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The union representing pilots for American Airlines warned the company that it will face severe staffing shortages if it continues to enforce President Joe Biden’s coronavirus vaccine mandate. American Airlines, along with most other airlines, announced that all employees must be vaccinated by the end of November or face termination...

President Joe Biden and his administration have bungled a number of vital economic affairs in a stunning display of incompetence. Now, as America's infrastructure decays and its economy declines, it appears that we will soon face the consequences of his decisions. Last week's deflating September jobs report showed the weakness of...

(Headline USA) A cabal of liberal bureaucrats, leftist activists and career politicians has endorsed a scheme for wresting even more money from large companies and their stockholders, including a 15% minimum corporate tax rate that could haul in hundreds of billions of dollars for government spending sprees around the...

A shocking video by Twitter user Youssef Disla shows gas prices at a California gas station reaching nearly $8.50 per gallon. It comes as a nationwide surge brings new pain to the pump atop already exorbitant prices. However, the White House said Thursday that no action will be taken at this...

Job creation in September came up well short of the anticipated numbers once again, MSNBC reported. With an increase of merely 194,000 jobs according to the Labor Department---well under the predicted 500,000---economists have once again failed to explain what is wrong with the US economy. "This is quite a deflating report,"...

President Joe Biden has selected an ardent Marxist, Saule Omarova, who went to Moscow State University under a scholarship named after communist dictator V.I. Lenin and wrote her thesis on Karl Marx, as U.S. controller of the currency, responsible for supervision of banks in the United States. The appointment has...

(Headline USA) Some Democrats think they may have found a 'silver bullet' in the ongoing impasse over the debt limit---except the bullet is made of platinum. Left-wing radicals have proposed minting a $1 trillion coin and using it to flood the treasury with cash. Notwithstanding the fact that such a move...

(Headline USA) The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits rose for the third straight week, a sign that Democrats in control of the government who plan to blow out federal spending --- riding inflation to new highs --- are slowing a recovery in the job market. Claims rose unexpectedly by...

A prominent U.S. Senator just called the head of the nation’s central bank “dangerous.” Unfortunately, the true dangers of U.S. monetary and fiscal policy were lost on everyone involved. On Tuesday, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell testified before the Senate Banking Committee, where Senator Elizabeth Warren led the left wing of...

(Casey Harper, The Center Square) New polling on President Joe Biden’s federal vaccine mandate shows the majority of Americans do not think unvaccinated workers should lose their jobs. Convention of States Action released the poll Wednesday, which reports that 65% of surveyed voters “do not believe Americans should lose their jobs...

(Headline USA) AT&T has become one of the largest employers in the U.S. to mandate vaccines for a significant number of frontline workers. The telecom company said Wednesday that its employees in the Communications Workers of America union will be required to be fully vaccinated by Feb. 1, “unless they...

(Brad Polumbo, Foundation for Economic Education) Ayn Rand famously quipped, “You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.” White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki’s latest viral flub seems perfectly calibrated to confirm the late author’s wise words. At a Monday press conference, Psaki was confronted by journalists...