For most people who grew up in an average family, the royals may seem like mythical creatures. They live their lives in the public eye. Voyeurs are always there to consume the good, the bad, and sometimes, the ugly. Princess Kate was not born into royalty, rather, she married the heir to the English throne. And if there is one thing she’s been very clear about since day one, family means everything to her. View this post on Instagram A post shared by The Prince and Princess of Wales (@princeandprincessofwales) Princess Kate and Prince William met more than 20 years ago while in college. And the pair have had a beautiful marriage. They’ve lovingly welcomed three children like the princess’s family growing up. According to Robert Jobson’s new book, Catherine, the Princess of Wales, Kate was quite clear with Queen Elizabeth about how she planned to raise her children. “She was clear from the outset that she would not be pigeonholed into carrying out particular duties and insisted on having her full quota of maternity leave, away from the glare of the media and the public,” Jobson wrote. Princess Kate Also Prioritizes Her Health And Personal Space Kate made it clear she’d return to the public eye after her cancer diagnosis but not until she was ready. “She isn’t being governed by it being a good picture opportunity. They aren’t worried about visibility — they are just going to do it. And that will be visible rather than the other way around. The health and the proper recovery is what is important,” Jobson told People. A source close to the royals told People that Kate also wants her children to be close to each other. She hopes they will understand the importance of caring for each other. “Coming from a different background, she appreciates the importance of having family time,” they said. “She wasn’t brought up in that aristocratic setting where you see the children for a short time each day.” This story’s featured image is by Pete Hancock via Shutterstock. The post Princess Kate Established “Rules” With “The Firm” After She & Prince William Became Parents appeared first on InspireMore.

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'Islamists hungry for government support will surely welcome Walz'

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By installing Harris as their nominee, the Democratic Party has embraced a candidate whose ideas are so radical that they are further left than Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont.

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As the Senate embarked Aug. 2 on its monthlong August recess, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., left a significant piece of legislation unaddressed: the annual National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA. Included in this year’s Senate NDAA bill is a controversial provision to amend the Military Selective Service Act and mandate that women between the ages of 18 and 26 register for a military draft. This measure, sometimes known as “Draft Our Daughters,” not only is misguided but ignores the underlying issues facing military recruitment and readiness. “The Senate defense bill’s provision for mandatory registration of all young women for conscription puts ‘fairness’ over military necessity,” notes Victoria Coates, The Heritage Foundation’s vice president for national security. “It would waste time and resources during a war in order to evaluate and train thousands of draft-age women to find the subset qualified for the requirements of military service. Including women in the selective service is pointless virtue-signaling from those who believe the military should be a social experiment and not a lethal fighting force.”  “Draft Our Daughters” is just the beginning. The provision alters the language of the Selective Service Act by replacing the word “man” with “person,” equating gender equality with sameness while ignoring the diverse and different ways in which men and women may contribute to national security. Intentionally ambiguous language like this expands woke ideology, which undermines military readiness and distracts the military from its core mission: Defend America and its interests by deterring or killing its enemies. The U.S. hasn’t had a military draft since 1973, when the armed forces became entirely made up of volunteers. Congress and the president, however, may authorize a draft in the event of a national emergency or war. The U.S. military has faced substantial recruitment challenges in recent years, with the Army, Navy, and Air Force missing goals by a staggering 41,000 recruits in 2023 alone. In this context and amid a more dangerous security landscape globally, some argue that expanding the draft to include women is a necessary step to address these shortfalls.   