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Many in the crowd at the Washington Nationals World Series game booed and chanted, “Lock him up!” when it was announced and displayed on the big screens in the stadium that President Trump was in attendance.  Why should the rest of us “Deplorables” in flyover country not be surprised?  After all, it’s likely a safe assumption that a significant portion, perhaps a vast majority of those attending the World Series games in Washington are exactly those Deep State bureaucrats in the Beltway swamp Trump is trying to get rid of.  The leftist government employees, elites, politicians and lobbyists who are...

TRENTON, N.J. – There’s more bad news on the New Jersey economic front. New Jersey shed 9,300 private sector jobs in February 2019 while adding 1,600 public sector (government) positions.

Buried deep on the website of the U.S. Census Bureau is a number every American citizen, and especially those entrusted with public office, should know. It is 86,429,000.That is the number of Americans who in 2012 got up every morning and went to work — in the private sector — and did it week after week after week.These are the people who built America, and these are the people who can sustain it as a free country. The liberal media has not made them famous like the polar bear, but they are truly a threatened species.It is not a rancher...

The battle continues over private-sector job creation and government expansion. Taxation and unemployment are directly related, and if every American doesn't understand this, then Americans will continue to lose jobs. The Democratic left has placed a gun to congressional Republicans' heads by threatening to allow taxes to increase on all Americans on January 1. Democrats intend to continue government expansion by again extending the policy of paying people not to work, while Republicans are threatening to block all leftist lame-duck initiatives barring tax breaks for every American, including "the rich." The historical facts are quite clear on the subject: lowering...