the director of the Heritage Foundation’s “Project 2025,”
has stepped down amidst backlash from former President Donald Trump, who
has been accused by Democrats of working in cahoots with the proposal.
The Project 2025 proposal was launched in April 2022 and is
essentially a 900-page conservative playbook for a hypothetical second
Trump presidential term. However, Trump had no involvement in the plan
and he has since asserted that a number of the suggestions would not fly
in his administration.
Trump disavowed Project 2025 after being linked to the conservative
blueprint by Democrat officials. A main Democrat talking point is that
Project 2025 is an “anti-democracy, pro-fascism” manual.
Meanwhile, Susie Wiles and Chris LaCivita, Trump campaign leaders,
issued a joint statement regarding the news of Dans’s departure from the
project.
“Reports of Project 2025’s demise would be greatly welcomed and
should serve as notice to anyone or any group trying to misrepresent
their influence with President Trump and his campaign – it will not end
well for you,” the campaign leaders said.
Additionally, a Tuesday statement by Harris’s campaign manager, Julie
Chaves Rodriguez, stated: “Project 2025 is on the ballot because Donald
Trump is on the ballot. This is his agenda, written by his allies, for
Donald Trump to inflict on our country.”
Trump previously took to Truth Social to issue his own personal statement, distancing himself from the project.
“I know nothing about Project 2025. I have no idea who is behind it. I
disagree with some of the things they’re saying and some of the things
they’re saying are absolutely ridiculous and abysmal. Anything they do, I
wish them luck, but I have nothing to do with them,” Trump said.
Trump also made it a point to distance himself from the initiative
following Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts’s comments on a
“second American Revolution” on Steve Bannon’s radio show, which drew
backlash from Democrats and fueled left-wing conspiracy theories that a
second Trump presidency would result in fascism.
Soon after, Roberts tried to better explain his remarks from the show
in an email on Wednesday, explaining that people “are in the process of
carrying out the Second American Revolution to take power back from the
elites and despotic bureaucrats.”
“These patriots are committed to peaceful revolution at the ballot
box,” Roberts said. “Unfortunately, it’s the Left that has a long
history of violence, so it’s up to them to allow a peaceful transfer of
power.”
The announcement from Roberts came on Monday, which also confirmed Dans’s departure from the project.
“Under Paul Dans’ leadership, Project 2025 has completed exactly what
it set out to do: bringing together over 110 leading conservative
organizations to create a unified conservative vision, motivated to
devolve power from the unelected administrative state, and returning it
to the people. This tool was built for any future administration to
use.”
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President Biden’s
push to impose radical changes to the Supreme Court caters to the
left-wing base of the Democrat party from an administration that was
once billed as a "moderate," critics argue.
On Monday, Biden and
Vice President Harris, who is now running at the top of the presidential
ticket for Democrats in November, backed drastic measures for Congress
to adopt, including term limits, ethics rules and a constitutional
amendment to limit presidential immunity.
Biden, in an op-ed
published in the Washington Post, said he has "great respect for our
institutions and separation of powers" but "what is happening now is not
normal, and it undermines the public’s confidence in the court’s
decisions, including those impacting personal freedoms. We now stand in a
breach."
The
move marks a nearly 180-degree pivot for Biden, who had generally
bucked plans even from within his own party to make such changes to the high court.
President Biden walks down the steps of Air Force One at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware on July 17, 2024.(Susan Walsh/AP)
During
the early years of his political career in the Senate, Biden called
President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s plans to place term limits on older
justices and packing the court "a bonehead idea." Packing the court, or
court packing, is a term for increasing the number of justices on a
court.
On the campaign trail in 2020, he resisted calls to expand
the size of the court, saying that it would undermine its credibility.
With
Monday’s announcement, Biden hasn’t said he wants to pack the court.
But on his way out the Oval Office door, he’s endorsing plans from the
most radical wing of his party.
"The far-left calls to destroy the
Supreme Court were answered first by a candidate desperate to save his
failing campaign," said Carrie Severino, president of Judicial Crisis
Network.
President Biden speaks at a campaign event at Pullman Yards in Atlanta on March 9, 2024.(Megan Varner/Getty Images)
"Now
they will be championed by a candidate who needs to cater to dark money
groups in the Arabella Advisors network like Demand Justice, Fix the
Court and a host of other pop-up groups funded by liberal billionaires,"
she added.
