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This article covers a wide range of current events and political topics. It discusses the potential for a presidential debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, criticizing Trump's rhetoric and policy proposals. It provides updates on Trump's criminal trial and the issue of presidential immunity from prosecution. The article also mentions Trump's promise to release another list of potential Supreme Court picks and his intention to roll back Biden's Title IX rewrite. It briefly touches on the lack of discussion about the national debt and fiscal issues in the current presidential cycle. The article concludes by calling for candidates to release their medical records or allow a medical correspondent to review them. It also mentions a failed motion to vacate the speakership against Mike Johnson and criticizes Biden's announcement of new China tariffs. The text also discusses the war in Ukraine, the plight of Russian political prisoner Vladimir Kara-Murza, the Chinese government's involvement in the fentanyl crisis, organ harvesting in China, the harassment of Israeli athletes and musicians, the Washington Post's controversial series on the AR-15 rifle, the low salaries of WNBA players, MIT's decision to no longer require diversity statements, the transformation of the Boy Scouts of America, the United Methodist Church's repeal of a prohibition on gay clergy, Bumble founder Whitney Wolfe Herd's ideas on using AI in dating apps, a newly deciphered papyrus scroll about Plato, and the defense spending of China. [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses the 2024 presidential election, highlighting the contrasting candidates, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. It critiques both candidates, pointing out their flaws and lack of conservative values. The author emphasizes the importance of conservatism and suggests that despite the current political climate, conservatism is still prevalent at the state level. The article concludes by expressing confidence in the enduring principles of conservatism in the face of current challenges. [Extracted from the article]

Jacobson was campaigning door-to-door against a pro-abortion amendment to the state constitution that later passed. But after the state senate went from 34-33 Republican to 34-33 Democratic-Farmer-Labor, the DFL Party set out to turn the state into a colder California. DeSantis made a swing through early primary and caucus states. But by itself it isn't enough to get Americans feeling good about the state of the economy. [Extracted from the article]

For Anton, Trump skeptics on the right embodied everything that was wrong with conservatism. When Trump lost, Anton circulated and amplified the various deceptions about supposed electoral fraud that emerged from Trump's orbit between Election Day 2020 and January 6, 2021. Whereas Frum took a war and made support for it the primary criterion for one's conservative identity, Anton took an act of terrorism on U.S. soil and appropriated it for a domestic political objective. The future of conservatism - even (especially) a conservatism influenced by Trump's presidency - now depends on rejecting Trump. [Extracted from the article]

Similarly, Willis has charged some of the so-called fake electors, but they will claim to have been told they were just a contingency in the unlikely event that Trump persuaded the courts to invalidate Biden's victory. ARTICLES THE indictment of Donald Trump by Fulton County's district attorney, Fani T. Willis, over his schemes to reverse his 2020 election loss ought to pose a greater threat to the former president than the similar federal prosecution brought by Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith. Fulton County, Ga., district attorney Fani T. Willis For a big-city Democrat holding an elective office, merely investigating Trump in a public way, and then indicting him, is good politics. [Extracted from the article]

This article discusses the relevance of ancient legal maxims to modern legal issues. The author, the chief editor of Black's Law Dictionary, interviews the ancients about certain problems facing one of the presidential candidates. The article presents various Latin maxims that address topics such as the punishment of instigators, the role of politics in relation to the law, the acceptance of lying pleas, the questioning of judges' motives, the concept of executive privilege, the importance of timely justice, and the voice of the people in a democracy. The author emphasizes that while these maxims have been perpetuated in Latin, they should not be viewed as divine. [Extracted from the article]

In the run-up to Hunter Biden's plea deal with the Department of Justice, President Biden didn't merely say he believed that his son had not violated the law; he told MSNBC in May, "My son has done nothing wrong." Biden defenders may concede their man is full of "malarkey", to use one of the president's favorite terms, but they're likely to argue that his lies are mostly harmless exaggerations and much less consequential than Trump's. ARTICLES IF you point out that Donald Trump lies a lot, quite a few Trump fans will respond that Joe Biden lies more and that his lies are worse. [Extracted from the article]

