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Weekly Review - July 8, 2025
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Articles In This Issue
CNN Obliterates Its Credibility
David Blaska, Blaska Policy Werkes - June 27, 2025
Has a single word ever been sliced, diced, and parsed more obsessively than Donald Trump’s announcement that Iran’s nuclear weapons program has been “obliterated”? |
The hated Trump had struck the most decisive blow against nuclear proliferation in history — and against a predator nation. Made Democrats look feckless. The precision bombing was a sit-up and take-notice triumph of technology, human skill, and resolve as compared with Jimmy Carter’s disaster in the desert, Barack Obama’s disappearing red lines, Biden’s shambolic withdrawal from Afghanistan. Against such an achievement the Left resorted to partisan damage control.
Iran’s nukes weren’t “obliterated,” CNN and other legacy news outlets caviled. They’ll be back at it by Tuesday. Who sez? CNN’s sources say! The actual facts, as determined by American, Israeli, and international experts, are forcing CNN to do more damage control than the Ayatollah’s shovel brigade.
Passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act
Senator Ron Johnson - July 1, 2025
With President Biden in the White House and majorities in both chambers of Congress, Democrats had every opportunity to repeal the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and increase taxes on ‘the rich.’ They did not do so. Instead of returning to a reasonable pre-pandemic level of spending and deficits, once the economy recovered, they incurred deficits averaging $1.9 trillion over four years. If that wasn’t bad enough, President Biden also left office with open borders and raging wars.
By passing the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, we have avoided a $4 trillion automatic tax increase and a default on our debt. Due to the enormous messes Biden and congressional Democrats left us, we are also providing additional funding for border security and defense.
While the bill is a step forward, we have only just begun the difficult task of reducing spending, and there is still a long way to go. A rigorous effort will soon be announced to review every program and every line of the federal budget, looking for ways to reduce spending to a reasonable pre-pandemic level. I look forward to being fully involved in that effort to put America on a path to fiscal sustainability.
The Death of Stubborn James Madison
Rolf Lindgren, Guest Contributor - July 4, 2025
It was June of 1836, and James Madison was very old. He was 85 and nearing death. He was the last surviving signer of the Constitution. The 60th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence was approaching on July 4, 1836. Madison’s friends, family, and doctors wanted to keep Madison alive. They wanted to pump him with drugs, so he would live until July 4. Those in attendance knew that great Founders Thomas Jefferson and John Adams both died on the 50th anniversary of the Declaration on July 4, 1826. |
I Never Imagined Independence Day, This Way
Gary Varvel, Creators Syndicate - July 3, 2025
