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December 20, 2024
Thank you, Mr. Musk, for creating the new town squareWhat a hullaballoo! The truth is coming out about what really happens in Congress with these grab-bag omnibus bills. What caused the usual yawning head-nodding to veer into a fierce show of resistance to congressional business as usual? How did we...
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December 19, 2024
Congressional dirty dealing is now on full displayThe proposed language of the next continuing resolution seems to be back on the drawing board. One of the big questions, though, about the 1,547-page monstrosity that just died in the House is how we can hold accountable the people who created it. Ma...
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December 13, 2024
The Meagre Legislative Actions of the Current 118th CongressThe main job of Congress is to enact legislation so that the executive branch can carry out its constitutional responsibilities. I’ve touched on this earlier while addressing shrinking the size and cost of the federal government. Congress do...
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November 11, 2024
Conservatives, This Is Not The Time To Go WobblyIt looks as if We the People have won the trifecta – White House, Senate, House. Every state but my stupid state of Washington shifted to the right. Anarchists mostly stayed home, and cities are not peacefully burning. The market is liking Trum...
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November 5, 2024
Could there be a 75-day presidency?My friend asked me a question. Did I think the Democrats will remove Biden if Harris loses the election? Yes. Do I think the leading Democrats would jump at the chance to score so many firsts, even if it means depriving some future woman, Asian, I...
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November 1, 2024
Remembering our dead on All Saints Day and caring for the saints among usThere are Saints and there are saints. This year, Pope Francis canonized 14 new Saints. Some were martyred for their faith; some served the church. All lived faithful lives and are held up as an example to us all. Francis ended the ceremony with a ca...
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November 1, 2024
Yes, We Can Shrink The Size And Cost Of GovernmentOne of President Trump’s goals is to reduce the size and cost of government, a heady and necessary project. The first step is for We the People to return Donald Trump to the Chief Executive’s chair and to give him a Congress that will app...
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October 27, 2024
Every conservative vote is criticalGoing about my daily farm chores, I listen to podcasts. There are so many great ones out there, but I always make time for Victor Davis Hanson. A few days ago, he wondered out loud why Trump was holding rallies in blue states because he wasn...
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October 16, 2024
Trump’s appointees must be fiercely loyalThe President, doing his duty, will make thousands of appointments to federal positions. Some, like Foreign Service officers and Senior Warrant Officers, are career appointments into federal or military service. These appointments require the consent...
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October 15, 2024
Managing Initial Mass DeportationBased on my experience, I guess that, by January 2025, over the preceding four years, we will have admitted 20 million more folks in this country than law and good sense would have allowed. Most Americans strongly favor deporting these illegal aliens...
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August 17, 2024
Kamala’s empty opportunity promisesYesterday, the Vice President spoke for 28 minutes with nary a cackle. The crowd’s chants seemed less than spontaneous. The theme displayed on banners around the stage was Opportunity Economy, Lowering Your Costs. VP Harris constantly referr...
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May 20, 2024
With Raisi and Amir-Abdollahian dead, let us sing the Song of MiriamPresident Ebrahim Raisi of Iran is dead. Dead, too, is Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian. Both had held their positions for about three years. During their tenure, Iran armed and supported Hamas provocations against Israel from Gaza and He...
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February 29, 2024
With The Trump Verdict, Is New York City Bringing Down Its Financial House?I feel sorry for President Trump, his family, his colleagues and coworkers, and all who depend on his various enterprises for their livelihood. The seven-count New York City fraud lawsuit has been a years-long mess. But The City may well have brought...
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February 24, 2024
Senate Democrats: Trump saved NATO, and now you can help save UkraineEveryone agrees that if President Trump had served two consecutive terms, there would be no Ukraine war today. His very presence reined in Putin’s avaricious land grabbing. Can we blame the massive devastation, disruption, and displacement goin...
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February 13, 2024
The ‘new’ Ukraine Bill still hides the truth and still funds Gaza and the West BankSenators Murray and Schumer, after last week’s defeat of the 370-page long, $118,214,271,000 “Border Bill,” have proposed a new amendment to HR-815. This new “Ukraine Bill” (S Amendment 1388) is only 82 pages long and ha...
