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The following article‚ Candace Owens Says Macron’s Wife Is A MAN: “I Would Stake My Entire Professional Reputation” (Video)‚ was first published on Conservative Firing Line. (Natural News) The internet is abuzz with claims that French President Emmanuel Macron’s wife Brigitte is a biological male posing as a “woman.” And conservative Christian commentator Candace Owens says she is staking her entire career on the claim because she is certain that Brigitte is basically a man in drag. Much like what happened with … Continue reading Candace Owens Says Macron’s Wife Is A MAN: “I Would Stake My Entire Professional Reputation” (Video) ...

In the absence of an extremely unlikely recovery of public confidence in the President and the Democrats‚ the voters will attempt to return the White House and the Senate to the Republicans in November. As to the presidency‚ Trump is the beneficiary of an accelerating collapse in the traditional Democratic coalition that rested on a foundation of white working class and minority voters. And there aren’t enough “highly-educated” voters to prop up this crumbling edifice. With regard to the Senate‚ the Democrats face a brutal map this year. Of the 33 seats up for election‚ 23 are held by Democrats. Even worse‚ several of these are in states that Trump won by double digits in 2016 and 2020. Michigan is another crucial swing state that has significantly expanded mail-in voting. In pre-COVID America‚ it was possible to look at such data and predict a good Republican year with a reasonable amount of confidence. Indeed‚ a recent CNN report conceded that Trump could win the White House back even if he loses Arizona‚ Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Unfortunately‚ most of the swing states that will decide the presidential and Senate elections are governed by Democrats who have unequivocally embraced mail-in voting and ballot harvesting. This means millions of votes counted in 2024 will have ostensibly been cast by people who never go anywhere near a traditional polling place. Moreover‚ these votes will be transported by entities that have little incentive and less ability to keep them secure. (READ MORE from David Catron: Non-Citizens Have Been Voting Since 2008) Sadly‚ this includes the U. S. Postal Service (USPS). Most Americans have long since stopped paying bills through the mail and‚ last year‚ the USPS itself issued a warning against mailing checks‚ according to a story in the Washington Post: “Mail theft is surging‚ the U.S. Postal Service reports‚ and federal regulators have warned banks and other financial institutions of rising check fraud.” Yet we are expected to believe that voting by mail is safe. Indeed‚ the Post has published countless op-eds encouraging its readers to ignore warnings from election integrity experts about the lack of security associated with mail-in ballots. As recently as last week‚ however‚ the USPS issued this less than reassuring update on its main security initiative: Today‚ the U.S Postal Service (USPS) and U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS) announced an update on Project Safe Delivery‚ a joint initiative to protect postal employees and secure the nation’s mail and packages … Customers are encouraged to report stolen mail as soon as possible by submitting an online complaint to the Postal Inspection Service at www.uspis.gov/report or calling 877-876-2455.  Additionally‚ individuals are encouraged to report allegations of Postal Service employee misconduct‚ including attempts to corrupt a Postal Service employee‚ to the USPS OIG at 1-888-877-7644 or www.uspsoig.gov. It’s obvious that the USPS and the USPIS are engaged in a running gun battle with the perpetrators of mail theft. Still‚ the important swing state of Nevada opted to allow all elections to be conducted by mail beginning in 2022. The Silver State’s recently elected Republican governor‚ Joe Lombardo‚ attempted to end universal vote-by-mail‚ but the Democrat-dominated legislature blocked the effort. Meanwhile‚ the local CBS affiliate in Las Vegas reports‚ “A technical issue was causing primary mail-in ballots across Nevada to show as counted when voters had not mailed their ballots or voted at all.” Cisco Aguilar‚ Nevada’s Democratic Secretary of State‚ shrugged the issue off as a mere “glitch.” Michigan is another crucial swing state that has