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Many things in American life are puzzling and often beyond comprehension. To name a few: the NFL’s overtime rules, why Kim Kardashian is a household name, how a mediocre politician like Kamala Harris got to be a heartbeat away from the most powerful job in…
Read More Americans Spent 6.5 Billion Hours, More Than $200 Billion To File Taxes – And Biden Wants To Empower The IRS Even More
On Friday, the head of the union for U.S. Border Patrol agents noted that morale among those who protect our southern border – and America’s sovereignty – has reached rock bottom. In an interview with Fox News, Brandon Judd, president of the National Border Patrol…
Read More Rep. Gaetz Says Situation At Border Is An “Attack On Our Sovereignty”
President Joe Biden has not done very much right since becoming president. But one plus is something he has not done. Repeal former President Donald Trump’s tax cuts. Few people know this, because of a general media blackout on the issue, but the federal government…
Read More Unsatisfied With Mounting Tax Revenue Created By Trump, Biden Demands Higher Taxes While Ignoring Budget Deficit
Kendall Tietz Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), decried legislation like Florida’s Parental Rights in Education bill, arguing the law was “the way in which wars start.” “This notion – we’ve been very lucky in America, and we in some ways…
Read More ‘The Way In Which Wars Start’: Randi Weingarten Freaks Out Over GOP Parental Rights Bills
Sebastian Hughes Republicans in the U.S. House sent Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger a letter flagging a report that a voter-education initiative spearheaded by Stacey Abrams is teaching students the state’s laws restrict voting, The Washington Times reported Thursday. The letter, written by Reps. Rodney Davis…
Read More REPORT: GOP Warns Raffensperger Of Stacey Abrams’ Voter-Education Initiative For GA Students
Laurel Duggan Republican Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan told the Daily Caller News Foundation that Americans can’t trust the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) after its investigation of tax document leaks has so far failed to turn up any answers ten months after it began. Jordan and…
Read More Jim Jordan Says IRS Can’t Be Trusted After ‘Partisan’ Leak Investigation Stonewalls
A South Florida congressional candidate maintains there is clear evidence of voting irregularity. And while it may be a nationwide phenomenon, Republican Jeff “Bongi” Buongiorno says the problem is bad enough in Florida alone. Writing recently in The Free Press, Buongiorno noted that on Nov.…
Read More South Florida Congressional Candidate Maintains There Is Clear Evidence Of Voting Irregularities
Laurel Duggan Red and blue states are rapidly moving further apart on hot-button social issues as lawmakers and activists shift their focus to topics like abortion and transgenderism. Republican-led states are passing waves of laws limiting elective abortions and sex-change treatments for children, while blue…
Read More Two Americas: Chasm Grows Between Red And Blue States On Hot-Button Social Issues
Sebastian Hughes As GOP senators seek to roll back former President Donald Trump’s tariffs on China now that he’s out of office, polling indicates Americans want to keep the harsh policies in place. “For decades, Congress cut tariffs without much thought. But we cannot continue…
Read More Americans Support Trump’s China Tariffs. So Why Are GOP Senators Trying To Tear Them Down?
One likely unexpected offshoot of the battle between Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis and GOP lawmakers and the Walt Disney Co. is that a front in that fight has opened on the right. Conservatives and so-called conservatives are squabbling over whether DeSantis and his allies…
Read More Columnist: Gov. DeSantis, GOP Lawmakers Making Example Of Disney Would Produce “Welcome Benefits” In America’s Culture Wars