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February 7, 2024
The ‘Border Bill’ was to have funded all sorts of things Americans don’t wantThe now (thankfully) defunct Senate border bill had a price tag of $118,214,271,000 plus a little more in transfers from already appropriated funds. (All figures will be rounded after this for ease of reading.) That’s a lot of taxpayer money, a...
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February 6, 2024
The ‘Border Bill’ deliberately hides the truth from the taxpayersThe text of this new border bill starts out like so many others, with a title. And, like so many others, incorporates the terms “and for other purposes” in that title—and that is where the devil lies in the details. HR-815 starte...
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January 11, 2024
Tweaking immigration law with temporary protected statusIn 2022, more than 6.8 million nonimmigrant visas were issued at American embassies and consulates worldwide, two-thirds of them for temporary visitors for business (B1) and/or pleasure (B2). DHS recorded 97 million admissions of nonimmigrants that y...
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December 29, 2023
Tweaking immigration law—the DreamersThe Psalmist tells us: Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other. Elsewhere in the Scriptures we are exhorted to “do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God.” Aspirational...
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December 20, 2023
Goodbye, GazaThe Hamas October 7th rape, mutilation, and butchery of innocent babies, children, women, men, the elderly, whole families, and entire communities sickened the moral world. Hamas’ very public promise on October 24 to launch second, third, and f...
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July 29, 2023
It’s time to recall the Covid-19 mRNA vaccineManufacturers, the FDA, the USDA, and the Consumer Products Safety Commission are constantly issuing recalls and public health alerts for a variety of products, from pork rinds to gas-powered trucks. It’s pretty much become routine. Many food r...
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July 28, 2023
The Next President Must Root Out Federal Overreach And WasteAmericans are the most kind, helpful, smart, and generous folks I know. Having spent most of my career living and working abroad, I speak with some authority. We are a moral people and have put our money where our faith is. “I was hungry, an...
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July 27, 2023
Vivek Ramaswamy is not my pick for POTUS 2024Things may change, and 2028 is right around the corner. I like Vivek Ramaswamy. Just 37, enthusiastic, very smart, full of interesting ideas, he'll keep the other candidates on their toes. Today, though, he is not ready to be presid...
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July 25, 2023
Did Governors Abbott and DeSantis Break The Illegal Immigration Camel’s Back?It appears that Governors Abbott and DeSantis, by shipping illegal aliens to sanctuary blue cities, broke the back of that camel called “illegal immigration.” However, they couldn’t have done it if Democrat policies in the COVID era...
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July 20, 2023
It's a red, white, and blue dawn for meThe United States is the third largest country with the fourth largest landmass and the second longest coastline. We run the world's largest economy with the eighth highest GDP per capita (behind such countries as Qatar, Macao, and Sin...
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July 2, 2023
It’s been quite a week in the news, and I have questionsIt was a week full of big news. Some real wow moments. But every report left me hanging; I still have questions. SCOTUS ruled against affirmative action in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard Justice Thomas concurred with a clarity that should...
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May 29, 2023
A commander-in-chief honors the fallenThese words were spoken 160 years ago, but the sentiments are as alive in our hearts today as they must have been in his, on that late fall day in southern Pennsylvania: Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth...
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April 27, 2023
Adolescent Menopause In Autistic Girls: Is This What We Really Want?The Science – Part 1 Primary Ovarian Insufficiency (POI, aka early menopause) affects approximately 1% of women in their 30s, 0.5% of women in their 20s, and one in ten thousand adolescent girls. This rarity among girls is because irregular ...
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April 8, 2023
More Racial Granularity for the Census? Yes, PleaseHas anyone noticed how we don’t talk about intersectionality anymore? The racist left seems to have dropped that word from its shrieking identity lexicon. I guess it didn’t take them long to realize that intersectionality, taken to its pu...
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April 2, 2023
We Can Optimize Winning Republican Campaign Rhetoric“Here’s the real State of the Union. Over the past two years under Biden, millions and millions of illegal aliens from 160 different countries have stormed across our southern border. Drug cartels are now raking in billions of dollars fro...
