Creative Commons In hopes of containing the pandemic, Americans across the country were forced to suffer through lockdown orders, closed schools, and shuttered workplaces in the spring of 2020. In Democratic-controlled areas, many of these restrictions lingered into 2021. Yet they didn’t work. We all got COVID-19 anyway, more than a million Americans nonetheless died of the disease, and in a dark and ironic twist, most COVID-19 spread actually happened at home .

Meanwhile, those restrictions themselves evidently had deadly consequences. A new study from Casey B. Mulligan and Rob Arnett published in the journal Inquiry finds that non-COVID deaths […]

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Wikimedia Commons There’s a new sheriff in town in Congress after House Republicans finally landed on Kevin McCarthy to serve as the Speaker of the House. And now that the GOP has control of this legislative body, the agenda is shaping up to look quite a bit different than the past couple of years.

The House spent much of that time focusing on investigations into the January 6th riot at the Capitol, an event that much of America would rather forget and that has little ongoing bearing on the country’s well-being. This was a pet project and fundraising cash cow […]

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Creative Commons House Democrats just set a precedent that will surely come back to haunt them. Using the power of the House Ways and Means Committee, they recently obtained and publicly released former President Donald Trump’s tax returns from 2015 to 2020. They did so because Trump refused to release his tax returns, like most presidential candidates do, and in hopes of somehow embarrassing or incriminating him.

It backfired spectacularly. Here’s what the returns showed , according to CNBC: Trump and his wife Melania declared negative income of $31.7 million, and taxable income of $0, on their 2015 return. They […]

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Creative Commons The National Rifle Association (NRA) bills itself as the nation’s oldest civil rights organization. For those opposed to its mission, such a claim is laughable, but the right to keep and bear arms is a constitutionally protected civil right. However, right now, the NRA is actually fighting to defend a different civil right.

You see, circumstances have forced the organization to step up and defend freedom of speech, mostly because their own free speech has been undermined.

Maria Vullo led the New York State Department of Financial Services, which has broad power to regulate almost every major financial […]

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On Thursday, the Senate voted to pass a $1.7 trillion omnibus spending package that included $45 billion in military and economic aid for Ukraine among billions spent in other sometimes controversial areas .

Many Republicans railed against the recklessness of the process and gargantuan level of spending. The bill was 4,115 pages, meaning no one could have possibly read it.As Sens. Mike Lee and Rand Paul complained earlier in the week: They’re extorting the American people with a $1.7 trillion spending bill, giving their representatives no time to read, debate, or amend the bill. This is […]

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Composite by BASEDPolitics | Source Image Credit: Gage Skidmore via Flickr, iStockPhoto Gas prices in California are surging, recently hitting an average of $6.38 , nearly twice the national average. Why is the Golden State faring so much worse than the rest of the country? Well, rather than take an honest look at the real causes behind this crisis, Governor Gavin Newsom is blaming scapegoats and pushing propaganda.

“Oil companies provide no explanation,” Newsom said in a dramatic video recently posted to social media. “The fact is, they’re ripping you off .” Oil companies are ripping you off. Their record […]

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Creative Commons There’s one thing I think most people can agree on: The government should not be using our tax dollars to carry out torturous experiments on animals, especially puppies.

Unfortunately, that’s not the case. In fact, over 50,000 dogs, cats, primates, rabbits and other regulated animals experience such experiments in federal labs each year. (For the record, this number excludes the mice and rats that are also being tested on.) And, of the ten federal agencies that are carrying out these operations, only one has a policy promoting lab animal retirement, the Department of Veteran Affairs.

That particular policy only […]

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Custom Image by BASEDPolitics | Image Credit: Gage Skidmore via Flickr, Canva Pro President Biden has tried to blame surging inflation under his watch on everything from Vladimir Putin to corporate America. But scapegoats aside, the reality remains that the president’s policies have contributed significantly to the problem—and a new analysis exposes one overlooked way Biden has made inflation worse.

In addition to pushing massive, wasteful, ineffective spending bills that drove up inflation, the president has also suffocated the economy with unprecedented amounts of regulatory red tape.

The Foundation for Government Accountability (FGA) highlights this overlooked reality in a new report […]

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A new Gallup Poll shows that only 28% of Americans hold a “great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in our public school system, and given the state of that system, one can only assume those people work for teachers’ unions.

This is the second lowest percentage since Gallup first started tracking the issue in the 1970s, and it isn’t hard to understand why. The failings of our government school system were put on full display during COVID as schools shut down and the classroom moved to Zoom.Parents were, often for the first time, presented […]

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Image Credit: Screenshot, Reuters Today’s a day that ends in y, so something incredibly stupid is trending on the internet.

The latest dose of viral idiocy comes courtesy of a New York artist collective that’s selling “eat the rich” popsicles crudely shaped like billionaires. With brilliant names like “Suck Zuck,” “Bite Bill,” and “Munch Musk,” the different popsicles are fashioned in the image of the world’s most notorious tech billionaires, including Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and Elon Musk. New Yorkers can take a bite out of capitalism by munching on popsicles shaped like the heads of billionaires Jeff Bezos, Bill […]

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