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Speaker Mike Johnson is getting some well-deserved coal in his stocking from conservatives livid with the Louisiana Republican’s attempt to play Santa with a Christmas list stopgap spending bill. The massive house-of-cards measure…

It is fortunate that Elon Musk is wealthy; he can afford the more than three reams of paper it took to print the behemoth 1,547-page spending bill that is supposed to keep the government operating through March. “Ever seen a bigger piece of…

Mark Houck was making breakfast in his Pennsylvania home in the quiet hours of Sept. 23, 2022. His seven children were still sleeping when he was startled by urgent pounding on the front door and the doorbell rapidly ringing. “Open up!” men…

This article is based in part on an amicus brief the Sutherland Institute has filed with the U.S. Supreme Court in Utah v. United States. In Utah v. United States, the state of Utah is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a lawsuit…

There is a lot going on in New York. An influx of illegal immigrants is straining the capital city. Only 30 percent of residents are happy with the quality of life the Big Apple currently affords them. Donald Trump held a rally at Madison…

Members of Congress may have decamped Washington to campaign for reelection, but in nondescript buildings near Capitol Hill, federal budget gnomes continue their work. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) recently released two reports…

At the Economic Club of Pittsburgh, Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris recently said she would “engage in what Franklin Roosevelt called ‘bold, persistent experimentation,’” as he had told the 1932 graduating class at…

Clinical doctors smiled (actually, they grimaced) while reading two recent headlines. The first was “Wyden, Blackburn Introduce Bipartisan Legislation to Tackle Health Care Workforce Shortages.” This is one more demonstration of…

Late last month, the Supreme Court made it harder for regulators to tie up businesses with burdensome red tape by subjecting new regulations to closer court scrutiny in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo. Overall, however, Americans are…

The Department of Education attacked Republicans and touted Biden’s political agenda in an official letter emailed to student-loan borrowers Thursday. The letter, signed by U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona, potentially…