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The GOUSA Personal Opportunity Message by Jim Avallon On May 6th I read in the Epoch Times that “The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced on May 5 that it will restrict the use of the Johnson & Johnson…

Continue Reading COVID Collaborators Must Be Held Accountable

It’s hard to find a major newspaper more in the tank for the Democratic Party than the Boston Globe but even they acknowledge less than half of Massachusetts voters approve of Joe Biden. Here’s the Globe’s headline:…

Continue Reading Democrat House Organ Plays Biden Funeral Dirge

GOUSA stands for free market capitalism. But capitalism is not just a driver of economic opportunity. It is an important driver of national opportunity and security too. At the outset of the Russia-Ukraine conflict one would have…

Continue Reading Russia’s Failures in Ukraine War Demonstrates the Superiority of Capitalism Over Socialism

Like the Evil Queen in Snow White, Disney stock has fallen off a cliff as parents boycott the entertainment giant.   Good. The chart below shows the change in the price of Disney stock versus the Dow Jones…

Continue Reading Get Woke and Go Broke: Disney Style

Your Monday Morning Personal Opportunity Update from Jim Avallon Last week a Federal judge in Florida ordered the end of the federal mask mandate for airline, train and bus passengers; Health Freedom Defense Fund v. Biden.  Hans…

Continue Reading Trains, Planes, Bus Mask Mandates found Illegal…finally!

Land of the free? Not so much when it comes to economic policy. The most recent issue of the Heritage Foundation’s Index of Economic Freedom provides hard evidence of how the Biden Administration has moved America towards…

Continue Reading Biden Policies Hasten Decline of Economic Freedom in the United States

Each individual American state established much of their COVID policy and we are better for it. I’m part of an e-mail report “COFFEE&COVID” by Jeff Childers and last week Jeff referenced an article in the New York…

Continue Reading CENTRAL PLANNING & COVID by Jim Avallon

GOUSA’s Economic Opportunity Tuesday Update Inflation is overwhelming wage increases among low-income Americans.  The inflationary policies from the Biden Administration’s spending binge and the endless money printing by the Federal Reserve is increasing income inequality in America.…

Continue Reading Biden, Fed Inflationary Policies Hurt the Poor the Most

GOUSA Personal Opportunity Monday Message by Jim Avallon Dr. Christiane Northrup from Falmouth, ME is a leading authority on women’s health and wellness.  In the past few pandemic years she has been a strong, outspoken advocate for…

Continue Reading Maine doctor highlights COVID treatment injustice in ME, praises NH

The latest Quinnipiac poll shows Joe Biden’s approval ratings continue to tank among the Millennials and Generation Z.  But will the GOP be able to capitalize on young voter dissatisfaction? We’ve been blogging about the golden –…

Continue Reading Yet Another Poll Shows Republicans Have a Golden Opportunity To Appeal to Young Voters

Biden’s incoherence on Ukraine is creating the most dangerous situation since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. Just last week the war in Ukraine looked like it was nearing a conclusion.  Reports suggested that Russian leaders were looking…

Continue Reading Biden’s Wild Gyrations on Ukraine Put America and the World at Risk

“We may be the future decision makers, but most of us aren’t leaders” writes Julie Hartman in the Wall Street Journal College students have de minimis risk from COVID.  Yet universities have imposed irrational and draconian mask…

Continue Reading Harvard Student Blasts School’s Insane COVID Policies, Conformity and Condescension

The United States Senate voted 57-40 end federal mask mandates on airplanes and public transit. Eight Democrats voted with Republicans. Mitt Romney (R-Establishment) was the only Republican to vote against the measure. However, as reported by Roll…

Continue Reading Senate Votes to Repeal Transport Mask Mandates (Even Some Democrats)

Rasmussen Research asked Americans about the issues that concern them the most.  The result show that GOUSA’s issue agenda reflects the concerns of two-thirds or more of the American public. GOUSA stands for fiscal integrity.  That includes…

Continue Reading Rasmussen Poll Shows Americans Overwhelmingly Approve of GOUSA’s Issue Agenda

The latest Economist/YouGov poll shows young people disillusioned with the Biden Administration and the Democratic Party.  But can Republicans make the sale? The Economist/YouGov polled 1500 Americans on their views on the Biden Administration and the ideological…

Continue Reading Polling Shows Opportunities for Republicans Among Young Voters in 2022

