Plus: ‘Inflation Reduction Act’ Is Euphemism for Big Government Socialism, Higher Prices
August 1 2022
Good morning from Washington, where Democrats want Americans to swallow another big spending bill amid soaring inflation. Matt Dickerson and six other Heritage Foundation analysts break down what you should know. The Associated Press shows its true colors, advising reporters to stray from fairness and balance. Our Jarrett Stepman blows the whistle. On the podcast, Rob Bluey talks with former House Speaker Newt Gingrich about how Americans can defeat big government socialism. Plus: the Justice Department allows a major conflict; our increasingly Orwellian politics; and a pro-life singer’s new anthem. On this date in 1996, “A Game of Thrones,” the epic fantasy novel by George R.R. Martin, is published as the first of a series, eventually becoming a bestseller and inspiring a hit show on HBO.
By Daren Bakst, Preston Brashers, David Burton, Matthew Dickerson, Nina Owcharenko Schaefer, Richard Stern, Parker Sheppard
The bill would provide $78.9 billion for the Internal Revenue Service. According to the Biden administration’s proposal, this funding would be used to add nearly 87,000 IRS agents.
“These are people who really do believe that they have the moral right to dictate to you and me. … They’re basically a semi-religious group,” says Gingrich.
The pro-life singer says her album’s tracks “are anthems … to stand for something, to rise and stand in front of God and in front of a world that may look down on them.”
In this new age, the regime and its enforcers pursue the suffusion of its orthodoxy at any cost, gaslighting dissenters into not believing their own lying eyes.
Pamela Karlan stayed on Stanford’s payroll, earning $1 million a year, during the 17 months she served as the Justice Department’s principal deputy assistant attorney general for civil rights.
World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, a leftist hack, says: “The stigma and discrimination can be as dangerous as any virus and can fuel the outbreak.”
