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Craig Bannister | March 13, 2024
In coverage of Thursday’s Republican response to Pres. Biden’s State of the Union Address by Sen. Katie Britt (R-Ala.), CNN mischaracterized Sen. Britt’s comments about Biden’s border policies in order to claim Britt “got many of her facts wrong.” At issue are the following comments by Sen. Britt in her rebuttal: “We know that President Biden did not just create this border crisis. He invited…
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Craig Bannister | March 12, 2024
The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) increased 0.4 percent in February – the largest monthly rise since September 2023 – on a seasonally adjusted basis, after rising 0.3 percent in January, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported Tuesday. The 12-month increase in prices also intensified in February. Compared to the same month in 2023, the all-items index rose 3.2…
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Craig Bannister | March 11, 2024
Democrat New York Gov. Kathy Hochul says she’s helping those who do things “by the book,” by cracking down on those who do them illegally – at least when it comes to undocumented cannabis retailers. If only she felt the same way about illegal immigration as she does about undocumented pot shops. On Tuesday, Gov. Hochul posted a comment on social media that seems highly ironic, given her state’s…
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Craig Bannister | March 8, 2024
After the Republican National Committee (RNC) elected a new chair on Friday, it went on to elect a co-chair with a familiar last name: Trump. Lara Trump, the daughter-in-law of the Republican Party’s presumptive 2024 presidential nominee, Donald Trump, was elected RNC co-chair during the committee’s Spring meeting in Houston, Texas, following the election of RNC General Counsel Michael Whatley…
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Craig Bannister | March 8, 2024
“If everything’s coming up roses, you’d think he’d be in a better mood,” Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) said Thursday, after Pres. Biden boasted - by angrily yelling nonstop for more than an hour – in his State of the Union speech. “Well, it was a speech about an angry old man,” Sen. Johnson said, appearing on the Fox News Channel following Biden’s speech: “If things were all that great, if…
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Craig Bannister | March 8, 2024
The unemployment rate jumped unexpectedly, while the employment numbers reported in the previous two months were revised down significantly, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) report for February, released Friday. The seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate, which many market analysists had expected to stay the same or decline, jumped from 3.7% to 3.9%. Total nonfarm payroll…
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Craig Bannister | March 7, 2024
Before Pres. Joe Biden delivered his annual address to Congress on Thursday, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) posted a video on social media describing “The Real State of the Union.” “It's a pattern we’re seeing all across the country now: we’re seeing violent crimes committed by illegal aliens that Joe Biden released,” Sen. Cruz says at the beginning of the video. While Cruz leads off by citing the…
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Craig Bannister | March 7, 2024
The tax plan announced by the Biden White House would charge U.S. corporations a higher tax rate than the rate corporations are charged in Communist China. On Thursday, Biden’s tax plan was posted on the White House website, in the form of a “Fact Sheet,” which details the president’s goal of raising the corporate tax rate to 28%: “Raising the corporate tax rate to 28% and the corporate…
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Craig Bannister | March 7, 2024
“At this point, the Biden admin is like a continuous SNL skit,” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said Tuesday, commenting on video of the Biden Climate Czar John Kerry claiming that, if Russia can wage a war, they can fight climate change. Kerry, the outgoing U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, made the claim during remarks at the Foreign Press Center in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday: “I mean,…
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Craig Bannister | March 5, 2024
Even though her state continues to be overwhelmed by illegal immigration, Democrat Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs vetoed a bill that would have allowed police to arrest illegal immigrants. On Monday, Gov. Hobbs vetoed the "Arizona Border Invasion Act" (Senate Bill 1231) which would have made illegal immigration a state crime, thus allowing police to arrest lawbreakers and do the job the Biden…