Until the GOP recaptures Congress and saves America by repealing this bill, we’re going to have to live with this monstrosity. So, I want to point out two major energy provisions you may not be familiar with.

Even China’s own bogus economic data show high unemployment and slowing economic growth there. It turns out that communism doesn’t work. Goldwater was correct.

Why should we believe that this subsidy boondoggle will produce better results than hundreds of corporate welfare programs for well-to-do companies like Boeing and General Electric have produced so far?

There is not one iota, scintilla, whit, shred, or morsel of economic growth incentives in this bill. 

His strategy’s only logic is political — and that up only to a point.

The optimal scenario is that carbon eventually could be reduced by 28 thousandths of one degree Fahrenheit under the fraudulently named ‘Inflation Reduction Act.’ 

The bureau’s reputation was already badly tarnished before the raid on Mar-a-Lago.

Someone needs to rescue our 25th president from cancellation he doesn’t deserve.

Compared to his enemies, he is a candidate for Mount Rushmore.

The possible motives for the Trump warrant and the imminent passage of the so-called Inflation Reduction Act push the bounds of belief.

Beijing’s bark may be worse than its bite, like the hair-on-fire descriptions of Saddam Hussein’s ‘million-man army’ before its swift defeat in Desert Storm.

Adding 87,000 new employees is the biggest expansion of the police state in American history.

Was this outrageous raid on President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago really just a function of some missing documents sought by the National Archive? Or was it a fishing expedition?

The Harlem Renaissance poet Countee Cullen inverts all the old proverbs, truisms, fairy tales, and mythologies surrounding the birth of a child. 

There’s plenty to unravel in playwright Johnny G. Lloyd’s thoughtful, clever, and deceptively agreeable one-act piece.

Well into his 10th decade, the photographer delivers absolutely arresting vistas of the modern city. 

What experience is more valuable: making photocopies during a run-of-the-mill internship or building and sustaining a world inhabited by other people’s children?

Technology is powering the rise of new forms of faith as millennials move away from established religious institutions and in-person worship. 

This 17th-century madrigal would prove an enduring English song for soloists, as Henry Purcell’s bouncy tune brought out the jaunty, risqué images in the verses.

Reports, newspaper items, letters, and other documents contribute to the biographical, researched feel of ‘Son of the Century.’

In this poem by Jane Greer, the glory of a late-summer day on the great plains proclaims its own transience.

Peter and Will Anderson have established one of the more overwhelmingly successful sibling jazz ensembles of our time.

With ‘Emily the Criminal,’ first-time filmmaker John Patton Ford has crafted a movie that reflects the compromises many must make when faced with low-paying hourly jobs and limited advancement opportunities. 

Whatever you need for memorable narrative verse, whatever you want for reading aloud, you won’t find much better than this poem by Sir Walter Scott. It gallops, it swoons, it mocks, and it triumphs.

The easing of wholesale inflation suggests that consumers could get some relief from relentless inflation in the coming months.

‘Recession — what recession?’’ one analyst wrote after the numbers came out, with the economy ‘creating new jobs at an annual rate of 6 million — that’s three times faster than what we normally see historically in a good year.’

After months of economic downturn during President Biden’s tenure, Rasmussen Reports found that 62 percent of likely voters believe the economy is currently in a recession.

While still high by historical standards, the data suggest that the pressure the overheated labor market has put on the economy might be easing and that the recession feared by many may be closer at hand.

The president says there’s no recession because the Fed chairman and other ‘significant banking personnel’ told him so.

The decline that the Commerce Department reported Thursday in the gross domestic product — the broadest gauge of the economy — followed a 1.6 percent annual drop from January through March.

The Fed’s move will raise its key rate, which affects many consumer and business loans, to a range of 2.25 percent to 2.5 percent, its highest level since 2018.

Ahead of what is expected to be a week of bad economic news, the Biden administration is going to great lengths to remind Americans that technically the country is not in a recession.