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March 31, 2023
Ban TikTok, but not this waySome in the government, and many outside of it, have been concerned for some years that the internet application TikTok, which is widely used in the United States, could allow the CCP to amass a staggering amount of data on US residents and their act...
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January 29, 2023
Ilhan Omar does not belong on the House Foreign Affairs Committee“I am not a fan of Ilhan Omar. She’s an anti-Semite. She’s a bigot. She’s a racist. She’s a socialist.” In saying this, Rep Nancy Mace (R-SC) is absolutely correct. Where she errs is in calling Rep. Omar’s re...
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January 27, 2023
Pfizer, Project Veritas, and biosecurityJust remember, since the year 2000, Pfizer has been assessed nearly $10.3 billion in penalties for criminal activities and other violations. Those 90 records include false claims, safety violations, fraud, workplace and environmental violations, fore...
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January 25, 2023
We Can Have A Federal Spending CapWhen We the People get to the point in our personal finances where we are at risk of not even being able to pay the interest on our credit cards and loans, that’s a wake-up call at the cliff’s edge of bankruptcy. Most of us never get ther...
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January 10, 2023
Rolling back egregious IRS fundingThe People’s House is off to a wonderful start. Speaker McCarthy promised, and Representatives Adrian Smith (R-NE) and Michelle Steel (R-CA) have introduced the Family and Small Business Taxpayer Protection Act. This bill rolls back the bulk of...
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January 7, 2023
First things first, Mr. SpeakerCongratulations to newly-elected House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. Congratulations to the 118th Congress. Now get to work. The People’s House must answer to We the People, must represent the people, and must speak to and for the people. With the vo...
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December 16, 2022
The Babylon Bee reveals the source of Kamala’s word salad waysI agree that Vice President Kamala Harris has a unique and demented-seeming oratorical style. The public’s reception of her in-person wisdom is likely a prime cause of her 2019 withdrawal from her candidacy for president. Anyone would have want...
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December 6, 2022
It’s time to create a searchable database of the Twitter filesLord knows, as do my family, friends, and acquaintances, I love a good narrative. Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) has done yeoman’s work dropping the first of a promised series of revelations from Twitter’s files. For those not on Twitter, Bookwor...
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November 21, 2022
Schumer on immigration—lies, damn lies“Now more than ever, we’re short of workers. Uh, we have a population that is not reproducing on its own with the same level that it used to. The only way that we’re gonna have a great future in America is if we welcome and embrace ...
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November 17, 2022
Patience, Grasshopper; Tsunamis Take TimeWhen folks first heard predictions of the 2022 mid-term Red Tsunami, a lot of them, particularly on the left, visualized the monster wave that wiped out the East Coast in the movie Deep Impact. Many of them laughed then, and now gloat that no such ts...
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September 19, 2022
Illegal immigration: Those who live by the DEI sword can certainly die by itThere are 331 million people in America. For the past few years, the blue, wokie, greenie, pro-regressive libsiders have been pushing hard on a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion narrative. Most rational Americans view this as not...
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August 25, 2022
There's no need to cancel student loan debtThere's lots of huffing and puffing over student loan debt, but little smoke and not much fire. Where's the crisis? Forbes provides a good overview of the status of student loans in America. Of the $1.368 trillio...
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August 22, 2022
Don’t They Know That Crickets Fart Too?Hey! Greenies! Taking good care of yourselves? Watching your diet? Exercising? Taking those probiotics to strengthen your gut biome and digestion? Well, cut it out! You’re part of the problem here. Among the critters that metabolically produ...
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August 21, 2022
Not a fan of Oz? Vote for him anyway“Time to remember the best voting advice I’ve heard: Voting isn’t marriage; it’s public transport. You are not voting for “the one” who is absolutely perfect. You are getting on the bus. And if there isn’t on...
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August 14, 2022
The IRS is hiring; snowflakes need not applyThe IRS hiring 87,000—no make that 86,852—more enforcement agents is providing delightful grist for the snark mill. Tweets abound on the fact that they’re looking for someone to wield deadly force in the course of their daily work. ...
