'A duty to stand in resolute opposition'

The victim requested confidentiality

'failing, insolvent and foolish'

Damn, Dak! Tell us how you really feel

‘Please send your prayers’

Election officials have had a hard time independently verifying citizenship

On the latest episode of “The Tony Kinnett Cast,” we prepare for an edited, 18-minute long interview between CNN’s Dana Bash, Vice President Kamala Harris, and Minnesota governor Tim Walz. Can this give her the push her race so desperately needs in the swing state? Or is this just another log on the heap of media escapism and awkward laughter bonfire? Harris and Walz are both caught in additional lies concerning past achievements and employments. Did Harris actually work at McDonald’s to pay for college? Why does this matter, and if it’s not true, why lie about it in the first place? Do Americans really care if you worked a service industry or blue collar job before you went into politics or became wealthy? Jerry Lopez, @IndySpanglish on X, joins us for another exciting installment of “Awful Tweets,” where we take the worst social media posts you send us and suffer through them live on air. It’s getting so bad out there this electoral season, we might have to do an extra segment per week focusing on just the horrible posts from legacy media journalists alone. Finally, we piece through the worst atrocities committed by gangs of illegal immigrants in the Sun Belt. Violent crimes in Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, and western Texas could spell electoral trouble—but those paying the highest price are those living in fear of brutal barbarism streaming across a southern border too close for comfort. Catch the live radio show and livestream weeknights at 7 p.m. EDT on The Daily Signal’s YouTube, X, or Facebook. The post Harris Claims Her ‘Values Haven’t Changed.’ Her Record Says Otherwise. appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of the accompanying video from professor Peter St. Onge. From taxes to spending, Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris is the most left-wing major party candidate since George McGovern, who proposed a universal basic income in 1972 and went on to win a single state [Massachusetts]. But Harris’ most harebrained scheme—so far—has been price controls, where she’s to the left of McGovern, threatening to punish grocery stores for daring to charge more than their costs. In fact, grocery stores make one to two pennies on the dollar—meaning, they have to pass along costs that come straight from the Washington money printer. In a recent video, I mentioned how price controls have been tried many times, and each time they failed so spectacularly they were repealed—after much pain, suffering, and empty shelves. When France tried, they got a black market that actually did price gouge. Even Venezuela repealed price controls in 2016 after food shortages and nationwide riots. But what do price controls look like in reality? For that, I go to a great thread by Robert Sterling, a former [mergers and acquisitions] executive at one of the biggest food producers in America. Sterling walks us through a 13-step process from grocery price controls to widespread food shortages—something we haven’t seen in this country since the Great Depression, when FDR also imposed price controls. So, first, government announces grocery stores can’t raise prices even though inflation continues, courtesy of the Fed and Wall Street. That means their costs keep going up, so those pennies of profit turn into losses. Like any business that’s losing money, they shut down. Of course, not all grocery stores are created equal: Small ones lack economies of scale, and while rich people buy high-margin vegetables and expensive cuts of meat, the poor buy low-margin packaged foods. So, the small stores and the low-income stores go first. You get “food deserts,” as people in urban centers or rural areas have to drive miles—or take multiple buses—to find food. And, ironically, you get more concentration, as the little guys drop out. The survivors increasingly aren’t even selling food. They shift shelf-space to things that aren’t price-controlled—clothing, furniture, supplements. Grocery stores start to look more like a dollar store, with a little food and a lot of junk. As cities clear of food, you’d need police patrolling parking lots and armed escorts on delivery trucks—perhaps you could even have government-run groceries, like Chicago just announced. The only way to save any grocery stores is to price-control their costs—meaning, food producers like Kraft, Heinz, Tyson, Hormel. Of course, again, Kraft’s costs aren’t being controlled—their ingredients, wages, parts, and electricity. So, now they’re losing money. Like groceries, they wind down, closing marginal factories and running out equipment then not replacing it. As food producers downsize or go under, now you start getting actual shortages. And the only solution—once again—is price control the next level down. Farmers. You are now full Venezuela, with a complete government takeover of the food supply, centrally planned from farmer to grocer. As Sterling puts it, “the government will struggle to operate one of the most complex industries on the planet. The entire food supply chain starts imploding.” As in, starvation. So, what’s next? It’s very unlikely we’ll get to starvation, for the simple reason that at some point the frog boils and the voters—or rioters—share their thoughts with policymakers. That’s exactly why price controls fail, from France to Venezuela. Unfortunately, if the morons running Harris’ brain trust are dumb enough for price controls, they’re dumb enough for a whole lot more. We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post Deja Vu All Over Again? Kamala McGovern appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Statues in Peril Alert: San Fran Taliban On the Scan

