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It seems many still harbor, or want to perpetuate, the illusion that our Social Security system is not in trouble. Let me quote here from a press release from the Social Security Administration released March 31, 2023: “The Social Security Board of Trustees today released its annual report on the financial status of the Social
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Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) lashed out at Donald Trump on Thursday over allegations the former president is trying to stop the Senate from reaching an agreement on a new bill that would purportedly help the border crisis. Lawmakers were nearing a bipartisan agreement on national security — which would presumably have addressed the border crisis,
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Arizona Republican Party Chairman Jeff DeWit resigned on Wednesday over growing controversy involving Kari Lake, a secret recording, and an alleged bribe. In the explosive recording published on Tuesday, DeWit tells Lake there are “very powerful people” who are willing to pay her not to run for the U.S. Senate in 2024. Throughout the recording,
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A market research company found that after New Jersey banned single-use plastic bags, the amount of plastic used in the state for bags went up significantly, as did the amount of pollution created in production. Only the retailer benefited from the increased sales of the alternative bags. After New Jersey banned single-use plastic bags —
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White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre fawned to a friendly face at CNN about President Biden’s “equity”-based approach to his inflation-rattled economy. Cue the canned laughter. During a Jan. 25 interview on CNN This Morning, Jean-Pierre harped to CNN Anchor and former White House reporter Phil Mattingly that “[Biden] has put equity at the center
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Ohio Conservatives are jumping for joy today. In a 23-9 vote Wednesday, the Ohio Senate voted to override Republican Governor Mike DeWine’s veto of legislation that would ban transgender surgeries for minors and keep transgender women out of women’s sports. In layman’s terms, the so-called “Republican” governor wanted kids to be able to get their genitals mutilated
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Remember the “Twinkie defense”? Dan White, the murderer of San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk, was depressed and his mental illness was made worse by eating a lot of sweets. Hence the “Twinkie Defense.”  Advertisement White got eight years for involuntary manslaughter instead of life in prison on first-degree murder charges. Then there’s the “Affluenza Defense,”
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The New Hampshire primary results didn’t dampen media enthusiasm for a Trump vs. Biden rerun. But Nikki Haley only lost by 11 percent. Democrat Dean Phillips almost hit 20 percent against President Biden. Haley’s voters were lauded for their votes, but Phillips remained an asterisk in the pro-Biden media’s coverage. Associate Editor Nick Fondacaro analyzed
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Bizarre details are slowly trickling out of an investigation into six people found dead in a remote part of the California desert. San Bernardino County sheriff’s spokesperson Mara Rodriguez told reporters that police were initially called at about 8:15 p.m. on Tuesday for a wellness check to an area off of Highway 395. They initially
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Not a single person has been charged with insurrection regarding January 6, yet the Democrat Party continues to dredge up baseless allegations against former President Donald Trump. Meanwhile, there’s plenty of actions other former presidents have taken that could also be looked at through a criminal lens. “What if a president ordered the killing of
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FBI Director Christopher Wray waited until February 2023 to speak publicly about the bureau’s assessment that COVID-19 “most likely” came from the infamous lab in Wuhan, China, where the apparent patients zero executed dangerous gain-of-function experiments on coronaviruses. According to a new report from Michael Shellenberger’s investigative outfit, Public, the FBI may have known about
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Alaska Airlines CEO Ben Minicucci told NBC News Tuesday that the airline found “loose bolts on many” of its Boeing planes following an in-house inspection. Earlier this month, an Alaska Airlines flight from Portland International Airport to Ontario, California, was forced to make an emergency landing after a panel on the Boeing 737 Max 9
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