By Jack Phillips and Zachary Stieber The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) mask mandate for airplanes and other forms of public transportation was struck down on April 18 by a federal judge. U.S. District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle said the CDC rule exceeded the agency’s statutory authority because its implementation violated administrative law. Mizelle, […]
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The State and Local Leaders Who Aren’t Ready to Give Up Pandemic Power
By Real Clear Investigations While many government leaders sound the all clear message on COVID-19, dropping vaccine restrictions and mask mandates, some states and municipalities are clinging to the emergency powers that allowed them to govern people’s behavior in unprecedented ways. Citing the need to direct emergency funding and oversee hospitals, they have held on to their emergency […]
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US Pension Funds Invest Billions in Chinese Firms, Stoking National Security Concerns
By Michael Washburn Recent actions by Republican lawmakers have called attention to the willingness of top U.S .pension funds to invest in Chinese companies that may have ties to the regime in Beijing and may play a role in enhancing the regime’s military and surveillance capabilities. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and two GOP colleagues, Sens. […]
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Watchdog Says Biden’s Budget Pushes ‘Taxpayer Burden’ to $919,000 Each
By John Haughey When President Joe Biden submitted his $5.8 trillion Fiscal Year 2023 budget request to Congress in late March, Truth In Accounting’s (TIA) 12th annual “financial state of the union” report was just three weeks old. But after reading Biden’s 149-page proposed budget, TIA founder and CEO Sheila Weinberg quickly realized her group’s 2022 Financial State of the Union` report […]
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Soaring Inflation Fueled by Reckless Spending Will Come to Bite Democrats in November: Analysts
By Michael Washburn A recent poll finding that only 38 percent of Americans approve of the job that President Joe Biden is doing—down from 41 percent in December and 48 percent in July— is only the latest in a stream of bad news for the Democratic Party as November’s midterm elections draw near. The 53 percent of […]
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Bill Won’t Let Biden Administration End Key Border Authority Unless National Emergency is Over
By Zachary Stieber A group of Democrat and Republican senators on April 7 introduced a bill that if passed would not allow President Joe Biden’s administration to end the Title 42 emergency border order unless the president declares an end to the COVID-19 national emergency declaration. Sens. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) and James Lankford (R-Okla.) are among the […]
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Nearly 92 Percent of Congressional Seats Set For Elections After Post-Census Redistricting
By John Haughey When Republican Gov. Larry Hogan signed into law new congressional maps drawn by the Democrat-controlled state General Assembly on April 4, Maryland became the 47th state to formally adopt new legislative and congressional districts following the 2020 United States Census. With Louisiana’s GOP-led legislature on March 30 overriding Democratic Gov. John Bel […]
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South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem Signs Legislation Restricting Teaching of Critical Race Theory in K-12 Schools
By Katabella Roberts South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem signed an executive order on April 5 that will restrict the teaching of block critical race theory (CRT) in K-12 education in the state. The legislation states that the Department of Education (DOE) shall not “compel” employees, students, or teachers to “personally affirm, adopt, or adhere to inherently divisive concepts.” The order directs the education […]
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Government Support to Cushion High Gas Prices Could Add to Inflation Pressures
By Andrew Moran News Analysis Energy prices are soaring everywhere, prompting governments to consider support measures to mitigate the financial strain put on consumers’ wallets. But these costly policy tools could add to inflationary pressures and hinder central banks’ tightening efforts, says one market analyst. Federal and state governments are still exploring various mechanisms that could […]
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Florida Voter Registration: Republicans Overtake Democrats by 100,000
By Patricia Tolson As the Aug. 23 Florida primary draws near, data released by the office of Gov. Ron DeSantis shows there are 100,000 more registered Republicans than Democrats in the Sunshine State. In November 2021, DeSantis announced that Florida—where Democrats held an advantage over Republicans of well over 260,000 voters when he took office in 2019—saw […]
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Election Watchdog Finds 137,500 Ballots Unlawfully Trafficked in Wisconsin
By Steven Kovac At least 137,500 absentee ballots were cast through unlawful vote trafficking throughout several of Wisconsin’s largest cities in the 2020 election, according to research presented last week to the state Assembly’s Committee on Campaigns and Elections by the public interest organization True the Vote (TTV). Ballot trafficking is an activity in which absentee […]
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Supreme Court Nominee Won’t Say Whether Cruz Can Change Gender or Race
By Zachary Stieber A day after declining to define the word woman, Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson wouldn’t say whether Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) could have standing to sue as a woman. “Yesterday, under questioning from Sen. [Marsha] Blackburn, you told her that you couldn’t define what a woman is—that you are not a biologist, which I think […]