In November 2020, Trump and his allies eventually settled on the wild theory that Dominion voting machines had been programmed to "say that a Biden vote counts as 1.25, and a Trump vote counts as 0.75", as Trump lawyer Sidney Powell said at the time. FEATURES ELECTIONS are supposed to be about the future, but Donald Trump is stuck in the past. But by indulging Trump's voter-fraud conspiracies, another GOP candidate will seem weak and submissive - as if aiming to be Trump's running mate instead of president. [Extracted from the article]

The political beauty of the "Trump = Cyrus" equation is that Trump's character flaws are not a strike against him but a signal that he's the real thing: This new Cyrus is a non-Jew, a non-Christian, and a non - nice guy. Trump supporters regularly accuse critics of thinking politics is tea and crumpets: They look forward to a 2024 of Trump and trumpets. One 2016 objector wrote me this spring that in 2016 she had received the impression during prayer that Trump was a modern Cyrus, and so had her friends: The faith that "Trump = Cyrus" was and is all around her. What I can say, regarding white Evangelicals, is, yes, political passion is consuming American Evangelicalism, and yes, the Republican Party platform has become more important than the Gospel for many who identify as Evangelicals. [Extracted from the article]

One (usually unstated) premise underlying most of them is that even were DeSantis to wrest the nomination from Trump's hands, it would come at the cost of fatally alienating Trump's most dedicated supporters. DeSantis has a particularly difficult needle to thread; he must appeal to the political and cultural priors of Trump primary voters without alienating them by attacking Trump in a way seen as "unfair." And a Trump defeated (and thus on the warpath against his own party, railing about a "stolen" primary) would be only slightly less toxic for the party's general-election fortunes than a Trump victorious. [Extracted from the article]

Perdue, rather than blame Trump or himself for his defeat, launched a shameful Trump-backed primary challenge to Kemp built entirely around spite over the 2020 election - this despite Kemp's strong support for both men in that election. In November 2020, after Donald Trump narrowly lost Georgia, the president embarked on an intense pressure campaign to get Kemp to convene a special legislative session to extricate Trump from his own defeat. House staff members have been granted the right to unionize. Mark Esper is the latest Trump-administration official to write a book casting doubt on the former president's fitness to hold office. [Extracted from the article]

Iran's Revolution Continues ARTICLES The killing of a 22-year-old woman, Mahsa Amini, while she was in custody for wearing her hijab loosely, has sparked a new wave of protests in Iran. The Islamic Republic has lost legitimacy, and the Iranian people seek a just regime, but the people are also vengeful against the current regime. The by-product of Rouhani's election and the Iran nuclear agreement was that the regime had been disarmed of excuses for its own failures. [Extracted from the article]

Whatever we might have thought of Trump over the past seven years, we conservatives should now be able to agree on what we want next: Let Trump have as happy a retirement as his disposition will allow, and let us seek new leaders for a new day. While Republicans failed to replace Obamacare - a failure that was shared party-wide rather than borne by Trump alone - Trump and his congressional allies loosened its strictures. EVEN those of us who, like this writer, never voted for Trump and favored both impeachments must admit that conservatives' alliance with Trump delivered important benefits to both. FEATURES DONALD TRUMP has had the support of the vast majority of conservatives for most of his political career. [Extracted from the article]

ARTICLES THE day after the 2020 general election, Florida governor Ron DeSantis crowed about his state's performance. The task-force members discovered several problems, among them: Florida lacked a statewide voter-registration system, making it hard to track voters as they moved from county to county; there were no statewide standards for ballot design or for how to count ballots during a recount; absentee voting was difficult; and the IBM computer systems many counties used to process punchcard ballots weren't well designed. Florida gives voters two days after the election to cure signature mistakes on their mail ballots. [Extracted from the article]

