"As a Black man who has voted in the South all my life, voting rights are personal to me.

"As I said in my speech: I support making it easier to vote and harder to cheat. So do my fellow Republicans, and so do voters.

"But the Democrats so-called 'For the People Act' would actually make it easier to cheat and harder to vote. It is not a voting rights bill. It is a partisan power grab that would destroy confidence in our election system.

"Democrats are attempting to rewrite the rules to take control away from state and local officials and put the federal government in charge. This unethical approach to nationalizing elections is inconsistent with the Constitution and inconsistent with commonsense. It doesn't take an expert to realize the needs of New York are different from the needs of South Carolina. ...

"Among the most egregious provisions is the push to gut voter ID laws. The prevailing liberal argument that voter ID requirements are unpopular and aimed at suppressing the minority vote is simply not rooted in facts. In a Senate committee hearing last week, Democrats made the case for their proposals by repeating those false claims. But recent polling shows that the majority of Americans are in favor of voter ID requirements, including large majorities of Black people and Hispanics.

"That's because voter ID, along with many other commonsense election laws, give folks confidence that our elections are secure, fair, and accurate. Eliminating these laws also eliminates confidence in the process. History shows that low trust in elections results in depressed turnout."

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"In the debate between liberals and conservatives, the role of government is a favorite topic. After decades of growth in the size and role of the federal government, Ronald Reagan famously began his presidency in the 1980s by saying, 'Government is not the solution to our problems; government is the problem.' Even Democrat Bill Clinton acknowledged in the 1990s that 'the era of big government is over.'

"Well, big government is back in the 2020s. President Joe Biden is proposing nearly $6 trillion in new government spending, doubling the entire federal budget for 2021. Biden told Congress and the nation last month, 'We have to prove that government still works and can deliver for our people.' COVID-19 relief, infrastructure, education, child care, unemployment relief -- seemingly nothing is beyond the scope of Biden's federal government. Increased federal powers and spending from the coronavirus crisis are rolling forward into all aspects of life. ...

"All this massive new federal spending comes at exactly the wrong time with inflation already on the rise. But the greater danger is moving the federal government into everything from home healthcare to electric vehicles and beyond. That is the kind of big government we need to turn back."

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"Recent polling from Americans for Tax Reform reaffirms voters do not support more job-killing energy taxes, with 58% of poll respondents stating they are 'not willing to pay more in taxes to address climate change.' These results show just how out of touch the radical Left is with the public as it attempts to shove the Green New Deal and other expensive and ineffective climate initiatives down their throats.

"A $40-per-ton carbon tax, for example, would immediately raise the price of gasoline by 36 cents per gallon and have a devastating impact on low-income families. What's worse is that higher energy prices -- which create higher utility bills, gas prices, and food costs -- tend to hurt poor and middle-class households more than wealthier households.

"Make no mistake: Despite its political failures, the big-government Left remains hellbent on imposing a national carbon tax, showing time and again that it is completely out of touch with the public. Case in point: Progressives continue attempts to pass the Green New Deal, which, among other things, aims to get rid of airplanes and cows."

"We've heard calls in recent years for an ever-widening category of 'terrorists' to encompass groups from the Jan. 6 rioters to antifa to the the Ku Klux Klan. So it is surprising that the White House and the media have referred to the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attackers simply as 'hackers.' 'DarkSide' is not just a collection of hackers -- it's a group of terrorists. And the only thing more concerning than the failure to label them correctly is the possible reason for not doing so. ...

"It may be true that the Biden administration concluded we are defenseless to cyber terrorism despite years of ransomware attacks and hundreds of billions of dollars in cybersecurity programs. If that is the case, the public should be informed. The failure of Congress and our government to defend against such terror attacks is a national security failure of breathtaking proportions. The Colonial Pipeline attack was the cyber equivalent of Pearl Harbor. In both cases, we were caught unprepared and unable to deal with a threat we knew was coming. Yet President Roosevelt did not issue a 'no comment' on the critical facts after the Pearl Harbor attack in 1941. Back then, we believed FDR when he stated in his first inauguration that 'the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.'

"What the Biden administration seems to fear most is public recognition that it is afraid -- afraid of the vulnerability of our infrastructure, afraid that the public will learn what cyber terrorists already know."

"My colleague Casey Mulligan of the University of Chicago and I predicted in the Wall Street Journal three months ago that the $300 per week extra unemployment benefits would mean 5 to 6 million people not going back to work because the government was paying them more not to work. The Left laughed at this prediction. Now, we see record jobs going unfilled, 8.1 million, even when there are 9 million unemployed.

