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President Bidens leadership is causing even some of his partys faithful to wonder whether he should be the Democrats candidate in 2024. Even if he presided with competence, there would be places where Biden should not venture. One such place is interfering with the foreign and domestic policies of the United Kingdom.

Amid a global economic crisis and conflict with Russia, the Biden administration has not wavered in siding against its most stalwart ally. Recently, Biden officials at different levels of government have warned the UK not to pursue any action to modify the Northern Ireland Protocol the trading arrangements put in place after the UK voted for Brexit in 2016 heedless of the fact that Britain, a sovereign country, must be allowed to pursue policy that is in its best interests. This is not how friends treat cherished friends, and it has this week earned sharp criticism of two former U.S. ambassadors to the United Nations, Nikki Haley and John Bolton.

Northern Ireland is a full-fledged province of the United Kingdom, whose government must act to maintain its proper cohesion. The Biden administrations latest error of judgment is its challenge to the British governments duty and resolve in this regard, siding instead with European Union (EU) bad faith and intransigence.

Biden, along with some of his fellow Democrats in Congress, apparently is blind to the reality of the breakdown in power-sharing in Stormont that is created by EU extremism over implementation of the Protocol that is the real threat to peace and stability.

There is no excuse for being blind to reality. In September, no less than the architect of the Good Friday Agreement, David Trimble, wrote Biden a measured appeal, cogently asking that the president abandon his support for the EUs position over the trade terms, arguing that meddling by Biden and his congressional cohorts risks causing civil unrest, damage to the Northern Ireland economy, and political uncertainty. That this most-informed advice from someone who best understands the situation in Northern Ireland has gone unheeded is hardly shocking, considering the Biden administrations neglect to coordinate with the UK our key military partner and closest ally during last Augusts chaotic withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan.

Were the Biden administration well-intended, it would demonstrate even-handedness. To put this into context, the American public would rightfully be incensed were a British leader to meddle in our sovereign affairs say, supporting Texas or California seceding from the Union, or taking the side of Canada or Mexico in the event of a USMCA disagreement.

In fact, Prime Minister Boris Johnson did voice an opinion and a critical one, at that about Fridays Supreme Court decision regarding abortion. But, unlike the Biden administration, Johnson, when disagreeing, hasnt resorted to threatening consequences or conditions.

Democrats intolerable our way or the highway approach in prescribing what Britains course should be leaves the Biden administration content to undermine and show contempt for our ally, even as the UK demonstrates so clearly its Brexit release to be Global Britain, with its leadership regarding Ukraine and its defense engagement with Sweden and Finland in stark contrast to the EU wallowing on these and other subjects.

Bidens approach would be bad enough in isolation toward a country of scant importance to the U.S. But Britain is not that, and what he does is not in the U.S. interest. He sides against the UK with an Irish nationalism that purports neutrality but shelters under UK and NATO protection. It appears the EUs not-so-hidden aim is a united Ireland, the North separated from the UK as punishment for Brexit.

Perhaps Biden, undeclared, shares that aim. That would make starkly dishonest, Secretary of State Antony Blinkens justification of the administrations suggestion to put on the ground an uninvited and unwanted American envoy to act as referee, in line with our historical role as a good-faith arbiter. Regardless of motives, the meddling has met with an appropriate response from UK Brexit negotiator David Frost: It is our country that faced the Troubles. We dont need lectures from others about the peace process.

One has to marvel at the judgment of an American administration to intrude shamefully on our closest allys sovereignty when we have paralyzing problems at home, such as unbearable inflation caused by runaway spending.

Moreover, at a time of peril that threatens all the people of Ireland that is, Russias suggested nuclear detonation to swamp the UK rather than lecturing the UK about how it reacts to EU bullying, Biden instead should consider urging Ireland to join NATO.

Lee Cohen, a senior fellow of the Bow Group and the Bruges Group, was adviser on Great Britain to the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee and founded the Congressional United Kingdom Caucus. Follow him on Twitter @LeeLeesco3.

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(June 27, 2022 / JNS) An anti-Israel activist who shared a number of social media posts with anti-Semitic content has campaigned with multiple Democrats over the past year.