Florida Senator Rick Scott spoke about his Rescue America plan at CPAC.  Most of the elements of his plan are part of the GOUSA agenda.  What do you think of Senator Scott’s plan? Senator Scott and his…

Continue Reading Senator Rick Scott Releases His Rescue America Plan

A new poll by the Angus Reid institute, a non-profit public opinion research organization, shows that a majority of young Canadians support the right of Freedom Convoy truckers to express themselves. Support among young Canadians is much…

Continue Reading Good News: Poll Shows a Majority of Young Canadians Support the Freedom of Expression for the Truckers

Professor Stephen Kotkin makes the case that America needs an opportunity party.  We agree 100 percent.  In the most recent episode of Uncommon Knowledge, Peter Robinson of the Hoover Institution asks Princeton University History Professor Stephen Kotkin…

Continue Reading Princeton Professor: America Needs an Opportunity Party. We Agree!

A new poll by CIVIQS provides more evidence that younger voters are turned off top Joe Biden.  Will young voters register their disapproval of the Biden Administration in November? I blogged a few days ago about polling…

Continue Reading Young Voters Overwhelmingly Disapprove of Biden. Will the GOP Seize This Opportunity?

Emerging evidence shows that mask mandate did nothing to stop the spread of COVID while permanently damaging the development of young people.  So why don’t the media care and politicians care?     The mask mandates provide both…

Continue Reading The Mask Mandate Masks Come Off

Brendan O’Neill writes in Spiked Online on how GoFundMe’s withholding of millions of dollars raised to support the Canadian truckers epitomizes elite disdain for the working class.     Here’s an excerpt (but read the whole thing): “GoFundMe’s…

Continue Reading How Big Tech Oppresses the Working Class

Low approval for the Biden Administration and dissatisfaction with the state of the economy may finally bring young people around to the Republican Party. The Democratic Party is dependent on young voters for electoral success.  Young people…

Continue Reading Will 2022 be the Year of the Young Republican?

Another dismal poll regarding the leadership abilities of Joe Biden.  This time from NBC News.  NBC News polled one thousand adults on their views of Joe Biden and the state of the country.  The result show widespread…

Continue Reading NBC Poll Shows Few Americans Approve of Biden’s Leadership Abilities

Young people were pivotal to the election of Biden in the 2020 election.  Now young Americans have become so dissatisfied with the Biden Administration that his approval levels among the young is at or above that of…

Continue Reading Biden Tanks With Generation Z and Millennials

GOUSA supports a clean environment.  However, the green movement as it currently stands is rife with lies and elitism.  The latest comes from the EU. The European Union is working on a new carbon tax plan.  According…

Continue Reading Green Hypocrisy: EU Style

GOUSA stands for freedom of expression.  In his annual speech to ambassadors to the Holy See, Pope Francis specifically denounced cancel culture as a threat to our humanity. GOUSA opposes cancel culture in its many forms.  We…

Continue Reading Pope Francis Denounces Cancel Culture

Nobel Prize winning virologist Luc Montagnier and law professor Jed Rubenfeld explain in the Wall Street Journal why vaccine mandates make no sense.  Will the Supreme Court figure this out? “It would be irrational, legally indefensible and…

Continue Reading Nobel Prize Winner: Vaccine Mandates Make No Sense

Colleges and universities are supposed to be bastions of science and logic.  Simple calculations of risk show that young people have a near zero mortality risk from COVID.  Yet college students are subject to far harsher lockdown…

Continue Reading COVID Hysteria Will Permanently Damage College Students

Batya Ungar-Sargon is one of most innovative political thinkers in America today.  In an interview with Spiked’s Brendan O’Neill she discusses how woke politics harms working class Americans.  GOUSA believes in greater opportunity for all Americans.  Over…

Continue Reading The Woke War on the Working Class

Fauci tells MSNBC that the number of hospitalizations from COVID have been inflated.  Is his admission two years into the pandemic politically motivated?  Speaking to MSNBC, Fauci admits that “if you look at the children that are…

Continue Reading Fauci Admits COVID Numbers Are Inflated

You really do need a weathervane to tell which way the wind is blowing at the CDC as The Science® is changing by the minute. Consider the ever-changing statements on vaccine mandates for airline travel as pointed…

Continue Reading CDC Spin Cycle Remains on High

Surging inflation is both making Americans poorer and more inequal.  Larry Summers, who served as Treasury Secretary in the Obama Administration, puts the blame squarely where it belongs: excessive government spending. Summers is well regarded within the…

Continue Reading Obama Treasury Secretary: Excessive Gov’t Spending Causing Inflation

Below is the 2004 Christmas message of Pope John Paul II, his final Christmas message. Merry Christmas to all! “Christus natus est nobis, venite, adoremus!” Christ is born for us: come, let us adore him! On this…

Continue Reading Christus natus est nobis, venite, adoremus!