significantly expanded mail-in voting. Democrat Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and the state’s Democrat-controlled legislature approved dozens of new election laws in 2023‚ including “permanent absentee voting.” Previously‚ voters who wanted to vote by mail had to apply for an absentee ballot before each election. Under the new law‚ voters can apply online and get “no-reason” absentee ballots for all future elections unless they move out of the state or choose to opt out. In addition‚ the state provides pre-paid postage for all absentee ballots. For a sense of how “expansive” Gov. Whitmer’s new voting laws are‚ this is how the far left Brennan Center for Justice reacted to them: Michigan enacted 12 expansive voting laws in 2023‚ the most of any state. While the number of laws doesn’t always indicate the breadth of the voting-access reforms‚ Michigan’s new laws put in place a wide range of major expansions. Of the six laws passed in Michigan since our last roundup‚ four expand access to voter registration. These laws extend automatic voter registration to new government agencies‚ open up pre-registration to those as young as 16‚ and widen access to online voter registration. The other two laws allow voters to apply online for a mail ballot and repeal a prohibition on hiring transportation for taking voters to the polls. These people insist such laws expand “our democracy.” In reality‚ of course‚ they facilitate election skulduggery. In the 2024 scenario noted above‚ CNN suggests that Trump can win the White House back even if he loses Arizona‚ Pennsylvania‚ and Wisconsin. But that requires him to win the two swing states that have led the movement to expand mail-in voting — Nevada and Michigan. Is it possible for Trump to recapture any of the other three? It’s theoretically possible‚ but as I pointed out here‚ the Democratic governors of all three have demonstrated that the veto pen is mightier than election integrity. They have killed every election integrity bill‚ particularly those involving mail-in voting‚ that somehow reached their desks. (READ MORE: Trump’s Swing State Challenge) Which brings us back to the U. S. Postal Service. As Hans A. von Spakovsky asked in the American Spectator after the 2022 midterms‚ “If you won $500 million in the Powerball lottery‚ would you put your winning ticket into an envelope and trust the U.S. Postal Service to deliver it to the state agency that administers the lottery?” The obvious answer is‚ “Hell No!” Yet this is the organization many voters will trust to deliver their ballots in an election that will decide the fate of the republic. There is very little doubt that the voters will attempt to return the White House and the Senate to the Republicans in November.  Nonetheless‚ many will foolishly entrust that winning lottery ticket to the USPS. Thus‚ the election may get lost in the mail. The post Will the 2024 Election Get Lost in the Mail? appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.

Military history is replete with famous battles that turned the tide in war. When a superior force overextended itself in the wrong place at the wrong time. These include the Battle of Marathon in 490 BC‚ where 10‚000 Athenians and one-thousand Greek allies surprise attacked a force of 15‚000 Persians‚ causing them to flee. By the time they reached their ships‚ the Persians had lost 6‚400 men and the Greeks less than 200. The defeat erased the Persian threat to Western Civilization for a decade. So emboldened did this power make leftists‚ they crossed the line into madness: That men can be women. Then there was Napoleon’s unwise invasion of Russia in 1812. His army managed to victoriously march and fight its way into Moscow‚ but the Russians’ harassing retreat and burning of the capital left the soldiers stranded and underfed. Their journey home in the Russian winter plus the tactical attacks on them starved‚ froze‚ and routed the French‚ permanently diminishing Bonaparte. (READ MORE from Lou Aguilar: When Rightist Eyes Are Smiling) The greatest modern example of a war turnaround occurred 82 years ago at the fatefully named Battle of Midway (June 3-6‚ 1942). Four Japanese aircraft carriers sailed on Midway Island‚ their Zeroes swatting American fighter planes from the island and shooting down two waves of unprotected torpedo bombers from the U.S. carriers‚ Hornet and Enterprise. By the hand of