LCV’S SPENDING PLANS: The League of Conservation Voters is announcing its “largest investment ever” in its voter mobilization program, in support of Vice President Kamala Harris and congressional candidates. 

What’s happening: The group announced Thursday that it will pour $2.5 million into its GreenRoots Member Mobilization Field Program to organize in a number of swing states and districts, such as those in Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Michigan, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Wisconsin. 

The funds will go towards turning out voters to support Harris and other Democratic candidates. LCV members are expected to knock on doors, make calls, and write letters to voters. 

The groundswell of support isn’t just from LCV: Just yesterday, the Green New Deal Network announced it would back Harris – an endorsement that President Joe Biden was unable to obtain, due to his backing of Israel in its conflict in Gaza and his support for fossil fuels. 

Other green groups that Harris was able to get an endorsement from that Biden wasn’t: 350 Action, Center for Biological Diversity Action Fund, Clean Water Action, Climate Hawks Vote, Food and Water Action, and Friends of the Earth Action. 

But will this momentum continue? During a youth leaders press call with representatives from organizations like LCV and Voters of Tomorrow, activists touted the groundswell of financial support following Harris’ announcement to enter the race. Jessica Siles, the deputy press secretary of Voters of Tomorrow, noted the group had a virtual address from Harris this past weekend, where Harris noted she wanted to “earn the youth vote.” 

“I definitely think in the next 90 or so days, she’s going to definitely have to come out with a policy platform and have to earn that vote from young voters on these issues,” she noted.

Why this is important: While momentum is high, it will have to continue all the way to November. Harris will have to balance attracting youth climate voters, who are pressing her to keep to her liberal record on energy, versus appealing to swing voters in traditional, fossil fuel jobs. 

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FUEL WAIVERS ISSUED BY EPA: The Environmental Protection Agency has issued an emergency fuel waiver to help alleviate shortages in four states affected by an ExxonMobil refinery shutdown. 

What happened: A refinery in Illinois had experienced an emergency shutdown from a power outage after a storm of tornadoes hit the state last month. Although power was restored, it can take weeks to restore the power of a large facility. The facility produces about 9 million gallons of fuel every day. 

What the order does: The move would waive federal and state requirements that regulate the volatility and emissions of gasoline. The fuel would then be quickly approved for the states of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and Wisconsin. The waiver will continue until Aug. 20.

“As a result of the ExxonMobil refinery shutdown, Administrator [Michael] Regan determined that extreme and unusual fuel supply circumstances exist and has granted a temporary waiver to help ensure that an adequate supply of gasoline is available in the affected areas until normal supply to the region can be restored,” the EPA press office said in a written statement.

The EPA stated that it would continue to “actively monitor” the fuel supply situation and is “considering additional measures to alleviate the impact.” 

SENATE ENERGY AND WATER FUNDING BILL PASSES COMMITTEE: The Senate Appropriations Committee unanimously approved a measure to fund the Department of Energy and water development for fiscal year 2025 on Thursday. 

The bipartisan bill would provide $61.5 billion in discretionary funding, including $35 billion in defense funding and $26.5 billion in non-defense funding. 

“This bipartisan bill delivers new investments to advance cutting-edge scientific research happening at labs across the country, to support critical water infrastructure, and to prepare communities for extreme weather events,” said Sen. Patty Murray, chairwoman of the Senate Appropriations Committee and the Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development. 

On the other side of the Capitol: The House version of the bill, however, provides $59 billion in total discretionary funding – and is filled with partisan policy riders. The measure was pulled from floor consideration amid whipping issues and disagreement on how to navigate votes on controversial policy riders. A few other appropriation measures were pulled from floor consideration, with many of them being normally noncontroversial.

What’s next: Lawmakers are officially gone for the August recess, and will have to work within a time crunch to get either a package or separate appropriation bills passed – or face the option of a stop-gap funding measure. However, it’s looking increasingly less likely members will be able to pass all 12 funding bills through regular order. 

OPEC+ MAINTAINS OIL OUTPUT: Top OPEC+ ministers have agreed to maintain their oil production policy, holding up a plan to reduce daily output – but reiterated that the move could be paused or reversed, depending on the market, Reuters reports. 

An online meeting between ministers from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies was held on Thursday. The group is currently cutting a total of 5.86 million barrels per day to help support the market amid unsteady global demand and increased supply from competitors. In a statement following the meeting, the members reiterated that the most recent cuts – a voluntary reduction of 2.2 million barrels per day until September – can be rolled back or paused, if necessary.

The bloc had agreed in June to phase out the latest layer of cuts between October 2024 to September 2025, and extend earlier cuts of more than 3.6 billion until the end of 2025. Saudi Arabian Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman noted that OPEC+ could pause or reverse the production hikes if the market wasn’t strong enough. Read more on that here. 

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2024-08-01 21:31:00, http://s.wordpress.com/mshots/v1/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonexaminer.com%2Fdaily-on-energy%2F3108211%2Fdaily-on-energy-lcv-spends-big-epa-issues-fuel-waivers-in-midwest-and-opec-holds-steady%2F?w=600&h=450, LCV’S SPENDING PLANS: The League of Conservation Voters is announcing its “largest investment ever” in its voter mobilization program, in support of Vice President Kamala Harris and congressional candidates.  What’s happening: The group announced Thursday that it will pour $2.5 million into its GreenRoots Member Mobilization Field Program to organize in a number of swing,

LCV’S SPENDING PLANS: The League of Conservation Voters is announcing its “largest investment ever” in its voter mobilization program, in support of Vice President Kamala Harris and congressional candidates. 

What’s happening: The group announced Thursday that it will pour $2.5 million into its GreenRoots Member Mobilization Field Program to organize in a number of swing states and districts, such as those in Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Michigan, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Wisconsin. 

The funds will go towards turning out voters to support Harris and other Democratic candidates. LCV members are expected to knock on doors, make calls, and write letters to voters. 

The groundswell of support isn’t just from LCV: Just yesterday, the Green New Deal Network announced it would back Harris – an endorsement that President Joe Biden was unable to obtain, due to his backing of Israel in its conflict in Gaza and his support for fossil fuels. 

Other green groups that Harris was able to get an endorsement from that Biden wasn’t: 350 Action, Center for Biological Diversity Action Fund, Clean Water Action, Climate Hawks Vote, Food and Water Action, and Friends of the Earth Action. 

But will this momentum continue? During a youth leaders press call with representatives from organizations like LCV and Voters of Tomorrow, activists touted the groundswell of financial support following Harris’ announcement to enter the race. Jessica Siles, the deputy press secretary of Voters of Tomorrow, noted the group had a virtual address from Harris this past weekend, where Harris noted she wanted to “earn the youth vote.” 

“I definitely think in the next 90 or so days, she’s going to definitely have to come out with a policy platform and have to earn that vote from young voters on these issues,” she noted.

Why this is important: While momentum is high, it will have to continue all the way to November. Harris will have to balance attracting youth climate voters, who are pressing her to keep to her liberal record on energy, versus appealing to swing voters in traditional, fossil fuel jobs. 

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FUEL WAIVERS ISSUED BY EPA: The Environmental Protection Agency has issued an emergency fuel waiver to help alleviate shortages in four states affected by an ExxonMobil refinery shutdown. 

What happened: A refinery in Illinois had experienced an emergency shutdown from a power outage after a storm of tornadoes hit the state last month. Although power was restored, it can take weeks to restore the power of a large facility. The facility produces about 9 million gallons of fuel every day. 

What the order does: The move would waive federal and state requirements that regulate the volatility and emissions of gasoline. The fuel would then be quickly approved for the states of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and Wisconsin. The waiver will continue until Aug. 20.

“As a result of the ExxonMobil refinery shutdown, Administrator [Michael] Regan determined that extreme and unusual fuel supply circumstances exist and has granted a temporary waiver to help ensure that an adequate supply of gasoline is available in the affected areas until normal supply to the region can be restored,” the EPA press office said in a written statement.

The EPA stated that it would continue to “actively monitor” the fuel supply situation and is “considering additional measures to alleviate the impact.” 

SENATE ENERGY AND WATER FUNDING BILL PASSES COMMITTEE: The Senate Appropriations Committee unanimously approved a measure to fund the Department of Energy and water development for fiscal year 2025 on Thursday. 

The bipartisan bill would provide $61.5 billion in discretionary funding, including $35 billion in defense funding and $26.5 billion in non-defense funding. 

“This bipartisan bill delivers new investments to advance cutting-edge scientific research happening at labs across the country, to support critical water infrastructure, and to prepare communities for extreme weather events,” said Sen. Patty Murray, chairwoman of the Senate Appropriations Committee and the Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development. 

On the other side of the Capitol: The House version of the bill, however, provides $59 billion in total discretionary funding – and is filled with partisan policy riders. The measure was pulled from floor consideration amid whipping issues and disagreement on how to navigate votes on controversial policy riders. A few other appropriation measures were pulled from floor consideration, with many of them being normally noncontroversial.

What’s next: Lawmakers are officially gone for the August recess, and will have to work within a time crunch to get either a package or separate appropriation bills passed – or face the option of a stop-gap funding measure. However, it’s looking increasingly less likely members will be able to pass all 12 funding bills through regular order. 

OPEC+ MAINTAINS OIL OUTPUT: Top OPEC+ ministers have agreed to maintain their oil production policy, holding up a plan to reduce daily output – but reiterated that the move could be paused or reversed, depending on the market, Reuters reports. 

An online meeting between ministers from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies was held on Thursday. The group is currently cutting a total of 5.86 million barrels per day to help support the market amid unsteady global demand and increased supply from competitors. In a statement following the meeting, the members reiterated that the most recent cuts – a voluntary reduction of 2.2 million barrels per day until September – can be rolled back or paused, if necessary.

The bloc had agreed in June to phase out the latest layer of cuts between October 2024 to September 2025, and extend earlier cuts of more than 3.6 billion until the end of 2025. Saudi Arabian Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman noted that OPEC+ could pause or reverse the production hikes if the market wasn’t strong enough. Read more on that here. 

