“I think what we need to ask ourselves when we talk about health care is why we are the only major country on Earth not to guarantee health care to all people,” Sanders said in the wake of the assassination. The leftists want to exploit the moment to advance single-payer, allowing the government to control healthcare completely.

It shouldn’t be surprising that Bernie Sanders and AOC champion this idea. But there are others who want to use this situation to push for more government control. One such voice is former Cigna executive Wendell Potter. Potter recently published an op-ed in the New York Times denouncing private health insurance and praising government intervention. He believes the answer is “Medicare for all” and led a group with this as its stated mission.

Bernie and co. may feel emboldened by the support for their proposals. But no matter who claims the government is the answer to healthcare, it’s not. In fact, the government is responsible for much of our healthcare woes.

Americans hate the high costs, limited options, long wait times, insurance haggling, and variable quality of our healthcare system. They should look at who made it this way. […]

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The Washington Post’s headline was, “Truck rams New Orleans crowd,” and only mentioned ISIS ties in the second subheading. NPR, NBC, and ABC all ran articles about the attack without using the words “terror,” “Islamic,” or “Islamism,” opting not to specify exactly what sort of “attack” it was.

Evidently, law enforcement, in addition to the press, is fearful of naming the problem. The FBI did later state in a press release that it was investigating the incident as a “terrorist attack,” but they should never have hesitated to call it such. Fear of calling terrorism what it is is extremely problematic in and of itself and draws a strong parallel to the Harry Potter series.

For most of the Harry Potter series, very few characters aside from Harry can bring themselves to even say the name of the most dangerous wizard of all time—Voldemort—not unlike the small number of politicians and law enforcement spokespeople who call radical Islam and terrorism what they are. Even Harry’s professors who teach defense and employees of the Ministry of Magic, the governing body in Harry’s world, generally can’t bring themselves to say Voldemort’s name, at least above a whisper. But as Harry’s friend Hermione so wisely puts it, “Fear of a name only increases fear of the thing itself.”

Far too few members of U.S. government bodies are willing to say the words “radical Islamic terror” or even “terrorism.” As Westerners live comfortable, Western lives, perhaps they are less afraid of terror attacks themselves than the backlash that may result from accusations of “Islamophobia.” Even Muslim leaders of Muslim-majority countries who took action against violent Islam were censured by Foreign Policy magazine as “the world’s most powerful Islamophobes,” indicating that nobody is safe from accusation. […]

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As luck would have it, the New York Post was on the case, enlisting the help of forensic lipreader Jeremy Freeman, a University College London-certified expert witness for litigants.

According to Freeman’s translation, Trump, 78, told Obama, 63, that they would have to “find a quiet place” later in the day to discuss a “matter of importance.”

It would appear as though Trump was hoping to have a conversation about an unspecified international agreement outside the reach of probing cameras.

Trump at one point leaned toward Obama and said, “I’ve pulled out of that. It’s the conditions. Can you imagine that?” prompting a chuckle from Obama.
Trump added, “and after, I will.” […]

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Mountains of data are being collected, policies are being developed and analyzed, and ongoing deliberations among decision-makers regarding how to best address the tragic loss of life from opioid and fentanyl overdoses are taking place across the country.

Ironically, there may well be so many voices, opinions, and proposals on the table that a national strategic focus has become buried under a wealth of subject matter expertise and a natural tendency to try and do it all at once.

We believe this is a moment to take a step back, look at the crisis with fresh eyes, and rediscover the obvious: too many people are dying every day, leaving devastated families and loved ones to suffer immeasurable grief.

We have a simple suggestion that could save thousands of lives over the next 12-18 months. […]

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America is not a nation of immigrants but a nation of citizens. The best and the brightest are already here. Campaigning for more immigration, of any sort, now when Americans are struggling to purchase houses, buy groceries, and pay their bills, is simply a non-starter.

Americans should not be forced to compete with the world to have a good middle-class life. They should not have to work 80-hour weeks just to “make it.” They certainly should not be insulted, as Vivek Ramaswamy did, for encouraging their kids to live a normal life, play sports, and have friends.

The simple truth is this: America does not need more immigration. It certainly does not need “high-skill” migrants. The flood of blue-collar workers from the third world since the 1970s has done enormous damage to America’s culture—cutting wages, driving up housing prices, and bringing crime: without Mexican immigration, there would not be Mexican drug gangs in America.

This was bad enough, but so-called high-skill immigration is, in many ways, even worse. In the past two decades, in particular, we have imported an entire class of foreigners who believe that their talents and “success” give them a right to rule over the people who welcomed them in. […]

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There is strong evidence that this massacre was a terrorist attack committed on behalf of ISIS. Jabbar flew an ISIS flag from his truck. There have been conflicting reports from the FBI and the Louisiana State Police on whether others were involved in the New Orleans terrorist attack. Some press reports suggested that an explosion on New Year’s Day of a Tesla Cybertruck outside the Trump International Tower in Las Vegas was linked to the New Orleans terrorist attack.

Several government failures allowed the New Orleans terrorist attack to occur. One concerns bollards, barriers in the street to prevent vehicles from being used to run down people that were under repair and not activated. This was a major security failure by New Orleans officials.

I agree with President Trump, who said in a Truth Social post that the New Orleans terrorist attack resulted from “open borders and weak, ineffective, and virtually nonexistent leadership.” Trump also said the Justice Department, the FBI, and Democrat state and local prosecutors have not done their jobs. According to the President-elect, “strength and powerful leadership” are needed to stop the erosion of safety, national security, and democracy in our nation.