God‚ a third bomber wave caught the Zeroes on deck refueling and rearming‚ and set three carriers ablaze‚ eventually the fourth. The Japanese military never recovered‚ and from then on‚ the Americans took the offensive in World War II. Even absent flaming ships and frozen men‚ your keen Culture War correspondent can report that the tide has turned there as well. I’ve written for some time that the “transgender” agenda was “a Rainbow Bridge too far” for the Left. And by pushing it‚ for the first time ever‚ its minions are now in retreat. For a while they had managed to warp reality and bend normalcy with other lunatic ideas: That killing unborn babies — and in some cases born ones — was a reproductive right. That same-sex marriage was equivalent to a husband and wife. That women were physically equal to men. That current anti-white racism can compensate for past anti-black racism. That “defunding the police” would decrease crime. That removing border obstacles could control immigration. All these canards‚ promoted by academia and mainstream media‚ the populace swallowed. So emboldened did this power make leftists‚ they crossed the line into madness: That men can be women‚ then become pregnant and breastfeed young victims. That their transformation should begin in children‚ ahead of their surgical butchery to create Frankensteinian nightmares‚ only unlike Mary Shelley’s monster‚ with nonfunctional external body parts. And if transgender adherents chose to spare themselves such a mutational horror‚ merely stating they were the opposite sex made them so. Thus‚ at the Left’s insistence‚ mediocre male athletes could crush champion sportswomen‚ men could gape at naked girls in female locker rooms‚ and “transgender” prisoners could rape and somehow impregnate women inmates. While previously unheard of terms like “misgendering” and “deadnaming” became actual hate crimes. For too long‚ the progressive freaks got away with it‚ secure in their unceasing cultural victories and power. Their social media hegemony — Twitter‚ Facebook‚ YouTube‚ others — canceled any objector or mocker merely for using the “wrong” pronoun. Just two years ago‚ Twitter suspended The Babylon Bee for naming Biden’s most absurd official (out of many choices)‚ “Admiral” Rachel Levine‚ the magazine’s Man of the Year. That arrogant act started the counteroffensive which today has the Left on the run. Last year‚ an outraged Elon Musk bought Twitter and promptly restored the The Babylon Bee account. Last year‚ the Bee named the ridiculous female-impersonator Dylan Mulvaney its 2023 Man of the Year. And this time there wasn’t a damn thing the progressive castrati could do about it‚ except watch their empire crumble‚ beginning with the once popular‚ now flopping Mulvaney-celebrating beer‚ Bud Lite. (READ MORE: Will Men Make a 1980s-Style Comeback?) Last week‚ the anti-transactivist bombs just kept exploding like the Japanese carriers at Midway. In Florida‚ a court upheld Governor DeSantis’ Parental Rights in Education Act‚ which “prohibits classroom instruction about sexual orientation or gender identity in K–3 classrooms.” In Kansas‚ a judge denied the state’s Department of Revenue from allowing “transgender” persons to change their sex classification on their Kansas-issued identification. But the biggest blast took place across the Pond in the socialist-sinking United Kingdom. Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) just stopped prescribing puberty blockers for children. For the left-compromised ministry to basically acknowledge the irreparable damage these treatments can do to kids should start a chain reaction of sanity around the world. Even the usually reserved Times of London called the practice “quack medicine‚” urging that it be “reined in entirely.” Nonetheless‚ terminally woke British territorial states Scotland and Wales stand by the quackery. The Welsh government hopes “to make it easier to ‘change gender’ in Wales.” While the Scottish government “wants to speed up and simplify the existing process by which people can obtain a ‘gender recognition’ certificate.'” Outspoken actor and Reclaim Party leader Laurence Fox had a brilliant thought about what the UK can do with the two countries. “At this time it might be a good idea to just give Wales and Scotland back‚” he posted on X.   The post Midway in the Culture War appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.