The African nation is minting gold coins as legal tender to stem inflation and boost confidence in the local currency. Its currency’s value was wiped out by hyperinflation which reached 5 billion percent, according to the IMF.

Any prolonged rail strike could cripple the supply chain that has been slowly recovering from the backlogs and delays that became common during the pandemic.

The inflation number likely seals the case for another large interest rate hike by the Federal Reserve, with higher borrowing costs to follow.

Musk and Twitter have been bracing for a legal fight since the billionaire said Friday he was backing off of his April agreement to buy the company.

Shares of Twitter fell 5 percent to $36.81, well below the $54.20 that Musk had offered to pay. 

Some $7 billion, from Afghanistan’s central bank, sits in the New York Fed. The Taliban has no right to it. A group of 9/11 families was awarded the money in federal court. 

Her strategy was to question the good faith of her fellow Republicans in the one oath all office-holders in America must take — to the Constitution.

While Governor Hochul is vowing to protect the freedom of speech of Salman Rushdie, it turns out that New York has just fetched up as the worst in the nation in a new ranking of the states in terms of their freedom of political speech.

The honorees the base renaming commission has come up with are so admirable that it’s hard not to savor the idea of giving to these installations new names.

In asserting his Fifth Amendment right, Mr. Trump condemned the campaign against him — and eloquently, too.

The case against Trump is moving into a new, possibly criminal phase — one in which due process really is going to be paramount — in contrast to, say, the spectacle of the January 6 committee.

That’s the phrase being used on Taiwan to describe the lack of American pushback against Communist China’s intimidation raids. 

The Biden administration’s equivocation over Free China echoes the strategic ambiguity of August, 1914, when Britain failed to clarify whether it would go to war to defend Belgium and Europe stumbled into World War I.

We never did figure out what it meant by affirming there is neither a Kansas constitutional right ‘to abortion or to require the government funding of abortion.’ As for the measure’s title, we’d have preferred ‘The Samuel Alito Trusts the People of Kansas Amendment.’

We’re looking forward to hearing what Prime Minister Orban has to say at CPAC. While we wait, though, we’ve been reading up on Lajos Kossuth. He’s the hero of Hungarian independence and the last of its leaders to cause excitement in America.

Scully called radio and television games in a tone that felt as natural as breathing. Red haired and blue eyed, he had a voice that was a national treasure.

President Biden and our covert forces deserve credit for the raid that found al-Zawahri, yet the administration’s overall performance regarding Afghanistan has been bitterly disappointing.

Rather than using American leverage as a tool to engage the mullahs diplomatically, the logic, in the face of attempted or threatened attacks on Americans, is for Washington to react forcefully. 

Before they can be pushed out, professors who refuse ideological obedience are departing from higher education, finding that campuses are no longer bastions of free discourse.

By now, the CDC has estimated, most Americans are protected from Covid as a result of vaccination, prior illness, or both. So why the school mask mandates?

Students could return to remote instruction if the negotiations don’t yield results by August 22.

Proponents of ESAs, as they are called in school choice circles, say the savings accounts offer several advantages over traditional vouchers.

Is it low wages or burdensome certification requirements keeping vacant positions open?

Infusion of federal cash offers a chance to test new models for local schools.

The plaintiffs say that the new rules are ‘designed to decrease charter school programs.’

A new report found that 71 percent New York’s class of 2021 relied on at least one exemption to meet graduation requirements.

Tennessee’s new school choice program cleared a legal hurdle that had blocked its implementation for the past two years.

A group of Arizonans rallying under the Save Our Schools banner are working to defeat the most expansive school choice program in the country.

‘Unlike Democrats’ mass student loan forgiveness scheme, these reforms provide targeted relief to borrowers who need it the most,’ the lawmakers wrote.

Tennessee’s two biggest cities, both liberal strongholds, are fighting a school reform program instituted by the state’s Republican leadership.

A judge has indicated that he will send the budget back to city council, where some members have had a change of heart about $215 million in cuts.

