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A NEW CNN/SSRS poll reports that President Biden’s numbers are worse than Jimmy Carter’s at the same period of his presidency. That shouldn’t surprise you.
IN THE LATEST MARIST poll, two thirds of independent voters disapprove of Biden, including half, who strongly disapprove. Just 29 percent of independents approve of his performance.… read more
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Democrat Sen. Elizabeth Warren saw the selection of entrepreneur Elon Musk by Time magazine as its Person of the Year as an opportunity to accuse him of not paying taxes and “freeloading off everyone else.”
Liberals use the “fair share” disinformation in their futile attempt to paint the wealthy as un-American, when they are simply using the tax code to avoid paying more than required, and they hire financial advisors to assist them.… read more
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“What it is, it’s outrageous. Obviously, it cannot continue. But the fact is that there is an attitude of lawlessness in our country that springs from I don’t know where, maybe you do, and we cannot have lawlessness become the norm.”
That was Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s response to a media inquiry regarding San Francisco Mayor London Breed’s announced plan to crack down on criminal behavior, referencing smash-and-grab robberies and open-air drug use.… read more
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When the whiners in the White House complained about the treatment by the media, even to the point of saying the media was treating Biden worse than Trump, Nick Arama, writing in Red State said it is “a demonstratable untruth.” Of course it is.
Dana Milbank, one of the Biden water-carriers at the Washington Post, seemingly had to be convinced, no doubt because the Post has been a Biden sympathizer in print.… read more
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“Climate change is already ravaging the world … an existential threat to human existence as we know it. We are standing at an inflection point in world history.”– President Biden, a man of science.
If the threats of climate change have yet to convince you that we are facing the end of the world as we know it, be prepared, scientists are on the verge of scaring the hell out of you with data.… read more
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I heard someone say recently, ‘Just think, if President Biden hadn’t reversed President Trump’s policies, he would probably be enjoying a 51 percent approval rating rather than a 51 percent disapproval rating.’
The economy under Trump was coming back when Biden put an end to our energy independence by stopping the Keystone pipeline and drilling. … read more
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Much has been written about the life of Sen. Bob Dole since his passing at age 98 on Sunday, but the story that everyone seems to miss is the one of America’s finicky voters.
Here was a man who came from modest means from Kansas, flyover country, who sacrificed his life in World War II, returning with wounds that made his right arm useless after a year of fighting blood clots and infection, still willing to serve his country.… read more
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When I write a blog commenting on a single topic, a number of items end up on my stack of stuff, hopefully to be shared with you later. Here are a few I thought would be of interest.
Voter Irregularities
While President Trump continues to be criticized for the “Big Lie” with challenges to the validity of the 2020 presidential election, examples of irregularities continue to surface from various states.… read more
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‘It was an opportunity too good to pass up. Fox had been good to me for a decade, but what the heck, I don’t owe them my allegiance.
‘I can’t sit back and allow Tucker Carlson and Fox Nation get away with their attempt to clear Trump from inciting the January 6, 2021 riot and breach of the Capitol.… read more
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Some 10 years ago, while writing op-eds and letters to editors while living in the conservative Hill Country of Texas, I enjoyed taking on a handful of Democrat contributors to a regular column in the Boerne Star called “Progressive Views.”
One of the regulars on the left blamed conservatives for “befouling the word liberal to the point that many who possess the qualities of a liberal have abandoned the term in favor of the more palatable word – progressive.”… read more