Mahel Abdel Qader has come under fire for repeatedly promoting anti-Semitic conspiracy theories. In 2017, he shared a graphic that included the names of dozens of Jewish members of Congress, implying that they have a dual loyalty to Israel and the United States. The Daily Caller reported that, in 2018, Qader shared an anti-Semitic video that claimed Jews are satanic and control the media. The video also dipped into Holocaust denial, questioning whether six million Jews died at the hands of the Nazis. It also claimed that Jews arent actually Jewish, but rather invented their historical claims to Israel.

In another post, Qader accused Israeli settlers of training children to terrorize Palestinian civilians. He also posted a picture of a sign that showed former U.S. President Donald Trump wearing a yarmulke while holding a Hanukkah menorah and an Israeli flag. The sign said, Hey Donald, we thought you said America First! Qader also put up multiple posts that promote boycotts of Israel.

According to a Fox News Digital report, Qader served on the host committees of multiple fundraisers for New York City Mayor Eric Adams campaign. He also joined Adams on a Zoom call to discuss the campaign, according to a post on Qaders now-deleted Instagram page.

In addition, Qader attended a New York City fundraiser last month for Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, who is running for reelection. Several weeks ago, he was on the host committee of a virtual fundraiser for Rev. Jesse Jacksons son Jonathan Jackson, who is running for Congress in Illinois First Congressional District.

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In promotional material for the fundraiser, Qader wrote on his Instagram page, Jonathan Jackson son of Jesse Jackson/Chicago is running for congress and needs our support. He is a staunch supporter of Palestine, Palestinians and our Arab-American community.

Qader has also participated in fundraisers with members of the far-left group of Democratic House members known as The Squad. Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) took part in a virtual Zoom fundraiser with Qader last September. In early November, Qader posted a flier for a fundraising reception for Bush hosted by the St. Louis Palestine Solidarity Committee and the Muslim Community of St. Louis.

Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), who has close ties to Qader, has participated in several events with him during her time in Congress, including a fundraiser last September. The day after the fundraiser, Qader posted a picture of himself with Tlaib on a Manhattan rooftop. Qader served as chairman of the Tlaib campaigns finance committee during her successful 2018 congressional run and was presented with a medal by Tlaib for his service.

In response to concerns about his anti-Semitic activities, Qader said he has great respect for the religion and the Jewish people, adding that there is no such thing as fake Jews. He denied that he had claimed otherwise, despite the evidence from his Facebook posts.

A source in Adams office, who is not authorized to speak to the media, said Adams had attempted to build a wide coalition of supporters from across the demographic spectrum and that his strong support for and relationship with the New York Jewish community and Israel is clear.

The offices of Ellison, Bush and Tlaib did not respond to requests for comment.

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Abortion enthusiasts have been telling so many lies since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last week, its hard to take them seriously.

Now President Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi are salivating at the prospect that abortion is on the ballot, as opposed to inflation, crime, border security and all the issues that have the Democrats under water and without a viable policy.

But abortion may not be the electoral game-changer they hope for, and largely thats because the lies they tell themselves and their supporters have caused them to lose touch with the reality of America.

Women caring for their health is the presidents euphemism for abortion.

It was a sad day and a tragic error, said Biden, when the Supreme Court returned the issue to the voters and their elected state representatives to decide. He vowed to do everything in my power to preserve abortion.

Pelosi called the decision outrageous and criminalizing reproductive freedom, another euphemism which tries to hide the death element of abortion.

Like Biden, her unequivocal support for abortion is wildly at odds with Catholic teaching and her ostentatious religiosity.

Im very Catholic, devout, practicing, she has declared.

But San Franciscos Catholic archbishop, Salvatore J. Cordileone, last month rebuked Pelosi over her vocal support for abortion, and declared she would be denied Communion.

Biden has escaped accountability for his abortion advocacy. I guess we have to take his word for it that Pope Francis told him in April that he was a good Catholic and should continue receiving Communion.

But the Vatican is all for the overturning of Roe v. Wade, issuing a statement praising the decision last week, and the pope explicitly has called abortion murder, likening it to hiring a hit man.

Polls show almost nine in 10 Americans oppose Biden and Pelosis extreme position of abortion on demand until birth.

A Trafalgar Group poll last month showed less than 12% of Americans support abortions to birth, while 57% believe abortions should be banned once an unborn babys heartbeat can be detected at about six weeks. Even among Democrats, only 19% think that abortion should be legal until birth.

