When I ran for governor, a reporter accused me of believing “men are smarter than women.” Research shows, I wrote in a 20-year-old column, women know and care more about social security, health care and education. When asked, however, about 25 political questions, men were more likely to answer correctly in 15, men and women answered the same in nine, and women answered more correctly than men in only one. I quoted a left-wing journalism professor who said the reason women knew less than men about those questions is that they are more likely than men to watch local news. She said, “Watching local news makes you dumber.” This became translated to: “Elder thinks women are dumber than men.” This brings us to Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance, former President Donald Trump’s running mate. The AP wrote: “During Vance’s bid for the Senate in Ohio, he said in a Fox News interview that ‘we are effectively run in this country via the Democrats,’ and referred to them as ‘a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable, too. ... How does it make any sense that we’ve turned our country over to people who don’t really have a direct stake in it?’” The outrage was as intense as it was predictable. His comment became translated to: Vance has disdain for women without children; Vance believes childless women ought not hold office; and the only woman the “sexist” Vance does not hate is the one he married. I do not have children, had a beloved cat named Cream Puff, and ran for governor and president. That people with children have more skin in the game is a common point of view held by my mother, my father, my two brothers and my pastor. MSNBC political analyst Molly Jong-Fast said: “What’s interesting is that this is this natalism that comes from an authoritarian playbook, right? That there need to be more ‘white children,’ right? That’s the idea. This is about great replacement theory racism, right? This is what this is. So don’t misunderstand it for him wanting more children. He wants a certain kind of racist thing.” Never mind Vance has three children with his wife, the daughter of Indian Hindu immigrants. In a response, Vance did not back down: “The left has increasingly become explicitly antichild and antifamily. They’ve encouraged young families not to have children at all, because of concerns over climate change.” Here’s the game. Every news cycle spent on castigating Vance for his “childless cat ladies” comment is one less news cycle spent on the outrageous radical beliefs of Vice President Kamala Harris. Among them are: open border policies that have allowed more than 8 million illegal aliens to enter the country since the beginning of the Biden-Harris administration; a more left-wing Senate voting record than Sen. Bernie Sanders; a desire to “reimagine the police”; saying there is a “perception” that Immigration and Customs Enforcement is akin to the KKK; advocating the abolishment of private health care insurance; taxpayer-funded health care insurance for illegal aliens; single-payer national health care insurance; taxpayer-paid family and medical leave; national rent control; a national minimum income; a commission to study “reparations;” banning fracking and offshore drilling; a transition to 100% electric vehicles by 2035; asserting it is “not a crime” to be in the country illegally; and according to Sen. Elizabeth Warren, one of Harris’ more vocal surrogates, a support for amnesty with a path to citizenship for the illegal aliens in the country before and under Biden-Harris. Democrat politicians and the Trump-hating media do not want an apology. If Vance did apologize, the next news cycle would become: “What took so long?” “It was too little too late.” “The apology does not undo the insult.” The goal is simple. Democrat politicians and their media sympathizers do not want you to ask whether you are better off now than three and a half years ago. They do not want you to ask whether Harris’ radical, redistribution-of-income beliefs will make you better off. They want you to ask whether you are a “childless cat lady.” Larry Elder is a bestselling author and nationally syndicated radio talk-show host. To find out more about Larry Elder, or become an “Elderado,” visit www.LarryElder.com. Follow Larry on Twitter @larryelder. To read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate webpage at www.creators.com.

