You'll be glad to know that she assured her CNN advocate today that her "values haven't changed", so we can expect to get still more of this, good and hard.

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Mr.Trump, tear down this wall!

“Last year, US taxpayers shelled out some $150 billion in government services and support to help the 20 million illegal migrants in the country, according to a study from the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR).

“And most of the cost is being borne by state and local governments.”

(NYC alone has spent $5 billion on its “newcomers”, and expects that number to hit $10 billion by June 30 2025.)

And note this:

In an August 2020 article USA Today defended Kampalla against conservative posters who were charging her with hypocrisy by claiming that she had once supported a border. She absolutely did not! the paper insisted.

Our ruling: False

Sen. Kamala Harris has been a vocal critic of border wall funding, seeing the move as misguided. There is no evidence the 2011 photo's backdrop was meant to emphasize the border fencing, but rather the law enforcement personnel who appeared alongside Harris. We rate this claim FALSE, because it is not supported by our research.

Harris was one of the three senators who opposed a deal which would have granted Trump border wall funding as part of a legislative deal that also included a path to citizenship for recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.

“I’m not going to vote for a wall under any circumstances,” Harris said during a 2019 CNN Town Hall where she called the president’s wall proposal a “medieval vanity project.”

Harris again called the idea of an expanded border wall a “vanity project” while on a tour for her book “The Truths We Hold: An American Journey.” Harris called the budgetary fight over funding for the wall a “distraction from the fact that you’ve got Mueller investigating.”

Harris also called the war on drugs “ineffective” and criticized the country’s cash bail system as “not reflective of a system of justice” because of its disproportionate cost and damage inflicted on poor Americans.

Harris later repeated the line during the May 2019 kickoff rally for her presidential campaign.

"Folks, on the subject of transnational gangs, let's be perfectly clear: The president's medieval vanity project is not going to stop them,” the senator said.

Elegant, without being overly ostentatious

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15 Thornhill Road, Riverside NoPo, has sold for its full asking price of $1.250 million. By the way, if there is any sort of hill on Thornhill, it’s as modest as the houses that grace it; I’ve never seen it, personally. But the road did have one notable feature in the past: there were at least three, maybe four cops living on this short cross road between Riverside Lane and Sheep Hill and it was, a life-long resident once told me, the safest street in town and completely vandal-free.

Howard Lane

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64 Howard Lane has sold for $2.890 million. Once owned by the late broadcaster Michelle Marsh who, before she hit the big time in NYC, was a stunning young woman who brightened up Bangor, Maine’s evening news back in the day. Imagine my surprise to discover that she’d followed me south.

Marsh paid $2.775 for the house in 2004, and sold it to these owners in 2013 for $2.250 million; such are the vagaries of real estate.

Works for me

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communists in the state department, fluoride in the water, u.s. in the un, and the Warren court. after all these years, The birchers have been proved right

The United Nations is ‘terrified’ of Trump, official admits in undercover video

The United Nations is “terrified” at the prospect of a second Trump presidency, according to a leaked conversation with a senior official at the global agency. 

“I’m not sure the United Nations is going to survive a second term from Donald Trump,” Jorge Paoletti, an associate legal officer at the UN Office of Legal Affairs in New York, told an undercover reporter from podcaster Steven Crowder’s Mug Club.

“Absolutely nobody wants Trump … because the purpose of Donald Trump is to end the international institutions that somehow level the playing field. He wants America first.”

Paoletti went on to explain that he dreads Trump’s “America First” policies interfering with the UN’s globalist agenda.

“One of the objectives of the UN is to create an identity of a global citizen, someone who shares an identity, a political identity, with everybody on this planet. [This idea] is a threat to the absolute power of the United States because [Americans] don’t want an institution over the US telling the US what to do.”

As the largest financial contributor to the UN, funding 22% of its budget, the US has undue influence, Paoletti complains, and under Trump, he fears it will refuse to go along with UN edicts.

“For example, say that the United Nations creates an environmental agency. And that environmental agency says that countries can only reach a certain level of pollution. How do you think all these crazy MAGA people are going to react to that? [Trump will say,] ‘Who are you globalists to tell me, the United States, what I can do?’”

From "worked her way through college" to "she worked a summer for pocket money" to "never mind".

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In the grand scheme of things, and in view of the massive fraud that put her and her sleep partner in office to begin with, this is small potatoes, but it’s telling nonetheless.

‘I Did Fries’: Kamala Harris Claims She Worked at McDonald's, but She Never Mentioned It Until She Ran for President. Did She Really Toil Beneath the Golden Arches?