RUNDOWN 

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The New York Times Where Potential Democratic V.P. Candidates Stand on Climate

, LCV’S SPENDING PLANS: The League of Conservation Voters is announcing its “largest investment ever” in its voter mobilization program, in support of Vice President Kamala Harris and congressional candidates.  What’s happening: The group announced Thursday that it will pour $2.5 million into its GreenRoots Member Mobilization Field Program to organize in a number of swing states and districts, such as those in Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Michigan, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Wisconsin.  The funds will go towards turning out voters to support Harris and other Democratic candidates. LCV members are expected to knock on doors, make calls, and write letters to voters.  The groundswell of support isn’t just from LCV: Just yesterday, the Green New Deal Network announced it would back Harris – an endorsement that President Joe Biden was unable to obtain, due to his backing of Israel in its conflict in Gaza and his support for fossil fuels.  Other green groups that Harris was able to get an endorsement from that Biden wasn’t: 350 Action, Center for Biological Diversity Action Fund, Clean Water Action, Climate Hawks Vote, Food and Water Action, and Friends of the Earth Action.  But will this momentum continue? During a youth leaders press call with representatives from organizations like LCV and Voters of Tomorrow, activists touted the groundswell of financial support following Harris’ announcement to enter the race. Jessica Siles, the deputy press secretary of Voters of Tomorrow, noted the group had a virtual address from Harris this past weekend, where Harris noted she wanted to “earn the youth vote.”  “I definitely think in the next 90 or so days, she’s going to definitely have to come out with a policy platform and have to earn that vote from young voters on these issues,” she noted. Why this is important: While momentum is high, it will have to continue all the way to November. Harris will have to balance attracting youth climate voters, who are pressing her to keep to her liberal record on energy, versus appealing to swing voters in traditional, fossil fuel jobs.  Welcome to Daily on Energy, written by Washington Examiner Energy and Environment writer Nancy Vu ( @NancyVu99 ), with help from policy editor Joseph Lawler . Email nancy.vu@washingtonexaminer dot com for tips, suggestions, calendar items, and anything else. If a friend sent this to you and you’d like to sign up, click here . If signing up doesn’t work, shoot us an email, and we’ll add you to our list.    FUEL WAIVERS ISSUED BY EPA: The Environmental Protection Agency has issued an emergency fuel waiver to help alleviate shortages in four states affected by an ExxonMobil refinery shutdown.  What happened: A refinery in Illinois had experienced an emergency shutdown from a power outage after a storm of tornadoes hit the state last month. Although power was restored, it can take weeks to restore the power of a large facility. The facility produces about 9 million gallons of fuel every day.  What the order does: The move would waive federal and state requirements that regulate the volatility and emissions of gasoline. The fuel would then be quickly approved for the states of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and Wisconsin. The waiver will continue until Aug. 20. “As a result of the ExxonMobil refinery shutdown, Administrator [Michael] Regan determined that extreme and unusual fuel supply circumstances exist and has granted a temporary waiver to help ensure that an adequate supply of gasoline is available in the affected areas until normal supply to the region can be restored,” the EPA press office said in a written statement. The EPA stated that it would continue to “actively monitor” the fuel supply situation and is “considering additional measures to alleviate the impact.”  SENATE ENERGY AND WATER FUNDING BILL PASSES COMMITTEE: The Senate Appropriations Committee unanimously approved a measure to fund the Department of Energy and water development for fiscal year 2025 on Thursday.  The bipartisan bill would provide $61.5 billion in discretionary funding, including $35 billion in defense funding and $26.5 billion in non-defense funding.  “This bipartisan bill delivers new investments to advance cutting-edge scientific research happening at labs across the country, to support critical water infrastructure, and to prepare communities for extreme weather events,” said Sen. Patty Murray, chairwoman of the Senate Appropriations Committee and the Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development.  On the other side of the Capitol: The House version of the bill, however, provides $59 billion in total discretionary funding – and is filled with partisan policy riders. The measure was pulled from floor consideration amid whipping issues and disagreement on how to navigate votes on controversial policy riders. A few other appropriation measures were pulled from floor consideration, with many of them being normally noncontroversial. What’s next: Lawmakers are officially gone for the August recess, and will have to work within a time crunch to get either a package or separate appropriation bills passed – or face the option of a stop-gap funding measure. However, it’s looking increasingly less likely members will be able to pass all 12 funding bills through regular order.  OPEC+ MAINTAINS OIL OUTPUT: Top OPEC+ ministers have agreed to maintain their oil production policy, holding up a plan to reduce daily output – but reiterated that the move could be paused or reversed, depending on the market, Reuters reports.  An online meeting between ministers from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies was held on Thursday. The group is currently cutting a total of 5.86 million barrels per day to help support the market amid unsteady global demand and increased supply from competitors. In a statement following the meeting, the members reiterated that the most recent cuts – a voluntary reduction of 2.2 million barrels per day until September – can be rolled back or paused, if necessary. The bloc had agreed in June to phase out the latest layer of cuts between October 2024 to September 2025, and extend earlier cuts of more than 3.6 billion until the end of 2025. Saudi Arabian Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman noted that OPEC+ could pause or reverse the production hikes if the market wasn’t strong enough. Read more on that here.  RUNDOWN  E&E News What’s next for the permitting bill?  Bloomberg Midwestern Farmers Who Say Yes to Solar Power Face Neighbors’ Wrath The New York Times Where Potential Democratic V.P. Candidates Stand on Climate, , , https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/DOE-1024×580.webp, Washington Examiner, Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/cropped-favicon-32×32.png, https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/feed/, Nancy Vu,

A Democratic presidential candidate has not won North Carolina since 2008, but Vice President Kamala Harris is looking to flip the state with the help of President Joe Biden‘s ground game.

Harris campaign officials believe their organization will be the key to success in battleground states such as North Carolina. Dan Kanninen, battleground state director for the Harris campaign, told the News & Observer that they have the “infrastructure designed to win a close race” while arguing Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s campaign does not.

“We put into place infrastructure early — leadership teams on the ground in February and March, building robust teams throughout the spring, now to the point of having 150 staff in North Carolina that will get much, much bigger before the end of the summer,” Kanninen told the outlet.

“We’re at scale, and building to a greater scale, so that when people start paying much closer attention after the convention and beyond, we’ll have the people, the resources, the volunteers to capitalize on that and drive it, which really matters in a close race,” he added.

Biden’s reelection team had a keen interest in North Carolina, even as his campaign began to crumble. The president’s first major rally after his disastrous June debate was in the state, while Trump went to Virginia, a Democratic-leaning state. Harris will make a trip to North Carolina next week with her yet-to-be-named running mate after several trips there this year.

While the Trump campaign is focused on expanding the map and piercing into the “blue wall” of Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin, he is not taking any chances with North Carolina.

Trump’s campaign spent money on television advertisement placements beginning Thursday in the Tar Heel State, a sign the former president is attempting to shore up support in the state he won in 2016 and 2020. The advertising attack comes as the former president’s campaign seeks to shape the public’s opinion on Harris, weeks after she was unofficially elevated to the top of the Democratic ticket.

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Prior to Biden dropping out, Trump led the president in North Carolina, 47.2%-41.5%, per the RealClearPolitics polling average. A recent Bloomberg-Morning Consult poll showed Trump leading Harris there, 48%-46%.

North Carolina is rated as “lean Republican” by the Cook Political Report.

2024-08-01 21:29:00, http://s.wordpress.com/mshots/v1/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonexaminer.com%2Fnews%2Fcampaigns%2Fpresidential%2F3107970%2Fharris-pressure-trump-north-carolina-leaning-bidens-ground-game%2F?w=600&h=450, A Democratic presidential candidate has not won North Carolina since 2008, but Vice President Kamala Harris is looking to flip the state with the help of President Joe Biden‘s ground game. Harris campaign officials believe their organization will be the key to success in battleground states such as North Carolina. Dan Kanninen, battleground state director,

A Democratic presidential candidate has not won North Carolina since 2008, but Vice President Kamala Harris is looking to flip the state with the help of President Joe Biden‘s ground game.

Harris campaign officials believe their organization will be the key to success in battleground states such as North Carolina. Dan Kanninen, battleground state director for the Harris campaign, told the News & Observer that they have the “infrastructure designed to win a close race” while arguing Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s campaign does not.

“We put into place infrastructure early — leadership teams on the ground in February and March, building robust teams throughout the spring, now to the point of having 150 staff in North Carolina that will get much, much bigger before the end of the summer,” Kanninen told the outlet.

“We’re at scale, and building to a greater scale, so that when people start paying much closer attention after the convention and beyond, we’ll have the people, the resources, the volunteers to capitalize on that and drive it, which really matters in a close race,” he added.

Biden’s reelection team had a keen interest in North Carolina, even as his campaign began to crumble. The president’s first major rally after his disastrous June debate was in the state, while Trump went to Virginia, a Democratic-leaning state. Harris will make a trip to North Carolina next week with her yet-to-be-named running mate after several trips there this year.

While the Trump campaign is focused on expanding the map and piercing into the “blue wall” of Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin, he is not taking any chances with North Carolina.

Trump’s campaign spent money on television advertisement placements beginning Thursday in the Tar Heel State, a sign the former president is attempting to shore up support in the state he won in 2016 and 2020. The advertising attack comes as the former president’s campaign seeks to shape the public’s opinion on Harris, weeks after she was unofficially elevated to the top of the Democratic ticket.

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Prior to Biden dropping out, Trump led the president in North Carolina, 47.2%-41.5%, per the RealClearPolitics polling average. A recent Bloomberg-Morning Consult poll showed Trump leading Harris there, 48%-46%.

North Carolina is rated as “lean Republican” by the Cook Political Report.

, A Democratic presidential candidate has not won North Carolina since 2008, but Vice President Kamala Harris is looking to flip the state with the help of President Joe Biden‘s ground game. Harris campaign officials believe their organization will be the key to success in battleground states such as North Carolina. Dan Kanninen, battleground state director for the Harris campaign, told the News & Observer that they have the “infrastructure designed to win a close race” while arguing Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s campaign does not. “We put into place infrastructure early — leadership teams on the ground in February and March, building robust teams throughout the spring, now to the point of having 150 staff in North Carolina that will get much, much bigger before the end of the summer,” Kanninen told the outlet. “We’re at scale, and building to a greater scale, so that when people start paying much closer attention after the convention and beyond, we’ll have the people, the resources, the volunteers to capitalize on that and drive it, which really matters in a close race,” he added. Biden’s reelection team had a keen interest in North Carolina, even as his campaign began to crumble. The president’s first major rally after his disastrous June debate was in the state, while Trump went to Virginia, a Democratic-leaning state. Harris will make a trip to North Carolina next week with her yet-to-be-named running mate after several trips there this year. While the Trump campaign is focused on expanding the map and piercing into the “blue wall” of Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin, he is not taking any chances with North Carolina. Trump’s campaign spent money on television advertisement placements beginning Thursday in the Tar Heel State, a sign the former president is attempting to shore up support in the state he won in 2016 and 2020. The advertising attack comes as the former president’s campaign seeks to shape the public’s opinion on Harris, weeks after she was unofficially elevated to the top of the Democratic ticket. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER Prior to Biden dropping out, Trump led the president in North Carolina, 47.2%-41.5%, per the RealClearPolitics polling average. A recent Bloomberg-Morning Consult poll showed Trump leading Harris there, 48%-46%. North Carolina is rated as “lean Republican” by the Cook Political Report., , , https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/kamala-harris-north-carolina.webp, Washington Examiner, Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/cropped-favicon-32×32.png, https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/feed/, Jack Birle,

The House Judiciary Committee launched an investigation Thursday into the daughter of the judge presiding over former President Donald Trump’s case in New York, citing her marketing work for prominent Democrats — including Trump’s 2024 opponent.

Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) asked Loren Merchan in a letter to provide numerous documents and communications related to her work for Authentic Campaigns, a top Democratic marketing firm that has engaged in lucrative business with Trump’s top political rivals.

“Experts have raised substantial concerns with Judge [Juan] Merchan, your father, refusing to recuse himself from President Trump’s case despite your work on behalf of President Trump’s political adversaries and the financial benefit that your firm, Authentic Campaigns Inc., could receive from the prosecution and conviction,” Jordan wrote.

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The chairman asked Loren Merchan for contracts or invoices her firm had for marketing work it performed for the campaigns of President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, who is now the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, and the Democratic National Committee.

This story is developing.

2024-08-01 21:17:00, http://s.wordpress.com/mshots/v1/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonexaminer.com%2Fnews%2Fhouse%2F3108164%2Fhouse-gop-demands-judge-merchans-daughter-provide-records-work-kamala-harris%2F?w=600&h=450, The House Judiciary Committee launched an investigation Thursday into the daughter of the judge presiding over former President Donald Trump’s case in New York, citing her marketing work for prominent Democrats — including Trump’s 2024 opponent. Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) asked Loren Merchan in a letter to provide numerous documents and communications related to,

The House Judiciary Committee launched an investigation Thursday into the daughter of the judge presiding over former President Donald Trump’s case in New York, citing her marketing work for prominent Democrats — including Trump’s 2024 opponent.

Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) asked Loren Merchan in a letter to provide numerous documents and communications related to her work for Authentic Campaigns, a top Democratic marketing firm that has engaged in lucrative business with Trump’s top political rivals.

“Experts have raised substantial concerns with Judge [Juan] Merchan, your father, refusing to recuse himself from President Trump’s case despite your work on behalf of President Trump’s political adversaries and the financial benefit that your firm, Authentic Campaigns Inc., could receive from the prosecution and conviction,” Jordan wrote.

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The chairman asked Loren Merchan for contracts or invoices her firm had for marketing work it performed for the campaigns of President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, who is now the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, and the Democratic National Committee.

This story is developing.

, The House Judiciary Committee launched an investigation Thursday into the daughter of the judge presiding over former President Donald Trump’s case in New York, citing her marketing work for prominent Democrats — including Trump’s 2024 opponent. Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) asked Loren Merchan in a letter to provide numerous documents and communications related to her work for Authentic Campaigns, a top Democratic marketing firm that has engaged in lucrative business with Trump’s top political rivals. “Experts have raised substantial concerns with Judge [Juan] Merchan, your father, refusing to recuse himself from President Trump’s case despite your work on behalf of President Trump’s political adversaries and the financial benefit that your firm, Authentic Campaigns Inc., could receive from the prosecution and conviction,” Jordan wrote. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER   The chairman asked Loren Merchan for contracts or invoices her firm had for marketing work it performed for the campaigns of President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, who is now the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, and the Democratic National Committee. This story is developing., , , https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/AP24103679430574-1-1024×591.jpg, Washington Examiner, Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/cropped-favicon-32×32.png, https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/feed/, Ashley Oliver,

A speed camera on the Potomac River Freeway in Washington, D.C., has issued nearly $5.9 million in fines during the first half of 2024.

In 2015, Mayor Muriel Bowser launched the “Vision Zero” initiative to tackle the rising number of traffic fatalities and injuries.

Since then, hundreds of speed cameras and automated stop-sign violation detectors have been installed as a key part of this program.

As the city’s main approach to traffic enforcement, these penalties can range from $100 to $500.

The Potomac River Freeway camera, installed in January 2023, surpassed the Interstate-295 camera near Exit 1, which previously led in the amount coming in from fines at nearly $3.9 million, Axios reported.

According to that report, the district’s top 10 speed cameras issued a total of $27.7 million in fines, with two on K Street at Washington Circle accounting for $4.2 million.

As part of the “Vision Zero” initiative, the Department of Public Works launched a pilot program in April that has towed nearly 70 cars with over $600,000 in unpaid tickets and targeted more than 700 vehicles representing nearly $1.6 million in fines.

“Drivers who ignore citations endanger all roadway users by fostering a culture of disregard for our laws,” DPW Director Timothy Spriggs said.

“Identifying and impounding vehicles that have racked up significant fines can be complex, but our scofflaw search teams are getting results and are getting these vehicles off of our streets,” he added.

In February, the Council of the District of Columbia approved a bill granting the district’s attorney general the ability to bring civil lawsuits against drivers with outstanding fines, aiming to address its challenges in effectively collecting these penalties.

The bill also allowed the city to install speed-restricting devices on cars with serious violations.

As of June, the city had installed 477 speed cameras. Residents are now seeking more, according to the Washington Post.

However, Republicans are pushing to ban automated traffic enforcement, including speed cameras.

Despite the rise in fines and the addition of new cameras, traffic fatalities hit a 16-year-high last year.

Crash Fatalities – Washington D.C. by Ailin Vilches

The city has also decreased police traffic enforcement, partly due to a 13% reduction in police staffing from 2018 to 2023.

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These automated cameras are expected to yield over $1 billion over the next four years, with revenue declining over time as people get used to them.

“We would love to see lower revenue from tickets, because that would mean more drivers are obeying traffic laws and our streets are getting safer,” “Vision Zero” director Charlie Willson told the Washington Post.

2024-08-01 21:16:00, http://s.wordpress.com/mshots/v1/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonexaminer.com%2Fnews%2F3107815%2Ftraffic-speed-camera-dc-top-revenue-generator%2F?w=600&h=450, A speed camera on the Potomac River Freeway in Washington, D.C., has issued nearly $5.9 million in fines during the first half of 2024. In 2015, Mayor Muriel Bowser launched the “Vision Zero” initiative to tackle the rising number of traffic fatalities and injuries. Since then, hundreds of speed cameras and automated stop-sign violation detectors,

A speed camera on the Potomac River Freeway in Washington, D.C., has issued nearly $5.9 million in fines during the first half of 2024.

In 2015, Mayor Muriel Bowser launched the “Vision Zero” initiative to tackle the rising number of traffic fatalities and injuries.

Since then, hundreds of speed cameras and automated stop-sign violation detectors have been installed as a key part of this program.

As the city’s main approach to traffic enforcement, these penalties can range from $100 to $500.

The Potomac River Freeway camera, installed in January 2023, surpassed the Interstate-295 camera near Exit 1, which previously led in the amount coming in from fines at nearly $3.9 million, Axios reported.

According to that report, the district’s top 10 speed cameras issued a total of $27.7 million in fines, with two on K Street at Washington Circle accounting for $4.2 million.

As part of the “Vision Zero” initiative, the Department of Public Works launched a pilot program in April that has towed nearly 70 cars with over $600,000 in unpaid tickets and targeted more than 700 vehicles representing nearly $1.6 million in fines.

“Drivers who ignore citations endanger all roadway users by fostering a culture of disregard for our laws,” DPW Director Timothy Spriggs said.

“Identifying and impounding vehicles that have racked up significant fines can be complex, but our scofflaw search teams are getting results and are getting these vehicles off of our streets,” he added.

In February, the Council of the District of Columbia approved a bill granting the district’s attorney general the ability to bring civil lawsuits against drivers with outstanding fines, aiming to address its challenges in effectively collecting these penalties.

The bill also allowed the city to install speed-restricting devices on cars with serious violations.

As of June, the city had installed 477 speed cameras. Residents are now seeking more, according to the Washington Post.

However, Republicans are pushing to ban automated traffic enforcement, including speed cameras.

Despite the rise in fines and the addition of new cameras, traffic fatalities hit a 16-year-high last year.

Crash Fatalities – Washington D.C. by Ailin Vilches

The city has also decreased police traffic enforcement, partly due to a 13% reduction in police staffing from 2018 to 2023.

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These automated cameras are expected to yield over $1 billion over the next four years, with revenue declining over time as people get used to them.

“We would love to see lower revenue from tickets, because that would mean more drivers are obeying traffic laws and our streets are getting safer,” “Vision Zero” director Charlie Willson told the Washington Post.

, A speed camera on the Potomac River Freeway in Washington, D.C., has issued nearly $5.9 million in fines during the first half of 2024. In 2015, Mayor Muriel Bowser launched the “Vision Zero” initiative to tackle the rising number of traffic fatalities and injuries. Since then, hundreds of speed cameras and automated stop-sign violation detectors have been installed as a key part of this program. As the city’s main approach to traffic enforcement, these penalties can range from $100 to $500. The Potomac River Freeway camera, installed in January 2023, surpassed the Interstate-295 camera near Exit 1, which previously led in the amount coming in from fines at nearly $3.9 million, Axios reported. According to that report, the district’s top 10 speed cameras issued a total of $27.7 million in fines, with two on K Street at Washington Circle accounting for $4.2 million. As part of the “Vision Zero” initiative, the Department of Public Works launched a pilot program in April that has towed nearly 70 cars with over $600,000 in unpaid tickets and targeted more than 700 vehicles representing nearly $1.6 million in fines. “Drivers who ignore citations endanger all roadway users by fostering a culture of disregard for our laws,” DPW Director Timothy Spriggs said. “Identifying and impounding vehicles that have racked up significant fines can be complex, but our scofflaw search teams are getting results and are getting these vehicles off of our streets,” he added. In February, the Council of the District of Columbia approved a bill granting the district’s attorney general the ability to bring civil lawsuits against drivers with outstanding fines, aiming to address its challenges in effectively collecting these penalties. The bill also allowed the city to install speed-restricting devices on cars with serious violations. As of June, the city had installed 477 speed cameras. Residents are now seeking more, according to the Washington Post. However, Republicans are pushing to ban automated traffic enforcement, including speed cameras. Despite the rise in fines and the addition of new cameras, traffic fatalities hit a 16-year-high last year. Crash Fatalities – Washington D.C. by Ailin Vilches The city has also decreased police traffic enforcement, partly due to a 13% reduction in police staffing from 2018 to 2023. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER These automated cameras are expected to yield over $1 billion over the next four years, with revenue declining over time as people get used to them. “We would love to see lower revenue from tickets, because that would mean more drivers are obeying traffic laws and our streets are getting safer,” “Vision Zero” director Charlie Willson told the Washington Post., , , https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Potomac-River-Freeway.webp, Washington Examiner, Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/cropped-favicon-32×32.png, https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/feed/, Ailin Vilches Arguello,

Rep. Mary Peltola (D-AK) received an endorsement from the National Rifle Association, a rarity for a Democrat.

Her endorsement is the organization’s first endorsement of a Democrat since 2020 when the NRA endorsed former Democratic Minnesota Rep. Collin Peterson. Peltola represents Alaska’s sole House seat as its at-large representative and recently flipped the seat in 2022 after the GOP held the seat since 1973.

