The Reason for the Electoral College  

Jeffrey Tucker | Sept 24, 2024

A member of Wisconsin’s Electoral College casts their vote for the presidential election at the state Capitol in Madison Wis., on Dec. 14, 2020  Morry Gash/Getty Images

We’ve all experienced something like the following. The topic of politics comes up at a party, and someone in the group, seeking some way to say something smart but not divisive, will just toss out that we need to get rid of the Electoral College, the Constitution’s structure for electing the U.S. president and vice president.

The expectation is that everyone present will readily agree. And usually that is precisely what happens because few people have ever heard the other side.

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September 26, 2024 | 4:40 pm | Comments »

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Hezbollah withdraws its forces from Syria  

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September 26, 2024 | 2:09 am | Comments »

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Israel’s Northern Command prepares for possible ground operation  

Seth J. Frantzman | Sept 25, 2024

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) continued to strike Hezbollah sites in Lebanon on September 25, the third day of Israel’s “Northern Arrows” operation. In addition, the head of Israel’s Northern Command spoke to commanders of a key IDF armored brigade about the need to be ready for maneuver and action in Lebanon. The IDF said it was calling up two reserve brigades for operations in the north. Hezbollah also sought to illustrate that it possesses significant capabilities to strike at northern and central Israel.

The third day of Israel’s Operation Northern Arrows began with Hezbollah launching a ballistic missile toward Tel Aviv. The Iranian-backed terrorist group claimed in a statement that it had used a Qader-1 missile to target Israel’s Mossad headquarters. Hezbollah has blamed the Mossad for the exploding pagers that wounded thousands of its members on September 17. The ballistic missile was intercepted by Israel’s David’s Sling air defense system.

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September 26, 2024 | 1:20 am | 3 Comments »

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Rape is Resistance and Beepers are Genocide  

There is no legitimate way for Israel to take out a terrorist.

Daniel Greenfield | Sept 25, 2024

The myth that Israel’s tactics not its existence is at issue died with the murdered Jewish families on Oct 7 and the Hezbollah terrorists taken out by pagers on September 17 and 18.

No sooner did the encrypted communications devices handed out to members of the Islamic Jihadist group begin exploding than human rights experts and the UN began condemning the single greatest targeted attack on a terror group as a violation of international law. Those same organizations and activists had nothing to say about the Hezbollah rocket attacks on Israeli towns and villages that turned tens of thousands of Jews into refugees in their own country.

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September 26, 2024 | 12:49 am | 2 Comments »

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Zelensky Wants US Troops in Ukraine  

Peloni:  How crazy would the Americans have to be to follow the clarion call of the man who saw his own nation sewn into an ever reducing Rump, who betrayed his own constitution on a number of details not the least of which was his own re-election, and who has an ever insatiable appetite for endless war.  Indeed, as Zelensky is running out of Ukrainian youths who might be shoved into an unmarked vehicle and delivered to the Ukrainian front, he now countenances that this lack of available cannon fodder should be filled with the youth of America.

He also wants Putin replaced

Stephen Bryen | Weapons & Strategy | Sep 25, 2024

Volodymyr Zelensky speaks at U.N. General Assembly (YouTube)

I think his summary is fair enough. But it is not the real text. Zelensky really thinks he can get NATO (led by the United States) to commit air power and troops to fight in Ukraine. That is why he is campaigning for Kamala Harris in swing states, including Pennsylvania, because he knows that the American troops cannot be dispatched until after Harris wins the election.

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September 26, 2024 | 12:41 am | 21 Comments »

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Israel Update: Game Changer  

Peloni: Mike explains how brilliantly Israel has re-established escallation dominance against Hezbollah in such a short period of time, noting that it is clear that these plans have been carefully crafted over a number of years.  He notes that Israel has been allowed to do so, however, only due to the fact that they have worked within the Redlines established by the US.  No doubt this is the basis of his thoughts on why Israel should pursue the enforcement of UNSC Res. 1701, as expressed in his Grim Reeper tweet, rather than eliminating the Iranian threat in the North altogether.  In fact, Israel can no longer live with the sword of Damacles ever wavering overhead, waiting for Iran to do in the North what they did in the South, or worse yet, a coordinated assault from all the Iranian threats at once.  Iran’s capability to threaten Israel must be eliminated, not deterred, and the time to do so should be now, not at some point in the future.

September 25, 2024 | 11:55 am | 1 Comment »

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The American back door  

Iranian-sponsored terrorist groups are not speaking the same language the U.S. State Department speaks and words like “de-escalation” hold no meaning.

Shoshana Bryen | Sept 23, 2024

The “USS Carney” guided-missile destroyer defeats a combination of Houthi missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles in the Red Sea on Oct. 19, 2023. Credit: U.S. Navy Photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Aaron Lau.

Israel’s magnificent operations last week eliminated and/or incapacitated thousands of Hezbollah terrorists, as well as eliminated members of the Radwan force who were planning an “Oct. 7-style” attack on Israeli citizens in the Galilee. Finally receiving their just desserts were two men wanted by the FBI for the 1983 bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut that killed 247 Americans, 57 French servicemen and six civilians. (The second terrorist was taken out on the 40th anniversary of the attack.)

There was no “thank you” from the Biden-Harris administration. After a bit of stiffness, the administration admitted that “nobody sheds a tear” for them.

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September 25, 2024 | 11:41 am | 3 Comments »

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Trump’s sins are aesthetic; Harris’s are existential  

American Jews need to appropriately prioritize and act accordingly. How could Jews turn their back on the man who did so much for Israel? How could they ignore the lack of unambivalent support that Harris represents?

