Common Sense Americanism

Wealthy and Woke - Victor Davis Hanson
Wokeness is not really about fairness for minorities, but of gaining power.
United by Division? - Nate Jackson
Lives are at stake when a major airline promises to count pilots by race.

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Constitutional Challenges in Court

Supreme Court Barrier to Joe Biden's Gun Grab - Nicholas Rowan
Two cases before the High Court offer hope for law-abiding patriots.
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Opinion

Biden's $2.3 Trillion Infrastructure Plan Is Teeming With Cronyism - Veronique de Rugy
They hate capitalism, but eagerly subside their big corporate friends.
United's 'Fly the Woke Skies' Nosedive - Larry O'Connor
When turbulence shakes your aircraft, remember why your pilot was hired.

Violence in America, Don't Be Surprised - Dr. Glenn Mollette
We want to believe we are safe but we aren't.
As Our World Churns, What Do We Believe? - Raymond E. Neil
We are rapidly losing our freedoms and our right to exercise free speech.

States Fight Back Against Biden War on the West - Stephen Moore
No president has shown such contempt for our system of federalism.
The Voter-Suppression Lie - Rich Lowry
Voter-ID laws have long been falsely denounced as voter suppression.
4 Reasons Gun Control Can't Solve America's Violence Problem - Mark Houser
Gun control policies will burden only our upstanding citizens.

Why The American Education System Is Systematically Producing Failures - Candace Owens
Our system is producing adults with more - infinitely dumber - degrees.
The 10 Radical New Rules That Are Changing America - Victor Davis Hanson
Americans privately fear these rules while publicly forced to accept them.
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The Audacity of the Swamp —

A crony anti-infrastructure plan.

That, writes Veronique de Rugy at Reason, is "the best description of the Biden administration's proposed $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan."

Democrats are the masters of favoring a select few at the expense of the electorate and calling it the Public Good. Their woke moralism, egalitarianism, and other pieties effectively mask their party's accomplished crony scheming.

Right now, though, the heady audacity of spending trillions of dollars we do not (yet) possess is all the mask the Democrats appear to need.

Does anyone talk about the Swamp anymore?

Never drained, it is back with a vengeance:

"A large share of the plan . . . is a massive handout to private companies. The proposal includes $300 billion to promote advanced manufacturing, $174 billion for electric vehicles, $100 billion for broadband, $100 billion for electric utility industry, and more."
"Biden's plan also includes hundreds of billions that have nothing even remotely to do with infrastructure."
"To the extent that Democrats are trying to pay for this spending with taxes, they're doing it in a way that belies their claim that this plan will result in a boost in quality infrastructure."

The tax increase in the plan is to eliminate established tax "preferences" for fossil fuel companies. This would be politically popular with Democratic Party supporters, feeding their enviro-lust to lash out at what are commonly perceived as destroyers of the planet. But tax something more, get less. And a huge part of our infrastructure relies upon — indeed, consists in — the fossil fuel industry. So there will be less infrastructure investment in that realm.

But that doesn't hurt the cronies. It hurts other folks.

Paul Jacob, thisiscommonsense.com
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