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There’s an old saying in Washington that, “Democrats have never met a tax they didn’t like.” Part of it is because they need capital to pay for their never-ending litany of social programs, bridges to nowhere, indoctrination efforts, and paybacks to campaign donors. At this point though, it seems like their motivation for hitting Americans with new taxes is just spite. Their latest one is the insane announcement that they want to tax unrealized gains – that is, they want to steal money that hasn’t actually been made yet from people who don’t technically have access to it. Insane, but...

Democrats used to be the party of working people. Now, they sneer at people who work hard. Democrats pushing to pass the Build Back Better bill want a single parent with two kids to be able to take home well over $31,000 in cash and noncash federal benefits a year, tax-free, without having to work. The handouts are even higher in states that offer generous benefits. So why get a job? Nonworking adults are already eligible for food stamps, housing vouchers and health care. Now, Democrats want to send them monthly checks if they have kids -- up to $300...

<p>In A.D. 286 the Roman emperor Diocletian split in half the huge Roman Empire administratively – and peacefully – under the control of two emperors.</p><p>A Western empire included much of modern-day Western Europe and northwest Africa. The Eastern half controlled Eastern Europe and parts of Asia and northeastern Africa.</p>

resident Joe Biden ran for president, in part, on the idea of being a national unifier -- someone who could work across the aisle and strike a bipartisan compromise. But that's not at all the way he's governing. The media is fine with it. They're rooting for routing Republicans. Let's recall Biden's speech at his party's national convention in 2020. "But while I will be a Democratic candidate, I will be an American president. I will work as hard for those who didn't support me as I will for those who did. That's the job of a president. To represent...

The California recall election turned out well for the Democrats. With Gov. Gavin Newsom sinking in the summer polls, the party had been staring starkly at the prospect of losing the nation's largest state and seeing its governor replaced by talk-show host Larry Elder, who had vaulted into the lead among the 46 candidates seeking to replace Newsom. Elder had rallied Republicans and started to surge, which terrified the Democrats. Not only might they lose Newsom, but they could get in the governor's mansion in Sacramento what leftists took to calling "the black face of white supremacy." Result: A panicked...

In 1983, Tom Cruise starred in the film "Risky Business." It's about wealthy parents in Chicago who go on vacation and leave the house under the stewardship of their high school-age son. In short order, the boy throws a wild party, and the rest of the film is about the chaotic fallout. It's the closest thing I can think of to capture current reality in Washington as the kids – the Democrats running the White House and Congress – throw their big party and breathlessly spend their parents' money (in this case, our money), knowing that the party will be...

More Republicans than Democrats appear to be "vaccine hesitant" -- that is, reluctant for one reason or another -- to take the COVID-19 vaccine. They've gotten the treatment you might expect in some quarters of the press. "Right-wing anti-vaccine hysteria is increasing. We'll all pay the price," read one headline in The Washington Post. In The New York Times, there was, "Far-Right Extremists Move From 'Stop the Steal' to Stop the Vaccine." The Daily Beast chimed in with "The GOP's Paranoid Streak From John Birchers to Anti-Vaxxers." You get the idea. But it's not hard to imagine a different picture....

There are few things liberals love more than crying racism, but not many. Money from perverts, abusing power, and maybe some of their families, but that’s about it. Crying racism is oxygen to the average Democrat, but it’s heroin for elected and media Democrats and the addiction they have for it makes Hunter Biden’s love of crack and hookers seem like passionate indifference. It is their precious and these Gollums will do anything to ensure its use is their exclusive domain. Unfortunately for them, its practice is also their exclusive domain. The Nazis were not as dogged as Democrats are...

President Biden raised eyebrows on Thursday after he repeatedly whispered to reporters during a press conference at the White House. The president leaned into the microphone on three occasions when giving answers during a discussion about the $1.2 trillion infrastructure deal. When asked about additional relief for families, Biden whispered toward PBS reporter Yamiche Alcindor: “I got them $1.9 trillion in relief so far. They’re going to be getting checks in the mail that are consequential this week for childcare.” Later, when asked by CNN reporter Phil Mattingly about how the deal was brokered despite low expectations, Biden said in...

Joe Biden answers the press in some kind of demonic whisper 6-24-2021

The reason Democrats in Washington are increasingly frustrated is because their legislative ambitions far outstrip their congressional majorities. They have no majority at all in the U.S. Senate -- it is evenly divided, 50-50, between Republicans and Democrats -- and depend on Vice President Kamala Harris to break ties. They have a tiny majority in the House. That makes passing bills hard and gives extraordinary power to any Democrat, like Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, who can threaten to abandon the party and sink Democratic hopes on any particular issue. Now, a new report looks at why Democrats failed...

