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Of Migrants and Mayors, Busloads and Budgets <[link removed]> – The hypocrisy of big, blue city officials like Adams, Bowser, and Racine is appalling. They brag of being “sanctuary” cities, yet are incensed that some of the 2 million or so illegal aliens who have arrived in the U.S. on President Joe Biden’s watch should want to take them up on their generosity. Bowser has said publicly that “local taxpayers are not picking up the tab. They should not pick up the tab … . We really need a coordinated federal response.” However, the coordinated federal effort right now is behind getting as many migrants off the border and into the country’s interior as fast—and with as little publicity—as possible. Abbott’s and Ducey’s busing of willing volunteers is just shedding inconvenient light on the national disgrace of abandoned immigration enforcement. Both local Democratic elected officials such as Bowser and Adams, and the Biden administration, seem happy with unlimited illegal immigration in theory, but neither much wants to pay for it. Immigrant advocates, in contrast, aren’t shy about hitting up local taxpayers. Heritage Expert: Simon Hankinson <[link removed]>
Soros’ Claim About Leftist Prosecutors Is Big Lie <[link removed]>
– The rogue prosecutor movement operates under two related principles; namely, that the entire criminal justice system is racist and that the only way to address that supposed racism is to reverse-engineer and dismantle the current system by electing pro-criminal, anti-victim zealots
to office. Flush with cash or support from Soros and his like-minded wealthy friends, candidates like George Gascon (Los Angeles), Larry Krasner <[link removed]> (Philadelphia), Kim Foxx <[link removed]> (Chicago), Kim Gardner <[link removed]> (St. Louis), and others have been elevated to office and have imposed their pro-criminal agendas on an unsuspecting electorate. The consequences have been predictable and deadly. Heritage Expert: Cully Stimson <[link removed]>
Dating Game: The Politics Behind The timing Of Recessions <[link removed]> – Today’s White House claims there is no recession because the NBER has yet to announce it. While determining a recession’s beginning and end is by nature a backward-looking task, as data continue piling up, the NBER’s delay looks less economic and increasingly political with the midterm elections bearing down on the nation. Using the last 75 years <[link removed]> as
context, the economy has contracted for two consecutive quarters nine times, and each was declared a recession. In addition to those nine contractions, there have been three occasions when the economy did not contract for two consecutive quarters, but those periods were dated as recessions too. Heritage Expert: EJ Antoni <[link removed]>
Biden's risk-averse foreign policy is risky business for Americans <[link removed]> – President Joe Biden's foreign policy is a toxic mix of ideas from both extremes of the political spectrum. On the one hand, Biden and company have embraced the Obama era policy of maximum restraint. The idea is that the less the U.S. engages in foreign affairs, the fewer problems it will have to deal with. The problem with maximum restraint is that it can let a manageable foreign problem fester and grow into a tremendous problem. It’s like when a homeowner keeps putting off fixing a leaky roof; one day the ceiling will collapse. Maximum restraint can also lead to precipitous withdrawal from foreign engagements. <[link removed]> This too can be disastrous. For example, Obama precipitously withdrew from Iraq, and ISIS promptly filled the vacuum. Biden did the same in Afghanistan, and we now know that Al Qaeda has already reestablished a foothold there. Heritage Expert: James Carafano <[link removed]>
Who’s to blame for the priciest housing in history? <[link removed]>
- With so much attention fixed on soaring prices for gasoline and groceries, let's not overlook the housing crisis so acutely being felt by homeowners and renters. This is only beginning to become visible in the official inflation data. Since February 2020, home prices soared 43.5%. In just the past year, home prices are up nearly 20%, while residential property prices in the United States, adjusted for inflation, are now 6.7% above the prior all-time record levels of the 2006 bubble. Average apartment rental costs, meanwhile, have jumped more than 25% this past year. Foolish fiscal policies driven by this administration and congressional Democrats have made housing increasingly unaffordable. The Federal Reserve printing presses that financed explosive government spending and the housing bubble continue to wreak havoc on Americans just trying to put a roof over their heads. Heritage Expert: Joel Griffith <[link removed]>
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