New Congressional Budget Office projections for Social Security and Medicare ought to convince President Joe Biden and Congress to create a new commission on entitlement reform.
With the West set to provide Ukraine with around 100 tanks, Russia faces yet another challenge in its struggling war in Ukraine. Attempting to alleviate this pressure, Vladimir Putin's government is escalating its brinkmanship. The Kremlin wants to scare European nations in pursuit of two objectives. First, their reduced support for Ukraine. Second, their pressuring of the U.S. to make Ukraine agree to a cease-fire on terms favorable to Russia.
How did it come to pass that public employee unions, which scarcely existed 60 years ago, have come to run public schools and myriad state and local government agencies?
Philadelphia is experiencing a crime wave like no other in its over 300-year history. Theft, muggings, assaults, carjackings, and homicides are all plaguing the city's communities. And, while these stories continue to humiliate Philadelphia, Democratic government officials continue to sit idly by, silently giving their consent to the policies that have turned the city's jails into doors.
The controversy over the removal of Democrats from their committee assignments ought to be a cautionary tale for President Joe Biden’s party on how to handle Rep. George Santos (R-NY).
In the name of gender affirmation, prisons are putting men in women’s facilities and enabling rapists in the process. A slew of recent cases has either seen male rapists placed in women’s prisons or men convicted of other crimes placed into women’s prisons, who went on to rape thereafter, claiming they identified as women.
Correcting weeks of hesitating delay and deceptive excuses, President Joe Biden announced Wednesday that the United States would provide 31 M1A2 Abrams tanks to Ukraine. He noted that this would allow Ukraine to form a new armored battalion. Alongside the 12 Challenger-2 tanks that the United Kingdom has already pledged to provide Ukraine, Biden said Europe would supply Ukraine with an additional two battalions worth of Leopard-2 tanks. In total, Ukraine is set to receive just over 100 of the most modern Western battle tanks. The first Leopard-2 tanks should have trained crews within eight weeks. Unfortunately, Germany says it will take at least three months for the first tanks to be delivered.
Should the Chinese Communist Party use the brutal force of the state to protect your children from bad cultural influences? Or should you be left to the wolves, trying to navigate the modern world without support?
U.S. DISARMS ITSELF TO AID UKRAINE. The United States has shipped massive amounts of military aid to Ukraine since the Russian invasion in February 2022. There has been bipartisan support on Capitol Hill for the aid, although some Republicans have questioned the price tag — $27.5 billion so far in military aid, or "security assistance" alone, which does not include tens of billions in financial, humanitarian, and other types of aid. Some GOP lawmakers have also expressed concern about the lack of safeguards in sending so much money to a notoriously corrupt country.
House Democrats may not like it, but House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) has every good reason to deny Reps. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and Eric Swalwell (D-CA) seats on the House Intelligence Committee.