Tag: economic growth
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The Best 100 Days of the 21st Century
by Thomas Reiner, Quartz Mountain Commentary, ©2025 (May 5, 2025) — President Trump has hit the ground running since January 20, realizing he has limited time to push the Boulder of American RuinationTM over the mountain and permanently sink it into the sea to save America. He is intent on not becoming a Sisyphus eternally…
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Personal Freedom and Economic Prosperity: The Case for Allowing Individuals to Access Their Retirement Funds Freely
by Robert Kalebra, ©2025 (Feb. 14, 2025) — In modern society, one of the core values we hold dear is individual freedom—the right for people to make their own choices about their lives, their health, and their finances. So why do we continue to impose restrictions on how people access their own retirement funds? From…
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Avoiding Self-Inflicted Trade and Economic Wounds
by Paul Driessen, CFACT, ©2024 (Nov. 25, 2024) — President-elect Trump says he will impose tariffs on foreign products to raise revenue and in response to practices that give foreign manufacturers unfair advantages over American companies. Europe’s debates over similar issues offer relevant guidance, advisories and impetus. As the European Union looks ahead to the…
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Harris Wants to Impose Nixon-era Price Controls
by John Anthony, The Truth Monster, ©2024 (Aug. 17, 2024) — As the glamour droops from VP Harris’s dramatic ‘installation’ as Democratic presidential nominee, she resorts to a proven crowd-pleasing economic disaster called government-mandated price controls. The latest Rasmussen poll shows Trump pulling ahead of Harris both in a 2 and 3-way race, while Pew…
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The Louisiana Comeback Starts Now
by Jeff Crouere, Ringside Politics, ©2023 (Oct. 15, 2023) — The state of Louisiana is blessed with an abundance of natural resources and attractions. The state’s largest city, New Orleans, is the birthplace of Jazz, a 305-year-old gem with a rich history. It is the home of the French Quarter, Mardi Gras, countless festivals, beautiful…
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Hold On, America, Trump is Coming Back
by Jeff Crouere, Ringside Politics, ©2022 (Nov. 6, 2022) — There is an obvious reason that President Donald Trump plays the Sam and Dave classic “Hold On, I’m Comin’” at the end of his campaign rallies. He wants to give the American people hope that our collective nightmare will eventually end. Since President Donald Trump…
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Proper Environment Protection Requires a Strong Economy
“BEFORE THE CRISIS” by Dr. Jay Lehr and Tom Harris, ©2020 (Apr. 15, 2020) — [Note: The following is a revision of a March 20, 2020 article published here.] Across the world, environmentalists are celebrating the huge reduction in air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions that has accompanied the shutdown in economic activities due to…
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Radicals are Running Amok in the Democratic Party
“DOWNRIGHT FRIGHTENING” by Jeff Crouere, ©2019 (Feb. 2, 2019) — For decades, conservatives have not been welcomed in the Democratic Party. Today, neither moderates nor mainstream liberals have a home in the party. It has been captured by an extreme band of far-left activists who espouse very progressive as well as dangerous socialist policies. This…
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Obama Carbon Colonialism and Climate Corruption Continue, Part 2 of 3
USAID ANTI-ENERGY CLIMATE POLICIES IGNORE HUMAN AND ECOLOGICAL IMPACTS ON POOR NATIONS by Paul Driessen and David Wojick, ©2018 (Aug. 16, 2018) — Part 2 of a 3-part series explaining how the U.S. Agency for International Development continues to use climate change, sustainability, subsistence farming and other Green fads to justify lethal Obama era anti…
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Democratic Mid-Term Hopes are Crumbling
…INTO “CRUMBS” by Jeff Crouere, ©2018 (Jun. 1, 2018) — The U.S. Labor Department released another strong employment report on Friday. It showed that non-farm payrolls expanded by 223,000, far exceeding expectations of most economists. The unemployment rate dropped to 3.8%, the lowest since April of 2000. For African-Americans, the unemployment rate was the lowest…
