An “agitated and animated” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., began “pointing and screaming” at a female agent during a 2019 visit to a Border Patrol station in El Paso, Texas, according to government documents. “I as a woman of color do not feel safe here,” Ocasio-Cortez told the female agent, according to an official memorandum that … Continue reading Ocasio-Cortez Berated, Falsely Accused Border Patrol Agent, Memos Say
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Today’s corporate virtue signaling is the 1990s version of greenwashing given that the promotion of doing ‘good’ is superseding outcomes derived from it. Nevertheless, the impetus for addressing environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues, as depicted within the UN’s Sustainability Goals, is proving itself to be a global mandate for firms of all types. This … Continue reading Warren Buffett Just Snubbed the ‘Social Responsibility’ Craze. Here’s Why He’s Right
Earlier today, Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy tweeted: https://twitter.com/ChrisMurphyCT/status/1392117646494162944?s=20 Maybe he should look a little harder at the figures. First:“Boston to DC– Airline time: 1.6 hours” The reason high‐speed rail never caught on in the United States is because we had jet airliners before Japan even started building its first bullet train. Why should we worry that a train from … Continue reading China’s High‐Speed Debt Trap
Andres Guilarte is a university student who lived in Venezuela under a democratically elected socialist regime. Guilarte says food shortages were a daily occurrence. Venezuelans also endure massive blackouts, political persecution, and a lack of access to health care due to the socialist government. Guilarte joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to share his experiences of … Continue reading He Lived Under Socialism in Venezuela. That’s Why He’ll Never Support It.
Imagine an economy where there is no money. All currencies, mediums of exchange, and other intermediaries of trade no longer exist. Instead of having money, everyone is issued ration cards that dictate what goods they can have and in what quantities. Everything from food you buy to the clothes you wear to medicine you need … Continue reading That Time the Soviet Union (Grudgingly) Turned to Free Markets to Save Its Collapsing Economy
A century ago, the Mother Ship of Socialism—the Soviet Union—was teetering on the precipice. The Poles had just vanquished the hopes of dictator Vladimir Lenin to sweep across Europe. Under the bludgeon of Marxist central planning, the economy had collapsed to a fraction of its pre-war dimensions. The country was seething in discontent. Insurrection seemed … Continue reading Lenin’s New Economic Policy: When the Soviets Admitted Socialism Doesn’t Work
Americans for Prosperity Foundation and the Thomas More Law Center are charitable organizations who advocate for a variety of free‐market and socially conservative viewpoints that are controversial in the current political climate. As nonprofits, they fund their activities through private donations from like‐minded individuals across the country, many of whom prefer to remain anonymous for fear … Continue reading California Has No Need to Doxx Donors
After weeks of relative silence, Antifa’s destructive activism came roaring back to the Pacific Northwest. And as the trial of a former police officer in the death of a black man is underway 1,650 miles away, this region worries that the violence not only will worsen but threaten to become a permanent fixture. Violence erupted … Continue reading Antifa’s Destructive Return Could Have Staying Power
The word “socialism” terrifies some of today’s Democrats, even as leading figures in the party embrace the term. Democratic Rep. Abigail Spanberger of Richmond, Virginia, who narrowly won her House seat in 2018 and narrowly retained it in 2020, made news when her emphatic comment on a postelection phone call was leaked to the media. … Continue reading Socialism’s Disturbing Record on Abortion
Early in 2007, after winning a second six-year term as president, Hugo Chávez announced his plan to nationalize Venezuela’s largest telecommunications company, CANTV, hinting at wider nationalization plans to come. “All that was privatized, let it be nationalized,” announced Chávez, who had run under the banner of democratic socialism. Nearly a decade and a half … Continue reading Bloomberg: Venezuela Turns to Privatization After Being Bankrupted by Socialism
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