Immediately following Vice President Kamala Harris’s speech to round out Night Four of the Democratic National Convention, CNN host Jake tapper beclowned him again by essentially proclaiming it the best speech delivered by anyone in all time. He was then followed up by CNN host Abby Phillip who ridiculously claimed Harris was “misunderstood politically” and was really just a pragmatic centrist. Recounting the speech their viewers had just witnessed, Tapper gushed as he paraphrased what she said: She talked about representing the people. Kamala Harris for the people, in her time as a prosecutor. She discussed how she would be a president for everyone. And wanting to form an opportunity economy to build and strengthen the middle class. It was a speech of progressive politics and unifying rhetoric. A speech with many, many shots across the bow of Donald Trump, her opponent. And a speech in which she sought to portray herself as a credible commander-in-chief, patriotic, firm, confident, and credible. She discussed Israel and Palestine. She discussed Ukraine. She discussed the threat from Iran. He wound down his comments by calling it “a remarkable address, one that I've never seen her give quite like this before.”   CNNs' Abby Phillip claims Kamala has "been very misunderstood politically" and that she was forced to "run to the left" in 2020. She insists Kamala has "processive beliefs but is not and ideologue." pic.twitter.com/4LTo7bIOB1 — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) August 23, 2024   Then came his downright laughable assertion of how well it stood up against other speeches: “A very, very powerful speech. You gotta go back, I think, to Barack Obama in 2008 for a Democratic speech like this, perhaps even a speech like this at all.” The clownish takes continued with Phillip proclaiming Harris had “been very misunderstood politically for quite some time.” She lamented that Harris was supposedly forced “to run to the left” in her failed 2020 jab at being president. Phillip went on to cite unnamed people she had supposedly talked to (seemingly other journalists) who gushed about how “pragmatic” and non-ideological Harris supposedly was: But when I covered her then, I talked to a lot of people who covered her in her Senate race and in the years before she even became a politician in the true sense. They view her in a very different way, as a pretty pragmatic person. As somebody who has progressive beliefs but is not an ideologue. And this part of her speech really struck out to me. She said she would be a president who is realistic, practical, and has common sense. And I think that if there is anything in this speech that she wanted to convey, that would cut against the narrative that is being written about her by Republicans, is that she in the – she is interested in solving problems. “She is interested in not just doing what the left or the right says you should be on, in terms of the ideological sides, but what she thinks is the right thing to do,” she added. The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read: CNN Democratic National Convention: Night 4 August 22, 2024 11:14:05 p.m. Eastern (…) JAKE TAPPER: She talked about representing the people. Kamala Harris for the people, in her time as a prosecutor. She discussed how she would be a president for everyone. And wanting to form an opportunity economy to build and strengthen the middle class. It was a speech of progressive politics and unifying rhetoric. A speech with many, many shots across the bow of Donald Trump, her opponent. And a speech in which she sought to portray herself as a credible commander-in-chief, patriotic, firm, confident, and credible. She discussed Israel and Palestine. She discussed Ukraine. She discussed the threat from Iran. It was a remarkable address, one that I've never seen her give quite like this before. A very, very powerful speech. You gotta go back, I think, to Barack Obama in 2008 for a Democratic speech like this, perhaps even a speech like this at all. (…) ABBY PHILLIP: And I do think she's been very misunderstood politically for quite some time. In the primary in 2020, she had to run to the left. But when I covered her then, I talked to a lot of people who covered her in her Senate race and in the years before she even became a politician in the true sense. They view her in a very different way, as a pretty pragmatic person. As somebody who has progressive beliefs but is not an ideologue. And this part of her speech really struck out to me. She said she would be a president who is realistic, practical, and has common sense. And I think that if there is anything in this speech that she wanted to convey, that would cut against the narrative that is being written about her by Republicans, is that she in the – she is interested in solving problems. She is interested in not just doing what the left or the right says you should be on, in terms of the ideological sides, but what she thinks is the right thing to do. (…)

The vice president delivered a serviceable convention speech, but she remains a complete cipher.

