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Image of the Day: Climate Change Causing Wildfires? No.

From our friends at Unleash Prosperity, another fantastic visual aid to rebut the predictable default rationalization that climate change, rather than incompetent leadership, underlies wildfires in California or elsewhere:

 

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January 17, 2025 • 07:50 AM

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Notable Quotes
 
On the Question of Whether Americans Believe They Are Better Off Than They Were Four Years Ago:
 
 

"It is the biggest question of the election and the first question of last week's presidential debate. Vice President Kamala Harris refused to answer it. But the U.S. Census Bureau just did.

"'When it comes to the economy, do you believe Americans are better off than they were four years ago?' ABC News host David Muir, one of the debate moderators, asked last week.

"Harris responded with her bromide-sprinkled world salad about her 'opportunity economy.'

"But there is no avoiding the data in the Census Bureau's latest American Community Survey, which show that, thanks to inflation, the average household is poorer today than it was four years ago.

"In the most recent data released this week, the median household income was $80,610 in 2023 compared to $81,210 in 2019. By contrast, the year before former President Donald Trump took office, the median household income was $71,000, which means that in the three years he was president before COVID-19, median household income rose more than $10,000. All of these totals are in inflation-adjusted 2022 dollars."

Read the entire article here.

 
 
— The Editors, Washington Examiner
— The Editors, Washington Examiner
Posted September 16, 2024 • 08:35 AM
 
 
On Kamala Harris and Her 2019 American Civil Liberties Union Candidate Questionnaire:
 
 

"Candidate questionnaires have long been a part of American politics, locking in politicians to certain policies, pledges and positions. But it has been decades since one has threatened to roil a presidential race, or undercut a major party nominee's carefully crafted image. ...

"But Kamala Harris is facing the real possibility that the candidate questionnaire she filled out for the American Civil Liberties Union in 2019 may undercut her efforts to rebrand herself as a moderate and distance herself from the insecurity, immigration crisis, and inflation unleashed by her boss Joe Biden's liberal agenda the last four years.

"The reasons for the threat are simple. Five years ago Harris tried desperately to run to the left of Joe Biden during the 2020 Democratic primary, planting her flag on positions far from the American mainstream, particularly on immigration, law and order and social policy. She also suggested her earlier actions as California attorney general and a U.S. senator were proof of her commitment to far-left policies."

Read the entire article here.

 
 
— John Solomon, Chief Executive Officer and Editor in Chief of Just the News
— John Solomon, Chief Executive Officer and Editor in Chief of Just the News
Posted September 12, 2024 • 09:04 AM
 
 
Reflecting on the Lessons of 9/11:
 
 

"It's been 23 years since America watched in horror as the Twin Towers fell on live TV.

"Nineteen al-Qaeda terrorists, hailing from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Lebanon, hijacked four planes and killed 2,977 of us, shaking the nation to its core.

"America was suddenly, brutally awoken to the menace of those who hate our country and what we stand for.

"Heroes stood up: Todd Beamer and his fellows on Flight 93; firefighter Stephen Siller and his Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel run; Morgan Stanley's visionary Rick Rescorla and so very many more ... some whose names we'll never know.

"On 9/11, we saw endless proof that Americans are brave, selfless and resilient.

"But we also learned that there are those who would try to bring America to its knees if given the opportunity to strike.

"As the bells ring Wednesday morning at 8:46, 9:03, 9:37 and 10:03; as the names are read and the bagpipes play, let us all reflect on both lessons."

Read the entire article here.

 
 
— New York Post Editorial Board
— New York Post Editorial Board
Posted September 11, 2024 • 07:58 AM
 
 
On Vice President Kamala Harris and the U.S. Withdrawal from Afghanistan:
 
 

"The beginning of the end of Joe Biden's presidency arrived in August 2021.

"That's when the president began a catastrophic pullout from Afghanistan that shredded our national credibility and his own reputation. He never really recovered.

"The House Foreign Affairs Committee has just released an exhaustive 353-page report putting on record the sorry episode from beginning to end.

"The report's over-arching conclusion is that this was a Joe Biden operation from beginning to end. ...

"No rational person would want to be associated with any of this, but, at the time, Vice President Kamala Harris boasted about being the last person in the room."

Read the entire article here.

 
 
— Rich Lowry, Editor-in-Chief of National Review
— Rich Lowry, Editor-in-Chief of National Review
Posted September 10, 2024 • 08:16 AM
 
 
Reporting On New Polls Showing a Widening Gender Gap Between Democrats and Republicans int he Presidential Race:
 
 

"New polls show Vice President Harris faces a major challenge in winning over male voters and is losing men by a bigger margin than she's winning women in key states such as Pennsylvania, Nevada and North Carolina.

