At least one Republican has concerns following the vote to remove Ilhan Omar from the Foreign Affairs Committee. Ultimately, Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., joined his colleagues to punish Omar. But the decision has left him anxious about the future. “I voted with the majority on that matter, but I can’t say that it was the […]
The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) analyzed Russian customs data showing how the Chinese dragon has stealthily propped up the floundering Russian bear. Despite an array of sanctions imposed on Russia by the West, Beijing has provided the Kremlin with crucial military technology to sustain its war of aggression. WSJ explains: The customs records show Chinese […]
Video footage from the skies above Billings, Montana, shows what some are calling a debris trail followed by a possible explosion. As it went viral, the city of Billings’ official Twitter account responded to the video and rampant speculation, clarifying that its leaders were in contact with Gov. Greg Gianforte (R) and Montana Disaster Emergency […]
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Rep. Victoria Spartz, R-Ind., won’t be returning to Congress after her current term ends. Spartz announced her decision to retire from the U.S. House of Representatives Friday afternoon. The two-term congresswoman also passed on running for Indiana’s open Senate seat. Per The Hill: “It’s been my honor representing Hoosiers in the Indiana State Senate and […]
A U.S. court ruled Thursday that the federal government can’t stop people with domestic violence restraining orders from owning guns. The three-judge panel called the 1994 law an “outlier that our ancestors wouldn’t have accepted.” The Fifth District Court of Appeal’s ruling doesn’t affect similar state laws. However, proponents of the right to bear arms […]
Neither Republicans nor Democrats appear willing to even consider the most modest of changes to the federal government’s programs – Social Security and Medicare. These most sacred of political cows are off limits because neither party wants to be tagged as the guys who cut grandma’s benefits. While this is a case study of why […]
For the next two decades, a wide swath of resource-rich land crucial to our national defense will be tantalizingly out of reach. The Department of the Interior recently announced a 20-year mining ban for the entire Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness watershed. The watershed extends well beyond the already protected Voyageurs National Park. Officials in […]
Federal authorities arrested former ABC News investigative journalist James Gordon Meek on criminal charges related to the alleged transportation of images of child sex abuse. According to the DOJ, the case against Meek was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in May 2006 by the DOJ to combat the growing […]
America’s top diplomat is suspending his high-stakes visit to China after a suspected surveillance balloon was discovered loitering above nuclear missile silos in Montana. Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s trip to Beijing hoped to stabilize U.S.-Chinese relations at a time when a future conflict between the two nations seems more likely than not. Per Fox […]
Beijing admits the balloon is theirs, but… Senior Defense Department officials revealed to the world Thursday night that the military had detected a suspected Chinese-operated surveillance balloon hundreds of miles inside U.S. airspace, well above the altitude of commercial air traffic. The Pentagon spotted the giant balloon over an Air Force base in Montana that […]
Inflation Cools – But Workers Continue to Lose Ground
Inflation has cooled since last summer – a welcome relief for consumers nationwide. But that doesn’t mean your dollars are going father today than they did in June or July. According to new government data, wages and benefits – the Employment Cost Index – wage earners are still losing ground to inflation: Nationwide, wages and […]