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The Novium Museum in Chichester is the proud new owner of the Roman gold bracelet discovered in 2022 by an 11-year-old boy walking the dog with his mother. The gold jewel dates to the 1st century A.D. and is a rare cuff of the armilla type, a battle honor given to Roman soldiers for bravery. Most of the ones that have been found are bronze; this is only the fourth gold example recorded in the Portable Antiquities Scheme database. It was Rowan Brannan who spotted the glint of gold, and Rowan who insisted it was real gold and took it home over the objections of his mother. Rowan researched it further when he got home, and with the support of a metal detecting family friend, he reported it to the local Finds Liaison Officer. Archaeologists confirmed not only that it was real gold, but that it was an authentic Roman artifact. The armilla was declared official treasure at a Coroner’s Court earlier this year. Rowan and his mother Amanda were kept in the loop throughout the process. The British Museum’s valuation committee then determined its fair market value, and a local museum close to the find site was given the opportunity to acquire the piece for the assessed value. That sum would then be split between the finder and the landowner. The Novium Musem was able to raise the money with a grant from Arts Council England/V&A Purchase Grant Fund. The armilla will go on display at the museum on September 10th. Chichester District Council leader Adrian Moss said: “Acquiring this bracelet for The Novium Museum’s collection will help shed light on military attitudes, including how Roman soldiers were rewarded for their bravery, gallantry and service, particularly with regards to the Roman invasion of Britain in AD43. “This piece will widen our museum team’s understanding of Roman life locally and allows us to tell a different story from the Roman period.”

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Tim Walz has decided that his IVF spiel is particularly effective. The story goes that Walz and his wife struggled with infertility for years. They turned to the medical industry for answers and waited with bated breath for the phone call that the infertility treatments they were undergoing would be successful. The Walz family was lucky. Twenty-three years ago, Tim and Gwen welcomed their daughter Hope into the world. It’s a good story. (READ MORE: A Party at War With the Truth) It pulls at the heartstrings and relates him to his audience — as he points out, an increasingly large number of Americans struggle with infertility. Gov. Walz likes to tell this story right after reminding Americans to “mind their own damn business” when it comes to abortion and IVF treatments. The problem with that is that the way it frames Walz’s story makes it sound like he has IVF to thank for his daughter’s life. But that’s not exactly true. Walz Called Out on IVF The New York Times (of all places) called Walz out earlier this week after the Harris–Walz campaign clarified that the couple hadn’t used in-vitro fertilization (IVF), but rather intrauterine insemination (IUI) to conceive. Those of us who assumed that the Walzes had used IVF to conceive (this author included), can be excused. It wasn’t just implied by the vice presidential hopeful’s campaign stump speech, according to the New York Times. In April, Walz’s campaign office for his race as governor mailed out an envelope that read, “My wife and I used I.V.F. to start a family.” (READ MORE: In Chicago, Democrats Veer Left) Lest you think the New York Times actually wrote a hit piece on a Democratic candidate, the newspaper goes on to assure its readers that “Some patients say they are ‘doing I.V.F.’ as a catchall phrase for a wide range of fertility treatments.” If Walz is using that as an excuse, it’s a bad one. Americans who aren’t running for public office don’t need to be specific with their language. Walz does. IUI is a different process than IVF. Frequently referred to as artificial insemination, IUI involves injecting sperm into a woman’s uterus using a catheter. Conception happens within the womb of the mother and there are no living souls in labs for doctors to discard or freeze. There are aspects of the process that are immoral, but murder isn’t one of them. In IVF, sperm and egg meet in a lab, not in a mother’s womb. Each IVF treatment can create anywhere between seven and eight embryos (human lives) per treatment, most of whom are never born and are frozen and later discarded by the labs where they were conceived. The Catholic News Agency estimated that anywhere between 1.6 and 1.8 million embryos were killed between July 2022 and June 2023 — more than twice the number of lives that the abortion industry claimed during that same period. It’s for that reason that pro-life advocates are opposed to IVF, but not necessarily to IUI. Clarifying the Story Defeats the Point But for Walz to clarify the situation defeats the purpose of telling his whole story. Religious Americans and pro-life advocates are perfectly willing to “mind their own damn business” when it comes to IUI — after all, babies aren’t being killed — just not when it comes to the millions of babies denied their mother’s wombs and frozen in massive vats in clinics across the country. (READ MORE: Where Did All the Yard Signs Go?) The fact that the whole story is a lie (or, at best, is misleading) hasn’t stopped Walz from using it, even now that he’s been exposed. During his acceptance speech on Wednesday night at the Democratic National Convention, Walz once again told the whole story with his family present: JUST IN: Tim Walz son starts bawling after his father repeated the lie that his children were conceived through IVF. Walz, who clearly has a lying problem, repeated the lie after being fact-checked by his own wife. “When asked if the Walzes wanted to share more details about… pic.twitter.com/fbP2kQcdy0 — Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) August 22, 2024 No apologies. No clarifications. Nothing to see here. READ MORE from Aubrey Gulick: Where Did All the Yard Signs Go? The Spectator P.M. Podcast Ep. 70: 1968 or 2024? Democrats Hope History Doesn’t Repeat Itself Paris, 1944: Forcing the Hand of Fate The post Tim Walz Lied About IVF appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.

