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Red States Leading U.S. Economic Growth, Commerce Department Report Finds
The mooching, looting Democrat states will get massive bailouts on the back of hardworking Red states. Every time we are proven right, which is daily, we are punished, daily. Red States Leading U.S. Economic Growth, Commerce Department Report Finds South Dakota, Texas, and Utah are leading the U.S. in economic growth, according to a new […]
Tucson Adopts Bars-on-Windows Policing
Will Tucsonans finally be shaken out of their apathy? TUCSON – With its new policing policy, the City of Tucson might become the dystopia that New York City was in the 1980s. As background, I moved from Phoenix to metro New York in 1981, when the Big Apple was rotting. Back then, New York was […]
FHA Mortgage Delinquencies Hit 17.5%. In 30 Metros, over 20%: On the Other Side of a Red-Hot Housing Market
Everything is on ice. But when forbearance ends, forced sellers or lenders will put millions of these homes on the market. On the other side of the red-hot housing market, a historic delinquency problem has been fermenting since last spring, largely put on ice and on hold by forbearance programs, waiting to be dealt with. […]
Huckleberry’s Hokum About Amazon
TUCSON – News stories in the local Tucson media put a positive spin on Amazon’s announcement that it is building a 270,000 square foot “sortation” center near the Tucson airport, which will create hundreds of jobs paying a starting wage of $15 per hour. Pima County Administrator Chuck Huckleberry said, “Amazon’s newest location, adjacent to […]
Biden’s ☭ Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg Plans to Tax Drivers for Each Mile They Drive
America stood by while the Democrat criminal syndicate hijacked our election and allowed the Dem-fascists to target and persecute anyone who spoke out again the coup. It will only get worse until we #RiseUp. After a year of punitive Democrat COVID restrictions which decimated American jobs and businesses, the Democrats’ followed up on their coup […]
The Many Variants of Fauci’s Mutating Covid Advice
In an explosive Senate hearing on March 18, Dr. Anthony Fauci clashed with Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul over a subject that has characterized much of the White House health adviser’s recent commentary on Covid-19: the specter of reinfection, caused by one of the emerging variants of the virus. Several recent studies suggest that both natural and vaccine-induced immunity to […]
China is outplaying President Biden on Climate
Talk is cheap; the familiar saying goes – especially from dictatorial nations about climate change. The United States “Special Envoy” on climate, John Forbes Kerry of Martha’s Vineyard, met virtually yesterday with his Chinese counterpart, Xie Zhenhua, the head of China’s environmental protection ministry, and more than 30 other nations’ representatives at the Ministerial on Climate Action summit. This annual event […]
The 6-Foot Mandate Was Bad Science
On March 19th the Centers for Disease Control issued a press release detailing changes to its operational strategy for K-12 students. It stated that among other things, students may now reduce their social distancing from 6 feet to 3 feet. The release begins as follows, “The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is updating K–12 school […]
Gab Owns Their Servers. Banking Next?
If you read the nearly 10,000 word entry for Gab on Wikipedia, you might come away convinced it is a haven for right wing hatred. Abundant examples are cited. Founder Andre Torba claims Gab exists to counter, as he puts it, “the entirely left-leaning Big Social monopoly.” It would be foolish to suggest that right wing hate doesn’t […]
Pew Research: Lockdowns Prompting Devastating Levels of ‘Psychological Distress’ Among Young People
These astounding new figures offer a painful reminder of the perennial perils of tunnel-vision policymaking. Most young people are at little risk of dying from the coronavirus. But a new Pew Research survey shows that they are disproportionately bearing the consequences of heavy-handed pandemic lockdowns and isolating government restrictions. Pew finds that an astounding 32 percent of […]
Starbucks Lost a Latte but Covers Up the Stain
Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson dodged a question today from the National Center for Public Policy Research about the coffee giant’s financial losses due to protests and riots over the past year. At the company’s annual shareholder meeting, held virtually this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a representative of the National Center’s Free Enterprise Project (FEP) submitted […]
Tucson Isn’t Diverse Enough to Attract Big, Rich Companies
Tucson can’t win. Although the city is 43% Latino, it isn’t diverse enough to attract big, rich companies. It will have to accept its fate of having a poverty rate twice the national average, along with a corresponding high crime rate, substandard K-12 schools, and college graduates who leave for more prosperous cities with better opportunities—in spite […]
Biden’s Proposed Tax Increases Would Be Largest Since LBJ’s in 1968
Faithful to his campaign promises, President Joe Biden is eyeing steep tax hikes, but despite the claim that the tax increases will hit only the wealthy, they have the potential to slow the pandemic recovery for every American and make workers less competitive. Biden’s proposed tax hike could amount to as much as a $2 […]
Here’s the List of the Top 20 States Getting ‘COVID’ Bailout Money (And Why It Raises a Giant Red Flag)
It’s simply naive and ignorant of human nature to expect people—especially the kind of people who become politicians—to dole out trillions of dollars without any hint of favoritism or impropriety. President Biden is taking a victory lap after signing his $1.9 trillion ‘COVID’ spending bill. “Help is here,” he wrote in a tweet promoting his plan. […]
Is Inflation About to Become a Problem Again?
