• Biden Scrambles To Buy Votes With New Taxpayer-Funded Student Debt Relief Scheme

    Biden Scrambles To Buy Votes With New Taxpayer-Funded Student Debt Relief Scheme After American borrowers adjusted their finances amid the mass-suspension of student loan payments during the pandemic (and the scorching inflation that followed), the Biden administration on Monday announced new student loan plans that would give borrowers up to $20,000 in loan forgiveness for balances that have grown due to unpaid interest since entering repayment, regardless of income. The plan is...

  • ‘DOH has P40 billion excess funds that can fund senior health care’

    As the House of Representatives tries to find ways to improve the measly allocation for the health care of senior citizens, it turns out that the Department of Health has “excess funds” to support such a program.

  • Biden Nominee Asked About Discrepancies in Testimony

    Sparkle Sooknanan said she wasn’t lead counsel representing vulture funds with Puerto Rican debt. Legal records and her own law firm say otherwise.

  • Biden campaign pounces on Republican abortion controversy

    WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden vowed to "fight like hell" for women's reproductive rights in a reelection ad Thursday, as his team pounced on the backlash to a Republican-backed decision all but outlawing abortion in the swing state of Arizona. "Your bodies and your decisions belong to you, not the government, not Donald Trump," Biden says in the ad, which will be aired in Arizona during popular shows including American Idol and Saturday Night Live this month.

  • Haverhill mum would not have died if mental health bed was available

    There were no beds available for Nicola Rayner although a psychiatrist wanted to admit her immediately

  • Why are Wyoming taxpayers funding an R-rated drag show?

    “Civil War” arrived in theaters over the weekend. The much-hyped film portrays a fragmented America, with a bizarre alliance of California and Texas and a group of “Western Forces” battling what’s left of the federal government, led by Ron Swanson from “Parks and Recreation.” If there ever were a Western state that would resist the federal leviathan, it’s Wyoming. The Cowboy State tends to give Republicans the largest margin of victory of any state in our cracked union.The problem is, Wyoming...

  • Liberals launching $500M fund for youth mental health

    Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland made the announcement Tuesday in Ottawa alongside other cabinet ministers, including Ya'ara Saks, the minister of mental health and addictions.

  • Joe Biden crams abortion into Pregnant Workers Fairness Act

    The Biden administration inserted abortion-related accommodations Monday into regulations governing the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, even though lawmakers said the law specifically excluded any reference to abortion at its passage in 2022.

  • Thank you, Mississippi taxpayers, for funding Medicaid expansion in 40 other states

    Editorial: Happy Tax Day, when millions of us Mississippians will send our hard-earned money to 40 other states that are providing health care coverage to millions of poor, working people.

  • Questions continue on use of taxpayer funds for Board of Corrections attorney

    (The Center Square) - Hearings on a $207,000 contract between the Arkansas Board of Corrections and a private attorney continued Thursday with more questions about whether the board followed proper procedure. The Board of Corrections hired Little Rock attorney Abtin Mehdizadegan in December to represent it in two legal cases involving state officials. The board is suing the state over a law that gives the governor's office the authority to appoint the department's...

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    How Arizona’s retrograde abortion law could be a hidden gift to Biden

    Arizona’s Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that a near-total ban on abortions tied to a Civil War-era law in the state is enforceable. Under that 1864 law, anyone who performs an abortion or helps a woman obtain one can be charged with a felony. The one exception to the prohibition is if an abortion is needed to save a woman’s life. It’s a horrifying ruling, and all the more striking because Arizona is a purple state, not a bastion of deep social conservatism. The retrograde law dates back to...

  • Biden blames ‘extreme’ GOP agenda for Arizona abortion ruling

    President Biden blamed the Arizona Supreme Court’s decision Tuesday to uphold an abortion law that is older than half a century on an “extreme” GOP agenda. “Millions of Arizonans will soon li