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Can Harris fix America's deteriorating fiscal health? Vice President Kamala Harris has proposed approximately $5 trillion in tax hikes over the next ten years, targeting wealthy Americans and rich corporations. For a federal government forecast to register $2 trillion in budget deficits during the same span, could this be the revenue boost needed to fix America’s deteriorating fiscal health? The projections show her policies are not even close to plugging the federal budget’s gaping hole.Kamala’s Tax Hikes – A Primer The public has heard the same song-and-dance routine for the last 20 years: Washington must make the affluent pay their...

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media. I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone: for kings and all those in authority that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. 1 Timothy 2:1-2 Religion Forum threads labeled “Prayer” are closed to debate of any kind.

They spoke no Spanish, while their migrant students spoke no English. Chicago has a $9.9 billion budget. Its teachers’ unions, who control the city and have one of their own in the mayor’s office, get everything from free abortions to weight loss surgeries, to $145,000 salaries even though their students know absolutely nothing. In math, 19% of Chicago third through eighth graders were proficient on the IAR’s 2024 test, a 2 percentage point increase from the previous school year. During the spring of 2023, 17% of elementary school students were proficient in math, but in the spring of 2019, 24%...

Researchers have discovered that food antigens like milk proteins help keep tumors from growing in the small intestines. Food antigens are the source of allergic reactions to foods. Ohno previously reported that food antigens activate immune cells in the small intestines, but not the large intestines. In the new study, researchers tested whether food antigens suppress tumors in the small intestines. The team began with a special kind of mouse. The mice develop tumors throughout the small and large intestines. The first experiment was fairly simple. They fed these mice normal food or antigen-free food and found that the ones...

A very curious image has been making the rounds on social media for a few days now and it’s raising some serious questions about who is really in charge of the country right now. It’s a picture of one of Joe Biden’s official legislation folders and it includes not only Joe Biden’s signature, but also Jill Biden’s. Why does her signature appear here? No one elected her to anything. Just this week, people across the country were shocked to see Jill Biden sitting at the head of the table at a Joe Biden cabinet meeting, now this.

Cartoons of the Day: September 19, 2024.

This result contradicts previous claims made regarding a statistically significant decline of the Florida Current at 27°N, and subsequently reduces the negative trend (i.e., the weakening) previously observed in the AMOC time series at 26.5°N. Several previous studies that showed a slowing of the Florida Current were based on data from the cable prior to the correction....If climate models are correct and the AMOC is slowing or will slow down, this study indicates that such a slowdown has not yet been reflected in the Florida Current, or that the observational records are still too short to detect it with confidence.

Tim Walz just inadvertently created a new ad for the Trump campaign. While speaking at a rally in Pennsylvania, Walz declared “We can’t afford four more years of this!” Walz was apparently talking about guns and gun violence, but that really doesn’t matter because his words match perfectly with concerns about Harris, Walz, the Democrats, and what they have done to the economy with inflation. Mediaite reports: ‘We Agree!’ Conservatives Roast Tim Walz Saying ‘We Can’t Afford Four More Years of This’ At PA Rally Democratic Vice Presidential nominee Tim Walz was pilloried by many on the right Saturday after...

The previous Rocket Barrage against Northwestern Israel consisted of about 15 Rockets.

A Democratic darling and top fundraiser who had President Biden preside over his nuptials has dished out tens of thousands of dollars to Kamala Harris and other candidates — while the IRS was coming after him for millions in unpaid taxes, The Post has learned. Henry Muñoz, the finance chairman emeritus of the Democratic National Committee, had a whopping $3,497,319 federal income tax lien placed against him in April 2023, IRS records show, along with a $152,411.46 business tax warrant in his home state of Texas.That hasn’t stopped Muñoz, 64, from splashing out out six figures to his fellow Democrats...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Palestinian American U.S. lawmaker Rashida Tlaib on Friday condemned as racist a cartoon published in the conservative magazine National Review showing her with an exploding pager - a reference to an attack this week against members of the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah in Lebanon. "Our community is already in so much pain right now. This racism will incite more hate + violence against our Arab & Muslim communities, and it makes everyone less safe. It's disgraceful that the media continues to normalize this racism," Tlaib wrote on the social media platform X. Tlaib, a Democrat who represents...

