A federal court on Monday declared that President Joe Biden’s team went too far in imposing new water and energy regulations on the two machines that make life easier, dishwashers and washing machines. In ruling against Biden, the New Orleans-based 5th Circuit Court of Appeals said former President Donald Trump’s administration got it right when […]
A bipartisan group of senators is trying to hash out a deal on extending some of the Republican tax cuts from 2017. If Congress does nothing, the child tax credit will drop down to $1,000 per child from its current level of $2,000. Some lawmakers want to expand the child tax credit massively. Others don’t. […]
California’s budget shortfall has the state facing the possibility of even more budget cuts. Instead, California Democrats are considering raiding education funds to keep up their irresponsible spending. California is facing a $68 billion budget shortfall as Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) prepares to present his proposed budget. This comes as California’s Medi-Cal program is about […]
After years of the United States waiting on tenterhooks for the Chinese economy to surpass our own, it increasingly seems that day may never arrive. In the immediate term, the West may exhale a great sigh of relief as it thanks Chinese President Xi Jinping‘s relentless and idiotic pursuit of “zero COVID,” which resulted in […]
Over at the New York Times, David Leonhardt does an excellent job distilling a slew of studies about the SAT exam for a layman’s audience. Contrary to the claims of the members of the activist class who are currently winning their war on the college admissions exam, the SAT, Leonhardt explains as he digs through […]
Parents with two children in college this year will get a shock when they see their federal financial awards and learn that even if their income and assets remained the same, they are expected to pay twice as much in tuition, thanks to a new law that just went into effect. The “sibling discount” is […]
A U.S. citizen who publicly reunited with his mother in Russia a few years ago was arrested Tuesday in Moscow on drug charges that can carry a 20-year prison sentence. The arrest comes as the U.S. State Department has warned Americans to leave Russia, pointing to risks of wrongful detentions amid deep tensions caused by...
Rep. Greg Pence (R-Ind.) on Tuesday announced he will retire from Congress at the end of the term, capping six years in the lower chamber. "In 2017, I ran for Congress because I was Ready to Serve Again," Pence wrote in a statement on X, formerly known as Twitter. "As a former Marine Officer, I...