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Democrats Stake Midterm Election Hopes on Supreme Court’s Abortion
Decision in Dobbs. It May Not Be Enough <[link removed]>. - In all <[link removed]>, six certified abortion-related measures are on the ballot in November state elections, with seven more awaiting certification as of the end of September. How these state battles to protect the unborn will shake out at the local level is anyone’s guess. What’s clear is that Democrats seem to be in a bit of a tailspin, anxious that they’ve peaked
too soon <[link removed]>—spending earlier in battleground states than their Republican opponents, squandering brief leads resulting from cooling gas prices and a purportedly “pro-worker” spending bill—and now are cobbling together contingency plans <[link removed]> if Biden decides not to run for a second term. At 79, and considering increased questioning about the president’s mental fitness, that outcome appears more likely than not. The most seismic shift apparent from the recent New York Times poll <[link removed]> came from independent voters who are women. In September, they favored Democrats by 14 points. Now, the same women back Republicans by a striking 18 points. At bottom, recent polling shows that today, women—those for whom the purported “right” to abortion was created by the Supreme Court in 1973—want little to do with the very thing the Supreme Court made up in 1973. Heritage Expert: Sarah Parshall Perry <[link removed]>
Biden defends US oil reserve release to fight rising gas prices before midterms <[link removed]> - Today President Biden announced that he is releasing more oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve; refilling the SPR eventually with oil at $70 a barrel; and calling on oil producers to lower gasoline
prices. No matter that oil is only supposed to be released from the SPR when there is a disruption in supply, not to try to lower prices right before an election. No mention that oil producers do not set gasoline prices, these are set by individual gas station owners, whose margins are very thin. These gas station owners compete to get business, so they have an incentive to undercut each other. It is impossible for them to collude to keep prices high. President Biden said, “we’ll keep doing everything we can to keep it going to ensure our energy independence and security is available and to lower gas prices here at home and to give folks a little bit of breathing room.” Yet he is not doing everything he can. He is slowing approval of leases, and reapproval of existing leases. He is slowing the approval of pipelines that transport oil and gas to refineries and consumers. And his agencies, such as the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, and the Environmental Protection Agency, are making it harder for banks to lend money for oil, natural gas, and coal projects. Heritage Expert: Diana Furchtgott-Roth <[link removed]>
Stacey Abrams Claims Abortion Access Could Relieve Inflation Woes <[link removed]> - At the Georgia Governor’s debate, Stacey Abrams was asked: “Public opinion supports a right to abortion, Medicaid abortion, and banning assault
weapons. You are on the side of public opinion in each of these issues, yet you are behind in the polls. Why?” Despite efforts to make the midterms about abortion and other Leftist policies, Democrats are struggling to connect with voters who are overwhelmed with inflation, out-of-control-crime, failing schools, and more. Instead of addressing serious concerns like inflation, Stacey Abrams went so far as to blame children and “forced pregnancies” as the real crisis behind inflation (rising housing, food, and gas costs). She suggests that access to abortion is key to addressing these economic issues. A flourishing nation does not blame its children for the issues they are facing. All across the nation, everyday Americans work hard to provide for, nurture, and give their children a better future. They are looking to their elected leaders to fight on their behalf against leftist economics and social policies that destroy savings, cost American’s more of their hard-earned money, and treat their children like the problem. This is what it looks like when the ideological interests of adults are placed over the wellbeing of children. ‘Party of death’ leftists like Abrams’ blames children; the Right fights for their nation so that their own children may flourish in it. Heritage Expert: Emma Waters <[link removed]>
The Gender-Obsessed
Left Will Have to Pry My Children From My Cold, Dead Hands <[link removed]> – As a father, it is my responsibility to watch out for my children and to protect them from demonic lies and from medical interventions that would
leave them scarred, stunted, and infertile. Yet a growing chorus of activists and legislators seem intent on taking children away from parents <[link removed]> like me, not because we would harm our children but because we would protect them from harm. Naturally, these activists don’t admit the truth of what they plan to do. They couch the language in Orwellian terms like “gender-affirming care,” in order to make it seem like they, not parents, have the children’s best interests at heart. These activists insist that if a child—barely old enough to grasp basic concepts of grammar, mathematics, or geography—claims that he or she identifies with the gender <[link removed]> opposite his or her biological sex, that self-identity must override all other concerns. Woe to any parent who dares to disagree with the declarations of an 8-year-old. In my home state of Virginia, Del. Elizabeth Guzman—a Democrat who represents portions of Prince William and Fauquier counties—supports a bill to expand the definition of “child abuse.” <[link removed]> Heritage Expert: Tyler O’Neil <[link removed]>
Committee that recommends vaccines for CDC schedule voting on COVID, other shots <[link removed]> - I would respectfully request that you reject any proposal to recommend that the Covid-19 vaccines be added to the standard childhood
immunization schedule. Covid-19 vaccines, developed under an emergency use authorization, were designed to cope with a national medical emergency. Though the public health emergency is still in force, the pandemic is receding, as President Biden himself recently indicated. The inclusion of the Covid-19 vaccines in the standard immunization schedule for children is neither necessary to combat the pandemic nor medically appropriate for an entire class of persons who are indisputably the least susceptible to serious illness, hospitalization, and death. While a child with a serious underlying condition would be an appropriate candidate for Covid vaccination, there is no evidence that it would either be medically necessary or appropriate for an entire class of young, healthy children. Though there is no appreciable benefit for such a mass vaccination, there is an unnecessary risk. Expert: Bob Moffit <[link removed]>
Average American is losing
$34K and everything else on Biden’s watch <[link removed]> - Have you taken a peek at the balance in your 401(k) retirement accounts lately? Here’s our advice: Don’t bother. It will ruin your whole day, week and month. Here’s why: We’ve now had seven straight months of 8%+ inflation. A year ago we were assured by the White House economic wizards that these rapid price increases in everything from groceries, to rental cars, to gasoline <[link removed]> at the pump, to health insurance were merely “transitory.” Whoops. The average 401(k) plan had over $135,000 at the start of this year. Today, those assets have shrunk on average to about $101,000. In other words, the average 401(k) plan is down about $34,000 — more than 25% in less than one year! (In terms of purchasing power, inflation also has brought the “real value,” in 2021 dollars, of the average 401(k) down another $5,000, from $101,000 to $96,000.) A year ago, the White House insultingly tweeted out that inflation is merely “a high-class problem.”
Wrong. The victims of ever higher prices at the store and the gas pump are not the millionaires, but the little guys — and, in particular, older Americans — whose paychecks and savings accounts get walloped. Heritage Expert: EJ Antoni <[link removed]>
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