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  • Money saved by shutting Education Dept. must go to school choice — for sake of kids

    02/08/2025 2:41:18 AM PST · by Libloather · 32 replies
    NY Post ^ | 2/07/25 | Corey DeAngelis
    Some House Democrats were not happy about being blocked from entering the Department of Education on Friday. They’ve gotten word that President Trump is expected to issue an executive order to abolish the department, and they’re in panic mode. The department was created in 1979 as a political payoff by Democrat President Jimmy Carter to the National Education Association, the largest labor union in the country. This teachers’ union basically operates as a money-laundering operation for the radical Left: more than 98% of their campaign contributions went to Democrats in the 2024 election cycle. This incestuous relationship isn’t new, either....
  • Capehart: Homan’s Giving Families With Members in Country Illegally ‘No Choice’

    12/28/2024 5:09:41 PM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 24 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 12/28/2024 | Ian hatchett
    On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” Washington Post Associate Editor and MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart said that incoming Trump Border Czar Tom Homan’s proposal that families who have parents who are in the country illegally need to decide between either being in detention and then leaving the country together or separating is “not where we should be going as a country.” And is “no choice at all, not for those families. That’s why they’re living in fear right now.” After New York Times columnist David Brooks argued that the border has to be secured to get people to support immigration, Capehart said,...
  • Maine CD-2: It’s a Ranked Choice Voting Disaster of Democrats’ Own Making

    11/09/2024 6:14:08 PM PST · by Steven Scharf · 26 replies
    The Maine Wire ^ | November 8, 2024 | Steve Robinson
    Maine CD-2: It’s a Ranked Choice Voting Disaster of Democrats’ Own Making Ranked Choice Voting is causing chaos in northern Maine and Democratic strategizing in Augusta Steve Robinson November 8, 2024 Ranked Choice Voting was sold to Maine voters as a silver bullet that would clean up Maine politics, eliminate spoiler candidates, discourage negative campaigning, and have all kinds of other wonderful benefits. Instead, the reality has been increased confusion, electoral chaos, and diminished trust in the electoral process. As evidence, look no further than the drama currently on display in Maine’s Second Congressional District. The guys at the Maine...
  • Nikki Haley says Trump is ‘clearly the better choice’ over Harris in new WSJ op-ed

    11/04/2024 6:33:59 AM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 64 replies
    NY Post ^ | 11/03/2024 | David Propper
    Former presidential candidate Nikki Haley backed her one-time GOP rival Donald Trump Sunday in a new opinion piece, arguing the ex-commander in chief is “clearly the better choice” over Vice President Kamala Harris. Haley urged undecided voters to look at both candidates’ policy proposals, which she said clearly show Trump as the better option in a Wall Street Journal op-ed published two days before Election Day. The former South Carolina governor wrote that she agrees with Trump most of the time — though he isn’t perfect — and disagrees with Harris “nearly all of the time.” “That makes this an...
  • The Choice for The American People: Love or Hate

    11/04/2024 5:17:15 AM PST · by Rev M. Bresciani · 5 replies
    New American Prophet ^ | November 4, 2024 | Jeff Crouere
    It is finally here, after years of anticipation, the election that President Donald Trump has called the “most important” in American history. Will the American people reward the Democratic Party with another term in the White House or will they vote for a change? After controlling the White House for twelve out of the last 16 years, Democrats own the problems that Americans face today from high crime to an open border to threats from foreign wars to economic misery.
  • Donald Trump and Kamala Harris dead even in battleground states amid wide gender gap: poll

    08/18/2024 11:06:03 AM PDT · by thegagline · 104 replies
    The New York Post ^ | 08/18/2024 | Ryan King
    Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are effectively dead even where it counts — the battleground states, according to a new poll. Mirroring the polling group’s findings from a separate survey released earlier this month, both presidential contenders scored 50% apiece in the battleground states, per a CBS News/YouGov survey released Sunday. Harris, 59, came away with the lead in a national head-to-head matchup between the pair 51% to 48%, which marks an uptick from her prior 50% to 49% edge over him in the prior survey. Strikingly, 36% of voters felt that they don’t know what...
  • Several Tennessee incumbents lose seats

    08/14/2024 10:09:24 PM PDT · by Paul R. · 28 replies
    WBIR Channel 10 on You Tube ^ | 8/2/2024 | WBIR Channel 10
    Election Day results show several losses for Tennessee incumbent lawmakers, surprising many political veterans.
  • Kamala Harris makes the perfect choice with Tim Walz

