Multiple news organizations said Trump handily won the debate and was poised to win in November. The liberal New York Times reported, “After last night, the Democrats are panicked. … Biden’s voice was hoarse and halting. His answers were often unclear, and he struggled to finish his thoughts. … Some Democrats are now pushing for him to drop out of the race.”

Right after the debate, MSNBC’s Nicole Wallace acknowledged that frank conversations were occurring among party leaders and inside Biden’s circle about whether the president should “be in this race tomorrow morning.” One senior Democratic operative told RCP he and his colleagues were rattled to the core and expressed concern that even the cable network most sympathetic to the president was discussing whether the party should replace him on the ticket.

Washington will always argue about when to use our arsenal of democracy. But there should be no debate about guaranteeing to the American people, our allies, and our adversaries (a) that the arsenal will always be there for us, and (b) that it always works as intended when called upon. Today it’s not, and it doesn’t.

The harsh, inescapable truth is that too much immigration – the excesses plaguing the U.S. and Canada – hurts the native-born economically and societally.

On Oct. 7, 2016 – just two days before the presidential debate between Trump and Clinton – Clapper issued the unprecedented intelligence advisory with Obama’s personal blessing. It seemed to lend credence to what the Clinton camp was telling the media — that Trump was working with Russian President Vladimir Putin through a secret back channel to steal the election. Sure enough, the Democratic nominee pounced on it to smear Trump at the debate. And that wouldn’t be the only historically consequential maneuver for Clapper, whose role in skewing presidential campaigns might deserve a special place in the annals of nefarious election meddling – by, in this case, a domestic, not foreign, intelligence service.

These disasters won’t get the attention they deserve in this first presidential debate. However, every voter needs to remember them when November rolls around.

The narrative has become a bedrock of Harris’ political identity. She featured her DA environmental justice crimes unit in her first statewide television advertisement and she rarely missed an opportunity to tout the history during her presidential bid, during which she promised similar initiatives if elected. But records from the San Francisco District Attorney’s office and interviews with local environmental advocates point to a different, far less ambitious record. 

Israeli Defense Forces argue that since Oct. 7, Hamas militants have planted themselves in Gaza’s residential areas to either hide behind or induce strikes on the Palestinian civilian population. The IDF claims that Hamas “uses the people of Gaza as human shields by embedding itself among them in schools, mosques and hospitals.”

There were two astonishing developments this week in the Biden administration’s continuing attack on free speech. First, just days ahead of the Supreme Court’s decision on whether to uphold the Fifth Circuit’s injunction against the administration’s extensive censorship enterprise, a second White House press secretary strongly encouraged the media to chill political debate. Second, Karine Jean-Pierre was masterful in her delivery of the new Biden attack line on “cheap fakes.”

Since President Biden took office, prices have skyrocketed by 20.1 percent, while real wages remain lower than four years ago. Not only is gas up 55.3 percent, but so are basic family necessities like eggs, which are up 40.1 percent, flour, which is up 34.8 percent, and chicken, which is up 24 percent. Not to mention, airfare is up by 29.9 percent, electricity is up 29 percent, eating out is up 22.2 percent, and housing affordability has plummeted to record lows.

The National League won 17 All-Star games with Mays in the lineup, losing only six. In 1959, when Willie Mays tripled Hank Aaron home in the 8th inning to give the National League a 5-4 win, San Francisco Chronicle baseball writer Bob Stevens quipped, “Harvey Kuenn gave it an honest pursuit, but the only center fielder in baseball who could have caught it hit it.”

The Biden administration's efforts to twist decades-old laws to achieve political wins may not end with Bayh-Dole. Legal filings suggest that the administration is also advancing a radical reinterpretation of Section 1498, a World War I-era statute meant to provide patent owners with reasonable compensation if the government infringes on their technology during a war or other direct government responsibility. 

Max Lucado expresses beautifully the essence of faith. "Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right." 

Presidential debates once made an important contribution to American civic life and democratic ideals. They should reflect our values as a society and serve to create a better informed and more thoughtful electorate – not the opposite.

Throughout his time in office, and especially this election year, only one consideration seems to motivate President Biden’s border and immigration policies: politics.