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August 6, 2022
Increasing The IRS Annual Budget By Seven Times Doesn’t Add UpThe talk in the media is about a “beefed-up” IRS. The IRS budget for FY 2022 totals nearly $14 billion ($11.9 billion in appropriated funds) with a full-time equivalent (FTE) staff ceiling of 79,808 (75,533 from appropriated funding.) ...
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July 27, 2022
Monkeypox—Eight Weeks To Stop The SpreadThe question: If refraining from sexual contact for three-to-eight weeks could save lives and put a stop to suffering in your community, would you do it? The history: Monkeypox is an animal virus that can be transmitted to and between humans...
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July 17, 2022
It doesn’t cost $100 million to train 30 Ukrainian fighter pilotsRepresentative Adam Kinzinger (Rino-IL) introduced an amendment to H.R. 7900, the National Defense Authorization Act (“NDAA”) for fiscal year 2023, that reduces by $100,000,000 operations and maintenance funding to the U.S. Air Force...
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July 17, 2022
There’s a low-cost way for the oil companies to respond to anti-petro BidenI like fossil fuels. I like that everything from coal to clean natural gas has raised most of humanity out of abject misery in my lifetime. I like that parts of the world that seemed to have nothing to offer only had to look down to find a gift that ...
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July 16, 2022
Carbon capture in Iceland — oh, the irony!Carbon, as we all know, is the central building block of organic life here on Earth. Carbon dioxide is an animal byproduct of the process of living: forming within cells during metabolism, moving via the bloodstream to the lungs, then bein...
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June 17, 2022
Will There Be School This Fall?Biden is a mess. He and his Cabinet are doing their best to ensure a lost generation among America’s children. Normally, I like economists. They’re scientists, work with numbers, focus on the future—all positives in my book...usu...
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May 15, 2022
$40 Billion for Ukraine? Not HardlyTwo weeks ago the Biden Administration proposed a $33 billion support package for Ukraine. After de-linking covid-related funding that had managed to latch itself to the proposal, the cost was reduced to just $40 billion. Let’s see what’s...
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May 15, 2022
Senator Rand Paul has a point, and Congress needs to be on recordOn Wednesday, the House passed the $40-plus billion for Ukraine bill. In a separate article, I reviewed what is covered in H.R. 7691, the $40 billion for Ukraine bill. Senator Rand Paul (R- Accountability Czar) has delayed a final vote on the bill at...
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May 10, 2022
Demographics: Deglobalization Will Fix Climate Change“We are on the verge of something fundamentally different right now, yes. But a lot of it looks more like the world before 1945 than the world of the future.” There is good news coming out of the global population collapse. A little wh...
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April 30, 2022
There is an alternative to the cacophonous brawling of the campaign seasonIt's springtime, Eastertide, Passover season. Blossoms everywhere, and the air smells sweet. The kids are back in school after their break, and summer vacation plans are in the works. Unfortunately, since it's...
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April 5, 2022
Ketanji Brown Jackson must continue her testimonyThere is no more solemn duty obligating the Senate than to advise upon the nomination of a Supreme Court justice. Few other matters will ever be as weighty or have results as potentially long-lasting. Controversy has swirled for two yea...
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March 25, 2022
Ketanji Brown Jackson is a Trojan HorseFor crying out loud, it’s 2022 and, in the federal government women are still being promoted based on their looks rather than their qualifications for the job. And by POTUS no less! Well, Biden is just a derivative iteration of Harvey Weinstein...
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March 17, 2022
Food Shortages Soon Come – What To Do?A concatenation of events is dropping on us like an imploding building and there’s not much we can do to stop it. However, we can mitigate some of the potential damage through our individual efforts and need to get started now. But first, on...
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February 23, 2022
Cyber Warfare And Civil DefenseOn February 15, President Biden addressed the nation and the world regarding the crisis in Ukraine. At 2:18 in the video, he said “From the beginning of this crisis I have been absolutely clear and consistent. The United States is prepared no m...
