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Image of the Day: The Ongoing Biden Pay Cut

Posted without additional commentary, per the latest Labor Department data, here's an illustration from economist Steve Moore of the immediate and ongoing pay cut that Americans have experienced since Joe Biden became president:

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June 06, 2023 • 11:45 AM

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Jester's Courtroom Legal tales stranger than stranger than fiction: Ridiculous and sometimes funny lawsuits plaguing our courts
Supreme Court: Unions Accountable for Deliberate Destruction
By Timothy H. Lee
Thursday, June 08 2023
Should labor unions possess immunity to deliberately destroy employer property under the claim that such behavior was "incidental to a strike arguably protected by federal law?" The fact that it remained an open legal question illustrates just how egregiously contemporary labor law favors unions.   After all, imagine the uproar if employers claimed a reciprocal right to destroy labor union property with impunity.   Nevertheless, that was the issue before the United States Supreme Court this term in Glacier Northwest v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local…
 
What to Make of New Projections of Big Government Savings
We have a debt-ceiling deal. It's a relief for most people. This deal avoids a default and the need for…
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Remembering the Horrors of D-Day
Seventy-nine years ago this week, the Allies assaulted the Normandy beaches on D-Day, June 6, 1944.…
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MS-13: From El Salvador to Your Neighborhood
MS-13 gang members commit savage crimes – beheading their targets with machetes, hacking…
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Mike Pence's Ill-Starred Presidential Run
On paper, has there ever been a more qualified candidate for president than Mike Pence? Twelve years…
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U.S. Experiences Record Drug Shortages in Wake of Price Controls
"The record of price controls goes as far back as human history.  They were imposed by the…
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Resist Dangerous Political Theater and Look to 'That Which Is Not Seen'
Too many politicians are thespians. When there's a conflict – as there often is – between…
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Democrats Abandon Working Class, Become Party of Freeloaders
The Democratic Party, long known as the party for working people, is now for freeloaders. Democrats want…
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Stop Scaring Our Kids to Death
As nearly every standardized test is showing, our schools are doing an abysmal job teaching kids how…
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The Pregame Is Over for Trump vs. DeSantis
There's been a huge amount of commentary on former President Donald Trump's big lead over Gov. Ron DeSantis…
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Surprise: Debt Conversation Brings More Pointless 'Tax-the-Rich' Talk
Whenever we have a national conversation about government debt, Democrats invariably respond that spending…
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Notable Quote   
 
"The exodus from high-tax states continues.A growing number of Americans are migrating from predominantly blue states with steep taxes like California and New York to red states with lower taxes like Florida and Texas, according to a Bank of America analyst note that is based on aggregated and anonymous internal customer data.'We constructed near real-time estimates of domestic migration flows and…[more]
 
 
— Megan Henney, Fox Business
 
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