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On News that Investigators Found More Classified Documents in President Biden's Home: |
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"President Biden seems to attract classified documents the way some people think motor homes attract tornadoes. They just inexplicably happen.
"After Biden publicly declared that he has 'no regrets' in the discovery of unlawfully stored classified material in various locations, he assured citizens that the special counsel investigation would soon peter out when they find that 'there is no there there.'
"Well, there turns out to be more there and the 'there' is yet another find in a private residence of Joe Biden."
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— Jonathan Turley, Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University
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— Jonathan Turley, Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University
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Posted January 23, 2023 • 07:43 AM
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On House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's Decision to Deny Certain Democrats Committee Assignments: |
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"You may have noticed some establishment political media types feigning confusion over why Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy is denying Democrats like Eric Swalwell committee assignments. There are plenty of legitimate reasons to do it.
"The most obvious is partisan retribution. Ever since Nancy Pelosi created a precedent by vetoing Republican picks for the Jan. 6 investigation, McCarthy had a ready-made justification for denying minority Democrats their own picks. It's only a bonus that Swalwell, an internet troll who was once duped by a ChiCom honeypot, will be denied a seat on the Intelligence Committee. As is the fact that Ilhan Omar, the antisemitic representative who equates the United States with terror groups like Hamas, will no longer have a seat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Neither are intellectually, philosophically, or experientially suited for such roles.
"Unlike Omar or Swalwell, however, the worst offender isn't a radical or fabulist or a person professionally unfit for the job. It's a person who blatantly breaks his oath of office. It is basically a constitutional imperative to deny the corrupt Adam Schiff any power."
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— David Harsanyi, Syndicated Columnist and Senior Editor at The Federalist
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— David Harsanyi, Syndicated Columnist and Senior Editor at The Federalist
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Posted January 20, 2023 • 07:48 AM
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Reporting On How Energy Workers Have Not Forgiven President Biden for Killing Keystone XL Pipeline Jobs: |
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"Power the Future, a group that represents the interests of U.S. energy workers, published a video blasting the Biden administration for its decision two years ago to nix the Keystone XL pipeline.
"The video, first obtained by Fox News Digital, noted the pipeline cancellation -- which President Biden ordered via executive order on his first day in office in January 2021 -- led to thousands of job losses. It also highlighted comments Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry made following the cancellation arguing that fossil fuel jobs would be replaced with clean energy jobs.
"'From canceling Keystone to trying to cancel our gas stoves, Joe Biden has pushed his failed agenda and hasn't stopped since day one,' Daniel Turner, the founder and executive director of Power the Future, said in a statement shared with Fox News Digital. 'It's a pathetic coincidence that as this anniversary arrives, John Kerry is once again in Europe lecturing our families.'
"'Joe Biden's action cost tens of thousands of jobs and billions of dollars and every American family is still paying more every day,' Turner added."
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— Thomas Catenacci, Fox News
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— Thomas Catenacci, Fox News
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Posted January 19, 2023 • 08:34 AM
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On How President Biden is Misleading the American People on the Cost of Inflation: |
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"President Joe Biden touted Americans' rising wages over the weekend, but a closer look shows there is more to the story.
"'More Americans have health insurance than ever in history,' Biden wrote on Twitter. 'Fewer families are facing foreclosure today than before the pandemic. And wages are climbing faster than prices.'
"While wages have increased during Biden's presidency, soaring inflation has eroded and often surpassed any gains for workers since Biden took office.
"'Only a few months of Biden's presidency have [we] seen wages and earnings rise faster than prices,' said E.J. Antoni, an economist at the Heritage Foundation. 'Over the last two years, the American people have become demonstrably worse off with the average family losing $6,000 in purchasing power because prices have risen so much faster than wages.'"
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— Casey Harper, The Center Square
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— Casey Harper, The Center Square
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Posted January 18, 2023 • 12:25 PM
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On States Ending Judicial Deference to Executive Agencies: |
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"In federal and state courts around the country, Americans often face an uneven playing field when they square off against executive agencies, thanks to doctrines that require judges to rubber stamp agency interpretations of the law. And while the Supreme Court may be slow-walking the end of Chevron and Auer deference in the federal courts, state courts and legislators around the country are acting. Eleven states have ended deference to state agencies in recent years -- including Ohio just a few weeks ago and Tennessee in its last legislative session -- and more should follow their lead.
"But first, what are Chevron and Auer deference? It's called 'Chevron' deference because of the 1984 Supreme Court case that embraced the ridiculous doctrine: Chevron v. NRDC. Chevron required that when a legal question arises over the interpretation of a statute an agency administers, courts must defer to the agency's interpretation unless it is plainly contradicted by the text. Auer deference -- named after Auer v. Robbins, the case that created it -- is like Chevron deference but applied to an agency's own regulations.
"Thanks to these doctrines, federal courts are required to defer to agency interpretations even if what the agency claims is not the most logical or well-supported interpretation. Moreover, agency interpretations of their own power, whether in statutes or regulations, are not 'neutral.' In almost all cases, they seek to expand the agency power at the expense of individual liberty. This places anyone going toe-to-toe with a government agency at a huge disadvantage (as if the seemingly unlimited resources and army of government lawyers isn't enough of a disadvantage)."
