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Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer’s PRO Act is a case study in unintended consequences. With control of Congress and the White House, Democrats are making labor policy one of their first priorities. Ironically enough, that’s actually bad news for independent contractors and gig economy workers across the country. The legislation at the core of their agenda is the PRO Act, which Democrats just re-introduced with sponsors including Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority leader Chuck Schumer. Among many other things, the bill would severely restrict the legal definition of independent contractors in a way that would largely...

On Monday, White House press secretary Jen Psaki dismissed a reporter’s question on where the American workers who lost their jobs due to Joe Biden’s executive order shutting down the Keystone XL pipeline would get the promised “green jobs” by giving a snarky response as callous and out of touch as anything uttered by Marie Antoinette. “Well, I’d certainly welcome you to present your data of all the thousands and thousands of people who won’t be getting a green job,” Psaki answered. “Maybe next time you’re here you can present that.“In Psaki’s world, government officials are not to be questioned...

Almost exactly one year ago, The Washington Post loudly ridiculed U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) in a news story — not an opinion piece — about the origins of the coronavirus pandemic. The Post‘s headline: “Tom Cotton keeps repeating a coronavirus conspiracy theory that was already debunked.”Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) repeated a fringe theory suggesting that the ongoing spread of a coronavirus is connected to research in the disease-ravaged epicenter of Wuhan, China.The Post‘s story on February 17, 2020, came in response to Cotton’s interview with Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo the day before. In the interview, Cotton stated the coronavirus...

The Spun Former NFL head coach Marty Schottenheimer has passed away. Schottenheimer, who played linebacker for the Buffalo Bills before going into coaching, died on Monday at the age of 77. Schottenheimer passed away peacefully with his family by his side. He had been battling Alzheimer’s since 2014. ABC Cleveland Born in Canonsburg, Pa., in 1943, Schottenheimer lived and breathed football, playing linebacker through high school and into college, at the University of Pittsburgh. He was selected in the fourth round of the 1965 NFL Draft by the Baltimore Colts and in the seventh round of the AFL Draft by...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) — With guns drawn in the middle of a cold winter’s night, home security video captures armed bounty hunters with their fingers on the trigger, pointing a gun at Seneca Babcock resident Jake Reinhardt on his property on Oakdale Place. “Up until that point I thought there was a mistaken address,” he said.” Barefoot and barely clothed, Reinhardt says he was ordered to leave his home. In the surveillance video, you can see him walking out on the porch, visibly shaken. On video, he lets the bounty hunters know his three year old daughter and wife are...

Well, I did not see this coming. The BBC reports that Cuba is about to open up most of its economy to private ownership.Cuba!Cuba has announced it will allow private businesses to operate in most sectors, in what is a major reform to its state-controlled economy.“…major reform…”? It’s the communists admitting defeat. Because:The communist country’s economy has been hit hard by the pandemic and US sanctions introduced by the Trump administration.Last year its economy shrank by 11% – its worst decline in almost three decades – and Cubans have been facing shortages of basic goods.Well, we did have toilet paper...

For example: Centrist Democrats pose major problem for progressives is the title. can it be followed by the TRUE title? CENTERIST DEMOCRATS ARE A PROBLEM TO BE ELIMINATED BY LEFTIST RADICALS ? This is important to change the language and perspective

“Unite the country” may be the three scariest words coming out of D.C. right now. Conform or be crushed is what they mean. Thankfully, Second Amendment sanctuary state efforts are drawing bold lines against federal encroachment.Missouri is close to nullifying federal gun control within its borders. On Tuesday, the Missouri House overwhelmingly passed the “Second Amendment Preservation Act,” which prohibits public officers, state employees, and political subdivisions from enforcing federal acts, laws, executive orders, court orders, and other edicts that transgress the right to bear arms.The Tenth Amendment Center, the premier think tank for nullification advocacy, calls this legislation “a...

REPORTER: “Ted Cruz, you tweeted that he tried to have you murdered at the Capitol riots.” OCASIO-CORTEZ: “Okay. So, that’s not the quote and I will not apologize for what I said.” REPORTER: “Okay. Thanks a lot, I appreciate it.”

Salvatore Anello, the man who pleaded guilty last year in connection with his 1-year-old granddaughter's fatal fall from a cruise ship, has been sentenced to three years of probation, Puerto Rican authorities announced Monday. Anello was charged with negligent homicide in the death of Chloe Wiegand, who fell more than 100 feet from a Royal Caribbean cruise ship window in July 2019. Wiegand fell from the docked ship after Anello held her up against what he said he believed was a set of closed windows and she slipped from his hands. Surveillance video obtained by CBS News showed the moments...