Those of us of a certain age remember when inflation was a problem. For example, during the post-Vietnam War period, inflation was a vexing political issue that found few solutions. The value of money was falling, which is another way to say that prices were rising. It took more money to buy the same amount […]
Bulls, Bears, and Beyond: In Depth with James Grant
James Grant is editor of Grant’s Interest Rate Observer, which he founded in 1983. He is the author of nine books, including Money of the Mind, The Trouble with Prosperity, John Adams: Party of One, The Forgotten Depression, and more recently Bagehot: The Life and Times of the Greatest Victorian. In 2015 Grant received the prestigious Gerald Loeb Lifetime Achievement Award for […]
America’s light usage reveals insanity of relying on weather-dependent wind & solar
The U.S.A. Light Usage Map demonstrates that most of America’s population is East of the Mississippi which represents areas most susceptible to erratic weather patterns, such as tornadoes, hurricanes, and ungodly amounts of rain and snow and frigid temperatures extremes, which perpetuate the unreliability of any intermittent electricity attainable from wind and solar. The northern hemisphere turns […]
Debts, Deficits, and the Entitlement Crisis
Michael Tanner’s book Going for Broke was published in 2015 and unfortunately, his message has become more urgent as time has passed. It should be no surprise to anyone that the United States government has reached new levels of debt after spending trillions of dollars to combat Covid-19. According to the US Government Accountability Office, “As of Sept. […]
IT BEGINS: Economists Say Biden’s Proposed Tax Hikes Will Impact Americans Earning $200K
While campaigning Joe Biden said he would not tax anyone who is earning under $400k. Only people who earn above 400k would be taxed, then candidate Joe Biden insisted. This statement was obviously not true. The spending of the Biden Administration and the Democrat controlled Congress is so out of control, that there is simply […]
Coral Extinction Crisis Canceled – New Study Documents Billions of Coral Colonies
A newly published study of coral reefs finds coral populations are staggeringly large and extremely unlikely to face extinction pressures anytime in the foreseeable future. The peer-reviewed study by scientists who had previously promoted alarm about coral populations deals a major blow to alarmist climate change campaigns that corals are on the verge of extinction. The new […]
Here’s the List of the Top 20 States Getting ‘COVID’ Bailout Money [And Why It Raises a Giant Red Flag]
It’s simply naïve and ignorant of human nature to expect people—especially the kind of people who become politicians—to dole out trillions of dollars without any hint of favoritism or impropriety. President Biden is taking a victory lap after signing his $1.9 trillion ‘COVID’ spending bill. “Help is here,” he wrote in a tweet promoting his plan. […]
PODCAST: Unions and Democrats Attack the Right to Work
GUESTS AND TOPICS: HAS VON SPAKOVSKY Hans von Spakovsky is an authority on a wide range of issues – including civil rights, civil justice, the First Amendment, immigration, the rule of law and government reform — as a senior legal fellow in The Heritage Foundation’s Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies. His […]
What Inapt Pandemic Response Is Doing to Our Societies
Ronald Reagan famously said that the nine most terrifying words in the English language were “I’m from the Government, and I’m here to help.” The pandemic, or rather how we and our governments chose to act in 2020, turned that enemy into a blessed savior and projected as the external threat an invisible and ever-lurking […]
Target Announces It’s Abandoning Its Minneapolis Headquarters. Here’s Why It’s No Surprise
Target’s decision comes less than a year after Minneapolis suffered some of the worst riots in US history. Target Corporation, the eighth largest retailer in the United States, announced in an email to employees on Thursday that it will be leaving the City Center, its primary downtown Minneapolis location. Company officials cited improved remote work opportunities and […]
PolitiFact: 90% of Biden Stimulus Spending Not Directly Related to COVID-19
Details of Biden’s bloated spending package are so damning that even liberal-leaning fact-checkers have no choice but to agree with conservative criticisms. President Biden’s $1.9 trillion “American Rescue Plan” could soon become law. The budget-busting legislation, sold as emergency COVID response and “stimulus,” passed the Senate over the weekend. But even the liberal-leaning fact-checking website PolitiFact is pointing […]
Visa Overstays Don’t Negate the Benefits of Border Barriers
Editors’ note: This article appeared in 2019 in Just Facts Daily. With the current illegal alien invasion at the border created by the new administration in less than two months, James D. Agresti’s piece from two years ago is more timely now than then. ***** Other than their mode of entry to the United States, […]
Google, Ad Tech, and the Gutting of the News Publishers
So now we have another gutting, this time at the HuffPost, and omertà reigns. This kind of thing – news publications with lots of traffic gutting their staff because they’ve been losing tons of money – has been happening for years, and these publishers and the media outlets that report on it are under some […]
UAE Announces $10 Billion Fund for Investments in Israel
What a miracle. Thank you, President Trump. #BDSFail! Welcome to the new Middle East! 🇦🇪🙏🇮🇱 pic.twitter.com/4e6y1ATPN1 — StandWithUs (@StandWithUs) March 10, 2021 UAE Announces $10 Billion Fund for Investments in Israel By Jewish Press, March 11, 2021 (WAM/TPS) His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the […]
Electric Vehicle Subsidies and other Fantasies
Electric vehicles (EVs) are the future. Everyone will want one because they’re emission-free, ecologically responsible, and more affordable every year. That’s why GM, Volvo, and other manufacturers will soon be making only EVs. Or so we’re told. Some people have high disposable incomes and do most of their driving locally. For them buying an EV […]
President Biden: You Will Love George Will’s Immigration Stance
Many mainstream Republicans have watched as elements of the party have changed, particularly with the desertion of the non-public union middle class from the Democrats. Some like George Will display a level of discomfort with the new elements of the party that were particularly attracted to our last President. Will’s January 22, 2021, column epitomizes […]