They say vice presidential debates don’t really mean anything, and that’s usually true. But one thing is clear: after Tuesday, JD Vance is the Republican's Taylor Swift – except he’s not mediocre, insufferable, or incapable of maintaining a long-term relationship. Does that matter for November? Calm, cool, capable, and in charge of the facts, JD Vance conclusively demonstrated that he’s smart, he’s adaptable, he knows how to connect with an audience – and its beyond any serious dispute that he was a terrific choice for vice president.

Jennifer Krantz was with her husband in the checkout line at Sprankle's Grocery Store, along with her three boys, Brayden, Eddie & Frederick, when former President Donald Trump handed the clerk waiting on them a $100 bill. "Here, its going to go down a little bit," Trump told the clerk, to everyone's astonishment. "Her bill's going to go down $100," Trump said. Walking out of the store, Krantz said that having three growing boys means buying a lot of groceries, "and has put a big strain on our budget. It's been very difficult."

We keep hearing a lot about how America First conservatives, the faction of the Republican Party that took power in the wake of the utter failure of the GOP establishment, keep nominating terrible candidates. It’s the lame rationalization of people who want the power back that we stripped from them because of their gross incompetence, corruption, and condescension. Don’t buy it.

An October surprise is usually defined as the well-known (and more often left-wing) tactic of manufacturing or unloading a news story right before voting to surprise a rival without allowing them time sufficiently to respond or recover. Closer to the actual voting, Biden sought to cancel hundreds of billions of dollars of student debt owed to the federal government. He also began draining the strategic petroleum reserve to lower gas prices (as he is doing again this election year as well).

Price controls remain bad policy, whether proposed by people we like or do not like, Democrats or Republicans, Vice President Kamala Harris or former President Donald Trump. Harris blames the inflation triggered by the irresponsible Biden-Harris government spending on "corporate greed." Without evidence, she accuses grocery stores of ripping off helpless consumers by jacking up prices.

Ahead of Election Day, a new national survey shows most voters know little about the personal impacts of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which is set to expire at the end of 2025. The survey, conducted by Public Opinion Strategies on behalf of Stand Together, shows that 76% of voters, an overwhelming majority, say now is a bad time to increase taxes, and only 5% say it is a good time. The other 18% said it was neither a good time nor a bad time.

I’ve never understood the appeal of Oprah Winfrey. She’s always struck me as a giant fraud, the kind of person who will smile and hug when the cameras are on but an absolute oblivious nightmare when the public is not looking. Note that I didn’t say mean; I don’t know if she’s mean, but she sure as hell seems to have zero self-awareness regarding her surroundings. Kamala Harris, on the other hand, is just the opposite. From all reports, she is an absolute nightmare to work for.

Cynically running out the clock has been the overarching principle of her entire abbreviated 105-day presidential campaign. Kamala Harris – ever since President Joe Biden,at the 11th hour dropped out in July – seems unwilling or unable to answer any impromptu question that she's not been previously prepped for. Her answers are memorized and canned. They never address the questions asked. She's certainly not running on experience, vision, or intelligence.

Robby Starbuck is reminding Corporate America of the fundamental insight that risk-management and brand intelligence should consider "wokeness" as an uncertainty and threat. He is helping businesses anticipate and mitigate harm by considering two separate tracks: Personnel Management & Consumer Sentiment – and perhaps his most tangible victory has been to convince companies to stop sharing information with the Human Right’s Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index.

"I'm living with my father. He's retired, on a fixed income, and he can't afford the basic needs. He is struggling – and inflation doesn't care if your income isn't increasing. It just keeps on increasing. I think it's important to add that those grocery costs, or gas costs, have never gone down either," said 22-year-old Douglas Hohman from Penn Hills, Pennsylvania. So, what party did Hohman recently register for? Republican. "I really regret not voting in 2020. I now understand that every vote does count."

