The dust has settled on the raucous start to the 118th Congress. Now, the slim Republican House majority under Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s leadership must step up and show the voters it is serious about governing. The newly adopted rules, under which both sides of the aisle must operate for the next two years, will aid the GOP […]
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Jan
Jan
With all due respect to the late, great Frank Sinatra, it cannot be said of 2022 that “it was a very good year.” To the contrary, to borrow from the title of a children’s book, 2022 was in many ways “a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad” year. But 2023 holds out promise to be […]
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Jan
Jan
The House adjourned yesterday without picking a new speaker as Rep. Kevin McCarthy failed to win a majority on three ballots. This is just the eighth time in history a Speaker has not been chosen after three ballots. After the second ballot, McCarthy insisted to reporters that the party is “unified.” As this is going to a […]
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Dec
Dec
A new Congressional Budget Office report projects an even more dire outlook for Social Security’s future than was previously calculated. Without action to fix the situation, huge benefit cuts for recipients will begin in 2033. And preventing those cuts will require massive tax increases for working Americans beginning immediately. In contrast to the Social Security trustees’ own projections, […]
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Dec
Dec
Twitter’s suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story may or may not have swung the 2020 election in Joe Biden’s favor, but the new “Twitter Files” are shining a glaring light on the FBI’s influence on Twitter and other Big Tech companies, which put its attempt to discredit the Hunter Biden laptop story in perspective. Sens. Chuck […]
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Dec
Dec
(BPT) – It’s been well-established that physical activity like walking, yoga and going to a fitness center has many health benefits for older adults. These include better sleep, less anxiety and reduced risk of heart disease, along with many other benefits that may improve overall health. But what if physical activity could help older adults […]
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Dec
Dec
Sam Bankman-Fried was arrested on Monday in the Bahamas at the request of the U.S. government, U.S. and Bahamian authorities, on federal charges filed in the U.S. The indictment in U.S. District Court in Manhattan charges Bankman-Fried with eight criminal counts: conspiracy to commit wire fraud and securities fraud, individual charges of securities fraud and wire fraud, […]
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Dec
Dec
Outgoing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has issued an ultimatum to House and Senate negotiators of the year-end omnibus bill that either they “reach a solution” or else the House will “have no choice” but to just pass the same omnibus bill they passed last year via a year-long continuing resolution until Sept. 30, 2023, effectively freezing […]
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Dec
Dec
The Pentagon’s new China Military Power Report provides troubling insights on the extent of the growth of the communist regime’s nuclear arsenal. It describes a nation bent on multiplying its nuclear forces. First and foremost, the 2022 report reveals that China could field 1,500 nuclear weapons by 2035. This effectively would equal the nuclear arsenal of the […]
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Dec
Dec
Senate conservatives are trying to tighten the screws on Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) and other GOP colleagues in hopes of blocking a year-end omnibus spending bill, threatening to drag out the floor debate right up until Christmas if necessary. The new push from conservatives to instead pass a stop-gap spending bill freezing federal […]