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Ohio’s government, with Republicans in charge of the legislature and the governor’s office, has cut taxes. It’s a dog-bites-man story, which is why you probably haven’t heard about it. But it’s worth noting because it runs counter to a common claim about Donald Trump’s Republican Party. According to that argument, Republicans are well along in the process of jettisoning their old free-market orthodoxy. Trump buried Ronald Reagan’s party, with its fixation on limiting government and slashing entitlements. Among today’s conservatives, we’re told, all the energy is behind raising tariffs, breaking up big companies and establishing government-led industrial policies. Except, Republican...

At first glance, U.S. Covid cases appear to have plateaued over the past two weeks, with a consistent average of around 30,000 cases per day, according to NBC News' tally. But disease experts say incomplete data likely masks an upward trend. In Washington, D.C., for example, several high-profile government figures recently tested positive, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, White House press secretary Jen Psaki and Attorney General Merrick Garland.

The Portland Riots, in their 58th night, are the longest-running civil disturbance in United States history. About a week ago I noticed that while the mainstream media wasn’t covering the riots the Portland Police were live-tweeting and live-streaming them almost like a nightly reality program. I decided to name it Portlandia Nights and began writing a synopsis each morning – this is my eighth synopsis and the 58th episode of America’s favorite reality program. I’m not sure how much longer I’ll continue to write these because honestly, every night is the same so I’m calling this episode “Groundhog Day”. Before...

We should've expected nothing less from President Present.

VLADIVOSTOK, Sept. 5 (Xinhua) -- As U.S. President Barack Obama has decided to dodge the upcoming APEC summit, people from around the world, the Pacific rim in particular, are witnessing a mal-functioned reset of the relationship between such world powers as the U.S. and Russia. The push-button to initiate the reset was done in 2009 by Obama and then Russian President Dmitry Medvedev at the London G20 Summit. But the resetting process since then has not been faring well. To sit up alongside APEC leaders will only be U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who has just skipped the regular...

We've been waiting for the Barack Obama re-election campaign to come up with a new slogan ever since they added a period to "FORWARD." If the last 24 hours are any indication, the new slogan is either "INCOMPLETE" or possibly "GIVE ME ONE MORE CHANCE." After Barack Obama gave himself an "incomplete" on the economy in a Colorado Springs TV news interview last night, ABC's Jake Tapper asks Team Obama deputy campaign manager Stephanie Cutter whether that "cut[s] it" as an answer. "Absolutely," Cutter responds:CLICK ABOVE LINK FOR THE REST TAPPER: “So President Obama was asked recently about the grade...

Barack Obama spoke to KKTV in Colorado Springs last night, which didn't ask the tougher question of the week --- are we better off than we were four years ago? --- but did ask Obama to grade his performance on the economy. Obama gave himself an incomplete, which as BuzzFeed notes is the same grade Obama gave himself in 2010 and 2011:CLICK ABOVE LINK FOR THE VIDEO Incomplete? Maybe Professor Obama doesn't realize this, but report cards come out pretty soon. We're not going to let him stay after school for extra credit at this point. Obama already flunked his...

The rise and fall of the housing market was one of the more spectacular bubbles of recent memory. And the bursting of that bubble is still having a profound impact on the economy, even though we're now several years past the peak. Yet, it doesn't look like housing prices will be bouncing back anytime soon. Last week, I examined the perfect storm of factors that led to the incredible inflation of housing prices and some of the reasons housing prices have fallen back to earth. Although I do believe that prices have stabilized, there are many headwinds that will make...

A fascinating new paper comparing global warmism to past scares concludes this one is much like the rest - just as dodgy and just as likely to peter out. It’s the work of South Australian academic Dr Kesten C. Green and American forecasting expert J. Scott Armstrong: We summarize evidence showing that the global warming alarm movement has more of the character of a political movement than that of a scientific controversy. We then make forecasts of the effects and outcomes of this movement using a structured analysis of analogous situations—a method that has been shown to produce accurate forecasts...

I found this really cool map/flash movie. It has a moving timeline that corresponds with the changing map. Click on the link.Maps of War

MARINE CORPS RECRUIT DEPOT SAN DIEGO (Feb. 3, 2006) -- During his work lunch break, Pfc. Jonathan D. Hale, Platoon 3054, Company K, visited the grave of his high school friend, the day after the funeral. Hale didn’t know Cpl. Taylor S. Trovillion joined the Marine Corps until he received a late-night phone call saying he had just missed the funeral. “I went to his grave and kind of just sat there. The next day I went to the recruiter’s office,” said the Richardson, Texas, native. Trovillion was killed on deployment when the vehicle he was traveling in drove over...

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