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As Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer decides whether to hold a vote on legislation aimed at forcing more competition on big tech firms, he's become the beneficiary of a wave of personal donations from lobbyists for the internet giants. After receiving no money from any of the top lobbyists for Apple Inc., Amazon.com Inc. or Alphabet Inc. in the two previous election cycles going back to 2017, Schumer's attracted some $30,000 in direct donations to his campaign from the lobbyists and executives of the companies opposed to a bill that would curb how the platforms operate. It's a sign of stepped-up lobbying and donations by individuals as the power of the technology giants comes under scrutiny on Capitol Hill, a Bloomberg News review of giving shows. Congress is considering the American Choice and Innovation Online Act sponsored by Minnesota Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar to prevent companies from using their platforms to disadvantage rivals. Klobuchar's antitrust bill … [Read more...] about Big Tech has a message for Schumer: We come bearing gifts

close Video Rowe slams leftist push to eradicate fossil fuels: 'Will hurt on every imaginable level' FOX Business host Mike Rowe joined 'The Brian Kilmeade Show' to discuss challenges associated with the push for renewable energy sources. NEW You can now listen to Fox News articles! We heard a lot from Democrats, President Joe Biden, the media, and environmentalists about how great the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) will be for climate change. Curiously, it was crickets over the new law’s central claim — that it will reduce inflation. It won’t. But one thing this massive tax-and-spend behemoth will do — aside from unleashing 87,000 new IRS agents on middle-class taxpayers and small business owners — is extend direct subsidies for electric vehicles (EVs). CALIFORNIANS ARE BEING ASKED TO CONSERVE ELECTRICITY AHEAD OF HEAT WAVE Direct federal subsidies for EVs under a law passed in 2010 amounted to $7,500 per vehicle. But … [Read more...] about Electric vehicle subsidies take cash from ordinary Americans to benefit the rich

Wednesday, FNC host Tucker Carlson opened his broadcast with a scathing critique of the so-called Inflation Reduction Act. According to Carlson, the moniker “inflation reduction” was misinformation, which has been something the Biden administration has proclaimed to be a priority in combatting. Transcript as follows: CARLSON: People say the federal government seems big, maybe bigger than ever. Well, it actually is the largest employer in the world — the Federal government. Nothing else comes close — not Google, not Amazon, not the Communist Party of China — nothing. How many people work for the United States government? Let’s put it this way. There are more than a hundred countries around the world whose total populations (that is, every man, woman and child) are smaller than our Federal workforce — entire countries, many of them. The US government, in other words, is astoundingly large, world historically big, scale without precedent, truly gargantuan. So, what do all … [Read more...] about FNC’s Carlson: ‘Inflation Reduction Act May Be a Classic Example of Misinformation’

by BEN HUR LAMPMAN HIM and her, living all by theirselves there on the upper river, with the young ones growed up and gone, they kept right on a-setting considerable store by Christmas. Yes, sir, the old man and the old woman, they was great hands for to keep Christmas. He would cut a young fir and stand it by the south kitchen window, and the old woman would string popcorn — they growed all their own popcorn — and fetch out the busted trinkets and trim it. By a-doing so, a man’s got to suppose, they figgered somehow the children still was with them. And besides it give them two a rest from a-jowering and a-jawing one at tother the whole eternal time. But the time a man recollects best was that time the old man taken it into his head for to play Sandy Claus for the old woman. Some says the minister give him the red suit, and there’s some tells that the old man sneaked it home from a rummage sale. There wasn’t no whiskers to it. No matter, it was all wore out and most of the … [Read more...] about How Sandy Claus Come to the River

Joe Klecko has been waiting for his moment since the former Jets defensive star was first eligible to be elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. The moment finally came on Wednesday as Klecko, now 68, found out he was a finalist on the senior ballot and will likely be headed to Canton, Ohio as part of the 2023 Pro Football Hall of Fame class. But instead of being at home waiting for the official announcement, Klecko was getting a scheduled MRI done in the afternoon. He found out he had made the cut by checking his phone after the procedure. “I never knew your phone could catch on fire,” Klecko joked when he talked to the media Thursday at Jets training camp. “I had 65 text messages on my phone and I don’t think I’ve ever seen that in my life.” Klecko, along with former Chicago Bears and Dallas Cowboys linebacker Chuck Howley and former Bengals cornerback Ken Riley were announced as the three senior finalists for the Pro Football Hall of Fame Wednesday. Klecko will be … [Read more...] about Joe Klecko knows better than to celebrate Hall of Fame induction too early

Ahead of the passage of the $700 billion Inflation Reduction Act, Ford Motor Company and General Motors raised the prices of their electric vehicles, eliminating the potential benefit of the bill’s $7,500 electric vehicle tax credit. Ford announced last week it would raise the prices of most of its F-150 Lightning electric vehicles between $6,000 and $8,500, and General Motors increased the price of its electric Hummer by $6,250. The two auto companies blamed higher material costs for the increase in prices. “Due to significant material cost increases and other factors, Ford has adjusted MSRP starting with the opening of the next wave of F-150 Lightning orders,” Ford explained . President Joe Biden signs the Democrats’ landmark climate change and health care bill in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2022, as from left, Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y., House Majority Whip Rep. James Clyburn, … [Read more...] about Rising Costs Wipe Out Benefit of ‘Inflation Reduction’ Act’s $7,500 Electric Vehicle Credit