IN POLITICS, THINGS ARE NEVER WHAT THEY APPEAR TO BE ... OFFERING AN ALTERNATIVE REALITY TO THE LIBERAL-DOMINATED MEDIA
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Wednesday, July 31, 2024
Don't pick on Kamala, whines NPR
The media’s focus on candidates shouldn’t obscure the real issues in this election
Why Reliable Opioid Death Data is Impossible
Democrats bash Israel for striking the people who killed 12 Druze children
Contested Primary Victories: Donald Trump: 151, Kamala Harris: 0
Tuesday, July 30, 2024
Kamala Betrays Her Own Voters: Caves on Crucial Issues All Democrats Care About, And It Could Cost Her
Despite Publicly Hyping Kamala Harris, Democrats Are Singing a Different Tune in Private: Report
A 2019 essay details just what a horrible, arrogant boss Kamala is
How NOAA Climate Catastrophists Mislead
The Democrat Party is the Greatest Threat to America
The Perfect Stooge: How Did Kamala Harris Get This Far?
From homelessness to hope: Trump’s unmatched veteran support
Mark Levin had the best analysis yet of Kamala Harris
Monday, July 29, 2024
The White House announces an insurrection to ‘reform’ the Supreme Court
Remaking Kamala
Alarming Report: X/Twitter Still Suppressing Conservatives, Boosting Leftists
Media’s Version of Harris is Unburdened by History
Yes, Kamala Harris Was the Border Czar
Two Critical Battles Lie Ahead For Trump
Precisely because the Democrat Party successfully stole the 2020 election, they will be pulling out all stops to do it again. The Trump campaign and the Republican Party will be hard-pressed to “Stop The Steal 2024”, but stop it they must, and they are probably fully aware of the stratagems they face.
Two visions of America
Sunday, July 28, 2024
Don’t be fooled by Kamala’s pro-Israel platitudes. She is pro-Iran and pro-Hamas.
CNN Poll: Nearly 40% of Americans worry about how they’re going to pay their bills under Democrats
Saturday, July 27, 2024
Trump Is Absolutely Smoking Kamala in Latest Rasmussen Poll
Will RFK Jr be Trump’s vaccine czar?
CrowdStrike Offers Glimpse of Potential Cyber Apocalypse
Democrats Bait and Switch Their Own Voters
Trump Stands for America’s Veterans and Economy
Suburban moms focused on Kamala’s intersectionalism ignore their kids’ futures
Friday, July 26, 2024
Recently Retired Border Patrol Union President Lays Out the 'Very Disappointing' Truth About Kamala Harris' Immigration Efforts
The press gins itself up to hurl Kamala Harris's record down the memory hole
I can't trust Kamala Harris -- and neither should you
No Matter How Often Leftism Fails, True Believers Never Face The Consequences
Newsweek descends deeper into the gutter of vile propaganda
Thursday, July 25, 2024
What Price Trump?
Who’s in charge of Kamala Harris now?
Trump’s Courage and Biden’s Failures
Deep State Carnival Barkers Distract Us with Kamala
Congress Must Appoint An Independent Investigator For The Assassination Attempt
Democracy is Under Attack, But Not By Trump
Tuesday, July 23, 2024
Democrats: The George Costanza of politics
Similarities between Alexander Hamilton and JD Vance
Monday, July 22, 2024
Donald Trump And ‘That Moment’ In Time When He Was Saved
Biden’s Parting Gift to the Democrat Establishment
Sunday, July 21, 2024
People are questioning whether Biden actually resigned or was the victim of a coup
Biden has resigned from the campaign but not the presidency
Saturday, July 20, 2024
The Hydroxychloroquine Crime
Who Can Donald Trump Count On?
Donald Trump Versus American Socialists
Friday, July 19, 2024
Trump as a Greek myth
Did Jill Biden get the Secret Service's 'A' team, leaving President Trump with just its farm team?
Can the Democrats defeat an actual legend?
