Written by Robert Knight
President Biden said during July’s heat wave that “extreme heat is the No. 1 weather-related killer in the United States.”
Mr. Biden is “wrong by a factor of 25,” wrote Bjorn Lomborg, a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution, in The Wall Street Journal. “While extreme heat kills nearly 6,000 Americans each year, cold kills 152,000, of which 12,000 die from extreme cold.”
Mr. Lomborg noted that heat-related deaths have declined for decades in the United States and around the world because prosperity has allowed more people to afford air conditioning and other technology.… Continue Reading
Tags: Al Capone, Antifa, Bjorn Lomborg, Black Lives Matter, Border Patrol, border security, Chick-Fil-A, Donald Trump, Edmundo Gonzalez, gas prices, Hoover Institution, Hugo Chavez, illegal aliens, Inflation, January 6th, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, McDonald, Nicolas Maduro, open borders, The Wall Street Journal, U.S. Supreme Court, Venezuela
Climate Change, Federal Issues, Immigration | David E. Smith | August 5, 2024 7:02 AM | Comments Off on Numbers Don’t Lie, Except When Democrats Report Them
Written by Tim Graham
On the same day that President Joe Biden implied Jan. 6 was a darker day than 9/11 and Pearl Harbor, leftist protesters fought and shoved police and burned the American flag near the Capitol. They pulled down the American flag and replaced it with the Palestinian flag. Some flew the Hamas flag and vandalized monuments with spray-painted slogans like “Hamas is comin'” and “I commend Hamas.”
The occasion was Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaking to a joint session of Congress.… Continue Reading
Tags: ABC, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, All Things Considered, Andrea Mitchell, Benjamin Netanyahu, CBS, Hamas, Jennifer Ludden, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Lester Holt, Matt Gutman, Nancy Pelosi, NBC, Nick Schifrin, NPR, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, PBS NewsHour, Rashida Tlaib, Scott MacFarlane, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Tom Malinowski
Islam & Sharia, Media Watch | David E. Smith | July 27, 2024 5:00 AM | Comments Off on Sanitizing Violent, Flag-Burning Pro-Hamas Protesters
Written by Tim Graham
The national media consider themselves essential in educating the electorate, so what happens when the electorate does not consider them a trustworthy guardian of democracy?
The Associated Press and the American Press Institute just released a poll on the 2024 election and found only 14% of their sample expressed “a great deal of confidence in election-related information they receive from national sources.” By contrast, 46% have little or no confidence at all in the information they receive from national news organizations.… Continue Reading
Tags: American Press Institute, Associated Press, Brian Stelter, Chris Licht, CNN, David Bauder, Donald Trump, Katherine Maher, Michael Bolden, National Public Radio, NPR, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post
Media Watch | David E. Smith | May 3, 2024 11:00 AM | Comments Off on Little Trust for the ‘Democracy-Saving’ Media
Written by Robert Knight
Left-wing lunacy should be Republicans’ best friend. Take California — please.
In Democratic-run Los Angeles, a fire from a homeless encampment got out of hand and caused enormous damage to an Interstate 10 overpass, closing the major freeway. It will be weeks before it can reopen to the roughly 300,000 commuters who use it daily.
In Democratic-run San Francisco, officials cleaned up just enough homeless tents, used needles, human excrement and garbage to give visiting Chinese leader Xi Jinping a Potemkin village experience during the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit and his visit with President Joe Biden.… Continue Reading
Tags: abortion, Andy Beshear, Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit, Black Lives Matter, Bob Anderson, border security, Buta Biberaj, climate hysteria, Democratic Platform, Dick Black, Donald Trump, exploding crime, gender madness, George Soros, Joe Biden, Karl Rove, open borders, Robert Knight, The Wall Street Journal, vaccination mandates, Weaponized Government, Xi Jinping
Political | David E. Smith | November 20, 2023 7:54 AM | Comments Off on Republicans Must Make Democrats Own Their Radical Politics
Written by Paul Caprio
In his column, Donald Trump Owes Pro-Lifers (September 29), William McGurn has made some important points about the significance of the pro-life movement in electing Donald Trump President in 2016.
First, however, Mr. McGurn mentions Trump’s recent attack on Florida Governor Ron DeSantis for signing a six-week abortion ban. Trump is calling it a “terrible thing.” The Florida law is called federalism in action, Mr. President.
Mr. McGurn correctly reminds us of the two major events which were crucial in providing overwhelming, and probably decisive, pro-life support for Trump in 2016.… Continue Reading
Tags: Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, late-term abortion, parental consent, parental rights, Roe v. Wade, taxpayer funding of abortion, The Hyde Amendment, The Wall Street Journal, U.S. Supreme Court, William McGurn
Sanctity of Life | David E. Smith | September 23, 2023 2:00 PM | Comments Off on Dems Have No Interest In Compromise On Abortion
Written by Robert Knight
“What comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart,” Jesus told his disciples.
