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Inflation is on the run at rates the United States hasn't seen since 1992, and consumer prices in May 2021 were up five percent over May 2020. Americans are paying

  Share Source: Justin L. Fowler/The State Journal-Register via AP, Pool Partisan gerrymandering is bad. When Republicans do it. Leftists are constantly carping about the "brokenness" of institutions like the Supreme Court, the Senate and the Electoral College because they perceive said institutions to be obstacles to their arrogation of power. When Democrats controlled 60 Senate seats early in the Obama era, their hand-wringing about the "undemocratic" nature of the upper chamber was strange...

AP Photo/Jessica Hill There’s a lot on this topic floating around on news sites today. It’s been on my mind too every time we’ve heard some exciting new vaccination stat touted by the White House. (Eight million doses dished out last Friday and Saturday alone!) Right now the vaccine practically administers itself because we haven’t yet exhausted the population of people who are eager to get it. They’re motivated, they’re scheduling, they’re showing up, and the shots are going out....

Rich von Biberstein/Icon Sportswire President Joe Biden is the first Democratic presidential candidate to win the state of Georgia in nearly three decades. He’s the first Democrat to win Arizona in nearly a quarter of a century. And both of these former Republican strongholds just sent two Democrats to the United States Senate. So it’s probably not surprising that GOP lawmakers in these states and elsewhere want to rewrite election laws to prevent Democrats from repeating Biden’s success ...

  Share Source: AP Photo/Alex Brandon It shouldn’t shock us, but here we are again, folks. We can think Democrats cant be this dense, but they always find ways to amaze, don’t they? If you could guess what the top three issues Democratic voters are most concerned with what would you pick? Climate change? The economy? Taxes? Nope. It’s Trump supporters, white supremacy, and systemic racism. I’m not kidding. We’re facing job losses and a stagnant economy that will remain stuck in the ...

Sabotage.

President Donald Trump irresponsibly stirred up his own supporters and talked up the march to the Capitol they embarked on — which led to violence, attacks on police, reports of shots fired, someone confirmed shot, people storming the Capitol building, and raiding both the House and Senate chambers. What is happening today is on him, and there are now calls for Trump to be impeached again: Impeach the President and every member of Congress who signed on to these objections. impeach him! This...