It’s a little funny watching Democrats, committed hard leftists, and every manner of progressive under the Sun talk about West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin like he’s some sort of secret member of the vast right-wing conspiracy. “The new Mitch McConnell,” they call the lifelong Democrat. But when you look at Manchin’s voting record, not just listen to the man talk, you see a committed Democrat. So what has the left so upset? Joe Manchin sure talks a good game. To listen to the man speak, you’d think he were a Reagan Democrat, or even rarer, an old style Blue Dog...

Our democracy is in peril, according to unbiased experts of expertise who really want Joe Manchin to roll-over on the filibuster. We have to pass the Perpetual Democrat Control Act now, or it’s curtains for our democracy, exclaim said experts passionately, with tears and teeth gnashing. Experts, of course, are never wrong, except when they are, which is pretty much all the time. Greg Sargent of the WaPo opined about the terrible terrors these experts fear in a column titled, “A frantic warning from 100 leading experts: Our democracy is in grave danger.” Whoa, a whole 100! And you know...

Upper-class whites have alienated African Americans and Hispanics from the Democratic coalition. That’s why Democrats have gone berserk—they’re expecting to lose in 2022 and 2024.In the middle of their legislative orgy of socialistic giveaways and identity politics, Democrats might want to contemplate that their political priorities do not command the support of a majority of American voters. Moreover, the warnings on this front do not come from the right—they come from leftists themselves.When an editorial columnist from the bastion of liberalism, The New York Times, writes that “Democrats are worried—very worried—about the future of the Hispanic vote,” you know something’s...

MADISON — Yes, Virginia. The Democratic National Convention in Milwaukee does suck. The nearly all-virtual coronation of Joe Biden seems to be just about everywhere but Milwaukee — the host city for the Democratic Party’s national disappointment. Bernie isn’t there. Nancy isn’t there. Joe’s not there, although, that can be said of both Biden’s geographic and cognitive positions.Dems went all-in on the COVID WILL KILL US ALL!!! narrative, so they had no choice really but to ditch the troubled Wisconsin city that was supposed to rise from the ashes like a Phoenix thanks to the infusion of 50,000 convention Democrats.Nobody...

Democrat Gretchen Whitmer, the Michigan governor and possible Biden VP pick, has been in hot water for months with her continuing restrictions on state commerce during the coronavirus pandemic. With her recent threats to press rewind on the state’s economy, Michigan Republicans have an opportunity to paint her and her allies as authoritarian while advocating for a freer economy, just in time for the 2020 election. And they already have an ideal flagbearer to lead that charge: Senate candidate John James. If James can take up the cause of an open Michigan, he might be able to use it to connect with voters in...

Michael Hickson should be a household name. From best I can tell, he was a tender soul. He was living in a residential home when he contracted COVID-19. He was transferred to a hospital and was, by all indications -- including a recording of a conversation a doctor had with his wife -- not cherished as a patient with rights and dignity. His cognitive impairment and physical disability marked him, for at least that one doctor, below a quality of life worth fighting for. It is a miserable story. Due to family rifts, his wife and the mother of his...

As the saying goes, “Those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it.” That’s why you should be weary of anyone seeking to rewrite history. They’re likely looking to repeat something from it – something bad – and don’t want you to know what’s coming.  Liberals have spent the last few months wiping clean every piece of history they can. From statues to the very founding of our country, Democrats have declared what was to not have been and what wasn’t to have always been. The joke known as the 1619 Project has rabid racists and professional victims at its...

MADISON — How low can Tony go? We just learned. Gov. Tony Evers’ team secretly recorded a meeting he had with Republican legislative leadership. Empower Wisconsin has learned the meeting took place on May 14, the day after the Wisconsin Supreme Court struck down the Evers administration’s statewide lockdown, declaring the public health edict in response to the pandemic “invalid.” GOP leadership was livid Wednesday upon the revelations, referring to the secret recordings as “Nixonesque.” “In 26 years in the Legislature, this is one of the most brazen examples of unethical, unprofessional conduct I have ever seen,” said Senate Majority...

Nevada, like no other state, is totally dependent on tourism. If tourism dies, the state will die. The Democrat governor, Steve Sisolak, is doing his best to kill Nevada. Sisolak seems to be driven more by a lack of clear thinking rather than malicious intent. Sisolak’s plan is to place most state residents under what amounts to house arrest. In order to discourage anyone from leaving their house he is attempting to make leaving home as unpleasant as possible. Parks are closed, or if that is impossible, at least the bathrooms are closed. He is even attempting to close the...