Harris's résumé a year after she graduated college makes no mention of McDonald's

The first all-female audience ever on The Drew Barrymore Show was whooping and cheering for Kamala Harris, its guest of honor, this April when Barrymore’s sidekick, Ross Matthews, threw a softball at the vice president.

"I heard a rumor that you worked at McDonald’s?"

"I did. Yes, I did work at McDonald’s," laughed Harris. "When I was at school … I did fries. And then I did the cashier."

"I didn’t know that about you," gasped Barrymore.

Neither did anyone who followed Harris’s long career in public life—that is, until she ran for president in 2019 and began to make the job a centerpiece of her biography.

Harris’s work at McDonald’s, which allegedly took place at a franchise in the California Bay Area the summer after her freshman year in college, is a recent addition to her carefully curated life story. For decades, Harris never mentioned it, not on the campaign trail nor in two books. It’s absent from a job application and résumé she submitted a year after she graduated from college. Third-party biographers did not write about it. Not until Harris ran for president in 2019 and spoke to a labor rally in Las Vegas did she mention the job, telling the crowd that she "was a student when I was working in a McDonald’s."

McDonald’s boasts that one in eight Americans has worked at the fast food chain, and Harris, whose campaign is light on policy and heavy on image, has been using her fast food job to portray what the Washington Post, in a credulous piece this month on the Harris-McDonald’s connection, described as "her humble background." (Harris is the daughter of an eminent cancer researcher, whom her campaign calls "a working mother," and a tenured Stanford economist, who split when Harris and her sister were children.)

Early this month, Harris’s campaign said she used her McDonald’s wages to pay for college. "Vice President Harris is the daughter of a working mother and worked at a McDonald’s to put herself through college," campaign spokeswoman Lauren Hitt said this month. A pro-Harris super PAC ad said she "work[ed] her way through school at McDonald’s." And former president Bill Clinton, at the Democratic National Convention, joked that "she’ll break my record as president who has spent the most time at McDonald’s."

At the same time, however, Harris’s image makers tweaked the story ever so slightly. According to an August 14 item in Politico, an early cut of a Harris campaign ad said she worked at McDonald’s to "pay her way" through college. Aides changed the script to reflect that "she really took the summer job just to earn a bit more spending money," as Politico put it.

The Politico story, which was published just hours after the Washington Free Beacon reached out to the Harris campaign with a series of detailed questions about Harris’s claims regarding her job at McDonald’s, didn’t say when exactly—or where—Harris worked at the restaurant. The campaign did not respond to the Free Beacon’s inquiries.

It is possible that Harris did indeed work at McDonald’s in the early 1980s. But the absence of that detail in public records and her campaign’s coyness and refusal to provide any further details raise questions about what is now a foundational narrative.

There’s much more at the link, including documentation that she never stepped foot in a McDonalds kitchen in her life, but enough’s enough. More important, how did her interview taping go yesterday, and have her handlers cleaned it up enough to make it safe to broadcast tomight?

East side, west side, Colorado is dividing

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The eastern side of the Front Range has illegal aliens and transgender politicians; the western side, thanks to the same eastern liberals who brought the criminals and boys who think they’re girls into the state, now have wolves. It’s not going well for either side.*

Colorado’s First Gentleman [sic] quits social media after Facebook spat over wolves: ‘Truth is I don’t care’

Colorado First Gentleman Marlon Reis deactivated his social media accounts after getting into a howling match about wolves on Facebook over the weekend.

Reis, who is Colorado Democratic Gov. Jared Polis’ husband, had posted online about grants the state was offering for nonlethal wolf deterrents when he got into a heated exchange in the comments with David Gittleson, according to 9 News.

Gittleson is a rancher in Walden — a town of about 600 people 150 miles northwest of Denver — and for years has dealt with wolves killing his livestock even before Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) formally reintroduced them to the state in December, the outlet reported.

“The truth is I don’t care. I don’t care what you do or don’t eat. I don’t care what you think you know or what you think you’re qualified to comment on,” Rais railed at Gitttleson, according to screenshots obtained by the outlet. 

The far-left, urban voters of Colorado voted to release wolves into cattle country, but not, of course, on their side of the Front Range, but over the mountains and into cattle country, with the Rockies serving as a barrier to protect Denverites’ Labradoodles and golden retrievers. This has not gone well, for the ranchers.

April 18, 2024: Reintroduced wolves kill 4 yearling cattle in latest string of livestock attacks

Wolves that killed were part of group reintroduced in December

Wolves killed several yearling cattle in north-central Colorado this week, bringing the total number of wolf kills of livestock this month to six.

Colorado Parks and Wildlife on Thursday confirmed that wolves killed three yearlings on a Grand County ranch between Monday night and Tuesday morning. The carcasses were discovered Wednesday, agency spokesman Travis Duncan said in an email.