Prior to the 2018 school shooting in Parkland, Florida, the NRA endorsed a handful of Democrats, but as Democrats and some centrist Republicans began calling for stricter gun control in the wake of the shooting, the NRA began retracting endorsements, according to the Trace.

There are no Senate Democrats or other House Democrats endorsed by the NRA.

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Peltola is seen as a Democratic centrist and largely backs the state’s oil and gas industry. She won against former Gov. Sarah Palin to replace Republican Rep. Don Young after he died.

The Washington Examiner reached out to Peltola and the NRA for comment.

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Rep. Mary Peltola (D-AK) received an endorsement from the National Rifle Association, a rarity for a Democrat.

Her endorsement is the organization’s first endorsement of a Democrat since 2020 when the NRA endorsed former Democratic Minnesota Rep. Collin Peterson. Peltola represents Alaska’s sole House seat as its at-large representative and recently flipped the seat in 2022 after the GOP held the seat since 1973.

Prior to the 2018 school shooting in Parkland, Florida, the NRA endorsed a handful of Democrats, but as Democrats and some centrist Republicans began calling for stricter gun control in the wake of the shooting, the NRA began retracting endorsements, according to the Trace.

There are no Senate Democrats or other House Democrats endorsed by the NRA.

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Peltola is seen as a Democratic centrist and largely backs the state’s oil and gas industry. She won against former Gov. Sarah Palin to replace Republican Rep. Don Young after he died.

The Washington Examiner reached out to Peltola and the NRA for comment.

, Rep. Mary Peltola (D-AK) received an endorsement from the National Rifle Association, a rarity for a Democrat. Her endorsement is the organization’s first endorsement of a Democrat since 2020 when the NRA endorsed former Democratic Minnesota Rep. Collin Peterson. Peltola represents Alaska’s sole House seat as its at-large representative and recently flipped the seat in 2022 after the GOP held the seat since 1973. MARY PELTOLA IS NRA ENDORSED, FIRST NRA ENDORSED DEMOCRAT SINCE COLIN PETERSON pic.twitter.com/Z5HBfyu3aH — Brody (@BordyBrody) August 1, 2024 Prior to the 2018 school shooting in Parkland, Florida, the NRA endorsed a handful of Democrats, but as Democrats and some centrist Republicans began calling for stricter gun control in the wake of the shooting, the NRA began retracting endorsements, according to the Trace. There are no Senate Democrats or other House Democrats endorsed by the NRA. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER Peltola is seen as a Democratic centrist and largely backs the state’s oil and gas industry. She won against former Gov. Sarah Palin to replace Republican Rep. Don Young after he died. The Washington Examiner reached out to Peltola and the NRA for comment., , , https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/mary-pelota.webp, Washington Examiner, Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/cropped-favicon-32×32.png, https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/feed/, Annabella Rosciglione,

Young men are facing a collective crisis of masculinity, but they are too isolated from each other to address it together.

The number of men who report having zero close friends has increased from 3% in 1990 to 15% in 2021, while the size of social circles in general has decreased dramatically. Men feel more lonely than ever before, and they turn to their vices to deal with it.

Addiction to pornography is widespread among young men, and roughly two-thirds watch pornography weekly or more. Men make up the majority of “deaths of despair,” such as alcohol poisoning, while male drug overdose deaths are more than twice as common as female overdose deaths. Moreover, the suicide rate among men is four times higher than among women. 

Academically, things are similarly bad. Men earn less than half of bachelor’s degrees and less than half of graduate degrees. 41% of young women have college degrees, compared to only 32% of young men. Most of the top 10% of high school students are girls, while most of the bottom 10% are boys. Females are more likely to graduate high school than males, but the achievement gap starts as early as elementary school, where girls outperform boys in standardized tests by more than 40% of a grade level. Even after completing school, millions of men are not participating in the workforce.

Romantic prospects for men are low as well. While two-thirds of single men say they are looking for a relationship, only one-third of single women say the same, leaving a large number of men completely excluded from the dating market.

Men have largely been left behind by a culture that talks more about “toxic masculinity” than the positive aspects of having strong male figures. Guys-only spaces, such as the Boy Scouts, are being destroyed, and entertainment franchises, such as Star Wars, are openly hostile to their mostly male audiences. While men are struggling, they are also villainized constantly.

Unfortunately, this marginalization has resulted in many men turning to poor role models, such as pornographer Andrew Tate or antisemitic troll Nick Fuentes. These cranks promote degeneracy and debauchery, appealing to the worst tendencies of men. However, they are the natural result of decades of propaganda against actually healthy masculine behavior.

Immoral influencers do not provide a real solution, but how can this crisis of masculinity be solved?

Firstly, and most importantly, men need to find a real community. Twitter group chats or Discord servers are not real life, and people who meet online rarely become real friends. In high school or college, it is a lot easier to tell men to join student organizations or find friends through classes, but this is much more difficult post-graduation. The easiest way, and best place, to find a community is at church. Many churches even have men’s support groups, but just going to church on Sundays and talking with someone for a few minutes afterward could be enough.

Secondly, despite the aforementioned difficulty with finding meaningful romantic relationships, men do need to pursue women who want to get married. This starts with behaving in a respectable manner. That is, they cannot engage in a hookup culture that is detrimental to their mental health and future relationships. While not a hard and fast rule, dating apps should also probably be avoided. Again, church is one of the best possible places to find a future spouse. More importantly than that, however, men need to actually ask women out instead of waiting around indefinitely. This may seem like a no-brainer, but nearly half of men aged 18-25 have never asked out a woman in person.

Going to the gym instead of watching pornography, reading a book instead of doom scrolling through Instagram, having breakfast with friends instead of sleeping in, going to bed instead of watching YouTube until midnight, eating an apple instead of eating Skittles, or simply finding something to do after work instead of going home right away are all simple cures to simple problems, but are still often overlooked.

While these are all things that can be accomplished at the individual level, we also need to promote a culture that embraces the positive aspects of masculinity — most importantly, being a good husband and a good father. This is particularly difficult because one-third of children are raised in a home with an absent father, so many men never had a positive male role model to look up to.

CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER

Above all else, men feel as if they have no sense of purpose. This is a natural result of a secular, cynical, and sleazy culture. Men need each other, women, religion, and to feel like they belong. While encouraging men to do what they can for themselves is a critical first step, rebuilding institutions such as religion and the nuclear family are necessary societal efforts.

There is probably no other demographic group facing an intersection of crises to such an extraordinary degree. Young men need to be heard, and they need our help.

2024-08-01 21:12:00, http://s.wordpress.com/mshots/v1/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonexaminer.com%2Fopinion%2F3108033%2Fyoung-men-falling-behind%2F?w=600&h=450, Young men are facing a collective crisis of masculinity, but they are too isolated from each other to address it together. The number of men who report having zero close friends has increased from 3% in 1990 to 15% in 2021, while the size of social circles in general has decreased dramatically. Men feel more,

Young men are facing a collective crisis of masculinity, but they are too isolated from each other to address it together.

The number of men who report having zero close friends has increased from 3% in 1990 to 15% in 2021, while the size of social circles in general has decreased dramatically. Men feel more lonely than ever before, and they turn to their vices to deal with it.

Addiction to pornography is widespread among young men, and roughly two-thirds watch pornography weekly or more. Men make up the majority of “deaths of despair,” such as alcohol poisoning, while male drug overdose deaths are more than twice as common as female overdose deaths. Moreover, the suicide rate among men is four times higher than among women. 

Academically, things are similarly bad. Men earn less than half of bachelor’s degrees and less than half of graduate degrees. 41% of young women have college degrees, compared to only 32% of young men. Most of the top 10% of high school students are girls, while most of the bottom 10% are boys. Females are more likely to graduate high school than males, but the achievement gap starts as early as elementary school, where girls outperform boys in standardized tests by more than 40% of a grade level. Even after completing school, millions of men are not participating in the workforce.

Romantic prospects for men are low as well. While two-thirds of single men say they are looking for a relationship, only one-third of single women say the same, leaving a large number of men completely excluded from the dating market.

Men have largely been left behind by a culture that talks more about “toxic masculinity” than the positive aspects of having strong male figures. Guys-only spaces, such as the Boy Scouts, are being destroyed, and entertainment franchises, such as Star Wars, are openly hostile to their mostly male audiences. While men are struggling, they are also villainized constantly.

Unfortunately, this marginalization has resulted in many men turning to poor role models, such as pornographer Andrew Tate or antisemitic troll Nick Fuentes. These cranks promote degeneracy and debauchery, appealing to the worst tendencies of men. However, they are the natural result of decades of propaganda against actually healthy masculine behavior.

Immoral influencers do not provide a real solution, but how can this crisis of masculinity be solved?

Firstly, and most importantly, men need to find a real community. Twitter group chats or Discord servers are not real life, and people who meet online rarely become real friends. In high school or college, it is a lot easier to tell men to join student organizations or find friends through classes, but this is much more difficult post-graduation. The easiest way, and best place, to find a community is at church. Many churches even have men’s support groups, but just going to church on Sundays and talking with someone for a few minutes afterward could be enough.

Secondly, despite the aforementioned difficulty with finding meaningful romantic relationships, men do need to pursue women who want to get married. This starts with behaving in a respectable manner. That is, they cannot engage in a hookup culture that is detrimental to their mental health and future relationships. While not a hard and fast rule, dating apps should also probably be avoided. Again, church is one of the best possible places to find a future spouse. More importantly than that, however, men need to actually ask women out instead of waiting around indefinitely. This may seem like a no-brainer, but nearly half of men aged 18-25 have never asked out a woman in person.

Going to the gym instead of watching pornography, reading a book instead of doom scrolling through Instagram, having breakfast with friends instead of sleeping in, going to bed instead of watching YouTube until midnight, eating an apple instead of eating Skittles, or simply finding something to do after work instead of going home right away are all simple cures to simple problems, but are still often overlooked.

While these are all things that can be accomplished at the individual level, we also need to promote a culture that embraces the positive aspects of masculinity — most importantly, being a good husband and a good father. This is particularly difficult because one-third of children are raised in a home with an absent father, so many men never had a positive male role model to look up to.

CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER

Above all else, men feel as if they have no sense of purpose. This is a natural result of a secular, cynical, and sleazy culture. Men need each other, women, religion, and to feel like they belong. While encouraging men to do what they can for themselves is a critical first step, rebuilding institutions such as religion and the nuclear family are necessary societal efforts.

There is probably no other demographic group facing an intersection of crises to such an extraordinary degree. Young men need to be heard, and they need our help.

