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Howard Richman
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December 2, 2024
The other huge budget deficit is at the Fed!President Trump’s DOGE will be trying to reduce the federal government’s huge budget deficit, but there is yet another big budget deficit in Washington. In a November 22 tweet, Heritage Foundation economist E.J. Antoni highlighted the ...
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November 7, 2024
Trump’s tariffs will contribute to the US economic boomU.S. stock markets anticipate Trump’s upcoming economic boom, but few economists realize that it will be partly due to his tariff plans. Among those few are Peter Navarro, Trump’s adviser and author of 20 economics books; Art L...
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July 23, 2024
Similarities between Alexander Hamilton and JD VanceThe childhoods of Alexander Hamilton and JD Vance were quite similar, and the similarities don’t end there. Both had the strong writing skills, energy, industry, and intelligence which led others to take them under their wings and advance their...
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July 6, 2024
Nobel laureates wrong again: Trump would bring down inflationOn June 25, 16 Nobel Prize laureates signed an open letter that held that the election of Trump over Biden would cause inflation to increase. Thirteen of them had previously signed a 2021 letter that predicted that Biden’s Build Back...
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May 29, 2024
Needed: New weapons that will actually work!War drives innovation. Weapons systems that were cutting edge at the beginning of a great power war often are obsolete by the end because the enemy learns how to counter them. A little-appreciated challenge of the Ukraine war is that it is making man...
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May 19, 2024
Yellen Wrong Yet Again!Treasury secretary Janet Yellen has recommended one foolish policy after another while ignoring their negative long-term effects. Her policies, both as Fed chair and as Treasury secretary, have contributed to inflation and debt. ...
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November 6, 2022
Debunking antisemitism charges against PA's Republican candidate for governorDoug Mastriano, Republican candidate for governor in Pennsylvania, is being labeled in the Jerusalem Post as an associate of antisemites, in part due to his involvement in a film related to the Holocaust. So I decided to check things out f...
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February 16, 2022
If Canada wants to reduce its COVID death rate, it should adopt ivermectinCanada takes pride that its death rate from COVID (939 deaths per million people) is lower than the purported death rate from COVID in the United States (2,849 per million people). Part of this difference could be attributed...
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September 12, 2021
Head of Tokyo Medical Association recommends ivermectin for COVID treatmentDr. Haruo Ozaki, chairman of the Tokyo Medical Association recommends ivermectin for use with COVID patients. He notes that the parts of Africa that use ivermectin to control parasites have a COVID death rate of just 2.2...
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May 20, 2021
'The government's cure is what is going to kill the economy'On Tucker Carlson's Wednesday show, Peter Schiff discussed the rising inflation. Unfortunately, the clock ran out before he had a chance to explain his last claim. That claim was the ominous statement that "the governme...
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May 6, 2021
Mainstream media don't want you to know the difference between vaccines that work and vaccines that don'tSo far two countries have exited the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic using U.S.-made vaccines (Israel and the United States), while two other countries have seen infection rates rising despite heavy use of Chinese-made vaccines (Chile and Seychelles). ...
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February 4, 2021
Bezos forced out as Amazon's CEOOn Tuesday, Jeff Bezos was forced out as Amazon's CEO. (In corporate slang, he was "kicked upstairs.") Amazon's Board of Directors may have had enough of him furthering leftist causes at stockholders' expense. ...
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January 29, 2021
The Democrats' phony impeachment narrativeThe Democrat party is currently attempting to impeach former President Donald Trump because he supposedly instigated the violent demonstration which took place in a doorway of the Capitol on January 6. However, the evidence is in. ...
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November 19, 2020
COVID-19 is getting less deadlyThe Swedish COVID-19 statistics, as published by Worldometer, suggest that COVID is simultaneously becoming more communicable and less deadly. To see the latest, check out the Daily New Cases and the Daily Deaths on the Worldometer webpage...
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July 5, 2020
Evidence is in: Hydroxychloroquine works!The media is doing its best to ignore the solid new evidence that hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) works. Although they claim to be pro-science, they only report scientific studies that agree with their narrative. Although they claim that black lives matter ...
