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A restaurant owner struggling to find staff asked Joe Biden at a town hall this week how he plans to encourage people to re-enter the workforce and leave behind their large COVID unemployment checks: During a Wednesday town hall, John Lanni, the co-founder and owner of the Cincinnati-based restaurant group Thunderdome, asked the president, “How do you and the Biden administration plan to incentivize those that haven’t returned to work yet?” Biden’s retort to the restaurant owner was both arrogant and authoritarian: Biden, who was speaking in the auditorium of Mount Saint Joseph University, responded, “One, if you noticed, we...

The Democrats dismiss any mention of the innumerable irregularities that tainted the general election as little more than crackpot conspiracy theories. This is a convenient way to avoid addressing serious questions raised by serious observers, but it will further undermine confidence in key institutions that form the foundation upon which the republic stands. Public trust in government, media, and even science was already declining before Election Day. This trend will dramatically accelerate if Americans don’t get answers to questions such as the following: Why would the voters deliver the Democrats a comprehensive down-ballot drubbing yet hand the White House to...

President-elect Joe Biden pleaded with the American people to wear a mask as he warned that the country is 'still facing a very dark winter' despite good news Monday on the COVID-19 vaccine front. He also had a message for President Donald Trump, who continues to refuse to concede. 'This election is over,' Biden said. 'It's time to put aside the partisanship and the rhetoric that is designed to demonize one another.'