While politicians in the United States and Europe continue to spread panic and pursue authoritarian mandates and lockdowns, Japanese politicians are acting like statesmen, treating their countrymen like intelligent beings rather than sheep that need to be…

Continue Reading Japan PM: No Mandates or Discrimination Against the Unvaccinated

New Wall Street Journal Poll shows that Hispanic voters are equally divided in terms of how they view the Democratic and Republican Parties.   Hispanics are evenly divided in their support for Republicans and Democrats heading into…

Continue Reading Hispanic Voters Now Evenly Split Between GOP and Dems

The Biden Administration remains curiously uncurious about the origins of the COVID virus.  That leaves it to other countries to ask the questions that the United States government should be asking. Dr. Alina Chan, a researcher at…

Continue Reading Harvard/MIT Expert Tells UK Parliament COVID Likely Came From a Lab

An investigation by the National Pulse reveals the connections between Federal Reserve Board Vice-Chair Lael Brainard and the Chinese Government.  Their investigation underscores how deeply intertwined the Washington establishment has become with the CCP.     Earlier this…

Continue Reading Is Another Scandal Brewing at the Federal Reserve?

The Congressional Budget Office has run the number on the Democrats Build back better plan and the numbers are not pretty.  The CBO estimates that the plan will increase the federal deficit by $3.0 trillion over the…

Continue Reading CBO: Biden’s Build Back Better Plan Creates a $3.0 Trillion Budget Gap

New York City Mayor-elect Eric Adams continues to face down threats from Black Lives Matters.  Mr. Adams exhibits a level of courage that no Democrat and few Republicans have matched. Former New York City Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia…

Continue Reading Eric Adams Won’t Back Down From BLM Threats

A new poll by Rasmussen Research finds that 49 percent of likely voters think that Donald Trump handled the COVID crisis better than Joe Biden has. 39 percent give Biden the edge. Overall 55 percent disapprove of…

Continue Reading Rasmussen: Plurality Now Think Trump Did a Better Job on COVID Than Biden Has

Good news on the medical freedom front. It may be the case that Charlie Baker’s Massachusetts in one of just a few blue states with vaccine mandates for public-sector workers. Politico is reporting growing apprehension among blue…

Continue Reading Now Many Democrats Oppose Vaccine Mandates

With the media quick to report on dissent within the Republican party, it is easy to forget that dissatisfaction among Democrats with their party’s leadership at the national level is at least as intense.    Nancy Pelosi…

Continue Reading Democrat Insiders are Dissatisfied with Their Leadership

Pictures and videos of some of the speakers at Christmas Uncanceled are up at GOUSA’s Facebook, Youtube and Twitter pages. Thanks to everyone who organized the evening and came out!

Continue Reading Christmas Uncanceled Pictures and Videos

Here at GOUSA, we are eco-modernists, not eco-miserabilists.  Cheap, reliable energy creates opportunities for all Americans and the only source for that is nuclear energy. Other nations are taking the lead in the development of nuclear energy. …

Continue Reading Might Democrats Finally Embrace Nuclear Power?

A new survey from Gallup asked Americans whether inflation is making it harder to maintain their standard of living. 45 percent said it was with 10 percent saying that inflation was creating a severe financial hardship in…

Continue Reading Gallup: Inflation Creating a Financial Hardship for Almost Half of All Americans

Come have tons of fun and share Christmas cheer with friends at GOUSA’s special dinner event on December 4. Tickers available at our Eventbrite page. We’ve lined up great speakers, special guests and a h-u-u-u-g-e dinner spread.…

Continue Reading Christmas Uncanceled Tickets on Sale Now!

