CBS News decided to test the system upon which the government will entrust the sanctity of the ballot this November. And the U.S. Postal Service flubbed it.
CBS News decided to test the system upon which the government will entrust the sanctity of the ballot this November. And the U.S. Postal Service flubbed it.
This is not about gaming the system, or voter fraud, or stuffing the mail with fake ballots from illegal aliens. This is about the competency of the USPS to deliver official ballots sent through the mail on time, and to the right people. They proved that the 100 million or more Americans who plan to mail in their ballots should not expect their vote to be counted unless they mail it weeks prior to the election deadlines in each state.
And even then there’s no guarantee it will be processed and counted.
It's every climate hysteric's dream: gas prices are going through the roof. Less gas will be sold, fewer miles driven, and fewer greenhouse gases emitted.
It’s every juvenile climate hysteric’s wet dream: gas prices are going through the roof. This means less gas will be sold, fewer miles will be driven, and fewer greenhouse gases will be emitted.
This is a feature, not a bug of climate change advocacy. It is the desired result of raising the cost of keeping your SUV running.
The climate hysterics want you to feel pain. They want you to drain your wallet. They want you to get angry — preferably at the oil companies, which is exactly what Democrats in Congress have been making a show of doing for the last few weeks. They’ve been holding hearings on why gas is so expensive. They’ve hauled oil company executives into their committee hearings and berated them for price-gouging and profiteering.
But it’s all a sham. Democrats are jubilant that everything they’ve been hoping for as far as high fuel costs is coming to pass. In less than a year and a half, gas prices have nearly doubled, with the promise of much more to come.
Just in time to save the planet.
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Is it a mystery why Democrats aren’t doing a sack dance and celebrating the salvation of planet earth?
There’s the small matter of their political survival, of course. It would be unseemly — like doing a jig at an Irish funeral — to celebrate other people’s pain. And it would cost many Democrats who are secretly jubilant about high gas prices their political careers.
Instead, Democrats are pretending to look for a way to “ease consumers’ pain.”
The liberal Center for American Progress suggests:
The most effective approach is to provide financial relief to consumers who are experiencing an erosion of real income and purchasing power from high energy costs amid overall increases in the cost of living and stagnant wage gains. There are many ways to provide this relief. One is a program of income tax credits for middle- and low-income consumers, which would increase their disposable income by $500 to $1,000 a year.
In lieu of (or in addition to) these tax credits, Congress could provide a “fuel price reliefbate” of up to $450, with low-income consumers receiving the largest benefits. This mechanism, proposed last week by my CAP colleagues, could be funded through a repeal of oil industry tax breaks or a windfall-profits tax on the industry.
Sending more stimulus and “reliefbate” checks to people using money that doesn’t exist and won’t exist for 100 years is not an option for any rational, responsible lawmaker — which puts the plan right up most Democrats’ alley.
Do you ever wonder if at some point, the purveyors of critical race theory will promote something so outrageously wrong, so egregiously stupid.
Do you ever wonder if at some point, the purveyors of critical race theory will promote something so outrageously wrong, so egregiously stupid, that the entire theoretical framework of the noxious philosophy will collapse in a heap of proverbial steaming excrement?
We can dream, can’t we?
Actually, what’s happening at Washington State University comes pretty darn close to achieving that goal. Syndicated radio host Jason Rantz reports on a webinar sponsored by the school that either reveals human beings from a different plane of existence landing in America or some seriously ill educators in desperate need of hospitalization at a mental health facility.
The agriculture program at the school promoted a webinar event called “Examining Whiteness in Food Systems.” As you might surmise, we ain’t talkin’ about white bread.
The co-founder of the Women's March, Tamika Mallory, called Kentucky's attorney general, Daniel Cameron, a "sellout negro."
Kentucky’s black attorney general just isn’t black enough for a lot of radical activists.
The co-founder of the Women’s March, Tamika Mallory, called Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron a “sell-out negro” who is no different from those black tribes that sold Africans into slavery.
Apparently, Black Lives Matter only if they think a certain way.
What happens when working hard to succeed doesn't matter? Or doing well in academics is actually considered wrong or bad?
Radical educational bureaucrats are destroying the idea that some people are smarter than others, more capable than others, work harder than others, or are more naturally gifted at certain things than others. This is called “being human” and to deny it is to deny humanity itself. But what it means to be human doesn’t fit into the ever-narrowing liberal worldview that seeks to define people based on race.
Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Alexandria, Va., is one of the finest secondary schools in the world. People from many countries send their children there because of its reputation for excellence.
But there’s something wrong with the school. It’s not “diverse” enough. Too many Asians, you see.
The tiny state of Rhode Island announced that because some people are too stupid and too dense to understand that some words have several meanings, they will change the official name of their state.
The “official” name of the state is “The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.” But to those choosing to be ignorant — or those who really are — “plantations” means “a usually large farm or estate, especially in a tropical or semitropical country, on which cotton, tobacco, coffee, sugar cane, or the like is cultivated, usually by resident laborers.”
But in the context as it was originally intended, “plantations” referred to a new colony. But what does context matter when there are dragons to slay? It has been decided that we should choose to remove context and substitute personal interpretation of meaning.
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How did the swastika make an entrance in discussing “plantations”? Yikes, he’s reaching. He admits that the word has nothing to do with slavery but because some people get a “chilling feeling” when they see the word, it’s gotta go.
As treasurer, I hope Mr. Magaziner never has occasion to write the word “niggardly” when talking about distributing funds. If some black leaders get a chilling feeling from seeing the word “plantation,” they would probably faint dead away if they saw “niggardly” in an official document.
In truth, this is not about “chilling feelings.” Take 100 black people and have them read a paragraph with the word “plantation” in it and then ask how many got a “chilling feeling” by reading it?
“Maybe we have made too many concessions to conservatism."
Once again, the streets of Paris and other major French cities were rocked by violent protests as thousands of demonstrators took to the streets for the 13th straight weekend to show their anger at the administration of President Emmanuel Macron.
The protests this weekend appear larger, although more peaceful, as participation in the demonstrations dropped off over the holidays. Still, there were significant confrontations between riot police and the gilets jaunes protesters in the wealthy shopping district of Boulevard Saint-Germain.