‘It’s possible that the overturning of Roe v. Wade changed the make-up of this race,’ one analyst said, ‘and has particularly energized women that are almost 20 points more likely to vote’ for Nikki Fried.

The Florida agriculture commissioner, Nikki Fried, faces Congressman Charlie Crist in Florida's Democratic gubernatorial primary August 23.

There were mandarins who saw the ayatollah’s side of the argument. 

The plea deal would require Allen Weisselberg to speak in court Thursday about the company’s role in the alleged compensation arrangement and possibly serve as a witness when the Trump Organization goes on trial in October

Farmers markets, whether they are here in a rural county or in the parking lot of a church in a city, have been growing in popularity for decades in the United States. In 1994, there were 2,000. Twenty-five years later, there were more than 8,600.

The visit comes as the Michigan GOP faces long odds in their hopes of taking the governor’s office this November.

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Publisher Dovid Efune delivers remarks at the New York Sun Relaunch Celebration on March 30th, 2022 at Carnegie Hall. 

New York City mayor Eric Adams gives a red carpet interview at the New York Sun Relaunch Celebration on March 30th, 2022 at Carnegie Hall. 

Scholz declares himself ‘disgusted’ at Abbas’ remarks, while Erdogan resumes diplomatic relations with the Jewish state.

Russia and China ‘are now conducting the most active interaction with Afghanistan, probing potential routes for cooperation,’ the report says.

A second congressional delegation pays a visit to Taiwan.

The three leaders will also discuss the situation at the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, where Russia and Ukraine have accused each other of shelling.

Its arrival in Syria’s port of Tartus shows how complicated and murky international trade and shipping can be. 

About 100 of the group’s fighters were killed in the attack on the formerly secret base that is widely being ascribed to a major Russian blunder.

President Putin’s paramilitary wing is poised to expand its power in West Africa as France completes its  withdrawal from Mali. 

Pinning the attacks on saboteurs amounts to an admission that Ukrainian forces or armed groups aligned with Ukraine are now inflicting damage on Russian logistics and supply lines in Crimea.

Iran might be pursuing a course of assassination rather than compromising on nuclear pact.

The message from Sarah Muscroft regarding ‘indiscriminate’ rocket launches by Palestinian Islamic Jihad echoed one from the UN secretary-general, and yet she was ‘reassigned’ and forced to apologize.

‘It’s all just one big party for Boris Johnson while the country struggles to pay their bills,’ a spokesman for the opposition Labour party said.

Hints of flagging enthusiasm for Ukraine’s war leader start to appear in Europe.

‘China has overreacted, and its actions continue to be provocative, destabilizing, and unprecedented,’ a White House official said Friday. 

'Victims of terrorism, including 9/11 victims, are entitled to their day in court,' a letter to President Biden states. 'But they are not entitled to money that lawfully belongs to the Afghan people.'

Andrew Warren said Governor DeSantis violated his First Amendment rights and overstepped his authority as governor when he suspended the Tampa-area prosecutor earlier this month.

The Trump Organization’s chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg, had been scheduled to be tried in October on allegations he received more than $1.7 million in off-the-books compensation from the company.

It is unclear whether the Justice Department moved forward with the warrant simply to retrieve records or as part of a wider criminal investigation or an attempt to prosecute the former president.

A lawyer stressed that it was unlikely that the former mayor would cooperate with prosecutors, and that instead he would use attorney-client privilege as a shield.

If the schedule holds, the Trump Organization and its finance chief will be on trial during the November midterm elections.

Police arrested the man last month after he was seen lurking near the Brooklyn home of Masih Alinejad, looking in the window and trying to open the front door.

Pressure is increasing to disclose the contents of the warrant that allowed the FBI to storm the gates of President Trump’s home. 

Prosecutors said the act was likely in retaliation for the January 2020 strike that killed the head of Iran’s elite Quds Force, Qassem Soleimani.