The gender gap between Democrats and Republicans isn't new, but it's becoming especially pronounced in the toss-up race for president.

Former President Trump's problems with female voters are well known. New polls show that Harris has just as big of a problem with male voters in some states."

Read the entire article here.

 
 
— Alexander Bolton, The Hill
— Alexander Bolton, The Hill
Posted September 09, 2024 • 08:12 AM
 
 
On Kamala Harris' Proposal to Tax Unrealized Capital Gains:
 
 

"I see a lot of people on Twitter desperately trying to defend the insane, suicidal tax proposed by Vice President Kamala Harris on 'unrealized capital gains.'

It's been a while since anyone has proposed a dumber idea, so in that sense, at least, she is a historic candidate. And those who think it's a good idea are historically stupid.

As many others have pointed out already, such a tax would harm everyone investing for retirement, depressing asset values as the uber-rich are forced to make massive annual sales just to pay the tax. And what I'd really like to know is whether, if I'm ever forced to pay taxes on stocks I'm still holding just because their value went up on paper, do I get my money back when their on-paper value goes back down again months or years later?"

Read the entire article here.

 
 
— Derek Hunter, former Congressional Staffer and Host of the Derek Hunter Podcast
— Derek Hunter, former Congressional Staffer and Host of the Derek Hunter Podcast
Posted September 05, 2024 • 08:48 AM
 
 
On President Biden's Appeasement:
 
 

"As fate would have it, the 79th anniversary of the formal Japanese surrender in World War II came on the same day that Joe Biden all but encouraged Hamas to keep fighting and holding hostages in Gaza.

"The contrast suggests that had Biden been president back then instead of Harry Truman, America would have lost the Second World War.

"Truman boldly led the free world to total victory, while Biden is an appeaser from head to toe.

"He is a modern incarnation of Neville Chamberlain, the British prime minister so desperate for peace that he convinced himself Adolf Hitler wanted the same thing."

Read the entire article here.

 
 
— Michael Goodwin, New York Post
— Michael Goodwin, New York Post
Posted September 04, 2024 • 01:53 PM
 
 
On Election Intergrity:
 
 

"President Joe Biden has vowed to veto the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, which simply requires proof of citizenship to register to vote in federal elections. His promise was made in reaction to congressional Republicans who want to include it with any continuing resolution required to fund the next fiscal year, which begins on Oct. 1. The president's adamant opposition to what most Americans support demonstrates just how much Democrats are dedicated to making it easier to cheat in elections.

"On Dec. 16, 2020, as chairman of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, I held a hearing titled, 'Examining the Irregularities in the 2020 election.' In spite of the wailing and gnashing of teeth from the election irregularity deniers, there were many indisputable irregularities."

Read the entire article here.

 
 
— U.S. Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin)
— U.S. Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin)
Posted September 03, 2024 • 07:48 AM
 
 
On Kamala Harris' 'Stolen Working-Class Valor':
 
 

"Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has been found guilty of puffing up his military record to look more manly -- also known as stolen valor. Now it looks as though Kamala Harris has committed her own version of stolen valor by claiming a working-class medal that she may never have earned.

"Harris and her campaign have been bragging about her modest roots and her supposed connection to working-class folks, exemplified by her having toiled at McDonald's while in college, a claim she repeatedly makes in her speeches and that came up countless times at the Democratic National Convention.

"But, like so many things about Harris and Walz, this story started to fall apart on closer inspection."

Read the entire article here.

 
 
— Issues & Insights Editorial Board
— Issues & Insights Editorial Board
Posted August 30, 2024 • 08:39 AM
 
 
On Vice President Kamala Harris Wanting to Build the Border Wall, and Other Harris Flip-Flops:
 
 

"I thought I was reading a headline from The Babylon Bee when I saw on Tuesday that Vice President Kamala Harris now wants to build the border wall.

"But it wasn't satire.

"Rather, the Democratic presidential nominee has decided she supports one of former President Donald Trump's signature ideas -- and one despised by progressives.

"Here's how left-leaning Axios described Harris' newfound desire to build the wall: 'It's the latest example of Harris flip-flopping on her past liberal positions such as supporting Medicare for All and banning fracking -- proposals that aides say she now is against.'"

Read the entire article here.

 
 
— Ingrid Jacques, USA Today
— Ingrid Jacques, USA Today
Posted August 29, 2024 • 08:03 AM
 
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"The federal government is racing toward a fiscal cliff, with a new report citing a mind-numbing $838 billion cash shortfall just for the first four months of the fiscal year.Yet Democrats are losing their minds over Team Trump's efforts to trim fat and waste. Do they want the Uncle Sam to go belly up?Per the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, that $838 billion hole is a whopping 15% higher…[more]
 
 
— New York Post Editorial Board
 
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