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January 17th, 2023
#revolution on a piece of cardboard
For all Joe Biden’s talk about “semi-fascist” and “un-American,” “ultra-MAGA” Republicans, it is the Democratic Party that has far more radically changed. It is descended into a woke, neo-socialist, radically green party…
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January 17th, 2023
Statue of John Witherspoon at Princeton University
The school’s leadership would be foolish to reject a man of great character so important to its history.
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January 15th, 2023
Amazon employees march in gay parade
Should businesses take public stances on political and social issues? The public is split: 48% think businesses should, while 52% think they should not, according to a Gallup poll released this week.
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January 15th, 2023
Graph COVID Deaths by age
By: Rob Arnott & Casey B. Mulligan – wsj.com – January 11, 2023 Even these numbers likely overestimate deaths from Covid and underestimate those from other causes. Covid testing has become ubiquitous in hospitals, and the official count of “Covid deaths” includes people who tested positive but died of other causes. On the other side, some Covid deaths early in the...
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January 15th, 2023
Gas Stove burner
By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – January 13, 2022 A Biden appointee on the Consumer Product Safety Commission explicitly threatened to ban gas stoves based on dubious evidence of public-health harm. “This is a hidden hazard,” said commissioner Richard Trumka Jr. “Any option is on the table. Products that can’t be made safe can be banned.” We and others...
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January 12th, 2023
McCarthy in hallway talks to reporters & congressmen
How Congress and the media exacerbate our political dysfunction.
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January 12th, 2023
Kevin McCarthy standing at Speakers's desk - buttoning suit
Are Republicans actually serious about abolishing the IRS?
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January 9th, 2023
Gray Puzzle pieces separated with US Flag behind them
America is an increasingly multiracial society. Despite its early history of slavery and racial segregation, and ongoing bias and tensions, the United States remains one of the few contemporary multiracial constitutional systems that have actually worked.
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January 5th, 2023
King Joe - Joe Biden with crown
The derogatory term “welfare queen” was so 1980s and ‘90s, when Republicans and even some Democrats were looking to reform welfare programs. President Biden, by contrast, is doing all he can to expand the number of people receiving means-tested welfare. That makes him the welfare king.
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January 5th, 2023
rows of exactly the same sunglasses
If a society strives to achieve “equity” for every citizen merely by providing equal opportunity, it would need to accept unequal outcomes. If a society does not accept unequal outcomes…
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