Scientific advances showing us detailed ultrasound photos inside the womb, and allowing premature babies to survive at 25 weeks, have changed the equation. Most Americans want reasonable restrictions with compassionate exceptions to safeguard the mothers life and in the cases of rape and incest which Planned Parenthoods own research arm, the Guttmacher Institute, says is less than 1% of abortions.

Whats more, a Rasmussen poll last month showed 48% of voters said they would approve of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, and 45% would disapprove. Among Democratic voters, 33% said they would approve.

And a Fox News poll found 54% of voters supported state laws banning abortion at 15 weeks, such as in Mississippi, where the Supreme Court case originated.

If they are so opposed to the Supreme Court decision, why dont Democrats simply pass a law to codify Roe v. Wade, since they control Washington?

Well, they tried it already with the Womens Health Protection Act, and failed. The Senate voted 49-51 against the bill, which would have overridden state abortion laws, well short of the 60 votes needed. The problem, as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez complains, is that members of their own party are pro-life.

Biden claims America has become an outlier, when actually it was an outlier under Roe, since only five other countries including China and North Korea allow abortion until the moment of birth.

The truth is Democrats strayed too far from public opinion. Where once the phrase safe, legal and rare summed up a palatable position for Democrats, they allowed extremists to push it to abortion any time for any reason, including for sex selection and to get rid of Down syndrome babies, which is opposed by 70% of Americans, according to a Knights of Columbus survey last year.

In Mississippi, it wasnt pro-life activists but an abortion clinic that went to court to overturn the state law banning abortions after 15 weeks, except in the case of a mothers life being threatened. Its their own fault, and Harry Reids filibuster reform also played a role.

Wrong. The Constitution mentions nothing about abortion. All the Supreme Court did was send abortion regulation back to the states, where it always belonged. Abortion remains available, but there are now 50 abortion laws. All 13 states with so-called trigger laws allow abortions to save the life of the mother.

As for the slippery slope which Pelosi & Co. are fearmongering about, Justice Samuel Alito explicitly wrote that nothing in this opinion should be understood to cast doubt on precedents that do not concern abortion, such as contraception and gay marriage.

While Justice Clarence Thomas wrote separately that other substantive precedents decided by the court on due process should be re-examined, he just says they should be based on other constitutional provisions. In any case, no other justice agreed.

Hardly. They should offer similar lump sums to pregnant employees who keep their babies.

But let the woke corporates serve as an inspiration for Republicans to enact Hungarian-style policies, which reward mothers and fathers handsomely for having children and encourage them to have lots more.

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They dont have to collude, they dont have to form a cartel, they dont have to be monopolists, Stanford University economist Roger Noll said about oil refiners in California a few years back. All they have to do is take advantage of the crazy rules.

The crazy rules are the environmental regulations and clean fuel mandates imposed by state and federal lawmakers. The regulations crowd out smaller competitors, drive consolidation, and keep out new entrants.

If that sounds bad to you, it sounds great to the large refiners. Make no mistake about it, said Thomas OMalley, a refinery executive who lobbied for stricter clean fuel rules. "The more stringent you make specifications, those become barriers to entry. Strong companies would have an advantage.

We are today reaping the bitter fruit of environmental regulations that have driven massive consolidation in the refining industry. President Joe Biden now claims to be upset about that.

The Biden administration scolded oil refiners. While mostly blaming Vladimir Putin for high gas prices, he said, Historically high refinery profit margins are worsening that pain.

Biden isnt wrong that refineries are a bottleneck on fuel production and that refinery capacity has been higher in the past.

Reduced refinery capacity, notes liberal journalist David Dayen at the American Prospect, in large part triggered by industry consolidation, has been a major factor in high gas prices.

But what is behind that industry consolidation? Barriers to entry, especially regulations that drive out small players and protect the large incumbents from competition. These are exactly the sort of barriers to entry that the Biden administration continues to support that Joe Biden has spent his career erecting.

One small example is the federal ethanol mandate. Although it allows exemptions for small oil refiners, the Biden administration regularly denies applications for such exemptions he denied 65 such petitions just this winter.

Had Biden set out explicitly to cause refinery consolidation, he probably wouldnt have governed any differently as a senator or as president. Now, hes pretending to be upset that this concentrated industry is protected from competition and has high costs and high profits.

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Democrats needastrong voice ready tofight to restorewomens rights, now that the Supreme Court has struck down Roe v. Wade.

