From The New York Post: President Trump tweeted Thursday that federal troops will remain in Portland — while slamming Oregon Gov. Kate Brown for failing to arrest the “anarchists & agitators.” The commander in chief’s message...
From The Hill: The Senate on Thursday rejected two competing proposals for coronavirus relief as the deadline for extending enhanced unemployment benefits looms and Congress struggles to break an impasse over a fifth stimulus...
Heritage Action on the Cruz Decoupling Bill.
From the Seattle Times by Elise Takahama: Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan and Police Chief Carmen Best revealed at a Wednesday news conference that police discovered explosives, smoke bombs and other weapons in a van...
More repression of free speech with violence, by the left.
I have a friend who grew up in Africa, who says, of people like Aaron Mak, are the same people who would put you opponents in a re-education camp in Africa, if they could....
From Issues and Insights: The upsurge in rioting, looting, destruction and violence in cities across the country won’t just peter out, as many hope. Sadly, mainstream media outlets refuse to cover the actual news,...
From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
AG Barr: “Since when is it okay to try and burn down a federal court?"pic.twitter.com/0MLPD9EYU0 — Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) July 28, 2020
Such a threat to the lamestream media narrative on COVID-19, Twitter bans Donald Trump Jr.
By Craig Keohan in Benefits Pro: Health savings accounts (HSAs) were enacted in 2003 to help Americans cope with the increasingly popular high deductible health plans that offer low premiums, but higher out of...
From Miller in the NY Post: Three federal agents who were sent to Portland, Ore., to try to help quell the city’s violent protests were “likely left permanently blinded” from clashes, White House officials...
Trump issues drug pricing rule.
Treatment of Direct Primary Care (DPC) by Senators Cassidy, Cruz and Rubio Bills as it relates to Health Savings Accounts (HSA) Specific Provision of the Bill S. 2999 the Cassidy Enhanced Primary Care Act...
From The New York Times by Ralph Blumenthal and Leslie Kean: People working with the program, however, said it was still in operation in 2017 and beyond, statements later confirmed by the Defense Department. The program was...
Congress should pass @tedcruz @reptedbudd legislation to allow Americans to pay for their healthcare tax free during the pandemic: https://t.co/ALErwBogUH — Grover Norquist (@GroverNorquist) July 21, 2020
Great piece by @GroverNorquist highlighting my Pandemic Healthcare Access Act, a crucial piece of legislation that will help Americans pay for their health care tax-free during the duration of the pandemic by expanding Health...
A simple, one-page piece of legislation will allow Americans to pay for their health care tax-free during the Coronavirus pandemic. @GroverNorquist https://t.co/nwvCUHGFyF — Ted Budd (@RepTedBudd) July 21, 2020
"The next coronavirus relief bill should allow Americans to pay for their health care tax-free during the duration of the pandemic by expanding Health Savings Accounts (HSAs)." — @GroverNorquist @taxreformer@FoxBusiness cc #HSAsForAll #HSAsFTW https://t.co/pz2tnTnkDr...
Democrats want to spend trillions of dollars in the next coronavirus relief bill. Republicans should contrast this by pushing the Pandemic Healthcare Access Act, legislation to expand HSAs, reduce taxes and increase healthcare choice:...
We know Democrats will propose spending more money. Republicans should contrast this by pushing proposals to cut taxes and increase health care freedom by expanding HSAs and allowing Americans to pay for health care...
Brian C. Blase and Lanhee J. Chen in the WT: First, Mr. Trump should ensure that every American has a health savings account (HSA). Currently, only people with certain types of health insurance can benefit from...
Kellyanne Conway on President Trump: "He's the health-care president." pic.twitter.com/Hnzruu4MUh — The Hill (@thehill) July 22, 2020
Apparently, the symbols predate the Nazis because they allegedly represent “the Sun.” I’ve seen a whole lot of sun symbols from deep into history, but have never seen any that look like this. Plain...
From Bloomberg: The 80-page draft, obtained by Bloomberg News on Tuesday night, largely hews to Joe Biden’s policy stances and mirrors many of the recommendations proposed by the joint task forces formed by allies of...
From Wired: On Monday, vaccine researchers from Oxford University and the pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca announced results from a “Phase 1/2 trial,” suggesting their product might be able to generate immunity without causing serious harm. Similar, but...
From Playbook: AS OF NOW, REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS aren’t saying much about the coronavirus relief negotiations. But here’s what some people involved told us privately Tuesday: — “THE TWO PARTIES ARE SO FAR APART that it...
Can the president unilaterally end the tax deductibility of elective abortions? Yes. Should he? Absolutely. https://t.co/2C25rtbmsm — Dean Clancy (@DeanClancy) July 21, 2020
From Axios: Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) tells Axios he’ll introduce legislation this week requiring companies with business overseas to certify that their supply chains are free of forced labor — and he’s especially concerned...
By Tim Pearce in the Daily Wire: The president of the Portland Police Association ripped elected officials in Oregon for ceding the city’s security to violent rioters and looters. Portland police union boss Daryl...
From Townhall: “These New Outbreaks Doom Us.” – It is one of the more prevailing messaging points currently. “These spikes are as bad as the original wave.” This is the rationale that they use...
From The Atlantic: That “will be unacceptable,” Rashad Robinson, the executive director of Color of Change, a leading racial-justice organization, told me. “It will be unacceptable to people who have waited a long time....
