The president of the United States does not have the authority to start a war. That’s Congress’s job. The president, as the commander in chief, does have the right to take immediate action in the case of an emergency when there is no time to wait on Congressional authorization. He does not have the right […]
On Thursday, I wrote a scathing rebuke of Pat McAfee. I thought he had sold his soul to the powers at ESPN and caved to network executive pressure to jettison Aaron Rodgers to the heaps of history of his show for this season. Everything McAfee said this week led me to believe that was the […]
The U.S. Embassy in Colombia is cautioning Americans against using dating apps while in the country, citing eight “suspicious deaths” that authorities believe may be tied to the sites. “The deaths appear to involve either involuntary drugging overdose or are suspected homicides,” the embassy said in a statement. “Criminals use dating apps to lure victims...
Every state in the country has weather advisories this weekend as a major storm moves across the U.S., with the Midwest bracing for an incoming blizzard and dangerously cold temperatures, and the South preparing for tornadoes and power outages. Blizzard and winter storm warnings have been issued across parts of the West and much of...
Rep. Pat Ryan (D-N.Y.) blasted the NFL on Friday, demanding the league end its experiment of placing playoff games on streaming services only, instead of national broadcast television. The wild-card match-up between the Kansas City Chiefs and Miami Dolphins on Saturday will be broadcast on NBC’s streaming service Peacock and nowhere else. It will be...
Despite the fact that greenhouse gas emissions are defined as the greatest threat to human health this century, the social cost of the healthcare industry’s emissions has somehow escaped the interest of the Department of Health and Human Services
Nearly 9 in 10 U.S. homeowners have a mortgage rate below 6 percent, according to a new report from the real estate company Redfin. Some 88.5 percent have a mortgage rate below 6 percent, down from a high of 92.8 percent of homeowners in in the second quarter of 2022, the report found. More than...
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said he is sticking by a top-line spending deal that he struck with congressional Democrats and the White House this month amid calls from hard-line conservatives to scrap the plan and come up with an alternative. “After weeks of hard-fought negotiations, we achieved a strong top-line agreement that allows our appropriations...