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Bill Wilson

The First Real Earth Day

55 years ago, Senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin initiated the first Earth Day. It was reported at the time that over 20 million people took part in local events. The news saturation was total and for the time it was overwhelming. Once the propaganda machine was directed at other things and the pressures of everyday life started to take their toll, the numbers faded very quickly. But the seed had been planted.

President Trump says it’s time to get busy: ‘I’ll be known as the fertilization President!’ But will the baby bonuses be big enough?

President Donald Trump says it’s time to get busy.
Speaking at a Women’s History Month event in Washington, D.C. on March 26, President Trump said that in the budget reconciliation bill that the House and Senate are working on, there will be incentives to boost fertility, stating, “we’re going to have tremendous … goodies in the bag for women, too… between the fertilization and all of the other things that we’re talking about… it’s going to be great.”

Dealmaker-In-Chief: Conservatives give Trump room to use tariffs as a negotiation tactic for better economic policies

The data is in on how voters view President Donald Trump’s bold approach to trade and economic renewal, with a recent Harvard CAPS-Harris survey showing over half the country believes tariffs are necessary to correct an imbalanced global trade landscape.
However, many voters also view President Trump’s tariff policies as a set of negotiation tactics with economic goals that go beyond the direct benefits the tariffs themselves will confer – benefits that include recouped revenue through the imposed tariffs and more competitive U.S. manufacturing.

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Bill Wilson

What are we fighting for in Europe?

As I read a recent flood of articles bemoaning the Trump administration’s stance toward the European Union and the elites that run it, I had an attack of déjà vu. I kept hearing the 1960s band Country Joe and the Fish singing in my memory. The words do apply today. As far as Europe is concerned, “what are we fighting for? Don’t ask me, I don't give a damn.”

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