In any interview with CBS’s Face the Nation this Sunday, Anthony Fauci demonstrated why he should be removed from his position as the nation’s COVID czar.   The full transcript is available here. Fauci attacks his critics…

Continue Reading Tony Fauci Does Not Represent Science

Let us give thanks for those who brought forth this great nation, who continue to secure our freedoms today, and for the opportunity to create a better tomorrow. In that spirit, we offer below President Reagan’s Thanksgiving…

Continue Reading Happy Thanksgiving from GOUSA

A poll of 750 Massachusetts residents asked what word comes to mind to describe Joe Biden. The results may surprise you. Massachusetts is known for being up there with California and Vermont as among the most left-leaning…

Continue Reading Even Massachusetts Residents See Biden as Incompetent

Michael Shellenberger and Peter Boghossian have compiled a handy guide to the various sects of the woke religions. The guide appears below with more details at Michael’s Substack. With respect to the genesis of the guide, Shellenberger…

Continue Reading Wokeism: A Guide

The Pew Research Foundation asked people in 17 countries about what makes life meaningful. Relative to other countries, Americans were more likely to cite family, friends and faith and less likely to mention occupation or material well-being.…

Continue Reading What Makes America Great? The Opportunity to Find Meaning in Many Aspects of Life

A new Quinnipiac Poll shows how Biden has intensified the class divide. As Stephen Cortes points out, Biden’s approval on the economy among non-college educated whites is an astounding negative 54 percent. That’s not surprising. Biden’s policies–destroying…

Continue Reading Biden Intensifies the Class Divide

Steve Rattner, who served in the Obama Administration as the head of the Presidential Task Force on the Auto Industry, tells MSNBC and the New York Times that Biden’s economic policies have made the economy worse in…

Continue Reading Obama Advisor Says Biden’s Policies Have Made the Economy Worse

Seen on the internet. Normally we offer some commentary when we post but this picture of the eyewatering gas prices in Lancaster, CA says it all about the failure of Biden’s energy policies.

Continue Reading Gas Prices in California

New Hampshire is one of nine states with a competitive 2022 senate contest. A new poll by Morning Consult has Joe Biden’s approval rate underwater among all New Hampshire voters and cratering nationwide and in the Granite…

Continue Reading Poll Shows Biden Slumping Among Suburban Voters Nationwide and in New Hampshire

Polls are showing a red tidal wave forming for 2022. Meanwhile, Biden and Harris continue to tank. Overall, the Real Clear Politics average spread in the generic congressional vote has Republicans up by 3.4 points. And this…

Continue Reading Polls: Republicans Open a Huge Lead in the Generic Ballot

BLM is threatening newly-elected New York Mayor Eric Adams with ‘riots, fire and bloodshed’ if he restores anti-crime units disbanded by Mr. Adams’s predecessor. New York is America’s largest city and preeminent business center. The mayor of…

Continue Reading BLM Threatens Eric Adams

How many times have we heard “if you don’t like it here, go somewhere else”?  That presents a problem for colleges and university faculty as higher ed in America is uniformly woke.  A group of academics has…

Continue Reading A Game Changer for Higher Education

The non-partisan Tax Foundation ran the numbers on the economic effects of Biden’s Build Back Better plan and found that the Democrat’s proposal would be a major drag on the economy.  The Tax Foundation estimates that Biden’s…

Continue Reading Tax Foundation: Biden Spending Plans Will Cost Jobs, Reduce Economic Growth

Writing in The Austrian Jeff Deist lays out a compelling case why this is a great time for those of us who cherish freedom and opportunity. The best part appears below: “Covid policies ruined cities, at least…

Continue Reading The Time is Now

Down, down, down. There’s only one direction that Biden’s approval is going and that’s down. Actually, it could be worse. Only 28 percent of Americans approve of the job that Kamala Harris is doing, 51 percent disapprove.…

Continue Reading USA Today Poll: Biden Approval at 38%

Biden says Democrat spending will “cost nothing”. CNBC says otherwise. CNBC’s Yian Mui reports that the most recent Biden spending plan would increase the deficit by $2.6 trillion over the next ten years. This is hardly paid…

Continue Reading CNBC: Democrats Fuzzy Math on Spending

GOUSA believes in environmentally-friendly, safe, and economically-sensible solutions to America’s energy needs. Although nuclear power development is stalled in the United States, China is planning a massive expansion of its nuclear power capacity. According to Bloomberg, China…

Continue Reading One Country Plans a Massive Expansion of Nuclear Power

Police officers have had a difficult few years.  Woke politicians have disparaged and sought to defund police departments.  Attacks on police officers have skyrocketed.  GOUSA supports the police, fire and first responders.  Most Americans agree.  On November…