"When my coalition of secretary-of-state candidates around the country get elected", Marchant vowed at a Trump rally, "we're going to fix the whole country, and President Trump is going to be president again in 2024." The Republican State Leadership Committee, the GOP campaign arm for a battery of state offices (including state legislatures and elected state courts), has proceeded gingerly. And there is one particular set of elections in 2022 in which voters who value the American system really do need to think long and hard about whether they should vote for their state's Republican candidate - or even consider voting Democratic. [Extracted from the article]

Republicans in the state are pinning their hopes on Herschel Walker, a former NFL star and a University of Georgia football legend who has Trump's endorsement. Johnston said he intends to vote for Walker because, as a Republican and a Trump supporter, "I'll vote for whoever Trump tells me to." ARTICLES Trenton, Ga. THERE are two pieces of white paper taped to the front door of Jeffrey Johnston's sales office, which is draped in a Donald Trump banner. [Extracted from the article]

In reality, Sussmann was representing the Clinton campaign and Joffe when Baker invited him to FBI headquarters the next day, whereupon Sussmann delivered the Alfa Bank data. So instead, Sussmann shrewdly targeted an old friend in the FBI hierarchy, which he perceived to be sympathetic to the notion that Trump was corrupt; he gave the bureau a story about coming not on behalf of the campaign but out of patriotic concern about national security - nod, wink. The FBI wasn't fooled; it knew Sussmann was a Democratic operative pushing information that lined up perfectly with the Democratic campaign narrative about Trump - Russia collusion. [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses how to improve the security of elections in the U.S. by implementing several voting reforms. Also cited are the Gallup and Morning Consult polls showing that about 40% of Americans have no confidence in the fairness of elections, the provisions of the 2002 Help America Voter Act (HAVA), and some recommendations in preventing voter fraud like maintaining accurate voter rolls and promoting in-person voting.

One Damn Thing after Another: Memoirs of an Attorney General, by William P. Barr (William Morrow, 608 pp., $35) BREATHLESS press reports notwithstanding, the defining vignette in William P. Barr's scintillating autobiography is not his White House confrontation with Donald Trump immediately after the attorney general torpedoed the then-president's "stolen election" con job. In the final, otherworldly White House confrontation, the president ranted that Barr must "hate Trump", but was left flustered when it turned out that the AG's grasp of detail was such that each instance of alleged election theft was easily countered. Barr had already accepted Trump's offer to become his embattled administration's attorney general, replacing Jeff Sessions. [Extracted from the article]

I am merely pointing out that if RFK Jr.'s initials were "RFM" or "RFS", he'd be on Reddit yelling in all caps about the CIA's plot to inject your dog with nanotechnological spyware. One such figure, a man who has been loitering on the fringes of respectability, is Robert F. Kennedy Jr., son of former U.S. attorney general and assassinated Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy. Then again, not only isn't RFK Jr. convinced that his uncle John F. Kennedy was assassinated by a communist gunman, he also wonders whether Sirhan Sirhan, the Palestinian terrorist who confessed to assassinating his father, wasn't framed by the CIA. [Extracted from the article]

The era two years before the ascension of Obama into the White House is now a dark and ignorant time, suffering from prejudice, halitosis, seborrhea, etc. What the administrators hear: "Donald Trump had an election stolen by a cabal of pedophile child-brain harvesters!" Of course, declining to put a book in a library, or teach it in class, is regarded as a BAN - another word ground into meaningless powder by vigorous misuse. [Extracted from the article]

EISA AUTHORIZATION: TT55F OPERATION "RET-CONJUSTICE" WIRETAP EXTRACT 05.24.22 23:54 EDT - NAMES REDACTED - BEGIN EXTRACT: Static. PERSON OF INTEREST 1: It would be a lot easier for you to convince everyone that you really endorsed Brian Kemp and you never endorsed David Perdue than Tor me to suddenly find six hundred thousand votes. PERSON OF INTEREST 1: The machine tabulations - PERSON OF INTEREST 2: Before that. [Extracted from the article]

This article focuses on efforts of the Democrats in South Dakota to convince voters to vote for the democratic candidate Tim Johnson. The party had rented dozens of vans and hired drivers to bring voters to the polls, and the kitchen was used for transportation by out-of-state lawyers. Several attorneys were deployed nationwide by the Democratic National Committee, ostensibly to protect voters' rights. It has been alleged that the party had used some illegal means in the election to ensure Johnson's victory. It has been speculated that the electoral system was not fully trustworthy and in fact failed to stop serious violations of election laws. In spite of all this, Johnson's Republican opponent John Thune held a narrow lead through most of the Election Night.

