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Political Prosecutions of Donald Trump A Toxin in America’s Legal System
This week Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg is likely to indict Donald Trump on a case that would never, ever have been brought against a Democrat or anyone else for that matter. Ever wondered what it’s like to live in a banana republic? You are living…
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Biden Medicare Plan: Fleece the Young
Biden’s Medicare plans look like they came straight out of the playbook of the AARP. His plans demonstrate that the Democratic Party doesn’t care about young Americans. On Tuesday (March 7) President Biden announced his plan to save Medicare. His plan disinherits the young: it…
Some Hopeful Evidence That We’re Past Peak Woke
Good news is coming out from lots of places. The push back against wokeness is finally working. Here’s a quick roundup of some evidence. K-12 Education Campus Reform reports that school districts a dumping the woke curricula that college education programs have been pushing. The…
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WSJ: Young Americans Being Driven Deeper into Debt
The Wall Street Journal documents how inflation, rising home prices, and fallout from COVID are driving young Americans deeper into debt. One wonders how long they’ll keep voting for the politicians that are impoverishing them. The Wall Street Journal reports that debt levels and credit…
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Republicans still have a golden chance to win over young voters. Will they blow it again?
Polling shows Biden continues to tank with young voters and little difference in approval among young voters between the Democratic and Republican parties. Will the GOP finally reach out to young voters? We can only hope. Some things are a near certainty: a long cold…
Government Schools are America’s Engine of Inequality
The failure of government schools to provide poor kids with a basic education is a handicap that few are ever able overcome. Rather than a social leveler, government schools are the driving force for inequality in America. In Baltimore there are 23 elementary schools in…
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Martin Gurri on a Right Populist Agenda
Martin Gurri discusses the possibility for the development of a right/populist agenda in the most recent issue of the Manhattan Institute’s City Journal. Great stuff. Read the whole thing. Martin Gurri is a very smart fellow and a keen observer of the modern political scene. …
Gallup: Government is America’s #1 Problem
Gallup poll out this week shows that Americans view their own government as the nation’s number one problem. In 1838 Abraham Lincoln gave a speech at the Young Men’s Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois. The speech concerned America’s institution. In his speech, Lincoln said that if…
Davos Elites Unite the World … Against Them
Left and right agree on few things. But one thing both agree on: our elites suck. This year Spectre Board Meeting … oops, I mean gathering of the World Economic Forum … in Davos has achieved a rare consensus among both left and right. We…
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The Davos crowd: plutocrats, poseurs, platitudes, private planes and even prostitutes.
The World Economic Forum (WEF) is meeting this week in Davos, Switzerland. This is an annual affair in which the elites of the Western world show how shockingly out of touch they are with the concerns of the people that they govern. Yes, these are…
Here Are the Terms of the Deal Necessary to Elect McCarthy Speaker
The legacy predictably characterized the vote for the election of the new speaker in the most negative light. However, the conditions that the Republican holdouts sought for their votes were very reasonable. Zero Hedge has a roundup of what Kevin McCarthy had to agree to…
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Nearly Half of Millennials and Gen Z Struggling to Make Ends Meet in the Biden Economy
A new survey of the financial condition of Americans shows that nearly one in two Millennials and Gen Zers report that they regularly run out of money. And this is before the likely recession in 2023. Janet Yellen might not see signs that Americans are…
Free Speech: Twitter Response Shows Many American Big Businesses Don’t Share American Values
Americans should not count on big business to support Americans values. Businesses that stopped advertising on Twitter demonstrate that they don’t believe in the First Amendment. Ask yourself the following question. What’s worse: (i) child sexual exploitation and the promotion of violence; or (ii) asking…
Dems Reject Accountability on Ukraine
House Democrats voted down a bill that would provide for an audit of where military and economic aid to Ukraine is going. Why are they afraid of accountability? The House Foreign Affairs Committee rejected by party line vote a bill introduced by Marjorie Taylor Greene…
GOUSA’s OppScore® Winners Include Rubio, Vance, Lawler, DeSantis, Lombardo, and Many Others
(Boston, MA) Grand Opportunity USA, or “GOUSA®”, a 501(c)4 nonprofit organization headquartered in Boston, MA and led by founder & CEO John Paul Moran, is happy to announce the victories of many great Pro-USA candidates who won their elections on November 8th with the help of…
Brandon Does It Again: Cost of Thanksgiving Dinner Up 20% Since Last Year
Inflation from reckless spending and massive Fed money printing are putting a damper on holiday cheer as Americans have to dig much deeper to afford a holiday dinner this year. The American Farm Bureau reports that the cost of a Thanksgiving dinner is 20 percent…
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So What Did The FBI Find When They Raided Mar-a-Lago?