Arabella Advisors is a dark money fund
that feeds various left-wing causes. Notably, Harris’ communications
director, Brian Fallon, is the former head of Demand Justice, which is
an Arabella-funded group that advocates for court packing.
Fix the Court, another Arabella-connected group, pushes for term limits for Justices.
"[Biden is] trying to gin up his base with this gimmick," said GOP strategist Matt Gorman.
Vice President Harris(Erin Schaff/Pool via Reuters)
"The
idea that Joe Biden would advocate for term limits is laughable. The
left can’t stand that they don’t control the court, so they’ll do
whatever they can to take it by legislative force," he said.
The
ideological swing of the high court shifted when former President Trump
appointed Justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett.
The conservative block is certainly not always in a lockstep vote, but
Democrats in Congress and in the White House have nevertheless claimed
that about the Republican-appointed majority.
"President
Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris want to end-run the
Constitution and destroy the Supreme Court because they can't control
it," said Severino.
"Biden and Harris are declaring war on the separation of powers with this announcement," she added.
The Harris campaign did not respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment.
White
House spokesperson Andrew Bates responded, "As he stands up for the
rule of law and the integrity of the Supreme Court, President Biden is
grateful for the support these proposals are receiving from bipartisan
legal experts, members of Congress, and large majorities of the American
people.
"Now,
congressional Republicans have a choice to make: will they safeguard
conflicts of interests on our nation’s highest court and help presidents
remain above the law, or will they side with Joe Biden, conservative
former judges, and their own constituents to protect principals that
should override any partisanship?" said Bates.
Notably, the Supreme Court last year adopted a new code of conduct after months of scrutiny from Democrats in Congress.
"For
the most part, these rules and principles are not new: The Court has
long had the equivalent of common law ethics rules, that is, a body of
rules derived from a variety of sources, including statutory provisions,
the code that applies to other members of the federal judiciary,
ethics advisory opinions issued by the Judicial Conference Committee on
Codes of Conduct, and historic practice," a statement signed by all the
justices said.
"The
absence of a Code, however, has led in recent years to the
misunderstanding that the Justices of this Court, unlike all other
jurists in this country, regard themselves as unrestricted by any ethics
rules. To dispel this misunderstanding, we are issuing this Code, which
largely represents a codification of principles that we have long
regarded as governing our conduct," it said.
Republican Congressional candidate Abe Hamedeh
told Newsmax on Monday that voters “truly do” recognize how Vice
President Kamala Harris is such a radical liberal, especially when it
comes to immigration.
Hamadeh has been endorsed by former President Donald Trump and
seeking the GOP’s nomination for an open seat in Arizona’s eighth
congressional district.
“They know it because it's the same policies that [President Joe] Biden has done to destroy our country,” Hamedeh told “Carl Higbie Frontline” guest host Michael Grimm.
“My district has the highest number of retired people in the state,
and they're wondering, why are illegal immigrants getting paid more than
they are on Social Security?
“It's insane that these illegal immigrants are getting free health
care, free housing and money all supported by the government because of
Biden’s and [Vice President] Kamala Harris' open-border policy.”
In 2022, Hamedeh lost by a razor-thin 280 votes to Democrat Kristin Mayes to be Arizona’s attorney general.
But his strong showing earned him from the Republican grassroots and MAGA supporters across the U.S.
Trump said Hamadeh has been a “fearless fighter for election integrity, has been with me all the way!”
In addition to Trump, Hamadeh has been endorsed by Ric Grenell,
Trump’s former DNI Secretary, and Kari Lake, the likely winner of
Tuesday’s Senate Republican primary.
“Abe is the son of immigrants, an Army veteran who served overseas, a
former prosecutor, and like me, Abe never backs down,” Lake said in
endorsing Hamadeh.
“Abe embodies the American dream,” she added.
Hamadeh told Newsmax he sees Harris as a threat to that dream, noting
“her flip flop on so many of these issues” is due to her lack of any
core beliefs.
“Their entire agenda is to destroy our country,” he said.
Seven candidates are competing in the GOP primary, including Hamadeh and businessman Blake Masters.
Hamadeh served as a Captain in the U.S. Army and served as an intelligence officer in the Reserves.
The son of Syrian immigrants, the Jerusalem Post declared he was “one
of the most pro-Israel candidates” running for office this year.
Hamadeh studied law at the University of Arizona College of Law and later became a prosecutor in Maricopa County.
Questions about Google’s bias are reemerging in the aftermath of the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump.
The
search engine giant has been criticized plenty of times over recent
years for propping up search results beneficial to the left while
suppressing those that might favor the right.
