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May 20 2021
Opinion
Liberal TV Touts GOP ‘Civil War’ Over Biden’s Policy Debacles
As President Biden and his profligate administration leave their fingerprints on more and more policy failures affecting millions of Americans, the liberal media’s tactic seems to be to barely cover or outright ignore these Democratic debacles. Instead, the broadcast evening newscasts are more excited by political dramas, such as the recent ouster of Representative Liz Cheney from her position
NewsBusters
May 08 2021
Fact Check
Kamala Harris said corruption costs as much as 5% of the world's GDP. That stat is questionable
For more than a decade, an interesting statistic about the cost of corruption has been bouncing around the global-economics community, showing up in statements and reports from organizations like the United Nations and the World Economic Forum.
Most recently, it came out of the mouth of Vice President Kamala Harris.
"Around the world, we know that corruption inhibits shared
PolitiFact
Feb 02 2022
News
Ukraine crisis: Biden to deploy more US troops to eastern Europe
Joe Biden will deploy more than 3,000 US troops in Germany, Poland, and Romania, as Russia continues to build up its forces around Ukraine, and after talks between Washington and Moscow failed to bring any breakthrough or easing of tensions.
The US is sending 1,700 troops from the 82nd Airborne division to Poland, a headquarters unit of about 300 from the 18th Airborne Corps will move
The Guardian
Nov 05 2021
News
Pelosi huddles with moderates ahead of votes
The House will convene at 8 a.m. Friday to begin work on passing President Biden's $1.75 trillion social spending and climate package, which has been stuck in a battle within the party between liberals and centrists fighting over its size and shape.
The internal battles, which have also gridlocked a bipartisan infrastructure bill already approved by the Senate, have been blamed for
The Hill
Feb 10 2022
News
Annual American inflation hit 7.5%: A near 40-year high
New year, same old high inflation.
A key measure of inflation climbed to a near-40-year high last month. Economists are hopeful that America will reach the peak of the pandemic-era price increases in the early months of 2021. Here's to hoping.
The consumer price index rose 7.5% in the 12 months ending January, not adjusted for seasonal swings, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said
CNN Business
Oct 22 2020
Opinion
Getting Counted for Fun and Profit
Pack up the pompoms and megaphones. The census is over. Every 10 years liberals in Hollywood and the media cheer on blue states and cities as they run up the score on their population counts.
The census is mandated by the Constitution, and congressional apportionment depends on it. But the cheerleaders seemed mainly interested in money, not civics. Coast to coast, the mantra was the
Wall Street Journal (Opinion)
Feb 02 2022
Opinion
Four more years? Depends who you pick, Republicans
Former President Donald Trump gave a speech recently in Texas. He could have focused on economic problems, President Joe Biden's incompetence in dealing with Ukraine and other foreign policy problems, and the damage left-wing policies do broadly to our country.
Instead, he dangled pardons for those arrested after the Capitol Hill riot of Jan. 6, 2021, when thousands stormed Congress in
Washington Examiner
May 28 2021
Opinion
Tucker Carlson: Democrats have reimagined public safety, making the public much less safe
'The Democratic Party took full control of the country and their policies resulted in a huge number of killings'
One Sunday afternoon last September, a 16-year-old called Aaron Pryor was shot to death in a driveway near his home in Oakland, California. Even by the standards of midday drive-by shootings, it was an awful crime. Surveillance footage showed the killer fired more than a
Tucker Carlson
Aug 24 2020
News
Debt, eviction and hunger: Millions fall back into crisis as stimulus and safety nets vanish
One of the most successful elements of the government’s response to the coronavirus recession — protecting people on the margins from falling into poverty — is faltering as the safety net shrinks and federal benefits expire.
Major recessions are especially fraught for low-income earners, whose finances can veer from tenuous to dire with one missed paycheck. But as the economy cratered
Washington Post
Oct 09 2021
Analysis
Bernie Sanders on the Corporate Threat to American Democracy
Senator Bernie Sanders wants the public to know that the fight to pass Democrats’ $3.5 trillion social spending bill isn’t just about meeting the needs of working-class families and combating the climate crisis—it’s about “the future of American democracy” and whether oligarchs will be successful in defeating a popular agenda.
In a pen-and-pad briefing with reporters on Friday, Sanders
The Nation