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A poll released over the weekend spells serious trouble for President Joe Biden heading into the 2024 general election..The overwhelming majority of respondents — 62% of men and 68% of women — said that the U.S. was headed in the “wrong direction” under Biden.

White House Director of Trade and Manufacturing Policy Peter Navarro confirmed Wednesday the administration is working on an executive order to eliminate the government’s reliance on foreign-made medical supplies. The “Buy American” order comes on the heels of concerns expressed by senators during their Tuesday meeting with President Donald Trump on Capitol Hill. [snip] The order would prevent federal agencies from purchasing medical supplies, including face masks, gloves and ventilators, from China. [snip] China has prevented the export of surgical face masks, severely limiting supplies in the U.S. and countries around the world. “China has managed to dominate all aspects...

A newly released NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll reveals that a sizeable majority of Americans now feel like the country is headed in the wrong direction. According to the survey, “six-in-10 Americans believe the country is headed in the wrong direction, and nearly 70 percent of them have negative opinions on the state of the nation today,” NBC News reported. Some of the terms used to describe the state of the nation were “wrong track,” “disarray,” “turmoil,” “polarized,” “concerned,” “shambles” and “declining.” “Times are grim,” said Democratic pollster Peter Hart, who conducted the survey with Republican pollster Bill McInturff. “The...

President Obama’s two biggest “achievements” since taking office are the so-called stimulus and government-run healthcare. But neither one of those policies are popular, so the President largely ignored them during his state-of-the-union address and instead focused on using the tax code to promote “fairness.”But fairness doesn’t mean treating everyone equally by adopting a flat tax. Instead, it means a class-warfare policy of higher tax rates. The President’s home state of Illinois is a good test case of this approach. The politicians rammed through a big tax increase early last year, supposedly to stabilize state finances.Unfortunately, Obamanomics isn’t working very well...

Just 23% of Likely U.S. Voters now say the country is heading in the right direction, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey taken the week ending Sunday, December 12. Down three points from last week, it's the most pessimistic finding since January 2009. Read the rest at Rassmussen Reports I don't mean to be getting crazy with technical terms here, but who are these "looney tunes" who... Are waiting with bated breath for directives from the government on what to eat so the good stuff can be reserved for them... Want to be forced to use...

Riyadh – Worshippers at a mosque in a Saudi Arabian village near Mecca discovered they were praying for 10 years in the wrong direction, a newspaper in the country reported Thursday. Muslims are meant to pray in the direction of the most sacred site in Islam, known as the Kaaba, a large granite structure in the holy city of Mecca. Villagers in Hadda, 20 kilometres north-west of Mecca, should have prayed southeast, but instead bent down five times a day in a northern direction. After realizing the error, the mosque’s leaders changed the direction of the prayer carpets so the...

SACRAMENTO – Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's proposed $125.6 billion state budget moves in the "wrong direction" by using a temporary surge in tax revenue to expand programs rather than pay down debt, Legislative Analyst Liz Hill said yesterday. The nonpartisan analyst said the governor's budget would widen a deficit the state has been struggling with for six years, producing a budget gap of $5 billion to $6 billion next year. "Our concern is that we are expanding spending at a time when we have a significant state budget problem," Hill said. "We would urge using more of the unanticipated revenues to...

SACRAMENTO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's $123 billion budget proposal spends too much of a one-time windfall on new or expanded programs, leading to higher deficits in future years, the state's nonpartisan legislative analyst said Thursday. The review urges lawmakers to consider putting more of an estimated $4 billion in unanticipated income into reserve accounts or use it to pay off existing debts. "The overall plan moves the state in the wrong direction in reaching its longer-term goals of getting its fiscal house in order," said the report from Legislative Analyst Elizabeth Hill. Schwarzenegger released his plan Tuesday, calling it a...

I am seriously troubled with some of the leading indicators of the reason so many voted for Bush. I am troubled about how the people’s feelings are being spun in the media and by the Democrats. Believing that most voters who stated moral values and wrong direction guided their voting was because of the gay marriage amendments is a seriously flawed argument. The real reasons Americans feel that the country is going in the wrong direction is because of our eroding moral values. The reasons are much more nuanced than just wanting to defend traditional marriage. They are also more...