Democrats are loudly bemoaning the second anniversary of the Supreme Court’s ruling overturning Roe v. Wade this week, and that’s because they think abortion rights will help them politically. Yet that political frenzy is actually a vindication of the Court’s 6-3 Dobbs decision and Justice Samuel Alito’s opinion. The Dobbs decision, which returned abortion policy to the states and the voters, was correct as a matter of constitutional law. It overturned what...

President Biden’s latest iteration of his student-loan “forgiveness” plan has been temporarily blocked, as two federal judges sided with multiple Republican states in ruling that only Congress holds the authority to erase student debt. Both preliminary injunctions were filed Monday, prohibiting the Biden administration from canceling student loans under the Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) repayment program. It was set to take effect July 1. The pair of orders...

Every Pride Month, the rainbow flags come out, parades march on, and, if it’s an election year, Democratic candidates make their appeal to a growing part of the electorate: LGBTQ voters. But it’s easy to forget how modern of a development this is. That LGBTQ voters and the Democratic Party would become so closely intertwined was never a given — and as far back as the 1950s, when LGBTQ Americans were first beginning to organize, it wasn’t at all clear which political party was a natural home...

ddressing America's gun violence crisis requires a public health approach, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy will declare in an advisory Tuesday. Why it matters: The surgeon general's advisory, one of the most significant tools his office has to draw the public's attention to a health issue, comes days before the first presidential debate and follows a spate of mass shootings in the first weekend of summer. "For too long, this issue has been mired in polarization and...

President Trump and President Biden added a combined $12.7 trillion to the national debt between January 2017 and June 2024, a new report has found. While some of that spending was driven by Covid pandemic emergency spending, the majority was added due to increased spending and reduced tax revenues.  According to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, the national debt will reach a “record share” of America’s economy during the next presidential term, which begins in...

The fiscal policies of the Trump administration added twice the amount to the national deficit as have President Biden’s, a new analysis has found. Trump’s administration borrowed $8.4 trillion during the former president’s time in office, while Biden has borrowed $4.3 trillion, according to an analysis by the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB), a Washington think tank. Ignoring the pandemic relief measures enacted by both presidents, the proportion of debt addition still...

Former President Trump ran up the national debt by about twice as much as President Biden, according to a new analysis of their fiscal track records. Why it matters: The winner of November's election faces a gloomy fiscal outlook, with rapidly rising debt levels at a time when interest rates are already high and demographic pressure on retirement programs is rising. Both candidates bear a share of the responsibility, as each added trillions to that...

On a recent Friday, eight members gathered in a community centre wearing matching orange and green T-shirts to rehearse for a performance at a local festival in two days. Source: Inspired by Olympics debut, Japan’s seniors blaze breakdancing trail What struck me was all the smiles.

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If ever there were an example of how not to set up a televised presidential debate, CNN has just vividly provided that example. As this episode showcasing a network host shutting down Karoline Leavitt shows, CNN is no longer about being a trustworthy source of news. So the other day, in a perfectly pre-debate routine interview, there was CNN’s Kasie Hunt interviewing Trump campaign spokesperson Karoline Leavitt about the upcoming debate. Routine to the max. And then. And then Hunt pulled the plug on the interview midstream. Completely shutting Leavitt down and off the air. Breitbart quotes Karoline as saying this to journalist Benny Johnson: Trump Campaign’s Karoline Leavitt: It’s ‘Shocking’ How ‘Triggering the Truth Is to CNN’: I still can’t believe this happened … It is really shocking just how triggering the truth is to CNN,” she began, explaining that she was simply pointing out that Trump is brave for agreeing to do this debate when the cards are stacked against him. That’s all I was doing was pointing out the fact that President Trump is bold to go on a three on one fight on a network that is clearly hostile to him…. Let’s stop pretending like CNN is still the most trusted name in news. They are not, and I pointed out statements that Jake Tapper himself has made in the past. Karoline continued, pointing out that it is ironic that Tapper’s utter controversial statements are on air, but that she is not allowed to repeat them. He’s allowed to say them on air, but apparently I’m not allowed to repeat them even though it’s perfectly relevant because he’s the moderator at Thursday night’s debate.… It is shocking that they not only cut off my microphone but then dumped me from the entire program. Karoline added, “And as you can see, at the end of that clip, I was ready to pivot and to talk about the issues and talk about our strategy heading in to Thursday night. But she couldn’t take it, and they can’t handle the truth. That’s what, that’s what it comes down to.”  And in a blink, the CNN host has drawn real attention to the fact that the network has zero intention of practicing real journalism. CNN — where, full disclosure, I was once stationed as a commentator — is now, as this episode vividly illustrates, long gone from its former slogan that the network was “The Most Trusted Name in News.” And knowing and liking the CNN personnel involved in this, I feel sad they are in this situation. But as Hunt made plain, CNN is now about her network colleagues routinely making disparaging comments about former President Trump with silly, Hitler comparisons and more, with Hunt and presumably others rallying to protect them from any discussion of their comments. So having now blown up a routine interview to focus massive attention on CNN’s behavior, millions of Americans are being reminded that when the camera goes live on Thursday night, one of the candidates — Trump — will be pitted not against one opponent but three: President Biden and CNN moderators Tapper and Bash. Not to mention that Americans will be asking the questions one can reasonably expect CNN will not be asking. Like? Like these: President Biden, you are the only president in American history who has had his opponent jailed. Many of your critics have suggested you have acted like a dictator running a third world banana republic. How do you respond to this? President Biden, there has been considerable controversy about the audio tape of your interview with Special Counsel Ben Hur. Our network host tonight, CNN, has sued your administration for access to recordings of federal investigators interviewing you. Why have you blocked the audio tape to CNN and the American people? President Biden, recently there have been several young American women who have been raped and murdered by illegal immigrants who should never have been in this country in the first place. What are you doing to bring a halt to these murders and others committed by illegal immigrants who are, by definition, in this country illegally. President Biden, why did President Obama feel the need to escort you from the stage the other night at the conclusion of your rally in Los Angeles? President Biden, have you made any effort to arrest and charge those committing insurrection in the BLM riots of 2020? If not, why not? Obviously there are more questions like these for Biden. But don’t expect any questions remotely like these from the CNN moderators. As this episode showcasing a network host shutting down Karoline Leavitt shows, CNN is no longer about being a trustworthy source of news. If you have the nerve to disagree with left-wing Trump hating politics as expressed by CNN hosts, you will literally be silenced and cut off the air. And right there is the underlying fact about this week’s debate. This debate isn’t about Biden vs. Trump. This debate is really about Trump vs. Biden and CNN. Its 3 on 1. And right there is the Most Trusted Fact About CNN. READ MORE from Jeffrey Lord: AOC and Rachel Maddow: Arrests for Thee, But Not for Me Biden Campaign Ad Accusing Trump of Sexual Assault Backfires Who Did It? The post Trump vs. CNN and Biden appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.