"'Help wanted' signs at construction sites, factories, stores, and restaurant windows are omnipresent from Maine to California. All the Biden folks needed to do was stop gazing into their cracked crystal ball and go outside and ask business owners if they can find workers. They would have heard an earful. Instead, the liberals paid attention to some cockamamie econometric model saying you can pay people more not to work, and it won't change their behavior. Brilliant."

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"As the U.S. climbs out of a once-in-a-century pandemic, rising prices have led to increasing worry that rapid inflation could be just over the horizon.

"Americans have already witnessed higher prices in the past few months, with everything from gasoline to lumber to basic home items jumping in cost. The increases, partially fueled by non-existent interest rates and record government spending, could lead to inflation that the U.S. has not seen in decades, experts say.

"'In the short term, consumers can expect to see rising prices across the board,' Henry Olsen, a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and a columnist at The Washington Post, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. 'I expect in the next few months people will be getting sticker shocked in virtually all aspects of their life.'"

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"President Joe Biden does not plan on changing his position on the Keystone XL Pipeline or other anti-oil and gas policies despite concerns about fuel shortages, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said on Tuesday.

"While drivers along the East Coast struggle with shortages and rising gas prices due to the cyberattack that shut down the Colonial Pipeline, Psaki brushed off concerns that the Biden administration's opposition to new gas projects could also cause shortages and price hikes. ...

"While thousands of people struggle to come to terms with the Colonial Pipeline shutdown, gas prices are at their highest national average since late 2014 and may continue to rise. The current national average price for just one gallon of gas is $2.99 which is nearly a 9 cent jump since last week when fuel prices averaged around $2.91.

"During his first few days in office, Biden rescinded the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline, which was planned to stretch from Alberta, Canada to Nebraska. He also supported the Interior Department's 60-day pause on new drilling permits and leasing on federal land."

"Every now and then, the world pauses briefly to say, 'Hey, dummy -- pay attention.'

"Seventeen states and -- oh, glorious irony! -- the District of Columbia have declared states of emergency after the closure of the Colonial pipeline, which brings fuel from Gulf Coast refineries to eastern cities. Gasoline prices already are rising and are expected to rise sharply in the immediate future. ... The population centers of the East Coast are at risk of significant disruption to everything from deliveries to travel -- because almost half the fuel used in the most densely populated part of the country travels through a single pipeline that runs from Houston to Linden, N.J., currently out of service after an apparent act of extortion through cyberterrorism.

"'Hey, dummy -- pay attention.'

"President Joe Biden is no friend of pipelines. Practically his first act in office was unilaterally stopping a multi-billion-dollar pipeline project that already was under way. Biden proposes to be President Infrastructure, so long as expanded welfare benefits and subsidized childcare for two-income professionals in Washington qualify as 'infrastructure,' while his administration micturates from a great height upon actual infrastructure -- e.g., the pipelines, refineries, and transportation networks that connect our workers and factories and trucks with the actual fuel our economy runs on, as opposed to the imaginary unicorn-juice economy that exists in the fantasy world of President Biden, Senator Bernie Sanders, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, et al."

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"A line in Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson's 'Mammas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys,' warns: 'Them that don't know him won't like him.' As a retired law-enforcement professional, it deeply saddens me to witness how my former profession suddenly finds itself in similar straits -- reviled, the object of scorn and derision.

"Dangerous tropes abound. False narratives proliferate. Bigotry and intolerance are suddenly acceptable, so long as the target wears a blue uniform.

"I am also a father. I will not encourage my children to grow up to be cops. ...

"Encourage my children -- or anyone else's, for that matter -- to take up a dangerous and thankless profession amid today's anti-cop environment?

"No, thanks. I'll pass."

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"Missouri's chief legal disciplinary officer accused St. Louis' top prosecutor of sweeping misconduct in the failed prosecution of former Gov. Eric Greitens, saying she lied to judges in court filings and testimony, withheld exculpatory evidence from the defense, misled her own prosecution team and violated the constitutional right to a fair trial.

"St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kimberly Gardner, one of the early local prosecutors bankrolled by liberal megadonor George Soros since 2016, engaged in 62 acts of misconduct that resulted in 79 false representations during Greitens' now-dismissed criminal prosecution, according to Chief Disciplinary Counsel Alan Pratzel's memo obtained Wednesday by Just the News.

"'Probable cause exists to believe that the respondent is guilty of professional misconduct,' Pratzel declared in a 73-page memo that repeatedly accused Gardner of withholding evidence of innocence and providing a false portrait to the courts, the defense and even her own prosecution team.

"Pratzel also accused Gardner of lying during the disciplinary proceedings, long after the case was dismissed against Greitens, a former Navy SEAL and rising Republican star who was forced to resign as governor in 2018 less than two years after he was sworn in."

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