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Jun 03 2021
Analysis
Lumber Is Crazy Expensive Right Now. Biden Is About To Make It Worse.
Amid surging lumber prices that are already adding an average of $36,000 to the construction cost of new homes, the Biden administration is moving forward with plans to double tariffs on lumber imported from Canada.
The Commerce Department announced on Friday that it was taking the first step toward hiking so-called "anti-dumping tariffs" on Canadian lumber from an average rate of 8.99
ReasonJan 14 2020
Opinion
The New Post-Trump Constitution
The new normal: Impeachment as a routine partisan tool, endless investigations, lying under oath with impunity, surveillance of political enemies, zero accountability …
The Left sees Donald Trump’s comportment, rallies, and tweets as a new low in presidential comportment that justifies extraordinary countermeasures. But Trump personal characteristics are idiosyncratic and may or may not
Victor HansonJan 13 2020
Opinion
Democrats Always Choose America’s Enemies Over America
Here’s an idea that our Democrat politician friends might want to try if they want to stop being back-stabbing garbage people. It’s kind of a radical notion and a little outside the box, but here goes: How about, just once, you stop sucking-up to the foreign bastards who are attacking our country and take America’s side?
Maybe you should not back and excuse the gay-hanging, women-
TownhallAug 27 2021
News
‘Stop AAPI Hate,’ Which Has Ties To Chinese State Media, Demands Biden ‘Pause’ Program Targeting CCP Spies
A coalition of so-called Asian-American advocacy groups recently sent a letter to President Joe Biden demanding he “pause” the Department of Justice’s China Initiative – a Trump-era policy implemented to counter Chinese national security threats.
The DOJ has compiled a litany of China-related prosecutions since the program launched in November 2018, including trade secret theft, hacking
The Daily WireMay 13 2021
News
Florida Tightens Unemployment Benefit Eligibility Requirements to Get People Back to Work
Florida authorities are tightening eligibility requirements for people to collect unemployment benefits, in a bid to encourage people to take jobs as businesses in the Sunshine State struggle to hire badly needed workers.
The Florida Department of Economic Opportunity (DEO), the state’s employment agency, on May 12 announced that as of June 1, unemployed Floridians will have to contact
The Epoch TimesMay 20 2017
News
NPR/Ipsos Poll: Americans Aren't So Hot On 'America First'
As President Trump begins his first overseas trip, Americans have widely differing views of his approach to foreign policy. But a majority of both Republicans and Democrats want the U.S. to continue its robust engagement with the rest of the world.
NPR (Online News)Jul 27 2022
Fact Check
Posts Mislead About Status of 2021 North Carolina Abortion Bill
Quick Take
A bill introduced in the North Carolina House of Representatives last year said anyone getting an abortion should be “held accountable” for murder. The bill received little support and did not advance. But social media posts misleadingly claimed the state is considering a proposal that would “make it legal to murder a pregnant woman” trying to get an abortion.
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FactCheck.orgJun 11 2016
News
Laid-Off Americans, Required to Zip Lips on Way Out, Grow Bolder
American corporations are under new scrutiny from federal lawmakers after well-publicized episodes in which the companies laid off American workers and gave the jobs to foreigners on temporary visas.
New York Times (News)May 12 2021
News
COVID-19 deaths in United States hit lowest mark in 10 months
COVID-19 deaths in the US have hit their lowest level in 10 months, with an average of 600 per day.
The last time the death count was this low was early July, before a second wave in the pandemic saw fatalities climb to an average of more than 3,400 a day in mid-January.
With vaccination efforts helping stamp out the virus, more than half of states have seen deaths drop to the
New York Post (News)Nov 30 2021
News
There's a GOP push in Wisconsin to take over the state's election system
Debate over the 2020 presidential election rages on in the political swing state of Wisconsin, where a prominent Republican lawmaker wants to strip the state's bipartisan elections agency of its power — and give it to the Republican-controlled Legislature.
U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., first surfaced the idea of state lawmakers taking over control of federal elections in the state. He
NPR (Online News)