The College

As time goes by, the question will move from where Trump got his votes to who could possibly have voted for Harris.

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Chicago police make arrests in only 20% of fatal shootings.

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Democrats are accusing Musk of usurping the Trump presidency, this from the party that has been pretending that Biden has been president for four years.

There is something to the charge your enemy will accuse you of their crimes.

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The Ohio legislature passed legislation to let a coal-burning facility claim renewable energy credits.

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Biden administration’s Middle East aid envoy Lisa Grande reportedly made demands of Israel regarding the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip, in a harsh phone call with Israel’s military liaison to the Palestinians, COGAT chief Gen. Ghassan Alian. 

Channel 12 news reports that Grande demanded during the call that Israel declare it is not following a policy of deliberately starving Gazans amid the ongoing war. She also demanded that Israel cancel all civilian evacuation orders, allow Palestinians who have been evacuated to return to their homes, and present a comprehensive plan to reduce harm to civilian infrastructure, according to the report.
Alian was “stunned” by the call.
Who are these people?

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The College

Senate Democrats proposed a constitutional amendment on Dec. 16 that would abolish the Electoral College and ensure the country’s presidential elections were determined by the popular vote.

It is easy to dismiss such acts as amendments to the Constitution are very difficult and cumbersome to achieve. And most of the supporters also supported the peculiar "Super Delegates" notion. But these skirmishes are important as they point to a misreading, either purposeful or ill-informed, of a basic concept that formed the foundation of the American Revolutionary movement: the Founders' preoccupation with the defense of the minority. 

The Electoral College recognizes the specific economic grouping of geography and statehood. Cities will have certain interests that rural areas will not share. The same for coastal versus inland areas. River versus mountain. There are countless such subtle subdivisions. All deserve representation.

From Many, One. 

They saw America as a collection of individuals and groups with common interests that needed protection. Strangely, this is not unlike Critical Theory, which sanctifies subsets with common backgrounds, histories, and immutable natures that isolate them from the majority. But, unlike Critical Theory, in the Founders' view, these separate peoples were united with a basic root of individual freedom, inherent to them. Unlike Critical Theory, these individual qualities were distinctive but unifying.

One has to look no further than the last election, where the news carefully examined the voting tendencies of the subsets of states throughout the national map, to see these groupings play out in practical terms.