Gold Star families: Grilling Harris, Biden

On the third anniversary of Abbey Gate, “several families of the fallen soldiers said they have received nothing but radio silence from the Biden-Harris team for the past three years,” reports Audrey Fahlberg of the National Review. The president “has not once reached out to any of our families. Kamala Harris has never reached out,” said Cheryl Juels, aunt of Marine Sgt. Nicole Gee; the only person who has consistently reached out to our family – and all 13 families – is Trump.” The father of Marine Lance Cpl. Jared Schmitz: “Personally, I have never heard from Vice President Harris since the first day she took office.” And: “We have not heard from her at all,” said Alicia Lopez, mother of Marine Cpl. Hunter Lopez. “In fact, we have received several calls and messages from President Trump and his campaign team.”

Libertarian: Kam’s tax cuts are really Hikes

Kamala Harris promises to cut taxes for the middle class, but what is known about her proposals suggests that families will face a tax Hike in a Harris administration—albeit an indirect one,” warns Reason’s Eric Boehm. “Almost all Americans would face a higher federal tax burden” if Harris “implements Biden’s plan for $5 trillion in tax increases—including a $1.3 trillion corporate tax increase.” Remember, “Higher corporate taxes will be passed on to consumers, workers, and investors in the form of higher prices, lower wages, and lower returns on capital.” But Donald Trump’s plan for new tariffs “would also cost Americans dearly,” because whether you tax corporations or imports, “those taxes are ultimately paid by the people.”

From right: Durov is a “hero”, not a villain

Since Telegram founder Pavel Durov was arrested in Paris on Saturday, the West has somehow considered him “guilty,” but Durov, screams Shaun Maguire on X, is actually a “hero.” He has “created a platform that allows citizens to communicate with each other across borders and autocratic regimes.” Indeed, “Telegram has played a key role in many protests for democracy”; “Durov has been the enemy of autocratic governments his entire adult life. And many Western governments are rapidly moving toward autocracy, so Durov is now their enemy too.” The charges against him “could be made against any social media platform.” Unfortunately, liberal values ​​”are under attack in the West on a scale that very few people understand.”

Elex-Watch: The Democrats’ misleading Kamala portrait

The Democrats have “updated” Mario Cuomo’s dictum that “you campaign with poetry but you govern with prose,” argues Gerard Baker of the Wall Street Journal: On the campaign trail, they “present themselves as some kind of idealized version of themselves as mainstream Americans,” seeking only to bring “unity and compassion” to a nation in need of reform. “Once in office, they behave as if they were charged with transforming an unenlightened country, reordering an unjust system, replacing American exceptionalism with European social democracy, and rewriting the nation’s values ​​along the lines of their cultural Marxism.” Do you think a President Kamala Harris would resemble the wholesome “Candidate Harris” portrayed at the convention last week? If so, “then you haven’t read poetry. It’s a fairy tale.”

Gaza War: Hamas’ tunnels are the key

The rescue of a hostage from a Gaza tunnel by Israeli forces on Monday is “a cause for celebration,” noted Commentary’s Seth Mandel, but also “a cause for a reality check”: The tunnels “remain in operation and must remain at the center of the war.” Not only is Hamas hiding hostages in them; without the tunnels, the terrorists “would not be able to rearm and resupply in the long term” across the Gaza-Egypt border or the Philadelphia Corridor. Handing the Corridor over to Hamas and Egypt means endless war, and yet the Biden-Harris people are urging Israel to abandon it. Sorry, but you “are either for rearming Hamas or against it.” The tunnels are “instruments of rearmament and hostage-taking. The future of Israel and Palestine depends on their destruction.”

— Compiled by the editors of the Post