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Donald Trump is being prosecuted in a show trial-circus in Manhattan that serious observers know is both complete nonsense and an utter disgrace. On top of that, he’s subject to a gag order, obliged to be in court four out of five days a week and thus not campaigning in the swing states. 

Despite all of this, Trump is surging in the swing states according to the new Bloomberg numbers. His lead has increased to 7 and 8 points in Arizona and Nevada, respectively, and to an astonishing 10-point lead in North Carolina! Trump is up in Georgia by six points and Wisconsin by four and nationally according to CNN—nationally—by 6 points. When he names any solid running mate, Trump’s momentum will only increase. 

The issues cake is baked too. My device for recalling them all is “A-B-C-D-E-I-E-I-I”—that is: appeasement, border, crime, DEI, education, inflation and Israel. Swing state voters know Biden is on the wrong side of every single one of these issues. 

It’s a remarkable comeback for Trump, and he’s got the crazy prosecutors in Manhattan to thank in part.

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Last week, the Biden administration released a new and extensive set of rules that expand Title IX’s prohibition of “sex-based discrimination” to include “gender identity.” The rules destroy protections for sex-based accommodations in the American educational system.

Under the new rules, it will constitute unlawful discrimination to keep biological men who “identify” as women out of previously all female spaces. This includes bathrooms, locker rooms, sororities and athletic events.

The ironies are breathtaking. President Biden complains about the mythical gender-based wage gap. But these rules take away something much more precious than a few cents in a paycheck.

Congress passed Title IX to provide women with opportunities. The Biden administration’s new interpretation of it jeopardizes their chance to compete on a level playing field and have access to safe and private spaces. The rules are a travesty that hurts all women.

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In 1972, Congress passed what is commonly referred to as Title IX.

This legislation offered the promise of equity to girls and women in terms of the educational and athletic opportunities previously known only by boys and men.

Just last week, President Biden passed—by executive action—an update to Title IX, inserting the words “gender identity” to the groups that are a protected class.

That's a vast explosion in the cultural scene as the sexual revolutionaries push their agenda into every sphere of society.

But understand what this means. If a man claims to be a woman or a girl, he must be treated as a woman or a girl. Biological males who claim to be females will now have the same protections and be included in the same programs that were intended to assist girls and women to achieve equity. Don't believe the government when it tells you that's not going to happen.

Let's be clear. You can't have equity for girls and women and support the transgender agenda.

You can't do so at the same time.

Effectively, the Biden administration has just made a huge declaration.

Women and girls, you can kiss Title IX goodbye.

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Progressive radicals have targeted Jews on American campuses for six months, ever since Hamas’ grotesque massacre of October 7. The rage and terrorist propaganda have only increased in intensity, so much so that Columbia University has had to shut down classes because the safety of Jewish students and faculty members could not be guaranteed.

Joe Biden, who never misses an opportunity to accuse his political opponents of bigotry and fascism, said nary a word about these campus fascists—until this week. He finally issued a rebuke of campus protesters targeting Jews … in the fifth paragraph of his Passover greeting. And in the fourth paragraph of his Passover commemoration, Biden endorsed the protesters’ agenda of a cease-fire on Hamas’ terms and a Palestinian state.

The moral collapse of Joe Biden and his administration could not be more clear. Even the sacred observance of Passover is just an opportunity for Biden to lecture Jewish Americans with Palestinian propaganda while barely paying lip service to their safety and security here in America.

It’s an utter disgrace.

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The antisemitic riots at Columbia and Yale should be a wake-up call for Americans. It’s just more evidence that when it comes to our elite universities, the emperor has no clothes.

Student radicals pitch tents—and fits—at elite academies that once were the envy of the world. They’re the lucky few, out of mountains of accomplished, well-rounded, hardworking applicants who would have welcomed the chance to learn, rather than agitate.

But the universities hand-selected these radicals. It’s an important reminder that places like Columbia and Yale no longer deserve the deference they’ve long been accorded.

And it’s another reason to resist Joe Biden’s efforts at loan forgiveness. The universities accepted these students and created hotbeds of antisemitic and anti-American hatred. Let a tax on their overstuffed endowments pay down the student debt—and fix at least one of the problems they’ve created.