, Young men are facing a collective crisis of masculinity, but they are too isolated from each other to address it together. The number of men who report having zero close friends has increased from 3% in 1990 to 15% in 2021, while the size of social circles in general has decreased dramatically. Men feel more lonely than ever before, and they turn to their vices to deal with it. Addiction to pornography is widespread among young men, and roughly two-thirds watch pornography weekly or more. Men make up the majority of “deaths of despair,” such as alcohol poisoning, while male drug overdose deaths are more than twice as common as female overdose deaths. Moreover, the suicide rate among men is four times higher than among women.  Academically, things are similarly bad. Men earn less than half of bachelor’s degrees and less than half of graduate degrees. 41% of young women have college degrees, compared to only 32% of young men. Most of the top 10% of high school students are girls, while most of the bottom 10% are boys. Females are more likely to graduate high school than males, but the achievement gap starts as early as elementary school, where girls outperform boys in standardized tests by more than 40% of a grade level. Even after completing school, millions of men are not participating in the workforce. Romantic prospects for men are low as well. While two-thirds of single men say they are looking for a relationship, only one-third of single women say the same, leaving a large number of men completely excluded from the dating market. Men have largely been left behind by a culture that talks more about “toxic masculinity” than the positive aspects of having strong male figures. Guys-only spaces, such as the Boy Scouts, are being destroyed, and entertainment franchises, such as Star Wars, are openly hostile to their mostly male audiences. While men are struggling, they are also villainized constantly. Unfortunately, this marginalization has resulted in many men turning to poor role models, such as pornographer Andrew Tate or antisemitic troll Nick Fuentes. These cranks promote degeneracy and debauchery, appealing to the worst tendencies of men. However, they are the natural result of decades of propaganda against actually healthy masculine behavior. Immoral influencers do not provide a real solution, but how can this crisis of masculinity be solved? Firstly, and most importantly, men need to find a real community. Twitter group chats or Discord servers are not real life, and people who meet online rarely become real friends. In high school or college, it is a lot easier to tell men to join student organizations or find friends through classes, but this is much more difficult post-graduation. The easiest way, and best place, to find a community is at church. Many churches even have men’s support groups, but just going to church on Sundays and talking with someone for a few minutes afterward could be enough. Secondly, despite the aforementioned difficulty with finding meaningful romantic relationships, men do need to pursue women who want to get married. This starts with behaving in a respectable manner. That is, they cannot engage in a hookup culture that is detrimental to their mental health and future relationships. While not a hard and fast rule, dating apps should also probably be avoided. Again, church is one of the best possible places to find a future spouse. More importantly than that, however, men need to actually ask women out instead of waiting around indefinitely. This may seem like a no-brainer, but nearly half of men aged 18-25 have never asked out a woman in person. Going to the gym instead of watching pornography, reading a book instead of doom scrolling through Instagram, having breakfast with friends instead of sleeping in, going to bed instead of watching YouTube until midnight, eating an apple instead of eating Skittles, or simply finding something to do after work instead of going home right away are all simple cures to simple problems, but are still often overlooked. While these are all things that can be accomplished at the individual level, we also need to promote a culture that embraces the positive aspects of masculinity — most importantly, being a good husband and a good father. This is particularly difficult because one-third of children are raised in a home with an absent father, so many men never had a positive male role model to look up to. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER Above all else, men feel as if they have no sense of purpose. This is a natural result of a secular, cynical, and sleazy culture. Men need each other, women, religion, and to feel like they belong. While encouraging men to do what they can for themselves is a critical first step, rebuilding institutions such as religion and the nuclear family are necessary societal efforts. There is probably no other demographic group facing an intersection of crises to such an extraordinary degree. Young men need to be heard, and they need our help., , , https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/iStock-525409809-1024×683.jpg, Washington Examiner, Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/cropped-favicon-32×32.png, https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/feed/, Ben Rothove,

Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) suggested Russia’s willingness to participate in the prisoner swap with the United States was influenced by their fear about a potential second Trump administration.

“We certainly want these Americans to come back home. It was ridiculous that they were in prison to begin with,” Vance said in an interview with CNN.

Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and former Marine Paul Whelan are among the prisoners being released from Russian custody.

“We have to ask ourselves: Why are they coming home? And I think it’s because bad guys all over the world recognize Donald Trump’s about to be back in office, so they’re cleaning house,” Vance said. 

“That’s a good thing, and I think it’s a testament to Donald Trump’s strength.”

This swap marked the first such exchange since December 2022, when basketball player Brittney Griner was released in exchange for Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout.

According to the Turkish presidential office, more than two dozen prisoners were exchanged, including people from the U.S., Germany, Poland, Slovenia, Norway, Russia, and Belarus.

“This deal would not have been made possible without our allies. They stood with us,” President Joe Biden said during a White House briefing. 

“For anyone who questions whether allies matter, they do. They matter. Today is a powerful example why it’s vital to have friends in this world. Our alliances make our people safer,” Biden said. 

Among those freed were also Alsu Kurmasheva, a dual U.S.-Russian citizen and journalist, and Vladimir Kara-Murza, a U.S. resident and prominent Russian opposition politician. 

During the press conference, a reporter asked Biden about Trump’s previous claims that he could have freed these hostages without making any concessions.

“Why didn’t he do it when he was president?” Biden replied.

Trump condemned the exchange, describing it as “extortion” on the country and warning that it establishes a “bad precedent for the future.”

He also urged the administration to disclose the details of the exchange.

“So when are they going to release the details of the prisoner swap with Russia? How many people do we get versus them? Are we also paying them cash? Are they giving us cash (Please withdraw that question, because I’m sure the answer is NO)? Are we releasing murderers, killers, or thugs?,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social.

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“Just curious because we never make good deals, at anything, but especially hostage swaps. Our “negotiators” are always an embarrassment to us! I got back many hostages, and gave the opposing Country NOTHING – and never any cash,” he wrote. 

“They’re calling the trade ‘complex’ – That’s so nobody can figure out how bad it is!” he added.

2024-08-01 21:01:00, http://s.wordpress.com/mshots/v1/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonexaminer.com%2Fnews%2F3108111%2Fvance-credits-prisoner-release-trumps-strength%2F?w=600&h=450, Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) suggested Russia’s willingness to participate in the prisoner swap with the United States was influenced by their fear about a potential second Trump administration. “We certainly want these Americans to come back home. It was ridiculous that they were in prison to begin with,” Vance said in an interview with CNN.,

Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) suggested Russia’s willingness to participate in the prisoner swap with the United States was influenced by their fear about a potential second Trump administration.

“We certainly want these Americans to come back home. It was ridiculous that they were in prison to begin with,” Vance said in an interview with CNN.

Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and former Marine Paul Whelan are among the prisoners being released from Russian custody.

“We have to ask ourselves: Why are they coming home? And I think it’s because bad guys all over the world recognize Donald Trump’s about to be back in office, so they’re cleaning house,” Vance said. 

“That’s a good thing, and I think it’s a testament to Donald Trump’s strength.”

This swap marked the first such exchange since December 2022, when basketball player Brittney Griner was released in exchange for Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout.

According to the Turkish presidential office, more than two dozen prisoners were exchanged, including people from the U.S., Germany, Poland, Slovenia, Norway, Russia, and Belarus.

“This deal would not have been made possible without our allies. They stood with us,” President Joe Biden said during a White House briefing. 

“For anyone who questions whether allies matter, they do. They matter. Today is a powerful example why it’s vital to have friends in this world. Our alliances make our people safer,” Biden said. 

Among those freed were also Alsu Kurmasheva, a dual U.S.-Russian citizen and journalist, and Vladimir Kara-Murza, a U.S. resident and prominent Russian opposition politician. 

During the press conference, a reporter asked Biden about Trump’s previous claims that he could have freed these hostages without making any concessions.

“Why didn’t he do it when he was president?” Biden replied.

Trump condemned the exchange, describing it as “extortion” on the country and warning that it establishes a “bad precedent for the future.”

He also urged the administration to disclose the details of the exchange.

“So when are they going to release the details of the prisoner swap with Russia? How many people do we get versus them? Are we also paying them cash? Are they giving us cash (Please withdraw that question, because I’m sure the answer is NO)? Are we releasing murderers, killers, or thugs?,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social.

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“Just curious because we never make good deals, at anything, but especially hostage swaps. Our “negotiators” are always an embarrassment to us! I got back many hostages, and gave the opposing Country NOTHING – and never any cash,” he wrote. 

“They’re calling the trade ‘complex’ – That’s so nobody can figure out how bad it is!” he added.

, Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) suggested Russia’s willingness to participate in the prisoner swap with the United States was influenced by their fear about a potential second Trump administration. “We certainly want these Americans to come back home. It was ridiculous that they were in prison to begin with,” Vance said in an interview with CNN. Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and former Marine Paul Whelan are among the prisoners being released from Russian custody. “We have to ask ourselves: Why are they coming home? And I think it’s because bad guys all over the world recognize Donald Trump’s about to be back in office, so they’re cleaning house,” Vance said.  “That’s a good thing, and I think it’s a testament to Donald Trump’s strength.” This swap marked the first such exchange since December 2022, when basketball player Brittney Griner was released in exchange for Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout. According to the Turkish presidential office, more than two dozen prisoners were exchanged, including people from the U.S., Germany, Poland, Slovenia, Norway, Russia, and Belarus. “This deal would not have been made possible without our allies. They stood with us,” President Joe Biden said during a White House briefing.  President Joe Biden, right, reaches out to hold hands with Elizabeth Whelan, left, as he delivers remarks on a prisoner swap with Russia from the State Dining Room of the White House, Thursday, Aug. 1, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) “For anyone who questions whether allies matter, they do. They matter. Today is a powerful example why it’s vital to have friends in this world. Our alliances make our people safer,” Biden said.  Among those freed were also Alsu Kurmasheva, a dual U.S.-Russian citizen and journalist, and Vladimir Kara-Murza, a U.S. resident and prominent Russian opposition politician.  During the press conference, a reporter asked Biden about Trump’s previous claims that he could have freed these hostages without making any concessions. “Why didn’t he do it when he was president?” Biden replied. Trump condemned the exchange, describing it as “extortion” on the country and warning that it establishes a “bad precedent for the future.” He also urged the administration to disclose the details of the exchange. “So when are they going to release the details of the prisoner swap with Russia? How many people do we get versus them? Are we also paying them cash? Are they giving us cash (Please withdraw that question, because I’m sure the answer is NO)? Are we releasing murderers, killers, or thugs?,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER “Just curious because we never make good deals, at anything, but especially hostage swaps. Our “negotiators” are always an embarrassment to us! I got back many hostages, and gave the opposing Country NOTHING – and never any cash,” he wrote.  “They’re calling the trade ‘complex’ – That’s so nobody can figure out how bad it is!” he added., , , https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Vance_campaign_678.webp, Washington Examiner, Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/cropped-favicon-32×32.png, https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/feed/, Ailin Vilches Arguello,

The ordinary person’s primary objection to the presidential candidacy of Vice President Kamala Harris ought to lie in what she has done during the Biden administration (presiding over an annual 6% inflation rate, a record multi-million influx of illegal immigrants, etc.) and what she has advocated when pandering to the Democratic base (endorsing the full-scale elimination of private health insurance and fracking for example).