This article reflects on the outcome of the 2000 U.S. presidential elections. A drunk-driving incident in 1976 involving presidential candidate George W. Bush may have contributed to a low voter turnout supporting him in Florida. The issue, along with the accusation that Bush has lynched an African American in Texas, has been used by Democrats in their campaigns as a tactic against Bush. Political volunteers that work for rival candidate Al Gore have been found to entice the homeless in New York to the polls with cigarette packs.

The article discusses voter fraud. While the author supports voter-identification laws, he maintains they will do little to thwart fraud related to absentee balloting. He cites examples of such fraud including a 2009 incident in Troy, New York and a 1993 scandal in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and states that absentee voting should be made more restrictive and the U.S. National Voter Registration Act repealed.

The article discusses the results of the 2020 U.S. presidential elections, particularly the victory of Democrat Joe Biden over incumbent president Donald Trump. Topics include Biden's win in the swing states of Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Georgia, and Arizona, the lawsuits filed by Trump's team due to alleged fraud, and the need for Republicans to win the senate election in Georgia to have a majority in the chamber.

This article looks at Serbia's political stability under the administration of President Slobodan Milosševič. The December 20, 1992 elections were blatantly rigged even though Miloševic's challenger conceded defeat. According to the opposition, estimates based on local counts had put him just under or around 50 percent. This theft of the ballot was only the last and perhaps most subtle ploy in the Socialist Party's theft of the vote. In forming a government Miloševic has the option of choosing between the opposition and the Serbian Radical Party. By playing on Serb fears that the break-up of Yugoslavia was a prelude to the splintering of Serbia itself, the Serbian Radical Party became Serbia's second largest party.

Provides information on Operation Eagle Eye, an initiative which aims to prevent vote-stealing in the 1964 U.S. national elections. Number of votes predicted to be illegally cast in the election, according to the Honest Ballot Association; Examples of vote-stealing in the U.S.; Reason for the occurrence of vote-stealing on a massive scale; Ways of preventing vote-stealing.

The article comments on claims that the 2016 U.S. election is rigged. Topics discussed include Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's refusal to commit to accepting the election results, the mass media bias against Trump, and the whole electoral process in the U.S. which makes rigging illogical.

The article examines the issue of voter fraud occurring in the United States. The article gives an overview of several insistences in the U.S. where voter fraud allegations were reported between the years 2000-2006. It is suggested in the article that the Democratic Party is not doing enough to try and curb voter fraud in the U.S.

Focuses on a criminal case in which workers for the Democratic Victory 2004 campaign are accused of going to Republican headquarters in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on Election Day and slashing the tires on vans that were to be used for get-out-the-vote efforts. List of the defendants, including Sowande Omokunde, Michael Pratt, Lewis Caldwell, Lavelle Mohammad and Justin Howell; Comment made by Rick Graber, the chairman of the Republican party of Wisconsin; Report that the vandalized vans were incapable of transporting voters on Election Day; Report that the suspects were charged with felony counts of criminal damage to property; Reference to other election irregularities in Wisconsin.

The article focuses on the political corruption in the United States. New Jersey Senator Robert Torricelli has decided to cancel his reelection campaign after it became evident that he had taken illegal campaign contributions. The Federal Bureau of Investigation investigated him, and the Senate Ethics Committee criticized him for his corrupt actions. Corruption at the state level has a long history in American life. One of the first victims to suffer from it was John Jay, an author, who was cheated out of a New York governorship by dishonest vote-counting in 1792.

