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An economist from a leading university said on CNBC Monday that inflation will stay high and “one whopper of a recession” is coming in 2023, despite the liberal media’s attempts to downplay impending economic calamity. “[S]tarting with COVID in February of 2020, we had an unprecedented growth in the money supply in the United States,
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Taiwan’s defense ministry threatened Wednesday that it would strike Chinese armed forces if they come within 12 nautical miles of the Taiwanese air and sea territory. Taiwan’s vow of self defense comes as China routinely sends warships and air sorties across the unofficial “median line” dividing the democratically-governed island from the mainland, Reuters reported. China’s “high
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Richmond, VA – Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin has been in office only seven months and already he is listed at number five in a Washington Post story about possible 2024 GOP presidential candidates. In an interview, I asked him to respond to suggestions in some quarters that he might be well positioned to run for president in
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A majority of Americans believe that a civil war is relatively likely to occur in the next ten years, a study shows. A recent poll conducted by YouGovAmerica shows that two in five Americans think a civil war is more likely to happen than not in the next decade. Two-thirds of Americans believe that political
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Google is barring Truth Social from the Google Play Store, meaning a reported 44 percent of Americans can’t access the pro-free speech application. “Google is canceling conservatives ahead of an election. They’re not even hiding their efforts to sway elections anymore,” tweeted Media Research Center President Brent Bozell.  Axios reported that Google has not yet
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Florida’s Republican governor and potential presidential candidate Ron DeSantis remains Public Enemy No. 1 at the New York Times. On Saturday, education reporter Sarah Mervosh wrote an agitated response to the state’s new laws regarding teaching gender-identity and race theory in early grades: “In DeSantis’s Florida, Teachers Navigate Curriculum Restrictions.” Florida’s onerous “curriculum restrictions” curb
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Have you ever walked into the kitchen to get that first cup of coffee only to discover someone left the ice cream on the counter all night? Or the milk? I don’t hate spoiled food as much as I did before. I found many clever ways to use items I used to throw out. SOUR
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This weekend, Customs and Border Protection officers at the Port of Nogales, Arizona seized about 625,000 fentanyl pills. Approximately 12,000 of them were of the “rainbow” variety. “Rainbow fentanyl” is designed to kill the young, and it’s now flooding into the U.S. Fentanyl is increasingly being mixed with dyes to make this type of the deadly synthetic opioid. Michael Humphries, a
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Proving that Republicans who are critical of former President Trump lose their usefulness on other topics, CNN’s New Day spent part of their airtime Monday huffing about New Hampshire Republican Governor Chris Sununu being outraged at President Biden for describing his entire party as “semi-fascist.” The CNN personalities in the segment downplayed Biden’s dangerous rhetoric
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The Pity of War was the title of Niall Ferguson’s groundbreaking history of the causes and tragic folly of the First World War. The title is so simple and powerful that I’ve borrowed it for this lesser essay on the causes and tragic mistake of a (thankfully) much smaller conflict. Win, lose, or draw, the Ukraine
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The Biden administration will shell out millions in grants to recruit minority farmers, ranchers and forest land owners to fill the “diversity gap,” according to a grant listing. President Joe Biden’s Department of Agriculture (USDA) anticipates handing up to $250 million to minority colleges “to achieve equitable participation” in USDA programs for farmers, ranchers and
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An Oklahoma teacher quit after she made books banned from the classroom electronically available to students and violated the states’ Critical Race Theory ban.  Oklahoma officials believe teachers who want to use the classroom to promote indoctrination should leave the classroom.  “The best and brightest and good teachers do not want to indoctrinate kids that
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Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida blasted Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York and Democratic Rep. Charlie Crist of Florida for attacking Republicans during a Saturday night Fox News appearance. “We’ve got so much support in Florida, and it’s not because people have hate in their hearts,” DeSantis told “Unfiltered” host Dan Bongino. “They
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Google is reportedly testing out digital identification features after an app update. Reclaim the Net reported last week that Google Wallet would implement the new technology. The app is currently popular for contactless payments, but digital IDs and health passes might not be too far away. Tech researcher Mishaal Rahman claims that Google Wallet could
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In what feels like a very mid-century optimism vibe, billionaires the world over are pioneering futuristic cities that combine forward-thinking technologies and social trends. The concepts might bring to mind terrifying Borg cubes for some of us (fair). But so long as residency in these self-contained high-density environments remains voluntary, the constructions would provide fascinating
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Congressional Democrats have handed Republicans two giant gifts. The deviously dubbed Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), and a worthy-but-failed amendment to it, supply the GOP a pair of tailor-made issues to hurl at tax-loving, tax-hiking, tax-collecting Democrats. Republican nominees should deploy them at once. First, IRA gives the Internal Revenue Service an $80 billion bonus —
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