According to the Washington Post: absolutely nothing of any importance. The August FBI raid on the home of Donald Trump’s private residence was something straight out of the playbook of banana republic dictatorships. Never in the history of the United States has one administration ever…
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More on the Student Loan Bailout (a/k/a Biden’s Bailout for the Bourgeoisie)
CNBC reports that most beneficiaries of Biden’s student loan forgiveness program plan to spend their extra money on vacations, dining out, alcohol, video games and gambling. The Biden Administration claimed that their student loan bailout program was intended to help “middle-class borrowers struggle[ing] with high…
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Nonpartisan Political Credit Ratings Released for Key Races Across America from the OppScore® by GOUSA
**For Immediate Release** October 28, 2022 — (Boston, MA) Grand Opportunity USA, or “GOUSA®”, a 501(c)4 nonprofit organization headquartered in Boston, MA and led by founder & CEO John Paul Moran, has created the first of its kind political credit rating system, the OppScore®, and…
The Student Loan Shell Game
Young Americans Will Soon Realize Debt Forgiveness Isn’t a Good Deal In the shell game, a street corner huckster places a ball underneath one of three cups. Then after moving the cups around on the table the ball seemingly disappears. That’s not the case. A…
Ho-hum, Another Endless War
GOUSA stands for ending endless wars. The military-industrial complex and the Biden Administration thinks otherwise. Rather than seek a negotiated solution to the war in the Ukraine, the Biden Administration is plunging the United States into yet another endless war. As if the twenty-year war…
GOUSA® Hosting Candidate OppScore® Debates
GOUSA® Hosting Candidate OppScore® Debates: for Key Midterm Races (Boston, MA) Grand Opportunity USA, or “GOUSA®”, a 501(c)4 nonprofit organization headquartered in Boston, MA, is planning a series of uniquely formatted debates covering key races across America for the November 8th Elections: The OppScore® Debates:…
Bolduc Gaining in New Hampshire’s Extremely Close U.S. Senate Race
Both the Hassan and Bolduc camps agree that the New Hampshire Senate race is extremely close with Bolduc surging in the polls. There’s a lot of news coming out on the New Hampshire U.S. Senate race. The two major party candidates are Democrat Maggie Hassan…
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Look North to See How the GOP Can Attract Young People
Canada’s Pierre Poilievre shows how to attract young people to conservatism. His success could be a model for the GOP. America’s Republican Party has a big problem. Republicans do well with older voters. But Republican politicians go over like a lead balloon with voters under…
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GOUSA Hosting Two Rallies in DC and Boston: “STOP the TYRANTS & UNITE for FREEDOM”
(Boston, MA and Washington, DC) Grand Opportunity USA, or “GOUSA®”, a 501(c)4 nonprofit organization headquartered in Boston, MA is hosting two public rally events in support of liberty and freedom while opposing growing government tyranny in America. BOSTONTuesday, October 4, 2022Boston City Hall Plaza 10AM…
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Americans Aren’t Divided—It’s Our Elites That Are Dividing Us
80 percent of Americans agree on most important issues. It’s our elites that are causing division. GOUSA is the voice of the 80 percent. Polling data shows that Americans are not divided on most issues. Rather, it is our political and media elites that are…
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Tech Alert: A Big Win for Free Speech!
“Today we reject the idea that corporations have a freewheeling First Amendment right to censor what people say,” says the US Federal Court as it upholds Texas law. On Friday, September 16, the US 5th Circuit Court of Appeals released a decision that goes right…
Reflections on Queen Elizabeth II
A personal reflection on the passing of one of the greats of our time by James Bohn This post is not about politics or economics. Rather, it is about the life qualities that are most important and a person who embodied them. I have…
Democrats to the Middle Class “You F-ed up, you trusted us.”
