When an Establishment Democrat tries to pander to the radical wing of their party, they often get ridiculed from both sides of the aisle. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand learned this the hard way when she weighed in on Twitter on the hot topic of infrastructure. Her Tweet was written in Marxese to catch the attention of Bernie's Bolsheviks. https://twitter.com/SenGillibrand/status/1379773312482607106...
Yesterday, April 3, 2021, marks the twelve-year anniversary of the Iowa Supreme Court decision Varnum v. Brien. This court decision has had an incredible impact on our culture, Iowa politics and me personally. Varnum v. Brien was the decision that wrongly allowed same-sex marriage in Iowa and created a great debate around the issue. I want to look...
There's a narrative being quietly pressed around Washington DC among Democrats and even a few Republicans. Nobody's talking about it in its proper terms to the press, but quietly The Swamp is preparing to make the $2 trillion infrastructure a bipartisan effort for reasons neither side will acknowledge. On the surface, they'll say it's about what the deal...
Who makes the best case against Joe Biden's and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer's push to end the filibuster? That would be young Senator Barack Obama, who gave an eloquent and accurate argument against Republicans lifting the filibuster in 2005. That doesn't seem to jibe with what Biden said during his "press conference" yesterday when he likened the...
The Democrats' Equality Act "explicitly targets" the Bible with provisions that erase any allowance for differences between men and women, warns Yaakov Menken, the managing director of the Coalition for Jewish Values. Article by Bob Unruh from WND. He explained in an article for The Federalist that just before COVID-19 limits were imposed, some 100,000 observant American Jews filled MetLife...
Mandatory face masks, physical distancing, business capacity limits, and other authoritarian Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19) restrictions could soon become permanent fixtures in Oregon if a proposed new rule gets enacted in the state. Article by Ethan Huff from Natural News. The Oregon Department of Occupational Safety and Health (OSHA) wants to replace the temporary Chinese virus rule, which is set to expire on May 4,...
Spoiler alert: It's all about election politics, folks. That's the general takeaway from my analysis of two of the Democrats' major pushes on Capitol Hill right now, namely gun control and changing filibuster rules. I talked about these things with a pair of spectacular guests today on the NOQ Report, but I wanted to expand on the analysis...
The "For the People Act," the much-ballyhooed scheme by Democrats on Capitol Hill to codify the mechanisms through which voter fraud can become ubiquitous, has received plenty of blowback from the political right. Most of us have argued that H.R. 1 creates a perpetual environment that we first saw in 2020 with Covid-19 lockdowns. We argue that the...
Rumors are spreading like wildfire that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's retirement may be imminent. He won reelection in November, but it may be unrealistic to 79-year-old can stay in the Senate another six years. Now, the Kentucky state legislature is moving to protect the Republican Party by forcing Democrat Governor Andy Beshear to choose from three GOP...
When the economy is struggling to recover from a pandemic and crushing government lockdowns, that’s probably the worst time to impose $1 billion in new annual taxes on the working class. But that’s exactly what a new provision quietly slipped into the Democrats’ sweeping $1.9 trillion COVID legislation would do. Article by Brad Polumbo from FEE. “A last-minute insert...
