SYNDICATION

(By Stan Greer, RealClear Wire) Five years ago this summer, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that government employers across the country may not cut deals with Big Labor officials to fire civil servants for refusing to pay dues or fees to a union they don’t want, and never asked...

(By Adam Andrzejewski, RealClear Wire) In 2021, earmarks returned to Congress. The practice was banned for a decade due to its tendency to fuel corruption, but has since been embraced on a bipartisan basis, leading to extraordinary spending on thousands of pet projects across the country. Open the Books...

(By Jon Miltimore, FEE) CNN reported recently that we may have new culprits for inflation: Beyonce and Taylor Swift. “Taylor Swift and Beyonce are impacting inflation and the GDP with their respective tours,” CNN tweeted with a segment discussing the macroeconomic impact of the tours of the two celebrities. https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1689279139847577600?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1689279139847577600%7Ctwgr%5E45c96798f32f43c9d5beaf9dd2a4d2a509cde7fe%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ffee.org%2Farticles%2Fstop-blaming-inflation-on-taylor-swift-and-beyonce%2F CNN isn’t alone. CNBC made a...

(Headline USA) A legal showdown over the derailed plea deal for Hunter Biden continued Tuesday as prosecutors asserted that an agreement on a gun charge was dead, along with the rest of the deal, as the case makes a major shift into a special-counsel investigation. While the agreement that was supposed...

(Headline USA) Police video released Monday shows Rep. Ronny Jackson, R-Texas, being taken to the ground by officers, profanely berating them and threatening to report them to the governor during an altercation at a rodeo last month. The video has fueled yet another leftist-media feeding frenzy, although accounts of the...

(Headline USA) Fox Corp. said Friday that its chief legal officer who oversaw a $787 million settlement with Dominion Voting Systems over defamation allegations is leaving the company. Viet Dinh, Fox's chief legal and policy officer, will step down effective Dec. 31, the New York-based company said in a statement....

(Headline USA) Two years after President Joe Biden helped foster the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, the United States has begun easing rules that could allow commercial airlines to fly over the country in routes that cut time and fuel consumption for East-West travel. But those shortened flight routes for India and...

(Headline USA) A former high-ranking FBI counterintelligence official involved in the U.S. government’s sham investigation into the Trump campaign’s possible ties to Russia pleaded guilty Tuesday to secretly work for a Russian oligarch. Appearing before a federal judge in New York City, Charles McGonigal, 55, said he was “deeply remorseful” for work he...

(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) The Pentagon has missed half of its deadlines to respond to requests from a Congressional watchdog in the last six months. A report from the Government Accountability Office, the investigative arm of Congress, found that the Department of Defense submitted about half of its agency comments...

(Casey Harper, The Center Square) The Department of Education urged colleges and universities to continue pursuing racial diversity on campus despite a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision deeming the previous affirmative action admissions framework illegal. “The resources issued by the Biden--Harris Administration today will provide college leaders with much-needed clarity on...

(By Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) Another foreign national who entered the U.S. illegally and was released into the country by the Biden administration had an extensive criminal record and was wanted in Venezuela for financing terrorism. In April 2021, Border Patrol agents arrested a Venezuelan national for illegal entry...

(By Adam Andrzejewski, RealClear Wire) The U.S. government spends about $7 billion each year to rent millions of square feet of office space that is all but left empty, according to the Wall Street Journal. The Journal cited a recent Government Accountability Office report, which studied the usage of government...