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January 27, 2022
We've seen the needle and the damage donePetulant Neil Young is trending in Memeville, so it wasn't a great leap to recall one of his best-known songs. Then other news I read today drove home the point. Daniel Horowitz, tweeting as @RMConservative, wrote: I can s...
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January 22, 2022
Eric Adams May Well Force The Federalization Of ElectionsThere’s this: “The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof....” The Constitution, Article 1, Section 4. Hooray! Then there...
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January 18, 2022
Boys swimming against girls is just not fairI swam competitively in high school against people who looked very much like me, just as so many of these young men who now claim to be young women used to do. I was never going to compete at the state level but did enjoy the camaraderie w...
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January 14, 2022
No more aid to Afghanistan until we get our people outThe Afghan people are suffering. Widows are starving; women and children are contained, constrained, controlled, and restricted; the elderly are dying of hunger and cold; and those who bravely speak out risk being tortured to death. Our hearts a...
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January 11, 2022
Rethinking Citizenship—Is Born In The U.S.A. Enough?There are two main paths to acquiring citizenship in the United States and a few minor ones. The first is to be born here. The others are via legal immigration, birth abroad to a U.S. citizen, and certain adoptions. Then there’s birthright c...
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January 11, 2022
Let's not have a path to citizenship for illegal aliensIn recent days, I've been happy to read that Biden's Budget Busting Bill may be on its last gasp if not completely dead in the water. That's because section 60001 of H.R. 5376 grants lawfully admitted permanent reside...
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January 8, 2022
Not even criminals deserve this level of abuseWe all know that the Biden Administration hasn't yet met a law, rule, regulation, policy, procedure, or court ruling it is unwilling to blow up in the name of its ever-expanding wokeism. The next target in sight looks to be the Pr...
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December 14, 2021
Building Back Better for the illegalsPushing Across the Border Ol' Joe's invitation to the other 7.4 billion humans on the planet in 2019 has been examined from all sides. "I would, in fact," he said, "make sure that there is, we immediatel...
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November 18, 2021
Why hasn't Binger been arrested?Why hasn't prosecutor Thomas Binger been arrested yet? According to the photos we've all seen, he pointed an AR-15 at members of the gallery in an active courtroom as part of his closing arguments, with his finger on the trigger. ...
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November 3, 2021
The Not Very Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill—Where’s the Money?I thought I’d dig around a bit in “H.R. 3684—Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act,” the not very bipartisan infrastructure bill. Everyone’s talking about how the other bill for building back better will be funded, at t...
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October 24, 2021
Joe’s tricky tax trickGod bless entities like the Tax Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting informed tax policy at all levels. Its analysis of changes to our tax structure that the Democrats embedded in its Build Back Better bill brings splendid clarity to the t...
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October 22, 2021
The patriot and the communistColin Powell was tall. At 6'2", he topped President Reagan by an inch. Back in the latter half of the 1980s, he was about 50 years old and quite handsome, and, in my few brief encounters with him, I met a very intellige...
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October 19, 2021
Why is the medical profession letting us die?Thank you, Dr. Brian C. Joondeph, for your article on aspirin as a potential part of the COVID treatment regimen. And for mentioning ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine as similar safe and potentially effective therapeuti...
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October 10, 2021
A transgender woman’s attack on Dave Chappelle is very revealingI watched Dave Chappelle’s latest Netflix special The Closer the other day. His previous special Sticks and Stones, I think, was smoother and more entertaining. The Closer, while not his best work, did give Dave Chappelle the platform to discus...
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October 2, 2021
Vaccine Mandate Will Cost Us AllProblems inherent in OSHA’s forthcoming new mandatory co-vax standards will be legion. How do we know that? The Occupational Safety and Health Act covers most private sector employers and employees and is mirrored in the federal workplace bu...
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September 9, 2021
Ted Wheeler is such a doofusAs I write this, Portland, Oregon's city council has decided to delay voting on Mayor Ted Wheeler's proposal that the City of Portland stop purchasing goods and services from Texas and that it prohibit city employees from traveling on officia...
