<strong>CHEERS:</strong> Political junkies were transfixed this week by the spectacle of Kevin McCarthy being denied the speakers鈥� chair in the U.S. House of Representatives by hardliners in the Republican caucus. It was the first time in 100 years that the ...
Last week, Pope Benedict XVI died at the age of 95, nearly a decade after stepping down as head of the Catholic Church. His life was marked by adherence to a belief in an eternal truth above all. As he stated in a 2008 meeting with Catholic educators at the Catholic University of America, ...
President Joe Biden 鈥渟hut down American energy,鈥� Rep. Steve Scalise hollered with great confidence. The Louisiana Republican was nominating Kevin McCarthy for House speaker when he appended some commentary unburdened by facts.Scalise painted a sad, sad picture of American families 鈥渨ho ...
Where are Americans moving? And where, to make things more specific, have Americans been moving since the sudden onset of COVID lockdowns? Answers to these questions come from the annual Christmastime release of the Census Bureau鈥檚 estimates of the population of the 50 states and the District ...
On Christmas Eve in Washington, D.C., the temperature plunged to 15 degrees Fahrenheit, the coldest on record. In our neighborhood, people were admonishing their neighbors for leaving dogs outside too long. 鈥淚t鈥檚 friggin鈥� 15 degrees!鈥滱nd yet, the governor of Texas nonetheless decided to ...
Pennsylvania lawmakers have a remarkable talent for evading accountability.They won鈥檛 increase the state government鈥檚 percentage of school funding because that would require increases in state taxes. Instead, they leave it to local school boards to raise property taxes and absorb the ...