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(Mark Hemingway - RealClear Wire) When Congress authorized $80 billion this year to beef up Internal Revenue Service enforcement and staffing, Republican House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy invoked the language of war to warn that “Democrats’ new army of 87,000 IRS agents will be coming for you.” A video quickly went...

(Headline USA) Under assault by woke gender-bender policies, misguided vaccine mandates and international turmoil caused by the Biden administration's disastrous foreign policy, soldiers are leaving the Army National Guard at a faster rate than they are enlisting. The exodus has sparked concerns that in the coming years units around the country...

(Casey Harper, The Center Square) A top federal health research agency awarded more than $100K in taxpayer dollars for diversity and equity training for grad students to make them "agents of change." The National Institutes of Health allocated $103,380 via a federal grant to train students at the NIGMS T32 predoctoral...

(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) The executive leadership of the Republican Party of Texas has formally declared an invasion at the Texas southern border. It’s also calling on Gov. Greg Abbott to do what no governor of Texas has ever done before: declare an invasion and protect Texas and...

(Casey Harper, The Center Square) Gas prices have continued to rise over the past two weeks, and now OPEC has announced a major decision that will likely drive those prices higher. OPEC said Wednesday that it would reduce oil production beginning in Nov. by 2 million barrels per day. Joe Biden...

(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall has introduced two bills to restrain the Internal Revenue Service ahead of the agency's planned expansion. Marshall, R-Kansas, filed the Preventing Frivolous Actions by IRS Agents Act, which would allow taxpayers making less than $400,000 annually who were wrongly subjected to...

(Philip Wegmann, RealClearWire) A clear majority of Catholic voters would prefer that President Biden not return to the Oval Office. When asked if the president should run for a second term, 58.4% replied “no.” Only 22.2% said “yes.” Rough results, but Biden shouldn’t take them too personally. According to a recent...

(Headline USA) An Oregon serial rapist is set to be released from prison in mid-December after serving nearly 36 years behind bars, almost all of his maximum sentence. Richard Gillmore, arrested in 1986 and called the "jogger rapist" because he staked out victims as he ran by their homes, admitted...

(Tom Gantert, The Center Square) Joe Biden on Thursday pardoned thousands of people convicted under federal law of simple marijuana possession and urged governors around the country to do the same with state offenses. Not all governors, however, have such unilateral authority. The proclamation specified it applied to only the "offense of...

(Casey Harper, The Center Square) A coalition of 130 lawmakers sent a letter to a top federal watchdog raising the alarm about a spike in foreign ownership of U.S. farmland. The letter calls for the Government Accountability Office to conduct a full review of that foreign ownership, its potential impact on...

(Casey Harper, The Center Square) The U.S. economy added 263,000 nonfarm jobs last month, the lowest number of total new jobs for a month all year. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released the data, which showed the unemployment rate declined slightly to 3.5%. “The unemployment rate edged down to 3.5 percent...

(Casey Harper, The Center Square) Nearly three out of four Americans are becoming more concerned about rising prices, according to a new poll. BMO Financial Group released survey data on the economy and inflation that showed that 74% of Americans say they are becoming increasingly worried about rising costs due...