October 1 — which comes after early voting begins in some states. The American people deserve as many debates as possible, which is why President Trump has challenged Kamala to three of them already. Not only do I accept the CBS debate on October 1st, I accept the CNN debate on September 18th as well. I look forward to seeing you at both! https://t.co/63FyI99dKU — JD Vance (@JDVance) August 15, 2024 “CBS Evening News” anchor and managing editor Norah O’Donnell, and “Face the Nation” moderator and CBS News chief foreign affairs correspondent Margaret Brennan have been selected to moderate the debate. The network said it had provided three other dates — September 17, September 24, and October 8 — to the candidates for its vice presidential debate in New York City. WATCH THE TRAILER FOR ‘AM I RACIST?’ — A MATT WALSH COMEDY ON DEI As of press time, it was unclear whether Walz would accept the CNN debate challenge. CNN reported that it reached out to Harris’ campaign for comment. Trump faced President Joe Biden in a CNN debate with no audience and mic cuts in June. After Biden’s fumbling performance sparked a crisis of confidence among his allies, he stepped aside under pressure and Harris took the top spot on the Democratic Party’s ticket. Vance did not immediately accept CBS’s invitation to a debate, saying in a Wednesday evening Fox News interview he wanted to assess the proposed rules and moderators. “We’re not going to walk into a fake news media garbage debate,” he said. In particular, Vance signaled having no audience at the venue would be a deal-breaker. In a preview of what is to come on October 1, Vance took a swipe at his rival earlier this week over “stolen valor” accusations that Walz faces in a controversy related to his military service record. “Hi Tim, I thank you for your service. But you shouldn’t have lied about it. You shouldn’t have said you went to war when you didn’t. Nor should you have said that you didn’t know your unit was going to Iraq. Happy to discuss more in a debate,” Vance said in a post to X. A release from CBS on Wednesday announced that invites were sent out to the campaigns earlier in the day, but did not mention any parameters for the debate. The moderators were revealed publicly only after both candidates agreed to the October 1 date. Trump and Harris are scheduled to have their first debate on September 10. That event is set to be hosted by ABC News. Trump has floated two other debates next month, one held by Fox News and another held by NBC News, but Harris has not agreed to either one of them.

Young Americans “are becoming paupers in their own country” as inflation and housing costs have increased under the Biden-Harris administration, Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance said on Wednesday. During his speech in Byron Center, Michigan, Vance focused on the economic woes facing Americans and argued that the younger generation of U.S. adults is experiencing challenges in the housing market that their parents and grandparents did not face. “Americans, especially young people, are becoming paupers in their own country. If we don’t do better, our young generation, they’re not going to own anything, they’re not going to have anything, they’re going to be renters in the country that their parents and grandparents built. Inflation is a disaster,” Vance said, according to The Detroit News. Median home prices in the U.S. have skyrocketed, hitting a peak of $479,500 in the fourth quarter of 2022, according to Rocket Homes. At the end of 2020, the final months of the Trump administration, the median home price was $358,700. Rent prices in the U.S. have also increased by around 19% since 2019, The Washington Post reported, making it harder for young Americans to save money for the increasing costs of owning a home. While inflation dropped to 2.9% last month, it is still higher than it was during most of Trump’s presidency. The inflation rate hit a staggering 9.1% in June 2022 before it began to drop. WATCH THE TRAILER FOR ‘AM I RACIST?’ — A MATT WALSH COMEDY ON DEI Vance said a priority of the Trump-Vance administration would be to lower energy costs, which he argued would, in turn, bring down the cost of housing. Trump made similar comments in July when addressing the housing crisis. “When the economy gets better, it’s hard to get better when you have high energy prices,” Trump told a crowd of supporters in Iowa. “We’ll get the prices way down and then the interest rates down and then the home builders will start building again, because nobody can get money from the bank because the interest rate’s high.” The Republican vice presidential candidate and Ohio senator also blasted Michigan’s “failed leadership,” saying it has resulted in thousands of jobs disappearing in the Great Lakes State. He predicted the loss of jobs in Michigan would result in voters overwhelmingly turning out in support of Republicans in November. “Michigan, people used to call it a blue wall state,” he said. “I think Michigan is a red wall state now because people are sick of losing their livelihoods and losing their jobs.”

