The group behind Project 2025 wants a ‘Manhattan Project’ for more babies

The conservative group behind the Project 2025 governing playbook for President Donald Trump’s second term is set to propose sweeping revisions to U.S. economic policy meant to encourage married heterosexual couples to have more children.

The Heritage Foundation, a right-wing think tank headquartered a stone’s throw from the U.S. Capitol, wants lawmakers to create new government-seeded savings accounts — for married people only.

It hopes to steer funding for child care away from programs like Head Start and toward individual families — specifically to encourage parents to stay home and rear children.

And the group wants Trump to issue executive orders requiring all proposed policies and regulations to “measure their positive or negative impacts and marriage and family” — then overhaul or end programs that score poorly.


Democrats like murdering babies far too much.

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Derek Burney: Action urgently needed as Canada-U.S. relations drift precariously

Does anyone really know where Canada’s tariff negotiations with the U.S. are headed? Despite a steady cavalcade of ministerial visits to Washington and efforts by individual premiers to engage, it is difficult to know what is being discussed, or whether anything has been agreed or rejected. We have been treated instead to airy platitudes: Talks are “progressing” or meetings “have been constructive,” etc. Messaging to the U.S. media has been obsequious, not crisp lest anything strong trigger an outburst by the unpredictable president.


I bet he didCarney says he spoke with Trump in ‘good’ conversation on trade, geopolitics

Prime Minister Mark Carney said he spoke at length with U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday night.

Mr. Carney told reporters Wednesday on his way into a two-day meeting with his cabinet that it was a “good” conversation that touched on a range of issues including trade, geopolitics and labour.


I don’t think there’s an upside here. My impression is Trump is more than happy to let Carney wither on the vine.

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CHARLEBOIS: Doug Ford’s pour decision a misguided one

Watching Ontario Premier Doug Ford theatrically dump a bottle of Crown Royal was one of the most misguided political gestures we’ve seen in some time — at least since the beginning of Canada’s recent trade dispute with the United States.

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Yes, Carney mostly caved on Trump’s tariffs. What else were Liberal voters expecting?

After several months of uncharacteristic jingoism, Canadians have come around to the idea that there are practical limits in politics, what with Prime Minister Mark Carney having recently removed certain retaliatory tariffs against the United States. In retrospect, it’s evident that for many Canadian voters, the emotional satisfaction of responding with “elbows up” rhetoric to what they perceived as U.S. President Donald Trump’s high-handedness took precedent over any analysis of their real interests in the matter.

You could see reality set in as commentators patiently explained that all this really was for the best. Of course, from the start, the odds that Carney would capitulate in this way might have been conservatively estimated at around 100 per cent.

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Ilhan Omar’s husband became a multi-millionaire overnight

It’s hard to remember back so far, but before the dementia set in, Joe Biden wasn’t stupid. He wasn’t an intellectual, and his values were awful, but he had a sort of slick, fast-talking intelligence. Also, he or someone in his orbit was smart enough to understand that there is a way to get rich in politics without seeming to do so: Instead of putting the money in your own bank account, funnel it to your family. It now appears that Ilhan Omar has read the Joe Biden playbook, since her husband went from rags to riches overnight once he married her.

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New Study Shows Trump Might Be Right on Tariffs

Older economic models might overstate the costs of protection and understate its structural impact.

When Buchanan campaigned for the Republican presidential nomination in the 1990s, he made tariffs a central pillar of his platform. He warned that unchecked globalization would hollow out American industry, erode the middle class, and leave the nation vulnerable to economic dependence. His message resonated — he won the New Hampshire primary in 1996 and reshaped the conversation within the GOP.

So, where would the U.S. be today, economically, if it had adopted Buchanan’s ideas sooner — before Trump’s return to the White House?

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Dramatic footage shows US strike that obliterated ‘drug-carrying boat’ off Venezuela, killing 11 Tren de Aragua ‘Narcoterrorists’

President Trump shared dramatic footage of the US military obliterating a boat carrying drugs and Tren de Aragua gangbangers off the coast of Venezuela.

The video showed the small boat being blown out of international waters and exploding into flames after it was struck by a single missile on Tuesday, killing all onboard.

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Trump deployment of military troops to Los Angeles was illegal, judge rules

A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the Trump administration’s deployment of U.S. military troops to Los Angeles during immigration raids earlier this year was illegal.

U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer found the deployment violated the Posse Comitatus Act, which limited the use of the military for law enforcement purposes. He stayed his ruling to give the administration a chance to appeal.

“President Trump and Secretary Hegseth have stated their intention to call National Guard troops into service in other cities across the country … thus creating a national police force with the President as its chief,” Breyer wrote.

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Trump is bending over backwards to protect American steel — and Canada is paying the price

WASHINGTON, D.C. — At a steel plant in Pennsylvania in May, U.S. President Donald Trump promised workers a new era of domestic steel production.

“We are once again going to put Pennsylvania steel into the backbone of America like never before,” Trump said, reflecting how he sees steel as the centrepiece of a revitalized American industrial capacity.

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54 shot, 7 killed in Chicago weekend bloodbath after Pritzker claims Trump, National Guard not needed

Bodies are piling up on the streets of Chicago over Labor Day weekend – with 54 shot, including seven killed, as President Trump and Illinois Gov. Pritzker spar over sending the National Guard into the Windy City.

At least 32 separate shootings occurred in Chicago between Friday evening and noon on Monday, according to a review of police incident reports by ABC News.

Just hours after Trump posted a message on Truth Social on Saturday criticizing Pritzker’s handling of crime in the city, at least seven people were shot around 11:10 p.m. in Bronzeville. All of the people are expected to be okay.

h/t PA Cat

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China’s navy is expanding at breakneck speed – and catching up with the US

“Socialism is good…” a pensioner warbles into a portable karaoke mic, slightly off-key and drowned out by her friends’ chatter.

But they join her for the chorus: “The Communist Party guides China on the path to power and wealth!”

It is not the catchiest karaoke number. But it is an apt one to belt out as they look towards a horizon framed by cranes towering over ships of all sizes.

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Most of Canada’s retaliatory tariffs are gone. Now what?

Party Time!

Most of the counter-tariffs Ottawa slapped on U.S. goods earlier this year have now been removed, with a few exceptions.

Canada placed duties on $60 billion worth of U.S. goods in response to American tariffs on various Canadian goods. Those tariffs are gone as of Monday, though some levies remain on non-CUSMA-compliant goods — such as tariffs on steel and aluminum products to counter U.S. tariffs targeting those industries.


Much of the media but especially the CBC is making out that removal of the counter tariffs was some kind of Master Stroke by Carney when in fact it was just the reversal of a stupid mistake.

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