By John F Di Leo -
Liz Cheney was raised as the daughter of a White House Chief of Staff, Congressman, Cabinet officer and Vice President. She has known the ways of Washington all her life.
As a Congressman, she has a decent voting record, and represents a terrific district of American patriots in the United States House of Representatives.
But she is a liar, and for that, she has no business in the Republican leadership.
By Stephen Moore -
There is something very fishy about the new 2020 Census Bureau data determining which states picked up seats and which states lost seats.
Most all of the revisions to the original estimates have moved in one direction: Population gains were added to blue states, and population losses were subtracted from red states. The December revisions in population estimates under the Biden Census Bureau added some 2.5 million blue-state residents and subtracted more than 500,000 red-state residents. These population estimates determine how many electoral votes each state receives for presidential elections and the number of congressional seats in each state.
Is this a mere coincidence?
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By Hank Beckman -
If people found guilty of crimes motivated by bias—hate crimes—deserve a harsher penalty than those same crimes where no evidence of bias exists, how should we deal with the miscreants among us who lie about hate crimes?
Hate crime laws vary by state, but the rationale behind enhanced penalties for crimes resulting from racial bias, religious bigotry, or malice toward other protected groups is succinctly explained by the Department of Justice on its web site.
“Hate crimes have a broader effect than most other kinds of crimes,” reads the relevant section. “Hate crime victims include not only the crime’s immediate target, but also others like them.”
Sounds reasonable.
The truth is that the Left knows our system of justice is an unparalleled masterpiece. But they don’t care. Pete Hutchison and Michael O'Neill write:
The American justice system is the envy of free people around the world. So why is the Progressive Left so hell-bent to undermine it? From the U. S. Supreme Court all the way down to local trial courts, leftist politicians, including the president and vice president of the United States and various members of the United States Congress, are constantly threatening and intimidating the Courts. What is going on?
The answer is simple: power.
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By Nancy Thorner & Bonnie O'Neil -
Mark Twain said, “If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed.”
Most objective people know his words were not just witty, they were true. That is largely due to the many ways and means the news can now be delivered. Newspapers compete with television programming, telephones, radio, and the internet. Thus, Twain’s concerns about misinformation spreading is even more of a concern in today's vast and varied communication network. Various sources continually compete with one another for our attention. To do so, they take liberties that border on deception.
Continue reading "Thorner/O’Neil: Public Schools - the new Havens of Woke-ness" »
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A new report released late week found that communist China’s greenhouse gas emissions in 2019 were higher than the rest of the developed world combined.
The report was published by the Rhodium Group, a leading independent research provider that specializes in matters involving China, energy & climate, India, and economics.
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Progressive politicians and activists continue to clamor for a doubling of the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour. Critics often emphasize the millions of jobs that would be eliminated as a result. But a top executive from Chipotle is warning about another key consequence of a $15 minimum wage: customers will suffer.
Chipotle Chief Financial Officer Jack Hartung explained on a recent company call that they already pay $11-13 an hour, but being forced to increase wage rates to $15 would ultimately hit customers in the wallet.
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Hospitals across the U.S. are obligated by law to provide online readable files of all provided items and services, including costs for 300 “shoppable” services, but few have complied even with months to prepare.
Effective on January 1, the Hospital Price Transparency Rule requires publicly posted costs of 70 core services and 230 other services in plain language for the consideration of health care shoppers. All items and services must be displayed in a “consumer-friendly format.” According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) website, this is key for, “consumers to shop and compare prices across hospitals and estimate the cost of care before going to the hospital.”
Hospitals, however, are not fully complying with the price transparency requirements. At a March 11 presentation before the Americas Health Insurance Plans conference, Deloitte US, an audit, consulting, tax, and advisory stated hospitals are reluctant to release data until they see how their competitors are following suit.
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Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning issued the following statement in response to Vice President Kamala Harris’ denunciation of Supreme Court packing in El Salvador:
“Vice President Kamala Harris and Secretary of State Antony Blinken expressed their deep concerns about the state of ‘El Salvador’s democracy” on Sunday after President Nayib Bukele and his supporters in the legislature voted to fire all five of the Justices on the El Salvador Supreme Court in retaliation for their striking down some of Bukele’s policies as unconstitutional.
“Has there ever been a less self-aware administration in American history than the Biden-Harris group?
“Here is America, President Biden and Vice President Harris’ supporters in Congress are actively pushing a scheme to pack the U.S. Supreme Court out of fear that the Court might strike down some of Biden’s policies as unconstitutional. Exactly what the Bukele regime is doing in El Salvador.
In the early morning hours of May 3, the Women’s Care Center of Peoria, Illinois, part of a national chain of pregnancy care centers based out of South Bend, Indiana, was targeted by an arsonist who set fire to the locked building.
The center is located directly next door to what served for years as Peoria’s only surgical abortion facility until its closure in 2019. The Women’s Care Center provides free pregnancy testing and ultrasounds to over 500 women in the local community each year, with 13 women served per day, 1,000 ultrasounds performed annually, and 596 babies saved in the last year, according to the center’s website.
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By Anna Agresti -
In her Advanced Placement government and politics class, a high school student named Anna was assigned to read a New York Times commentary that called the U.S. Constitution “imbecilic.” Many of her peers agreed with this conclusion based on the author’s argument that the Constitution is too difficult to amend.
So, Anna approached her teacher with an article that explained why the Times’ piece was historically inaccurate and logically ludicrous.
The next year, the teacher assigned that same Times article, but he also included Anna’s suggested counter-article. And instead of siding with the Times, that class concluded that the Constitution was not “imbecilic,” but, rather, wisely designed to protect people’s rights.
