Wikileaks has just published over 8,000 files they say were leaked from the CIA, explaining how the CIA developed the capacity to spy on you through your phone, your computer, and even your television. And Wikileaks’s Julian Assange claims these “Vault 7” documents are just one percent of all the CIA documents they have. The … Continue reading Why You’re Being Watched
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The centerpiece of President Trump’s tax plan is a 15 percent corporate tax rate. Republicans in Congress aren’t quite as aggressive. The House GOP plan envisions a 20 percent corporate tax rate, while Senate Republicans have yet to coalesce around a specific plan. Notwithstanding the absence of a unified approach, you would think that the … Continue reading It’s Long Past Time to Cut Corporate Tax Rates
It’s now clear where this “repeal and replace” thing is headed. A small cadre of the GOP House leadership hammered out a few tweaks of Obamacare in secret. All the essentials of Obamacare were left in place: the mandates, the regulations, the strictures, the entitlement expansions, the preset packages, and many taxes. The glorious … Continue reading Trump’s Voters Have Been Betrayed on Healthcare, Bigly
As the federal debt has gone from astounding to unbelievable to incomprehensible, a new problem has emerged: The US government is actually running out of places to borrow. How Many Zeros Are in a Trillion? The $20 trillion debt is already twice the annual revenues collected by all the world’s governments combined. Counting unfunded liabilities, which … Continue reading Trillions in Debt and We’re Just Scratching the Surface
Republicans have promised time and again to repeal Obamacare—not fix it, not try to make it better—they promised to repeal it. Here are five reasons the American Health Care Act put forward by GOP leadership does not fulfill that promise. 1) The bill does not fully repeal Obamacare. If you have a faulty foundation, nothing you … Continue reading 5 Reasons the GOP’s Obamacare Plan Isn’t Real Repeal
A House committee voted Friday to continue a school voucher program for poor children in the District of Columbia, signaling Republicans’ intent to follow through on President Donald Trump’s promise to expand school choice throughout the country. The program, known as the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program, provides federally funded scholarships to low-income families in the … Continue reading House Panel Votes to Preserve, Expand DC School Vouchers
Statement of Committee for Justice President Curt Levey: While President Trump was admonishing the press about its fake news yesterday, the left-leaning Alliance for Justice published some fake news of its own, titled “The Gorsuch Record.” The Gorsuch opinions and other materials cited by the AFJ report are real, but the conclusions it draws are fake — very … Continue reading Debunking the liberal lies about Gorsuch
WASHINGTON, D.C. – This week, U.S. Senator and physician Rand Paul reintroduced the same legislation, with an updated timeline, to repeal major components of Obamacare that an overwhelming Republican majority sent to President Obama’s desk in January 2016. Congressman Jim Jordan (OH) has introduced companion legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives. Last week, Dr. Paul was … Continue reading Rand Paul Reintroduces Obamacare Repeal Passed by Republicans in Last Congress
Washington is once again massively screwing up the American sugar market. Because American farmers cannot compete with foreign sugar growers, the federal government has maintained an array of sugar import quotas and/or tariffs for most of the last 200 years. The regulatory regime has provided windfalls for generations of politicians and jobs for legions of … Continue reading Why Americans Pay Triple the World Price for Sugar
Keeping promises. That was the theme of a Tuesday anti-Obamacare rally hosted by Americans for Prosperity on a rooftop near Capitol Hill. The title of the event was “You Promised,” a call for Republicans in Congress to keep their word to repeal the Affordable Care Act fully. Close to 200 activists traveled to the … Continue reading Why These 6 Americans Came to DC to Oppose Obamacare
