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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) introduced legislation on Thursday to eliminate the Department of Education, a move that would have the support of President-elect Trump. The proposal would get rid of the federal agency and move all critical programs to other departments. “The federal Department of Education has never educated a single student, and it’s...
A federal grand jury has charged energy company Phillips 66 with illegally dumping large quantities of oil into Los Angeles’s sewer system and failing to report the issue. The Justice Department announced Thursday that a grand jury issued a six-count indictment against the firm for allegedly discharging “hundreds of thousands of gallons” of industrial wastewater...
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Thursday announced plans to shift into two key roles in the next Congress as he prepares to hand over the torch as the upper chamber’s top Republican. McConnell, who first announced he was stepping down from his leadership post in February, said Thursday that he will be heading...
Two House Republicans, Reps. Matt Rosendale (Mont.) and Josh Brecheen (Okla.), are asking the leaders of the House and Senate Armed Services committees to not include provisions in the annual defense authorization bill that expand access to in vitro fertilization (IVF). The Thursday letter to the committee chairs and ranking members, first shared with The...
Rudy Giuliani on Thursday appealed a judge’s decision last month ordering him to turn over most of his assets to two Georgia election workers to satisfy their $146 million defamation judgment. After months of collection efforts, U.S. District Judge Lewis Liman on Oct. 22 ordered Giuliani to hand over his New York apartment, Mercedes-Benz, luxury...