Is Pete Buttigieg Going to Raise the Federal Gas Tax?

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg

Incoming Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg suggested raising the federal gas tax to fund infrastructure initiatives. He made the announcement at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee. Florida Republican Senator Rick Scott asked Buttigieg if he would support a federal gas tax increase to pay for the Highway Trust Fund. Buttigieg responded, “Well, I think all options need to be on the table. As you know, the gas tax has not been increased since 1993, and it’s never been pegged to inflation. And it’s one of…

Read More

What Did Trump’s Letter to Biden Say?

Joe Biden And Donald Trump

Donald Trump continued the tradition of the outgoing President leaving a letter in the White House for his successor. President Joe Biden says that the letter Trump left for him was “very generous.” However, he would not release the contents of the letter until he spoke with Trump. Biden was sworn in on January 20 as the 46th president of the United States. On his first day as President, he signed 17 executive orders. Many of them undid Trump’s orders, including rejoining the Paris climate accord and the World Health…

Read More

The Newest Democrat Sex Scandal

Ernest Flagler-Mitchell, a legislator from Monroe County, New York, reportedly sexted a 19-year-old girl. He allegedly sent her a graphic picture of his genitals. The news surfaced the same day Flagler-Mitchell was sworn in as president of the New York chapter of the NAACP. He has since claimed that he thought he was sending the photo to his wife. The 19-year-old, LaKaya Sinclair, wrote a letter to the Monroe County board of legislators calling for Flagler-Mitchell’s resignation over the incident. A portion of her letter says, “I am writing this…

Read More

Facebook and Google Made a Secret Deal to Take Over the Online Ad Industry

Facebook And Google

A recent New York Times report described a secret deal made between Facebook and Google that allowed the tech giants to jointly dominate the online advertising market. The report is outlined in a New York Times article titled “Behind a Secret Deal Between Google and Facebook.” In 2017, Facebook revealed that it was testing a new way of selling ads online that could threaten Google’s control of the online advertising market. Two years later, Facebook announced it was joining an alliance of companies supporting a similar effort by Google. Facebook…

Read More

Was Hitler a Socialist?

For today’s generation, Hitler is the most hated man in history. His regime has become the the archetype of political evil. However, this view does not extend to his economic policies. To the contrary, many of his policies are embraced by governments all around the world. For example, the Glenview state bank of Chicago famously praised Hitler‘s economics in its monthly newsletter. In doing so, the bank discovered the hazard of praising Keynesian policies in the wrong context. Whether in Germany or the United states, the controversy highlights the ways…

Read More

Nancy Pelosi Just Violated Her Own Rule

Nancy Pelosi

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) violated her own rules for the 117th Congress when she called herself “a wife, a mother, a grandmother, a daughter” on the House floor during the debate about President Trump’s second impeachment. “I stand before you today as an officer of the Constitution, as Speaker of the House of Representatives,” Pelosi said. She continued, “I stand before you as a wife, a mother, a grandmother, a daughter, a daughter whose father proudly served in this Congress.” But just this month, Pelosi and Rules Committee Chairman…

Read More

San Francisco Replacing Police Officers with Social Workers

San Francisco Police Car

San Francisco’s Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) framework has six open situations for cops. In any case, they are rather filling those situations with social laborers to deal with issues including the destitute and individuals with psychological maladjustment or chronic drug use. As indicated by the San Francisco Chronicle, the public travel framework has $2 million in its financial plan to use to fill the opportunities (for a normal compensation and advantages bundle worth about $333,000). They will utilize this to recruit a director and “20 emergency intercession trained professionals.”…

Read More

Cuomo’s Guidelines Force Vaccines To Be Thrown In Trash

Covid-19 Vaccine

Medical providers were forced to throw unused Covid-19 vaccines in the trash after New York Governor Andrew Cuomo “had stuck to rigid guidelines that prioritized health care workers, and residents and staff of nursing homes and group homes,” according to The New York Times. “Across New York State, medical providers in recent weeks had the same story: They had been forced to throw out precious vaccine doses because of difficulties finding patients who matched precisely with the state’s strict vaccination guidelines — and the steep penalties they would face had…

Read More

BLM Group Filming Inside Capitol When Police Shot Protester

During the protest at the Capitol Building on Wednesday, a Trump-supporter and former US Air Force Veteran, Ashli Babbitt, was shot dead by a Capitol Police officer as she attempted to climb through a broken window to bypass a barricade. Filming the incident from behind Babbit was Utah resident John Sullivan – founder of the far-left organization “Insurgence USA.” He made headlines in July after he was arrested for intimidating drivers in Provo. Sullivan was interviewed by the Daily Mail and CNN following Wednesday’s shooting. Both outlets failed to provide…

Read More

Mitch McConnell: I Never Want to Speak to Trump Again

Mitch McConnell

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said that he never wants to speak to President Donald Trump again after the events at the US Capitol on Wednesday, according to The Washington Post. The president has been accused of inciting the riot by urging his supporters at a rally on Wednesday “to fight” and march to the Capitol, where Congress was counting electoral votes and confirming Joe Biden as the president-elect. After the Capitol was secured and Congress reconvened more than six hours later, McConnell condemned the protesters. “The United States Senate…

Read More