DeSantis is the kind of politician I respect. He acts and gets things done. He is a younger Trump with a better personality.
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Those who hate Trump must be disappointed since even a biased/corrupt FBI was unable to confirm the Jan 6 attack on The Capitol was co-ordinated.
Having the rug pulled out from your own bias must be a disappointment but have no fear the haters will concoct other reasons to maintain their hatred.
Now those who love Stacey may have the rug pulled out from under them. I lived in Atlanta for 42 years. I watched the city grow, I watched Fulton County explode and go from Great Mayors like Bill Hartsfield and Ivan Allen sink to the bottom (Keisha Lance Bottoms) because color became preferred to competence.
Stacey Abrams is a female hustler and would be a disaster in any elected office she sought. I do not deny she is a clever and effective politician but she is a manipulative trouble making divisive person.
Having the rug pulled out from your own bias must be a disappointment but have no fear the haters will concoct other reasons to maintain their hatred.
Now those who love Stacey may have the rug pulled out from under them. I lived in Atlanta for 42 years. I watched the city grow, I watched Fulton County explode and go from Great Mayors like Bill Hartsfield and Ivan Allen sink to the bottom (Keisha Lance Bottoms) because color became preferred to competence.
Stacey Abrams is a female hustler and would be a disaster in any elected office she sought. I do not deny she is a clever and effective politician but she is a manipulative trouble making divisive person.
A Fix for Atlanta’s Voting Problems
A Fulton County probe could end in a state takeover—or reform.
By The Editorial Board
As Georgia probes Fulton County’s election (mis)management, the best response from partisans would be to take a deep breath. This is about accountability for a long record of mistakes. It isn’t about President Trump’s specious fraud claims, and it isn’t a threat to democracy.
The state Board of Elections on Wednesday named a bipartisan panel to do a performance review of Fulton County, which includes most of Atlanta. The process could eventually lead, under Georgia’s new voting law, to a suspension of Fulton’s board of elections. Democrats say the exercise is a GOP plot to disenfranchise Atlanta.
But the law specifies a long, detailed process: First comes the performance review. Two of the new panel’s members are election officials from other parts of the state, including a Democrat from neighboring Gwinnett County. The third is Ryan Germany, the general counsel for the Secretary of State, best known nationally for rejecting Mr. Trump’s fraud claims on that infamous taped phone call.
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There comes a time when it is smart to cease tinkering with the insoluble .
The Unconquerable Islamic World
Afghanistan shows the folly of mistaking Christian ideals for ‘universal’ ones.
By Robert Nicholson
Historians, soldiers and politicians will debate for decades the particulars of what went wrong during America’s intervention in Afghanistan. But a simple truth has been apparent for years: We Westerners failed not for lack of effort, but because military and economic power alone cannot change the Islamic world in a lasting way.
The U.S.-led coalition arrived in South Asia 20 years ago seeking justice after 9/11. Soon we turned into apostles of universal civilization, the idea that human beings everywhere would make the same basic decisions we made in building political community. We set out to establish a liberal democratic state, not realizing that politics lies downstream of culture, and culture downstream of religion. It never occurred to us that America was what it was because of Christianity, and Afghanistan was what it was because of Islam.
The political scientist Samuel Huntington was right: Islamic societies belong to a distinctive civilization that resists the imposition of foreign values through power. We may believe that argument or not, but trillions of dollars, tens of thousands of lives, and two decades of warfare have not proved otherwise.
Still, many remain blind to the obvious. Facing seemingly unrelated chaos in places like Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, the Palestinian territories, Yemen, Libya and Nigeria, our diplomats and strategists devise one-off responses that ignore the common ideologies and actors that link them. Finding piles of broken china around the room, they diligently glue the pieces back together, not seeing the elephant nearby whose feet are covered in ceramic dust.
This blindness is driven by a noble desire to see humans as equal, interchangeable beings for whom faith and culture are accidents of birth. But these accidents are non-negotiable truths for hundreds of millions of people who would rather die than concede them. Failure to comprehend this is a symptom of spiritual emptiness: Alienated from America’s Christian origins, millions cannot fathom how faith could play a vital role in binding humans together.
Euphemisms like “the Greater Middle East” reflect unease with a unified Islamic world. Never mind that Muslims themselves speak in such terms, or that local diversity between Indonesia and Morocco does not undermine the basic coherence of the umma. The House of Islam has many rooms, but it stands on a few pillars: The Quran is Allah’s final revelation, binding on all humanity; faith is a matter of private devotion as well as public law, best lived out in a state that blends religion and politics; and Muslims should, where possible, hold power over non-Muslims to ensure that Allah’s law is rightly enforced. It is doctrines like these that cause the Taliban, al Qaeda, and Hamas to fight the “Jews and Crusaders” who tread on land that historically belonged to Islam. But their commitments are far from radical; most Muslims see them as normative even if they fail to act on them.