However, including women in the draft wouldn’t resolve the fundamental problems leading to today’s low recruitment numbers, nor would it improve the existing system of voluntary recruitment. This provision overlooks deeper, systemic issues that deter young Americans from enlisting in the first place. Some of these issues include fewer young men who qualify, more opportunities in civilian careers, and fewer instances of families with a history of military service. Rather than addressing the root causes of recruitment struggles, this provision opts for a superficial solution that raises both ethical and practical concerns. The argument for “Drafting Our Daughters” typically is framed around the principle of equity. Proponents claim that if men and women are truly equal, then women should be subject to the same draft requirements as men. This logic is fundamentally flawed. Women and men are innately different. Divisive, politicized initiatives, such as including women in the draft, do nothing to enhance the military’s core mission of creating a capable and lethal force or to rebuild trust with the American people the military defends. Registering all women for the draft is a misguided idea. Congress should instead focus on enacting measures that support military recruitment, such as quality-of-life improvements for service members, and not resort to drafting our daughters. The post Senate’s Superficial Response to Military Recruitment Woes: Drafting Your Daughters appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Is it a new era for the U.S. women’s soccer team? On Saturday, the team will face off against Brazil in the gold medal match at the Olympics, after scoring wins over Zambia, Germany (twice), Australia, and Japan. For years, the U.S. women’s soccer team has been seen as a bastion of wokeness, perhaps most famously when Megan Rapinoe feuded with then-President Donald Trump. But one new player suggests the team finally might be getting some ideological diversity. Korbin Albert, a 20-year-old picked to be a midfielder for the women’s team for the Paris Olympics, is no Rapinoe, who was infamous for publicizing her woke views. On her Instagram account, Albert’s bio proclaims “?Jesus is ?.” Her main photo shows her with an American flag, and one of her pinned posts shows her and another young woman dressed in patriotic colors, holding up cowboy boots, and has the caption, “Dreamin’ in red, white, and blue ??” View this post on Instagram A post shared by Korbin Albert (@korbin.rose_) She’s already proved herself in the Olympics, successfully scoring a goal during the Olympics match between the U.S. and Australian women’s soccer teams July 31. The final score was 2-1, the winning goal scored by Albert, who previously played for the University of Notre Dame and now plays for a Paris-based soccer team. But Albert’s admission to the Olympics seemingly came at quite a high cost. To use the language of the woke, she wasn’t allowed to speak her truth. When Albert scored her winning goal, NBC commentator Jon Champion highlighted the “controversy” surrounding her. “For the all the pre-tournament controversy that surrounded her, team mates rush to her to share a memorable moment,” Champion intoned. He’s not the only media figure to slap the “controversial” label on Albert. The Associated Press reported in April about “a controversy over midfielder Korbin Albert’s social media posts,” while the New York Post headlined a June article, “Controversial USWNT star Korbin Albert named to Olympic team.” USA Today dutifully noted, “Albert became the center of controversy in March …” So, what exactly did this young woman do? Well, the word “controversy” became glued to her when it emerged that Albert … held Christian beliefs. The athlete reportedly liked a politically incorrect social media post and shared another one. Albert also posted a video during the 2023 Fourth of July weekend on TikTok “showing her family taking turns stating that ‘their pronouns are U.S.A.’” according to The Athletic, a sports news site owned by the New York Times.  The soccer star reportedly also shared a video on social media of a person, seemingly in a church and wearing a “Jesus wins” shirt, discussing with regret how he had pursued same-sex attractions and a transgender life. Soccer player Korbin Albert is under fire for reposting the video below in which a teen discusses hardships he faced which led him to thinking he was trans. He started believing in God, found faith, and detransitioned.Meghan Rapinoe led the efforts to cancel Albert, slamming… pic.twitter.com/ikiFA1LuQi— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) March 29, 2024 An X user claimed that Albert had liked a meme taking aim at Rapinoe, who had been injured early in her final game before retirement. “I’m not a religious person or anything, and if there was a God, like, this is proof that there isn’t,” a disappointed Rapinoe said about her injury at a press conference last year, according to Fox News. “This is f—ed up.” The meme Albert allegedly liked said, “God taking time off performing miracles to make sure Megan Rapinoe sprains her ankle in her final ever game.” (If you’re keeping score, note it was Rapinoe who first decided to make her injury a chance to share her religious views.) Albert’s social media activity drew notice, and a social media post from Rapinoe ranting about “the people who want to hide behind ‘my beliefs’.”  