Don’t Mourn the ‘Old’ Republican Party
Trump’s Resilience And The Inevitable Endpoint of Democrat Politics
Thursday, July 18, 2024
Secret Service Director: Oh my God
Democrats’ greatest fear is coming true: Black men and young people like Trump
Wednesday, July 17, 2024
A look at Biden's Secret Service chief as a DEI hire
Two key moments that showed President Trump is a true leader
New report: Average American household has paid thousands more in energy costs since 2021 thanks to Biden’s policies
The Secret Service Story is Starting to Stink
JD Vance: The Perfect Pick
Tuesday, July 16, 2024
The Legacy Media Has Passed the Point of No Return
Guest Column: Why the Left is in meltdown over Project 2025
When Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts termed the think tank’s Project 2025 “the second American revolution,” the Left went into meltdown — something it has been doing daily over the past few weeks.
Roberts’ comments about a second American Revolution came while most Americans were enjoying backyard barbeques and watching fireworks celebrating the first American Revolution. Tossing off the yoke of oppressive government is imbedded in our DNA so what Roberts said was not very, well, revolutionary.
Ensuing coverage of Project 2025 was predictably distorted and demonized by Left-wing politicians and the sycophants in the legacy news media. In a nutshell, the goal of Project 2025 is to greatly diminish the role of the unelected bureaucrats in the executive branch frequently referred to as the deep state.
The Left has used the deep state to preserve and expand its power even during Republican presidential administrations. It is very much aware of the importance of maintaining its regulatory hold over every facet of our economy and hence our everyday lives. That Heritage has devised a vehicle for not only diminishing — but reversing — that power strikes at the core of the Left’s control of the federal government.
Exacerbating the Left’s reaction to Heritage’s blueprint for bringing the administrative state to heel is their loss of power and the looming loss of power in the other components of the federal government.
For many decades the Supreme Court of the United States was populated by activist justices who formed the last line of defense for Left-wing policies. The high court now sports a judicial majority guided by the Constitution rather than by political ideology. The result is a slow but steady erosion of the deep state’s powers.
The recent session of the high court resulted in rulings adverse to the deep state. Most notably the court ruled unconstitutional the so-called Chevron deference which gave federal agencies the power to adjudicate disputes arising from their own regulations. In effect for the past 40 years, Chevron was the equivalent of having the referees employed by one of the competing teams. As a result of the Chevron decision, such disputes must now be resolved by the judicial branch.
Congress has frequently purposefully passed vague laws ceding to regulatory agencies the job of filling in the details. The Supreme Court is saying that Congress must be more precise, especially when broad-based economic factors are at issue. In so doing the high court is taking power from unelected bureaucrats and returning it to our elected representatives.
The Left is also facing a loss of congressional power. This year one-third of the seats in the U.S. Senate are up for election. Democrats hold twice as many of those seats as Republicans. Currently, Democrats hold a one-seat majority in the upper chamber. Republicans are certain to flip the U.S. Senate seat in West Virginia. Ohio and Montana are states with incumbent Democrat senators up for election this year that were won by Donald Trump in 2020 and thus represent opportunity for Republicans.
Add in Democrat-held seats up for election in states won by Donald Trump in 2016 — Arizona, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Michigan — and a formerly reliable Democrat seat in Maryland at risk due to the popularity of former Republican Gov. Larry Hogan — and odds are Republicans will win a senate majority.
Republicans currently hold a slim majority in the U.S. House of Representatives. There has been considerable jousting in several states over the drawing of congressional district lines, but that has essentially ended in a stand-off. Control of that chamber remains a toss-up.
Adding to Left-wing angst has been the implosion of President Joe Biden’s candidacy in the wake of his disastrous debate performance. Democrats have now engaged in weeks of infighting over whether or not Biden should remain at the top of the ticket. With the even less popular Vice President Kamala Harris as the most likely alternative, Democrats are currently in a death spiral with their nominating convention just weeks away.
Add all of this together and the deep state becomes the Left’s last bastion of power. Project 2025 flips the script and replaces the socialist agenda of the Left with policies designed to empower free markets and restore individual liberty. Thus the “Second American Revolution” renews the spirit of 1776.
Lowman S. Henry is Chairman & CEO of the Lincoln Institute and host of the weekly American Radio Journal and Lincoln Radio Journal. His e-mail address is lhenry@lincolninstitute.org.