On Thursday, wildlife officials investigated a fourth yearling killed on the same property and determined the animal was killed by a wolf.

The wolves in the area at the time of the attacks were among the 10 wolves released in the state in December as part of a voter-mandated reintroduction effort to restore the predator to the Colorado landscape, Duncan said.

One of the wolves released in December killed a calf April 2 in Grand County. A few days later, a wolf killed a calf in Jackson County, which borders Grand County to the north.

The risk of wolves preying on livestock fueled strong opposition by ranchers to the reintroduction measure, which found most of its support from urban voters. Owners of livestock killed by wolves are eligible for compensation from the state.

December 9, 2022:

Wolf reintroduction was approved by voters in 13 of 64 Colorado counties


In case you missed it, the draft plan of Colorado's wolf reintroduction program was released today. It's the result of a 2020 ballot item in which 50.91 percent of the state's voters approved the initiative by a narrow margin. A common gripe about the plan is that while wolves are set to be released west of the Continental Divide, counties that voted to mandate the reintroduction program lie heavily east of that natural barrier.

Believe it or not, the measure passed with only 13 of Colorado's 64 counties voting in favor of reintroducing wolves – roughly 20 percent. The heavily-populated Denver metro area proved to be highly supportive, with 66 percent of Denver County voters and 68 percent of Boulder County voters voting in favor of approval.

Voting yes: Flatlander transplants in ski country, and the arrivistes of denver and boulder

*Video shows armed gang at troubled Colorado apartment building believed to have been taken over by migrants. One anonymous resident told Fox News Digital, 'there's no help coming for any of us'

It's probably not on auto-pilot, we just don't know who among Obama’s crew is actually steering the ship of state

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Joe Biden Appears to be Done Pretending to be President

Over at Townhall, Katie Pavlich asks two important questions. First, where is Joe Biden? And second, who is running the country at the moment? The subject arose because people have been looking at the President's schedule as published by the White House. Normally that schedule is sparse with a very early lid on the best of days. But now it's absolutely empty. Biden just came back from a one week vacation in California, but he headed immediately to his mansions in Delaware for another two weeks of rest and relaxation. There is nothing on the schedule after the President's daily briefing each morning and we're not entirely sure that he's even getting those. The Vice President is out on the campaign trail constantly. So we shall ask once again. We're supposedly overseeing two separate wars overseas and wrestling with multiple crises back at home. Who exactly is running the United States?

On top of that mystery, Press Secretary Karine Jean Pierre has seemingly disappeared. Her schedule includes no briefings in the coming weeks. The only sound coming from the executive branch at the moment is that of crickets. John Kirby was trotted out to attempt to answer the above questions for a reporter. When he was bluntly asked who is running the country right now, he said it was President Joe Biden. Since there is no evidence pointing to this being true, he attempted to say that Biden has been regularly taking calls from other world leaders and "staying on top of" world events. But normally when world leaders are on the phone with the President, a summary of the call is distributed to the press corps with any potentially sensitive information omitted. Why haven't we seen any of those summaries?

Meanwhile, the few reporters who managed to catch a glimpse of Joe Biden exiting Air Force One in California reported something disturbing. They said that Biden was "visibly shaking" and needed a physical "boost" from Secret Service to even climb into his SUV.

Jazz Shaw:

Allow me to take a shot at answering both of the title questions here based solely on intuition and recent history. First, where is Joe Biden? The vast majority of the time the answer is that he's on vacation. The physical location doesn't really matter, whether it's some resort or Camp David or on the beach in Delaware. Biden has long since eclipsed the record for the amount of time spent on vacation by any president in modern American history. Even when he's at the White House, he will have at most one or two events on his schedule in the morning and a lid called by lunchtime. Frankly, we've known about his routine for quite a while. But now that he's no longer running for another term, he simply doesn't have to bother pretending anymore.

As to who is running the country, that answer has been the same for at least the past two years also. Unfortunately, we still don't know the names of the people who are specifically taking care of the day-to-day operations, though the country very much deserves to know. Whoever it is or whoever they are, nobody voted for them. That much we can be sure of. It's probably some combination of Ron Klain and Jeff Zients, perhaps with a few others mixed in. We may never know unless someone eventually writes a tell-all book long after this entire crew has ridden off into the sunset on their private jets.

I'm not sure which is less problematic. We have a choice of the country being run by a group of anonymous shadow figures who nobody voted for or having Biden go back to attempting to actually do it himself in his current condition. We can only shudder and imagine what the official schedule will look like if Kamala Harris becomes the President. It will no doubt include some Venn diagrams, though. And perhaps some pictures of a big yellow school bus.