14,200 fewer drug overdose deaths through the first two months of President Trump’s campaign projects to greater than 85,000 fewer lives lost to illicit drugs over a full year. There’s been much debate about the legality of the president’s campaign, whether it’s warranted, etc. These remarkable early figures speak for themselves.

It was a wild ride for the major indexes in effectively ending the week where they started, but that’s essentially what happened. A significant early week relief rally on news of a deal to end the longest partial government shutdown in history gave way to significant selling of big tech/AI names as concerns of a potential bubble with related companies led to a short-lived selloff that abated by the end of the week.

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It’s time for Florida to win at everything. It’s what Governor DeSantis has proposed that we do. It’s something that’s demonstrably possible for us to do. So, the question is who will you support? What is it you will support? The answer should be obvious.

Its clear President Trump has chosen to use the effective lessons of the past as a strategy to deal with current day challenges as well...and as noted – it's already proven to be a profitable strategy

Interview: End of the Filibuster? ACA Tax Credits? What's Next After the End of the Shutdown w/Jon Decker

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The average age of the fallen is 41; the average tour-of-duty is 12 years. In addition to losing 80 law enforcement professionals in the line-of-duty this year, there are 55 widows and 134 children who’ve lost a parent. Remember to back the badge and spread the word. They need us just as much as we need them.

For 43 days 34% of the federal government was offline and the impact on the average American remained...absolutely nothing. In the end only about 27% of Americans felt a direct impact from the longest federal government shutdown in American history that proved to be every bit as stupid as every shutdown before it because we’re exactly where we were before, which has always been the case when these have happened before.

You’ve raised a great point that dates back to the original Barrack Obama lie that under the “Affordable Care Act”, “if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor and if you like your healthcare plan, you can keep your healthcare plan”. The first of many lies made by President Obama and Democrats was so pervasive, Politifact cited 37 times Obama made that statement publicly in attempting to rally the support for the ACA to get it through congress – and it was Politifact’s Lie of the Year in 2013.