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Many school boards elected a solid conservative majority this year, and many of those hit the ground running with new policies and firing some of the bureaucracy. In Beaufort County, we elected three out of nine on the conservative slate. Five of the seats, a majority, were not on the ballot this year. There are four more Republicans on the board, so hopefully they can find two more stand up conservative among those four. I can see the need to feel them out so that they can put together the votes to move things forward. However, waiting too long may end up making some of those votes harder to get. A wise move would be to go for some of the low hanging fruit soon.

Commented: Thursday, December 29th, 2022 @ 7:26 pm By: Steven P. Rader

Why would the Head of the Biden Crime Syndicate give back ill begotten treasure when that is his sole purpose in life is to use government to enrich himself and pathetic family?

That just makes no sense whatsoever ... to give back tens of thousands of dollars that can soon be converted to personal needs once the Biden Presidency is over, and that time will be nigh in two short years.

Commented: Thursday, December 29th, 2022 @ 4:03 pm By: Stan Deatherage

We want Mr Trump back in office. He was great in there and he was getting our country back in order like is was supposed to be. We'd love to have Mr Trump back.

Commented: Thursday, December 29th, 2022 @ 12:13 pm By: Wanda Bowen

Alberta's sovereignty challenge to Trudeau may have more going for it than would appear. As one of those articles speculates, the courts would likely strike it down. But Canada has something the US does not, and that is a precedent allowing provinces to vote on independence (secession) from Canada. That was established by allowing Quebec a referendum on that subject which was only narrowly voted down. Alberta's premier is openly speaking of achieving sovereignty either inside Canada or outside it. If Trudeau moves in the courts against Alberta's Sovereignty Act, he may well trigger the secession of Alberta. And if Alberta goes, how long would Manitoba and Saskatchewan remain? British Ckolumbia would also be questionable. Alberta, if they maintain their backbone, may be playing a much stronger hand than appears on the surface.

Commented: Thursday, December 29th, 2022 @ 8:33 am By: Steven P. Rader

Not unlike Icaris, who flew too close to the sun thus melting the beeswax holding his wings together plummeting him into the depths of the sea, Sam Binton strove for true greatness as well, as the first non binary Department of Energy executive official ever, whose only failing was his love of used womens' lingerie, scented by the odor of fine luggage, tweaked by the thrill of theft from an arbitrary airport carousal.

Sam's only true crime: "Living his best life."

Commented: Wednesday, December 28th, 2022 @ 7:06 pm By: Stan Deatherage

There are dozens more of these. Not a one has ever come true. The climate alarmist cult is Chicken Little on steroids.

Commented: Wednesday, December 28th, 2022 @ 11:45 am By: John Steed

Wow! This really makes you wonder which bathroom and which pronouns our legislative leaders and their staff use.

Commented: Tuesday, December 27th, 2022 @ 7:13 am By: Bubba

Mitch McConnell served the Democrats interests under Obama and now is doing so repeatedly under Biden. "China Mitch" makes Benedict Arnold seem loyal in comparison.

Commented: Monday, December 26th, 2022 @ 9:16 pm By: Rino Hunter

These are tremulous times with the sorry level of intellect prevalent in Washington, DC, dominated by the Democratic Socialists, and the "bipartisan" Republicans, so fulsomely in the minority if one counts the bureaucracy at large that these poor Republicans somehow revere.

With this kind of deficit spending so available for all the wrong reasons to all the wrong people, one must always be cognizant of the over-paid, under-worked Democratic Socialist hired help. One thing is for sure the 18 Republicans that crossed the line to do the unthinkable, they are listing into the category of the grossly unaware.

Commented: Monday, December 26th, 2022 @ 8:15 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Giving free medical care to illegal aliens drives up the medical costs for American citizens, and it is not just the uncompensated care when they show up in Emergency Rooms. While they are not supposed to be eligible for Medicaid, this is often bent when it comes to children, and many of those "children" are actually older than they claim to be. Social workers have another workaround for all illegal aliens and that is "emergency Medicaid" when can be given to anyone but is supposed to be strictly time limited (3 months if memory serves).

That may be understandable for something like a heart attack or car wreck, but social workers stretch it far beyond that. For example, if an illegal alien has failing kidneys, dialysis is extremely expensive and they have to do it twice a week for what could be years. What is regularly happening for dialysis is that they are put on Emergency Medicaid and that keeps being renewed every time it expires indefinitely. It would be better to give them one dialysis as Emergency Medicaid and then an immediate plane ticket home so that their home country could provide subsequent dialysis treatments if they desire.

Use of Medicaid gets into the pockets of citizens two ways. One is taking their tax money to pay for Medicaid. The other is that since Medicaid reimburses medical providers at less than market rates, that is made up for by raising the costs to paying patients. If insurance is what is paying, then that impacts insurance premiums.

The flood of illegal aliens is a costly cancer on America and needs to be cut out totally.

Commented: Monday, December 26th, 2022 @ 9:16 am By: borderhawk

Sodom and Gomorrah on display. These two perverts are definitey a discredit to the Armed Services.

Commented: Sunday, December 25th, 2022 @ 1:14 pm By: Mike

Perfect

Commented: Sunday, December 25th, 2022 @ 11:48 am By: Randall Jones