House Democrats are pressing Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) to schedule a vote on the defense spending bill providing aid to Israel and Ukraine, suggesting the party would find a workaround solution to bring the legislation to the floor even without the speaker’s blessing. Flanked by Democratic military veterans on Tuesday, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries […]
The three-person Iowa House Public Safety Committee advanced a bill on Monday that would protect Iowa school teachers and staff who carry guns from legal action under qualified immunity. The legislation was introduced just weeks after the Perry High School shooting, in which Dylan Butler, a 17-year-old Perry student, fatally shot Ahmir Jolliff, an 11-year-old […]
The U.S. Marshals Service found that serious threats to federal judges and prosecutors spiked considerably in recent years, increasing over 50% from last year. The federal agency recorded 457 serious threats against federal judges that prompted an investigation in 2023. That is a 52.3% increase from 2022, when the agency investigated 300 threats. In 2021, […]
The first wave of February’s three Social Security payments, worth up to $4,873 for the highest earners who retire at 70, will go out to the first group of retirees on Wednesday. Retired seniors who were born on or between the first and the 10th of their birth month should receive their payment in one […]
Tucker Carlson argued that any politician calling for nuclear war or the drafting of U.S. residents should be considered “your enemy.” Carlson explained that people living in the United States have “a right to be mad” at politicians calling for a draft, especially if it were related to a war that has “nothing to do […]
Last week, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments over disqualifying former President Donald Trump from Colorado’s 2024 primary ballot because of the 14th Amendment’s insurrectionist clause. But Trump is not the only public official who has been targeted for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack. Last year, Couy Griffin, the founder of Cowboys […]
Fitness personality Jillian Michaels stated Sunday that the reason she left California was because Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) “didn’t follow his own rules,” citing the state’s high level of crime. Michaels, known for her role in the fitness reality show The Biggest Loser and on The Doctors, said she left Malibu, California, for Miami because […]
A few years ago, after Donald Trump got elected while promising to jail his opponent, a significant portion of the center Left became passionate about prosecuting and jailing its political opponents and others who seemed to be on the wrong side of the culture war. I call them the “lock-em-up-libs.” As soon as Trump took […]
Chicago Police Department Superintendent Larry Snelling admitted to inaccurately reporting that the majority of homicide cases this year had been cleared by the department. Snelling, who was confirmed as Chicago’s top police officer in September, spoke at two separate forums in January, overstating the number of homicide cases that have been resolved in 2024, claiming […]
The White House was pushed on President Joe Biden‘s campaign launching a TikTok account amid a federal government review into national security concerns regarding the application. “Nothing’s changed about the national security concerns from the [National Security Council‘s] perspective about the use of TikTok on government devices,” NSC spokesman John Kirby told reporters Monday. “That […]
