New Jersey's governor on Thursday called on the state's lieutenant governor, Dale Caldwell, to resign by Friday after a law firm hired by her office concluded he violated the state's ethics and discrimination rules.
TRUMP, THE MIDTERM ELECTIONS, CONGRESS, AND THE WAR. In 2002, in the run-up to the war in Iraq, President George W. Bush went through a long and elaborate process to secure the approval of Congress for going to war. On Oct. 10, 2002, the House passed an Authorization for the Use of Military Force by a […]
Chukwunonso Eze entered the U.S. on a tourist visa in 2015 and received deferred action under both Biden and Trump before he allegedly killed a UMass Dartmouth football player.
You might expect a movement labeling itself as “progressive” to avoid using 19th-century, Confederate-style, and pro-slavery arguments to defend its positions. However, you would be underestimating the level of atrophy progressive minds have experienced in recent years due to the mere existence of President-elect Donald Trump. Brian Tyler Cohen, a progressive commentator and MSNBC contributor, […]
President-elect Donald Trump may face serious confirmation battles for even some of his nominees who aren’t as high profile as Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Tulsi Gabbard, and Pete Hegseth. For example, consider Matt Whitaker, Trump’s nominee to be ambassador to NATO. When push comes to shove, Whitaker may be confirmed. Not, however, without controversy. Whitaker […]
Rep. Nancy Mace‘s (R-SC) resolution requiring members of Congress to use the bathrooms and other single-sex facilities that correspond with their biology caused quite a stir. Less than two days after it was introduced, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson announced a change to the facility rules, saying: “All single-sex facilities in the Capitol and House Office Buildings […]
WITH RAGING WARS AND AN ADDLED PRESIDENT, IT’S A PERILOUS MOMENT. Navy Adm. Samuel Paparo is head of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command. In Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, he took part in a discussion at the liberal Brookings Institution. Paparo discussed at length the military strength of China — he called it “the most capable potential adversary […]
Abortion advocacy has taken another dark turn. It remains explicitly anti-life, of course, yet now doubly so as the movement seeks to abandon hope of compromise. All the while, proponents draw some similarities with their pro-life counterparts. Enlightening reporting from Vox reveals that abortion advocacy groups are content to wait out the incoming Republican administration […]
Rocky is one of the best, if not the best, sports movie franchises in history. Ignoring Rocky V, which, like the third Godfather movie, doesn’t exist, these films continue to inspire, motivate, and entertain generations of adoring fans. To this day, the highlight for many visitors to Philadelphia remains running up the famous steps of […]
President Joe Biden began his presidential campaign by promising to eliminate $20,000 in student loans for borrowers in the country. He’s ending his term by seeking to cancel billions of dollars in Ukraine’s debt from its war with Russia. After years of record-breaking inflation, caused partly by reckless government spending and implementing policies that added […]
Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) wants to make it unsustainable for people to drive gas cars. The resulting policy effects make it so that rich people can drive gas cars while the poor and the middle class get priced out and forced into less desirable alternatives. The California Air Resources Board voted to pass new fuel […]
The Pentagon’s Unidentified Flying Object analysis division, the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, delivered its annual report this week. AARO’s director, Jon Kosloski, also briefed the Senate on AARO’s work. Kosloski has shown a more open-minded, less arrogant approach toward his work than his predecessor, Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick, did. Speaking to the media last week, Kosloski […]
Henry Gunther was killed at 10:59 a.m. on Nov. 11, 1918, the last fatality of World War I. The former bank clerk from Baltimore was charging a German machine-gun emplacement in eastern France, possibly because he wanted to redeem himself after being reduced in rank from sergeant to private. There had been heavy fighting throughout […]