There has been a passage of time since Vice President Kamala Harris had become the presumptive Democratic Party nominee by inter-party fiat. And we can see the significance of the passage of time during Friday’s Cuomo on NewsNation, when host Chris Cuomo clownishly suggested that he was unware that the Vice President was a “gaffe machine.” Perhaps with another passage of time, he’ll learn. He also questioned if America was too bigoted for a black woman to be president with a Jewish vice president. Ignoring all the work the liberal media had been going to help float Harris’s anti-democratic rise to presumptive nominee without getting support of the primary voters, and the media’s utter refusal to offer any withering criticism, Cuomo marveled at how well received Harris was: I'll tell you what, you can't say that it hasn't gone better than some people like me thought it would. Okay? I thought that without process, this was going to be a lead balloon. And all the polls have moved in the right direction. They’re just snapshots of a moment in time. We're in the honeymoon phase. The media is going to go sideways on Harris. You know, that's what we do. It's just a question of when.     He went on to suggest that he had “never” heard the “new” suggestion that Harris was prone to political gaffes. “But Scottie [Nell Hughes], this new – this angle that I keep hearing that ‘wait till you hear this, Harris talk more and more. Man, she's a gaffe machine.’ I've never heard that about her before,” he rhetorically scoffed, suggesting Trump was worse, “And I don't know that that's the best matchup with Trump. I mean, he's not exactly known for being very good with the words. Hughes quickly countered by noting that Harris was known for doing “things like mix world leaders. She does things like make comments and insult, you know, the Hispanic communities and communities that he's addressing. She does the word salads just like Donald Trump does.” Cuomo should check out arguably Harris’s most infamous of word salads (hinting in the opening paragraph) about the “great significance to the passage of time.” “The Governor and I and we were all doing a tour of the library here and talking about the significance of the passage of time. Right. The significance of the passage of time. So when you think about it, there is great significance to the passage of time...” she rambled back in 2022.     There was also her more recent word salad last week when Americans held hostage in Russia were brought home: “This is just extraordinary testament to the importance of having a president who understands the power of diplomacy, and understands the strength that rests in understanding the significance of diplomacy and strengthening alliances.” Further in the show, Cuomo seeming went back in time to 2008 to regurgitate anti-American smears, suggesting America was a bigoted nation if they didn’t elect Harris and Governor Josh Shapiro (D-PA), a possible veep pick. “[A] black woman and a Jewish guy, man that's putting a lot on America. And it really bothers me. I almost wish that the Democrats would pick Shapiro to make the point that, ‘No, we're not afraid of putting diversity out there. We don't believe that the country has that kind of prejudice,’” he proclaimed. Wondering: “But would that be, you know, just wishful thinking and they be setting themselves up for to lose by playing that too many things that people may quietly opposed?” Cuomo accusation essentially boiled down any possible loss by that hypothetical ticket to Americans being bigots, rather than the more likely possibility that they didn’t like their policies. The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read: NewsNation’s Cuomo August 2, 2024 8:12:48 p.m. Eastern (…) CHRIS CUOMO: I'll tell you what, you can't say that it hasn't gone better than some people like me thought it would. Okay? I thought that without process, this was going to be a lead balloon. And all the polls have moved in the right direction. They’re just snapshots of a moment in time. We're in the honeymoon phase. The media is going to go sideways on Harris. You know, that's what we do. It's just a question of when. But Scottie, this new – this angle that I keep hearing that “wait till you hear this, Harris talk more and more. Man, she's a gaffe machine.” I've never heard that about her before. And I don't know that that's the best matchup with Trump. I mean, he's not exactly known for being very good with the words. SCOTTIE NELL HUGHES: Let’s just point out. This isn't Kamala Harris, this is the Democrats’ version of Kamala Harris. Kamala Harris, herself, when she’s on her own, she does things like mix world leaders. She does things like make comments and insult, you know, the Hispanic communities and communities that he's addressing. She does the word salads just like Donald Trump does. At the same time, this is, right now, the Democrats putting out the best version of her. They’re micromanaging her, which is real interesting considering you have a political party that is directing every single thing about a candidate like Kamala Harris. The Republicans, they trust American voters enough to make sure that Donald Trump, himself is the one that is presenting and they're not micromanaging that message. Maybe they should a little bit better but they trust the voters to see exactly what's in front of their eyes and actually vote. Unlike the Manchurian candidate that has to read the 30-minute script in her car before he gets out. (…) 8:18:43 p.m. Eastern CUOMO: You know, so talking with a buddy of mine the other day and he's Jewish. We were talking about Shapiro. Shapiro checks, a lot of boxes. You know, I talked to him a lot coming out of the last election as AG, very competent guy. And, you know, we both just assumed a black woman and a Jewish guy, man that's putting a lot on America. And it really bothers me. I almost wish that the Democrats would pick Shapiro to make the point that, “No, we're not afraid of putting diversity out there. We don't believe that the country has that kind of prejudice.” But would that be, you know, just wishful thinking and they be setting themselves up for to lose by playing that too many things that people may quietly opposed? (…)

