Congress

The mayhem in Washington this week is the manifestation of America’s political putrefaction.

The hard part now will be for a country, and indeed for a conservative movement and Republican Party that largely backed President Trump, to put the pieces back together and move forward with American life.

On December 30th, U.S. Senators voted 80 to 12 not to increase the Covid-19 relief one-time payments from $600 per qualifying person, to $2,000. The same bill had already passed, December 28th, in the U.S. House, by a vote of 322 to 87.

Democrats open Congress with “amen and awoman” prayer ****News Topic 236***** Dems opened the 117th Congress today with a prayer that ended “amen, and awoman.” You know, to be gender neutral. Because we live in an episode of The Office. Dems opened the 117th Congress today with a prayer that ended “amen, and awoman.” You […]

The Democrats seem to have taken Napoleon’s words to heart in declaring Republicans traitors or anti-Democratic in their planned challenge the certification of electoral votes next week.

No doubt everyone here that is interested in the American election has been smacked with the mantra of “baseless” when it comes to any dispute about the election having been hit with major fraud. ALL the big networks, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and most distressing of all, Fox News, have been repeating this word like […]

American Institute for Economic Research, December 30, 2020 The Year in which Comforting American Myths Were Ravaged James Bovard Thanks in large part to Covid lockdowns, this year has left vast wreckage in its wake, with ten million jobs lost, more than 100,000 businesses and dozens of national chains bankrupted or closed. Up to 40 […]
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Trump’s unveiling of a new, more radical course followed mass pardons earlier in the evening, including some early political backers since ensnared by Johnny Law.

CNBC’s Jim Iuorio and I had fun smacking around Congress and other rascals on this 20 minute MP3 from a broadcast yesterday on the Salem Radio Network. We also flailed Modern Monetary Theory, the latest bogus scheme entitling politicians to wreck the economy with endless spending. Jim Iuorio was guest-hosting on the Dan Proft show. […]

Funding the government via massive omnibus bills drafted in secret and rushed into law concentrates power in the hands of a select few representatives and senators.