A report from CNN acknowledges that Kamala Harris’ VP-pick Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) repeatedly lied about his 1995 drunk driving arrest during his run for Congress. Walz was pulled over by a Nebraska trooper for going 96 mph in a 55 mph speed zone on September 23, 1995. After the officer smelled alcohol on Walz’s breath, Walz took a field sobriety test and a blood-alcohol test — and failed both. Walz spent the night behind bars and later admitted that he was driving drunk, court records show. While running for Congress, however, Walz’s campaign repeatedly claimed that the Democrat had not been drinking, but was pulled over and failed the field sobriety test because of alleged hearing loss he suffered from his time serving in the National Guard. As the CNN report put it, “None of that was true.” The report chronicled the lies from the campaign, which was echoed in numerous media reports. A local newspaper called the New Elm Journal, for example, reported the following: According to Walz’s campaign staff, Walz denies being drunk the night of the incident. Walz was hard of hearing, a result of his years as an artillery soldier in the Army National Guard, and had trouble hearing the trooper, according to Meredith Salsbery, communications director for the Walz campaign. Salsbery, Walz’s then-communications director, further told the paper that Walz “couldn’t understand what the trooper was telling him during the field sobriety test, and the trooper refused to speak up.” WATCH THE TRAILER FOR ‘AM I RACIST?’ — A MATT WALSH COMEDY ON DEI ‘The DUI charges were dropped for a reason,” she continued, referring to Walz’s plea deal. “The judge would not have dismissed them if there were anything to them. Tim drove to the police station that night (after being stopped), and he drove home afterwards. I don’t think the trooper would have allowed that if he thought there was a problem.” The same lies were told to the Post Bulletin, another local paper: Walz’s campaign manager Kerry Greeley didn’t dispute that Walz was speeding when he was pulled over that night, but she said Walz was not drunk. She attributed the misunderstanding to Walz’s deafness, a condition resulting from his years of serving as an artillerist in the Army National Guard. “He couldn’t understand what the officer was saying to him,” Greeley said. She said deaf people also can have balance issues. The judge eventually threw out the DUI charges against Walz and chastised the officer for not realizing that Walz was deaf, Greeley said. Greenley also told the Star Tribune that Walz “was caught speeding, he doesn’t deny it and that’s the end of it.” Examining the Harris campaign’s framing of Walz as an all-American dad with roots in the heartland, Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro recently noted Walz’s lies concerning the drunk driving arrest. “Arrested for DUI while teacher and assistant coach, abandoning his unit in the guard: none of the ‘dad persona’ really sticks when revealed,” Shapiro says in the latest episode of “Scamala: Kamala Harris Unmasked.” Instead, Walz is a “wild progressive, a radical, and a liar” with bizarre ties to China, a history of military embellishment, and a record of radical racial and gender policies. Related: ‘Walz Of Shame’: Ben Shapiro Exposes Kamala’s VP Pick In Latest Episode Of ‘Scamala’ Series

The “transing” of America’s foster care system is under way, and Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz are totally on board. It doesn’t bother them that injecting trans ideology into foster care means that some vulnerable children are banned from finding new homes with loving families. It’s already happening. Just ask the Harmon family of St. Peter, Minnesota.  My organization, the Conscience Project, has released a short video documenting what Nancy and Jay Harmon had to endure. The couple has fostered around 50 children over the last 25 years. Nancy was a foster child herself. In December 2021 the Harmons took in three sisters aged 9, 10, and 11. The girls had suffered unimaginable abuse and neglect by their biological parents. Nancy recalls, for example, that when the water went out at the girls’ house, their biological parents “told them to collect rainwater.” At times, the oldest girl has claimed to be “nonbinary.” In the summer of 2022, Nancy and Jay were asked by the adoption agency contracted by their county’s child social service department to consider adopting the girls. After much “prayer and reflection, given the girls’ significant mental health and physical needs,” they agreed to adopt the girls.  