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All administrations search for a slogan to mobilize support and communicate with the public. For Donald Trump it was “Make America Great Again.” For Joe Biden it is “an economic policy for the middle class” — or, in shorthand, “Bidenomics.” Rooted in the philosophical foundation of the Democratic Party with its pro-labor, pro-union, Big Government orientation, Bidenomics is the polar opposite of the Reaganomics that President Biden and his acolytes increasingly lambast. While Reaganomics has been out of favor for some time now, since “trickle down” economics never panned out, the Reagan years are still hailed as one of the...

China’s foreign minister Qin Gang was removed from office on Tuesday, state media reported, after not being seen in the public eye for a month. There are reports of honey pots and sex slaves. A confidant of President Xi Jinping, he might have fallen from grace or was subject to an official investigation. According to WION News, the story going around is that he was caught in a honey pot scandal. He has disappeared from public life or just disappeared. “China’s top legislature voted to appoint Wang Yi as foreign minister… as it convened a session on Tuesday,” state media...

DeSantis, long considered former President Donald Trump's chief rival in the GOP's 2024 primary contest, has cut a third of his campaign staff — or 38 people, according to campaign aides who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal campaign strategy. "Following a top-to-bottom review of our organization, we have taken additional, aggressive steps to streamline operations and put Ron DeSantis in the strongest position to win this primary and defeat Joe Biden," DeSantis campaign manager Generra Peck said in a statement. "DeSantis is going to lead the Great American Comeback and we're ready to hit the ground...

Communist North Korea invited officials from its closest allies, China and Russia, to attend festivities marking the anniversary of the Korean War armistice agreement scheduled for this Thursday — the first time Pyongyang has invited foreign dignitaries to the country since the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic began. The Korean War — which split the peninsula and pitted allies China and America against each other — has been technically ongoing since 1950, as neither side signed a peace agreement nor surrendered. The armistice agreement signed in 1953 ended active warfare, creating the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) between the Koreas and resulting in the...

Richard Goldberg @rich_goldberg: Will the White House now be issuing Statements of Administration Policy for legislation passed in every democratic country, or just for Israel? I hadn't seen one on the French pension reform, so maybe it's new policy. Asking for all the hard-working people in Leg Affairs. Jul 24, 2023 *: Did Biden issue any advice for the non democracy side? You know, the ones in Ramallah or Gaza? The racist pay-for-slay blood cult?

In the courthouse chambers, Finn and Steffy wait for the trial to begin. Finn says it shouldn’t be long now, and Steffy is hoping Sheila gets sent to prison for the rest of her life. She asks Finn how he’s doing given she’s his birth mother. He says it doesn’t matter and she needs to pay but can’t help but think about the embrace they shared.

Delta Air Lines has been investing heavily in modernizing and expanding its network of Sky Club airport lounges...The easiest way to access any Delta Sky Club is by carrying the right credit card. [American Express cards appear to have the largest share of luxury airport lounges - annual AMEX card fees are $250-$695 - before charging anything!)

Paul Sperry @paulsperry_ DEVELOPING: Special Counsel Rob Hur is having to negotiate conditions with DOJ and Biden's legal team --including personal attorney Bob Bauer and White House counsel --for a possible interview with Biden over his removing classified documents when he left the White House in 2017

Pew Research: Democrats Value Free Speech Far Less Than RepublicansIn case you were in doubt—and if you were in doubt, that means you aren’t following what is happening in America to the most important freedom of all—Pew Research has confirmed that Democrats value free speech far less than Republicans do.Read the following statistics and conclusions and weep for our country:“The share of U.S. adults who say the federal government should restrict false information has risen from 39% in 2018 to 55% in 2023.”“Just over half of Americans (55%) support the U.S. government taking steps to restrict false information online, even...

December 2019 marked the beginning of Solar Cycle 25. The Sun’s activity has quickly ramped up and even though we haven’t reached peak levels in this cycle, the Sun’s activity is already exceeding predictions. Solar events will continue to increase as we near solar maximum in 2025, and our lives and technology on Earth, as well as satellites and astronauts in space, will be impacted.

President Biden on Tuesday signed a proclamation creating a national monument in honor of Mamie Till Mobley and her son Emmett Till, the 14-year-old whose brutal killing in Mississippi helped galvanize the civil rights movement. The monument, spread over three sites in Illinois and Mississippi, will tell the story of Till’s murder in 1955, and of his mother’s efforts to ensure it would never been forgotten. “I can’t fathom what it must have been like,” Biden said Tuesday — on what would have bill Emmett Till’s 82nd birthday. “It’s hard to believe I was 12 years old. I know no...