    08/07/2024 7:26:42 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 46 replies
    The Hill ^ | 08/07/2024 | Bill Press
    Choosing a running mate is the first and most important test of any presidential candidate. And Kamala Harris aced it. In a sense, Harris could do no wrong, because she had such an outstanding bench to choose from, including several governors. Any one of them would bring more executive or legislative experience to the table than JD Vance (R-Ohio), who never ran for office before being elected to the Senate in 2022 and has nothing to show for his time spent there. But, in the end, Harris made the perfect choice. Even in a field of such strong candidates, Gov....
  • Rosie O’Donnell: Democrats Have a Better Choice Than Biden

    07/12/2024 11:36:38 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 21 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 07/12/2024 | WARNER TODD HUSTON
    Left-wing actor-comedienne and TV host Rosie O’Donnell has joined the chorus of Hollywood elites calling for Joe Biden to step aside and let some other candidate rise as the Democrat Party’s standard bearer for the 2024 election for president. O’Donnell jumped to her X account on Friday to note that she now agrees with an article written by left-wing commentator Ezra Klein, who back in February wrote a New York Times editorial in which he concluded that Joe Biden simply wasn’t the best candidate for 2024. Klein urged someone in the party to convince Biden to step aside and close...
  • Paul Ryan: I Wish We Had a Different Presidential Choice

    06/11/2024 4:17:03 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 131 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 06/11/2024 | Pam Key
    Former House Speaker Paul Ryan, a member of the Fox Corporation Board of Directors, said Tuesday on FNC’s “Your World” that American voters have terrible choices for president in November. Host Neil Cavuto asked, “There is this historic, unprecedented situation that we’re going to have a former president who’s a convicted criminal and we’re going to have a son of a president who’s a convicted criminal. And I’m just wondering what you think of that?” Ryan said, “Yeah, I think in a country with 350 million people, this is the choice we have. I, like the majority of Americans, wish...
  • Kristi Noem claims she ‘doesn’t care’ about not being on Trump’s VP shortlist — but says he should pick a woman

    06/09/2024 11:17:08 AM PDT · by thegagline · 85 replies
    The New York Post ^ | 06/09/2024 | Ryan King
    South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem shrugged off reports that she hasn’t made the cut for finalists in former President Donald Trump’s veepstakes — but appeared to throw her support behind one candidate for the job. Noem, 52, who has continued to campaign for the 45th president, was adamant that she will continue to back him nonetheless and urged him to tap a woman for his ticket. “I’ve told President Trump over and over again he needs to pick whoever helps him win. I have been loyal to him since the very beginning,” Noem told CNN’s “State of the Union” on...
  • Trump calls six-week abortion bans ‘terrible’

    09/17/2023 2:19:07 PM PDT · by thegagline · 240 replies
    MSN ^ | 09/17/2023 | Mariana Alfaro et al
    Former president Donald Trump, the front-runner in the GOP presidential primary, said a state abortion law signed by his top challenger, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), which bans the procedure after six weeks, is “terrible.” In April, DeSantis signed the controversial law, which will go into effect if the Florida Supreme Court upholds the state’s 15-week ban on abortion that he signed into law last spring. At a hearing this month, the Florida justices appeared open to upholding the limiting ban. Trump, in an interview that aired Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” criticized DeSantis for being “willing to sign...
  • Now Biden Wants to Deny Your Consumer’s Choice in Water Heaters

    09/13/2023 2:52:54 PM PDT · by Tolerance Sucks Rocks · 54 replies
    The Daily Signal ^ | September 12, 2023 | Diana Furchtgott-Roth
    President Joe Biden’s proposed energy efficiency standards for water heaters, released July 21 by the Energy Department, not only would raise the cost of water heaters for consumers but take certain products off the market. One popular tankless natural gas water heater, made by Rinnai in Griffin, Georgia, would have to be discontinued. The public has until Sept. 26 to file comments. Beginning in 2029, the Energy Department’s proposed regulation would set government standards for all types of water heaters, including gas-fired, oil-fired, electric, and instantaneous tankless water heaters. The proposed rule would raise standards disproportionately for tankless, gas-fired water...
  • https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/us/is-us-getting-new-covid-vaccine-heres-president-joe-bidens-bold-plan-for-mandatory-immunization/articleshow/103109424.cms

    08/29/2023 9:12:39 PM PDT · by algore · 2 replies
    US President Biden has introduced a proactive strategy aimed at securing additional funding from Congress to support the development of a groundbreaking COVID-19 vaccine. Here’s President Joe Biden's bold plan for mandatory immunization Amidst the ongoing battle against the COVID-19 pandemic, US President Biden has unveiled a proactive strategy, intending to seek additional funding from Congress for the development of a novel COVID-19 vaccine. Furthermore, he suggested the possibility of mandating this new vaccine for all individuals, regardless of their prior vaccination status. President Biden made a significant announcement on Friday regarding the nation's ongoing fight against the virus. Responding...
  • 'The dam is breaking' on school choice as battleground state passes voucher program: advocate

