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December 4th, 2023
America is on a bad path, and starting to deal with manageable issues like shoplifting would go a long way toward turning things around. Source: Loss of shoplifting: America’s ‘great rip-off’ hurts everyone
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December 1st, 2023
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You must be lonely. The media say loneliness is everywhere in America. A Los Angeles Times columnist says, “There’s a mass loneliness crisis going on.”
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December 1st, 2023
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Elon Musk’s social media company X has filed a lawsuit against liberal advocacy group Media Matters for America. X says Media Matters manufactured a report to show advertisers’ posts alongside neo-Nazi and white nationalist posts in order to “drive advertisers from the platform and destroy X Corp.”
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November 29th, 2023
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In a romantic relationship, one cannot generally influence his partner’s emotions with rational argument. Feelings are unmediated, unruly, and mostly instinctual things. The same may be said for our…
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November 17th, 2023
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A new report reveals that taxpayers are losing around $451 billion per year to the border crisis.
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November 10th, 2023
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The Government Accountability Office (GAO) in July highlighted the “underutilization” of federal office space. The GAO “surveyed two dozen federal agencies and found they averaged a roughly 80% vacancy rate during the study period earlier this year. Not a single agency topped 50% use.
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November 7th, 2023
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By: Leslie Lenkowsky – wsj.com – November 5, 2023 Missouri Rep. Jason Smith denounced universities and student organizations for statements “celebrating, excusing, or downplaying” the Oct. 7 attacks by Hamas in Israel. “Releasing such statements, or failing to condemn them,” he said last month, “is unforgivable and runs counter to our values as a nation.” Mr. Smith’s comments have more...
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November 1st, 2023
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Among the top priorities for newly selected House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-L A ) was his announced intention to form a bipartisan panel to cut massive spending that has led to an unsustainable $33 trillion national debt.
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October 24th, 2023
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By: John Greenwood and Steve H. Hanke – wsj.com – October 22, 2023 Early in the pandemic, the volume of U.S. dollars in circulation soared. For two years starting in March 2020, the M2 money supply—a measure of the cash and checkable deposits in circulation plus savings deposits and other easily convertible assets—grew at an unprecedented annualized rate of 16.5%. That...
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October 20th, 2023
Pro palestinian hamas protesters at Harvard Univ
By: Zach Kessel – nationalreview.com – October 19, 2023 As university administrators equivocate and radical student-groups issue statements blaming Israel for the heinous Hamas terrorist attack of October 7, major donors are pulling their money from elite schools. But those with inside knowledge of the workings of university leadership are split on whether the donors’ moves have the potential to...
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