To borrow a phrase from Vice President Kamala Harris, “That little girl was me,” and by speaking up, I was able to positively impact subsequent groups of students. My experience with leftism in school was not an isolated incident and represents a much broader, serious problem within the U.S. public education system.
Generation Z is on track to be the most educated generation in history, and yet, nearly half hold favorable views of socialism and 70% say that the government “should be doing more to solve problems.”
Ronald Reagan famously said, “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction,” and if these trends continue, Gen Z will bring that tragedy to fruition.
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By Dennis Prager -
Just as physicists look for equations to explain the natural world, I have always thought it useful to look for equations to explain human nature. For example, in my book on happiness, I offer this equation: U = I – R. Unhappiness = Image – Reality. The difference between the images we have for our life and the reality of our life is one way of measuring how much unhappiness we experience.
Here, I offer another theorem, this time to help explain leftism.
A + S = B = L
Affluence + Secularism = Boredom = Leftism
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By Michelle Malkin -
Larry the Cable Guy made the phrase “Git-R-Done” his signature. A new breed of young Republicans and populists has its own message for their establishment elders: Get it right.
This new strategic alliance refuses to clap like trained GOP seals at any shiny vehicle masquerading as a free speech rescue because their very lives and livelihoods are on the line. This is not a drill.
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John Kerry, Biden's special "Presidential Envoy for Climate" aka, Biden’s Climate Czar, provided a sobering moment during an interview where the curtain was pulled back and reality emerged.Kerry said:
“…getting to net zero [carbon dioxide emissions] is gonna be hard, really hard…that will depend on breakthrough technologies and breakthrough innovations. But even if we get to net zero, we still have to get carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.”
He’s saying essentially that cuts won’t matter, but technology and innovation will. He also seems to erroneously think “net zero” applies to getting ALL of the carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, which will end all plant life on Earth if it happened.
He also said essentially the same thing about emission cuts back in 2015.
See video and read more HERE.
Most Americans realize the mainstream media are biased. According to recent polls, Americans’ trust in mass media has hit all-time lows.
So, why has the mainstream media abandoned all pretenses of political neutrality in favor of pushing lies?
Well, it could certainly have something to do with the fact that the vast majority of those in the mainstream media (as well as those in high places in academia, Hollywood, and corporate America) unashamedly hold leftist views.
This is not a hypothesis. This is a fact.
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Another tech company asks employees to keep politics out of the workplace. Allison Schrager writes:
Tech firms are returning to business models that focus on products and profits rather than politics and causes. Well, two are, anyway. The web software firm Basecamp is asking employees not to discuss politics or partake in activism on company time. Founder and CEO Jason Fried also announced that the privately owned firm would be dropping committees, obsequious peer-performance reviews, and “wellness” and other “paternalistic benefits” that try to nudge employees toward a particular lifestyle.
Basecamp is following in the footsteps of cryptocurrency firm Coinbase. Last September, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong told employees to stop bringing their politics and causes to work and announced that the company would not take political stances unrelated to its core mission. For employees who didn’t like the new policy, Armstrong offered a generous severance package (5 percent of workers took him up on the offer). The announcement, which occurred several months before Coinbase’s April IPO, bucked the idea that public companies must weigh the interests of multiple stakeholders (for example, politically minded employees or victims of social injustice).
Tech companies have traditionally been ahead of the curve. They were early to the idea that firms should wear their morality on their sleeves and indulge their socially conscious workers with safe spaces and lots of perks. Now, big firms like American Airlines, Nike, and Major League Baseball feel compelled to show their explicit support for progressive causes. Perhaps Coinbase and Basecamp are harbingers of a shift back to the shareholder model—where profits, not causes are the main objective.
We can fight wokeness by pushing excellence. Auguste Meyrat writes:
Last week, it came to light that the Virginia Department of Education is considering restructuring math in a way that could reduce opportunities for some students to take advanced math in the name of equity. White and Asian students take advanced math classes more than black and Latino students, and some see this as proof that it’s racist. Instead of seeking ways to raise the enrollment of underrepresented groups in advanced classes, some state leaders appear to believe it may be better to drop all groups down to the same level.
Unfortunately, the Virginia Department of Education isn’t an outlier. Under the guise of social justice, other districts have also taken aim at advanced programs, notably New York City, Seattle, and San Francisco. As Rachel Blustain explains in NBC news, these programs were accused of “creating a caste system by assigning students to remedial, average or advanced classes before they’d had a chance to develop their academic potential.” Yet advanced and Gifted and Talented programs are unequal by design, and they might deny learning opportunities for students enrolled in the lower-level classes.
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By Nancy Thorner -
The Heartland Institute, as a prelude and counter to the Biden/Harris administration's celebration of Earth Day on Thursday, April 22, 2021, presented its own Zoom event on Tuesday, April 20, 2021, titled, " The Real Crisis: Biden and the Left's Radical Climate Policies."
Part 1 - Scientific Facts Expose Biden’s Radical Climate Policies was posted on Wednesday, May 05, 2021 at Illinois Review. Featured were panel members Steve Milloy, Founder and Publisher of Junk Science, and James Taylor, President of The Heartland Institute.
Part 2 features Gregory Wrightstone, Executive Director, CO2 Coalition, and Myron Ebell, CEI's Center for Energy and Environment
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Christopher Baird owns a dairy farm near Ferryville in southwest Wisconsin, not far from the Mississippi River. He milks about 50 cows and farms approximately 80 acres of pasture.
Like a lot of farmers, Baird has direct loans through the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Farm Service Agency.
But the dairy farmer isn’t entitled to a new FSA loan-forgiveness program provided as part of COVID-19 relief in the $2 trillion American Rescue Plan Act, legislation touted Wednesday night by President Joe Biden in his address to Congress.
Baird is white. He joined four other white farmers last week in suing federal officials over being left out.
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