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September 8, 2021
It is possible to bring clarity to the ivermectin debateA lot has been written lately at American Thinker regarding ivermectin. Here's a slightly different take that examines not only ivermectin's use, but also the benefits of repurposing drugs that have already passed FDA muster. Fi...
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July 18, 2021
First, They Came For The White Cis-Gendered Hetero-Normative MalesFirst, they came for the white cis-gendered hetero-normative males...but I wasn’t male. You can imagine the rest of the verses. I am white, though; not just any white -- fish-belly white. If that’s a problem for anyone, please go dig u...
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July 3, 2021
It's time to modernize the Selective Service SystemLet's call this killing lots of birds with one stone, or maybe with one of the pro-regressives' wind-powered turbines. Currently, males are required to register for the Selective Service, and only males are subject to the draft....
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June 21, 2021
Preparing for the coming food shortages associated with the dark, cold years“We have had the most extraordinary year of drought & cold ever known in the history of America. . . . The crop of corn thro’ the Atlantic states will probably be less than 1/3 of an ordinary one, that of tobo still less, and of mean ...
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May 30, 2021
Female Is A FactReporter to Gloria Steinem on her 40th birthday - “You don’t look 40.” Gloria – “This is what 40 looks like.” Humans have 23 pairs (46 total) of chromosomes in each cell. Gametes, the sperm and egg cells, eac...
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May 28, 2021
Banning assault weapons will not workOn May 2, in New York City, a Black woman attacked two Asian women with a hammer. On May 14, three people were slashed with knives within a 12-minute period on a New York subway. On March 17, a young woman was...
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May 21, 2021
I'm going to miss my maskOur bluey state has somewhat gone to following current CDC mask guidance. I walked into the feed store yesterday and noted that their "MASKS REQUIRED" sign was gone. (I had my mask looped around my wrist, just in case.) ...
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May 5, 2021
What the CIA really needs is better elementary educators"I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills — skills I have acquired over a very long career." —Everyone's favorite quote from the movie Taken Yesterday, ...
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April 30, 2021
White supremacism is not the greatest threat"And we won't ignore what our own intelligence agencies have determined — the most lethal terrorist threat to the homeland today is from White supremacist terrorism." —Lyin' Joe Biden on April 28, 2021 Yes, the Fir...
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April 20, 2021
The Coming Modern Grand Solar MinimumI wrote last week about the coming Grand Solar Minimum, something that will have much more impact on the environment than anything we puny humans can do. It generated a lot of interest from all sides, so it’s time to delve deeper into what we c...
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April 13, 2021
Dark, Cold Years Are Coming, So You’d Better Get ReadyThe climate is warming! No, the climate is cooling! We’re all gonna die! The answer is...all true. Folks just need to chill out and understand that climate’s gonna climate, and that’s all there is to it. The sun is a very steady ...
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April 1, 2021
H.R. 1: It’s Worse Than You Think“…and for other purposes” seems to be included in the titles of so many bills these days that it’s always enlightening to dig a little deeper, past a bill’s obvious provisions. In the case of H.R. 1 -- the 2021 Omnibus ...
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March 27, 2021
Senators Duckworth and Hirono, and Biden's diversity initiativeOn November 24, CNN announced that Joe Biden had made his Cabinet picks. Only two have not been confirmed by the Senate. One, Neera Tanden for OMB director, has withdrawn her candidacy, and one other, Eric Ladner for scienc...
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March 24, 2021
Pity poor Joe? No.President Biden fell three times while climbing the steps to Air Force One. What's most noteworthy about this is that he had a firm grip on the handrail throughout. This should have kept him largely upright despite catching ...
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March 18, 2021
Illegal Immigration’s Consequences Are the PitsWho had “building even more temporary housing for illegals at the border” on their bingo card? As a modern, civilized, peace-loving country, we understand that our stability and security depend, in part, on stable and secure neighbors ...
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March 16, 2021
Rep. Omar introduces Agenda 21Without respect to the fact that states have the authority to regulate housing contracts, Ilhan Omar uses a viral smokescreen to begin implementing some of the worst features of Agenda 21, the leftist promise that the government will provide affordab...