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May 18, 2020
Dr. Fauci and the Tuskegee Syphilis Study victimsAlthough Dr. Anthony Fauci's NIAID (one of the institutes of the NIH) has lost its power to slow-walk a vaccine solution to COVID-19, he still retains his power to disparage HCQ (hydroxychloroquine), the most effective treatment ag...
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May 17, 2020
Operation Warp Speed eliminates Fauci’s power to delay vaccinesOn Friday, President Trump announced Operation Warp Speed, a public-private partnership to develop a COVID-19 vaccine by the end of the year if possible. He put two “can-do” people in charge of the process – Glaxo Smith Kline’...
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May 10, 2020
Four Questions senators should ask Redfield and Fauci on TuesdayOn Tuesday, health bureaucrats Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the CDC, and Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of NIAID, will testify at a hearing of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. Republican Senators should ask them four quest...
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May 3, 2020
The last time they politicized the treatment for an epidemicIt was 1793. George Washington was President. Philadelphia was the U.S. capital. Dr. Benjamin Rush, a Philadelphia physician and former surgeon-general of Washington’s army, was the de facto head of the Department of Health of the new country. ...
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April 26, 2020
Zinc: The Missing Element in the HCQ/COVID-19 debateIt has been known, ever since 1984, that zinc is an effective virus fighter. That year a research study discovered that taking zinc gluconate lozenges early in the course of a common cold could shorten it. After a series of apparently conflicting res...
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April 17, 2020
Fauci time and the coronavirus vaccineThe American coronavirus vaccine’s Phase 1 clinical trials are bogged down. They began on March 3 and are not scheduled to end until June 1, 2021. Why fifteen months for the first American vaccine’s clinical trials? The reason is simpl...
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April 13, 2020
Testing hydroxychloroquine as a prophylacticThere are three experiments getting started now that will determine whether hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) works as a prophylactic. A prophylactic functions almost like a vaccine, except that it has to be taken daily. All three experiments ar...
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April 8, 2020
Fauci now is part of the problem, not part of the solutionThe South Korean solution to the COVID-19 virus (widespread testing and the hydroxychloroquine-zinc cure) is beginning to work in the United States. Americans, like South Koreans, will soon be back at work and school. But at Monday...
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March 24, 2020
FDA shuts down at-home tests for COVID-19Proving again that they are part of the problem, not part of the solution, the FDA on March 21 shut down the at-home tests for COVID-19 that had been developed by several companies. (A few days ago, they inhibited the use of the successful drug ...
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March 17, 2020
Human trials for US COVID-19 vaccine started on MondayThe human trials for the U.S. COVID-19 vaccine from Moderna Therapeutics started on Monday. According to the Online Citizen: The first participant in a clinical trial for a COVID-19 vaccine will receive the experimental vaccine o...
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March 15, 2020
Israelis moving quickly to get out a COVID-19 vaccineIsraeli scientists at the MIGAL Galilee Research Institute had worked for four years and had successfully developed a Coronavirus vaccine for chickens which passed clinical trials. When they saw the genetic sequencing of the COVID-19 virus, they real...
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October 17, 2016
Clinton Campaign chairman: I'm okay with taking money from foreign agentsSunday's Wikileaks dump includes an email discussion within the Hillary Clinton campaign about whether they should continue to take money from people who were registered with the U.S. government as foreign government agents under the Foreign Agen...
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October 11, 2016
Trump is Correct: GDP Growth Lowest Since 1929-1939During Sunday’s presidential debate, Republican candidate Donald J. Trump claimed that the U.S. GDP growth rate is the lowest since 1929. Specifically: If China has a GDP of 7 percent, it’s like a national catastrophe. We’re do...
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March 11, 2016
Cruz lied in Thursday’s debate about his previous support for TPPThe following exchange took place during Thursday’s Republican debate in Florida: TAPPER: Senator Cruz, you were a supporter of the Pacific trade deal, but after taking some heat from conservatives, you changed your position. Why should th...