Now, Google is coming under fire after it was revealed that its auto-populate feature was not bringing up the shooting of Trump.
Jeff Charles is the host of "A Fresh Perspective" podcast. He is a contributor for RedState, Newsweek Opinion and also has a Substack called "Chasing Liberty."
Jeff is also a freelance writer and political contributor who has
appeared on Fox News, The Hill's "Rising," Fox Soul, Newsmax, and the
First TV Network.
He enjoys reading, binging TV shows, learning to play the banjo
(badly), and all things nerdy. He also believes that any steak cooked
above medium rare is burnt, and an abomination.
If you have a tip about a story of local government abuse, send him an email: jeff@afreshperspectiveshow.com
bllsbailey@tumblr.Com & politicspresumptuous.blogspot.com knows a lot about how Google censors and shadow bans conservative blogs, because he has experienced it for years.
A vital element in the battle for conservatism is refusing to cede
ground in the culture war. While, in general, Hollywood and the
entertainment media are fiercely dedicated to shoving the progressive
agenda down a gullible public’s throat, there remain artists who embody 1 Kings 19:18 by not bowing down to the modern-day Baal of blasphemy
and hedonism. Such is the case with “Arise,” the latest release by
veteran heavy progressive rockers Glass Hammer. It’s a winner in every
sense of the word.
The brainchild of musician and author Steve Babb, with quality
abetment by vocalist Hannah Hale Pryor, “Arise” is a concept piece that
is equally enjoyable following along with the plot or as a stand-alone
listening experience. As described by the artist:
Set
against the backdrop of deep space exploration, ‘Arise’ follows the
extraordinary journey of an android dispatched by overzealous scientists
to uncover the galaxy’s hidden wonders. The album’s lyrics, liner
notes, and artwork convey a tale of cosmic dread and wonder that doesn’t
begin with a big bang, but, according to Glass Hammer mastermind Steve
Babb, “...definitely ends with one.”
He’s joined by singer Hannah Hale
Pryor and guitarist Reese Boyd for Glass Hammer’s twenty-first studio
album. “‘Arise’ is my progressive-rock spin on space rock,” says Babb.
“I’m still flirting with doom metal on a couple of songs, as we did on
the last two albums, but there’s also psych-rock and even 80’s influence
going on in the music. Even so, it’s very much a prog-rock album, just
one that touches on other styles.”
Babb thoroughly
understands the alliance of sledgehammer and satin that marks the best
prog metal. The power is evident throughout, but there is no beating the
listener into submission. Adventuresome melodies flow unhindered,
allowed to breathe and expand in a natural manner minus gimmickry. Pryor
has the rare gift of a voice that is simultaneously sweet and
listenable, plus packing more than enough punch to let the rockers rock.
She is a singer, not a screamer, and Pryor’s presence makes “Arise” all
the better.
The album’s instrumental passages are a treat, especially the album’s
closing track, “The Return of Daedalus.” With guitarist Boyd losing his
mind as he uninhibitedly shreds without dipping into self-indulgence,
the song is molten lava from start to finish; a nearly 17-minute tour de
force leaving the listener wanting even more. Good stuff, indeed.
Did I mention
Babb is a rock-solid (no pun intended) conservative? While wearing
neither politics nor his deep Christian faith on his sleeve, Babb
remains steadfast in both. As he explained in a 2022 interview:
“I
was raised with conservative values and attended conservative churches.
And though my take on Scripture dictates that I hold certain positions,
I credit an ability for critical thinking and a belief in absolute
truth to be the primary factors in determining my politics. There is an
enduring moral order: human nature is constant and moral truths,
permanent.”
He adds, “My faith informs my music / lyrics and my
political views. I’m very passionate about the music and strongly
opinionated about politics. However, I don’t mix politics and music. I’d
alienate well over half our audience if I did. They trust us not to do
that, and I think most of them know where we stand anyway. It’s our job
to entertain them, and bring joy and wonder into their lives, not
lecture them.”
Sometimes, an introductory feathery touch works far better than
immediately beating someone over the head with your views. Caution is
not always compromise. While there is nothing feathery nor compromising
about Glass Hammer’s “Arise” — the album rocks from start to finish with
intelligent hardness — it stands not only as an excellent source from
which conservatives are able to enjoy quality art made by people of like
views but also serves as a well-honed sword slicing through the myth
that conservatives have nothing to offer artistically save second-rate
jingoistic preaching to the choir.