The M3ND Project is an organization that provides resources for people who have been trapped in abusive relationships. Glenn Beck can’t help but notice that much of what the group defines as abuse is actually exactly what the media is putting the American people through. Specifically, that the media can’t stop lying. “Lying is one of the most common tactics an abuser uses to gain power and control over their victim,” Glenn reads from an article written by the M3ND Project. “Lying confuses the victim’s reality while helping the liar to shrink from their responsibility in the situation, often shifting the blame to the victim.” According to the M3ND Project, lying increases the victims anxiety levels and causes “their thinking to become clouded.”There are six different kinds of mentally abusive lies: black lies, white lies, half-truths, broken promises, forgetting, and denial. Black lies are “bald-faced lies” that the abuser “uses to gain something for themselves at the cost of the one being deceived.” White lies are smaller and described as “seeming dismissive obstructions of reality that are harder to disprove.” Because white lies are harder to catch, “They carry greater power to manipulate others.” “Hard to know if that was an abuse site that you were reading from or an internal Democratic campaign strategy memo,” Stu tells Glenn, after Glenn finished reading the rest of the abusive lies: half-truths, broken promises, forgetting, and denial. “Politicians have always lied, told half-truths, etcetera, etcetera,” Glenn says. “The difference here now is it’s not just a politician. It’s the entire system around that politician.” The difference has been made much clearer after Donald Trump began his run for president nearly a decade ago. “The media, I think in the Trump era in particular, has taken the mask off and said, ‘We no longer can be this subtle force leaning on the scale a little bit to push voters toward the thing we want,’” Stu says. “It’s so in our faces, and yet, a good chunk of the American people don’t see it because they don’t want to see it,” he adds.

Committee on House Administration Chairman Bryan Steil (R-Wis.) sent a letter to the Federal Election Commission on Monday requesting it adopt new rules to curb potential donation fraud, the New York Post reported.The request comes amid allegations that ActBlue Charities Inc., a Democratic fundraising platform, has accepted at least hundreds of thousands of dollars in fraudulent donations, prompting some to question whether the platform is involved in a money-laundering scheme, Blaze News previously reported.'Illegal and malicious conduct have no place in our elections.'Independent journalists uncovered a long list of questionable and suspicious donations, including one individual who donated more than 20,000 times since 2019, according to FEC records. James O'Keefe interviewed some individuals listed as having donated "thousands of times per year."O'Keefe shared the findings in a post on X, stating, "Cindy Nowe of Annapolis, Maryland, allegedly contributed over 1,000 times to ActBlue in 2022, totaling $18,849.77. That means Cindy would have had to donate three times a day, every day, for the whole year. When asked if she donated $18,850 to ActBlue, Nowe tells [O'Keefe Media Group], 'No, I don't think so.'"ActBlue is gathering campaign donations on behalf of Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris. According to recent reports, she raised more than $200 million in one week.Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares was the first AG to announce that his office plans to look into the allegations against ActBlue. Attorneys general in Missouri and Wyoming have also opened inquiries in light of the accusations.Steil wrote to the FEC, "Following widespread allegations of fraudulent donations being reported to the FEC by ActBlue, one of the largest fundraising platforms in the country, this emergency rule-making is necessary to reassure the American people that ActBlue is taking the necessary steps to protect its donors."He called for the FEC to enact a new rule that would require fundraising platforms to verify the Card Verification Value of credit cards and address information. Additionally, Steil is pushing for the FEC to put an end to gift-card donations, which he said could be used to facilitate foreign straw donations."Illegal and malicious conduct have no place in our elections. Ensuring all parties are complying with federal election law as we approach a presidential election is of utmost importance," Steil continued. "Allowing political committees to accept donations from gift cards or other prepaid credit cards promote the appearance and the very real possibility that straw donors are making campaign donations with funds provided by another person or an unlawful donor including a foreign national."He noted that the issues pose "a serious loophole to the transparency and integrity of the campaign donation process."ActBlue recently told Newsweek, "This investigation is nothing more than a partisan political attack and scare tactic to undermine the power of Democratic and progressive small-dollar donors. We welcome the opportunity to respond to these frivolous claims."The fundraising platform did not respond to a request for comment from the Post.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