Subsequently, Albert deleted some content and posted an apology that read in part, “Liking and sharing posts that are offensive, insensitive, and hurtful was immature and disrespectful, which was never my intent.” But the apology didn’t appear to satisfy her critics. Which says a lot about where we’re at in 2024. For years, players in the U.S. women’s soccer team have been openly political. Just to recap: Rapinoe refused to stand for the playing of the national anthem, citing solidarity with former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick; said she would never go to the White House and feuded with Trump; and argued for the inclusion of trans players in women’s sports—a curious stance, given that the U.S. women’s soccer team lost to high school boys in a 2017 scrimmage. She is gay and open about it, and when she was required to stand in later years for the national anthem, she refused to sing along or put her hand on her heart. Nor was Rapinoe alone in her advocacy. In a 2022 game in Texas, about the time Republican Gov. Greg Abbott was taking action to protect kids from experimental medical treatment, “several USWNT players wore athletic tape around their wrists with the message ‘Protect Trans Kids,’” The Athletic reported. Later in Florida, another state that has worked to protect kids, The Athletic reported that “[t]he players wore tape on their wrists again, this time with the words ‘Defend Trans Joy.’” In 2023, Becky Sauerbrunn, another player on the team, wrote a passionate opinion column for the Springfield News Leader in Missouri advocating against a state bill that aimed to ensure only girls and women were playing in women’s sports. Yet it is Albert whose apology tour has never really ended. Fresh off her winning goal, Albert dutifully praised Coach Emma Hayes’ “tough love” in remarks. Hayes in turn told the media, “We all know that she’s been through a lot with her actions, and she’s someone who is truly sorry for what she’s done … She’s had to do a fair bit of growing up.” Korbs talks us through her absolute BANGER ? https://t.co/Bp1cgVlgHF pic.twitter.com/DJbJDp4nKf— U.S. Women's National Soccer Team (@USWNT) August 1, 2024 The message is clear: There’s no room on the U.S. women’s national soccer team for anyone who espouses different views on LGBTQ matters. So, just to be clear, aside from the alleged liking of a social media post making fun of Rapinoe (whose comments about God also had arguably been offensive), Albert has never been accused of targeting any team mate or saying something to any individual deemed offensive. There’s no suggestion she was ever less than professional and polite to her fellow soccer players. But she dared to think for herself. And that can’t be allowed, apparently. Korbin Albert warms up prior to the match between Australia and United States during the Olympic Games Paris 2024 July 31, 2024 in Marseille, France. (Photo: Alex Livesey/Getty Images) More than half of Americans think it’s morally wrong to “change” your gender, according to a June Gallup poll. A third of Americans believe that gay and lesbian relationships are morally wrong, according to a May Gallup poll. Albert’s views, if indeed the social media videos did reflect her views, might not be popular among female soccer players, but they’re well within the mainstream of American thought. Soccer is the third-most popular sport for female high school athletes, behind track and field and volleyball, according to the National Federation of State High School Associations. In the 2022-2023 high school year, more than 375,000 high school girls played soccer. Do they all have to become leftists, or at least take a vow of silence on their politically incorrect beliefs, if they want to play in the Olympics some day? That’s absurd. How many Americans regularly work with colleagues, love family members, and cherish friends who don’t agree with us on every aspect of morality? Why should the U.S. women’s soccer team players not be asked to do the same? I hope Albert scores the winning goal, again, on Saturday. And I hope that when she has proved herself to be invaluable to the team, she can finally be free to be honest about what she believes. The post US Women’s Soccer Team Silences Politically Incorrect Player appeared first on The Daily Signal.

