Hard Hitting Conservative Commentary by Gary M. Polland

Thoughts This Fortnight

KAMALA HARRIS (AND BIDEN) AND THE INFLATION SPIN

The Biden–Harris administration track record on inflation is poor. Since August 2021 the aggregate rate of inflation was 25.348% per Trunflation.com.  For our readers, you know what it cost you for food, housing, utilities, transportation and all are up that much or more.

The latest government statistics understated actual inflation. Most categories exceed the 2.9% government allied media inflation rate. If you dig down as Peter Schiff at Schiff Sovereign LLC did, you find what fueled the decline in used car prices with a 11% drop.

Similarly, the real unemployment rate without the growth in government jobs is much higher than 4.3%!

We can’t afford four more years of Biden-Harris’ economics. Compounding their track record is the embrace of price controls which have never worked, unless you want shortages, rationing and higher prices.

COPY-CAT HARRIS USES TRUMP IDEAS

WHERE ARE HER ORIGINAL IDEAS??

Last week, V.P. Harris copied President Trump on the issue of no income tax on tips. What is fascinating is how the major media treated it. See the picture below, our major (left-wing) media is so biased it’s breathtaking.

HARRIS FOREIGN POLICY ADVISORS – FAR LEFT PRO-IRANIAN

FUELERS OF AN ANTI-AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY

Meet two left-wing characters, Philip Gordon who has served as V.P. Harris’s foreign policy advisor since 2020 and Ilan Goldenberg.

What do we know about Gordon?

“Gordon’s critics say he’s not just wrong on issues – he’s skeptical of U.S. military power and the efficacy of financial sanctions – but that he’s also developed troubling contacts with institutions and individuals close to Iran.

Critics are demanding Vice President Harris answer why Gordon wrote a string of 2020 opinion pieces with a Pentagon official, Ariane Tabatabai (who was tied last year to an Iranian government-backed influence operation) called the Iran Experts Initiative, tasked with selling the 2015 nuclear deal.”

“Before joining your office, Mr. Gordon co-authored at least three opinion pieces with Ms. Tabatabai blatantly promoting the Iranian regime’s perspective and interests.” Republican senator Tom Cotton and Representative Elise Stefanik wrote Harris on July 31. “Each prediction was . . . wrong, as it was biased in favor of Tehran.”

(With thanks to Jay Solomon in The Free Press)

The other character, Ilan Goldenberg, former advisor to Sen. Elizabeth Warren and now advisor to Harris on the Middle East was just named liaison from the Harris Campaign to the Jewish Community.

This guy was an anti-Israel, pro another Islamic state in the Middle East. Goldenberg has a long record of criticism of Israel and support for a Palestinian Islamic state that would be carved out of Judea/Samaria, as well as half of Jerusalem.

He has long advocated for the U.S. to be more neutral between our historic Israeli ally and the Hamas-led Palestinians. He was a vocal critic of President Trump’s pro-Israel policies, particularly the relocation of the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem. Goldenberg was a vocal supporter of the Iran nuclear deal which ended economic sanctions on Iran.

What this shows as people are policy is consistent with other advisors Harris has put on her team who want American foreign policy to tilt away from Israel toward the radical state sponsor of terror- the Islamic Republic of Iran.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON’S TEN QUESTIONS
ABOUT THIS ELECTION – WORTH YOUR TIME

1. How can Kamala Harris merely promise us fixes to come in 2025 for inflation and an open border when she is still vice president for another six months? Why can’t she enact her proposed solutions to these problems (which she helped create) right now?

2. Would the media prefer to help her win but lose further credibility themselves by failing to ask why she has disowned her last three decades of leftist agendas, or to reclaim some of their reputations and thereby risk her losing?

3. Does the left appreciate the new campaign and election protocols it has now established?

4. After the precedents of 2020 and 2024, is the future orthodox protocol for any Democratic nominee now to avoid all interviews and ex tempore speaking, and stick to tele-prompted speeches and scripted responses only?

5. For the next 80 days, has the chameleon-like Kamala Harris now become a temporary MAGA candidate, as she expropriates Trump’s positions from border security to no taxes on tips? Does the media care to ask the new 80-day MAGA Harris why she has renounced many of her once emphatic beliefs?

