In March 2023 I interviewed a strange man named Ryan Routh. We had been introduced by a source inside Ukraine's foreign legion, a military unit composed of foreign volunteers from more than fifty countries all over the world. Routh, a 58-year-old former roofing contractor from Greensboro, NC, who had no military experience, had set up a private organization in Kiev that helped connect international fighters with Ukraine's military units and aid groups. And he made his way into my story about U.S.-trained Afghan commandos eager to join Ukraine's war effort.
I posted this because it had a vibe that mirrored the movie "The God's Must be Crazy". An almost documentary feel to it. But not quite. That is all.
When Robert F. Kennedy Jr. endorsed Donald Trump, five of his siblings issued a statement denouncing him: "Our brother Bobby's decision ... is a betrayal of the values that our father and our family hold most dear." Among the values they cited was "a shared vision of a brighter future" defined by "economic promise." But when it comes to economic policy, Mr. Trump is much better aligned with the values of President John F. Kennedy than Kamala Harris is. In December 1962, speaking at the Economic Club of New York, JFK said that the "federal government's most useful role" was "to expand the incentives and opportunities for private expenditures" by cutting "the fetters which hold back private spending." He committed "to an across-the-board, top-to-bottom cut in personal and corporate income taxes."
Kamala Harris declared in Tuesday's debate that a vote for her is a vote "to end the approach that is about attacking the foundations of our democracy 'cause you don't like the outcome." She was alluding to the 2021 Capitol riot, but she and her party are also attacking the foundations of our democracy: the Supreme Court and the freedom of speech. Several candidates for the 2020 presidential nomination, including Ms. Harris, said they were open to the idea of packing the court by expanding the number of seats. Mr. Biden opposed the idea, but a week after he exited the 2024 presidential race, he announced a "bold plan" to "reform" the high court. It would pack the court via term limits and also impose a "binding code of conduct," aimed at conservative justices
Aurora, Colorado, is normally a quiet, nondescript suburb 30 minutes outside Denver. In recent months, however, the city has been at the center of a national scandal. Beginning last year, a large influx of Venezuelan migrants, some of them members of the notorious Tren de Aragua street gang, reportedly had "taken over" a series of apartment buildings in Aurora"and unleashed terror. Last month, Venezuelan migrants were allegedly implicated in an attempted homicide, an arrest of purported gang members, and shocking security footage that showed heavily armed men forcibly entering one of the apartments. In response to the chaos, police mobilized en masse and vacated one of the complexes after the city, alleging code violations, deemed it uninhabitable
The only concern I've seen from the left is that these attempts failed.