"The electorate voted overwhelmingly in support of taking the federal government in a new direction last month, but thanks to the undemocratic power of government unions, the new administration will be limited in its ability to deliver more efficient services for citizens.

"In a last-second move designed to thwart the will of the voters, Social Security Administration Commissioner Martin O'Malley, an appointee of President Joe Biden, signed a deal with the American Federation of Government Employees this week guaranteeing that the entitiy's 42,000 SSA employee members will not have to come into the office when President-elect Donald Trump is sworn in.

"Trump administration volunteers Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy previously pledged to make the federal government produce better services for taxpayers through their new 'Department of Government Efficiency' initiative. Last month, the pair said, 'Requiring federal employees to come to the office five days a week would result in a wave of voluntary terminations that we welcome.'

"The new collective bargaining agreement signed in collusion between the Biden administration and the AFGE would thwart that effort, at least for those SSA employees covered by the contract. But the AFGE is the largest federal government union and it is pushing other Biden administration officials to sign similar agreements with their respective bargaining units."

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"Who are the biggest suckers in America?

"Democrats.

"They took the president at his 'word as a Biden' and now they're left with egg on their face and a party in ruins.

"Joe Biden's all-encompassing, precisely 11-year retrospective pardon of his wayward 54-year-old son, Hunter, unprecedented in its scope, just fanned the flames of their discontent.

"Now even risk-averse Gavin Newsom knows he's safe riding with the pack when he publicly denounces Joe Biden for repeatedly lying that he would never pardon his son."

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"By a margin of just 737 votes out of 340,078 cast, Alaska voters chose to keep their ranked choice voting system this year. This was the lone victory for a movement that saw losses in eight other states despite heavily outspending opponents. The empty promises of the ranked choice voting movement are being exposed, its costs are mounting, and voters are wisely choosing to reject this fundamentally undemocratic premise.

"Advocates of ranked choice voting claim the system makes it easier for more centrist candidates with broader support to win over more 'extreme' candidates who they claim benefit from low-turnout primaries. Ranked choice voting advocates, who happen to be almost entirely composed of Democrats, also claim that ranked choice voting discourages negative campaigning since candidates are forced to appeal to a wider spectrum of voters.

"There is no empirical evidence any of this is true."

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"If you've never heard the word 'impoundment' before, you will -- often -- next year. And for good reason. Because this battle will determine whether government spending can ever be brought under control.

"Last year, President-elect Donald Trump said that 'For 200 years under our system of government, it was undisputed that the president had the constitutional power to stop unnecessary spending through what is known as 'impoundment.'

"Since he's been elected, he's given every indication that he intends to reclaim this power. Indeed, the success of his 'Department of Government Efficiency' run by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy depends heavily on Trump being able to spend less than Congress appropriates.

"This, of course, has the left freaking out. The grumblers say that Trump's refusing to spend money Congress has authorized would be 'umprecedented' and 'a devastating power grab' that would 'flip the power of the purse' and give Trump 'authoritarian control' over the government.

"There are just two big problems with these assertions. The first is that presidential impoundment dates back to the very beginnings of the nation. The second is that letting presidents impound funds appears to have been an effective tool for keeping federal spending under control."

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"Joe Biden began his presidency with a series of lies about his son Hunter's business dealings: the laptop was Russian disinformation, the family didn't get China money and the future president never consorted with influence-seeking associates.

And he is ending his tenure in the White House with a stunning broken pledge.

After months of the White House and Joe Biden personally insisting there would be no pardon, the 46th president granted clemency Sunday night to his son that erased his federal gun and tax convictions.

The bookends to a major political scandal left Republicans who investigated tens of millions of dollars in foreign payments to the first family crying anew about a dual system of justice."

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"It looks like President-elect Donald Trump decided to start celebrating Thanksgiving early by choosing to put a turkey in his cabinet: Late Friday, he tapped Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer to head the Labor Department.

The Oregon Republican-in-name just lost her bid for re-election after a single term in the House, where she routinely toed the Big Labor line, co-sponsoring the radical PRO Act and opposing school choice -- cause Trump has fervently embraced.

If she had her way, she’d eliminate right-to-work laws (which guarantee no one can be forced as a condition of employment to join or pay dues or fees to a labor union) in 27 states, nearly all of which voted for Trump."

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"As Israel defeats its enemies on the battlefields in Gaza and Lebanon, the intifada has gone global. The fronts of the war against the Jewish state encompass America's cities, the United Nations, the U.S. Senate, and the International Criminal Court. Marches, resolutions, embargoes, arrest warrants -- these are the tactics by which Hamas sympathizers worldwide intend to isolate Israel diplomatically, undermine Israel's war against terrorism, and intimidate the Jewish people.

"Only one response is appropriate. America must stand in the breach. America must provide Israel with the cover and support it needs to cripple Hamas and Hezbollah and restore deterrence to the Middle East.

"These are perilous times. The president is a lame duck. The vice president is nowhere to be seen. The next administration does not take office until January 20. Thus Israel's adversaries -- and America's -- sense an opportunity."

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"Tech entrepreneurs Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy said Wednesday that their brand-new government efficiency panel will identify 'thousands' of regulations for President-elect Trump to eliminate, which they argue will justify 'mass head-count reductions' across government.

"The pair, who were named co-chairs of the panel last week, laid out their plans for the 'Department of Government Efficiency' (DOGE) in a Wall Street Journal op-ed.

'"The two of us will advise DOGE at every step to pursue three major kinds of reform: regulatory rescissions, administrative reductions and cost savings,' they wrote. 'We will focus particularly on driving change through executive action based on existing legislation rather than by passing new laws.'

"Musk and Ramaswamy pointed to several recent Supreme Court decisions that have taken aim at the power of the administrative state, arguing that a 'plethora of current federal regulations' exceed agency authority and could be on the chopping block."

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"The Biden-Harris administration on Monday unveiled sweeping , just days after it awarded another $230 million in taxpayer funds to the Palestinians. The back-to-back announcements signal that diplomatic relations between Israel and the outgoing White House will continue to sour until President-elect Donald Trump retakes office next year.

"The new sanctions are the broadest to date, imposing unprecedented punitive measures on three Israeli organizations the administration accuses of fomenting violence against Palestinians in the West Bank. They were leveled just days after a coalition of nearly 90 congressional Democrats petitioned the Biden administration to ramp up sanctions on Israel before leaving the White House.

"The sanctions were announced just three days after the Biden-Harris administration awarded another $230 million in funding for humanitarian projects in the West Bank and the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. The American government has now sent more than $2 billion in taxpayer funds to the Palestinians since Hamas's Oct. 7 terror spree on Israel -- even as critics warn this cash is keeping Hamas on life support."

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"The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has sided with the campaign of Republican businessman Dave McCormick in ordering an immediate end to the deliberately unlawful vote-counting efforts of local officials counting votes in McCormick's hotly contested U.S. Senate race.

"Openly flouting a clear, earlier ruling of the state high court, officials in four counties had been tabulating ballots that lacked signatures or dates required by law.

"The court's new decision to block the officials was made 7-0 on the merits and 4-3 on procedural matters, with Justice David Wecht, a liberal with no love lost for the GOP, writing in concurrence:

"'It is critical to the rule of law that individual counties and municipalities and their elected and appointed officials, like any other parties, obey orders of this Court. As Justice Felix Frankfurter once wrote: 'If one man can be allowed to determine for himself what is law, every man can. That means first chaos, then tyranny. ... The greater the power that defies law the less tolerant can this Court be of defiance.'"

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