This should be the political scandal of the decade, but the debt that Congress racks up every year is easy to ignore.                                 

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$30 trillion, not million, not billion... but TRILLION.

The scale of the national debt is hard for an ordinary person to wrap her or his head around. For perspective, if the federal debt were paid down right now, every man, woman, and child in the U.S. would owe the federal government over $90,000. But in reality, the burden per American taxpayer is even higher than that since children don’t pay taxes, nor do the poor.

When the government debt bill is due, we will all be held responsible.
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“The very notion that there is any way to create fair competition between post-pubescent males and females denies science.”
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** New Study Shows Inefficacy of COVID-19 Lockdowns ([link removed])
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A new Johns Hopkins study published this week found that COVID-19 lockdowns towards the beginning of the pandemic had “little to no effect” on the COVID-19 mortality rate and “should be rejected out of hand as a pandemic policy.” If anything, the shelter-in-place orders and forced limiting of gatherings outdoors may have actually “increased” the death rate ([link removed]) by requiring people to stay at home with vulnerable family members, the authors argued. Read more. ([link removed])


** Just In: IRS To Taxpayers: No Selfie, No Service ([link removed]) Read ([link removed])
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** Surprising Jobs Report Signals a Resilient Workforce ([link removed])
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On February 4, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced ([link removed]) that 467,000 jobs were added in January, beating expectations. The overall unemployment rate ticked up 0.1 percentage points to 4%. The unemployment rate for women held steady at 3.6%. Labor force participation also increased to 62.2%, a level not seen since March 2020. Read more. ([link removed])


** Spotlight: Women’s Sport Can’t Be Decided by Testosterone Levels ([link removed]) Read ([link removed])
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** Inside Virginia’s Mask Wars ([link removed])
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Ginny Gentles got the scoop for IWN members this week — the FIRST interview with Virginia mom Merianne Jensen. Merianne made news telling her school board to "stop playing politics with kid's faces." Watch the interview ([link removed]) on Independent Women's Network.

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** Trending Now: A Win for Vulnerable Patients in Virginia Read ([link removed])
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** Drug Overdose Deaths in the U.S. ([link removed])
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From 2020 to 2021, over 100,000 Americans died from drug overdoses, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Can you identify which of the following is not true about overdose deaths?

A. Drug overdose-related fatalities increased during the COVID-19 pandemic.
B. The opioid crisis is mostly driven by easy accessibility to illegal substances like heroin and fentanyl, rather than pharmaceutical drugs.
C. The federal government has a strong track record when it comes to battling opioid addiction.
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* New Episode: Rep. Bryan Steil (WI-01) discusses the administration's economic policies and their impact on Americans. Listen to it here. ([link removed])

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** Favoring One Message Over Another ([link removed])
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Last week, the White House suggested that the Big Tech companies — Facebook, Twitter, Spotify, etc. — should censor speech. That the government is bringing its influence to bear for purposes of shutting down content with which it disagrees violates the fundamental premise of the First Amendment.
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** New Poll: Majority of Virginians Support Withdrawing From RGGI ([link removed])
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Despite opposition by environmentalists to pull Virginia out of the 11-member Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), a new poll reveals bipartisan support for exiting the cap-and-trade program. Unsurprisingly, when faced with the costs of RGGI membership, individuals weren’t willing to pay the increased bills.
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