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The Republican-controlled House of Representatives last Saturday voted 311 to 112 to approve a bill to spend $60.89 billion on aid for Ukraine. Among...
Does it matter how long theft has been prohibited? What about murder? Do laws prohibiting these acts deserve less respect because they have stood for...
Back on May 30, 2023, after then-Speaker Kevin McCarthy cut a deal with President Joe Biden to suspend any limit on the federal debt through all of...
I saw it by accident. I was sitting in the kitchen at my family's ranch in the high foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains -- not far from Yosemite...
There is one competition where Los Angeles, New York, Chicago and Philadelphia are not beating other major locations in this country. It is in...
President Joe Biden -- in his State of the Union address -- once again tried to present himself as a "fiscally responsible" president. "And, by the...
There seems to be at least one impenetrable barrier connected to this country's southwest border. It is the one that stands between Homeland Security...
There is one area of competition where Catholic schools always beat public schools. It is not in track and field. It is not in football or basketball....
From February 2022 to December 2023, Congress appropriated about three times as much money for its response to the conflict in Ukraine as the federal...
The United States in 2023 imported $427.2 billion in merchandise from the People's Republic of China, a nation that the U.S. government reports is...
When I was a freshman and sophomore in high school -- before I was old enough to drive -- every weekday after football or track practice I would take...
President Joe Biden seemed a little confused when he gave a speech at a church in South Carolina on Sunday. First, he mistook the Declaration of...
When John Modlin, the chief patrol agent for the Border Patrol's Tucson Sector, testified before the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability...
President Joe Biden -- wearing a brown leather jacket and a black baseball hat -- walked out onto the South Lawn of the White House on Saturday...
A very happy Chuck Schumer went down to the Senate floor on Monday to brag about the deal he had cut on federal spending with Republican House Speaker...
A few minutes before the ball came down on Times Square on New Year's Eve, Paul Anka sang a song that has become a tradition for this event. It was...
At first glance, the price of attending college may seem astounding. "In 2023-24," reports the College Board, "average estimated budgets (tuition and...
When the U.S. House of Representatives was considering the fiscal 2024 National Defense Authorization Act in July, the American Civil Liberties Union...
If you want to drive through the seven wealthiest counties in the United States -- when measured by median household income -- you will only have to...
A 44-year-old senator went down the Senate floor on Jan. 29, 1987, to attack the Reagan administration for running up the debt and to warn the nation...
Newly elected House Speaker Mike Johnson has posted on his congressional website what he calls "The 7 Core Principles of Conservatism." "In 2018," the...
When Knute Rockne started at end for the Notre Dame football team in his sophomore, junior and senior years, the team never lost a game. Then, in...
When President Barack Obama named retiring Republican Rep. Ray LaHood of Illinois to serve as his administration's secretary of transportation, LaHood...
When I graduated from Princeton in 1981, there were two things that I wanted to do: make my living as a writer and live in the city where I was born....
After President Joe Biden met last week with Wang Yi, the foreign minister of the People's Republic of China, the PRC's Ministry of Foreign Affairs...
When then-FBI Director Robert Mueller testified in the House Judiciary Committee on May 9, 2012, Republican Rep. Elton Gallegly of California asked...
It was a rare moment of bipartisan consensus in Washington, D.C. On Dec. 14, 2021, the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act came up for a vote in the...
The late Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was an evil man, who ran an evil regime that did evil things. But in the years leading up to the second Iraq...
Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York may serve as the Senate majority leader, but the press releases he posts on his official Senate website do...
Call it the 10% rule: If 10% or more of the workers in a particular congressional district were civilian federal employees in 2022, then that district...
When the Senate debated the Inflation Reduction Act on Aug. 6, 2022, two Republican senators drew attention to an obscure provision buried in it....
President Barack Obama took the oath of office for his second term on Sunday, Jan. 20, 2013, in a private ceremony inside the White House. As of that...