If Biden and the Democrats haven’t already alienated every hard-working American, the cancelation of student loan debt is sure to do it. In the movie Animal House, Otter, Boon, Pinto and Flounder go out for a night of partying with a brand-new Lincoln Continental that…
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Even the Corporate Media Thinks the “Inflation Reduction Act” is Utter BS
It’s so bad for the Democrats that they can’t even get the corporate media to go along with their talking points about the so-called “Inflation Reduction Act.” This weekend on ABC news host John Karl asked Biden spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre about the so-called Inflation Reduction…
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The Inflation Reduction Act is No Such Thing
Not even Democrats believe that the “Inflation Reduction Act” will reduce inflation. Here at GOUSA, we previously blogged about the detrimental economic and environmental effects of the Schumer-Manchin Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. See our previous post or visit windAction for a detailed analysis of…
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The Schumer-Manchin Bill will Unleash Environmental and Economic Destruction
The Schumer-Manchin bill that dropped last week ironically dubbed the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 will do nothing to reduce inflation but will unleash the largest industrialization of U.S. open lands not seen since the damming of our western rivers, according to Lisa Linowes, energy…
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The Chips Act is a $280 Billion Boondoggle
Congress tees up yet another taxpayer-funded round of corporate welfare in the form of the $280 billion Chips Act. The Chips Act repeats the federal government’s past mistakes with centralized planning and industrial policy. Today’s politicians should learn from the failures of Carter-era energy policies.…
Joel Kotkin on the New Feudalism and the Decline of the Middle Class
Author Joel Kotkin provides incisive analyses of the factors that are destroying the middle and working class in America and the Western world. We recommend looking into his work. Here at GOUSA we are seeking to reverse those trends by developing an agenda for broad-based…
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American history: “Don’t tell me what to think; teach me how to think” by Phyllis Payne
During my years in school the American history textbooks I studied portrayed American leaders as heroic and American culture as ideal. This was indeed the history of old white men. It was very simple and boring. We memorized dates and events. There were few controversies.…
Poll Demonstrates Exactly What’s Wrong with Government and Politics in America
Left-wing progressives don’t care for America. But it is left-wing progressives that are in charge of all of our major institutions. How crazy is it that our country is governed by people who don’t care for it? A new poll by Echelon insights asks penetrating…
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Poll: Most Americans See the Federal Government as Hurting, Not Helping
GOUSA believes that the role of government is to create greater opportunity for all Americans. Unfortunately, Washington and the Biden Administration is hurting, not helping the average American. That needs to change. A new poll from Monmouth University shows that most Americans believe that the…
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House Passes Bill for More Intrusive Surveillance after Buffalo
H.R.350 would empower Homeland Security and Justice with new authority to monitor domestic terrorism with heavy emphasis on “white supremacists” a.k.a. “Trump Supporters”. Just what we need, more authority and power to federal law enforcement to surveil Americans and monitor their speech on the road…
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Approval Ratings of Disney Corp Plummet as Company Goes Woke
Hard to tell if the management of Disney Corp. is more dopey or goofy but they certainly are woke and fast going broke. A new poll finds that only 33 percent of Americans have a favorable view of the entertainment giant. We blogged in April…
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COVID Collaborators Must Be Held Accountable
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 COVID-19 vaccine to adults who can’t receive mRNA…
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Democrat House Organ Plays Biden Funeral Dirge
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: “In 2020, Biden was a political juggernaut in…
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Russia’s Failures in Ukraine War Demonstrates the Superiority of Capitalism Over Socialism
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 thought that Russia would simply roll over Ukraine. …
Get Woke and Go Broke: Disney Style
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 Industrial Average. Over the past year the value…
Trains, Planes, Bus Mask Mandates found Illegal…finally!
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 von Spakovsky, Manager, Election Law Reform Initiative and…
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Biden Policies Hasten Decline of Economic Freedom in the United States
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 a more socialistic economy. The Heritage Foundation’s Index…
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CENTRAL PLANNING & COVID by Jim Avallon
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 Times by Li Yuan, 4-13-22 : ”China’s ‘Zero-Covid’…
Biden, Fed Inflationary Policies Hurt the Poor the Most
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. That is, while Biden and the Federal Reserve…
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Maine doctor highlights COVID treatment injustice in ME, praises NH
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 health and treatment opportunities and against the COVID…
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Yet Another Poll Shows Republicans Have a Golden Opportunity To Appeal to Young Voters
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 — or shall we say GRAND — opportunity that…
Biden’s Wild Gyrations on Ukraine Put America and the World at Risk
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 to change their objectives from conquering the entire…
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Harvard Student Blasts School’s Insane COVID Policies, Conformity and Condescension
“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 and vaccination policies on students with harsh consequences…
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Senate Votes to Repeal Transport Mask Mandates (Even Some Democrats)
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 Call (below) it may not pass the House…
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Senator Rick Scott Releases His Rescue America Plan
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 team have dug into the details and came…
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Princeton Professor: America Needs an Opportunity Party. We Agree!
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 about his love for the United States. …
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How Big Tech Oppresses the Working Class
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 deprivation of funds to the truckers protesting against…
Green Hypocrisy: EU Style
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 to reports, yachts are exempt from the tax.…
The Woke War on the Working Class
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 the last twenty years, the top 10 percent…
Obama Treasury Secretary: Excessive Gov’t Spending Causing Inflation
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 economics profession and has held important roles in…
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Is Another Scandal Brewing at the Federal Reserve?
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 year the Federal Reserve System was rocked by…
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CBO: Biden’s Build Back Better Plan Creates a $3.0 Trillion Budget Gap
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 next ten years. Far from costing nothing, the…
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Tony Fauci Does Not Represent Science
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 claiming that they are “really criticizing science because…
Wokeism: A Guide
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 writes: We decided to publish the Woke Religion…
What Makes America Great? The Opportunity to Find Meaning in Many Aspects of Life
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. Critics of American society often claim that Americans…
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Biden Intensifies the Class Divide
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 the energy industry, growing an already bloated government,…
Obama Advisor Says Biden’s Policies Have Made the Economy Worse
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 terms of both inflation and unemployment. Writing in…
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