6. If Democratic presidential reelection candidate Joe Biden was pronounced fit as a fiddle before June 27, but after July 21 was abruptly forced off the ticket as too debilitated to continue as his party’s nominee, what exactly is his status now?

7. Does the new anti-Semitic Democratic Party prefer to risk losing with the radical nonentity WASP Tim Walz as vice presidential candidate rather than likely win with a popular, successful, and moderate Jewish Josh Shapiro?

8. If once vice-presidential candidate went to a war zone to serve with his deployed unit, while his counterpart preferred to retire from the military to avoid doing the same and lies about his abdication, how can the media credibly assert that the former’s tour was militarily suspect and yet pronounce the latter’s absence as heroic?

9. If the current president canceled his reelection bid because he was too debilitated and unpopular, and is now rarely seen or heard, and if the vice president is out of Washington running a campaign in his place, but avoiding all press conferences, interviews, and unscripted addresses, who exactly, if anyone, is running the United States for the next six months of the lame duck Biden-Harris administration?

10. If Donald Trump all summer has been compared by his enemies to Hitler and his murderous Third Reich, and if a 20-year-old would be assassin and murderer with ease took up a sniper’s position to kill Trump – without a notified Secret Service or other law enforcement attempting to abort the shooter’s attempted assassination – what signal does that send to other would-be assassins for the next 80 days of the 2024 campaign?

Hanson is a brilliant commentator, a fellow of the Hoover Institute at Stanford and a prolific author, and a frequent commentator on Fox News.

Time for Texas to Investigate Anthony Fauci

By Guest Columnist Paul Gardiner (Hoschton, GA)

In March of this year, a request for a criminal investigation of Anthony Fauci and other top officials was submitted by attorneys to 22 Texas county district attorneys and Attorney General Ken Paxton. The 26-page legal brief/request was submitted on behalf of the aggrieved families of 46 Texans (victims) who died in Texas hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Regardless of the current news cycle and hubbub over the November 2024 election, this request for a criminal investigation of Dr. Fauci and other named individuals demands prompt attention. The investigation needs to determine if, in fact, these individuals violated various sections of the Texas penal code identified in the legal brief. If probable cause for crimes is established, then indictments by grand jury must follow and the accused prosecuted to the full extent of the law.

Information about the request can be found at https://diamondmindfoundation.org/justice/. 

The information includes the following:

1) copy of the March 11, 2024, news release about the request
2) copy of the legal brief requesting the investigation
3) list of victims (redacted)
4) copies of letters from next-of-kin family members requesting the investigation (redacted)
5) article entitled How to Hold Anthony Fauci “Accountable”

On behalf of all the hundreds of thousands of my fellow Americans, including over 80,000 Texans, who died in hospitals and other facilities (many believe their loved ones were murdered – see letters) during the COVID-19 pandemic, Attorney General Paxton and his district attorneys need to take immediate action on the request for a thorough criminal investigation.

About Your Editor

Gary Polland is a long-time conservative and Republican spokesman, fund-raiser, and leader who completed three terms as the Harris County Republican Chairman. During his three terms, Gary was described as “the most successful county Chairman in America” by Human Events – The National Conservative Weekly. He is in his twenty-eighth year of editing a newsletter dealing with key conservative and Republican issues. For the last twenty-three years, he has edited the Texas Conservative Review. As a public service for the previous 20 years, Gary has published election guides for the GOP primary, general elections, and city elections, all to assist conservative candidates. Gary also for 20 years cohosted Red, White and Blue on Houston Public Media TV 8 PBS Houston, longest running political talk show in Texas history and for the last two-plus years Gary has been a regular commentator on Fox 26-Houston’s “What’s Your Point” airing Sunday’s at 7 a.m. Gary serves on the Board of Directors of American Values, a national pro-family, pro-faith, conservative organization supporting the unity of the American people around the vision of our founding fathers and dedicated to reminding the public of the conservative principles fundamental to the survival of our nation. Gary is a practicing attorney and strategic consultant. He can be reached at (713) 621-6335.