As formation of a new cabinet played out in France during the week there were said to be tensions between Prime Minister Michel Barnier and President Emmanuel Macron and his faction... 20 of the 39 ministers names are from the "Macron faction". The leader of Les Republicains in the Senate Bruno Retailleau named Interior Minister. In the Senate the LR party of Mr. Barnier is the largest faction... On Thursday World Jewish Congress President Ron Lauder meeting President Macron at the Elysee Palace. Lauder describing Macron as "an unwavering ally to the Jewish people... In Rennes on Friday Police Commissioner...

In case of a tie, the House of Representatives would decide. This favors Trump. But what are the odds? I make a guess...The above map is not contrived or convoluted. It is the current state of affairs except for Nebraska and a small lead for Harris in Nevada, reversed in the above map. However….Please note Republicans Push to Change Nebraska’s Electoral SystemNebraska Republicans are pushing for the state to change its electoral vote process to a winner-take-all system, which could give former President Donald Trump an extra electoral vote in this year’s close presidential race.Nebraska’s all-Republican congressional delegation sent a...

Pittsburgh’s transformation from Rust Belt phoenix to progressive tech stronghold was supposed to be the Democrats’ long-term ace in the hole for Pennsylvania. Instead, hubris might just hand the Keystone State to the GOP in 2024. As Allegheny County limps toward another election cycle, Republicans are eyeing an opportunity born not of their own strength, but of Democratic complacency and voter disillusionment.The numbers paint a grim picture. Allegheny County hemorrhaged nearly 7,800 residents last year alone, placing it in the top 10 for population loss nationwide. Even more alarming, the county has shed 50,000 jobs in the past five years...

A teenage girl slammed the Wake County Public School System during a board meeting on Tuesday and announced her departure from the school district after she was forced to read graphic sexual material in her English class. During a Tuesday Wake County Board of Education meeting, a 10th-grade student recounted her move to North Carolina just three months ago. She enrolled in Athens Drive Magnet High School and told the board that she was very excited about the opportunity, until last Friday when her teacher assigned the class to read a story independently. “There was a part in this story...

"I think the draft in the future scenario would look less like it did in Vietnam and more like it did during the world wars," Taren Sylvester said.

Even though President Biden signed legislation earlier this year that will effectively ban TikTok next year, politicians are flocking to the app to get their messages out. Right now, both former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, as well as their campaigns, are actively using the social media app to communicate political messages to potential voters. This is an understandable and appropriate use of social media to conduct First Amendment-protected political speech. Blocking this speech by banning TikTok would be a clear violation of Constitutional rights and will hopefully be rejected by the courts or reversed by the...

...."On Wednesday, The United Nations General Assembly voted overwhelmingly to hand over half of Jerusalem, the Wailing Wall, The Temple Mount, Old Jerusalem, and the tomb of Jesus Christ to the Palestinians. The vote was 124-14. The United Nations voted to turn over the holiest sites of Christendom to the Palestinians. The UN voted to turn over the Jewish Quarter, the Christian Quarter, the Chuch of the Holy Sepulchre, several synagogues, numerous Christian holy sites, the Wailing Wall, Solomon’s Throne, the Via Dolorosa, and much more to the Palestinian Muslims. The UN ordered the Jews out of the Old City....

Concerning the recent House funding plan: Was it that Schumer bring the SAVE Act to the floor of the Senate to allow Senators to vote on it? Or, was the plan simply to allow Republicans to talk about the SAVE Act and how much Democrats don’t want to protect Americans from illegal immigration, whether it’s the fentanyl pouring across our border, terrorists and criminal gang members flooding the nation, or preventing illegal aliens from voting in our elections? Let’s analyze the recent failure of the Continuing Resolution + SAVE plan to see if we can tease out what the plan...

While the Teamsters have decided to withhold a call to vote for Kamala Harris in this election, the tax collectors for the welfare state have put out their enthusiastic endorsement.According to Media Research Center:The union that represents the nation’s Internal Revenue Service (IRS) agents announced Wednesday that it is endorsing Democrat Kamala Harris for president in this year’s election.Vice President Harris has played a role in “one of the most pro-labor administrations in history,” the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) explained in a press release announcing its decision:“The administration also delivered agency budgets that provide federal employees with additional staffing...