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Americans are paying a hell of a lot for Joe Biden's spend-a-thon, in the form of inflation, which, at last glance, was costing American workers upwards of $5,000 in extra cash a year.
Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon, as Milton Friedman used to say, and sure enough, inflation started getting bad when a Democrat Congress passed and Joe Biden signed off on, the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, which was passed to supposedly help America recover from COVID.
Fox News's Tyler Olson did the job mainstream corporate journalists wouldn't do by checking up on how that was going:
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SAO PAULO - Brazil's Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has a 13-percentage-point lead over President Jair Bolsonaro, but the far-right incumbent has narrowed his leftist rival's advantage ahead of the October election, according to a poll published on Thursday.
The survey by Datafolha showed Lula with 45% of voter support against 32% for Bolsonaro in the first round of the election scheduled for Oct. 2, compared with 47% and 32% respectively in the previous poll.
American Thinker,
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Monica Showalter
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Well, the left has got one. On Twitter and beyond, you've never heard such crowing:
According to Politico:
Democrat Mary Peltola has defeated Republican Sarah Palin in the special election for Alaska’s vacant House seat, a big upset over the former governor in the state’s first election under ranked-choice voting.
Peltola, a former state legislator who will become Alaska’s first indigenous member of Congress, defeated a special election field that included Palin and another Republican, Nick Begich III. The Democrat finished first in the initial tally and then won enough second-choice votes from Begich’s supporters to see off Palin,
Daily Mail (UK),
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Charlotte McLaughlin
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Diana would not have been a 'great fan' of Meghan Markle as she 'might imagine', a former friend of the Princess of Wales has said on the 25th anniversary of the royal's death.
The Princess' diarist Tina Brown said she thinks Diana would have seen the former actress as someone who is 'steering Harry in a direction that was not good' for the Prince.
Ms Brown added: 'I don't think Diana would have been the great fan of Meghan that Meghan herself might perhaps imagine.'
Fortune,
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Chloe Taylor
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Americans are worried a recession is looming—and according to a top economist, they ought to be.
Steve Hanke, a professor of applied economics at Johns Hopkins University, said this week that he believes the U.S. is heading for a “whopper” of a recession next year.
In an interview with CNBC’s “Street Signs Asia” on Monday, Hanke argued that a major economic downturn had been made inevitable due to U.S. money supply soaring and stagnating.
“We will have a recession because we’ve had five months of zero M2 growth, money supply growth, and the Fed isn’t even looking at it,” he said.
American Thinker,
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Monica Showalter
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New York's governor, Kathy Hochul, must have thought she was being clever by demanding the Republican citizens of New York to move to Florida if they weren't onboard with the wokester socialist way she was running her state:
“Just jump on a bus and head down to Florida where you belong, OK?” she said. “You are not New Yorkers.” (Snip for tweet) Her state has already lost 1.5 million residents in the past decade, as the New York Post noted, and cannot afford to lose any more of them, given that those fleeing make up the largest portion of the tax base.
American Thinker,
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Monica Showalter
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The one-year anniversary of Joe Biden's disastrous pullout from Afghanistan has come and gone, and Biden himself is expecting that you've got better things to do, same as he does, so nobody the wiser.
(Snip) When a suicide bomber blew up a gate at Kabul airport on August 26, 2021, taking down 13 U.S. service members, along with 200 others, that was the ultimate sacrifice well in need of a memorial from the commander-in-chief on whose watch it occurred.
At a minimum, they could be honored and remembered on the one-year anniversary of their deaths, right?
Not by Joe Biden.
Joe had better things to do, and it wasn't just looking at his watch.
American Thinker,
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Monica Showalter
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As President Obama used to say of his clownish vice president: "Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up."
Which brings us to Joe Biden's student loan debt forgiveness rollout, announced this week.
Let's set aside the issue of the legality of the matter.
The actual execution of the matter is Joe in Action.
According to Axios: The implementation of President Biden's widespread, income-targeted student loan forgiveness is shaping up to be a bureaucratic challenge for the Department of Education.
Why it matters: Millions of Americans are in limbo waiting for information on how to take action on student debt relief — the success of which relies largely on an agency juggling
American Thinker,
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Monica Showalter
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8/23/2022 9:21:24 AM
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The New York Times has finally concluded its great hunt for a journalist to cover conservative media for its new beat -- and came up with this guy, according to The Blaze:
The New York Times announced on August 18 that Ken Bensinger is joining its politics desk and will report on right-wing media for the section's so-called "democracy team." Bensinger previously worked for BuzzFeed, the Los Angeles Times, and the Wall Street Journal.
David Halbfinger, the Times' politics editor, suggested in the announcement that Bensinger is well prepared to report on right-wing media. His recent work on the Oath Keepers
American Thinker,
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Monica Showalter
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Like the good narco-guerrilla he once was, Colombia's loathsome leftist president, Gustavo Petro, is proposing an old goal of the drug lords of yore for Colombia: decriminalizing cocaine.
According to the Washington Post:
Two weeks after taking office, the country's first leftist government is proposing an end to "prohibition" and the start of a government-regulated cocaine market. Through legislation and alliances with other leftist governments in the region, officials in this South American nation hope to turn their country into a laboratory for drug decriminalization.
"It is time for a new international convention that accepts
American Thinker,
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Thomas Lifson
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8/23/2022 12:00:32 AM
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Meta, the corporate parent of Facebook, has announced its plans to control the flow of information on the site where most voters get their news. You see, the public has to be protected from “misinformation” and the omniscient sages of Meta are just the folks to decude what is and isn’t worthy of being shared with the public. Nick Clegg, Meta’s “President, Global Affairs, offers these takeaways from a longer essay:
Takeaways
Our approach to the 2022 US midterm elections is consistent with the policies and safeguards we had in place during the 2020 US presidential election.
We have hundreds of people across more than 40 teams
American Thinker,
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Monica Showalter
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8/22/2022 9:25:32 AM
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Border walls, who needs border walls?
Apparently, only Joe Biden does, the rest of us can go without.
According to a furious editorial by the New York Post:
President Joe Biden is all for open borders — except when it comes to the one around his own vacation spot.
He’s stuck taxpayers with a bill for close to half a million for a security fence around his Delaware beach house, a project ongoing since last September, contracted out to a local builder by the Department of Homeland Security. The irony is rich: The same agency Biden has used to help erase the US southern border is overseeing a wall
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Most of the money isn't even spent yet because they can't think of stuff to spend it on. That's classic inflation, too much money, too few goods.