In a new video, Jocelyn Benson, the leftist Democratic secretary of state in Michigan, warned local officials to certify election results, mocked those suspicious of government narratives, and billed the government as the arbiter of truth.Earlier this month, Benson partnered with the Recount for a video in which Benson responded to a series of "angry election tweets." The Recount is a "far-left" outlet, according to the Midwesterner, and its website offers the tagline "No bulls**t. No bad faith. And no time wasted."'She'd be much more at home in Nazi Germany.'In the Recount video, Benson addressed a number of issues social media users mentioned online. One X user identified as Joan Crawford's eyebrows asked about county officials in Michigan who may not "want to certify" election results. Benson was clear: They don't have a choice."If someone were to violate the law and not certify the election at the local level, we will come for you," Benson said as she stared into the camera."So any local certifier thinking of skirting the law and not certifying the vote, don’t even think about it, because we’ll get you."She pointed to issues in 2020 in Wayne County, where the city of Detroit is located, claiming that officials there had been "pressured" not to certify the results.In response to a request for comment from Blaze News, Republican state Sen. Jim Runestad likewise referenced the issues in Wayne County in 2020 and claimed that the county's results were never "lawfully certified" after "71% of Detroit's absentee voter counting boards were found to be 'unbalanced.'""Under current law, if a local board of canvassers does not certify the results, they are not imprisoned," Runestad continued in a statement to Blaze News. "Instead, all election records are forwarded to the state board of canvassers, who then investigate and make the necessary determinations. After these determinations, the county canvassers are given the chance to certify based on the 'corrected returns.'"In addition to threatening to possibly prosecute local election officials, Benson repeatedly mocked people who recoiled at efforts by Michigan executive officials such as herself and Attorney General Dana Nessel to limit so-called misinformation regarding elections.When a user named Winchester Colt expressed concerns about Benson allegedly trying to "shut people up if they don't conform to the official State narrative," Benson seemed bewildered at the notion of a "state narrative" and joked, "I'm not sure what Winchester Colt had for breakfast."But just moments after waxing ignorant about state narratives, Benson encouraged listeners to "let us know" about any "misinformation about our elections." "That [way] we can correct it and help you get trusted information out there. Bottom line is we want everyone to to know where to find out trusted information about our elections ... so that we can protect voters from being fooled by lies about our elections processes."Benson made a similar response to another user, Donnie Detroit, who took issue with Benson's recent attempts to convince Michiganders to "rat out their neighbors" for failing to adhere to "government sponsored truth." "There's not government-sponsored truth," she insisted dismissively. "There's just the truth."Yet, just a few seconds later, Benson asserted that the most "trustworthy source of information is going to be your local election official every time."Despite presenting government as the best source for election truth, Benson still appeared surprised that Donnie Detroit denounced her obsession with people's thoughts and statements about elections and hinted that he had unfairly made her sound like a "terrible person.""Ooh, that sure sounds awful," she said.In response to a request for comment, Donnie Detroit noted to Blaze News that Benson never defines misinformation in the video but nevertheless "warns there's lots of it out there." He characterized such actions as "reminiscent ... of the DDR Stasi.""Benson is in the wrong country. She'd be much more at home in Nazi Germany or in the East German's Stasi," he continued.As Blaze News previously reported, Benson has requested that Michiganders report "misleading or inaccurate information regarding voting or elections in Michigan" to the ominous email address Misinformation@Michigan.gov.The entire Recount video featuring Benson can be seen here. It lasts approximately 13 and a half minutes. The segment about warning county election officials begins around the 3:40 mark.H/T: Chuck CallestoLike Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!