Before July 13, almost nobody had heard of Darline Graham Nordone, but now she is a U.S. senator. How did she get the job? By being the sister of Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), who held the seat until his death on July 11. This reeks of nepotism. Critics say it looks like a hereditary monarchy, […]
Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) again acquiesced to her socialist overlords this week when she issued the nation’s first statewide moratorium on data center construction. Hochul was immediately thanked by socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), who is pushing her own national data center ban in Congress. Hochul’s infrastructure-development moratorium comes just weeks after she agreed to […]
The Trump administration’s latest firing of a U.S. attorney is intensifying the Justice Department’s assertion of presidential control over prosecutorial picks. Roger Rogoff was sacked Wednesday as the top federal prosecutor in Seattle after a panel of 17 judges appointed him. The firing made good on the warning from acting Attorney General Todd Blanche that the...
House Republican leaders are already starting to float reconciliation 4.0 — even with a third party-line budget bill barely out of the gate and facing an uncertain future. The idea for a fourth bill that utilizes the special process that enables budget-related legislation to get through Congress with only Republican votes comes as many House...
The House Republican leadership’s proposal for a $95 billion budget reconciliation package —which would include $73 billion to help pay for the Iran war and $10 billion for election reforms — is running into staunch opposition from Senate Republicans. Senate Republicans say the proposal has little chance of passing the upper chamber, even though President...
Every week political cartoonists throughout the country and across the political spectrum apply their ink-stained skills to capture the foibles, memes, hypocrisies and other...
President Trump promised a speech Thursday night on pitfalls in election security, but first served up a full-throated commendation of his second-term agenda.