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That was alright, I guess. Vice President Kamala Harris took the stage last night, closing out the Democratic National Convention. She hit mostly biographical notes in the beginning, smartly introducing herself to voters who never had the opportunity, the way they might during primaries, to hear about her background. Then she pivoted to framing former President Donald Trump as an existential threat to American democracy, to the security of our country, and to the rights of normal people. "You are going to remember where you were on this night," said MSNBC's Rachel Maddow. "This was an inflecti...
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It will be no tremendously deep insight to point out that Democrats have made "freedom" a central theme of this week's convention in Chicago. What's been less carefully examined is the question of why Democrats are so eager to talk about freedom. The answer says more about the American electorate and the current state of the Republican Party than it does about Vice President Kamala Harris, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, or any of the other Democratic dignitaries who have graced the stage at this week's Democratic National Convention (DNC). In part, that's because the Democrats' attempt to present th...
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For Tim Walz, in vitro fertilization (IVF) is a deeply personal issue—or at least he made it seem that way. In several recent interviews, the Minnesota governor and Democratic vice presidential candidate implied or outright suggested that his own two children were conceived using IVF. One problem: It's not true. Walz's children were conceived using intrauterine insemination (IUI), not IVF. These are two very different things, and the policy conversations about them are fundamentally distinct; many religious conservatives want to prohibit IVF—which can result in the destruction of unused fertil...
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For a while there last night, it looked like variations on the word joy had a puncher's chance of outnumbering references to freedom at the relentlessly message-disciplined day three of the Democratic National Convention. When onetime party rising star Sen. Cory Booker (D–N.J.) informed us about one-third of the way through that "tonight is about joy" and "achieving the impossible that should bring us joy," and that "our nominees, Kamala Harris and Tim Walz, they bring the joy," the (unofficial) joy vs. freedom count stood at a respectable 21–32. But then Pennsylvania governor, veep pick runne...
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As we approach another pivotal election, voters are once again being bombarded with messaging that paints the two main candidates as opposites. We're told Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump represent radically different visions for America's economic future. They don't. When it comes to economic policy, there's far less daylight between Harris and Trump than either would care to admit. Let's start with trade policy. Trump's protectionist stance is well-known, with his administration imposing tariffs on a wide range of goods, particularly from China. He has since ann...
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If there's one thing the last 50 years of American politics have proven, it's that voters hate inflation. If there's another, it's that politicians seeking to capitalize on that hatred will propose unproductive, unworkable, and unaffordable policies to counter rising prices. So it is with Vice President Kamala Harris. In the weeks since she ascended to the top of the Democratic presidential ticket, Harris has come forward with a suite of policies she has cast as tools for bringing down the cost of living for middle-class Americans. Among those policies are a vague but potentially sweeping fede...
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Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris' new call to regulate food prices and block mergers has drawn enormous flak from economists, given the poor track record of price controls. Democrats think they can make political headway with a "greedflation" narrative, blaming rising prices on business profit-seeking. There are both disreputable and respectable versions of this narrative—dumb and dumber, if you will—but they both run into the same problem: the evidence is against them. The dumber version, the one no economists endorse, says corporations got especially greedy, which made prices ...
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Party of freedom? Democrats make it hard for me to own a gun. They make it hard for me to get a gas stove or use the dishwasher I want to. Last year, the Democrats in my city tried to implement a tax on every single Amazon delivery that makes it to my doorstep. They keep legalizing weed, then failing to permit dispensaries so that they can operate within the bounds of the law, so I still buy on the black market. During COVID-19, they made gathering for Mass essentially illegal, forcing capacity and distancing restrictions on people who simply wanted to worship. Don't get me started on the taxe...
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Who is Kamala Harris? What does she believe? It's hard to know. She won't take questions from reporters. Instead, she reads from a teleprompter and gives the same speech again and again. So, as she gets the nomination, my new video looks at who Harris really is. She's eager to spend other people's money. As the Biden administration spent America further into debt, Vice President Harris cast tie-breaking votes to spend more. Last election, Stossel TV compared the candidates' proposed spending. We were surprised that the biggest spending plans came from Harris. Trump proposed spending $267 billi...
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William Langewiesche, a writer and pilot, once told me that flying a plane was "90 percent boredom, 10 percent terror." I might say the same for the "Make it great like '68! Shut down the [Democratic National Convention] for Gaza!" protest that took place in front of the Israeli consulate in downtown Chicago on Tuesday night. The event was organized by Behind Enemy Lines, and as might be expected from a group whose tagline is "The empire is the enemy. From the belly of the beast, we choose to resist it," participants arrived carrying resistance-ready banners, flags, and bullhorns. They arrived...
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