The album is available at the artist’s Bandcamp page.
Is there anything worse than white people?
You likely wouldn’t be surprised to hear that at a dinner party thrown
by leftists, especially now that they’ve ditched their rich old white
guy for a rich younger woman of mixed ethnicity. Before last week,
Democrats had to pretend to like white people, now they don’t. They’re
still owned by rich, mostly white people, but none of them openly talk
about their elite overlords, they just pretend that not being white or
being a woman is “diverse,” even though being diverse requires multiple
people, making it impossible for an individual to be it.
But reality has never been a barrier for the left, on
anything. If they were bound by the truth, Democrats would be silent.
They aren’t about to let the facts stand in the way of a good story
now.
So, now that wildly unimpressive and
unaccomplished Kamala Harris is their nominee, they are in need of
something to distract from the fact that she got her start in politics
as the side-piece of a married Democratic Party politician and
powerbroker. They need a distraction from the fact that she has no
children, only becoming a step-mom to her husband’s children when they
were nearly adults and she Attorney General, while their real mother was
still around (how much parenting do you think they needed at that age
or would get from someone politically ambitious with a real mom in the
picture? None?)
Race and gender are all they have.
The
official representative of black women, MSNBC’s resident racist Joy
Reid, has declared that black women are as excited as possible over the
prospect of voting for someone who panders on their race and gender when
it suits their political needs. OK, maybe she doesn’t put it that way,
but that’s the effect of it.
To Reid and her ilk, race
is a weapon and a shield. The shield aspect is more important these
days, as the weapon’s edge is about as dull as Joy’s intellect from
overuse – the weapon part, not the intellect part, which presumably
still has that “new intellect smell” and very, very low miles.
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It’s all Joy has, which is probably why she seems so
unpleasant. There are still tens and tens of people who value what Joy
and MSNBC have to say; black women happy to be have any shortcomings or
career stumbles they may have explained away by “societal racism,” even
though Joy managed to overcome a complete lack of talent, a privileged
upbringing, Ivy League education and a “hacked” blog making her a
homophobe, a tough case that even the FBI wasn’t able to crack.
It
has not been easy for the official Democratic Party wrangler of black
people for the prevention of individual thought and asking questions.
Sure, it’s a long title, but it is an important one.
Still,
what about white women? The black women vote is important to Democrats,
but there are a lot more white women out there; suburbanite
empty-nesters devoid of meaning, single or in loveless marriages in
desperate need of meaning. There are no answers at the bottom of an
empty bottle of chardonnay, but they will keep asking the full ones
those question anyway, just in case.
What are they to do?
It turns out the answer is easy. These racists can help Kamala win.
All
the guilt they are riddled with over the tax deduction they took when
buying their hybrid can be alleviated by blind obedience to the
Democratic Party and acceptance of just how horrible and racist they
are. The Home Shopping Network doesn’t even offer this level of complete
one-stop-shopping for answers to all your problems.
This
group included soccer player Megan Rapinoe, gun-grabber Shannon Watts,
former singer Pink and other usual suspect leftists who think people
should feel guilty about things they didn’t do and make it up to people
who didn’t have things done to them.
The chubby faced,
condescending kindergarten teacher, some creatures called “Mrs.
Frazzled” (never heard of her) came on and told these crackers they’d
better learn their place. They need to help out Kamala, but only in a
way black women approve of. “We need to use our privilege to make
positive changes,” the chipmunk told the pathetic gaggle.
“If
you find yourself talking over or speaking for BIPOC individuals, or
God forbid correcting them, just take a beat and instead we can put our
listening ears on,” the white moron told the gathered idiots.
For
the uninitiated, “BIPOC” means “black, indigenous, and other people of
color,” because anyone not “black or indigenous” can just be lumped
together since there aren’t enough of them to make a difference
electorally, or something.
But remember, this boob
insists you can’t correct someone who is wrong if they are not white, so
just put your listening ears on! I assume listening ears help you hear
with your head up your ass. I looked it up and she’s married to an
Indian man – which I’m sure she thinks imbues her with special empathy
or something – and must defer to him on all matters or else she’s a
racist, right?
Honestly, these people are beyond stupid, they’re evil.
They know what they’re doing and do it anyway, either for a sense of
superiority or because they hate themselves. I think they need for
former, but really should suffer from the latter because that’s how I
feel about them.
Liberal white women are the worst.
