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Submitted by Deirdre Purdy Republicans Weaken Our Military Leadership When We Most Need It Hamas, the Islamist terrorist organization, attacked Israel on October 7. Rampaging across the border, Hamas militants committed unspeakable atrocities, raping women and parading them naked, beheading babies, and randomly, brutally, killing or taking hostage everyone they came upon. President Biden called it “an act of Read More…
Submitted by Deirdre Purdy FUND UKRAINE! MAGA REPUBLICANS WEAKEN AMERICA – AGAIN In February 2022, Russia, unprovoked, invaded its neighbor Ukraine. Putin thought Ukraine would roll over. It hasn’t. Instead, the world now suffers the largest conflict since WWII. American support for Ukraine is critical to Ukraine’s fight against Russia, but 41 other countries have also joined the defense, supplying money, arms, security, and humanitarian help. President Biden leads these Read More…
Submitted by Deirdre Purdy It’s not a “Government Shutdown,” it’s a MAGA Shutdown. MAGA Republicans, a small but disturbingly powerful group in the US House ofRepresentatives, have been on a steady march to shut down the United Statesgovernment. Their supposed leader, Speaker Kevin McCarthy, is afraid to crossthem and refuses to work with Democrats. There’s Read More…
By Deidre Purdy Child Poverty in America – Together We Can Fix This Most of the time it seems that politics in Washington, DC are far removed from our day-to-day lives. Powerful people are making decisions about issues that don’t touch our actual worries and concerns. Children living in poverty, though, is front and center Read More…
Submitted by Deirdre Purdy A Few Things We Might All Agree On If ordinary people on the right and the left could unite on things like breaking up corporate power, our world would look very different than it does. In the last 40 years, American business has become corporate business. Three major airlines dominate the skies. 70% of beer is sold by two Read More…
Submitted by Deirdre Purdy The IRA, Seniors & Drugs: What We Don’t Know Can Hurt Us The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) was passed by Democrats alone. No Republicans voted forit. President Biden signed it into law on August 16, 2022. Democrats are celebrating the one-year anniversary. Yet, a Gallup poll last week found that more Read More…
Submitted by Deirdre Purdy And Now, in Local News . . . There’s a story going around that somehow Calhoun County was ridden into the ground over the past 40 years by Democrats. Time to review the true history of our county finances. Back 40 years ago, West Virginia counties collected their taxes and set their budgets according to what they Read More…
Submitted by Deirdre Purdy STUDENT LOANS – Rich Peoples’ Debt, Poor Peoples’ Debt On the campaign trail in 2020, Joe Biden pledged to cancel at least $10,000 of studentdebt per person. “Student debt is holding people up,” he said. “They’re in real trouble.”That was the catchy part. Behind that was a bigger plan to offer Read More…
The Economy & Pessimism America has lots of reasons for optimism. The US economy is booming. We have full employment. Unemployment is at 3.5%, a 54-year low. Real wages are rising after years of declines. Inflation has cooled to a reasonable 3.2%.. There will be no recession this year – or next. That’s the mainstream news and it’s all true. Strong growth, record unemployment, plummeting inflation. The Atlanta branch Read More…
