Black Lives Matter Gets It Wrong Again
By Jeff Charles Black Lives Matter (BLM) enjoyed a level of popularity after the murder of George Floyd. But the activist group may […]
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November Draws Nigh – What Hope Remains for the Biden Agenda?
Joe Biden (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) The midterm elections are just a few months away, and President Joe Biden has yet to achieve any legislative victory worth calling a legacy. Aside from some COVID relief spending and aid to Ukraine, along with a few feel-good bills – which just about everyone got behind –…
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Republican Party Employs New Strategies to Attract Minorities
Rep. Tony Gonzales, R-TX, left, and Congressional candidate Mayra Flores (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images) After decades of struggling to attract black and Latino voters, the Republican Party is now implementing some novel strategies to begin making inroads with minority communities. If successful, their efforts could place Democrats in a precarious position as…
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Pick Your Poison: A Recession Might Trigger Price Deflation
(Photo by Li Jianguo/Xinhua via Getty Images) Here is a term that the global economy has not heard in a long time: Price deflation. The red-hot 9.1% inflation rate has made everyone furrow their brows, shake their heads, and howl to the economic heavens, wondering when this inflationary nightmare would come to a halt. Although…
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Biden Touts Trump’s Abraham Accords Despite Criticism
(Photo by Kris Connor/Getty Images) In a rare moment of clarity, President Joe Biden has decided not to play partisan politics in at least one area: The Middle East. In most other cases, the president has set himself up as the anti-Trump, reversing many of his predecessor’s policies especially when it concerns immigration. But during…
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Redwood – Fragile Traditions Protected by Brittle Wisdom
(Photo by: Dukas/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) In California, three nearly two-millennia-old redwood trees have fallen in a decade. The culprit turns out to be humans with good intentions fiddling with systems they didn’t understand. The fate of these majestic trees teaches us about how fragile valuable traditions can be and how easily they…
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Swamponomics: Markets Betting US Recession Still Coming in 2022
(Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images) Despite the solid economic data on July 15, a US recession is still on the table, based on various estimates and forecasts. Is the US already in the middle of a recession, or is this part of the cycle on the horizon? Wall Street has been mixed on the…
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How Progressive Insanity Has Destroyed the Democratic Party
(Photo by Yasin Ozturk/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) The expression “scorched earth” has been used liberally in political speak over the years to describe advanced forms of negative campaigning. Many desperate or opportunistic candidates and movements wanting to deflect attention from themselves have resorted to unrelenting and mostly exaggerated claims designed to shift public focus…
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Israel Steps Up To Defend Gulf Neighbors
Israel Prime Minister Yair Lapid (Photo by Antoine Gyori/Corbis via Getty Images) The Iran threat to Arabian Gulf nations has prompted Israel to come to their aid. Bahrain has been the beneficiary lately of that assistance. As early as February 2022, closer ties between Israel and Bahrain have been increasingly evident. Israel Prime Minister Yair…
The Bot Disclosure War: Twitter v Musk
Elon Musk (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue) Elon Musk shook the world when he shared his plans to acquire Twitter, and he did it again weeks later when he backed out of the deal. However, what’s most bewildering is why: bot disclosure. What was set up to be one of the…
Chinese Banks on the Brink of a Crisis?
By Andrew Moran Chinese banks are struggling financially again, and clients have started to notice. China recently endured some of the largest protests […]
Will Abortion Access Bills Passed by the House Die in the Senate?
(Photo by John Parra/Getty Images for MoveOn) The US House of Representatives passed two abortion access bills on Friday, July 15. The Ensuring Access to Abortion Act sailed through 223-205, and the Women’s Health Protection Act – an old crowd favorite amongst Democrats, it seems – advanced 219-210. But with a clear majority in the…
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