This week’s White House Report Card capped an eventful week that showed inflation was still hot, a major pollster predicting President Joe Biden’s reelection defeat, and Russian President Vladimir Putin offering an unwelcome election endorsement. In the good news category, a major whistleblower working with Republicans as they build an impeachment case against Biden was […]
Despite special counsel Robert Hur’s draw-dropping report alleging grave misgivings about President Joe Biden‘s mental acuity, Democratic donors will likely continue their support of the president through the November elections. Democratic donors are facing the inevitable acknowledgment that Biden, 81, will remain the party’s nominee even as voters remain weary of his ability to govern […]
Former President Donald Trump railed against the “fake news” industry on Friday, claiming it used artificial intelligence that added extra pounds to images of him playing golf. Trump took to social media while Justice Arthur Engoron handed down a $355 million fine in New York, attacking the political Left, and showed three photos of himself […]
(The Center Square) – Massachusetts voters don’t like the idea of state officials using public funds to house migrants, according to a new poll. Over 50% of nearly eight hundred voters surveyed oppose using tax dollars to support newly arrived migrants, according to a recent poll conducted by the Fiscal Alliance Foundation. Over 65% of […]
(The Center Square) – Massachusetts could soon reach into Harvard University’s $50 billion endowment and take over $1 billion in taxes if two legislators get their way. The legislation proposed by Reps. Natalie Higgins, D-Leominster, and Christine Barber, D-Somerville, would impose a 2.5% excise tax on all private higher education institutions with over $1 billion […]
(The Center Square) – After Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro unveiled his $48.3 billion spending plan earlier this month, one key budget negotiator says the math used to balance the plan is dishonest and may require an income tax raise by 2028. It’s not unusual for lawmakers across the aisle to scrutinize the way a sitting […]
(The Center Square) – Wisconsin’s assembly speaker is not calling his proposal for medical marijuana dead, but he says it’s not going to happen this year. Speaker Robin Vos told reporters Thursday there are too many different views of marijuana to find a consensus on a strict-medical only plan. “I think we have now seen, unfortunately, […]
(The Center Square) – With thousands of Pennsylvanians dying from overdoses, Republican U.S. Senate Candidate Dave McCormick wants an aggressive policy to stop the international drug flow. “Our great commonwealth is under siege from this fentanyl crisis— and so is America,” McCormick said at a roundtable on fentanyl in Luzerne County. He praised the work […]
(The Center Square) — Pennsylvania’s total tax burden has gotten worse relative to other states, keeping residents more tax-burdened than the average American. A report from the Independent Fiscal Office found that Pennsylvania’s total taxes per capita ranked 19th overall at $6,710. While Pennsylvania fares better than New York, New Jersey, Maryland, and Delaware, it lags behind […]
EXCLUSIVE — Republican lawmakers are accusing the State Department of threatening to obstruct their investigation into “censorship” of companies in the United States. House Small Business Committee Republicans have continued to request grant records from the State Department’s Global Engagement Center for an inquiry into “government censorship and revenue interference of American small businesses by proxy,” […]