Because Biden refused to secure America’s southern border, an estimated 11 million illegal migrants have crossed into the U.S. since 2021. At least 2 million of these migrants were “gotaways” who evaded the Border Patrol and border authorities when they illegally crossed into our country. […]

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Here’s how.

Founded in 2016 and technically the product of an Obama-era executive order on counterterrorism, the GEC lapsed in December and lost congressional funding. Over the last two years, my investigative reporting in the Washington Examiner as well as that of Racket News journalist Matt Taibbi pulled back the curtain of the GEC’s ties to foreign and domestic NGOs trying to defund news outlets they say peddle disinformation – including RealClearPolitics. My reporting showed that the GEC and the State Department-funded National Endowment for Democracy combined granted almost $1 million to the British Global Disinformation Index, which created a blacklist of U.S.-based websites that published content it determined to push “adversarial narratives” and then pressured advertisers to shut them down (think the Hunter Biden laptop story and COVID-19 lab leak hypothesis).

The GEC, moreover, was involved with the Election Integrity Partnership, a consortium of left-wing nonprofit groups, universities, and federal agencies that pressured Twitter and Facebook to remove GOP-aligned content in the lead-up to the 2020 presidential election. The GEC also bankrolled New York-based company NewsGuard, a “misinformation” tracker that, along with the Global Disinformation Index, has found itself at the center of a lawsuit brought by the Federalist, the Daily Wire, and the State of Texas against the GEC for allegedly funding an unconstitutional “censorship scheme” that suppressed voices on the right.

Taibbi, the former Rolling Stone writer, demonstrated that the GEC pressured social media platforms in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic to moderate extensive content, testifying to Congress in March 2023, “We learned Twitter, Facebook, Google, and other companies developed a formal system for taking in moderation ‘requests’ from every corner of government: the FBI, DHS, HHS, DOD, the Global Engagement Center at State, even the CIA.” […]

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One hopes Trump will immediately undo the damage inflicted by Biden’s Education Department, including rescission of the Title IX rule issued in April, already enjoined by federal courts in over half the country. The usual suspects will make the usual noise and claim Trump is “anti-woman” and taking away rights, but if Trump focuses on ending sexual identity politics to restore learning, he will be removing controversy and Title IX abuses, not causing them.

Title IX is the 1972 Congressional ban on sex discrimination in federally funded education. Called an equal access law for women, it was an outgrowth of equal opportunity initiatives based on race that were popular in the 1960s.

But Title IX soon became the weapon of choice for feminists in government. They quickly interpreted it as requiring identical funding for female sports even when women weren’t interested and even as this decimated men’s teams. Then, they redefined “discrimination” to encompass “harassment” and “a hostile environment,” still nebulous terms that many define as subjective offenses, which are anybody’s guess, as the offense changes with the subject. This also makes healthy courtship a minefield since any romantic gesture, such as holding open a door, can offend someone and become a Title IX complaint. Then they expanded “harassment” to include alleged sexual assault, a matter of criminal law at the state level, not civil rights law from Congress. But that didn’t stop Obama education officials from directing campus Title IX offices to seek, find, and punish anyone merely accused of sexual misconduct by presuming guilt—an egregious violation of due process. Hundreds of students were suspended or expelled by what were then called campus kangaroo courts.

Biden officials continued this abuse of Title IX by redefining the law’s central term “sex” to include same-sex orientation and “gender ideology” such that homosexuals and men pretending to be women (especially on women’s sports teams) could claim a Title IX violation when others did not approve or go along. […]

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The 17,000 page report, published last week, concludes that censorship, whistleblower retaliation the politicization of these agencies created a, “two-tiered system of government – one of favorable treatment for the politically-favored class, and one of intimidation and unfairness for the rest of American citizens.”

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) told Fox News Digital, “The Weaponization Committee conducted rigorous oversight of the Biden-Harris administrations weaponized government and uncovered numerous examples of federal government abuses.”

@Weaponization releases 17,000-page staff report detailing the Select Subcommittee's findings about the Biden-Harris Administration's weaponized federal government.

Through its oversight and investigations, the Select Subcommittee found numerous instances of the federal…

— House Judiciary GOP (@JudiciaryGOP) December 20, 2024

Among the instances cited by the House Judiciary Committee in the report were the uncovering of censorship by Big Tech that led to Mark Zuckerberg admitting that Facebook was pressured by the Biden administration to censor Americans.

The committee also uncovered evidence that the Biden campaign coordinated with 51 former intelligence officials to interfere with the 2020 presidential election by signing a statement calling Hunter Biden’s laptop disinformation. […]

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Operation Choke Point was started by the U.S. Dept. of Justice in 2013 as a way to put pressure on banks to sever their ties, without due process, with legal businesses like gun dealers, cannabis dispensaries and payday lenders which the administration found objectionable.

That initiative was ended by President Trump in 2017 but under the Biden administration, it appears that Operation Choke Point 2.0 has begun with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) sending letters to U.S. banks in 2022, urging them to “pause all crypto-related activity.”

Senator Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) told Fox Business that the regulatory abuse is real and that President-elect Trump will put an end to this type of regulatory abuse.

The banking system that was built by us and for us is being used against us. Operation Chokepoint 2.0 is very real, and @realDonaldTrump will put a stop to it. pic.twitter.com/oKqQM7ERes

— Senator Cynthia Lummis (@SenLummis) December 16, 2024

Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen recently described the practice of debanking as “a privatized sanctions regime” on The Joe Rogan Experience, saying, “There’s no rules, there’s no court, there’s no decision process, there’s no appeal. Who do you go to to get your bank account back?” […]

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