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The “Trump Train” went from a rhetorical device in 2016 to an actual thing by the time President Donald Trump ran for re-election. During 2020, convoys comprised of dozens if not hundreds – or an estimated 7,000 at one Arizona event – of cars and…
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by: Liam Edgar President Donald Trump, never one known for his humility, ended 2020 with a boast – and one well deserved. “Finished off the year with the highest Stock Market in history,” the president said 76 minutes before the calendar rolled over to 2021.…
Read More Social Media 2020: U.S. President Trump Set a Record and Blazed a Trail
Since the outset of the pandemic, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, unlike other politicians, has seen COVID-19’s obvious effects, and been willing to let science guide him. Accordingly, as some of his constituents began receiving the coronavirus vaccine this week, DeSantis insisted that old folks –…
Read More U.S. CDC Vaccine Committee Came Close to Putting the Elderly at the Head of the Line – To Meet The Grim Reaper
Donald Trump may not be the greatest U.S. president, but it is true he will leave the White House without many of the accolades he warranted. He likely won’t receive the Nobel Peace Prize he arguably deserves for peace breaking out in the Middle East.…
Read More U.S. President Trump: No. 1 on Gallup’s Chart, and No. 1 in the GOP’s Hearts
by: Liam Edgar The 116th Congress ends on Dec. 31. and one of President Donald Trump’s least appreciated master strokes apparently will go unrealized. In 2017, Trump promoted the idea that government must be closer to the people. So, he proposed moving federal agencies out…
Read More As Trump Exits, the U.S. Swamp Remains Full
by: Liam Edgar As a brewing controversy over gun rights shows, it’s just as difficult to bring a little heartland thinking to the nation’s capital. On Election Day Republican Lauren Boebert won a congressional seat representing western Colorado. She is a staunch advocate of gun…
Read More Faced With a Gun-Toting Colleague, Democrats in U.S. Congress Want to ‘Shoot Down’ Carrying Firearms in the Capitol
by: Liam Edgar Bill Gates didn’t become the richest man in the world – pre-Bezos – by being just lucky. He uncannily understood computer technology and its potential before so many others did, developed a product that made these machines more accessible to non-techsters and…
Read More Critics Throw Shade on Bill Gates’s Bond-Villain-Style Plan to Control the Sun’s Rays
by: Liam Edgar Liberals have spent the last five years hating Donald Trump, and made no bones about it. They hated the tweets. The hated self-aggrandizing exaggerations. They hated the militant pro-America attitude. And they likely hated the successes. Yet many alleged conservatives held the…
Read More U.S. Poll: GOP Voters Overwhelmingly Say Their Party Should Stick With Trumpism
by: Liam Edgar Barack Obama, as president, was arguably the best friend gunmakers and firearms retailers ever had. Gun sales surged by the millions under Obama as Second Amendment supporters defined him, often with his own policies, as the gun-grabber in chief. Similarly, Goya Foods,…
Read More U.S. Based Goya Foods Honors AOC With ‘Employee of The Month’
by: Liam Edgar Republicans in congressional elections pulled the shocker of the season. GOP candidates ousted at least 10 Democratic incumbents and, in resisting a supposed blue wave, whittled Democratic Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s majority down to four. One GOP candidate responsible for that was Rep.-elect…
Read More New Florida Congressman: GOP’s ‘Freedom Force’ Touts Low Taxes, Less Regulation to Beat Back AOC and The Squad