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December 12, 2015
Mitch McConnell: TPP could lose if brought up before electionsOn December 10, Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell warned President Obama that the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) could be voted down if brought up before the elections. According to The Hill: President Obama is risking...
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September 16, 2015
Trump: 'We're going to get rid of the regulations that are just destroying us'Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump concluded his sold-out speech in Dallas on Monday with a call for reduced government regulation. He said (1:08:14 on this video): And I will tell you, we’re going to fight hard, we’re go...
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July 9, 2015
Nobel laureate's 'Emperor's New Clothes' speech about global warmingAt the July 3 Nobel laureates conference on Mainau Island, 30 of the 65 attendees signed a media-reported letter urging action against global warming. Not reported by the media: the attendees listened to Norway's 1973 Nobel physics lau...
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June 19, 2015
Donald Trump: When was the last time the U.S. won on a trade agreement?In his speech announcing his presidential run, Donald Trump posed a question that resonates with the American people. Trump said: Our country is in serious trouble. We don't have victories anymore. We used to have victories, but we don't...
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June 17, 2015
Donald Trump and the currency manipulatorsIn his speech Tuesday announcing that he was running for President, Donald Trump named three countries that have been stealing our jobs, two of which (Japan and Mexico) are included in the Trans Pacific Partnership that President Obama is negotiating...
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June 4, 2015
Obama admits that climate change will be in ObamatradeIn a speech on the Senate floor on May 22, Democratic senator Ron Wyden of Oregon ridiculed those who thought climate change regulation would be part of Obamatrade: We’ve heard suggested, for example, that it’s a backdoor route to im...
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May 23, 2015
Sen. Sessions explains Obamatrade in key Senate speechSenator Sessions’s floor speech against Obamatrade on Friday could go down as one of the most important Senate speeches ever. Already it is getting rave reviews: Rush Limbaugh hailed it (Odds are Obamatrade screws America): “J...
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May 19, 2015
This amendment could preserve U.S. sovereignty from Fast TrackThis week, the U.S. Senate will be considering up to 100 amendments to the Fast Track bill, which is expected to pass the Senate on Friday. Senator Elizabeth Warren and twelve other Democratic senators are sponsoring what could be the key ...
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May 17, 2015
Fast Tracking the End of U.S. SovereigntyWhile President Obama was selling Obamacare, he repeatedly told the American people, “If you like your health care plan, you can keep it.” But soon after Obamacare passed, the health cancellation notices went out. Now President Obama ...
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May 14, 2015
Senator Cruz Files Amendment to prevent Fast Track from Changing U.S. Immigration LawWhen Fast-Track is voted upon, Senator Ted Cruz plans to propose an amendment that would prevent Obama from using his Fast-Track power to change federal immigration law. A Texas newspaper reports: U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today filed an amendm...
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May 12, 2015
CNN quickly cuts away from Japanese leader saying TPP will enable free flow of peopleAt his April 28 press conference with President Obama, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan confirmed that the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), the secret treaty he is negotiating with Obama, is designed to enable the free flow of people amon...
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May 7, 2015
Dick Morris: Obama could use Fast Track to require climate change regulationIn a May 4 commentary (GOP: Lost Its Soul or Just Its Mind?), Dick Morris warns that President Obama could use Fast Track to require climate change regulation: [I]n this era, a trade deal may not be just about trade. The administration could use...
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May 5, 2015
Sen. Sessions issues 'Critical Alert' about Fast TrackSenator Jeff Sessions was one of the Republicans heroes who voted in the Senate Finance Committee to include a prohibition against currency manipulation in the Trans Pacific Partnership treaty that President Obama is now negotiating with 11...
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April 22, 2015
Dick Morris: Fast Track could lead to unlimited immigrationThe Senate Finance Committee is expected to vote today to give President Obama "Fast Track" authority to negotiate trade treaties without congressional amendment. The bill would then come to the full Senate for a possible vote. Dic...
