Liberty & Prosperity Blog

Going into Wednesday, both presidential candidates had some pressure on them. Donald Trump needed a great performance to put some distance between himself and VP Harris. VP Harris looked unsettled from the outset. It went downhill after that. The first question Bret Baier asked was about illegal immigration. Less than a minute into the contentious interview, VP Harris tried cutting off Baier's question about how many illegal immigrants had illegally crossed into the U.S. She interrupted Baier, saying, "Bret, let's just cut to the point. The point is that we have a broken immigration system that needs to be repaired." Refusing to let Harris dictate what questions he could ask, Baier continued by asking "The Secretary of Homeland Security said that 85% of all apprehensions ... " before Harris pulled out one of her old lines. She said "I'm not finished." Actually, Baier hadn't finished his question before she tried insisting on preventing hi

Monday night, Rep. Elissa Slotkin made a major mistake in her debate with Former. Rep. Mike Rogers on the issue of EV mandates. Slotkin said that she didn't care what type of car people drove. She said she just wanted Michigan to build those cars. In rebuttal to Mike Rogers' answer on EVs, Slotkin said "There is no EV mandate. I don't care what you want to drive." While that's technically true, it's exceptionally misleading. According to this article , "The truth of the issue is that there is no mandate but the Biden administration did finalize emissions standards that, absent a change in the rules or some other technology being adopted, automakers could have to make sure two-thirds of all new cars sold by 2032 are zero-emission (i.e., EVs) or face hefty fines." In other words, the Biden-Harris administration didn't pass a bill explicitly requiring auto manufacturers to manufacture EVs. They did it sneakily, writing a rule that leaves the man

When Donald Trump paints his opponents into a corner, they're often left looking a little sheepish. That's what he did to the Harris campaign Sunday, when he proposed an idea to the National Border Patrol Council. Specifically, President Trump proposed "he would set a goal of hiring 10,000 Border Patrol agents and 'immediately' ask Congress to give all agents a 10 percent pay raise. He also pitched a $10,000 'retention and signing bonus' for agents." Almost immediately, the Harris campaign replied, saying "Trump doesn’t care about solving problems, he only wants to run on one. That’s why he killed the bipartisan border bill that would’ve secured the border, despite the fact that it was endorsed by the Border Patrol." That's a steaming pile of BS from the Harris campaign. First, Harris is the partisan hack who criticized building Trump's wall, calling it a vanity project. Then-Sen. Harris voted multiple times against funding the buil

When VP Kamala Harris picked Tim Walz, Minnesota's ultra-progressive governor, as her running mate, Democrats questioned the pick while Republicans rejoiced. Saturday, Gov. Walz went pheasant hunting. Sunday, CNN's Scott Jennings shared his thoughts on Gov. Walz's hunting trip, saying "It was a rough week, her favorability numbers are down, and they're struggling. On the front page of the New York Times this morning, Democrats are struggling with African-American voters, particularly African-American men. This gender gap is a real issue, you see Democrats reacting to it. And I think what they are coming to realize, in October, finally, is that a lot of men think Democrats care more about dudes who want to become women than dudes who just want to be dudes. No hunting cosplay cringe video is going to change it, the bed is made." When first picked, Gov. Walz created quite the stir, calling Sen. J.D. Vance weird. That's quite something coming from the guy wh

It's obvious why Barack Obama ran for president right after getting elected to the U.S. Senate. It's apparent that his soaring rhetoric had a limited shelf life. Obama went from being Mr. Hope and Change to being the Democrats' biggest scold. Thursday night in Pittsburgh, Mr. Hope and Change tried scolding black men into voting for VP Harris. It's a shame that Obama didn't build people up. His penchant was to talk trash. The truth is that Obama has just as thin of skin as Trump. It's worth studying Obama's economic policies. Obama said that "you can't drill your way to cheaper gas prices. A week later, Newt Gingrich coined the phrase of "Drill here. Drill now. Pay less." When Trump got into office, he followed the Gingrich blueprint. There wasn't a single day during Trump's administration when the average price of a gallon of gas got to $3.00. Energy was abundant. That helped lift a record number of families out of poverty. Furthe

When Kamala Harris picked Tim Walz to be her running mate, the Harris campaign stated that Gov. Walz would help bolster the ticket with rural voters and in the Midwest. Republicans, including me, knew that she'd picked him over Josh Shapiro because she caved to Palestinians in Michigan. There was no way she could pick a Jew as her running mate. That'd mean she'd lose Michigan, which likely meant she'd lose the election. It turns out that Gov. Walz has been a total bust. Friday night on Almanac, Prof. David Schultz was asked to grade Gov. Walz as a running mate. Prof. Schultz gave him a C grade. That's what's called liberal grade inflation. From someone other than a proud liberal like Prof. Schultz, the best that Gov. Walz could hope for is a D-. Bearing Arms published this article on the subject. It opens, saying "When Kamala Harris tapped Tim Walz as her running mate, the conventional wisdom on the Left was that the Minnesota governor would help her campa