Vice President Kamala Harris was “proud to cast the tie-breaking vote” for the Inflation Reduction Act. Would she be proud if her administration’s solar subsidies fund supported forced labor in China? That may be the case with Hanwha Qcells, a South Korean solar company operating in Georgia. Bloomberg recently reported that two Chinese suppliers of the company obtained polysilicon for solar panel components from companies sanctioned by the U.S. government for employing forced Uyghur labor. Hanwha and their Qcells plant leadership deny these allegations, but Bloomberg reports “that the company offers assurances but no public details of its polysilicon sourcing.” This month, the Energy Department issued the company — the top provider of U.S. residential and commercial solar panels — a $1.45 billion loan guarantee as part of the Biden–Harris “Investing in America” agenda. Harris visited the facilities in April 2023 and proclaimed “the panels being produced here are some of the best in the world.” Hanwha Qcells is expected to receive IRA green subsidies from American taxpayers totaling close to $10 billion through 2032, in addition to the Energy Department loan guarantee for its Georgia plant. Harris would do well to remember the Solyndra debacle before conducting more PR trips to Hanwha Qcells. In 2009, President Barack Obama touted Solyndra as a hallmark of his stimulus bill and awarded it a $535 million Energy Department loan guarantee. Despite glaring red flags, in March 2010, Obama visited the company and lauded it for “leading the way toward a brighter and more prosperous future” for clean energy. By Sept. 1, 2011, Solyndra failed, fired all of its employees, and filed for bankruptcy. Solyndra had a corruption problem: a top Obama fundraiser secured the $535 billion DOE loan guarantee while his wife’s firm, which represented Solyndra, received $2.4 million in federal funds for legal fees related to the DOE loan. The Biden–Harris administration hasn’t learned from former Obama’s past mistakes. One of Hanwha Qcells’ biggest customers, SunPower, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy this month. SunPower also received an Energy Department loan guarantee from the Obama administration. In a 2023 Securities and Exchange Commission filing, the major rooftop installer confirmed it would be sourcing domestically assembled panels from Hanwha Qcells’ Georgia plant. The bankruptcy of a major customer makes it seem that the Biden–Harris administration is carelessly doling out taxpayer money. And that money buys only hypocrisy. While the White House publicly vows to hold China accountable for forced labor practices, it turns a blind eye toward solar energy’s slave-labor problem in the Xinjiang Province. The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA), signed into law in late 2021, presumes that all goods originating from Xinjiang or any UFLPA-listed companies employ forced labor and are subsequently inadmissible into the U.S. marketplace. Bloomberg reports that the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, charged with enforcing UFLPA, has never detained a Hanwha Qcells product to verify they don’t contain forced labor, despite two suppliers sourcing polysilicon from companies featured on the UFLPA Entity List. Two of Hanwha Qcells’ sub-suppliers — TCL Zhonghuan Renewable Energy Technology Co. and Gokin Solar Co. — were listed by Customs and Border Protection as entities that wholly or partly produced or manufactured items with forced labor from Xinjiang. Within 10 years, the IRA is expected to deliver between $1.2 trillion to $1.8 trillion in green subsidies to clean energy companies that can’t credibly compete in the free market. If all this taxpayer money buys is bloodstained polysilicon delivered to bankrupt companies, an American-driven clean energy revolution is doomed. Bailing out solar energy with more IRA subsidies can’t keep this fledgling industry alive. The Biden–Harris administration would be wise to not put blind allegiance to net-zero policy ahead of respecting human rights. Gabriella Hoffman is the director of the Center for Energy and Conservation at Independent Women’s Forum (iwf.org/CEC) and host of the District of Conservation podcast. Follow Gabriella on Twitter/X at @Gabby_Hoffman. Sarah Montalbano is a senior fellow with the Center for Energy and Conservation at Independent Women’s Forum (iwf.org/CEC), a StateBeat fellow with Young Voices, and a policy fellow at the Center of the American Experiment. Prior to joining American Experiment, she was an education policy analyst at Alaska Policy Forum. Follow her on X, formerly Twitter: @SarahMontalban0 The post Solar Company Benefiting From IRA Has Forced Labor Problem appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.