Former President Donald Trump has instead honed in on the dumbest rationale to attack Harris for who she is. Trump questioned why, after “only promoting Indian heritage,” the de facto Democratic presidential nominee “happened to turn black.”

It’s an idiotic political strategy to distract from Harris’s genuinely radical and incompetent record and, instead, question her immutable identity. But Trump also missed the real tragedy in the reason why Harris grew up with far less influence from her black heritage than her Indian-American upbringing: The historic and family-shattering misandry of family courts.

Harris’s father is Donald Harris, a Jamaican-American economist, and her late mother was Shyamala Gopalan, an Indian-American biomedical researcher. The pair met while attending the University of California, Berkeley, in 1962, when Gopalan was a Ph.D. candidate and Donald Harris was a master’s student, at the university’s Afro-American Association, the study group that would eventually establish the Black Panther Party. Although Gopalan would later maintain that she originally intended to move back to India, she married Donald Harris in 1963. Kamala Harris was born a year later, and her sister and close adviser, Maya Harris, was born in 1967.

Gopalan and Donald Harris’s marriage began to fall apart as their careers took off, with Kamala Harris eventually writing in her memoir that her parents “stopped being kind to one another” by the time she was just 5 years old. Gopalan and her daughters moved with Donald Harris to the Midwest when he scored limited professorship stints at the University of Illinois at Champagne-Urbana and then at Northwestern University, but Gopalan moved with her daughters back to the Bay Area in 1970 while Donald Harris was working a tenure-track position at the University of Wisconsin. Right when Donald Harris returned to the Bay Area to join the University of Stanford’s economics department in 1972, Gopalan filed for divorce.

While the vice president does celebrate her origins as the daughter of a marriage born of the Civil Rights Movement, she mostly glosses over her father in speeches and memoirs. Kamala Harris credits her mother, who was Hindu, for ingratiating her with black American culture. Gopalan brought her daughters to predominately black Baptist churches and immersed them in the community of the black academics she had befriended at Berkeley. The girls spent summers and weekends with their father in Palo Alto and occasional jaunts to Jamaica, but Meena Harris, Kamala Harris’s niece, insisted Donald Harris “was not around after the divorce.”

The truth may be a little more complicated. Gopalan, who went on to become a prolific cancer researcher and brought her then-school-aged daughters with her as she worked at Quebecois universities, died of the disease in 2009, and Donald Harris rarely makes public statements. When he made his only major public remark during Kamala Harris’s failed presidential bid in 2020, condemning her joke about smoking marijuana because she is half-Jamaican, Kamala Harris demurred in her response, further confirming a familial rift. But in an essay about his attempts to teach his daughters, granddaughter, and great-grandchildren about their Jamaican heritage, Donald Harris revealed that his relative absence from his daughters’ lives was far from a decision of his own making.

“This early phase of interaction with my children came to an abrupt halt in 1972 when, after a hard-fought custody battle in the family court of Oakland, California, the context of the relationship was placed within arbitrary limits imposed by a court-ordered divorce settlement based on the false assumption by the State of California that fathers cannot handle parenting (especially in the case of this father, ‘a neegroe from da eyelans’ was the Yankee stereotype, who might just end up eating his children for breakfast!),” wrote Donald Harris in a 2019 blog post. “Nevertheless, I persisted, never giving up on my love for my children or reneging on my responsibilities as their father.”

Similar to too many biracial children of divorce, a family court made the decision for Kamala Harris as to which culture would influence her more. While Gopalan clearly succeeded at awakening her daughter’s racial awareness as a black woman, Kamala Harris’s black father was legally limited in his ability to parent his own child. It’s a story common in plenty of biracial families, perhaps due to racial animus or xenophobia, but most likely due to the misandrist doctrine of the “tender years” fallacy.

A well-intentioned but dramatic overcorrection from the historical assumption that both wives and children were the legal property of a husband under common law, the tender years doctrine, adopted in American law throughout the 19th century, assumed that mothers should have sole or primary custody of children in their younger years. Although countless states have overturned the doctrine as unconstitutional and nominally now require courts to consider the best interest of the child, a technical transformation that occurred shortly after Donald Harris and Gopalan divorced, only recently have states mandated that individual judges default to joint custody when ruling on physical custody of children. The result is that family courts still tend to be heavily biased against men at the cost of children.

Going back to a 1989 Massachusetts custody allocation, the Department of Justice found that even when fathers actively sought out custody of their children, they only received joint physical custody 46% of the time and primary physical custody 29% of the time. In 2007, researchers in the North Carolina Law Review found that when mothers filed as plaintiffs seeking primary physical custody, they were granted it 81.5% of the time. But fathers filing as plaintiffs for primary physical custody were only rewarded with such in 33.7% of cases. Fast forward to 2016, and a government study of Washington state found that of contested custody disputes, three-quarters of mothers received majority custody. Misandry in the courtroom also translates into actual danger for children. Whereas the overwhelming majority of fathers who committed domestic violence were (correctly) granted zero residential time with their children, some 70% of mothers who had committed domestic abuse were rewarded residential time.

A less technical but more recent review of nationwide data by popular parenting scheduling tool Custody X Change found that in situations where both parents want custody over a child, fathers receive barely a third of custodial time. Ironically enough, purple states lead the way in correcting the problem, as the majority of arrangements studied were 50/50 joint custody agreements between parents. Only 40% of arrangements in blue states and 22% of arrangements in red states gave equal time to both mothers and fathers.

Ironically enough, Trump’s own running mate may have this origin story in common with Kamala Harris. Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) famously did not reconnect with his own biological father, Donald Bowman, until he was an adolescent. Although Vance grew up believing Bowman was simply a deadbeat father who waived away his parental rights to allow Vance’s new stepfather to adopt him, again, the truth may have been more complicated.

“For the first time, I heard his side of the story: that the adoption had nothing to do with a desire to avoid child support and that, far from simply ‘giving me away,’ as Mom and Mamaw had said, Dad had hired multiple lawyers and done everything within reason to keep me,” Vance wrote in his book Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis.

CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER

Bowman said he only gave up because he “worried that the custody war was destroying” his son.

Statistically speaking, Kamala Harris lost far more than a deepened understanding of the Jamaican half of her heritage when a court decided to deprive her father of her custodial crime. Studies across the board seem to indicate that all children, Kamala Harris and Vance included, benefit emotionally, behaviorally, psychologically, and physically from co-equal parenting. That’s a less exciting political take to make, but for the Generation X and millennial children of the baby boomers and the 60s, the tales of Kamala Harris and Vance are all too common.

2024-08-01 20:53:00, http://s.wordpress.com/mshots/v1/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonexaminer.com%2Fopinion%2F3107293%2Fkey-family-history-jd-vance-kamala-harris-have-in-common%2F?w=600&h=450, The ordinary person’s primary objection to the presidential candidacy of Vice President Kamala Harris ought to lie in what she has done during the Biden administration (presiding over an annual 6% inflation rate, a record multi-million influx of illegal immigrants, etc.) and what she has advocated when pandering to the Democratic base (endorsing the full-scale,

The ordinary person’s primary objection to the presidential candidacy of Vice President Kamala Harris ought to lie in what she has done during the Biden administration (presiding over an annual 6% inflation rate, a record multi-million influx of illegal immigrants, etc.) and what she has advocated when pandering to the Democratic base (endorsing the full-scale elimination of private health insurance and fracking for example).

Former President Donald Trump has instead honed in on the dumbest rationale to attack Harris for who she is. Trump questioned why, after “only promoting Indian heritage,” the de facto Democratic presidential nominee “happened to turn black.”

It’s an idiotic political strategy to distract from Harris’s genuinely radical and incompetent record and, instead, question her immutable identity. But Trump also missed the real tragedy in the reason why Harris grew up with far less influence from her black heritage than her Indian-American upbringing: The historic and family-shattering misandry of family courts.

Harris’s father is Donald Harris, a Jamaican-American economist, and her late mother was Shyamala Gopalan, an Indian-American biomedical researcher. The pair met while attending the University of California, Berkeley, in 1962, when Gopalan was a Ph.D. candidate and Donald Harris was a master’s student, at the university’s Afro-American Association, the study group that would eventually establish the Black Panther Party. Although Gopalan would later maintain that she originally intended to move back to India, she married Donald Harris in 1963. Kamala Harris was born a year later, and her sister and close adviser, Maya Harris, was born in 1967.

Gopalan and Donald Harris’s marriage began to fall apart as their careers took off, with Kamala Harris eventually writing in her memoir that her parents “stopped being kind to one another” by the time she was just 5 years old. Gopalan and her daughters moved with Donald Harris to the Midwest when he scored limited professorship stints at the University of Illinois at Champagne-Urbana and then at Northwestern University, but Gopalan moved with her daughters back to the Bay Area in 1970 while Donald Harris was working a tenure-track position at the University of Wisconsin. Right when Donald Harris returned to the Bay Area to join the University of Stanford’s economics department in 1972, Gopalan filed for divorce.

While the vice president does celebrate her origins as the daughter of a marriage born of the Civil Rights Movement, she mostly glosses over her father in speeches and memoirs. Kamala Harris credits her mother, who was Hindu, for ingratiating her with black American culture. Gopalan brought her daughters to predominately black Baptist churches and immersed them in the community of the black academics she had befriended at Berkeley. The girls spent summers and weekends with their father in Palo Alto and occasional jaunts to Jamaica, but Meena Harris, Kamala Harris’s niece, insisted Donald Harris “was not around after the divorce.”

The truth may be a little more complicated. Gopalan, who went on to become a prolific cancer researcher and brought her then-school-aged daughters with her as she worked at Quebecois universities, died of the disease in 2009, and Donald Harris rarely makes public statements. When he made his only major public remark during Kamala Harris’s failed presidential bid in 2020, condemning her joke about smoking marijuana because she is half-Jamaican, Kamala Harris demurred in her response, further confirming a familial rift. But in an essay about his attempts to teach his daughters, granddaughter, and great-grandchildren about their Jamaican heritage, Donald Harris revealed that his relative absence from his daughters’ lives was far from a decision of his own making.

“This early phase of interaction with my children came to an abrupt halt in 1972 when, after a hard-fought custody battle in the family court of Oakland, California, the context of the relationship was placed within arbitrary limits imposed by a court-ordered divorce settlement based on the false assumption by the State of California that fathers cannot handle parenting (especially in the case of this father, ‘a neegroe from da eyelans’ was the Yankee stereotype, who might just end up eating his children for breakfast!),” wrote Donald Harris in a 2019 blog post. “Nevertheless, I persisted, never giving up on my love for my children or reneging on my responsibilities as their father.”

