What did the administration think was going to happen to the unfrozen funds? Some behaviors are predictable, and experience confirms certain actors on the world’s stage will perform unsurprisingly. For example, Iranian authorities will lie, and many world leaders will believe them. You can take it to the bank. Remember last fall when Biden wanted…
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What began as a fact-finding mission by the members of the House Committee on Natural Resources soon turned into a finger-pointing partisan blame game until the posturing politicians yielded the floor to representatives of several Native American tribes. The subject of the hearing was how America’s open border crisis is devastating reservations. The tribal leaders…
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Fictional loopholes and the anti-Second Amendment push. Attorney General Merrick Garland held a press conference Thursday, April 11, announcing the Biden administration’s latest gun control efforts. The event promised that the administration’s new policy would close the widely-touted gun show loophole. The administration will alter US law through a rule change to the federal register…
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Editor’s note: Join Liberty Nation each week to stay up to date on the nationwide ramifications of an open borders America. Iowa Makes It Legal to Arrest Illegal Migrants On the evening of April 10, Iowa Republican Governor Kim Reynolds signed Senate File 2340, which makes it a crime for illegal migrants to enter or re-enter the…
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The Golden State leads the way in bureaucratic incompetence. Every once in a while, a political story lands that cuts through the partisan divide and exposes itself as the quintessential paradigm of what is wrong at the heart of government. Corruption is often dismissed as the price of having politicians; dishonesty is deemed pervasive but…
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The Treasury secretary stirred more interest for her eating habits than for her sharp negotiating. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen put down the Jing-A Brewing Co. beer and chopsticks and returned home from China, transforming into a social media celebrity in the process. In her second visit to the world’s second-largest economy, Yellen touched upon several…
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All things are no longer considered. There is perhaps nothing the news media adores more than talking about itself. So, when quarter-of-a-century NPR editor Uri Berliner spilled the beans about a lack of “viewpoint diversity” at National Public Radio, it predictably opened Pandora’s box. That the outlet has turned hard left is scarcely worth headlining,…
Late Tuesday, April 9, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled that abortion be banned in almost all circumstances. The judges rejected in a four to two vote the 2022 15-week abortion ban passed by former Governor Doug Ducey, instead lifting a stay on a Civil War era ban making it a felony to perform an abortion…
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The soul of the nation is on the line, they tell us – and they just might be right. The consensus is that this November’s presidential election will be a seismic event no matter who wins. Each side is putting everything on the line, declaring this contest a “battle for the soul of the nation.”…
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Plus, the Fed is losing billions and consumer debt. Despite campaigning against tariffs, President Joe Biden has kept his predecessor’s trade policies intact. During the 2020 campaign, Biden complained that then-President Donald Trump’s tariffs on China were “shortsighted,” arguing that they hurt US businesses and consumers. Years later, Biden has not only maintained these trade…
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Former President Donald Trump has made his much-ballyhooed announcement on where he’ll stand on a nationwide abortion law should he retake the White House. Will he support the 15-week ban, as he hinted a couple of weeks ago? No. How about a total ban? Nope. Well, a federal law protecting abortion access then? Absolutely not….
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“Our children are going on a conveyor belt,” social psychologist Jonathan Haidt recently said. “And a lot of them are getting shredded.” This is in reference to the declining state of mental health among teens, which he claims started after the iPhone became widely used and Instagram was created. He sees one particular social media…
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