New trends may herald changing times. The recent decision of four Muslim-majority countries to normalize relations with Israel was a risky, concrete act of friendship that deserves recognition. But such acts are still anomalous in a region where religious and secular Muslims overwhelmingly reject Israel, the U.S., and the Hebraic ties that bind them. Those who call for liberalizing traditional doctrines are brave souls but still statistical minorities.
The West cannot change the Islamic world, but neither can it ignore the world’s fastest-growing religious community. The best strategy will move from rollback to containment and prioritize the defense of American interests and allies over the promotion of values and institutions. Muslim Americans naturally merit the same rights as other citizens. Muslim-majority states that seek friendship with the U.S. deserve a warm welcome, especially when they make difficult decisions for peace. And the American government can still provide humanitarian aid to the casualties of intra-Muslim wars, with a special concern for non-Muslims caught in the crossfire. But overall, the U.S. needs to step back. The best way to honor American values is to stop forcing them on those who reject them.
Only Muslim majorities can decide the Muslim future. Washington must affirm their right to build organic societies that align with their values because they will do so regardless. This does not mean we will stand by when their choices cross American red lines, but the U.S. must affirm their right to make them.
The Islamic world may not change, or maybe it will—but it was never our job to decide. Our focus must be on curing the spiritual sickness that blinded us in the first place, recovering our own sense of civilizational self and reorienting our priorities accordingly.
Mr. Nicholson is president of the Philos Project.
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The mass media might eventually have to focus on Hunter but for the moment they are busy eating crow over their blind support of his father.
New Report May Explain Why Hunter Biden Story Is Being Blacked Out
(PresidentialWire.com)- After the UK Daily Mail released startling 2018 video of a naked Hunter Biden whining to a prostitute about Russians stealing his laptop (not the one he accidentally left at a Delaware computer repair shop), virtually no mainstream American news outlet reported on the story – except for those reporting from a “Republicans pounce” angle.
Georgetown law professor Jonathan Turley noted in a column just how significant this video is. Turley wrote that either the President’s son was admitting that the Russians possess blackmail material on him or someone has created a fake video in order to falsely frame him. But, as Turley explains, if it is the latter, you would expect the Biden people to be announcing a lawsuit over it. And they’re not.
What struck Turley most, however, was the complete lack of coverage in most major news outlets.
As Margot Cleveland explained at the Federalist last week, if the video is authentic, it reveals national security risks that extend far beyond the Russians having blackmail material on the son of the President of the United States.
Cleveland outlines why this is the case.
If this first lost laptop had the same kinds of materials discovered on Hunter’s abandoned laptop, the Russians have a great deal of blackmail material, not just on Hunter, but on “the Big Guy” Joe Biden himself.
What’s more if the 2018 laptop was stolen by Russians as Hunter claimed, what prompted the Russians to target Hunter Biden to begin with? How would they know that stealing his laptop would provide them with a trove of valuable intel?
Finally, how much did US intelligence agencies know about all of this? Were they aware of that video before the Daily Mail published it? Do they know the extent of the damaging information these two laptops contained? And if they do, has Joe Biden and his national security team been briefed?
These are all questions a free and independent press would be asking. But instead, they aren’t just ignoring the reporting on Hunter’s wayward laptops, they are actively trying to spin the narrative as “misinformation.”
Cleveland concludes that the only possible explanation for this lack of media scrutiny is that they are desperately trying to protect President Biden.
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If Doofus persists with Iran he will wind up accomplishing WW 3 and possibly a nuclear one.
Iran is the big winner
Won't the Taliban regime in Afghanistan strengthen the Iranian claim that Tehran must arm itself with nuclear weapons against security threats on all sides?
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Most politicians are cynical beings. If not they would not be in politics which is one of the sleeziest "professions." Prostitution is even more honorable because you get what you pay for.
Biden, obviously, is betting American's have short attention spans and eventually his current disaster will pass and the mass media will go back to their old ways of protecting Democrats.
He never campaigned. He basically hid from voters. The mass media covered for him and voters gave him a pass because they could not bring themselves to vote for Trump.
Biden has to assume voters will do so again in the mid terms and he knows Republicans have a history of blowing most lay ups.
Time will tell.
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