Republicans’ Acid Test on Illegal Immigration

Immigration

When, not if, the flood of illegal aliens invading the U.S. becomes a raging torrent with end of the Title 42 speedbump, the Republicans need to say what they will do. Other than raise money, what will they actually do about the illegal aliens already here? Republicans can raise money and run hard on the …

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You Can’t Make Poor People Wealthier by Making Wealthier People Poorer

Though Philadelphia is, overall, quite “diverse,” a word that I mostly despise due to the way it has been co-opted, it is, internally, one of the most segregated large cities in America. As we previously noted, the Editorial Board of The Philadelphia Inquirer were aghast that the “percentage of Black and Hispanic Philadelphians who feel …

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How Many of Those 81,283,501 People Who Voted for Joe Biden Would Have Done So If They’d Known They’d Be Five Percent Poorer in Two Years?

You may have heard the supposedly good news: the year-over-year inflation rate declined to 7.1%: Consumer prices rose last month at the slowest 12-month pace since December 2021, closing out a year in which inflation hit the highest level in four decades and challenged the Federal Reserve’s ability to keep the U.S. economy on track. The Labor …

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The World in Turmoil

Anyone paying attention to the news knows there is great turmoil throughout the world.  It is not just here in the USA.  It has accelerated since the 2020 election and now seems to have a life of its own. Why is this happening, especially when it is self-inflicted?  Instead of building, we are tearing down. …

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Dystopia. Never Mind.

  Merriam Webster: Dystopia – an imaginary place where people are unhappy and usually afraid because they are not treated fairly         We were told after the 2020 election that we would be going back to “normal”, whatever that means. That working class, aw shucks, middle class, Amtrak Joe was going to …

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Joe Biden’s Curious Love Affair with China

China

Most Americans would prefer to think of China as a friendly nation with a different political and economic perspective of the world. That’s certainly how the current occupant of the White House sees China—at least, that is what he says publicly. Privately, he may have other reasons for viewing China and its autocratic leader, Xi …

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The Plague of Government Unions

It was actually a minor line in an article by Robert Stacy McCain about Democrats not accepting election results that didn’t go their way, but one I found very important: Government employee unions are a conspiracy against taxpayers, and when the people of Wisconsin elected (Scott) Walker to fight these unions, Democrats refused to accept …

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