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Running for the open Long Island congressional seat (NY-03), progressive Melanie D'Arrigo told me this morning that she has "seen a massive shift in the psyche of voters after...

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The Department of Justice funded a study to analyze the government's previous ban on "assault weapons."  The DOJ noted that decline in the use of assault weapons "was offset throughout at least the late 1990s by steady or rising use of other guns.”

IN the biblical book of Matthew, Jesus of Nazareth tells the story of the king who gives three “servants” some money to take care of while he is gone. Two of them doubled his investment while the third gained nothing. In every organization from government to a sari-sari store, there…

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Know better than the rest of us and their idea of what a perfect country would look like, i guess for right now runaway inflation. >> its and establish fact in the mind-set that they are better than the rest of us. they are better morally, intelligent, they know whats right. it doesnt matter what the voters say, doesnt matter if the voters dont want to do this. they know that in the long run, as far as inflation is concerned, their main priority is to increase the size of government. more, more,...

Eisenhower we have joe biden, kamala harris, fauci. if people of this had been in charge in 1942 we would all be speaking german. >> my point was historically speaking it is a fact of life when the nation faces major crises government tends to grow. it happened during the great depression and second world war and happened in response to other public health crises. government tends to grow. as you say, bill, mission creep and the ratchet effect. ratchet only goes one way. you go up a level and it...

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Transitory. theyre not going to -- the result of bottle necks caused by the return to kind of normality. do we find a situation the end of the year, the end of 22 we could be back to normal rates of inflation and this political opportunity may pass by? >> its possible. but the concerns will still be there. theres the ratchet effect. prices have gone up. are we going to see them decline? will people say the cost of lumber went up. now its going to come down. the price of window will not come back...