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April 9, 2015
President Rand Paul would give libertarian economics a bad nameI watched Senator Rand Paul's announcement that he was running for president. He had good goals, but his economic ignorance was dismaying. For example, he argued that allowing American corporations to bring back profits from overseas ...
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January 15, 2015
China's Imports up just 0.6% in 2014China just released its December 2014 trade statistics. After rapid growth from 2005 to 2013, the dollar value of Chinese imports was stagnant in 2014. Here is the rate of Chinese import growth: From 2005-2013, Chinese imports grew ...
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December 25, 2014
Obama Administration Tweaked the GDP DataOn December 23, the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) of the Commerce Department issued its latest revision of U.S. economic growth for the third quarter period (July through September). According to the BEA, the U.S. economy grew at a 5.0% annual ra...
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June 6, 2014
Dismal Trade Report for AprilThe June 4 trade report was dismal in every way. U.S. exports fell, imports rose, and net exports (exports minus imports) reached their lowest level in two years, down from a negative $44.2 billion in March to a negative $47.2 billion...
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March 5, 2014
German Homeschool Family Can StayOn March 4, Homeland Security suddenly in effect reversed course. After spending years contesting the asylum that had been granted by an immigration judge to a German Homeschooling family in 2010, DHS decided to let that family stay in the U.S. after...
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February 27, 2014
Golden Gate Suicide RecordAccording to The Independent (Golden Gate suicides: Deaths from San Francisco’s famous bridge ‘reached all-time high’ in 2013): The number of people jumping to their deaths from San Francisco’s famous Golden Gate Bridge r...
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December 5, 2013
Quantitative Easing and October Trade ResultsAccording to statistics released yesterday by the Commerce Department, U.S. net exports improved slightly in October, though the three month trend is still downward. The best news is that net U.S. goods exports to China increased by $605 mi...
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November 13, 2013
Chrysler's CNG Fuel Tank BreakthroughChrysler announced this week that it has invented a CNG (Compressed Natural Gas) fuel tank that could revolutionize CNG-vehicle design. Here is a selection from a November 12 Automotive News article about their announcement: Chrysler Grou...
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October 25, 2013
Why Holder Didn't Loot Goldman SachsIt is hard to prove that Attorney General Holder's shakedown of JPMorgan Chase for $13 billion was politically motivated. The timing suggests political motivation, in that JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon had spoken out against Obama's "anti-busine...
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October 23, 2013
The JPMorgan Shakedown Slush FundIn my last blog post, I reported Attorney General Holder's shakedown of JPMorgan Chase for $13 billion. I supposed that Holder may have been punishing CEO Jamie Dimon for criticizing the Obama administration's "anti-business" economic...
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October 21, 2013
Holder Shakes Down JP MorganOn the heels of IRS targeting of Tea Party groups, we have another example of the "Chicago Way" in action. The New York Post reported on Sunday: JPMorgan Chase has tentatively agreed to pay the Department of Justice a record $13 billion sett...
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October 18, 2013
Rightists May End Europe's DepressionThose on the right of the European political spectrum are calling for a breakup of the Eurozone and the European Union and they are growing rapidly in popularity. This from The Telegraph: The leader of France's far-Right party has vowed that ...
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June 18, 2013
Who resumed IRS targeting in May 2012?According to May 21 testimony before the Senate Finance Committee, in July 2011 IRS targeting of conservative groups for additional scrutiny was stopped, only to be resumed in May 2012. The initial targeting was blamed upon underlings in the Cincinna...
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April 22, 2013
Homeland Security Prosecutes German Homeschool FamilyIn November 2008, Uwe and Hannelore Romeike sold their grand piano (Uwe is a piano teacher) and fled to the United States with their five children. In Germany they were paying fines and being threatened with having their children taken away from them...
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February 15, 2012
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Revives Phony Santorum ScandalThe Democrat-leaning Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is trying to revive the so-called "scandal" that the Democrats trumpeted during their successful campaign to unseat Rick Santorum in 2006. Other news outlets are starting to pick up the Post-Gazette's clai...