"Crime is a major issue in this year's election, yet major media ignored the release of a significant new government report showing a surge in violent crime. The increase in violent crime during the Biden administration is a record increase.

The latest data released last Thursday from the Department of Justice's National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) reveal a sharp increase in violent crime under the Biden-Harris administration compared to when Trump left office.

During the debate, Mr. Muir noted: 'President Trump, as you know, the FBI says overall violent crime is coming down in this country.' But Mr. Muir would have been much more accurate if he said that the number of crimes reported to police fell, which isn't the same as total crime. He might also have conceded, as Trump pointed out in his response, that fewer than half of police departments reported complete data to the FBI in 2022."

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"Gov. Chris Sununu, R-N.H., signed a no-excuse voter identification and proof-of-citizenship bill into law last week, but it will not go into effect until six days after this year's election.

"The law, which passed the state's Republican-majority House and Senate earlier this year, will require New Hampshire voters to provide proof of citizenship to apply for registration, as well as a photo ID when casting a ballot. In the event a person can't show a valid ID, the supervisor may 'review the voter's qualifications and determine if the voter's identity can be verified.'

"'If the supervisor of the checklist determines that the voter's qualifications and identity have not been established, the voter shall not be allowed to vote,' the law clarifies.

"Current law allows people to show up to the polls without an ID, cast a ballot, and sign an affidavit promising that they are who they claim to be. It does not require voters to produce documentation until seven days after an election."

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"Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is at a critical crossroads in the charged debate over federal spending, confronting few options to prevent a government shutdown -- and all of them with risks.

"The funding fight is the last major legislative challenge facing Johnson before this year's elections, but it's been snarled not only by the internal tensions within his own feuding conference, but also his sometimes-competing goals of thwarting a shutdown in two weeks, winning control of the House in November and keeping the Speaker's gavel next year.

"Johnson's initial strategy of passing a conservative stopgap spending bill through the House, as leverage in the coming negotiations with Senate Democrats, dissolved quickly last week when GOP leaders failed to rally enough Republican support to pass it."

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"It is the biggest question of the election and the first question of last week's presidential debate. Vice President Kamala Harris refused to answer it. But the U.S. Census Bureau just did.

"'When it comes to the economy, do you believe Americans are better off than they were four years ago?' ABC News host David Muir, one of the debate moderators, asked last week.

"Harris responded with her bromide-sprinkled world salad about her 'opportunity economy.'

"But there is no avoiding the data in the Census Bureau's latest American Community Survey, which show that, thanks to inflation, the average household is poorer today than it was four years ago.

"In the most recent data released this week, the median household income was $80,610 in 2023 compared to $81,210 in 2019. By contrast, the year before former President Donald Trump took office, the median household income was $71,000, which means that in the three years he was president before COVID-19, median household income rose more than $10,000. All of these totals are in inflation-adjusted 2022 dollars."

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"Candidate questionnaires have long been a part of American politics, locking in politicians to certain policies, pledges and positions. But it has been decades since one has threatened to roil a presidential race, or undercut a major party nominee's carefully crafted image. ...

"But Kamala Harris is facing the real possibility that the candidate questionnaire she filled out for the American Civil Liberties Union in 2019 may undercut her efforts to rebrand herself as a moderate and distance herself from the insecurity, immigration crisis, and inflation unleashed by her boss Joe Biden's liberal agenda the last four years.

"The reasons for the threat are simple. Five years ago Harris tried desperately to run to the left of Joe Biden during the 2020 Democratic primary, planting her flag on positions far from the American mainstream, particularly on immigration, law and order and social policy. She also suggested her earlier actions as California attorney general and a U.S. senator were proof of her commitment to far-left policies."

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"It's been 23 years since America watched in horror as the Twin Towers fell on live TV.

"Nineteen al-Qaeda terrorists, hailing from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Lebanon, hijacked four planes and killed 2,977 of us, shaking the nation to its core.

"America was suddenly, brutally awoken to the menace of those who hate our country and what we stand for.

"Heroes stood up: Todd Beamer and his fellows on Flight 93; firefighter Stephen Siller and his Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel run; Morgan Stanley's visionary Rick Rescorla and so very many more ... some whose names we'll never know.

"On 9/11, we saw endless proof that Americans are brave, selfless and resilient.

"But we also learned that there are those who would try to bring America to its knees if given the opportunity to strike.

"As the bells ring Wednesday morning at 8:46, 9:03, 9:37 and 10:03; as the names are read and the bagpipes play, let us all reflect on both lessons."

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"The beginning of the end of Joe Biden's presidency arrived in August 2021.

"That's when the president began a catastrophic pullout from Afghanistan that shredded our national credibility and his own reputation. He never really recovered.

"The House Foreign Affairs Committee has just released an exhaustive 353-page report putting on record the sorry episode from beginning to end.

"The report's over-arching conclusion is that this was a Joe Biden operation from beginning to end. ...

"No rational person would want to be associated with any of this, but, at the time, Vice President Kamala Harris boasted about being the last person in the room."

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"New polls show Vice President Harris faces a major challenge in winning over male voters and is losing men by a bigger margin than she's winning women in key states such as Pennsylvania, Nevada and North Carolina.

The gender gap between Democrats and Republicans isn't new, but it's becoming especially pronounced in the toss-up race for president.

Former President Trump's problems with female voters are well known. New polls show that Harris has just as big of a problem with male voters in some states."

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"I see a lot of people on Twitter desperately trying to defend the insane, suicidal tax proposed by Vice President Kamala Harris on 'unrealized capital gains.'

It's been a while since anyone has proposed a dumber idea, so in that sense, at least, she is a historic candidate. And those who think it's a good idea are historically stupid.

As many others have pointed out already, such a tax would harm everyone investing for retirement, depressing asset values as the uber-rich are forced to make massive annual sales just to pay the tax. And what I'd really like to know is whether, if I'm ever forced to pay taxes on stocks I'm still holding just because their value went up on paper, do I get my money back when their on-paper value goes back down again months or years later?"

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"As fate would have it, the 79th anniversary of the formal Japanese surrender in World War II came on the same day that Joe Biden all but encouraged Hamas to keep fighting and holding hostages in Gaza.

"The contrast suggests that had Biden been president back then instead of Harry Truman, America would have lost the Second World War.

"Truman boldly led the free world to total victory, while Biden is an appeaser from head to toe.

"He is a modern incarnation of Neville Chamberlain, the British prime minister so desperate for peace that he convinced himself Adolf Hitler wanted the same thing."

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