"Mr. Biden took a booming economy without inflation and turned it into a high-inflation bust in a little more than a year. His war on fossil fuels has driven gasoline, oil, natural gas and coal prices sky-high -- ditto for food prices on grocery shelves. He can't even get proper baby formula on store shelves. He has spent massively, raised taxes and launched the biggest regulatory assault on business we have ever seen. Real wages for working folks have fallen steadily.

"He is not only obsessed with climate change, without ever providing any alternate replacement. He is similarly maniacal about repealing all the successful Trump tax cuts that gave us the lowest poverty and highest family wages in 50 years.

"He wants a battery-powered economy but won't let people mine the resources to develop it. His allies want to end gas-powered cars but are now telling EV owners they can't recharge their batteries. Why? No electricity. Why? Not enough fossil fuels."

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"If a politician from Florida decides to run for president in 2024, his (or her) home state will be short two votes in the Electoral College, and when the new session of the U.S. House of Representatives convenes in January 2023, Florida will be missing two congressional seats to which it is entitled.

"Why? Because according to a post-2020 census survey, the U.S. Census Bureau significantly undercounted the population of Florida, as well as Arkansas, Illinois, Mississippi, Tennessee and Texas. At the same time, it overcounted the population of eight states, all but one of which is a blue state.

"The 2020 errors were discovered when the Census Bureau interviewed a large number of households across the country and compared the answers it got to the original census responses in 2020. In addition to undercounting six states, the survey showed that the Bureau overcounted the population of Delaware, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Rhode Island and Utah.

"Funny coincidence -- the Census made its largest overcount percentage error in President Joe Biden's tiny home state of Delaware, which was overcounted by 5.45%. But Rhode Island and Minnesota were also overcounted by 5.05% and 3.84%, respectively, which allowed each of them to keep a congressional seat to which they are not entitled. ...

"There is no remedy in the federal statutes governing the census and apportionment to correct this problem. The scope of this problem was unusually high, and the Census Bureau has not offered any explanation as to how this happened."

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"I sometimes wonder which policy of President Biden's has been or will be the most destructive of them all. There are so many possibilities.

"The American Rescue Plan of 2021 contributed to the record inflation of the past year. Biden's reversal of the Migration Protection Protocols, safe third country agreements, and other immigration policies enacted by the previous administration resulted in historic numbers of illegal entries along the southern border. The withdrawal from Afghanistan abandoned a nation of 39 million people to a murderous, medieval, terrorist-aligned mafia. Biden has pursued a renewed nuclear agreement with Iran despite that regime's support for militias that fire on U.S. troops, plots to kill U.S. officials on U.S. soil, and ultimate responsibility for the assault on Salman Rushdie. Just the other day, Biden announced a complex, unconstitutional, regressive, and inflationary scheme to forgive student debt. The words "moral hazard" are not in his vocabulary.

"Like I said: There are plenty of options for which Biden policy is the worst. Yet his biggest folly may turn out to be his green thumb. The manic Progressive quest to eliminate fossil fuels and preside over a 'green energy transition' will make America dependent, unstable, poorer, needier, and weaker. Indeed, it already is doing so."

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"'With all due respect Mr. President, there's nothing wrong with America's soul,' tweeted Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.). 'The American people are hurting because of your policies. Rampant inflation. Out of control crime. Terrorism on the rise. Broken borders. Stop lecturing & change your policies before it's too late.' ...

"'That was a campaign speech under the guise of a presidential address,' Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) tweeted.

"'Instead of focusing on issues impacting Americans, Biden demonized half the country to distract from his failures,' he continued. 'We need leaders who work to make this nation stronger & safer, instead of tearing us apart.'"

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"With California's power grid under strain due to extreme heat and high demand, the utility grid operator is asking residents to avoid charging their electric vehicles. This comes days after the state announced a plan to ban the sale of gas-powered cars by 2035.

"The California Independent System Operator is asking residents for 'voluntary energy conservation' over the Labor Day weekend.

"According to the National Weather Service, the western United States is facing a 'prolonged and record heat wave.'

"'The top three conservation actions are to set thermostats to 78 degrees or higher, avoid using large appliances and charging electric vehicles, and turn off unnecessary lights,' the American Public Power Association said, asking residents to limit energy usage during 4 p.m. and 9 p.m."

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"President Biden is going to deliver a prime-time speech Thursday on what the White House calls the 'battle for the soul of the nation.'

