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Guest Columnists
Welcome to the Green New Deal, California
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- By David Harsanyi
If California, our most populous state, were its own nation, it would rank as the world's fifth largest economy and boast the highest average household income (outside a handful of "countries" like Monaco or Luxemburg). And, yet, the governor is begging its citizens to stop using their appliances, turn off their lights and keep their thermostats at a stifling 78, lest they suffer more rolling blackouts, like some junior mandarin in a Third World country.
Of course, I kid when I say that California is already experiencing the effects of the Green New Deal. A state that still derives more than 66% of its energy from non-renewable sources, has tens of trillions of dollars to go before it meets President Joe Biden's promise of a 65% reduction in emissions by 2030. The flooding of an already rickety grid with undependable renewables offers only a small taste of the "transition" to "clean energy."
Who Are You Calling a Fascist, Mr. President?
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- By David Harsanyi
The other day, President Joe Biden accused voters of the opposition party of turning to "semi-fascism." This is probably the first time in American history a president has openly attacked the opposing party's constituents in this way.
Then again, Biden, who once alleged that the chaste Mitt Romney was harboring a desire to bring back chattel slavery, is prone to stupid hyperbole. And it's true that most people who throw around the word "fascist" fail to do so with much precision. These days, the word "democracy," like "fascism," has lost all meaning. According to Democrats, asking someone to show ID before voting is an attack on "democracy," but so is the Supreme Court's handing back power to voters on the abortion issue. When you have no limiting principles of governance, anything that inhibits your exertion of power is seen as anti-"democracy." If students have loans to be paid, "forgive" them. If you can't pass a bill, the executive branch should do it by fiat. If the court stops it, pack it. Power is only to be limited when the opposition holds it.
Black Betrayal: Pied Pipers of Self Destruction
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- By Pastor Stephen Broden, Executive Director, Content of Character Series
Tracy Abrams's recent rant that abortion is biblical is another example of how willing black leaders are to throw the community under the bus to achieve their selfish ambitions.
Nothing in the pages of the Holy Scriptures justifies the murder of innocent life. To abort a baby is the murder of innocent life by any definition. A baby is a person distinct from the mother who carries it in her womb. Often pro-abortionist scream, "my body my choice" however, the baby is not the mother's body. The gender of the baby may be different from the mother's, hair, eyes, and body type may be different from the mother. Indeed, the baby's fingerprints are different. Science indicates that the baby and the mother are distinct persons. So, why is Abrams lying to the community about abortion and conflating healthcare with the murder of babies?
As Washington Gives Us 'More,' Americans Want 'Better'
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- By Veronique de Rugy
Congress' annual August recess is a good time to think about the big picture. Most Americans want government reformed for the better. We notice its many breakdowns, dysfunctions and failures to deliver on promises. Yet politicians of both parties usually only talk about more new programs, more spending and more regulations. Will either party listen, or will they continue down their destructive and unpopular path?
In case some of them are listening, I have a few ideas.
Rushdie Stabbing Reminds Us That Iran Is Still the World's Leading Terror State
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- By David Harsanyi
Last week, a man stormed the stage at the Chautauqua Institution and stabbed British author Salman Rushdie in the neck as he was being introduced. The topic under discussion was "the United States as asylum for writers and other artists in exile and as a home for freedom of creative expression." Chances are exceptionally high that this was the work of a jihadi.
IRS Hiring Spree Is the Biggest Expansion of the Police State in American History
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- By David Harsanyi
The Democrats' new reconciliation bill isn't just going to be the largest-ever expansion of a government agency. It's going to be the largest expansion of the domestic police state in American history. Only a statist could believe that a federal government, which already collects $4.1 trillion every year -- or $12,300 for every citizen -- supposedly needs 80 battalions of new IRS cops.
The average American has less reason to be concerned about cops with guns -- though the IRS is looking for special agents who can "carry a firearm and be willing to use deadly force, if necessary" -- than they do bureaucrats armed with pens who are authorized to sift through their lives. If you pay your taxes you have nothing to worry about, Democrats claim. But most law-abiding citizens know they have something to fear from a state agency that doesn't concern itself with your due process, has no regard for your privacy and is empowered to target anyone it wants without any genuine oversight.
The Dems' New Proposal Does Nothing To Lower Inflation
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- By David Harsanyi
The first thing to remember about the reconciliation bill Sens. Joe Manchin and Chuck Schumer agreed to Wednesday is that, despite its utterly preposterous name, it has absolutely zero to do with inflation. The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 is crammed with the very same spending, corporate welfare, price fixing and tax hikes that were part of Build Back Better -- long-desired progressive wish-list agenda items. Pumping hundreds of billions into the economy will do nothing to alleviate inflation. The opposite.
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