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Green Energy Poverty Week
A WEEK DEDICATED TO TOPICS THAT UNDERSCORE IMPACTS ENVIRONMENTALISTS DON’T WANT TO DISCUSS by Paul Driessen, ©2017 (Apr. 23, 2017) — April 22 was Earth Day, the March for Science and Lenin’s birthday (which many say is appropriate, since environmentalism is now green on the outside and red, anti-free enterprise on the inside). April 29…
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Green Pixie Dust Energy Policies
DEMOCRATS FIGHT CLIMATE CHANGE WITH RENEWABLE PIXIE DUST, WHILE REST OF WORLD BURNS FOSSIL FUELS by Paul Driessen, ©2016 (Oct. 1, 2016) — “There’s been a record six straight years of job growth, and new Census numbers show incomes have increased at a record rate after years of stagnation,” NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt misinformed…
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Washington’s Despotic Lawlessness
WE’VE HAD A “TRY AND STOP ME” PRESIDENT. NOW WE NEED ONE WHO WILL INVALIDATE THOSE ACTIONS. by Paul Driessen, ©2016 (Mar. 21, 2016) — Washington is out of control. Legislators, judges and unelected bureaucrats want to control our lives, livelihoods and living standards, with no accountability even for major errors, calculated deception, or deliberate,…
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Economic Literacy 101
DO MILLENNIALS REALLY WANT THE BIG GOVERNMENT SOCIALIST POLICIES BERNIE AND HILLARY ADVOCATE? by Paul Driessen, ©2016 (Feb. 27, 2016) — America’s 18- to 34-year-old “millennials” have been tutored in group-think schools that extol socialism. Now they lionize liberal politicians whose class-warfare prescriptions include taxing away all but maybe 1% of the nation’s 0.0001% billionaires’ wealth,…
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Obama’s 0.7 Percent “Solution”
OBAMA, DEMOCRATS AND BUREAUCRATS BURY AMERICA’S FUTURE UNDER MORE FEDERAL REGULATIONS by Paul Driessen, ©2016 (Feb. 7, 2016) — America’s abysmal 0.7% economic growth during the fourth quarter of 2015 meant the annual growth rate was an anemic 2.4% … and average annual growth for the six-year Obama era a pathetic 2.2 percent. This is “dead…
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It’s 1992 All Over Again
A NEW AGENDA 21 THREATENS OUR WAY OF LIFE by Tom DeWeese, ©2015, DeWeese Report (Sep. 14, 2015) — If you had a time machine and could travel back to 1992 as the UN’s Earth Summit was underway, and you knew what you know now about Agenda 21, imagine the actions you could take to…
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Take a Bow for the New Revolution
AMERICANS ARE LESS INCLINED TO BE FOOLED AGAIN, OR TO “SMILE AND GRIN AT THE CHANGE ALL AROUND” by Paul Driessen, ©2015 (Jul. 18, 2015) — From the outset, Obama directed his powerful government agencies and congressional allies to help him “fundamentally transform” the United States. Too many of them were eager to nationalize the nation’s…
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The Green Mirage – and Con Job
MUSK, SCHMIDT, SIMONS AND BILLIONAIRE BUDDIES BUILD EMPIRE BASED ON CLIMATE AND ENERGY NONSENSE by Paul Driessen and Tom Tamarkin, ©2015 (Jun. 28, 2015) — Elon Musk and his fellow barons of Climate Crisis, Inc. recently got a huge boost from Pope Francis. Musk et al. say fossil fuels are causing unprecedented warming and weather disasters.…
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Vetoing Bipartisan Energy, Job and Economic Growth
OBAMA MAKES IT CLEAR THAT THE ONLY “COMMON GROUND” HE RESPECTS IS HIS LIBERAL TURF by Paul Driessen, ©2015 (Jan. 10, 2015) — New Republican members were still being sworn in and expressing their desire for bipartisan initiatives, when Obama said he would veto the Keystone pipeline, ObamaCare fixes and other bills that run counter to…
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This is Not My America Right Now!
“CONFRONTING ALL OF THE EVIL” by JB Williams, ©2014 (Jul. 16, 2014) — In my America, criminals like Barack Hussein Obama and Eric Holder would never be allowed to run the country. We would not be $18 trillion in debt and rushing to dig the hole deeper. We would not allow our national security agencies to…