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Steve Gardes

The ‘Exodus’ from the Public School System

The downfall started in the early 1970’s when Marxists redefined the First Amendment with the new term “separation of church and state” and kicked God out of our public schools. Then in 1983 a group of experts wrote the report ’A Nation at Risk’ that stated, “the educational foundation of our society is presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a Nation and a people.” In 1993 the American scholar Thomas Sowell observed: “It is not that Johnny can’t read, or even that Johnny can’t think.

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Bill Wilson

Watch word of the day: Look for it and stamp it out

Many Americans have come to understand that the mainstream, corporate media is a controlled propaganda machine. There are no original ideas and no deviation allowed from the mandated set of words to describe any action or situation. For way too long, even the slugs in corporate media have essentially admitted this obvious fact because it was simply unavoidable — too apparent to deny.

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Jim Brown

President Trump and the Civil War

A number of former Presidents are being honored this week, as several new books have been released detailing actions of President Lincoln during the Civil War. President Donald Trump continues to express his opinion on virtually every subject involving America, both past and present. He recently has questioned why the conflict between north and south was even necessary. In a recent interview, Trump asked: “Why was there a Civil War? Why could that one not have worked out?”

Rescore the green new deal (IRA) tax cuts to find room for real cuts

Former President Joe Biden and his Democrat cronies piled a series of green incentive tax cuts into the faux Inflation Reduction Act in 2022.
Now that those government subsidies masquerading as tax cuts have had time to ripen, it is clear that they are far more costly to the federal government’s bottom line than the Congressional Budget Office claimed.
Forbes Magazine published an article by Christine McDaniel in May of 2023 making a strong case that CBO estimates of costs for Wind Production Tax credits drastically underestimated the real costs to the Treasury.

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