President Joe Biden is taking a more aggressive approach in his campaign ads in his race this time around against presumptive Republican nominee former President Donald Trump. While this year’s general election may have the same candidates as in 2020, Biden’s campaign ads this year are more aggressive in their anti-Trump sentiment than in 2020. […]
Supporting victims of violent crime, especially the youngest and most vulnerable of those victims, is among my most solemn responsibilities in the House of Representatives. For young survivors and their families, the criminal justice system can be an intimidating maze of questions, legal challenges, and hardships that, when added to the trauma of the underlying […]
President Joe Biden is ramping up his appearances with friendly media personalities ahead of the 2024 general election, all while apparently spurning conversations with the nation’s largest newspapers, wires, and television stations. At this point in his term in office, Biden trails his immediate White House predecessors, former Presidents Donald Trump and Barack Obama, in […]
With the vast majority of voters disapproving of President Joe Biden’s handling of the economy, particularly inflation, one might expect that he would be doing everything in his power to grow the economy and restrain prices. Unfortunately, he is more committed to appeasing environmental activists than he is to delivering prosperity. On Tuesday, the White […]
Democratic state Sen. Tim Kennedy won the New York special election in the state’s 26th Congressional District to replace former Democratic Rep. Brian Higgins, narrowing the House Republican majority even further ahead of the 2024 election. Kennedy defeated Republican Gary Dickson, a West Seneca supervisor who is an Army and FBI veteran, on Tuesday night. Kennedy has been […]
The group representing Republican state financial officers announced it is forming a political arm in order to defend its members and push back harder against ESG. The State Financial Officers Foundation has been at the forefront of combating ESG, which stands for environmental, social, and governance. As financial firms have adopted ESG to guide investment […]
The House approved a proposal to remove the gray wolf from the endangered species list after concerns from Republicans that the distinction disproportionately affected farmers by threatening their livestock. Lawmakers voted 209-205 to pass the Trust the Science Act on Tuesday, which would delist the gray wolf and remove any judicial oversight over the animal […]
The Senate’s top leaders on Tuesday offered bipartisan rebuke for violent pro-Palestinian student demonstrations on college campuses and called for repercussions from higher education institutions. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), the nation’s highest-ranking Jewish elected official, decried hammer-wielding student protesters who took control of a Columbia University building in New York early Tuesday morning as […]
THE ‘BIDEN BUMP’ THAT DIDN’T LAST LONG. “The election is clearly changing now, moving towards Biden,” the influential Democratic strategist Simon Rosenberg declared on March 26. “The Biden bump is real.” For Republicans, Rosenberg is someone worth listening to. He was right about the nonexistent “red wave” that many in the GOP expected back in 2022. […]
California’s fast-food minimum wage hike has been in effect for just one month, and the consequences are proving to be fewer hours and potentially fewer jobs for workers. Pollo West Corporation, the largest franchisee of El Pollo Loco restaurants in California, has said that its franchises went from profitable to losing money overnight when the […]
Determined to increase both its battlefield pressure on Ukraine and its political pressure on Ukraine’s supporters, Russia is escalating its sabotage efforts in Europe. Last Friday, the United Kingdom announced criminal charges against five men accused of a March arson attack on a Ukrainian businessman’s warehouse in London. The accused ringleader is a 20-year-old Briton, […]
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is the latest Republican leader trying to save his job against a conservative coup. But he’s got one thing going for him that his recent predecessors didn’t. The public, especially Republicans, generally likes him. Backed by former President Donald Trump, the Louisiana Republican has a 44% favorable rating. In the […]