ABC NEWS: For decades, the 60-vote threshold has been a mechanism to facilitate compromise between the parties in the Senate, and served as one of several checks to distinguish the chamber from the House...
From GQ: So is your point of view that we need to find something to break bread over? Or at least, openly talk, because they’re not going to change their minds if we act...
From the Seattle Times: Disturbing new revelations that permanent immunity to the coronavirus may not be possible have jeopardized vaccine development and reinforced a decision by scientists at UCSF and affiliated laboratories to focus...
From The Hill: Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg revealed on Friday that she has been undergoing chemotherapy since May due to a recurrence of liver cancer. Ginsburg said in a statement that the treatment is...
Short term renewable health plans for the win! https://t.co/5LVwmnoCRZ — Dean Clancy (@DeanClancy) July 17, 2020
The 11.1 percent unemployment rate and the acceleration of the insolvency of the Social Security Trust Fund by more than a half dozen years to 2029 are a mere fraction of the very, very...
Text of the White Executive Order on cutting regulations during the pandemic: In December 2019, a novel coronavirus known as SARS-CoV-2 (“the virus”) was first detected in Wuhan, Hubei Province, People’s Republic of China,...
From the WH on their deregulation effort: White House Governors’ Initiative on Regulatory Innovation On October 21, 2019 the Trump Administration announced the Governors’ Initiative on Regulatory Innovation to extend the President’s historic regulatory...
The GOP is tone-deaf on health care.
JAMA Network on the high cost of slow the spread.
From Vox, on the Dems understanding and meeting the health care challenges of the pandemic in their own way, with their own policies with proposals they believe will aid the American people: As many...
The natural result of the media’s campaign to discredit the police and defund them.
From The Hill. Are u more pro biden or anti ye and why? I get that you’ll want to reply that you’re just tryna “get trump out” but in this hypothetical scenario where you’re...
By Wierson and Hanson: Let us be clear: We are political consultants who have spent the better part of the last 20 years working to get scores of Democrats elected across America. It gives...
From the City Journal: Inpatient admissions nationwide in VA hospitals, the nation’s largest hospital system, were down 42 percent for six emergency conditions—stroke, myocardial infarction (MI), heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, appendicitis, and pneumonia—during six...
From The Guardian: The pandemic, which continues to rage across the US, has made many traditional holiday activities either impossible or unappealing, putting millions off flying abroad, going to crowded resort hotels, group holidays or cruises....
From the Catholic News Agency: CNA Staff, Jul 9, 2020 / 10:30 am MT (CNA).- Former vice president Joe Biden pledged on Wednesday to reinstate Obama-era policies that would require the Little Sisters of...
From American Greatness: A new poll conducted by the Washington based Democracy Institute for the Sunday Express shows President Trump tied with his rival Joe Biden at 47 percent, but surpassing him in the electoral college...
.@NYCMayor Bill de Blasio tells Wolf Blitzer that he is banning all large gatherings in New York City except for Black Lives Matter protests. Wolf Blitzer follows up by asking about the U.S. Open....
New FBI Evidence Strengthens possible Durham prosecution.
From The Express: According to the poll conducted by the Washington based thinktank the Democracy Institute, President Trump is neck and neck with his rival Joe Biden on 47 percent. However, Mr Trump would...
From KHN: The Supreme Court Wednesday settled — at least for now — a decade’s worth of litigation over the women’s health provisions of the Affordable Care Act, ruling 7-2 that employers with a...
From the Daily Caller: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Thursday he is uncertain he will attend the Republican National Convention in August, as a number of Republican senators have said they will likely...
From CNN: In a statement on Friday, the Kazakhstan health ministry acknowledged the presence of “viral pneumonias of unspecified etiology,” but denied that the outbreak was new or unknown. “In response to these reports,...
From Science Mag: By Derek Lowe 7 July 2020 I wrote here about the reports of rather short antibody persistence in recovering coronavirus patients, and what’s been coming out in the two weeks since then has only...
From the New York Post: New York’s Finest are putting in for retirement faster than the NYPD can handle — while citing a lack of respect and the loss of overtime pay, The Post...
Twitter billionaire Jack Dorsey just announced he will be funding a universal basic income experiment that could affect up to 7 million people from technology
From Reuters: The decision means that for the first time much of eastern Oklahoma is legally considered reservation land. More than 1.8 million people live in the land at issue, including roughly 400,000 in...
From The Hill: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Robert Redfield said Thursday that the health risks of keeping schools closed are greater than those of opening them, amid a push by President...
Read the Canadian Public Health Official’s Letter here. Excerpt from the letter is below: The current approach to dealing with COVID-19 carries significant risks to overall population health and threatens to increase inequities across...
The Federalist: Harvard University recently announced that it will ban students from in-person classes for the entirety of the next academic year. The decision, not based on science, is typical of the decisions made by...
RealClearPolitics: Education Secretary Betsy DeVos told FNC’s Tucker Carlson on Tuesday that her department is “seriously considering” withholding federal funding from school districts that do not make honest efforts to restart in-person classes this...
From KEPR TV: In an interview with Action News Jonathan Lopez says he regrets writing the letter and is very sorry. “I do apologize for what I did I do understand and accept that...
From the New York Times: Allies of Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Senator Bernie Sanders unveiled a sweeping set of joint policy recommendations on Wednesday, a significant if tentative sign of cooperation among Democrats as Mr....
From The Federalist: After announcing his candidacy for President of the United States over the July Fourth holiday, Kanye West opened up about his political beliefs in a Forbes interview, among them being that he...