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New York Creates Fund to Pay Unemployed Illegal Immigrants Up To $15,600 Each In COVID Relief
“The creation of the fund became a contentious point in budget negotiations, even among Democrats in Albany.”Arizona State Senate Passes Bill That Prohibits Private Funding of Election Administration
“The Arizona State Senate passed a bill on Tuesday prohibiting the private funding of election administration.”Taft’s Anti-Plutocracy Conservatism
“How the lesser known conservative trust-buster handled wealth concentration.”Federal government spends $332B on 'zombie programs' never reauthorized by Congress
“1,046 federal programs have expired but operate on autopilot without reauthorization from Congress”Don’t Raise the Corporate Tax Rate
“In 2017, the Trump administration and Congress lowered the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 21 percent, chiefly because the U.S. charged higher rates than most other countries, putting it at a competitive disadvantage.”If Democrats Will Cry ‘Racist’ No Matter What, Republicans Should Pass Much Stronger Laws
“Everyone knows why Democrats don’t want voters to show ID. It has nothing to do with racism, and everyone knows it. So why are we playing this stupid game?”A Comic Book For Our Cartoon President
“I have questions, starting with: why did they superimpose Jill Biden’s head on Melania Trump’s figure on the cover?”Ga. State Rep. Calls Joe Biden's Bluff on Georgia's 'Jim Crow on Steroids'
“Not only has Biden been lying through his teeth about the Georgia bill, but if Georgia’s voting laws are “Jim Crow on steroids,” the voting laws in Biden’s home state of Delaware are a slave-holding plantation.”Baseball’s Commissioner Cares More About Politics Than About Fans
“Commissioner Rob Manfred's power trip is an attack on the average baseball fan who simply wants to enjoy America's pastime and be left alone.”Justice Breyer Warns Against Court-Packing
“In this he echoes a number of other liberals, including the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.”Why Would Anyone Pay Andrew Cuomo $4 Million for a Book?
“Books by politicians sell badly and are quickly forgotten, yet the publishing industry spends shovelfuls of cash on them.”Joe Biden’s Non-Existent Mandate
“The new president seeks to transform the country without the broad mandate required.”After flaws of 2009's $860 billion Recovery Act, Biden could have up to $4 trillion to try again
“"We know some of this money is going to be wasted," said then-Vice President Biden in promoting the Recovery and Reinvestment Act in 2009.”Behold DeSantis, Destroyer of Narratives
“Florida governor annihilates 60 Minutes’ attempts to delegitimize his success.”United Airlines roasted on social media for plan to choose pilots by race instead of ability
“ Skin color, or the lived experience that comes with a racial or ethnic background, has absolutely no bearing on how best to safely fly planes.”The Social Construction of Racism in the United States
“Critical race theory and intersectionality—formerly confined to graduate seminars—have seeped into corporate America and Silicon Valley, as well as into many K–12 education systems. With their spread has come an increase in the misperception that bigotry is everywhere, even as the data tell a different story: racism exists, but there has never been less racism than there is now.”GOP Puts Biden Admin on Notice: Congress Not Bound By New Iran Deal
“Republican leaders vow to block all sanctions relief for Tehran”Manufacturers embrace robots, the perfect pandemic worker
“After social distancing measures forced layoffs in labor-intensive factories, manufacturers turned to automation, despite the high cost. Now, they aren't going back.”Society of Woke
“In Greater Philadelphia, Quaker schools betray their historical values.”Quietly Subversive
“A U.K. report on race jettisons sloganeering in a serious effort to understand the roots of racial inequality—so left-wing critics lambast it.”Turn Off the Spigots
“Joe Biden’s infrastructure proposal includes no serious attempt to control runaway costs.”Chef Andrew Gruel: "I'm Not an Asshole. Gavin Newsom Is."
“The culinary innovator behind Slapfish on what it's been like to run a business with government at all levels arbitrarily flipping the on-off switch.”New Mexico Abolishes Qualified Immunity
“It is the third state to rein in the legal doctrine that protects state actors from accountability for misconduct.”Federal judge flays Wayne State for bias against Christian student club
“Holds university officials personally liable, orders trial to set compensatory damages for constitutional violations.”CBS faces bipartisan backlash after '60 Minutes' aired selectively edited footage of DeSantis
“"60 Minutes" condensed Florida governor's lengthy "pay-to-play" rebuttal down to several seconds.”Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey signs bill to defy any new federal gun control laws
“The legislation was drawn up after President Joe Biden assumed office”Stop the Budget Bleeding
“Chicago needs a large dose of pension reform.”They Came, They Saw, They Taxed
“New York’s progressive legislators want to make the nation’s heaviest tax burden heavier still.”March Border Crossings Jump to 15-Year High
“More than 171,000 migrants and 19,000 unaccompanied minors were apprehended”American Bloat Plan
“The Biden infrastructure bill is a Democratic wish list of wasteful spending.”The Death of Density?
“To survive and thrive, cities will have to overcome a number of formidable trends.”Mitch McConnell Threatens Woke Corporations Objecting To Georgia Election Law
“Accuses Companies Fightin GA Election Law Of Dabbling In Behaving Like A Woke Parallel Government”War with China? What Fun!
“I’d Rather Be Ruled by Brain-Damaged Twelve-Year-Olds”Now that he's safe, Hunter admits the truth. Sorta
“It is called gloating.”A Narrative Collapse in Chauvin Trial
“There is almost no reason to trust the media today. Their turn toward increasingly crude propaganda undermines their self-image as an important check on power.”If you sell a house these days, the buyer might be a pension fund
“Yield-chasing investors are snapping up single-family homes, competing with ordinary Americans and driving up prices”Cities that slashed police funding inundated by spike in homicides
“Analysis finds 28% increase from same period last year”Justice Thomas grumbles over Trump's social media ban
“Thomas’ complaints track closely with those of Republicans, but the GOP is not alone in its concerns about big tech.”Disparate treatment in two fund-raising fraud cases renews debate over dual Justice system
“Nigerian Clinton foundation donor gets deferred prosecution deal, Trump inauguration donor gets 12 years in prison in eerily similar cases.”What is critical race theory? A look at the ideology some are trying to ban from schools
“Race is used as a lens to view the alleged white supremacy that imbues American culture.”Test Anxiety
“Asian-American parents mobilized to oppose the de Blasio administration’s specialized high school proposal. Now they’re fighting a larger battle.”Bipartisan worry grows over national debt, which now totals $85,210 per person
“"We will be in a boatload of trouble when we see interest rate spikes," Democratic Rep. Dean Phillips says, referring to the interest costs on the national debt”University faces questions after staffer in training video suggests Easter is taboo
“Staffer told resident assistants not to mention Christian holidays, but one RA promoted and hosted atheism event.”Biden reportedly busing scores of migrants into US interior to pursue more permanent legal status
“Some have dubbed it as a 'catch-and-bus' policy”An Avalanche of Misdirection
“The World Health Organization’s report on Covid-19’s origins dances around the likely timing of the first outbreak.”Election Fraud Hotspots – 10% of the Data are 70% of the Fraud
“The more our team looked at the 2020 election fraud from publicly available records, the more it appeared to have similar characteristics to property casualty insurance fraud.”Will the West Be Lost?
“During the election, Joe Biden said the Chinese were not a threat to the United States and he has still only half-heartedly acknowledged a serious rivalry between the two countries. There is plenty of evidence that the new administration has made such a poor impression in Beijing that President Xi Jinping has concluded now is the time for China to humiliate and displace the United States—a conclusion he was certainly deterred from adopting during the Trump years.”