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Biden vs. Bezos: Can President Whip Inflation Now by Taxing the Rich and Spending Trillions?

President Biden and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos get into a Twitter spat over the White House plan to whip inflation now by jacking up taxes on the rich and spending trillions of dollars more. 

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Is Elon Musk Trolling Twitter? Do We Really Know Why He Wants Accurate Count of Fake Users

Elon Musk’s deal to buy Twitter is on hold as the billionaire rocketeer demands an accurate count of fake users on the social platform.

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Shut Up and Take My Money: Why Biden Can’t Sell Free Cash to Poor People for Broadband Access

The bipartisan Affordable Connectivity Program — part of a $14 billion effort to expand broadband access to hard-to-reach areas — glitches as the Biden administration can’t get rural people (nor cable companies) to take the money.

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Khaaaaaaaan! Turns 40: Star Trek II Shows Hollywood How to Make Great Movies Again, If Only…

As we mark the 40th anniversary of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, two major Trekkies (and another guy) dissect how Hollywood can make great movies again, and why it probably won’t.

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Bombs Away: Democratized Precision-Guided Weapons with Consumer Drones in Ukraine

Average citizens with small sums of money have force multipliers that stymie one of the greatest armies on Earth.

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Is America More Conservative? Abortion Ruling Leak Creates Surge for Republicans

Bill Whittle always thought that overturning Roe v. Wade would so enrage the Left that Democrats would ride a tidal wave in the next election. However…

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Are You Next? Supreme Court Takes Federal Social Security Income Away from Puerto Ricans

If the amount of your tax contribution determines the amount of your federal benefits — as the Supreme Court just decided when it cut off Puerto Ricans from Social Security Income — is your benefit check next?

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Fires & Airplanes Hit U.S. Food Distribution Centers, FDA Warns of Grain Harvest Cyber Attack

Eighteen food processing centers have burned down in the U.S. in recent months, including two fires started by plane crashes. Isolated coincidences?

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Ministry of Truth? Biden’s New Disinformation Governance Board is Here to Protect You

President Biden appoints Nina Jankowicz to head up the new Disinformation Governance Board within the Department of Homeland Security, raising comparisons with George Orwell’s “Ministry of Truth” in 1984.

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Breaking Secrecy: Alito Abortion Opinion Leak Shatters Foundation of Supreme Court

The leak of Associate Justice Samuel Alito’s February 10 draft opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade and reshape America’s legal approach to abortion, shocks the nation.

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Tragic Inconvenience: Media Laments Aftermath of Texas Ban on Abortion After Heartbeat

The Texas Heartbeat Law went into effect about nine months ago, and a new story from AFP chronicles the tragic inconvenience suffered by pregnant women who now travel to other states to abort their babies.

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Unlikely Ally: Anti-Gun Crusader David Hogg Finds Conservative Cause

Can conservatives find fellowship with this anti-gun crusader, who’s just been slapped by big government? 

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Joe Biden Gets $5.2 Million in Mystery Cash, Pays Hunter’s Chinese Legal Bill

Hot takes on the bottom stories of the day, on the latest episode of Steve Green’s Lightning Round.

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$44 Billion Bet on Liberty: Can Elon Musk Restore Free Speech to Twitter?

Can the Tesla/SpaceX founder’s $44 billion investment restore free speech to the land of hate-speech moderation, Twitter jail, and algorithmic monitoring? 

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Wake Up Kid! Zoom Classes with A.I. to Detect Bored, Distracted, Confused Kids at Home

Overcoming the disadvantage of remote learning, Zoom teachers can now rely on artificial intelligence to find kids who drift off or daydream. What could possibly go wrong?