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Biden and Oil: Destroy America in Order to Save It
Biden and Oil: Destroy America in Order to Save It: Our current oil shortage did not arise from a foreign war or tsunami, but from a deliberate policy to curtail oil production to force a more rapid transition to battery-powered transportation.
Victor Davis Hanson | June 27, 2022
Economists Should Know Better than to Support Big Government ...
Economists Should Know Better than to Support Big Government Democratic Policies
John C. Goodman | June 22, 2022
The World Is Facing Its Day of Inflationary Reckoning
The World Is Facing Its Day of Inflationary Reckoning
Alvaro Vargas Llosa | June 21, 2022
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Common Core: A Decade of Making American Education (even) Worse
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