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Bought from other Africans. That point always seems to be passed over.
The idea a couple boat loads of Europeans were trouncing around the second largest continent without a map and forced thousands upon thousands into slavery is laughable.
[FoxNews] The United States spends far more on healthcare, on a per capita basis, than any other country in the world. There are many reasons why, including health insurance companies. But one reason has been largely overlooked: foreign governments maintain pricing systems that limit what they pay for drugs. The difference has been absorbed in the United States, with the result that Americans cover a disproportionate share of the world’s drug costs.
These pharmaceutical pricing systems need to be called out for what they are: trade distortions. And the Trump administration should treat these distortions just as it would treat any other trade distortion: with the remedies that are available under U.S. trade law, starting with an investigation of discriminatory measures.
Countries such as Germany, France and Japan impose government pricing mandates, mandatory rebates and strict market controls that cap what they pay for medicines well below U.S. market prices. That puts manufacturers in a bind. They can either accept the punitive terms these countries have established or find their products shut out of these countries.
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What is not a tax on Americans? I thought I was having a heart attack the other day, but I was so concerned about ooga boogas getting ebola I just waived it off because I couldn't afford it. sarc/
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Why is there a tax on Medical supplies & take home groceries at all?
How much tax revenue does a single US$ dollar generate?
In 2025, federal tax revenue totaled $5.2 trillion, with more than half ($2.6+ Trillion) coming from individual income taxes.
Which means each earned and circulating dollar earned roughly 60+ cents in taxes, over the course of 12 months.
Now add STATE, COUNTY, METRO taxes & Federal taxes on item s like fuel, a rain tax & energy and etc...
Despite all these taxes, they still spent 39+ Trillion more that they stole from us?
[Coffee and Covid] And so we see the two toothy prongs of a red-hot pincer. On one side, SCOTUS appears poised to end the counting of late-arriving mail-in ballots. Democrats can still use mail-in ballots, but they’ll have to send them in early, or at least on time. But I’ll bet you a taco truck that all the "shoe dropping" fun will have drained out.
The second claw is the new USPS rules. Once ballots can be tracked and analyzed, and once the feds get hold of and audit absentee voter lists, a wide variety of clever possibilities will evaporate like the morning dew off the mail truck. Between the two prongs, even if there was no fraud to start with (don’t make me laugh), voters can enjoy a new level of confidence in elections.
Even if it accomplishes nothing else, Spencer Pratt’s hard work and lopsided result does this: his vivid example prepares the narrative battlefield for Plans B (SCOTUS) and C (USPS) to more easily survive challenges and take effect soon.
I am not saying that Plan A (requiring ID) has become irrelevant. But Plan A is much less urgent once Plans B and C come online. After all, SAVE America-style ID requirements mainly affect in-person voting, not post-election absentee fraud, which is clearly the bigger problem.
In other words, once SCOTUS slams the door on late federal ballots and USPS forensically logs who gets which ballot and when, ID shifts from an existential fight to an important but secondary electoral hygiene. And with all those germs out there, we need to be hygienic.
The glass-half-full view of Spencer Pratt’s sacrifice in Los Angeles is that he just created the best possible example for why both SCOTUS’s decision and USPS’s plans are fair, reasonable, and necessary. TAW. TAW - Trump Always Wins
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[WashingtonPost] I became Graham Platner’s political director in August 2025 as he launched a bid for the Democratic Senate primary in Maine. Taking the job meant leaving a position as a senior policy adviser at a government relations firm in the state, but I thought that Platner and I shared the same goal: fighting for the working people of Maine.
I quit the campaign in October, disturbed by what I learned about the candidate and concerned about his potential impact on the Democratic Party’s prospects in my home state. As Tuesday’s primary arrives, I want to make clear what transpired since August and why my concerns have only grown. Advocating for the working people of Maine has driven me since my days as a commercial lobster boat captain and continued to drive me as a state legislator. I support my local community today by serving as the school board chair. Graham Platner is not someone who would be good for Maine or for the country.
If America wants a stronger democracy, elevating leaders with integrity is essential. Leaders with sound judgment and ethics. Leaders who embrace and live the ideals the nation stands for. Maine is a state that leads; it is the state motto — Dirigo.
Platner has shown us that he is not such a leader. He exhibits a pattern of dishonest behavior that is impossible to ignore. Despite being exposed by a series of scandals beginning last October, he kept assuring voters and the Democratic Party that there were no more skeletons in his closet. Then more emerged — the latest, in recent days, have involved former girlfriends’ serious accusations of physical mistreatment.
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I became Graham Platner’s political director in August 2025 as he launched a bid for the Democratic Senate primary in Maine. Taking the job meant leaving a position as a senior policy adviser at a government relations firm in the state, but I thought that Platner and I shared the same goal: fighting for the working people of Maine.
Moron.
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[IsraelTimes] Survey says just 29% of Jewish Israelis believe ending war with Iran through a deal is in Israel’s interests, with most doubting it will address missile threat or weaken regime.
[FoxNews] Within the next ten years, there could be a humanoid robot in virtually every American home and workplace. They will hear and see everything. This is our future. But, a key question remains: will these omnipresent robots be American or Chinese-made? Ensuring that the United States wins the robotics race is both a national security and economic imperative. Both the administration and Congress are now working to address this challenge. Properly calibrated, these efforts demand broad bipartisan support and swift execution.
Increasingly, robots represent the place where AI meets the physical world. Large, stationary single-purpose robots will be replaced by general purpose humanoids that can learn and complete virtually any task. The potential benefits to productivity, efficiency, and safety are astounding.
Imagine a humanoid robot that can care for an aging parent, serve as a personal chef, or assist a surgeon during a complex procedure. These machines will enter burning buildings, clean up nuclear waste, work deep-sea pipelines, and staff dangerous and repetitive roles in American manufacturing that often cost workers their health and their lives. Goldman Sachs projects that the humanoid robot market could reach $38 billion by 2035. The companies and countries that lead in this technology will enjoy a generational economic advantage and the geopolitical leverage that comes with it.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
The second claw is the new USPS rules. Once ballots can be tracked and analyzed, and once the feds get hold of and audit absentee voter lists, a wide variety of clever possibilities will evaporate like the morning dew off the mail truck. Between the two prongs, even if there was no fraud to start with (don’t make me laugh), voters can enjoy a new level of confidence in elections.