Yes, a few words can reveal all you need to know about someone’s character or motives.
A case in point is Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen. In a column on Wednesday for The Wall Street Journal, she told at least two easily rebutted whoppers.
Here’s the first: “With the Inflation Reduction Act, we are delivering on what I call ‘modern supply-side economics,’” she wrote.… Continue Reading
Tags: Biden Administration, Bjorn Lomborg, Donald Trump, Environmental Protection Agency, gasoline prices, Inflation Reduction Act, Janet Yellen, Joe Biden, Keystone XL Pipeline, lithium, National Academy of Sciences, Ronald Reagan, Sarah Kaplan, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post
Climate Change | David E. Smith | August 21, 2023 7:00 AM | Comments Off on Liberals’ Climate Agenda Brings Out The Gaslighting
Written by Tim Graham
White House briefings in the Biden years are often sleepy meetings compared to the Jim Acosta shriek-fests we remember under Trump. President Joe Biden pledged he would be so much nicer to the press corps. He promised to “bring transparency and truth back to the government.” But the press is much nicer to him than the other way around.
Biden provides far less access than Trump did. He avoids press conferences and one-on-one interviews like the plague.… Continue Reading
Tags: Biden Administration, Bill D'Agostino, Catherine Lucey, Chinese Communist Party, CNN, Drew Barrymore, Geoff Bennett, Hunter Biden, Jacqui Heinrich, Jeremy Diamond, Jim Acosta, Joe Biden, John Kirby, Karine Jean-Pierre, Media Research Center, National Security Council, Nicolle Wallace, PBS NewsHour, Peter Baker, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Weijia Jiang, White House
Federal Issues, Media Watch | David E. Smith | July 8, 2023 7:00 AM | Comments Off on Scandal Questions Go Down the Latrine Jean-Pierre
Written by Robert Knight
One by one, the myths and lies propagated by the ruling elites about COVID-19 are falling like dominoes.
What was supposed to have been “misinformation” is the real deal.
The “wet market” theory, which never made sense, is turning out to be all wet. Major government agencies — the Department of Energy and the FBI — now say that the virus probably leaked from China’s Wuhan virology lab. It didn’t come from a bat sandwich after all.… Continue Reading
Tags: Allysia Finley, Anthony Fauci, Bret Stephens, Cell Host & Microbe, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Communist Party, Cochrane Review, COVID–19, Department of Energy, FBI, Francis Collins, Great Barrington Declaration, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, Johnson & Johnson, Moderna, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, pandemic, Pfizer, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Wuhan Institute of Virology
COVID, Federal Issues | David E. Smith | March 6, 2023 8:00 AM | Comments Off on COVID-19 ‘Conspiracy Theories’ Turned Out To Be True
Written by Robert Knight
Don’t look now, but the resistance to woke tyranny is rising rapidly, and not just in the United States.
Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon resigned on Wednesday after eight years in office. A leftist and climate change extremist, she opposed Brexit while leading the fight for Scottish independence from Britain.
During her tenure, according to the Daily Mail, Scottish life expectancy plunged, drug deaths doubled, alcohol deaths increased, schools continued failing, and Scots were worse off economically than when she took office.… Continue Reading
Tags: American Center for Law and Justice, American Civil Liberties Union, Daily Mail, Drag Queen Story Hour, Gender Recognition Reform Bill, Jamie Reed, Jason Miyares, Josh Hawley, Merrick Garland, Nicola Sturgeon, Protecting Our Kids From Child Abuse Act, Southern Poverty Law Center, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Washington University Transgender Center
LGBTQ Agenda, Sanctity of Life | David E. Smith | February 20, 2023 12:00 PM | Comments Off on Pushback Against ‘Woke’ Agenda Happening Around The World
The Biden administration’s long-awaited Department of Labor rule change for independent contractor classification under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) was made public Tuesday morning.
Labor Secretary Marty Walsh (D, Pro-Labor Unions) stated the following when the rule was announced:
“While independent contractors have an important role in our economy, we have seen in many cases that employers misclassify their employees as independent contractors, particularly among our nation’s most vulnerable workers.
“Misclassification deprives workers of their federal labor protections, including their right to be paid their full, legally earned wages.
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Tags: 1099 Independent Contractor, Amendment 1, Carol Roth, Dale Brown, Departmenf of Labor, Fair Labor Standards Act, Financial Services Institute, FLSA, Fred Keller, Kevin Kiley, Marc Poulos, Marty Walsh, National Labor Relations Act, NLRA, Rachel Cohen, Ram Villivalam, Rick Keller, The Wall Street Journal, Virginia Foxx, Vox, Wage and Hour Division
Exclude From Homepage, Federal Issues, Illinois Politics, Political | Admin | October 15, 2022 7:01 AM | Comments Off on Biden Admin Rule Change & Amendment 1