Douglas Altabef | Sep 24, 2024

Trump at Republican National Convention  REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz

The view of the American political scene from Israel is looking increasingly surreal. We are seeing the normalization of the most radical Presidential candidate since Henry Wallace. Kamala Harris’s voting record and pronouncements should be causing jaw dropping reappraisals by all Americans who cherish the exceptionalism of America and its values.

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September 25, 2024 | 11:33 am | 2 Comments »

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Safe Schools for Jews  

The question of where to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars and be safe comes down to where Jews are safe, and your money is wanted.

Ronn Torossian | Sep 24, 2024

Anti-Israel encampment at DePaul University  REUTERS/Jim Vondruska

Jewish parents have always worried, but since October 7th fears and concerns are justified and amplified in an America dominated by antisemitism.

When it comes to university choices in North America, any Jew who considers enrolling in Harvard or Columbia or University of Michigan or NYU or UCLA, or any of the other schools that day after day see horrific antisemitism, needs a psychiatrist rather than a university degree. All of the petitions and demands have fallen on deaf ears and it is past time to expect change.

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September 25, 2024 | 9:08 am | Comments »

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Israel’s dangerous bet on deradicalization  

Peloni:  The hubris of assuming that radicals might be deradicalized requires us to assume that their radical nature might be bartered or explained away, and herein lies a great misconception about the very nature of radicals.  Notably, the wanton bloodlust of the likes of Hamas and Fatah will not be extinquished by education, wealth or time.  Indeed, think of Sinwar and ask  yourself what you might offer him to set aside his quest of Jihad.  Don’t labor too hard on this task because the answer is NOTHING.  They don’t want opportunity, and they don’t want wealth, and they don’t want education.  They simply want to kill Jews in the most barbaric and macabre manner imaginable.  We must treat these radicals with the respect which their threat to society requires and understand that the word salad of denazification is pretending away a very big problem which only leads towards ever greater problems being created.

The basis of the Palestinian national identity systematically erases all Jewish connection to our ancestral homeland.

Avi Abelow | Sept 22,2024

Mufti of Jerusalem Amin al-Husseini and Adolf Hitler, 1941. Credit: German Federal Archives (Deutsches Bundesarchiv) via Wikimedia Commons.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is a man of considerable intellect and experience, shaped by his background as the son of a renowned historian. He is undoubtedly aware of the complex and often brutal history of antisemitism that has plagued the Middle East.

Despite this, Netanyahu’s recent statements seem to reflect a dangerous optimism about the potential for deradicalizing the Muslim enemy in our midst, specifically, the Arabs in Gaza. While his intentions are undoubtedly rooted in a desire for peace and coexistence, his approach appears increasingly disconnected from the harsh realities on the ground and more focused on appeasing the Western world.

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September 25, 2024 | 9:00 am | 1 Comment »

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Microaggressions are hateful unless used against the Jews  

Progressives claim to oppose all forms of bigotry, but there is nobody more bigoted or oppressive than leftist progressive antisemites.

Matthew M. Hausman, J.D. | Sep 24, 2024

Nova Festival massacre site   Chaim Goldberg/ Flash 90

Negotiations with Hamas were exposed as hollow farce when six hostages were executed to prevent their rescue – in tunnels built with humanitarian aid provided by the west.

Whereas the Biden administration persists in demanding that Israel negotiate with terrorists who tortured, raped and murdered her citizens, Hamas has been honest about its commitment to jihad and genocide irrespective of negotiations. One need only read its charter to know its objective was never really the creation of a Palestinian state, but the destruction of Israel and extermination of the Jews.

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September 25, 2024 | 3:29 am | 2 Comments »

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King Abdullah has fled to New York  

Mudar Zahran just tweeted:

“The United States announced yesterday that it would increase the number of its soldiers in the region…and hundreds of soldiers began arriving at American bases in Jordan this morning…
And Ali Baba “the king” fled to New York
…and hung up the phone, leaving his Muslim Brotherhood allies to threaten Israel…
Jordan’s stability is guaranteed by the strength of the American military…and Abdulla is a goner…that’s for sure…”

September 25, 2024 | 3:09 am | 3 Comments »

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The complete Hezbollah battle plan to conquer Israel  

Peloni:  The Iranian threat in the North must be removed entirely, not diminished and not deterred, but annihilated.

Revealed for the first time, this was the Hezbollah battle plan for the invasion of the Zionist State (Israel).

Barry Shaw | Sep 24, 2024

These are the stages of the Hezbollah battle plan for the invasion of the Zionist State (Israel).

THE “CONQUEST OF THE GALILEE” PLAN

One of the main lessons Hezbollah learned from the Lebanon War was the need to change the goals of the next war against Israel.

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September 24, 2024 | 4:55 pm | 2 Comments »

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Ukraine President Zelensky Campaigns for Kamala Harris in Pennsylvania  

Peloni:  Zelensky is opposed to ending the war.  Indeed, this war has provided this comedian turned Ukrainian despot with the greatest control over his populace.  He has done so with the full support of the international community who are paying him for the privilege as he targets Russian military systems and troops for his Washington pay masters, now with the added caveat of harrying the Russian border as well.  The American people must end any and all support for this Ukrainian junta warlord, demand that Ukraine hold elections in accordance with the Ukrainian constitution, and require that Zelensky be replaced as Ukraine’s leader with the head of the Ukrainian Rada til such time as an election can be implemented, again as is stipulated in the Ukrainian constitution.

Sundance | Sept 23, 2024

In a heavily coordinated and strategic political visit to Pennsylvania, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky was essentially campaigning for Kamala Harris and a continuation of the Biden foreign policy which provides billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars to Ukraine. [AP Article Here]

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September 24, 2024 | 1:44 pm | 9 Comments »

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