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With all the convulsions at our campuses on behalf of Hamas—an officially designated terrorist organization—we need to ask: What these students are being taught?  The protestors and rioters, after all, are marching and rioting against one of the most classically liberal entities in the world—Israel—and on behalf of a society of the medieval—radical Islam that kills LGBTQ identifiers, bans abortion and religious pluralism and oppresses women. They are marching on behalf of a government that is perhaps the least enlightened in the history of the world.
 
Meanwhile, the administration, like most colleges, to borrow from the political philosopher Leo Strauss, are listening and paying tribute to the least wise and least moderate part of this nation while it is in its least wise and least moderate mood, and at the same time praising wisdom and moderation.
 
Will those supporting Hamas today look back and someday ask “What was I thinking?” as those who supported Germany in the 1930s did?  Or the Soviets in the 40s and 50s?  Let us hope—and pray.  The stakes are that high.

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Former President Donald Trump recently released a video statement putting forward his position on abortion.

He said, and I quote, “My view is now we have abortion where everybody wanted it from a legal standpoint, the states will determine by vote or legislation or perhaps both, and whatever they decide must be the law of the land.”

He went on to say that as a presidential candidate, he was not calling for any kind of national legislation to limit abortion access.

Now, I want to be clear: Former President Trump’s position on abortion is light years better than the position of the current President of the United States, Joe Biden.

Still, I am frustrated with the former president. 

I think it would have been far more intellectually and politically honest to say, “We’re not going to have a choice over the fact that someone’s going to propose nationwide legislation related to abortion. I want to be very clear that if there’s going to be nationwide legislation, I want it to be pro-life legislation.” 

Let’s take our stand there. 

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The Iranian regime attacked Israel on Saturday with over 300 drones, cruise missiles and ballistic missiles. Most Americans were horrified by the news. They would have been appalled to realize that America has effectively funded these drones and missiles that rained down on our closest Middle Eastern ally, thanks to the disastrous Obama/Biden Iran policy.

The Obama deal with Iran did nothing to curb its long-term nuclear ambitions. And: It did provide Iran with billions in sanctions relief. After Biden came into office, the nuclear deal was resurrected, with billions more in sanctions relief funneled to Iran. By October 7 of last year, sanctions relief to Iran had totaled more than 50 billion dollars.

That can buy plenty of drones and missiles.

It’s time for the Biden administration to do what’s right—and stop appeasing the enemies of our country and its allies.

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The Middle East has long been one of the most volatile places on planet Earth.

I mention it, of course, because of Iran’s recent attack on Israel.

Now the good news is this: This massive attack upon Israel was largely ineffectual.

But the fact remains: This was a direct attack upon Israel by the Islamic Republic of Iran. It was not undertaken by Iran through a proxy state or a proxy force, through shadow armies and shadow armed forces, shadow terrorist organizations—no this was Iran as Iran attacking Israel.

And: It was a massive attack. By American estimations, there were about 170 drones, 120 ballistic missiles, and about 30 cruise missiles that were sent with high explosives. 

History is right now developing before our eyes.

We are moving thus into a different historical epoch—when Iran has directly attacked Israel. 

Yes: Israel must respond. And our nation should fully support them as they do.

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The circle of appeasers in the Biden White House have brought us nothing but a lethal combination of softly spoken words and an ever-present, always-controlling fear of escalation. 

“Appeasement” was a theory of the world we thought crushed by the events leading to World War II. But it lives on in the urgent entreaties of the United States in the wake of Iran’s attack on Israel, backed up by leaks to a compliant press, urging Israel to do nothing —nothing at all— after salvos of missiles and drones were launched at its people and of course to not close on the 5,000-10,000 armed terrorists and Hamas leadership hiding in Rafah. 

Those terror leaders are protected by the Blinkens, Sullivans and Shermans of the United States propping up an infirm president who can muster only an absurd admonition “don’t” and can’t deliver a speech from the Oval Office apparently. 

Scorn is the right response—and resolve to throw them all out in November.

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