Theres only one Hillary Clinton.

Right-wingers on the Supreme Court rescinding the constitutional right to abortionis incredibly dangerous and it is not just about a womans right to choose. It is about much more than that, ClintontoldCBS News back in May, when a draft version of Fridays decision emerged.

Any American who says, Look, Im not a woman, this doesnt affect me. Im not Black, that doesnt affect me. Im not gay, that doesnt affect me once you allow this kind of extreme power to take hold, you have no idea who they will come for next, she said.

Go, Hillary.

Unlike most Democratsat a loss for a midterms message, Clintonknowshow todeal withthefar rights bullying.

The GOPs media echo chamber long ago demonized her.She still beat Donald Trump in the popular vote in 2016.

Nowitis her turn tolashthe GOPextremistsforending nationwideabortionrights,putting more guns on the streets,punishingcorporationsfor supportinggay rights anddismissinghistory lessons on raceas upsetting to white children.

Clintonisexactly the rightpersontoput steel in the Democrats spine andbring attention totherealitythatultra-MAGARepublicans,as President Biden calls them,are tearing apart the nation.

TheSupreme Court justices last weekacted as political enforcers for extremist views that are far out of line with public opinion on abortion and gun safety.

Theyopened the door towomen losing control over their liveswithout the right to have an abortion. They also gave a pass to more violent shootings on the streetsby striking down a New York safeguard that required people who want to carry a firearm in public to demonstrate a specific need.

Thesedecisionsamount toapolitical powerplayby former President Trumps three nominees.

Bidenmeasures hiswords about the far rightout offear of beingcharged with further polarizing the country.

So let Hillary roar her message to suburban white women who will be key to deciding the outcome of the midterms.

She already bragged back in AprilthatBiden and congressional Democrats havehad a lot of good accomplishmentsin the last two years, including passage ofa long-delayed infrastructure bill to strengthen Americas roads, bridges and electricity grids.

She ispumping up Democrats for passing the financial aid package that kept many families afloat through the pandemic.

Without a strong voice like Clintons,thoseDemocraticaccomplishmentsgetdrowned out by Republicanculture wars centered onhatred oftransgender children, fictions about whites being replacedandthe embrace of the liethat the 2020 election was stolen.

Clintonhas the added potential to changethe national conversation byscoldingsocial media sites, newspapersand television networksforattemptingeven-handed treatment ofboth parties, even though one party is nowan autocratic cult complicit ina violent insurrection against the U.S. government.

I dont think the media is doing its job, to be honest, sherecently toldHarry Lambert of the British publication The New Statesman.

She added, The mainstream media hasnt yet caught up to the reality we live in. They are much too reluctant to stand up for the truth in the face of massive lying to call a lie a lie to be on record as saying that we are in a struggle between democracy and authoritarianism, and it cant just be business as usual.

In a separate interview with Edward Luce of the Financial Times,Clinton even called outfellow Democrats forthe excesses of woke politics.She labeled it as adistraction that feeds right-wing medias distorted image of mainstream Democrats.

We are standing on the precipice of losing our democracy, and everything that everybody else cares about then goes out the window, Clinton said.

Look, the most important thing is to win the next election. The alternative is so frightening that whatever does not help you win should not be a priority.

Clinton is feeding a hunger aroused in April by Michigan state Sen.Mallory McMorrow (D). The little-known politician went viral by firing back at GOP lies about Michigan Democrats wanting to groom and sexualize childrenbecause they favoredlaws allowingteachersto addresssexuality.

Calling herself a straight, white, Christian, married, suburban mom, McMorrow stoodinthe state Capitol and called out the GOP attack as absolute nonsense.

Speaking with fire in her voice, she said: I want every child in this state to feel seen, heard and supported, not marginalized and targeted because they are not straight, white and Christian.

This is the model for Clinton.

The U.S. needsleaders who endeavor to bring out the best in us, not the worst, who dont play to our fears, but help usaddress them,Clintonsaidin Britain.

In her Financial Times interview, Clinton specifically warned Democrats not to fall victim to Republicanclaims that Democrats wantto defund the police.

It doesnt even pass the common-sense politics test not to believe that[police are necessary,andshouldbe accountable], sheexplained, adding politics should be the art of addition not subtraction.

Keep talking and talklouder,Hillary!

Juan Williams is anauthor,and a political analyst for Fox News Channel.

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