Suing Big Guns and Big Oil is just cynical political posturing
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Suing Big Guns and Big Oil is just cynical political posturing

ByNews Polite

Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown announced last week that the Queen City had filed a “first of its kind” lawsuit targeting and blaming firearms manufacturers for the rising gun violence there. It’s not remotely the first, despite invoking a new “public nuisance” state law, and it’ll fail: Suits against Big Guns…

Biden puts feelings of small group of progressives ahead of American needs
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Biden puts feelings of small group of progressives ahead of American needs

ByNews Polite

President Biden was “furious” about the situation at the southern border, and was “dropping f-bombs” at the lack of solutions, a new book claims. Oh spare us. We imagine whoever leaked this anonymous tidbit to author Chris Whipple for “The Fight of His Life: Inside Joe Biden’s White House” thought he…

Kevin McCarthy needs to show the same backbone as Zelensky and rally GOP support for Ukraine
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Kevin McCarthy needs to show the same backbone as Zelensky and rally GOP support for Ukraine

ByNews Polite

“This struggle will define in what world our children and grandchildren will live, and then their children and grandchildren,” Ukraine’s heroic Volodymyr Zelensky told Congress on Wednesday. “Your money is not charity, it’s an investment.” Bravo: Ukraine’s president sharply defined the moral imperative behind US financial and material support for…

El Paso’s migrant state of emergency a taste of what nation faces as Biden shrugs at border crisis
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El Paso’s migrant state of emergency a taste of what nation faces as Biden shrugs at border crisis

ByNews Polite

Oscar Leeser, the Democratic mayor of El Paso, has bent over backward not to “embarrass” the head of his party, President Joe Biden.  As migrants poured across the border, unmetered and unvetted, he quietly grappled with the strain on the city’s resources. He provided the shelter and food the federal…

Biden worsening ‘root causes’, gov’t agencies failed Paul Pelosi and other commentary
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Biden worsening ‘root causes’, gov’t agencies failed Paul Pelosi and other commentary

ByNews Polite

Border watch: Biden Is Worsening ‘Root Causes’ “Critics with regional expertise say Biden administration policies . . . have severely worsened” poverty, crime and political instability in Mexico and the Southern Triangle — his administration’s alleged “root causes” of immigration, reports RealClearInvestigations’ James Varney. How? “The torrent of people moving…

Va. history repeating in NY, … and other commentary
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Va. history repeating in NY, … and other commentary

ByNews Polite

Conservative: Va. History Repeating in NY? Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe likely lost the 2021 election with his debate declaration, “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.” Now, argues the Washington Examiner’s Hugo Gurdon, Gov. “Hochul may have just gifted deep blue New York to her…

With midterms rapidly approaching, Dem flip-flopping in now in overdrive
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With midterms rapidly approaching, Dem flip-flopping in now in overdrive

ByNews Polite

Diary of disturbing disinformation and dangerous delusions With elections just three weeks off, Democrats have suddenly been singing a different tune on a wide range of issues, especially — given that soaring crime is a top issue — criminal-justice reforms and defunding the police. Here are 10 examples of almost…

Gov’t idiocy at work, FDA’s dumb plan on smokes and other commentary
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Gov’t idiocy at work, FDA’s dumb plan on smokes and other commentary

ByNews Polite

From the right: Gov’t Idiocy at Work “Cities are rapidly inventing new job titles,” reports City Journal’s Steven Malanga, and the “hottest (pun intended)” is “chief heat officer” — whose task is to “enumerate the impact of heat on the local population” and “seek ways to mitigate it.” One popular idea…