President Joe Biden’s pick to lead Immigration and Customs Enforcement has a long history of opposing the very agency he’s supposed to run.
Biden announced this week that he nominated Texas Sheriff Ed Gonzalez, who worked for the Houston Police Department for nearly two decades before becoming sheriff.
As sheriff, Gonzalez...
(Bruce Walker, The Center Square) After declining four previous requests to testify, former Michigan Director of Health and Human Services Director Robert Gordon was finally compelled to testify Thursday before the House Oversight Committee.
Gordon abruptly resigned his position in January, and signed a controversial nondisclosure agreement the following month that...
Rep. Ron Kind, D-Wisc., has spent nearly a quarter of a century representing Wisconsin's 3rd District, a swath of mostly pro-Trump MAGA territory book-ended by Minneapolis to the northwest, and Madison and Milwaukee to the southeast.
Despite facing formidable GOP challenges in the battleground district, he has retained his seat...
(Headline USA) Desperately longing for a pet cause to divert attention from his own scandals, Democrat New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo railed one last time against one of his favorite scapegoats, the Trump administration.
Blaming Trump's "xenophobia" for the massive decline in population that his state suffered in the recent...
(Brad Polumbo, Foundation for Economic Education) Millions of Americans tuned in for President Joe Biden’s (first Congressional) Address last night.
When the president spoke about our nation’s experiences with the COVID crisis and offered optimism for the future, there was a lot about his speech that we can all appreciate. But...
Former Sen. Kelly Loeffler, R-Ga., called on Georgia’s attorney general to investigate Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger for his handling of the 2020 election.
In a letter sent to state Attorney General Chris Carr on Wednesday, Loeffler asked the state to launch a probe to determine whether Raffensperger used his...
(Brad Polumbo, Foundation for Economic Education) It’s always funny when some of the most prominent, self-described socialists in America leverage their advocacy for socialism into becoming multi-millionaires.
(I’m looking at you and your three houses, Bernie Sanders).
The latest example of this comical yet revealing pattern comes courtesy of the Seattle City...
(Headline USA) Months after President Joe Biden snubbed Canadian officials by canceling Keystone XL, an impending showdown over a second crude oil pipeline threatens to further strain ties between the two neighbors that were frayed during the Trump administration.
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a top Biden ally, ordered Canadian energy company...
(Headline USA) When the coronavirus pandemic hit the Pacific Northwest states of Oregon and Washington, their governors quickly reacted with shutdowns.
Now they are about to impose new restrictions again as they claim infections and hospitalizations are rising to alarming levels.
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown is putting 15 counties that encompass the...
(Headline USA) California could become the only state to let adult children add their parents as dependents to their health insurance plans, a policy proposal aimed at increasing insurance coverage among low-income people living in the country illegally who aren't eligible for government-funded coverage.
Former President Barack Obama's health law let...
(Headline USA) An unusual coalition of Supreme Court justices joined Thursday to rule in favor of an immigrant fighting deportation in a case that the court said turned on the meaning of the shortest word, “a.”
By a 6-3 vote, the court sided with Agusto Niz-Chavez, a Guatemalan immigrant who has...
(Hannah Cox, Foundation for Economic Education) Americans spent a lot of money on groceries over the past year—and it isn’t just because they were eating more meals at home.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, food prices jumped 3.9 percent in 2020, nearly triple the rate of inflation.
Unfortunately, this trend...