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Terry Schilling After months of aggressively censoring what it called “COVID-19 misinformation,” Facebook recently announced that it would no longer block user posts claiming that the coronavirus was “man-made” or “manufactured.” That’s because those posts, which typically referenced the work of scientists who supported the idea of a possible…
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James Wallner Congress is getting back into the earmark business. Democrats in the House and Senate recently lifted a decade-old ban on the practice. As a result, beginning this year, lawmakers will again be able to direct executive branch officials to prioritize specific projects when…
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Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot is a lot of things. She’s the mayor. She’s a Democrat. She is ultra-liberal. She’s an open lesbian. She is black. She is a lawyer. She’s pro-union, pro-abortion and she is anti-cop. Lori Lightfoot is also unequivocally and undeniably a racist.…
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by Thomas R. Cuba, Ph.D. The national debt of the United States of America just exceeded 28 Trillion dollars – but this essay is not about the debt. There is a growing movement to repeal the 16th Amendment, eliminate the personal income tax, and eliminate…
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By: Donald J. Trump Republicans in the House and Senate should not approve the Democrat trap of the January 6 Commission. It is just more partisan unfairness and unless the murders, riots, and fire bombings in Portland, Minneapolis, Seattle, Chicago, and New York are also…
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By: Sen. Ted Cruz Last Tuesday, I sat in the Senate Rules Committee markup for nine hours fighting tooth and nail against S.1, what many call “The Corrupt Politicians Act.” I did that because this is the single most dangerous piece of legislation facing the…
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By: Donald J. Trump I see that everybody is comparing Joe Biden to Jimmy Carter. It would seem to me that is very unfair to Jimmy Carter. Jimmy mishandled crisis after crisis, but Biden has CREATED crisis after crisis. First there was the Biden Border…
Read More Donald J. Trump On Biden’s Comparison To Jimmy Carter
Make no mistake, with the Democrats in control of both chambers of Congress and the White House, making Washington, D.C. the 51st state is nothing short of a partisan power grab. Washington, D.C. was created in 1790 when the state of Maryland and the Commonwealth…
Read More A Simple Solution To The D.C. Statehood Argument
By: James Bovard The power to tax has long conferred the power to destroy political opponents. But in the glorious era of President Joe Biden, all previous cases of government abuse of power are being expunged, at least by the media and Biden supporters. That…
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Op-Ed By: Phil Kerpen Locking kids out of school for months (over a year and counting in some places) is likely to be by far the biggest policy blunder of the pandemic era. One study in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that missing…
Read More Op-Ed: Corrupt Unions, Not COVID, Locked Kids Out of School