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Bill Clinton liked to talk about balance sheets, about prosperity, about the “New Economy.” He sold himself as the man who brought discipline to Washington, a president who turned deficits into surpluses and left America…
Read story →They say Ronald Reagan saved America. The GOP calls him the greatest Republican president of modern times, the man who cut taxes, unleashed the economy, and proved that free markets and small government were the path to …
Read story →**Josh Hawley’s Accidental Blueprint for Fixing What Globalism Broke. For decades you’ve been told the same story. “Tariffs are a tax on the consumer.” “Tariffs make everything more expensive.” “Tariffs hurt the little…
Read story →**The Pixie Dust Economy This started after I saw someone hit their breaking point. Not in rage. Not in laziness. In exhaustion. They had done the right things. Showed up. Worked hard. Tried to build something honest. A…
Read story →**Tariffs Are a Wall. And That’s Why the Giants Hate Them You’ve heard the excuses. “Tariffs hurt consumers.” “Tariffs start trade wars.” “Tariffs are taxes on the American people.” But what they really fear is this. …
Read story →Authors Bio: Zack Hall for Kentucky is a former teacher and candidate for Kentucky’s State House District 84. The future of the Democratic Party looks Appalachian. For months now, people have been putting the party’s p…
Read story →** Why You’ll Never Get Hired If You Ask the Right Questions We keep calling it a broken system. But at some point, we have to stop pretending it was ever built to work in your favor. Before you even get to speak to a …
Read story →**If We Can Print Money for War, Why Not for Doctors? **What a conversation about nursing scholarships revealed about our broken priorities This started during a conversation with someone I’ve known for years. Sharp gu…
Read story →**Do Blue States Really Subsidize Red States? And Do Taxes Actually Pay for Government Spending? There’s an image that floats around from time to time. A cartoon showing someone in a red-state pickup truck, shouting abo…
Read story →**Walmart’s New Price Trick Should Terrify You Why Surge Pricing Isn’t Innovation. It’s Exploitation. I saw a headline today that didn’t just make me shake my head. It clarified something I’ve felt for a long time. Wal…
Read story →**Choosing Homelessness for a Dog Isn’t Noble. It’s a Warning Sign. I came across a news article the other night that stopped me cold. It was being shared widely on social media as something heartwarming. A sweet story…
Read story →**Where We Still Remember There’s a kind of holiness that doesn’t need stained glass or marble altars. Sometimes it shows up on a hillside, tucked behind a gravel road, where folding chairs circle the ones we’ve loved—a…
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