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A food bank preparing to serve.
America's economy is in the toilet. It's harder than it's ever been in the history of our great nation to become rich, and there's exactly one culprit: moochers. The 'moocher class' is sucking up huge...
Protectionist trade policies aren't just good for American jobs. They're good for national security. As tensions heat up between the United States and China over Taiwanese independence, it's time re-evaluate who supplies us with the goods on...
Tax Cuts
Reagan's Tax Cuts For The Wealthy Were The Biggest Political Scam In The History of The United States The Republican theory that tax cuts for the wealthy (better known as "Reaganomics") will trickle down to us...
They're at it again. As if the proposed Senate Republican tax plan did not put enough targets on average Americans' backs, according to multiple reports, the revised bill includes another insult: repeal the Affordable Care Act's, aka Obamacare, individual...
Well, they did it. Thursday, congressional Republicans passed a non-binding budget resolution that threatens to cut $473 billion from Medicare and $1 trillion from Medicaid so the top one percent of the population can enjoy a $1.5 trillion...
We see the headlines every year, particularly now, around the holidays. Hunger. In the richest country in world history--where Congress pays corporations to keep their workforces poor, where wealthy tax cheats benefit more from coronavirus pandemic relief...
Democrats hold the majority in the House of Representatives. They hold a narrow majority in the Senate. They have the White House. So why are they bowing to republicans? At a carpenters’ training center outside Pittsburgh, Pa. last month,...
Amid the glaring problems with the Republicans' rewrite of our tax code, there is another issue that should concern us--time. Is there enough of it to allow America to adjust to the changes since several provisions in...
As a candidate for president, Joe Biden promised to get control of the COVID-19 pandemic with robust federal intervention and oversight–two qualities the Trump administration did not believe were necessary. Days before being sworn in, Biden outlined...
US Navy Super Hornet Encounter With UFO In 2004
Earlier this week, video footage of U.S. Navy aircraft tracking an unidentified flying object (UFO) surfaced. This revealed the existence of a multimillion-dollar partially classified Department of Defense (DOD) program. Within the DOD's $600 billion...
Trump gives speech on Nov. 30.
On Thursday, President Donald Trump issued a speech attempting to characterize his legislative goals and tax cut bill as "populist." Despite significant contradictory analysis, the president claimed his efforts negativity affect wealthy individuals and aids...
Well, it happened. Early Saturday morning, Senate Republicans narrowly passed the most sweeping tax reform bill in three decades. President Donald Trump is now steps away from his first legislative victory. In the 51-49 vote requiring frenetic last-minute revision, Republicans...
We woke up this morning to the first government shutdown in four years. The past few days, there has been little talk about anything else in the media, leaving many wondering what the effects of a...
$600. Unless things change, that's all some of us will be getting from the 5,593-page $900 billion relief package Congress passed Monday night. It is half what the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act delivered in April,...
CEO Cecile Richards In Planned Parenthood News
Who is Cecile Richards, president of the Planned Parenthood Federation Of America (PPFA), anyway? Yesterday, I watched as the misogynistic-led, anti-choice House Oversight Committee grilled her on phony videos about fetal tissue for nearly five grueling...
We here in real America should be growing accustomed to wearing masks in public, avoiding crowds, social distancing, and rubbing our hands raw with prodigious amounts of hand sanitizer. We here in real America have to...
Former Democratic presidential candidate--now New York City mayoral candidate--Andrew Yang had a unique signature issue among last year's other presidential contenders. He wanted to give every American $1,000 from what he called the "Freedom Dividend." Last year Yang partnered...
If by chance Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker does indeed run for and win the 2016 Republican Presidential nomination, his Democratic opponent will be licking his or her chops in preparation of using some of his...
This week, Donald Trump brought a budget proposal to Congress. It is bad, y'all! Here are just some of the over 80 programs that this budget will kill. Here is a graph of how much these...
Do you have that neighbor who bends your ear about the latest outrage he heard on Fox so-called "news"? Maybe it's a relative who never misses Tucker Carlson's show, or believes One America News (OAN) is "balanced, unbiased"...