Several months later, as the Harmons waited for news of what they thought was a pending adoption, Nancy opened an email mistakenly sent to her by the adoption agency to the county. “When are we going to tell the Harmons that they’re not the right fit?” she read. Nancy was astonished. She reached out to county officials for clarification. She was told that it was because of her “religious beliefs.”  What exactly are the “religious beliefs” that would render the Harmons incapable of a permanent relationship with the girls they had cared for over two years? Nancy and Jay are devout Christians and hold to a Biblical understanding of the human person, made God’s image and as described in Genesis: “Male and female, He created them.” The county argued that, in light of the oldest girl’s “gender nonconformity,” it was in the best interests of the children to find a more “affirming” household. A government official even suggested splitting up the sisters and asked if the Harmons would be willing to adopt just the two youngest ones. Nancy and Jay were incredulous. It was only after the girls’ private psychiatrist recommended that the girls stay together that the county and the private adoption agency changed course and allowed the adoption to go through. In December 2023, all three girls were adopted by the Harmons.    Nancy has also shared her family’s story as a friend of the court in support of Jessica Bates, an Oregon mother of five who wanted to adopt two siblings under the age of 10. During training with Oregon’s family services, Jessica was told that she had to agree to “gender-affirming” indoctrination as a condition to be certified to adopt through the state. When she objected, pointing to her Christian beliefs, she was told she was ineligible to adopt. Jessica’s case is currently before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, a court infamously known for toeing the progressive line. A tragedy was averted for the Harmons, but foster families like theirs continue to be targeted by ideologues. Let’s not forget that the Harmons live in Minnesota. Tim Walz’s Minnesota. This spring, Governor Walz proudly signed into law legislation that encourages out-of-state, “gender non-conforming” children whose parents object to them receiving medical intervention to come to Minnesota. And Walz’s Minnesota is one of 28 states that treat gender identity as a protected class, and treat any failure to “affirm” a foster child’s supposed identity as discrimination. Like Walz, Vice President Kamala Harris has been riding the trans bandwagon, to the detriment of vulnerable foster kids. The Biden-Harris administration, for example, recently finalized rules that demand that states provide “designated placements” for foster children who identify as “LGBTQI+”.  These “providers”, the administration explains, are “specially designated to serve LGBTQI+ children because they have made a set of commitments and undergone training to better meet the needs of LGBTQI+ children.” The providers are ideologues, in other words. The rule will certainly limit the number of homes available to LGBTQ+-identifying foster children to those that are “affirming.” The progressive group Human Rights Campaign cites these new rules in their effusive support for Harris’s presidential run.  Nancy and Jay Harmon are wonderful people who have opened their home to children in need because of their Christian beliefs. Kamala Harris and Tim Walz think those same beliefs render them ineligible to do so. Is this the kind of America we want? Is this kind of America the Constitution permits? I don’t think so. * * * Andrea Picciotti-Bayer is Director of the Conscience Project. The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

