The audacious confidence of Democrat Robert “Beto” Francis O’Rourke is something to behold. As a failed Senate and presidential candidate who has never won a statewide race, his hope to become the next governor of Texas is a longshot, but that’s not deterring him from an attempt at failing upward. Maybe O’Rourke’s hubris shouldn’t come as a surprise after he…
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At some point in the near future—whether a few days or a few weeks—the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) will release a complete score of the spending spree legislation Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-California, and House leaders introduced on Nov. 3. The document will represent the first complete CBO analysis of any of the multi-trillion-dollar spending bills that Democrats have spent the…
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On November 2, five House Democrats—enough to block the passage of the spending spree that the party hopes to enact via the budget reconciliation process—wrote to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-California, urging her “to only bring a bill to the floor for which we have a strong level of confidence…will be ruled in order by the Senate parliamentarian and earn…
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The latest prong of the Biden administration’s open borders strategy is its negotiations to give away hundreds of millions of dollars to illegal aliens. The Wall Street Journal reported on October 28 that the administration is negotiating to pay criminal illegal entrants as much as $450,000 per person, and up to almost $1,000,000 per family. The hopeful recipients were arrested…
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Many Democrats are responding to their electoral drubbing in Virginia with total denial. Concerns over education radicalism, especially critical race theory, were essential to Republican victories, but the cultural leftists who steer the Democratic Party these days keep insisting this is a fake controversy created by right-wing activists. Either they are idiots, or they think we are. Probably both. That…
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Democrats presented their so-called “bipartisan infrastructure” legislation as the tamer of the Biden administration-backed bills in front of Congress this fall, but the text actually included another culture war win for leftists. Under section 60307 of the recently passed deal, American institutions that receive funding from the infrastructure legislation are denied the ability to acknowledge scientific facts about sex. “No…
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The headlines this week from Democrats’ bumbling, stumbling budget negotiations have focused on their inability to get agreement on Joe Biden’s massive cradle-to-grave reformation of the relationship between the individual and the state. Democrats claim these trillion-dollar proposals are free – they’re “taxing the rich” to pay for them. But are they? It’s worth taking a look at who Democrats…
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Virginia’s hotly contested gubernatorial race is just days away, and with Republican Glenn Youngkin and former Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe tied in the polls, the professional left isn’t leaving anything to chance. A McAuliffe defeat is largely considered a bellwether for congressional Democrats in the 2022 midterms. So how do Democrats plan to ensure a McAuliffe win and a subsequent…
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For Democrats, Groundhog Day came nearly a month early this year. For them, like the character in the classic Bill Murray comedy, every day is Jan. 6. For them, every challenge to leftist orthodoxy, whether in the form of Biden administration policy or local school boards attempting to impose critical race theory, unreasonable COVID precautions, or transgender policies, is another…
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A lot of roadside signs for Virginia’s Democrat gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe include a special message: “Vote in Free and Fair Elections beginning September 17.” Odd. Shouldn’t “free and fair” go without saying? Why include it on a campaign sign? This is especially odd since the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors recently asked Virginia’s current governor, Democrat Ralph Northam, to…
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Rolling Stone published an exclusive Sunday detailing what the paper branded “explosive allegations” from organizers of the Jan. 6 White House protest. “As the House investigation into the Jan. 6 attack heats up, some of the planners of the pro-Trump rallies that took place in Washington, D.C., have begun communication with congressional investigators,” reported the story, which is now trending…
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During her time in Congress, does Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-New York, want to serve as a workhorse or a show horse? That conundrum lies at the heart of a series of questions I posed to her office last week regarding the tax code. The congresswoman famously (or infamously, depending on one’s point of view) wore a dress emblazoned with the…
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The leftist push for “voting reform” bills purportedly includes an end to partisan district drawing. But Democrats’ plans for New York and Oregon show they are part of the problem, not the solution. One of the key talking points for Democrats’ push for voting “reform” is a desire to end what they call the pernicious practice of partisan gerrymandering. It’s…
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According to conventional wisdom, congressional Republicans have no power to block Democrat plans to ram through $3.5 trillion in tax increases and new spending on welfare programs (among other things). Democrat lawmakers hope to use the budget reconciliation process to pass the legislation through the Senate with 51 votes — all Democrats plus Vice President Kamala Harris. Under this theory,…
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Washington Republicans are excited for the 2022 elections, and they have reason to be — they’re going to do well. They’re heavy favorites to take back the House of Representatives; and despite a very bad Senate map, it’s a coin flip they’ll retake that too. None of this is too shocking: First-term presidents usually face a backlash, and often it’s…
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The Squad of congressional socialists recently came under new scrutiny as hypocrites when two of the original members of the left-wing club were revealed to be landlords. Reps. Rashida Tlaib, D-Michigan, and Ayanna Pressley, D-Massachusetts, have supported legislation for a nationwide eviction moratorium that would further devastate the approximately 30 percent of property owners with low to moderate incomes due…
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At least two dozen Democratic lawmakers in vulnerable districts across the country are refusing to say whether they would support another round of school closures under the guise of COVID-19. At least 24 of the Democrat representatives across the nation who narrowly won their districts last November and are currently targeted by the GOP for the 2022 midterms refused to…
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The weeks upon weeks of negotiations leading up to the passage of a $1 trillion infrastructure bill were just the prelude to the absolute whopper that is the Bernie Sanders budget resolution, which hit the wires Monday morning and will hit the Senate floor Tuesday. The $3.5 trillion document is a full-on attempt to remake the American economy, the labor markets,…
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South Carolina Democrat Rep. James Clyburn, the House Majority Whip, said Wednesday on a virtual Axios event that critical race theory (CRT) is only being taught at “the university level” and the nationwide debate is a “red herring” used by Republicans to dismiss systemic racism. “This whole issue on race and all this activity we see going on in elementary…
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On Saturday, New Mexico state Sen. Joe Cervantes, a Democrat from Las Cruces, tweeted that because he voted to repeal a state law that criminalized abortion, he was denied communion by Bishop Peter Baldacchino, apparently after several warnings (something the senator conveniently neglected to mention). I was denied communion last night by the Catholic bishop here in Las Cruces and…
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