Continue Reading Election Roundup: Pro-Police Candidates Win Big Everywhere (except Boston)

Whatever happened to Build Back Better? It’s really more like Biden’s Baleful Boondoggles or Biden’s Big-time Blunders. The country does not like what it’s getting from the Biden Presidency. A new poll from NBC news finds that…

Continue Reading Poll: 71 Percent Think U.S. Headed in Wrong Direction Under Biden

Social justice warriors in the modern West are no different that the Bolsheviks of the old Soviet Union says Russian Leader Vladimir Putin.  He should know. The comparison is apt.  Speaking at the Valdai Discussion Club, Putin…

Continue Reading He’s Not Wrong: Vladimir Putin Knocks Woke Culture

In contrast to the progressive left, most Americans want funding for police to increase or stay the same, not decline.  Americans of all racial, age and income groups reject defunding.  Concerns regarding violent crime are on the…

Continue Reading Pew Poll: Americans Overwhelmingly Reject Defunding the Police

Good news! The Biden Administration’s play to spy on your bank account is (probably) due to opposition by Republicans and West Virginia Joe Manchin (Opp Score +3.75/5.0). Details at this link . Here’s what Senator Manchin had…

Continue Reading Manchin Opposition Defeats Plan to Spy on Your Bank Account

By big majorities Americans disapprove of Biden’s economic policies. The only conceivable reason the Democrats are pursuing them is to reward politically useful special interests. Hugh majorities of Americans view the country on the wrong track under…

Continue Reading Most Americans Dislike Biden’s Economic Policies

Banking and industry groups are pushing back against the third most Orwellian policy of the Biden Administration (vaccine mandates and reeducation camps being the first two but with the Biden Administration it is hard to keep count).…

Continue Reading Bankers Push Back Against Big Janet

The Wall Street Journal is reporting evidence that Facebook discriminates against conservative news sites. Their study is based on analysis of Facebook data as well as documents and interviews of Facebook insiders. Link to the story here…

Continue Reading WSJ Analysis: Facebook Discriminates Against Conservatives

Is this piece by Vanity fair the first crack in the mainstream media wall of silence on the lab leak theory for the origin of COVID: In Major Shift, NIH Admits Funding Risky Virus Research in Wuhan…

Continue Reading A Crack in the MSM Wall of Silence

54 percent of Americans disapprove of Biden’s handling of the economy according to a CNBC poll and 47 percent think there will be a recession next year. And this is a poll from CNBC a subsidiary of…

Continue Reading Most Americans Disapprove of Biden’s Economic Policies

A massive amount of new “Let’s Go Brandon” videos are coming out. Here are some from the Let’s Go Brandon Dance Challenge. Here’s one for Simpsons fans. You got to love the prank announcements. “Could Brandon Lesko…

Continue Reading Paging Brandon Lesko

Democrat Terry McAuliffe walked out of a TV interview with WJLA reporter Nick Minock. Video below. McAuliffe is running against Glenn Youngkin for Virginia Governor. It’s never good when a politician walks out of an interview. This…

Continue Reading McAuliffe Walks Out

Encouraging news: A recent poll by the Morning Consult finds that only 8 percent of Gen Z has a positive opinion of cancel culture while 55 percent opposes it. Gen Z is more likely to have a…

Continue Reading Poll: Gen Z Opposes Cancel Culture

Freedom is contagious. Let’s Go Brandon by Loza Alexander is #1 on the iTunes hip hop chart and #2 overall. “Let’s Go Brandon” started when NBC reporter tried to cover up for a crowd chanting “F*** Joe…

Continue Reading Let’s Go Brandon Tops the Charts

Lots of new information is coming out about how big tech and big media interfered with the 2020 election.  There’s too much to post here so we’ll just give you a sampling. Mollie Hemingway’s new book Rigged:…

Continue Reading Election Interference Inc.: Zuckerberg, Big Tech, Big Media

What do German election results have to do with GOUSA?  A lot really. In September, young Germans voted overwhelmingly for change by rejecting the two establishment parties.  Are young Americans also ready to change politics in the…

Continue Reading GOUSA Ideals Also Popular With Young Germans

The IRS now wants to monitor every check written and deposit made on your bank account.  A new IRS rule would require banks to turn over transaction information on every account with a balance of $600 or…

Continue Reading Big Janet Wants to Snoop on Your Bank Account