Democrats want their low-information base to be at a constant fever pitch when it comes to Donald Trump. They have lied to make him History's Greatest Monster – and their incurious base gobbles up the Trump Derangement Syndrome prevarication and processes it as white-hot hate that never wanes. And the closer he comes to winning the election, the hotter it gets. That much I know is intentional. In reality, Democrats have a well-documented track record of wishing illness and death upon those who don't agree with them. 

All the discussion around Joe Biden just two short months ago was about how senile he was. His debate with Donald Trump laid bare what Democrats in and out of the media had denied for years – Biden’s senility had overtaken his lifelong stupidity, and he was and still is unfit for office. Enter Nancy “Brutus” Pelosi to stab him in the back and insert Kamala Harris to “save the Democratic Party.” Then the public got a good look at her, and what do you know? Kamala may be worse than Biden.

The September 10th presidential debate went down as expected. Summed up, it was Sappy and the Blob pile on Grouchy. The swarmy and evasive Vice President Kamala Harris preened, posed, and proffered empty platitudes. And an irate former President Donald Trump confirmed that he was too touchy and easily triggered. The ABC moderators proved they were predictably and shamelessly biased.

The debate tone was set with the first question. Debate co-moderator David Muir, ABC's news managing editor, asked Vice President Kamala Harris: "I want to begin tonight with the issue voters repeatedly say is their No. 1 issue ... When it comes to the economy, do you believe Americans are better off than they were four years ago?" It is not just a simple question. It is THE central question of the race – given that most voters cite the economy as their #1 issue. Harris whiffed, badly – and failed to answer directly.

But ISIS and others are coming here – hell, they are already here and are greeted with open arms by the Democratic administration. You need to understand that. And it’s not only the Muslim terrorists. We now have the Tren de Aragua gang as well to add to other gangs, like MS 13, that the Democrats have imported as part of their program of cultural enrichment. This particular criminal gang has taken over parts of Aurora, Colorado, where it has occupied a bunch of apartment buildings.

I couldn’t help but notice recently that President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris went and spoke to members of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW). While not unusual – Democrats have always pandered to unions and are in bed with union bosses, getting almost all of the campaign cash unions spend – something occurred to me while watching: How many non-union, non-Democrat Party crowds has Kamala Harris addressed in the last month? Can you blame Democrats for wanting to hide her?

The public is exhausted after a decade of chronic untruth from the left-wing and its media.​ The 2016 presidential campaign will be long remembered for the false allegation that Donald Trump colluded with the Russians to warp the election. Citing the bogus "Steele dossier," loser Hillary Clinton and other Democrat grandees claimed that the victorious Trump was an "illegitimate" president.

Kamala Harris claims she's campaigning for "freedom" and "joy," but her track record shows she's the enemy of the most important joyful freedom of all – Free Speech. She and Democrats all across their leadership ranks have used government power to muzzle those who disagree with them for at least the past 8 years – and counting. So, voters here in the Good Ol' USA had better decide if we want a government that limits what we can hear and read, and the political views we're exposed to, or not. Kamala Harris's definition of "freedom" is anything but free.

She did a 41-minute interview with CNN's Dana Bash that could not have been more softball if CNN had put a Nerf Ball on a tee in front of her – and let her swing away until she hit it. They only released about 18 minutes of her supposedly hour-long "Big Interview" of questioning and babbling. So, where is the rest? We can safely assume that she looked like even more of an idiot than the limited CNN director’s cut that was provided. She’s always incoherent – you have to translate her English, into English.

How do accomplished radicals like today's Democrats elect a mediocre, far-left candidate like Kamala Harris to be president? The task might seem impossible at first – but she is currently a radical incumbent Vice President. For years she's been 2nd in Command to an unprecedentedly unliked Democrat president, and she's compiled an unprecedented hard-left record – while loudly boasting everywhere that she's proudly "woke" and "radical." But for her to be elected, the following "15 Radical Rules" will be required and must be followed – to the letter.