    07/07/2023 4:07:03 AM PDT · by Libloather · 23 replies
    Fox News ^ | 7/06/23 | Kassy Dillon
    Ohio joined the growing number of states passing pro-school choice legislation by expanding its voucher program to more families. "Ohio is the eighth state to go all-in on school choice in just two years," Corey DeAngelis, a senior fellow at the American Federation for Children, told Fox News. "The dam is breaking for the government school monopoly." The $86 billion budget that Gov. Mike DeWine signed Tuesday included pro-school choice policies, joining Arizona, West Virginia, Iowa, Utah, Arkansas, Florida and Oklahoma, which passed similar legislation in the past two years. Ohio's voucher expansion allows families earning up to 450% of...
  • North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper declares ‘state of emergency’ over school choice bill

    05/23/2023 11:11:54 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 56 replies
    NY Post ^ | 05/23/2023 | Lindsay Kornick, Fox News
    Democratic North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper declared a “state of emergency” on Monday in an attempt to stop the state legislature from passing a school choice bill. Cooper released a video announcement in which he declared a state of emergency, arguing that the state of public education is “no less important” than other emergencies. “It’s time to declare a state of emergency for public education in North Carolina. There’s no executive order like with a hurricane or the pandemic, but it’s no less important,” Cooper said. He continued, “It’s clear that the Republican legislature is aiming to choke the life...
  • Old-timer beau demanded sex up to 10 times a day: lawsuit

    11/12/2022 6:08:01 PM PST · by Saije · 46 replies
    NY Post ^ | 11-12-2022 | D. Balsamini
    This old-timer has a libido bigger than his bank account. A former Wilhelmina model claims her on-again-off-again octogenarian beau persuaded her to ditch her career, rent-stabilized Chelsea apartment, and move into his sprawling Rye home — where he sometimes demanded sex a staggering 10 times a day, according to a Manhattan Supreme Court suit. Janet Bedin, 68, claims Vito Verni, 84, pulled an emotional bait-and-switch between the beginning of 2019 and end of 2021 “when they lived together as a couple” in the 5,000-square-foot Westchester manse, the suit says. Bedin is now suing Verni for $80 million, charging a laundry...
  • Alaska will be counting for weeks thanks to idiotic ranked choice voting

    08/27/2022 4:54:05 AM PDT · by george76 · 23 replies
    Washington Examiner ^ | August 27, 2022 | Editorial
    Well, you can't say we didn't warn you, Alaska. As of this writing, voters already know the outcomes of all the special elections and primary elections in New York and Florida that took place Aug. 23. But nobody has any idea who won Alaska's special House election held a week prior. In fact, the outcome won't be known until next month. Why? Because Alaska went and adopted the idiotic, needlessly complicated ranked choice voting system in a 2020 referendum that just barely passed. Voters might want to consider a do-over and rank "no" first on their ballots this time, except...
  • Arizona Bishops Laud Signing of State School Choice Bill

    07/19/2022 6:02:40 PM PDT · by marshmallow · 3 replies
    Our Sunday Visitor ^ | 7/8/22 | CNS
    PHOENIX (CNS) — The Catholic bishops of Arizona issued a joint statement lauding the passage and signing of a bill intended to expand school choice throughout the state. The law, among other things, extends Arizona’s Empowerment Scholarship Account program to all children in the state regardless of family income. “We strongly support a quality education for all children in Arizona and believe it is best to have good district schools, charter schools, private schools and home-school options,” said a July 7 statement from the Arizona bishops. The bill “will increase school choice substantially, which is a very good thing,” they...
  • ‘Free to do as you are told’: Florida Republicans advance wave of draconian bills

    01/31/2022 3:35:46 AM PST · by where's_the_Outrage? · 48 replies
    The Guardian ^ | Jan 31, 2022 | Richard Luscombe
    It has been a long and painful month in the Florida legislature for opponents of the state’s Trumpist governor Ron DeSantis and his loyal band of rightwing Republicans. A slew of bills has advanced attacking everything from diversity rights, abortion protections and free speech in schools, in addition to a proposal that would legally shield white people from feeling “discomfort” over the state’s racist past..... The issues that Republicans see as a priority for Florida are red meat to DeSantis’s conservative base. They include the 15-week abortion ban bill, which received a chaotic hearing on Thursday, and moves to give...