Month: April 2022

Australian Labor Party’s Campaign Focus on Housing Affordability

An impending interest rate rise and a new opposition shared equity plan to get thousands of people into homes has intensified the spotlight on property affordability. Federal Labor says the cost of buying a home will be slashed by up to 40 percent for about 10,000 low to middle income earners a year if it…


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Bill to Repeal California’s Sanctuary State Law Fails to Pass

California state lawmakers recently voted down a bill that would have repealed the state’s sanctuary state law that shields illegal immigrants from federal immigration authorities. The Assembly Public Safety Committee voted down AB 1708 on April 19 in a 2–3 vote, with Assemblymembers Tom Lackey (R-Palmdale) and Kelly Seyarto (R-Murrieta) voting in support. “Sadly, I…


Australia’s Liberal Party Target Big Tech for Online Safety

Big tech will be required to build enhanced safety controls into their devices that are easy for parents to use and hard for children to bypass, if Australia’s centre-right Coalition is returned to government. Technology companies would need to create the safeguards for smartphones and tablets as part of a new federal eSafety package. The…


Americans Need to Put This at the Front of Their Daily Thought: John Mills on Battling CCP Threat

In this special episode, we sat down with John Mills—retired colonel, former director of cybersecurity at the Defense Department, senior fellow with the Center for Security Policy, and part of the Spectrum Consulting Group. We also hear from Casey Fleming, CEO of BlackOps Partners. They talk about the growing importance of the cyber realm in…


Elon Musk’s Twitter Purchase and the Liberal Meltdown

Elon Musk has successfully purchased Twitter for $44 billion with the intent of unlocking its free speech potential. Rather than celebrating the free market and capitalism for a transaction that may preserve free speech, many on the Left had a total meltdown, from MSNBC to CNN to The View, who paint Musk to be the…


How Elon Musk Beat the Odds to Seize Twitter from Free Speech Censors

With migrant encounters at the southern border up 550 percent since March 2020, you would think the Department of Homeland Security would be directing its resources toward stopping illegal immigration. Instead, it says it’s honing in on so-called “disinformation.” Why are conservative commentators saying that this announcement has an unsettlingly “Orwellian” feel to it? Where…


First Quarter GDP Data: Confusion and Serious Economic Problems

Commentary  First-quarter GDP (gross domestic product) numbers are among the most confusing numbers the government has ever produced. The only two clear conclusions we can draw are that inflation continues to soar and the economy is in serious trouble. Let’s first clear up some confusion. The numbers show real growth declining in the first quarter…


Disney Will Bear the Cost of Tax Status Change: National Tax Expert Julio Gonzalez

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said on Friday that Disney would pay more taxes as he signed a bill into law dissolving Disney World’s special status, but some say it’s the state’s residents who bear the brunt of the changes to Disney’s tax status. National tax expert and founder of Engineered Tax Services Inc. Julio Gonzalez…