‘I have absolutely no choice because the current Administration and many prosecutors in this Country have lost all moral and ethical bounds of decency,’ the former president explained.

House Ways and Means committee says it expects to receive the requested documents ‘immediately,’ yet appeal is possible. Speaker Pelosi called the decision ‘an important victory for the rule of law.’

The outspoken advocate of criminal justice reform also pledged not to enforce any laws that ‘criminalize’ transgender people.

The united front between campus and companies suggests that if the high court chooses to topple affirmative action, it will be arrayed against formidable forces. 

‘Our work is far from over,’ she said Tuesday evening, evoking Abraham Lincoln, who also lost congressional elections before ascending to the presidency and preserving the union.

The future of one of Congress’s most ancient prerogatives and Senator Graham’s legal future are set to intertwine.

Win or lose in deep-red Wyoming, Cheney, the 56-year-old daughter of a vice president, is vowing not to disappear from national politics as she contemplates a 2024 presidential bid. 

The former president bemoans the confiscation of his travel documents, and looks set to rely on invocations of attorney-client and executive privilege. 

A battle to define discrimination rages in the aftermath of a June Supreme Court ruling.

The incident comes after days of online vitriol over the FBI’s search of President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.

The fatwa has made the writer not only a target but a spokesman for the values that have now put his life at risk.


The fatwa issued in 1989 by Iran’s ayatollah against Rushdie was alluded to as a potential motive in arguing against bail for the accused attacker.

Police identified the attacker as a 24-year-old Fairview, New Jersey man, Hadi Matar. He was awaiting arraignment following his arrest at the Chautauqua Institution, a nonprofit education and retreat center where Rushdie was scheduled to speak.

Multiple factors are contributing to a situation in which the Colorado River is approaching ‘deadpool,’ meaning the water level is so low that it no longer flows downstream at all.

Ex-president could be facing decades behind bars if put in the dock for violating law on government secrets. 

Mayor Adams, too, comes in for blame in blunt talk during an interview with the Sun.

The fog of mystery that surrounds the FBI’s raid of Mar-a-Lago could soon resemble a mushroom cloud. 

When you are under IRS investigation and the agency places a lien on your bank account, you are guilty until you prove yourself innocent.

Optimists are often wrong about political trends. But sometimes, they get things right. And there’s a nontrivial possibility that both parties’ optimists may be right this year.

The greatness of the future China will depend only on the Chinese people — not on attacking America and our allies.

An opportunity awaits for Governors DeSantis, Abbot, and Youngkin to respond with a plan to create drug price competition.

Between some conservatives and Republicans’ push for federal family subsidies and their newfound embrace for bailouts and industrial policy, the difference between the Right and the Left on economic issues is narrowing significantly.

Canada is objectively one of the 12 or so most important countries in the world. But it still can’t explain exactly what its purpose is, other than to be more caring and sharing and kinder and gentler than the United States. 

The libertarian approach fails to please everyone, but it’s the right balance in the tradeoff between equity and efficiency.

Friendships across classes help the poor, a new study shows. Changing zoning codes can make possible the kind of spontaneous friendships that arise in shared communities.

Once upon a time, knowing that you were on your own, free, responsible and trusted, was a big step in growing up. You had to depend on yourself and your crew. Your parents had to believe in you, too. They proved it by letting you go.

The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 would be a huge win for Democrats going into the 2022 elections.

‘Stalingrad in Reverse’ is how military analysts are describing the coming fight.

In Washington, a ‘loophole’ is a euphemism for a perfectly legal policy that Democrats have decided they want to regulate or tax.

The major obstacle to the president’s climate goals was never money, or even Senator Manchin — it’s red tape over clean energy infrastructure.

‘I would have to reflect on the unique role that I was serving as vice president,’ he asserts.

Citizens for Sanity has been buying billboards in major markets that poke fun at progressive shibboleths such as criminal justice reform, transgender issues, and climate change.