Similar to too many biracial children of divorce, a family court made the decision for Kamala Harris as to which culture would influence her more. While Gopalan clearly succeeded at awakening her daughter’s racial awareness as a black woman, Kamala Harris’s black father was legally limited in his ability to parent his own child. It’s a story common in plenty of biracial families, perhaps due to racial animus or xenophobia, but most likely due to the misandrist doctrine of the “tender years” fallacy.

A well-intentioned but dramatic overcorrection from the historical assumption that both wives and children were the legal property of a husband under common law, the tender years doctrine, adopted in American law throughout the 19th century, assumed that mothers should have sole or primary custody of children in their younger years. Although countless states have overturned the doctrine as unconstitutional and nominally now require courts to consider the best interest of the child, a technical transformation that occurred shortly after Donald Harris and Gopalan divorced, only recently have states mandated that individual judges default to joint custody when ruling on physical custody of children. The result is that family courts still tend to be heavily biased against men at the cost of children.

Going back to a 1989 Massachusetts custody allocation, the Department of Justice found that even when fathers actively sought out custody of their children, they only received joint physical custody 46% of the time and primary physical custody 29% of the time. In 2007, researchers in the North Carolina Law Review found that when mothers filed as plaintiffs seeking primary physical custody, they were granted it 81.5% of the time. But fathers filing as plaintiffs for primary physical custody were only rewarded with such in 33.7% of cases. Fast forward to 2016, and a government study of Washington state found that of contested custody disputes, three-quarters of mothers received majority custody. Misandry in the courtroom also translates into actual danger for children. Whereas the overwhelming majority of fathers who committed domestic violence were (correctly) granted zero residential time with their children, some 70% of mothers who had committed domestic abuse were rewarded residential time.

A less technical but more recent review of nationwide data by popular parenting scheduling tool Custody X Change found that in situations where both parents want custody over a child, fathers receive barely a third of custodial time. Ironically enough, purple states lead the way in correcting the problem, as the majority of arrangements studied were 50/50 joint custody agreements between parents. Only 40% of arrangements in blue states and 22% of arrangements in red states gave equal time to both mothers and fathers.

Ironically enough, Trump’s own running mate may have this origin story in common with Kamala Harris. Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) famously did not reconnect with his own biological father, Donald Bowman, until he was an adolescent. Although Vance grew up believing Bowman was simply a deadbeat father who waived away his parental rights to allow Vance’s new stepfather to adopt him, again, the truth may have been more complicated.

“For the first time, I heard his side of the story: that the adoption had nothing to do with a desire to avoid child support and that, far from simply ‘giving me away,’ as Mom and Mamaw had said, Dad had hired multiple lawyers and done everything within reason to keep me,” Vance wrote in his book Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis.

CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER

Bowman said he only gave up because he “worried that the custody war was destroying” his son.

Statistically speaking, Kamala Harris lost far more than a deepened understanding of the Jamaican half of her heritage when a court decided to deprive her father of her custodial crime. Studies across the board seem to indicate that all children, Kamala Harris and Vance included, benefit emotionally, behaviorally, psychologically, and physically from co-equal parenting. That’s a less exciting political take to make, but for the Generation X and millennial children of the baby boomers and the 60s, the tales of Kamala Harris and Vance are all too common.

, The ordinary person’s primary objection to the presidential candidacy of Vice President Kamala Harris ought to lie in what she has done during the Biden administration (presiding over an annual 6% inflation rate, a record multi-million influx of illegal immigrants, etc.) and what she has advocated when pandering to the Democratic base (endorsing the full-scale elimination of private health insurance and fracking for example). Former President Donald Trump has instead honed in on the dumbest rationale to attack Harris for who she is. Trump questioned why, after “only promoting Indian heritage,” the de facto Democratic presidential nominee “happened to turn black.” It’s an idiotic political strategy to distract from Harris’s genuinely radical and incompetent record and, instead, question her immutable identity. But Trump also missed the real tragedy in the reason why Harris grew up with far less influence from her black heritage than her Indian-American upbringing: The historic and family-shattering misandry of family courts. Harris’s father is Donald Harris, a Jamaican-American economist, and her late mother was Shyamala Gopalan, an Indian-American biomedical researcher. The pair met while attending the University of California, Berkeley, in 1962, when Gopalan was a Ph.D. candidate and Donald Harris was a master’s student, at the university’s Afro-American Association, the study group that would eventually establish the Black Panther Party. Although Gopalan would later maintain that she originally intended to move back to India, she married Donald Harris in 1963. Kamala Harris was born a year later, and her sister and close adviser, Maya Harris, was born in 1967. Gopalan and Donald Harris’s marriage began to fall apart as their careers took off, with Kamala Harris eventually writing in her memoir that her parents “stopped being kind to one another” by the time she was just 5 years old. Gopalan and her daughters moved with Donald Harris to the Midwest when he scored limited professorship stints at the University of Illinois at Champagne-Urbana and then at Northwestern University, but Gopalan moved with her daughters back to the Bay Area in 1970 while Donald Harris was working a tenure-track position at the University of Wisconsin. Right when Donald Harris returned to the Bay Area to join the University of Stanford’s economics department in 1972, Gopalan filed for divorce. While the vice president does celebrate her origins as the daughter of a marriage born of the Civil Rights Movement, she mostly glosses over her father in speeches and memoirs. Kamala Harris credits her mother, who was Hindu, for ingratiating her with black American culture. Gopalan brought her daughters to predominately black Baptist churches and immersed them in the community of the black academics she had befriended at Berkeley. The girls spent summers and weekends with their father in Palo Alto and occasional jaunts to Jamaica, but Meena Harris, Kamala Harris’s niece, insisted Donald Harris “was not around after the divorce.” The truth may be a little more complicated. Gopalan, who went on to become a prolific cancer researcher and brought her then-school-aged daughters with her as she worked at Quebecois universities, died of the disease in 2009, and Donald Harris rarely makes public statements. When he made his only major public remark during Kamala Harris’s failed presidential bid in 2020, condemning her joke about smoking marijuana because she is half-Jamaican, Kamala Harris demurred in her response, further confirming a familial rift. But in an essay about his attempts to teach his daughters, granddaughter, and great-grandchildren about their Jamaican heritage, Donald Harris revealed that his relative absence from his daughters’ lives was far from a decision of his own making. “This early phase of interaction with my children came to an abrupt halt in 1972 when, after a hard-fought custody battle in the family court of Oakland, California, the context of the relationship was placed within arbitrary limits imposed by a court-ordered divorce settlement based on the false assumption by the State of California that fathers cannot handle parenting (especially in the case of this father, ‘a neegroe from da eyelans’ was the Yankee stereotype, who might just end up eating his children for breakfast!),” wrote Donald Harris in a 2019 blog post. “Nevertheless, I persisted, never giving up on my love for my children or reneging on my responsibilities as their father.” Similar to too many biracial children of divorce, a family court made the decision for Kamala Harris as to which culture would influence her more. While Gopalan clearly succeeded at awakening her daughter’s racial awareness as a black woman, Kamala Harris’s black father was legally limited in his ability to parent his own child. It’s a story common in plenty of biracial families, perhaps due to racial animus or xenophobia, but most likely due to the misandrist doctrine of the “tender years” fallacy. A well-intentioned but dramatic overcorrection from the historical assumption that both wives and children were the legal property of a husband under common law, the tender years doctrine, adopted in American law throughout the 19th century, assumed that mothers should have sole or primary custody of children in their younger years. Although countless states have overturned the doctrine as unconstitutional and nominally now require courts to consider the best interest of the child, a technical transformation that occurred shortly after Donald Harris and Gopalan divorced, only recently have states mandated that individual judges default to joint custody when ruling on physical custody of children. The result is that family courts still tend to be heavily biased against men at the cost of children. Going back to a 1989 Massachusetts custody allocation, the Department of Justice found that even when fathers actively sought out custody of their children, they only received joint physical custody 46% of the time and primary physical custody 29% of the time. In 2007, researchers in the North Carolina Law Review found that when mothers filed as plaintiffs seeking primary physical custody, they were granted it 81.5% of the time. But fathers filing as plaintiffs for primary physical custody were only rewarded with such in 33.7% of cases. Fast forward to 2016, and a government study of Washington state found that of contested custody disputes, three-quarters of mothers received majority custody. Misandry in the courtroom also translates into actual danger for children. Whereas the overwhelming majority of fathers who committed domestic violence were (correctly) granted zero residential time with their children, some 70% of mothers who had committed domestic abuse were rewarded residential time. A less technical but more recent review of nationwide data by popular parenting scheduling tool Custody X Change found that in situations where both parents want custody over a child, fathers receive barely a third of custodial time. Ironically enough, purple states lead the way in correcting the problem, as the majority of arrangements studied were 50/50 joint custody agreements between parents. Only 40% of arrangements in blue states and 22% of arrangements in red states gave equal time to both mothers and fathers. Ironically enough, Trump’s own running mate may have this origin story in common with Kamala Harris. Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) famously did not reconnect with his own biological father, Donald Bowman, until he was an adolescent. Although Vance grew up believing Bowman was simply a deadbeat father who waived away his parental rights to allow Vance’s new stepfather to adopt him, again, the truth may have been more complicated. “For the first time, I heard his side of the story: that the adoption had nothing to do with a desire to avoid child support and that, far from simply ‘giving me away,’ as Mom and Mamaw had said, Dad had hired multiple lawyers and done everything within reason to keep me,” Vance wrote in his book Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER Bowman said he only gave up because he “worried that the custody war was destroying” his son. Statistically speaking, Kamala Harris lost far more than a deepened understanding of the Jamaican half of her heritage when a court decided to deprive her father of her custodial crime. Studies across the board seem to indicate that all children, Kamala Harris and Vance included, benefit emotionally, behaviorally, psychologically, and physically from co-equal parenting. That’s a less exciting political take to make, but for the Generation X and millennial children of the baby boomers and the 60s, the tales of Kamala Harris and Vance are all too common., , , https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/vance-harris-debate.webp, Washington Examiner, Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/cropped-favicon-32×32.png, https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/feed/, Tiana Lowe Doescher,

A Maryland police canine officer is being charged with animal cruelty after allegedly mistreating the dog assigned to him, police said Thursday.

Cpl. David Acosta of the Prince George’s County Police Department is facing three animal cruelty charges, one of which is a felony, in connection with the mistreatment of a two-year-old bloodhound named Daisy.

Acosta was suspended earlier this month for an unrelated incident, police said. During the suspension process, canine handlers were ordered to pick up Daisy and Acosta’s other dog, a Belgian Malinois named Spartacus.

After they retrieved the dogs, the handlers noticed injuries related to an e-collar on Daisy’s neck, according to police. The bloodhound was taken to a veterinarian for treatment. In addition to the collar-related injuries, she had other medical conditions requiring care.

The department launched an investigation that led to the charges against Acosta.

