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More than 20 million Californians can expect a new round of direct payments to hit their bank accounts this year, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Sunday. The state is issuing payments up to $1,050 in what the governor called a new “middle class tax rebate.” The direct payments are part of an “inflation relief package” in California’s budget agreement, the governor and California’s legislative leaders said in a joint statement. The amount you’ll get depends on your household income and how many dependents you have

The Socialist Left government of the state of Victoria has shifted the goalposts again. Now the lockdown, the imprisonment of 5 million people in their own homes, does not depend on how prevalent the Coronavirus is. It depends on how many people have been vaccinated. People are being driven out of their minds as children want to kill themselves and businesses go under and the mad nanny state ignores the numbers on the virus and says to the people you can have your normal life back only if enough of you have had the vaccine. "Victorian businesses ‘shattered’ by Andrews’...

President Trump's criticism of the rampant crime, corruption, and filth that pervades the City of Baltimore was characterized as "racist" by his political opponents in the Democratic Party and the media. Though Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md) had previously made similar criticisms of the City, he took offense at "the President's insensitive remarks. It is one thing for those of us who have had to suffer the decades of misgovernment to complain. It is quite another for a white outsider to dare to expose it to the world. That's racist." Trump pointed out that "Cummings has represented the worst portions of...