(By Andrew Hoehn & Thom Shanker, RealClear Wire) The recent NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, left the world asking a hard question: “Are we in a new Cold War with Russia?” Our answer is to a different, and harder, and more important question: Is Russia already at war with...
(By Adam Andrzejewski, RealClear Wire) After three decades of court battles, New York City is paying out $1.8 billion over allegations its teachers’ certification test was biased against minorities. Some minority participants who failed the exam are expected to collect up to $2 million, according to the New York...
(By Kim Jarrett, The Center Square) U.S. Rep. Randy Feenstra, R-Iowa, proposes using seized drug assets to fund the wall at the southern U.S. border.
A bill, entitled the "Build the Wall and Fight Fentanyl Act," would also create a second fund the congressman said would be used to combat...
(By Frank Miele, RealClear Wire) A truism that came out of the Watergate scandal is that often the coverup is worse than the crime. But that is not the case in the unraveling Bidengate scandal. The alleged crime here is so bad that it is probably the worst ever...
(By Lawrence W. Reed, FEE) According to an old joke from the socialist and frequently underfed Soviet Union, Stalin goes to a local wheat farm to see how things are going. “We have so many bags of wheat that, if piled on top of each other, they could reach...
(By Cameron Arcand, The Center Square) Lawmakers are looking for answers on the destruction of 30 million tax documents by the Internal Revenue Service in March 2021.
Congressman David Schweikert, R-Ariz., and Congressman Jason Smith, R-Mo., of the House Ways and Means Committee, wrote a letter to IRS commissioner Daniel...
(By Adam Andrzejewski, RealClear Wire) The State of New York spent about $1 billion on a factory to incentivize Tesla to do business in New York. Now, that factory is being leased for $1 a year, in what even state officials are calling a “bad deal” according to the...
(By Casey Harper, The Center Square) U.S. Sens. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., reintroduced the Protect Equality and Civics Education Act, a bill that would block tax dollars from promoting Critical Race Theory within the Department of Education’s American history guidelines.
The legislation comes after a litany of...
(Headline USA) A federal judge has blocked Arkansas from enforcing its law which charges librarians and booksellers with a crime for giving children harmful material.
U.S. District Judge Timothy L. Brooks issued a preliminary injunction against the law, which also would have created a new process to challenge library materials...
(Headline USA) Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson proposed to buy the homeless in his city a one-way airplane ticket out of his town, Anchorage, Alaska.
Bronson's airfare proposal caps a turbulent few years as Anchorage, like many cities in the American West, struggles to deal with a burgeoning homeless population.
The homeless...
(Headline USA) A Christian woman from New Hampshire who works for a nonprofit organization in Haiti and her young daughter have been reported as kidnapped as the U.S. State Department issued a “do not travel advisory” in the country and ordered non-emergency personnel to leave there amid growing security...
(Headline USA) With less than a month to go until the first Republican presidential debate of the 2024 campaign, seven candidates say they have met qualifications for a spot on stage in Milwaukee.
To qualify for the Aug. 23 debate, candidates needed to satisfy polling and donor requirements set by...