“This situation involving Daisy is appalling. She is a part of the PGPD family,” Prince George’s County Police Chief Malik Aziz said in a statement. “I expect that all of our handlers treat their canine partners with the utmost care and concern.”

Acosta has been with the PGPD since 2006 and is currently assigned to the special operations division. He will be suspended without pay.

The department has also implemented new policies to ensure the proper treatment of its canines moving forward, including weekly visual inspections of the dogs, bimonthly in-depth inspections, and biannual kennel inspections.

Aziz said Daisy is “doing well and back to work.”

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“To the best of our knowledge, this is the first incident of animal mistreatment in the 60-year history of the Canine Section,” the police chief said. 

“Bloodhounds play a crucial role in our agency’s service to the community, primarily with assisting in searches for missing people,” he added.

2024-08-01 20:39:00, http://s.wordpress.com/mshots/v1/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonexaminer.com%2Fnews%2F3107987%2Fmaryland-police-officer-facing-animal-cruelty-charges-for-allegedly-mistreating-his-k-9-companion%2F?w=600&h=450, A Maryland police canine officer is being charged with animal cruelty after allegedly mistreating the dog assigned to him, police said Thursday. Cpl. David Acosta of the Prince George’s County Police Department is facing three animal cruelty charges, one of which is a felony, in connection with the mistreatment of a two-year-old bloodhound named Daisy.,

A Maryland police canine officer is being charged with animal cruelty after allegedly mistreating the dog assigned to him, police said Thursday.

Cpl. David Acosta of the Prince George’s County Police Department is facing three animal cruelty charges, one of which is a felony, in connection with the mistreatment of a two-year-old bloodhound named Daisy.

Acosta was suspended earlier this month for an unrelated incident, police said. During the suspension process, canine handlers were ordered to pick up Daisy and Acosta’s other dog, a Belgian Malinois named Spartacus.

After they retrieved the dogs, the handlers noticed injuries related to an e-collar on Daisy’s neck, according to police. The bloodhound was taken to a veterinarian for treatment. In addition to the collar-related injuries, she had other medical conditions requiring care.

The department launched an investigation that led to the charges against Acosta.

“This situation involving Daisy is appalling. She is a part of the PGPD family,” Prince George’s County Police Chief Malik Aziz said in a statement. “I expect that all of our handlers treat their canine partners with the utmost care and concern.”

Acosta has been with the PGPD since 2006 and is currently assigned to the special operations division. He will be suspended without pay.

The department has also implemented new policies to ensure the proper treatment of its canines moving forward, including weekly visual inspections of the dogs, bimonthly in-depth inspections, and biannual kennel inspections.

Aziz said Daisy is “doing well and back to work.”

CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER

“To the best of our knowledge, this is the first incident of animal mistreatment in the 60-year history of the Canine Section,” the police chief said. 

“Bloodhounds play a crucial role in our agency’s service to the community, primarily with assisting in searches for missing people,” he added.

, A Maryland police canine officer is being charged with animal cruelty after allegedly mistreating the dog assigned to him, police said Thursday. Cpl. David Acosta of the Prince George’s County Police Department is facing three animal cruelty charges, one of which is a felony, in connection with the mistreatment of a two-year-old bloodhound named Daisy. Acosta was suspended earlier this month for an unrelated incident, police said. During the suspension process, canine handlers were ordered to pick up Daisy and Acosta’s other dog, a Belgian Malinois named Spartacus. After they retrieved the dogs, the handlers noticed injuries related to an e-collar on Daisy’s neck, according to police. The bloodhound was taken to a veterinarian for treatment. In addition to the collar-related injuries, she had other medical conditions requiring care. The department launched an investigation that led to the charges against Acosta. “This situation involving Daisy is appalling. She is a part of the PGPD family,” Prince George’s County Police Chief Malik Aziz said in a statement. “I expect that all of our handlers treat their canine partners with the utmost care and concern.” Acosta has been with the PGPD since 2006 and is currently assigned to the special operations division. He will be suspended without pay. The department has also implemented new policies to ensure the proper treatment of its canines moving forward, including weekly visual inspections of the dogs, bimonthly in-depth inspections, and biannual kennel inspections. Aziz said Daisy is “doing well and back to work.” CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER “To the best of our knowledge, this is the first incident of animal mistreatment in the 60-year history of the Canine Section,” the police chief said.  “Bloodhounds play a crucial role in our agency’s service to the community, primarily with assisting in searches for missing people,” he added., , , https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/k9-bloodhound-police.webp, Washington Examiner, Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/cropped-favicon-32×32.png, https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/feed/, Audrey Baker,

A top aide to embattled Dolton, Illinois, Mayor Tiffany Henyard has been fired from one of his jobs.

The aide, Keith Freeman, was fired in July for repeatedly not showing up to work. Henyard serves as Dolton’s mayor, but she is also the town supervisor of the neighboring township of Thornton, where Freeman was fired. 

“Due to the high-ranking position that you hold within the township, this type of misconduct cannot be tolerated,” the Human Resources Department of Thorton wrote in its email notifying Freeman he had been fired. “Your misconduct is a detriment to the smooth functioning of the township’s operations.”

Freeman was working as both Henyard’s senior adviser in Thornton Township and as village administrator in Dolton. Payroll records indicate he is still employed in Dolton. 

“There appears to be a severing of ties going on between Tiffany and Keith; but nothing from the mayor’s office has come out saying he’s terminated,” trustee Jason House, who announced he’s challenging Henyard for mayor in the 2025 election, said. 

According to the Chicago Tribune, Freeman was given a written warning about his behavior in June. He was told he needed to have “better communications of [his] whereabouts and more time spent at the township.” Records from the township also show he worked just 46 hours in the entire month of June, including several weeks with nearly zero hours.  

Henyard has blurred the line between both towns she runs with employees oftentimes doing work tasks for each town. 

She is also under federal scrutiny for lavish spending of town money on vacations, including one to Las Vegas, where an employee claimed she was sexually assaulted by a fellow employee and then fired for speaking out. Multiple lawsuits have also been filed against Henyard and Freeman for unlawful retaliation against employees. 

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“They say that you’re the worst mayor in America. I agree,” one Dolton resident said at a meeting following the trip to Las Vegas. The trip cost taxpayers tens of thousands of dollars.

Freeman is also in legal trouble after being charged with bankruptcy fraud for making false statements in a bankruptcy petition he filed earlier this year to conceal his assets and sources of income, according to a federal indictment.

2024-08-01 20:33:00, http://s.wordpress.com/mshots/v1/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonexaminer.com%2Fnews%2Fcampaigns%2Fstate%2F3108027%2Ftop-aide-america-worst-mayor-tiffany-henyard-fired%2F?w=600&h=450, A top aide to embattled Dolton, Illinois, Mayor Tiffany Henyard has been fired from one of his jobs. The aide, Keith Freeman, was fired in July for repeatedly not showing up to work. Henyard serves as Dolton’s mayor, but she is also the town supervisor of the neighboring township of Thornton, where Freeman was fired. ,

A top aide to embattled Dolton, Illinois, Mayor Tiffany Henyard has been fired from one of his jobs.

The aide, Keith Freeman, was fired in July for repeatedly not showing up to work. Henyard serves as Dolton’s mayor, but she is also the town supervisor of the neighboring township of Thornton, where Freeman was fired. 

“Due to the high-ranking position that you hold within the township, this type of misconduct cannot be tolerated,” the Human Resources Department of Thorton wrote in its email notifying Freeman he had been fired. “Your misconduct is a detriment to the smooth functioning of the township’s operations.”

Freeman was working as both Henyard’s senior adviser in Thornton Township and as village administrator in Dolton. Payroll records indicate he is still employed in Dolton. 

“There appears to be a severing of ties going on between Tiffany and Keith; but nothing from the mayor’s office has come out saying he’s terminated,” trustee Jason House, who announced he’s challenging Henyard for mayor in the 2025 election, said. 

According to the Chicago Tribune, Freeman was given a written warning about his behavior in June. He was told he needed to have “better communications of [his] whereabouts and more time spent at the township.” Records from the township also show he worked just 46 hours in the entire month of June, including several weeks with nearly zero hours.  

Henyard has blurred the line between both towns she runs with employees oftentimes doing work tasks for each town. 

She is also under federal scrutiny for lavish spending of town money on vacations, including one to Las Vegas, where an employee claimed she was sexually assaulted by a fellow employee and then fired for speaking out. Multiple lawsuits have also been filed against Henyard and Freeman for unlawful retaliation against employees. 

CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER

“They say that you’re the worst mayor in America. I agree,” one Dolton resident said at a meeting following the trip to Las Vegas. The trip cost taxpayers tens of thousands of dollars.

Freeman is also in legal trouble after being charged with bankruptcy fraud for making false statements in a bankruptcy petition he filed earlier this year to conceal his assets and sources of income, according to a federal indictment.

, A top aide to embattled Dolton, Illinois, Mayor Tiffany Henyard has been fired from one of his jobs. The aide, Keith Freeman, was fired in July for repeatedly not showing up to work. Henyard serves as Dolton’s mayor, but she is also the town supervisor of the neighboring township of Thornton, where Freeman was fired.  “Due to the high-ranking position that you hold within the township, this type of misconduct cannot be tolerated,” the Human Resources Department of Thorton wrote in its email notifying Freeman he had been fired. “Your misconduct is a detriment to the smooth functioning of the township’s operations.” Freeman was working as both Henyard’s senior adviser in Thornton Township and as village administrator in Dolton. Payroll records indicate he is still employed in Dolton.  “There appears to be a severing of ties going on between Tiffany and Keith; but nothing from the mayor’s office has come out saying he’s terminated,” trustee Jason House, who announced he’s challenging Henyard for mayor in the 2025 election, said.  According to the Chicago Tribune , Freeman was given a written warning about his behavior in June. He was told he needed to have “better communications of [his] whereabouts and more time spent at the township.” Records from the township also show he worked just 46 hours in the entire month of June, including several weeks with nearly zero hours.   Henyard has blurred the line between both towns she runs with employees oftentimes doing work tasks for each town.  She is also under federal scrutiny for lavish spending of town money on vacations, including one to Las Vegas, where an employee claimed she was sexually assaulted by a fellow employee and then fired for speaking out. Multiple lawsuits have also been filed against Henyard and Freeman for unlawful retaliation against employees.  CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER “They say that you’re the worst mayor in America. I agree,” one Dolton resident said at a meeting following the trip to Las Vegas. The trip cost taxpayers tens of thousands of dollars. Freeman is also in legal trouble after being charged with bankruptcy fraud for making false statements in a bankruptcy petition he filed earlier this year to conceal his assets and sources of income, according to a federal indictment., , , https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/zumaamericasfortytwo414123-1024×684.jpg, Washington Examiner, Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/cropped-favicon-32×32.png, https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/feed/, Annabella Rosciglione,