An Ohio elementary school gym teacher reportedly was hit with federal child porn charges after FBI agents found him in a hotel room late last month with a naked girl believed to be 5 or 6 years old.Federal court documents accused 44-year-old Mark Altherr of making more than 260 posts on a website meant to serve pedophiles over the last three years.The district immediately placed him on administrative leave.Altherr had worked for the Oak Hills School District since 2019, according to officials. The suspect had allegedly written on the website about his own acts of sexual abuse in regard to a 10-year-old neighbor, an 8-year-old he said had a "crush" on him, and a 4-year-old he was looking after. FBI officials said they had been monitoring posts to the pedophile website when they uncovered Altherr's identity and discovered he worked at Delshire Elementary School. Court documents said officers went to his home but were unable to find him. When they pinged his phone, they saw he was at a public place in Columbus. They followed him to a hotel where they allegedly found him in a room with the girl. Altherr was arrested July 26 — the same day agents started looking for him — and investigators determined he likely posted at least one explicit image of that same girl with him in the room to the website, the Cincinnati Enquirer reported.More from the paper:Agents obtained the room number from hotel staff, knocked on the door and announced their presence. According to the documents, Altherr opened the door, saw the agents and then tried to shut it. The agents prevented him from doing that and arrested him.The FBI later seized two USB drives at his Delhi Township home that, according to court documents, contained videos and images depicting the sexual abuse of children.Altherr was charged with one federal count of child pornography possession and one federal count of child pornography distribution. He could face up to 40 years in prison if convicted on both counts. The district immediately placed him on administrative leave and said the charges were serious enough to begin the process of firing him. "The Oak Hills Local School District is working closely with and fully cooperating with the FBI and law enforcement agents regarding the ongoing investigation," read a statement from district officials. "When more information becomes available, and legally permissible, we will share it with families and the community."WCPO-TV published a video report that includes Altherr's booking photo. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

The Biden-Harris administration announced Saturday that it plans to expand the areas in Mexico where foreign nationals can schedule an appointment online to make an asylum claim at a port of entry, the Associated Press reported.The Customs and Border Protection’s CBP One application, launched under the current administration in its effort to expand so-called legal pathways, allows foreign nationals to request an appointment before reaching the southern border. After surrendering to Border Patrol agents at a designated entry point, they are typically released into the U.S. on their own recognizance with little vetting while awaiting years-out court hearings to review the validity of their asylum claims. 'Make commitments of pro bono support for those who are unrepresented in immigration proceedings.'Currently, foreign nationals wishing to nab one of the CBP’s 1,450 daily slots must be in central or northern Mexico when they try to make the appointment. Moving forward, the White House stated that those who have migrated to some parts of southern Mexico, including Chiapas and Tabasco, will also be eligible to request an appointment through the online app. The administration did not reveal when this change will take effect.The extended eligibility update was in response to a request from Mexico, the AP reported.CBP stated, “We consistently engage with our partners in the Government of Mexico and work together to adjust policies and practices in response to the latest migration trends and security needs.”From January 2023 through June, more than 680,000 foreign nationals have scheduled appointments through the app, according to the AP.Amid the overwhelming crisis, the Biden-Harris administration is requesting pro bono assistance from immigration attorneys to address the massive backlog of cases caused by its open border policies. On Wednesday, the White House released a fact sheet stating, “The Administration is announcing a call to action for members of the legal community, including law firms, nonprofits, advocacy organizations, and other stakeholders to make commitments of pro bono support for those who are unrepresented in immigration proceedings. In response, the American Bar Association will leverage its existing resources to help and encourage more lawyers to provide pro bono support to unrepresented noncitizens in immigration proceedings.”In a post on X, the ABA wrote that it “remains concerned about the growing backlog of cases immigration courts, especially due to a lack representation by counsel.” It encourages lawyers to offer their services.Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse of Syracuse University reported that there are currently 3.7 million pending immigration cases. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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