SYNDICATION

(By Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) If the current trajectory continues, U.S. Customs and Border Protection Office of Field Operations agents are on track this fiscal year to arrest the greatest number of illegal foreign nationals with criminal convictions in recorded history. By contrast, Border Patrol apprehensions of gang members...

(By Peter Jacobsen, FEE) I saw it for the first time in Wichita, Kansas. My coworker was driving a shuttle carrying myself and a few students from a guest speaker event, and I noticed something strange—a purple street light. I initially brushed this off as some weird mishap, but as...

(By Brett Rowland, The Center Square) Nationwide 27.4% of homeowners are considered "house poor," meaning they spend more than 30% of their income on housing costs. However, in some U.S. cities, far more Americans are living beyond their means, according to research from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. In Hialeah,...

(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...