2024 presidential hopeful Gov. Ron DeSantis has been involved in a car crash in Tennessee while traveling to a fundraiser, his campaign confirmed to DailyMail.com. A Chattanooga Police spokesperson confirmed that a DeSantis staff member suffered minor injuries after four cars in the motorcade escorting the governor collided following a traffic slow down. The governor and his team continued on to their campaign fundraiser after the crash that occurred on the I-75 South near the 2.8 mile marker. The Florida governor and his team were involved in the crash while traveling to an event in Chattanooga, Tennessee. DeSantis is expected...

Former President Donald Trump is giving yet another major Iowa presidential campaign event a miss next month. Neither the 77-year-old 2024 Republican front-runner nor former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie are scheduled to be part of Hawkeye State Gov. Kim Reynolds’ “Fair Side Chats” at the Iowa State Fair — as Trump continues his feud with Reynolds and Christie focuses his attention on New Hampshire. “President Trump looks forward to interacting with tens of thousands of Iowans at the fair in an open and unfiltered setting,” campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung told The Post of the apparent snub to Reynolds.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — House Speaker Kevin McCarthy did not mince words following revelations this month of Biden family corruption from whistleblowers in the government. In a forceful statement, he assured constituents that if Biden commits several hundred more impeachable offenses, that will be the last straw. "That's right: once Biden has committed at least 793 egregious acts of corruption, we will cut him off," said McCarthy. "We the American people cannot stand for this kind of unchecked criminality in the White House." "No more crimes for you, pal!" Sources confirmed that as more details emerge, Biden's list of impeachable offenses...

Author Peter Schweizer went on with Jesse Watters on Monday night where he proceeded to drop another bomb on the Biden Crime Family. According to Schweizer, who wrote a best-seller “Secret Empires” on the Biden Family crimes, told Jesse that one of Vlodomyr Zelensky’s top officials was sitting in the room when they were discussing bribing the Bidens, Joe and Hunter. Ukrainian President Zelensky has a top official who was sitting in on meetings where they talked about bribing the Bidens. Schweizer suggests Zelensky is using this as leverage over the Biden regime for weapons and billions in US dollars....

SAN JOSE -- There is something different about A Slice of New York Pizza in San Jose. And it goes beyond their award-winning pies. It's about the people. In fact, everyone in the kitchen owns an equal slice of the business. "We're a worker co-op, which means all the members and owners of the business work in the business," said the restaurant's founder Kirk Vartan. He started the business 17 years ago. Six years ago, he turned it into a co-op by selling the business to his staff as a leveraged buyout. The employee-owners are now paying back a business...

A retired Canadian principal has taken his life after relentless bullying by a diversity, equity, and inclusion consultant hired by his district. On Thursday, attorney Lisa Bildy took to Twitter to break the sad news that her client, 60-year-old Richard Bilkszto, a former principal with the Toronto District School Board had committed suicide. -snip Bilkszto retired in 2019, but continued to do contract work for the school district. However, Bildy said that he “suffered an affront to [his] stellar reputation in the spring of 2021, causing him severe mental distress.” “Unfortunately, the stress and effects of these incidents continued to...

I wish the best for Senator Dick Durbin, who has just announced that he has come down with Covid… for the third time in the space of a year. No schadenfreude here over the 78-year-old’s latest bout with the illness. At his age, there's actually a realistic possibility of lethality, unlike healthy non-elderly people, who, nonetheless were locked down in the nation’s bungled response to the virus engineered in China.Unfortunately, I tested positive for COVID-19 today. I'm disappointed to have to miss critical work on the Senate's NDAA this week in Washington. Consistent with CDC guidelines, I'll quarantine at home...

Presidentish Joe Biden’s reelection campaign is “addressing his age,” according to NBC News — by going to comical lengths to try and hide the fact that the octogenarian is increasingly frail, moody, and just plain weird.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis sank to a “weekly tracking low” in Morning Consult’s latest survey, released Tuesday.This week’s Morning Consult survey found Former President Donald Trump increasing his majority support by four points, moving from 55 percent support to 59 percent support. DeSantis, however, has fallen four points, moving from 20 percent last week to 16 percent this week, which Morning Consult describes as his “weekly tracking low.” In other words, Trump’s lead has expanded from 35 percent last week to 43 percent this week.Anti-woke businessman Vivek Ramaswamy remained in third place, maintaining eight percent support — the same as...