If you think America is costly now, wait until -- heaven forbid -- voters give it over to people preaching "affordability." On Wednesday, the Congressional Progressive Caucus unveiled what it called its "New Affordability Agenda." If it ever gets enacted, it'll go down with "jumbo shrimp" and "open secret" in...

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Elected Democrats, particularly Democrat women, possess two qualities in abundance: ignorance and arrogance. Add to the equation a rational Republican with facts on his side, and you will likely witness the kind of unhinged breakdown purple-haired Democratic Rep. Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut suffered Monday during a verbal clash with Lee...

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In the wake of the Supreme Court's ruling on Wednesday that struck down racially drawn congressional districts, Republican legislatures in some states are acting quickly to come up with new maps before the November midterms. The swing state of Georgia won't be one of them. Republican Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp...

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Modern liberals prefer illegal aliens and repeat criminals to ordinary, law-abiding American citizens. One suspects, in fact, that liberals, if they could, would harm us and then replace us with the lawbreakers. On Tuesday, according to a news release from the Department of Homeland Security, a judge appointed by former...

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The Justice Department has filed a lawsuit to scrap New Jersey rules allowing illegal immigrants to qualify for in-state tuition rates at public colleges, even though Americans living outside of New Jersey are charged higher tuition. “Imagine being denied the opportunity of education in your own country,” Associate Attorney General...

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An Oregon man has admitted he pointed a high-powered laser at a Customs and Border Protection helicopter in October Brian K. Kapileo Nepaial, 38, of Aloha, Oregon, pleaded guilty to aiming a laser pointer at an aircraft and also possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, according to a Department of...

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An investigation is underway into the death of a state Senate candidate in Oklahoma who was found dead Thursday in a wildlife refuge Barry Christian, a candidate for state Senate District 38, had disappeared Tuesday, according to KOCO-TV. Christian did not show up for a scheduled appointment, leading to a...

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The Vermont Principals’ Association is $566,000 poorer for the way it treated Mid Vermont Christian School when the school protested having its girls teams play against a transgender opponent. Three years ago, the Christian school forfeited a basketball game rather than play a team with a male who said he...

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Republicans were known for decades as the anti-abortion party in national politics. More recent years have seen Republicans actively backing away from that stance, even though the legalized murder of preborn babies remains the single most important crisis for our nation to address. But a viral series of questions from...

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Several sports leagues in the United Kingdom received a notice threatening them with legal action if they fail to protect women's sports from self-proclaimed transgender athletes. The letters -- signed by ADF International and the Women's Sports Union -- were sent to 10 sports bodies, including the Football Association of...

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German car company BMW is rolling out humanoid robots in another one of their factories to help build electric vehicles. The manufacturer tested out the cutting-edge robots at their facility in Spartanburg, South Carolina, and is now expanding them to their location in Leipzig, Germany, according to an April 20...

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A man from eastern Pennsylvania has been charged with allegedly robbing dozens of graves in the Philadelphia area and collecting pieces of human remains. Jonathan Gerlach, 34, is accused of stealing over 100 sets of remains, according to an April 17 report from CBS News. The disturbing grave robberies allegedly...

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Iowa Republican Sen. Joni Ernst claimed on Tuesday that the Biden administration had discussed giving COVID-era forgivable loans to Planned Parenthood -- and potentially concealed their activities from scrutiny with the codeword "Benghazi." The lawmaker posted a thread on social media showing Small Business Administration officials discussing the plans via...

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Would-be Trump assassin Cole Allen’s claim that there was extremely lax security at the event he targeted was seemingly substantiated by multiple attendees’ posts to social media. The security presence at Saturday’s White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner which featured President Trump showed an “insane” level of “incompetence,” Allen wrote in...

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One wonders how Rachael Gunn will do now that she has to fall back on the private sector for a job. Gunn -- an Australian breakdancer known as "Raygun" who went viral for all the wrong reasons after the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris -- has been given her walking...

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Two bank employees were fatally shot during a robbery in Kentucky and a search was underway for the suspect, authorities said Thursday. A man wearing a gray-white hoodie, gloves and a mask entered a branch of U.S. Bank in Berea and shot a male and female employee, said Trooper Scottie...

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Oil briefly hit $126.41 a barrel early Thursday as market volatility tied to the Iranian conflict continued.The global oil benchmark Brent crude hit its highest price since 2022 before dropping back to $110 a barrel. Prices have risen dramatically from the pre-Operation Epic Fury $73 a barrel standard.  U.S. gasoline...

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President Donald Trump granted a key approval Thursday for a major new oil pipeline from Canada into the U.S. that’s been dubbed “Keystone Light” over its similarities to a contentious project blocked by the Biden administration. The three-foot-wide (1 meter) Bridger Pipeline Expansion would carry up to 550,000 barrels (87,400...

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A West Virginia prosecutor dismissed charges Thursday against a librarian who allegedly tried to recruit assassins to target President Donald Trump, a local TV station reported. Morgan L. Morrow of Ripley, West Virginia, was charged in January with one count of making a terroristic threat, the agency posted on its Facebook...

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Could it come down to the Dolphins versus the Patriots in the Hormuz Bowl? That’s what a new report says could happen if conflict resumes between Iran and the United States. The Wall Street Journal reported that mine-carrying dolphins could be part of Iran’s desperate tactics as it seeks to...

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Spirit Airlines, the ultra-low-cost carrier that expanded rapidly throughout the 2010s but faced significant headwinds in recent years, shut down and began the liquidation process early Saturday morning. The Dania Beach, Florida-based carrier, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in August of 2025 -- its second bankruptcy in less than...

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