Joe Biden on Monday creeped on a nurse who was giving him a video tour of a vaccination site in Arizona. Biden hasn’t been able to sniff babies or molest women because the Covid pandemic has forced him to ‘socially distance’ so he settled for perving on a young woman ‘virtually.’

From the presidential election of 2016 to the presidential election of 2020, from the huge, mostly peaceful protest on Jan. 6 to facing our second presidential impeachment of the same president, it is all too clear that we are becoming two cultures. We are becoming two cultures that occupy one land. The last five years have shown us all that there are two distinct cultures in America. From extremely partisan elections to election fraud to impeachments to possible Deep State criminality, it is hard to see how these two cultures can become one again. It is hard to see how...

Clint Eastwood Remembers Lennie Niehaus The actor, director, and jazz aficionado pays tribute to his decades-long arranging and compositional partner (6/1/29 – 5/28/20) PUBLISHED FEBRUARY 5, 2021 – CLINT EASTWOOD A few weeks ago, I was [filming Cry Macho] in New Mexico, and I got the word that he had passed on. I hadn’t seen him in a few years. We go back to the Army at Fort Ord in ’51 and ’52. In the evenings, I used to bartend at a junior NCO club. He was in the army, but in the music department. He used to come in...

NOGALES, Arizona—Construction of the wall along the U.S.-Mexico border has stopped under President Joe Biden’s order issued Jan. 20, the day of his inauguration. The Daily Signal traveled to a portion of the southern border Jan. 28 and 29 with nine House Republicans, including Rep. Andy Biggs of Arizona, chairman of the House Freedom Caucus.

NORML: According to the most recent national data, police made 545,602 arrests for marijuana-related violations in 2019. That is 1,494 people a day. That is 62 people an hour. That is more than a person minute. This is not justice. This is not freedom. This should not be normal. Zuri Davis: Lives are being ruined forever over a plant that is safer to consume than legal alcohol. A criminal record is a life sentence. 545,602 people will now struggle to find jobs, a place to live, and a business loan. They can’t vote or buy a gun for self-defense.

A Maryland sheriff has issued a warning to the American people, asserting that America "will not be safe" under Joe Biden's new immigration policies. Speaking during an interview Monday on Fox News, Frederick County Sheriff Chuck Jenkins warned about the threat that Biden's policy changes pose.

The threat is said to be existential. It fuels secessionism. Gnaws at national unity. Abets Islamism. Attacks France’s intellectual and cultural heritage. The threat? “Certain social science theories entirely imported from the United States,’’ said President Emmanuel Macron. French politicians, high-profile intellectuals and journalists are warning that progressive American ideas — specifically on race, gender, post-colonialism — are undermining their society. “There’s a battle to wage against an intellectual matrix from American universities,’’ warned Mr. Macron’s education minister. Emboldened by these comments, prominent intellectuals have banded together against what they regard as contamination by the out-of-control woke leftism of American...

Lawyers for former President Trump will challenge the constitutionality of impeaching a private citizen in the trial that is set to begin Tuesday. “The Senate must summarily reject this brazen political act,” his attorneys wrote in a legal brief, calling the single impeachment article “unconstitutional for a variety of reasons, any of which alone would be grounds for immediate dismissal.” But according to Rep. Adam Schiff, there is precedent for late impeachment. It’s just in…British history.

On the front page of Monday's paper edition of the Wall Street Journal is an article titled: "Oil Rises as Supply Tightens and Demand picks up."I read the article (retitled in the online edition), and somehow, I didn't find any mention of Biden's executive orders blocking pipelines and oil leases as a substantial reason why prices have taken off. His and the Democrats' policies of doing everything they can to block supply is what is contributing greatly to the increase. They are very helpful to Russia, Iran, and other producers who truly appreciate the rising prices and are very happy...

If you’d asked me to identify which major European country was seeing powerful intellectual and political forces attacking woke racial ideology and the American campuses pushing it, I would have guessed Poland or Russia. Nope, It’s a country American conservatives generally mock and resent: France. The very same France that conservatives regularly deride as “cheese-eating surrender monkeys,” picking up a line from The Simpsons that was popularized by Jonah Goldberg (who has since gone full NeverTrump).But Norimitsu Ohnishi of The New York Times reports:The threat is said to be existential. It fuels secessionism. Gnaws at national unity. Abets Islamism. Attacks...