We Hear You: Awake or Woke in America
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Ken McIntyre, a 30-year veteran of national and local newspapers, serves as senior editor at The Daily Signal and The Heritage Foundation s Marilyn and Fred Guardabassi Fellow in Media and Public Policy Studies. Send an email to Ken.
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Dear Daily Signal: I awoke at 5 one recent morning like something had hit me in the head. It was as if I were awake to something for the first time in a long while.
Questioning pipeline job claim, collective wisdom on liberals
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Not so many jobs
Having read several letters that claimed tens of thousands of jobs were being lost due to the cancellation of the Keystone XL pipeline project, I thought I would investigate for myself to find the actual number.
TC Energy, owner of the pipeline, has cut over 1,000 workers after Joe Biden ended the project, according to Newsweek. Another 9,000 to 10,000 unfilled positions, mostly temporary, have been eliminated, via Firstcoastnews.com. An estimated 50 employees would be needed to maintain the pipeline once it s finished. I think the loss of tens of thousands of jobs is a little exaggerated.
Noisy in Boise, Smackin’ in Akron
John Basil Barnhill said, “Where the people fear the government you have tyranny. Where the government fears the people you have liberty.” And increasingly, patriots across the country are teaching fear to the unspeakable politicians and bureaucrats who’ve ruined our world.
Dirk Edwards sent me this first story. A petty tyrant in Idaho fled from a meeting of the Central District Health board
“My 12-year-old son is home by himself right now and there are protesters banging outside the door,” she said, fighting back tears. “I’m gonna go home and make sure he’s okay.”