President Joe Biden won in 2020 on the premise that until the November election, he would pose as good ol’ Joe from Scranton and not scare voters. So Biden talked about “unity” and “competency.” He erased his prior wild primary pandering to left-wing voters about shutting down fracking and opening the border. But as soon as he was elected in 2020, Biden became the leftist veneer for a hyper-radical Obama third term. Fooled and naive voters were shocked that their supposedly moderate candidate turned into a veritable neo-socialist president. In general, the left acknowledges that its spread-the-wealth, high taxes, big government, open borders, soft on crime, and woke DEI agendas don’t appeal to 51 percent of the people. That reality requires disinformation for leftist policies to be implemented. No one voted for the Biden-Harris ticket to borrow trillions sparking hyperinflation, to wage war on fossil fuels, to go woke, to welcome in 10 million illegal aliens, to abandon $50 billion in weapons to the terrorist Taliban, and to find America facing existential wars in Ukraine and the Middle East and soon perhaps over Taiwan. But getting leftists elected requires fooling the American people into thinking their “moderate” campaign veneers will continue into their presidencies — even though they never do. So, for now, Harris and her new vice presidential candidate, Tim Walz, will smother all their cherished left-wing positions — at least until November. The two left-wing chameleons will assume the temporary identities and policies of “moderates.” That is a de facto admission that they know that the public does not want any of their true agendas. The temporary metamorphosis means that the leftist nominees superficially feign agreement with what most Americans support –energy independence, low taxes, limited government, strong defense, deterrent foreign policy, secure borders, legal-only immigration, and assimilation rather than woke/DEI tribalism. Kamala Harris and Tim Walz are the most brazen and extreme examples of left-wing flip-floppers in memory. But for both, the cartwheeling will still be difficult. Harris is utterly incapable of articulating a coherent thought without a teleprompter or a staged interview. Walz is a buffoon who, in his first speech as the nominee, screamed out the “couch” lie about JD Vance and then stupidly bragged of his falsehood. Harris, until recently, was proud that she had been one of the most radical California politicians in memory. She ran such a hard-left, polarizing presidential bid against Biden in 2020 that she could not capture even a single Democrat delegate. Now she has selected as her vice president pick the most left-wing governor in the nation. Walz, during the long 2020 summer of rioting, allowed Black Lives Matter and Antifa to run amuck in Minnesota while his new partner Harris raised bail for those jailed for violence. Walz, like Harris, has done his best to stop pipelines and curtail fossil fuels. He once boasted that “Democrats go into depression” when they see electoral maps shaded in red, “but it’s mostly rocks and cows that are in that red area.” Apparently, his advice for Democrats was just to win urban areas and not sweat alienating greater rural Minnesota regions where fewer voters live — a blueprint for their 2024 campaign. That snark was an expansion of Barack Obama’s dismissal of rural Pennsylvanians as “clingers” and Hillary Clinton’s trashing of the rural working class as “deplorables.” By selecting the hard-left Walz, Harris reminds the nation who runs the Democratic Party. It is preparing for a hard-left neo-socialist administration — while it seeks to deceive the public for the next 90 days that Harris-Walz are temporary moderates. Like the cognitively challenged Joe Biden in 2020, word-salad Harris won’t be let out to campaign much by her wary handlers. Instead, she will out-raise Trump, count on non-Election Day balloting, pose as a centrist, and let her surrogates, like the blowhard Walz, brand Trump as a criminal extremist. But if the current initial Harris-Walz flipping is embarrassing, their eventual post-November flopping back to the left will be shameless — and dangerous for the nation. In 2025, under a Harris-Walz presidency, borders would again magically evaporate. Millions more illegal aliens would regroup and flood into the U.S. Printing more trillions of dollars would spike more hyperinflation. Cutting defense would further encourage even more wars in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. More woke and DEI mandates would ensure more tribal disunity. Harris-Walz would try fulfilling earlier promises to ban fracking and horizontal drilling, render the U.S. vulnerable to hostile foreign oil producers, distance the U.S. from Israel, and out-appease Biden’s coddling of Iran. They would continue the crazy left-wing war on the Supreme Court and implement Biden’s plan to neuter it. But for now? The Harris-Walz message is clear: “In order to run your country for the next four years, we must lie and deceive you for the next three months.” (C)2024 Tribune Content Agency, LLC. We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post The Harris Flop Would Be Scarier Than Her Flip appeared first on The Daily Signal.