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9 Reasons Not to Pass Yet Another Federal COVID-19 ‘Relief’ Spending Package

January 16, 2022 spending, another, federal, pass, package, Reasons, relief, COVID190 comment

Now almost two years since the COVID-19 pandemic began, and after $ 6.6 trillion in total federal spending on it—the equivalent of $ 51,600 per household—some policymakers want to pass yet another so-called COVID-19 relief package. Not only has Congress already spent more than it should have, some of the previous COVID-19 relief spending is actually hurting our economy today by adding to problems like rising costs, supply chain problems, and an unprecedented labor shortage. The following are nine reasons why Washington should not enact any more COVID-19 spending. 1)…

18 More Federal Agencies Eye Making Vaccine Religious-Objector Lists

January 15, 2022 more, federal, Agencies, Making, Lists, Vaccine, ReligiousObjector0 comment

This week, we revealed that an obscure federal agency plans to keep lists of the “personal religious information” employees who had religious objections to the federal employee vaccine mandate. As it turns out, the little-known Pre-trial Services Agency for the District of Columbia isn’t the only federal agency involved. As we feared, a whole-of-government effort looks to be underway. A little digging at the Federal Register revealed that there are at least 19 total federal agencies—including five cabinet level agencies—that have created or proposed to create these tracking lists for…

Truths, Ideals of MLK’s Message Have Been Lost to Wokeism

January 14, 2022 Wokeism, MLK’s, Lost, Message, been, Ideals, Truths0 comment

We celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day on the third Monday of January. This year, that’s Jan. 17. On Aug. 28, 1963, King delivered one of the great speeches in American history, popularly known as the “I Have a Dream” speech. It is a speech that must be dusted off and studied anew today, because it contains the very message that our nation sorely needs to hear and digest now. It’s a message that has been tragically lost and buried and replaced with great and destructive distortions. Two things…

In Face of Big Tech Censorship, Free Speech Alternatives Emerge Online

January 14, 2022 Online, Speech, Alternatives, Emerge, Censorship, Tech, face, Free0 comment

Big Tech actors like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube feel increasingly comfortable banning conservative voices from their platforms. But as Big Tech is willing to censor conservatives for their speech, other platforms devoted to free expression are starting to fill the gap. The director of The Heritage Foundation’s Center for Technology Policy, Lora Ries, contends that as long as these big platforms continue to censor dissent, alternative platforms will crop up to try to serve as alternatives. (The Daily Signal is the news outlet of The Heritage Foundation.) “The new CEO…

I Lost My Job as United Pilot for Refusing Vaccine for Faith-Based Reasons

January 12, 2022 United, Reasons, Pilot, Refusing, Vaccine, FaithBased, Lost0 comment

For many Americans who, like myself, have decided not to take the COVID-19 vaccine for religious or medical reasons, staying true to our decision can mean being singled out and rejected by family, friends, and even employers. For me, it meant being placed on indefinite, unpaid leave from my job as a pilot for United Airlines, without any benefits—including medical coverage, and no emergency ability to access my retirement savings. A pilot since 18, I spent the last 30 years flying commercially. The last 24 years were spent with Continental,…

Facebook Censors Pro-American Children’s Books as ‘Disruptive Content’

January 11, 2022 books, Facebook, 'disruptive', Children's, Censors, ProAmerican, Content’0 comment

Writer, commentator, and editor Bethany Mandel only wanted to provide alternatives to the woke books being provided to children in school. So she was shocked when Facebook took down her page advertising such alternatives due to “disruptive content.” “There was no warning,” Mandel says of Facebook’s action. “They told us that our ads were low quality or disruptive content, but they never actually defined what about them was low quality and disruptive content. … This is a wholesome new children’s book [series] that you can buy for your children for…