If you compare the way President Biden treats Americans with the ways he treats citizens of foreign countries‚ it’s hard not to conclude that he doesn’t like us very much. He’s preparing our base at Guantanamo Bay‚ Cuba to receive thousands of Haitian refugees so that they can be flown to the U.S. Biden — who could secure our borders by reversing the same executive orders with which he opened them — refuses to take any actions that would do anything to secure our borders. Hamas terrorists — since October 7 — have held several American hostages among the others they captured. At least five — Edan Alexander‚ 19‚ Omer Neutra‚ 22‚ Hersh Goldberg-Polin‚ 23‚ Sagui Dekel-Chen‚ 35 and Keith Siegel‚ 64. A sixth‚ Itay Chen‚ was confirmed to have died recently in Hamas’s hands. Hamas also‚ according to a Wall Street Journal report‚ holds the bodies of Americans Judy Weinstein Haggai and Gadi Haggai‚ who had also been taken hostage. (READ MORE from Jed Babbin: The Coming Ramadan War) All Biden has done to recover them is to pressure Israel to accept a cease-fire deal that would leave Hamas in control of the Gaza Strip. Thirty-two Americans were among those Hamas slaughtered on October 7. They’re not even an afterthought to Biden &; Co. WNBA player Britney Griner was taken prisoner by the Russian government and released after several months. Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich was taken prisoner by the Putin regime and has been held for a year on phony charges. Biden has done nothing effective to get Gershkovich released. He’s more interested in pushing Congress for more aid to Ukraine. Five American hostages were released from Iran in return for a $6 billion ransom payment last year. Others may still be in Iranian prisons. At least a few of us remember the hundreds of Americans left behind in Biden’s Afghanistan withdrawal debacle Biden created in 2021. Have all of them been able to reach freedom? We’ll probably never know. Which brings us to the mess in Haiti which Biden is handling in much the same manner that he handled Afghanistan. President Biden has sent at least $680 million in aid to Haiti to help stabilize it and create some sort of government there‚ but it remains what former president Trump called it a few years ago: a s***hole country. Much — probably most or all — of the aid sent before and during the Biden administration has been siphoned off by government and other corruption. There is no government in Haiti since its president resigned (from a safe distance) about a week ago. The country is run by brutal gang lords such as Jimmy “Barbecue” Cherizier. (READ MORE: Biden Blackmails Israel) We don’t know how many Americans are stranded in Haiti. One group of American missionaries was begging to be evacuated. On Saturday‚ the State Department announced that it was chartering flights from Haiti and all people with U.S. passports were welcome to take one of the flights. The big problem is that many Americans are in Port-au-Prince‚ Haiti’s capital‚ and the flights are leaving from Cap-Haitien which is 130 miles away. State also said that travel to Cap-Haitien was at the traveler’s own risk. Why? Why isn’t our citizens’ safety guaranteed by a few companies of Marines? America has a long and troubled history of military intervention in Haiti and Nicaragua. Woodrow Wilson sent Marines to both countries in 1915 and we occupied Haiti until 1934. Wilson had a bizarre notion that it was up to him to remake the world after World War One‚ which you can read about in Margaret MacMillan’s masterpiece‚ Paris 1919. (The Nicaraguan intervention and all the fighting that took place in its jungles had one side benefit. It taught a particularly smart Marine named Lewis B. Puller how to fight the Japanese in World War Two.) We shouldn’t invade Haiti with more force than is needed to evacuate U.S. citizens. But we should put enough troops in — preferably Marines — to force the issue and then get everyone‚ including our troops‚ out. Meanwhile‚ what is Old Joe doing? He’s preparing our base at Guantanamo Bay‚ Cuba to receive thousands of Haitian refugees so that they can be flown to the U.S. The Guantanamo Bay naval base — aka “Gitmo” — is about forty-five square miles in size. It has runways that can handle large military or commercial aircraft. It’s no tropical paradise. The rest of Cuba may be pretty nice‚ but Gitmo is scrub desert and rough seacoast. About seventeen years ago‚ I visited the terrorist detention facility at Gitmo. It’s ten or twelve acres in size and‚ we hope‚ the terrorists held there won’t be mixed with the Haitians coming to America. But Biden is capable of anything including bringing the terrorists to the U.S.‚ as both he and Obama want to close the Gitmo facility where they are held. (READ Flashback: Send Them to Gitmo‚ Mr. President) We don’t know how many Haitians Biden plans to house at Gitmo temporarily but he will create a flow of Haitian refugees into the U.S. where Biden’s Homeland Security Department will release them into the general public. There are already about 250‚000 Haitian refugees in the U.S. and the new refugees will be added to them in unknown numbers. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is trying to interdict the flow of Haitians into his state. He may succeed in keeping them out of Florida but he won’t stop the influx that Biden has planned. The safety and recovery of Americans held in the Gaza Strip‚ Russia‚ Iran‚ and Haiti should be a top priority for Biden. It would be for any Republican president‚ but Old Joe seems to have forgotten his duty to them. He is far more interested in bringing more foreign refugees and illegal immigrants into the U.S.     The post Biden Does Nothing for Americans Held Abroad appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.