Credit: (Screenshot), The White House, via YouTubeCredit: (Screenshot), The White House, via YouTube The White House said Tuesday it plans to help protect Social Security benefits from noncitizens and ramp up anti-fraud efforts. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt outlined key points from the memorandum to reporters at a press briefing on Tuesday afternoon.  Through

Credit: (Screenshot), CBS Chicago, via YouTube Chicago’s public school teachers have overwhelmingly approved a four-year labor contract to raise their average salary to more than $114,000 per year. Chicago Teachers Union leaders announced Monday that 85% of CTU members participated in the election, and 97% of those who voted cast ballots in favor of the

Credit: (Screenshot), C-SPAN, via YouTubeCredit: (Screenshot), C-SPAN, via YouTube Reversing Biden administration policies that halted offshore leasing, prompting lawsuits and restricting oil and natural gas development, the Trump administration is expanding offshore capabilities. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum directed the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management to hold the administration’s first offshore lease sales in the Gulf

Credit: U.S. Forest Service via Wikimedia Commons Colorado Gov. Jared Polis Thursday signed a controversial gun control bill that requires a permit and safety training to buy firearms that accept detachable magazines. Senate Bill 25-003 was originally a ban on the sale or purchase of most semi-automatic rifles or shotguns that take detachable magazines. But it

Credit: Gage Skidmore via Wikimedia President Donald Trump’s tax cuts are set for permanent extension after the House narrowly passed a $5.8 trillion over ten years concurrent budget resolution that seemed poised to fail. If the Trump tax cuts expire, as they are set to do at the end of this year, the average taxpayer

Credit: Gage Skidmore via Wikimedia It may be apocryphal, but Napoleon is rumored to have once said that men over 40 can’t be trusted in revolutionary times, because they simply do not understand the times. We saw something like that play out over the last week, as President Trump took on the epoch-defining work of

Credit: Martin Falbisoner via Wikimedia Commons Legislation banning federal district court judges from issuing nationwide injunctions passed the U.S. House Wednesday evening in an effort to address what Republicans call judicial overreach.  Multiple district judges have recently slapped universal injunctions on Trump’s rapid-fire government reforms in response to lawsuits filed in district courts. The nationwide edicts have raised

Credit: Tulane Public Relations via Wikimedia Commons I have a confession to make. I’m pissed. It’s not that I can’t take criticism of President Trump, whom I strongly support. It’s that the attacks invariably come from people who just spent four years propping up what amounts to a literal Manchurian Candidate. How else do you

Credit: Rhododendrites via Wikimedia Commons For decades, Democrats have been telling us that the climate apocalypse was just around the corner. If we didn’t adopt renewable fuels and energy sources immediately, we would all bake to death from global warming. Democrats didn’t care about the jobs or economic growth they would destroy to appease their climate gods. “Learn

Credit: Gage Skidmore via Wikimedia The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that a lower federal court doesn’t have jurisdiction in a lawsuit filed to prevent deportations of violent Venezuelan Tren de Aragua prison gang members illegally in the U.S. The Supreme Court granted the Trump administration’s emergency request to intervene in a case challenging the