Their existence is devoid of meaning, they have no original thoughts and
seemingly only care about abortion (likely to try to normalize
something they did that haunts them but they’ll never admit) and race,
which is weird because the largest killer of black people in the country
is abortion, right before the Godawful policies of the Democratic Party
and other black people subjected to them. As evil as white women are,
they don’t crack the top 10.
Of course, for that to
matter, liberal white women would need to actually care about black
people, not just view them as a means to an electoral end. They don’t.
They’ve very progressive in the abstract, but will watch with an eagle
eye through a crack in their drapes anyone darker than a 3-day tan who
happens to walk down their street. If you want to see the real face of
racism in the 21st century, look no further than the nearest white
savior complexed Karen insisting she and other people like are the only
ones who can save the minorities.
After 60 years of failure, you’d think they’d wise up. But that can only happen if you really care, which they clearly do not.
If this story is true, and it’s a big what if,
then Joe Biden has been deposed in a coup that’s reminiscent of banana
republics. The problem is the sourcing: the story appears to be written
by Seymour Hersh. Hersh isn’t a fake news peddler, though his stories
often rely on anonymous sources, so much cannot be verified. For those
who don’t know, Hersh has written for The New Yorker and The New York
Times. He won a Pulitzer for his reporting on the Mai Lai Massacre
during the Vietnam War. Hersh may have a liberal bias, but he’s not
overall a conspiracy theorist, at least not in the vein of someone like
Louise Mensch, a former member of the UK Parliament, who went totally
off the deep end during the Russian collusion hoax.
Hersh’s pervasive use of anonymous sources has given many an editor
heartburn. Still, this story also is grounded since Joe Biden was facing
pressure from all angles to step aside following his disastrous June 27
debate. His polling began to crater, placing states like Virginia in
play. Donors withheld their cash; Hill Democrats poured out, calling the
president to step aside. The dam finally broke during the Republican
National Convention. Still, Biden remained entrenched even though he was
looking at a Jimmy Carter-style loss if he stayed. At this point, Nancy
Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, and Hakeem Jeffries increased their campaign to
nudge the president into quitting. Barack Obama was already working
behind the scenes to force Biden to exit the race, which brings us to
this piece of palace intrigue: Biden called Joe saying that he got the
go-ahead from Kamala to invoke the 25th Amendment. Hersh noted that Obama dropped this bomb at breakfast time on July 21. Hours later, Biden would quit the race:
Take from this story what you will,
but we can discern that there was a massive push within the Democratic
Party to dump Joe. During his trip to Nevada, which got nuked by his
COVID diagnosis, his money man, Jeffrey Katzenberg, warned him that the
well was drying up. The campaign spent mountains of cash on efforts to
defeat Trump, and the needle wasn’t budging. The other part of this
Nevada trip is the reported medical emergency that occurred,
leading to roads being closed and a medical team assembled for Biden at
University Medical Center in Las Vegas over an apparent stroke. It was
later aborted, with the motorcade being diverted to the airport when
supposedly the president could be treated for a mini-stroke or transient
ischemic attack. He wasn’t seen for days until he called into Kamala
Harris’ campaign headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware, where he sounded
close to death, his speech slurred.
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Biden was muscled out, and that’s not a tin foil hat observation.
Scott Jennings made a similar point on CNN, noting how Biden’s exit also
marks how easy it is to topple a president if the party’s big wigs band
together. Biden might have been able to save his presidency if he had
the political acumen and skill required for the job. He never possessed
those qualities. No money, no friends on the Hill, and even the base had
done a 180-degree turn on wanting Joe to stay. He was frail, had COVID,
and now another medical episode of undetermined origin, but wouldn’t be
shocked if it was a TIA. Could he handle it? Nope.
Now, let’s
say this story is true, we need hearings. In this universe, Kamala
Harris appears to be someone who orchestrated a coup. When did the 25th
Amendment chatter start? A woman who no Democrat voted for is about to
become the official 2024 Democratic Party nominee for president—it’s astounding-ly bad.
No Democrat has ever voted for Kamala, who proved to be so unpopular
that she quit her 2020 campaign before the start of the primary season
that cycle.
Even if this breakfast body slam by Obama never
happened, the cumulative effect of the anti-Biden forces within the
Democratic Party amounted to a coup. The irony is, again, if this story
is true, is that many saw Kamala as Biden’s 25th Amendment
insurance policy. Let’s also not forget that no so long ago, many were
pondering whether Biden should dump Kamala due to her unpopularity and
overall awkwardness on the stump.