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— Daniel Dew, Legal Policy Director at Pacific Legal Foundation
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— Daniel Dew, Legal Policy Director at Pacific Legal Foundation
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Posted January 17, 2023 • 08:16 AM
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Reporting On States Phasing Out Personal Income Taxes: |
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"Americans in search of economic freedom and oportunity are flocking to Florida, Tennessee and Texas, and at least part of the attraction is that these three states, along with six others (Alaska, Nevada, South Dakota, Washington, Wyoming and New Hampshire), don't levy an income tax.
"Other states may soon follow.
"'There are 10 states that are in the process of moving their personal income tax to zero,' President of Americans for Tax Reform Grover Norquist said on the John Solomon Reports podcast."
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— Charlotte Hazard, Just the News
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— Charlotte Hazard, Just the News
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Posted January 16, 2023 • 07:54 AM
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On the National Debt and Debt Ceiling: |
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"Of all the reforms in House rules secured by the conservative rabblerousers last week, arguably the most momentous was the promise that Republicans will not pass any debt ceiling increase until substantial budget process reforms and spending cuts are secured.
The need for such a rule would seem self-evident. The debt has risen by some $4 trillion in just two years. Government borrowing last year hit 13 figures, or $1.4 trillion. Absent budget reforms, we could easily see a decade ahead with another $10 trillion added to the debt. And don't forget, every one-percentage point rise in interest rates by the Fed raises the debt by well more than a trillion dollars over the next decade."
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— Steve Moore, Economic Policy Analyst and Fox News Contributor
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— Steve Moore, Economic Policy Analyst and Fox News Contributor
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Posted January 13, 2023 • 08:35 AM
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On Inflation: |
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"A recession is coming in 2023, concluded more than two-thirds of the economists at big financial institutions recently surveyed by The Wall Street Journal. Inflation is also likely to remain high. Measuring year-over-year inflation by the U.S. government's 1980s methodology put it at 15.23 percent in November 2022 instead of the government's claimed 7.11 percent, according to economist John Williams.
"Many commentators, including me, were wrong when we previously claimed our grandkids will be paying off America's massively unaffordable welfare state. We are all paying for it right now and are likely to be for much of our lives in inflation and other economic devastation.
"Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman's maxim that 'inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon' -- meaning, inflation is always caused by government overspending -- predicts continued inflation for at least the next five years, if not longer.
"That's because government entities are continuing to engage in seriously inflationary actions. They're doing this partly because of ideology, partly to buy votes, and partly because they prefer eating away Americans' savings to paying off the unprecedented government debt that politicians have accumulated in the last 70 years enriching their friends and buying off voters."
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— Joy Pullmann, Executive Editor of The Federalist
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— Joy Pullmann, Executive Editor of The Federalist
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Posted January 12, 2023 • 07:21 AM
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On the Biden Administration's Effort to Ban Gas Stoves: |
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"President Joe Biden wants to ban your gas stove. He intends to do it stealthily by preventing you from buying a new one so that when your current stove conks out you have no choice but to replace it with an electric stove.
"His Consumer Product Safety Commission is pouncing on a new study by four researchers, two of whom are linked to activist groups that militate against carbon fuels. The report blames gas stoves for 13% of childhood asthma cases.
"One should be skeptical of that number, which should be confirmed by scientists who don't have a conflict of interest, real or perceived. If the finding is important, it must be reproducible.
"But even if the finding is reproduced, the case for government action is weak. Many of us choose to cook with gas because we prefer it, and the choice should be ours, not Uncle Joe's."
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— The Editors, Washington Examiner
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— The Editors, Washington Examiner
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Posted January 11, 2023 • 07:59 AM
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On the News That Classified Documents from the Obama Administration Were Found at a Think Tank Associated With President Joe Biden: |
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"When Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Nov. 18 that he had named a special prosecutor to investigate former President Donald Trump's handling of classified documents found at the Mar-a-Lago compound, the government harbored a fresh secret: The current president, Joe Biden, had a similar problem.
"Just two weeks earlier, Biden's lawyers disclosed to government lawyers on Nov. 2 -- just six days before the midterm elections -- that they had found sensitive government documents with classified markings inside an office that Biden used at the Penn Biden Center think tank in Washington after he left office as Barack Obama's vice president.
"The public was kept in the dark about the startling discovery until Monday, when the White House confirmed it was cooperating with an investigation launched by the Justice Department at the request of the same National Archives that has tussled with Trump over the last year.
"The belated disclosure turned the political tables on Biden, who sharply criticized Trump for his document debacle last fall, while also raising troubling new questions that will need to be answered by a U.S. Attorney in Illinois and Congress."
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— John Solomon, Executive Officer and Editor in Chief of Just the News
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— John Solomon, Executive Officer and Editor in Chief of Just the News
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Posted January 10, 2023 • 08:22 AM
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