Imagine being in so much credit card debt that the finance charges alone are the third-largest item in your monthly budget. That’s precisely where the federal government is today because the spendthrifts in Congress and the White House have put $34.4 trillion on the nation’s credit card. And whether you know it or not, you’re […]
Geopolitical tensions have heightened greatly in the past few years, and the U.S. has been involved in all of the major theaters, doling out conspicuous amounts of aid to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan. Now, Congress is considering providing these countries with even more aid in a $95 billion bill that includes assistance for each of […]
This week in Beijing, the Chinese Communist Party-controlled National People’s Congress, a rubber-stamp legislature, set out President Xi Jinping’s policy goals for 2024. Premier Li Qiang announced that China would set a GDP growth target of around 5%. China wants technological supremacy over the United States and other nations and proposes to increase research and development spending […]
The U.S. added 275,000 jobs in February as the unemployment rate rose to 3.9 percent, according to data released Friday by the Labor Department. The February jobs report defied the expectations of economists, who projected a gain of 200,000 jobs with the jobless rate staying even at 3.7 percent, according to consensus estimates. The February...
Plastic pollution is everywhere. We eat it. We drink it. We breathe it. It is on the summit of Mount Everest and at the bottom of the oceans. Not only is it in human breast milk, but, according to one study, the average person now ingests as much as a credit card’s worth of plastic (5...
The Equal Rights Amendment is supported by 85 percent of Americans at a moment when division and polarization are at an all-time high. It has cleared each of the deliberately high bars set for it by the framers. It must now be recognized for what it is: the 28th Amendment to the Constitution.