It's a timely topic with rich possibilities, but none richer than the notion that the Big Guy is qualified to address America's soul. Unless he's going to confess how his family made millions by selling access to foreign governments and Communist oligarchs, Biden will be stuck spinning a web of fiction.

No problem there because fiction is what he's good at. He has a gift for playing make-believe.

All politicians lie, but Biden doesn't stop there. He's a proven plagiarist, a fabulist, always the hero of his own stories, the Walter Mitty of American politics!

Never mind that on his watch and under his policies, America has gotten more violent, more expensive and more pessimistic. The world smells weakness and when our enemies say the United States is in decline, it's hard to argue otherwise."

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"The Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell said on Friday there will be 'pain' to come in the economy as a result of the central bank's battle with inflation, and right now, small businesses are experiencing that pain on both sides of the fight.

"Inflation has been the No. 1 concern of small businesses for some time, as high prices in raw materials, labor, energy and transportation cut into margins. Higher rents, and landlords feeling more aggressive the farther away the nation moves from the peak of Covid, have compounded the hit from inflation being felt on Main Street. While there are some signs of inflation easing across the economy, that's because the Fed is intentionally cooling demand, and that has small business owners anticipating a sales decline.

"What does it all add up to? According to a new national survey of small business owners by Alignable, a big jump in August in the percentage of small business owner who couldn't pay full rent in August.

"Nationally, apartment rental prices, which have soared, are among the inflation indicators that may have recently peaked. But the Alignable data shows that the rent inflation crisis for small businesses is actually getting worse. Forty percent of small business said they could not pay their rent in full this month, up 6% month over month and setting a record for 2022. ...

"The Alignable data also shows that many small business are still struggling to get back to pre-Covid revenue levels, just as the Fed is taking steps that are slowing overall demand. Casto said Alignable would hope that the numbers would be trending down among small business owners who say they have not returned to pre-Covid sales marks, but that's not happening now. Last December, amid the critical holiday season for many small businesses, 43% said they were 'fully back,' according to Alignable. 'It's 23% now,' Casto said, 'and has just been slipping. ... even people who thought they were out of the woods in December or January, all of a sudden they're not.'"

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"Joe Biden was warned by the Treasury Secretary and his wife not to cancel student debt, but pressed ahead regardless on the urging of Kamala Harris, it has been claimed.

"Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen argued that with inflation around a 40-year high, the cancellation of student loans could free up consumer spending and drive inflation higher, the New York Times reported.

"Jill Biden, who works part-time as a college lecturer, also urged her husband to reconsider. She campaigned on free community college, but did not push for the cancellation of debt.

"The president ultimately chose to ignore their advice -- after being cajoled on the subject by Vice President Kamala Harris, who was in favor of loan cancelations. ...

"On Friday, The New York Times reported that many within the White House had significant doubts about the wisdom of the plan -- and that, despite months of lobbying from both sides, the rollout had been so rushed the loan companies were uninformed and White House economists had no idea how much the scheme will cost.

"One estimate, by Wharton School of Business, puts the cost at up to $1 trillion."

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"In unilaterally 'canceling' up to $20,000 in student loan debt for borrowers earning less than $125,000 annually, the Biden administration on Wednesday put into motion a plan that will further inflate college costs, hinder economic growth, reward upper-income earners, and provide a major handout to woke institutions of higher education.

The administration has stuck its thumb in the eye of the millions of working Americans who don't hold college degrees but who will bear the cost of this federal largesse.

The administration is also rubbing salt in the wounds of those responsible borrowers who worked their way through college to avoid debt or who worked hard to pay off their college debt after graduating.

The millions of Americans who graduated from college, lived modestly, and did without fancy dinners and vacations so they could diligently repay the debt they agreed to pay back are surely wondering why they will get no such rebate.

Those responsible Americans are left standing there, holding the bill like chumps. They have good reason to feel insulted.

So should the Americans who eschewed college altogether because they thought it was a bad value proposition -- which the Biden administration has tacitly admitted through the very move to cancel debt."

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"The Biden administration is considering funding the Canadian mining and metal industry as it is desperate to acquire more rare earth minerals to build renewable energy technologies; however, the administration has previously blocked the development of U.S. mining efforts, according to E&E News.

"Following the passage of the Democrats' massive climate spending package, the Biden administration is looking to import critical minerals such as lithium, cobalt and nickel and may even give money to the Canadian mining industry to acquire such minerals and help push mineral supply chains out of Chinese hands, according to E&E News. Although it is desperate to produce these minerals and confront the Chinese dominance of the mineral market, the administration has blocked major mining projects in Minnesota and Alaska."

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