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February 23, 2021
AOC fails to call out her ownIt is true, as many commentators have noted, that this is looking more and more like a third Obama administration. Poor Ol' Joe just crouches down there as power leapfrogs over him from Barack to Kamala. And just as with Oba...
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February 17, 2021
Nikki Haley shouldn't have gone thereGiven relatively equal credentials, in non-partisan elections, I tend to vote for a female candidate. I do the same in primaries. We women are still catching up. Many years ago, I was so looking forward to voting for ...
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February 7, 2021
New bills, or what’s Congress up to, anyway?I love that quote from Maya Angelou, “When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.” Some of my friends have become quite anxious about legislation introduced so far in this 117th Congress. When it comes to what the De...
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January 31, 2021
Is Cocaine Mitch Abandoning His Homies?I was tickled when Mitch McConnell’s campaign turned the derogatory “Cocaine Mitch” slander into a successful fund-raising effort t-shirt for the “Team Mitch Cartel Member.” Likewise, McConnell agreed that he was the Gri...
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January 31, 2021
GameStop: a win for the guppiesThe stock market, when it operates without fraud and without the government’s thumb on the scales, is always a gamble. Those who are risk-averse have other options. The events around GameStop, however, showed that the professional risk takers a...
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January 26, 2021
We the People: Defining ourselves, defining AmericaI continue to believe that the majority of Americans voted for Trump. Although Biden and his leftist pals occupy the White House, We, the People, need to remember the true principles that unify us — and we need to get out on the stre...
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January 19, 2021
Biden’s Unjust Moves on ImmigrationMy mother’s people immigrated to the United States from Wales and Ireland in the mid-1800s. They came as coal miners and farmers and ended up in the Plains, where my grandparents farmed wheat. My dad’s folks were here long before then, ha...
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January 17, 2021
Whither TDS?Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) has been very real. I’m sure by the time the American Psychiatric Association releases the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Twelfth Edition (DSM-12) medical anthropologists will have ...
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January 16, 2021
Biden’s proposed Iran deal will failC’mon man! When was the last time you successfully stuffed a genie back into the bottle? Or convinced a conman to complete the kitchen remodel after you fully paid him upfront? Iran already has gotten just about everything it wanted from this a...
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January 12, 2021
January 6 – Missed Messages All AroundWhat a day! Or, rather, what media hysteria. In fact, what happened in D.C. was almost entirely safe, normal, peaceful, and constitutional. (For that small percentage of the D.C. event that deviated from those standards, here’s hoping that ...
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January 9, 2021
America’s Black farmers certainly deserved betterSenator Cory Booker’s Justice for Black Farmers Act envisions a special program for black farmers, based on his claim that systemic racism within the USDA has robbed them of their land and the accumulated wealth of generations. Only a fraction ...
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January 7, 2021
Oh Ze, where art thou?My evening softened quietly enough, relaxing after a busy day and binge-watching The Great British Baking Show. Then a friend texted thanks for sending her Bookworm's hilarious joke from John Fraim. Anne and I...
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December 29, 2020
2020's holiday season brings as much grief as joyBookworm penned a heartwarming and uplifting Merry Christmas to all the other day. Did me good to read it as each day's fire seems to die down to embers of deep sadness. I've lost friends and family, at least o...
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December 19, 2020
The real Biden speaksDuring the campaign season, it was something of a game to see what would happen when Joe Biden went off script. The joke becomes less funny when we realize that, off-script, Biden's default setting is mean — and that this mean ma...
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December 6, 2020
Democrat senators are trying to backdoor the Green New DealNo matter what former Vice President Joe “I am the Democratic Party” Biden says, the Green New Deal (“TGND”) is fully incorporated into the Democrats’ platform. As the disgustingly fraudulent and evil 2020 election proce...
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October 20, 2020
What's left for us to do until Election Day?We've done everything we can. What do we do next? We love our country and care deeply about its citizens. The freedoms vouchsafed to us as individuals; the goals of life, liberty; and the pursuit of happiness,...