The article focuses on the evidence supporting the contention of California Republican Bob Dornan that his Democratic opponent, Loretta Sanchez, stole the election from him. Attorneys and investigators working for Dornan continue to accumulate evidence of fraud in the election decided by fewer than one thousand votes. Dornan's lawyers have compiled a plethora of standard-issue irregularities that seem inevitable given California's lax election rules, which don't require identification from would-be voters. Most investigation so far has concentrated on noncitizens allegedly recruited to the polls by the Latino advocacy group Hermandad Mexicana Nacional.

The article discusses the involvement of several liberal political organizations in election fraud in New Orleans, Louisiana. It describes the manner in which city contractor Bob Tucker was involved in vote rigging during the November 5, 1996 election. It clarifies the mechanisms of the so-called machine politics in which victorious politicians reward their friends. It investigates the allegation made by U.S. senatorial candidate Woody Jenkins of a series of irregularities that resulted to the victory of Democrat Mary Landrieu.

The article compares Arkansas Governor William Clinton's reaction to a cabaret singer's claims of a twelve-year affair with that of Alexander Hamilton's reaction to the first American sex scandal almost two hundred years ago. Hamilton was accused of having speculated in veterans' back-pay certificates with James Reynolds, who claimed that Hamilton paid him $1,100 for services rendered. Hamilton published a pamphlet, admitting and explaining the allegations against him, on the other hand Clinton decided to face the issue publicly with the assistance of his wife.

This article focuses on the efforts of the U.S. Congress to limit campaign spending and encourage detailed disclosure of election candidates' personal finances. The Congress passed several laws limiting campaign expenditure and requiring candidates and office-holders to make detailed disclosures of their personal finances. Democratic Vice Presidential nominee Geraldine Ferraro has broken some of the purity laws and, perhaps illegally, circumvented others. She and her husband John Zaccaro have engaged in a number of dubious and illegal practices. It had badly affected the campaign of Democratic Presidential candidate Walter Mondale that on the night of Republican Presidential candidate Ronald Reagan's nomination, John Zaccaro was shown on national television going to court to answer charges that he had, borrowed money from the estate of an aged widow that had been entrusted to his safekeeping.

Letters are presented from readers responding to a section on innovation that appeared in the October 3, 2011 issue, and an article by Hans A. von Spakovsky entitled "Not a Race Card," which appeared in the August 29, 2011 issue.

The article presents political cartoons related to politics including a voter registration group called Acorn trying to manipulate an election, a political poll in which the respondent wants to vote for Joe the Plumber, and a caricature of a nanny government being run by 2008 President-Elect Barack Obama.

In this article the author discusses the state of Nigeria, the article written in the wake of the 2007 elections he considered deeply flawed. While noting that Nigeria is statistically the second richest nation in Africa, the author describes the corruption and disorder that plague the country. He declares that Nigeria should abandon democracy in favor of a strong ruler who can provide order.

Several letters to the editor in response to articles in previous issues including "Bad Lands, Bad Votes," by Byron York in the December 23, 2002 issue, "Off the Rez," by John J. Miller in the December 31, 2002 issue, "The Quality of Mercy," by Richard John Neuhaus in the December 31, 2002 issue and "Religion of Peace?" by Roger Scruton in the December 31, 2002 issue are presented.

The article calls for the U.S. Congress to reform of the National Voter Registration Act and restore security to the election system. It describes several ways in which some voters were able to register multiple times in Orange County, California. It presents an analysis and identification of duplicate registrations by the Fair Elections Group. It assesses the potential implications of the proliferation of election fraud in the state for the House of Representatives elections. It emphasizes the importance of ensuring that only eligible voters are voting.

The article focuses on the policies of former U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson. There were accusations against Johnson of indulging in corrupt practices in the 1948 elections. But Johnson overcame those accusations, and in due course became the country's President. A delegation of American scholars had been sent by Johnson to South Vietnam to report on the election of 1967. One of those scholars said that he had found the elections in South Vietnam to be similar to those in the U.S. Information has been given about the political corruption in the U.S. during the term of Johnson.