The Senate Finance Committee convened last week to examine “work and Social Security disability benefits, focusing on addressing challenges and creating opportunities.” Throughout this hearing, the committee took every opportunity possible to illuminate the program’s inaccessibility and ineffectiveness. Social Security is deeply broken. Committee Chairman Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR), in several of his statements throughout […]
Rep. John Curtis’s (R-UT) victory in the Republican primary to replace Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) over former President Donald Trump’s endorsed candidate shows a way for the Republican Party to move forward following the current divisiveness. Curtis won the primary easily, with nearly 51% of the vote over Trump-backed candidate Trent Staggs, who had about […]
Hillary Clinton wrote an embarrassing guest essay in the New York Times yesterday rife with both humorous and disingenuous jabs at former President Donald Trump. The piece was theoretically about strategies President Joe Biden could employ during the presidential debate on Thursday night, but it quickly morphed into something else. Clinton essentially rifled through all […]
President Joe Biden’s refusal to even attempt to secure the southern border is getting people killed, and it may just be breathing life into terrorist threats on U.S. soil as well. The Department of Homeland Security has reportedly identified at least 400 illegal immigrants from Central Asia who have crossed the southern border by way […]
The visit of Japanese Emperor Naruhito to Buckingham Palace Tuesday included a lavish formal dinner sufficient to make any Republican’s hair rise. While the opulence of these monarchs is obvious, it is necessary to remember that power and tyranny can come in forms without crowns. Emperor Naruhito and King Charles are defanged, compared to the […]
Two decades ago, between 1998 and 2003, the budget of the National Institutes of Health was doubled. This was an extraordinary enterprise after the multi-year post-Cold War decline in defense spending and at a time when government agency budgets tended to be increased marginally or carried over from previous years. It was a bipartisan project, […]
MCCONNELLSBURG, Pennsylvania — One hundred eighty-two miles from the Ohio state line and 172 miles from the entrance to the Philadelphia neighborhood of Fishtown sits this tiny Fulton County borough in a 2-mile-wide valley between Tuscarora Mountain and Meadow Grounds Mountain. Across Pennsylvania, the residents’ biggest concerns are often ones not discussed by the national […]
With Texas job growth exceeding national averages, Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) has announced $6.3 million for innovative workforce development initiatives, underscoring a commitment to equipping Texans with skills crucial for the state’s thriving economy. The Texas Talent Connection Grant Program, created by House Bill 1755 during the 88th Texas Legislature, is designed to aid “innovative […]
NY Post readers discuss District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s decision to drop charges against 31 anti-Israel protesters and the MTA’s decision to stop an ADA...
Does former Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) know anything about the history of the Supreme Court? Given the former speaker’s recent comments about the Supreme Court issuing a ruling that goes against the precedent of a previous case, it’s a legitimate question to ask. Her remarks suggested she was not aware of court rulings reversing precedent […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is in trouble as he faces a series of unwinnable dilemmas. His situation has only been worsened by the Israeli Supreme Court’s decision on Tuesday to strike down the ultra-Orthodox community’s draft exception. Many Israel Defense Forces reservists have had to serve two or three tours in Gaza as the […]
As much as he may cry that the campaign arm of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee spent millions against him, Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) has no one but himself to blame for his primary loss Tuesday night. The former middle school principal who ousted longtime incumbent Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY) in a shocking upset […]
It surprises most people outside the American West to learn that fully one-third of the nation’s land mass is owned by the federal government. It is much more than that in some states: over 80% of Nevada is federally owned as is over 60% of Alaska, Idaho, and Utah. Even in Western states where federal […]
