“The far right made big gains in European elections,” reads the Associated Press’s headline on last week’s elections to the European Union parliament. Lest you wonder why you should dread gains by the “far right,” the lead sentence of the article notes that the EU has “roots in the defeat of Nazi Germany and fascist […]
New York Democratic Rep. Jamaal Bowman is currently positioned to lose his primary for reelection to a pro-Israel challenger. Bowman, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, has held his seat since 2021 and is an outspoken voice in the far-left “Squad.” However, numerous bad headlines caused by Bowman’s poor decisions have caused his […]
Democratic politicians want black people to think society is rigged against them so they must be dependent on the Democratic Party’s political success. Polling shows how that is playing out and what the party’s formula is for making that happen. Pew detailed how “most black Americans believe racial conspiracy theories about U.S. institutions” in a […]
Four Democratic campaign officials in Bridgeport, Connecticut, were arrested and charged with election fraud Tuesday in relation to the 2019 mayoral primary race in which incumbent Mayor Joe Ganim defeated state Sen. Marilyn Moore by only 270 votes. City Councilman Alfredo Castillo, Bridgeport Democratic Town Committee Vice Chairperson Wanda Geter-Pataky, and two other campaign workers […]
Former President Donald Trump’s choice of a running mate has ramifications far beyond short-term political advantage. Trump has not exactly established a clear vision for his second term in the Oval Office. His campaign has largely relied on criticism of President Joe Biden, but has few well-defined proposed solutions. Trump has contradicted himself numerous times on how […]
Citizens Against Government Waste, the organization dedicated to ending wasteful government spending with its mascot “Pigfoot,” released its Congressional Pig Book on Wednesday, a list of earmarks hidden in bills each fiscal year. Since its inception in fiscal 1991, CAGW has identified 132,434 earmarks costing taxpayers $460.3 billion. This year, it identified 8,222 earmarks costing […]
In its penultimate Summary of Economic Projections before this year’s Election Day, participating members of the Federal Open Market Committee announced they anticipate just one 25-basis point cut to the federal funds rate this year. A single cut, likely at the Federal Reserve‘s final FOMC meeting of the year, would mean interest rates would remain […]
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) met with Senate Republicans Wednesday to begin setting an ambitious agenda for Washington if Donald Trump is elected president and Republicans win back control of the Senate and keep their House majority. GOP lawmakers are growing increasingly confident about their prospects in the November election given President Biden’s low approval numbers...
Attorney General Merrick Garland accused Republicans of wielding their power as a “partisan weapon” after all but one GOP member voted to hold him in contempt of Congress. “It is deeply disappointing that this House of Representatives has turned a serious congressional authority into a partisan weapon. Today’s vote disregards the constitutional separation of powers,...
Thousands of Southern Baptists voted to oppose the use of in vitro fertilization (IVF) during a national convention on Wednesday. Attendees at the Southern Baptist Convention voted to approve a resolution “On the Ethical Realities of Reproductive Technologies and the Dignity of the Human Embryo” Wednesday afternoon after hearing from many people about their own...