For years, the only supermarket serving the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in southwest South Dakota was run-down and a threat to public health. Inspectors from the Indian Health Service repeatedly cited its distant corporate owners for food safety violations, such as mixing rotten hamburger with fresh meat and repackaging it for sale. So leaders of […]

The most galling thing about the omnibus is that more than $400 million is dished out to American allies to assist them in their “border security.”

Congress just passed a $1.7 trillion (that is trillion with a T) budget that President Biden has signed. Those who voted for it claimed it was a Christmas gift to the American people, when in actuality it was a stocking full of coal (and most people had not even been naughty in 2022).

If passed, the burdens of this monstrous spending bill will stifle our economy and fray the fabric of our civil society for years to come.

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – December 20, 2022 The 117th Congress has been the most spendthrift in history, and this week it plans to go out with one final bipartisan back-slapping hurrah—a 4,155-page omnibus spending bill that is the worst in history. This is no way to govern in a democracy, but here we are. Democrats failed in...

By: John McCormack – nationalreview.com – December 20, 2022 Congressional GOP leaders Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy are at odds over the 4,155-page, $1.7 trillion year-end omnibus spending bill that was released around 1:30 a.m. on Tuesday. McConnell announced support for the bill in Senate floor remarks later Tuesday. “The bipartisan government-funding bill that Senators Shelby and Leahy have finished...

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – November 30, 2022 Congress is marching toward a Dec. 16 expiration of government funding. Democrats want to stuff all 12 of Congress’s annual, overdue spending bills into a giant “omnibus” to finance government through September 2023. According to their media note-takers, the failure to pass an omnibus bill will result in one of...

As a possible rail way strike looms, the U.S. industry braces for impact.

1 in 6 American homes are struggling to meet their home energy bills, the worst crisis the group has ever documented.

By: Brittany Bernstein – nationalreview.com – November 8, 2022 Rising inflation has dealt American workers their largest pay cut in 25 years, according to the Federal Reserve Bank. Fifty-three percent of workers saw their wage growth dwarfed by the rate of inflation this year, according to an October report from the Dallas Fed. Despite having increased wages, the workers saw...