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- Opinion · Mar 22, 2023Biden’s Job Is Running U.S., Not Israel
recruited to put in his two cents. Biden touting the importance of democracy and checks and balances is more than a little ironic as he waits for the Supreme Court … love affair with political systems, we must appreciate that human beings ultimately produce the realities under which we live, not any system. Well-designed systems are important, but the outcome
- Alexander's Column · Mar 9, 2023The 2024 Democrat Party Platform — a ‘BIG Lie’ Subterfuge
gender devolution . In 2018, Don Trump Jr. got spanked by the leftist fact-check commissars at PolitiFact for comparing the socialist Democrat Party platform to that of the NAZI Party … that) and to label it as ‘Rightist’ or anything else is to deny reality.” Fact is, as I noted plainly in “ Collapse of the Soviet Reign of Tyranny and Terror
- Opinion · Mar 7, 2023Whither Common Sense
sense is to convince themselves that their ideology is better and more important than reality. Again, as Screwtape notes, “Everything has to be twisted before … religious. However, since faith might hold an out-of-control government in check, it has to be suppressed and even attacked outright, as was done during the COVID lockdowns when
- Opinion · Mar 2, 2023The Woke Wrecking Machine
from the top-security virology lab in Wuhan, China. Wokesters had long suppressed that reality, demonizing any who rejected its orthodox lies and spoke a larger truth: A dystopic China … Accordingly, the United States was obligated to give Ukraine a veritable blank check given Kyiv’s commitment to freedom. Zelenskyy’s team now even talks of a victorious Ukrainian armored
- Opinion · Feb 27, 2023Not Trump’s Fault
government. Netanyahu’s coalition is trying to pass a reform bill that provides more checks and balances, similar to what we and other nations have. Netanyahu pushed back on Biden … many cultural elites after November 3, 2020. It didn’t take long for reality to come crashing in. Read more about Joe Biden’s foreign policy failures and national security
- Article · Feb 13, 2023Monday Short Cuts
that’d be necessary one way or the other.” — Rich Lowry Fact-Check on Tax Cuts “The Congressional Budget Office’s estimate for overall corporate tax revenues in fiscal … classmates.” —AP headline ( “Alternative headline: Montana bill would not force students to lie about reality.” —Ben Shapiro
- Alexander's Column · Feb 8, 2023Race and Violence: A Politically Inconvenient Truth
reality that guns don’t commit homicide; violent thugs do . And, the hard reality Demos would most like to avoid is that violence is not a “gun problem … organizing marches to ban automobiles or ask for a federal background check before purchasing a beer.) For the record, if Democrats actually wanted to “take action to keep American communities
- Article · Feb 7, 2023In Brief: Why Does Everyone Drive Like Maniacs?
thought, as my pursuer appeared out of nowhere. I let off the gas and check my speed: seventy-nine in a seventy. Too late to tap my brakes. Besides … Ultimately, she concludes: It’s as if people believe they’re living in virtual reality and drive accordingly, in a super-hurry and indifferent to danger. And if you feel
- Opinion · Feb 3, 2023We Don’t Need Racial Quotas to Showcase America’s Diversity
school grades and with professional performance. For details, check out my American Enterprise Institute colleague Charles Murray’s 2021 book “Facing Reality,” which was almost entirely ignored by book reviewers
- Article · Jan 31, 2023Tuesday: Below the Fold
been a vocal supporter of Joe Biden. When it comes to politics, Curry checks off all the usual leftist social justice issue boxes. However, like so many of these privileged … argued that the law was prudent due to the “permanent and life-altering” reality of these “treatments” with little existing research into the long-term consequences of such extreme actions
- Article · Jan 25, 2023Wednesday: Below the Fold
fraud over the last three years, voters are right to object to a blank check for even more of this type of recklessness. The “fact-checkers” love Greta: Climate activist … Furthermore, the fact that she was not officially “arrested” only serves to underscore the reality that this was staged. The Leftmedia “fact-checkers” love to come after conservatives who dare
- Article · Jan 24, 2023Biden’s Record-Shattering Border Crisis Worsens
cleared the streets of makeshift homeless camps to maintain optics rather than address the reality of the border crisis. Meanwhile, Border Patrol agents are left demoralized and “ beyond frustrated … make the border and country less secure. Democrats aided sanctuary cities and sent stimulus checks to illegal immigrants , opposed legislation to fund Title 42, and repeatedly voted against funding
- Opinion · Jan 23, 2023New House Majority Aims for Debt-Defying Feat
Littles panicked that Republicans will pull the plug on Social Security and Medicare. The reality is, America has never defaulted on its loans (despite coming dangerously close under Barack Obama … that this is a neglected accountability tool for lawmakers to keep spending in check? I know some Americans will yawn at the country’s predicament. We’ve become numb
- Article · Jan 13, 2023Biden’s Bad Week
Biden had been on a bit of a winning streak before this week’s realities set in. The Democrats had rammed through that $1.7 trillion omnibus obscenity, inflation seemed … just returned from a bipartisan photo shoot with Mitch McConnell and a box-checking photo shoot in the freshly sanitized border town of El Paso, followed by a North American
- Article · Jan 13, 2023What’s Up With Social Security?
Biden and Co. According to to Money: “More than 70 million Americans receive monthly checks from the Social Security Administration. ... The lion’s share of them — some 52 million — receive … secure retirement. Conservative-leaning policymakers need only design Social Security reforms that match this reality.” So we’re back to the starting point again, and the new Republican majority
- Alexander's Column · Jan 12, 2023Second Anniversary: The J6 Capitol Police Killing of Ashli Babbitt
Time for a reality fact-check on the whitewashing of an unjustifiable police shooting. “For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it might cost, I am willing to know … Brian Sicknick announced a lawsuit against Trump and two rioters. Time for a reality fact-check. Let’s recall the one person who was actually killed during the Capitol riot
- Article · Dec 22, 2022Does Zelensky Deserve a Blank American Check?
something stunning — something that made us question both his honesty and his grasp of reality. “Providing assistance for Ukrainians to defeat the Russians,” he said, “that’s the number … global security and democracy” sound good, but they can’t be bought with blank checks from drunken sailors, which is essentially how Joe Biden and his merry band of globalist
- Article · Dec 22, 2022Thursday: Below the Fold
light by those whose political party occupies the White House. However, given the economic reality that Americans have been living through for the last couple years, it’s hard … Ukraine falters ( Fox News ) “Good speech”: McCarthy commends Zelensky but argues against “blank check” to Ukraine ( Washington Examiner ) Republicans poised to approve massive FBI funding boost in wake of Twitter
- Article · Dec 15, 2022The FBI vs. the Bill of Rights?
reduce suicides, which are indeed a serious problem in America, but in reality, Democrats are always looking for new ways to limit gun ownership. As it turns out, however … voluntarily” surrender those rights by declaring via the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System that they are a “danger” to themselves or others, or lack the “mental capacity
- Opinion · Dec 14, 2022Why Did Black Georgians Vote for Raphael Warnock?
slow, sclerotic growth, who will suffer the most? The “haves” or the “have nots”? Check out the latest long-term economic projections from the Congressional Budget Office. They forecast economic … time.” But productivity is declining because an increasing percentage of every income earner’s reality is controlled by government. Transfer payments, taxing one set of Americans to make payments