Proposals are all about expressing love for the person you want to spend the rest of your life with — no pressure, right? Any pressure Tyler Dycus felt must have been channeled into creating the best proposal ever for Maddie Anderson, because you’ve never seen one like this before. Law and Order: SVU has been Maddie’s favorite show since high school, inspiring Tyler to plan a scavenger hunt proposal with that very theme. The day started off like any other, with Tyler heading out to play basketball. Maddie was going to shop with a friend, but that changed when a neighbor sent her down the path of a scavenger hunt. From her favorite coffee spot to the San Diego Zoo, Maddie found herself greeted by loved ones all over town. Each one was happy to lend a hand in getting her the clues to her next location. Her goal? Find Tyler by sundown. Oh, and did I mention that Ice-T gave her a clue, too? @maddieeeanderson My mind was blown Check Part 1 of my proposal adventure for the full video #fypage #proposal #engagement #proposalstory #icet #lawandordersvu #detectivetutuola #surpriseproposal #proposalideas ♬ misses – Dominic Fike That’s right — Ice-T, who has been on Law and Order: SVU for years, created a video to help Maddie on her journey. Talk about a clever way to use the website Cameo! This unbelievable surprise took place early in the day, truly setting the tone for what was to come. Man’s Law and Order: SVU-Inspired Proposal Leaves His Girlfriend At a Loss for Words “I have always been really obsessed with mysteries and puzzles and games,” Maddie says. “I think that’s why I’m drawn to shows like that, because I’m the one who’s already guessing the person who did it.” TikTok As the night drew to a close, Maddie’s mom held her hand, leading them to the final location. But it wasn’t just any scenic area — it was the exact spot where Maddie’s late father proposed to her mom. Needless to say, this was the perfect spot for the scavenger hunt to end. Watch a montage of this incredible proposal below. 12-Hour Long Scavenger Hunt Ends at the Perfect Spot @maddieeeanderson A 12 hour curated adventure all over San Diego, with the sweetest sunset surprise Stay tuned for a full break down of my propisal adventure day! #proposal #engagement #engagementstory #sandiego #proposalvideo #proposalgoals #proposalideas ♬ Revival – Zach Bryan “It meant so much. The most important thing to me is my family and friends. It was so special. There was so much love in one place,” Maddie shares. “It’s just so special that he took so much time to put together this whole day that was really curated to me and what I’m interested in. I hope everyone has their own version of that.” You can find the source of this story’s featured image here! The post Boyfriend Recruits Ice-T Himself For Epic “Law & Order: SVU”-Themed Proposal appeared first on InspireMore.

The Earth is such a beautiful place. We see this daily in the nature around us, but it’s nice to be reminded of the beauty we rarely get to appreciate. Luckily, NASA Astronauts like Matthew Dominick are more than happy to share the views they get from up above. Matthew, who is spending six months conducting experiments while maintaining the space station, recently captured footage of the moon setting into the lights of the aurora borealis. “Timelapse of the moon setting into streams of red and green aurora followed by a sunrise lighting up Soyuz with a light blue,” Matthew shares in the caption of his video. “The aurora have been amazing the past few days. Great timing for trying out a new lens that recently arrived on Cygnus.” Timelapse of the moon setting into streams of red and green aurora followed by a sunrise lighting up Soyuz with a light blue. The aurora have been amazing the past few days. Great timing for trying out a new lens that recently arrived on Cygnus. 15mm, T1.8, 1/3s exposure,… pic.twitter.com/otFv5pZ6vd— Matthew Dominick (@dominickmatthew) August 12, 2024 There is so much to love about Matthew’s video. The vibrant colors of the aurora borealis are mesmerizing. Plus, this angle further highlights how massive our planet is compared to the limited views we typically get. What a spectacular reminder of the vast wonder that is our world! NASA Astronaut Shares Stunning Footage of the Moon Setting Into the Aurora Borealis No matter if you’re viewing the aurora borealis from space or down here on Earth, one thing is for certain: This natural light show never gets old! “Star Trek future already here, just not for all of us at the same time. I’m so happy for you this is your office. Truly amazing,” one person shares in response to Matthew’s video, with another adding, “Holy cow, that’s beautiful! What an age we live in where a human can live in orbit, record a natural sight like that, and beam it back to Earth for us to enjoy. Thank you!” You can find the source of this story’s featured image here! The post Astronaut Shares Breathtaking Time-Lapse Of Moon Setting Into Aurora Borealis appeared first on InspireMore.

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