Only nine percent of state Republican voters favor Mr. Pence as their first-choice candidate in a 2024 presidential primary, while 39 percent pick DeSantis and 37 percent pick Trump.

While still unpopular, Biden is closing the gap on where Trump was at this point in his presidency — 42 percent approval — and is similarly popular to where Reagan was in August 1982.

The late special election in New York's 19th is the last bellwether election before November's midterms. 

Though Democrats have labeled the measure the Inflation Reduction Act, nonpartisan analysts say it will have a barely perceptible impact on prices.

Polls suggest that the Supreme Court’s abortion ruling is even less popular among younger voters than it is among the population as a whole. That could mean higher turnout for a voting bloc long written off as apathetic.

Some analysts are crediting the Democrats’ outsized fundraising in 2022 to June’s Dobbs v. Jackson abortion decision from the Supreme Court.

The candidate spoke haltingly throughout his remarks and sometimes fumbled his words. The Keystone State contest offers Democrats perhaps their best pickup opportunity nationally as the two parties battle for Senate control.

The attorney general refuses to disclose further details during his brief remarks, but hints at imminent disclosures. 

One year to the day after resigning, Governor Cuomo is asking New York state taxpayers to cover his legal bills.

The prevailing political winds appear to be blowing in the Democrats’ direction. At least for now.

Six others running in the 10th congressional district primary say they support mandatory Covid vaccines in public schools.

People are feeling pain and a building fear, even if the media and Mr. Biden’s administration are clueless about it. Even those well-off enough to avoid the pain so far recognize the frustration and feel the fear.

Surely the vast majority of people believe this to be an over the edge, off the cliff usurpation of power by the Merrick Garland justice department.

The tiny country somehow beat out America for the right to host the world’s most watched sporting event, and it and the soccer world have been turned upside down in a multibillion-dollar effort to make it all work.

Is it a kinder, gentler Cairo? No, but like many places on the edge of the Levant, noisy, congested Irakleio — the Greek word for Crete’s quixotic regional capital — is not the kind of place to wear its heart on its sleeve.

Advocates want to protect union organizing efforts from management interference during the often-lengthy election process. Critics fear that eliminating secret ballots could invite intimidation from union organizers and give a false impression of union support.

The 23-member OPEC+ alliance, which includes Russia, is struggling to produce enough oil to keep up with the rebounding demand for fuel since the Covid pandemic.

This downturn is the result of the current administration’s policy errors, which include over-regulating, overspending, and a failure to confront inflation with supply side measures. 

The thing to remember about Xi Jinping is that he is no nationalist. He doesn’t care about One China. The one thing he cares about is one communism.

The Hope Scholarship Program  — one of the nation’s most ambitious school choice programs — faces an uphill battle in the Mountain State.

The latest trends contradict Democratic criticism of the GOP’s record on public education. 

‘I never expected the Greek government to spy on me using the darkest practices.’

Iran has denied carrying out other operations abroad targeting dissidents in the years since the country’s 1979 Islamic Revolution, despite prosecutors and Western governments attributing such attacks back to Tehran. 

In a remarkable address, featuring a rousing defense of Dobbs against foreign critics, he emerges as a jurist as comfortable speaking ex cathedra as when draped in black robes. 

‘Speech is free,’ jurors in the case were told, ‘but lies you have to pay for.’ Yet Jones contends if ‘free speech is banned because it might hurt somebody’s feelings, we are not in America anymore.’

One group hailed Steube’s new bill as the ‘boldest dog-saving legislation we have ever seen.’

The episode came a day after the FBI director warned against threats circulating online against agents and the Justice Department in the wake of the agency’s search of President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home.

Israel has spooked Iran to its core with the perception that Israel has penetrated the highest levels of Iranian security. 

Congressional meddling won’t put more planes in the sky.

Was the ex-governor’s statement on the FBI raid of Mar-a-Lago a ‘strange strategy’ or the move of a ‘shrewd political operator’? 

Results of next week’s special election to determine Alaska’s next member of the House will take until September to tally.

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