By: Staff – newsmax.com – December 28, 2018 The partial U.S. government shutdown is likely to continue well into 2019 after House Republicans said Thursday they didn’t plan any votes this week and President Donald Trump said most federal employees losing pay because of the closure are Democrats. There was no sign of any progress toward a plan to fund...

By: Michael Dorstewitz – newsmax.com – December 23, 2018 Opinions vary over how serious a prolonged government shutdown would be. The confusion and misinformation over the shutdown has been rampant. Here are nine myths that have been promoted over the years regarding the possible coming shutdown. Myth 1: It is a Shutdown: If the deadline is missed, the lights of government...

By: Stephen Moore – townhall.com – December 25, 2018 In one of the most remarkable Abbott and Costello routines in modern times, the economic wizards at the Fed again raised interest rates on Tuesday. Their crackerjack logic for doing so is to steer America on a course toward recession so they have the tools in hand to end the recession...

By: Joel B. Pollak – breitbart.com – December 25, 2018 The Dow Jones Industrial Average suffered its worst day of Christmas Eve trading ever, falling over 640 points. Analysts blamed Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin for announcing Sunday evening on Twitter that he had “convened individual calls with the CEOs of the nation’s six largest banks” and that he...

By: Jordain Carney – thehill.com – December 20, 2018 GOP senators emerged from the closed-door meeting in visible disbelief that President Trump is refusing to sign a seven-week stopgap measure to fund the government that cleared the chamber by a voice vote less than 24 hours ago. Senate GOP leadership appeared confident on Wednesday that Trump would sign the stopgap,...

By: Brandon Morse – redstate.com – December 13, 2018 I’m not sure whether to be happy or angry about this. To the Washington politicians, a government shutdown is apocalyptic. People will die, buildings will crumble, muh roads won’t be maintained, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria! To the vast majority of us, however, we honestly couldn’t care less. The...

By: Jillian D’Onfro – cnbc.com – December 11, 2018 It was Sundar Pichai’s turn in the congressional hot seat. Google’s CEO testified before the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday for 3.5 hours while lawmakers grilled him on a wide range of issues, including potential political bias on the company’s platforms, its plans for a censored search app in China and...

By: Lenny Bernstein – washingtonpost.com – November 29, 2018 Life expectancy in the United States declined again in 2017, the government said Thursday in a bleak series of reports that showed a nation still in the grip of escalating drug and suicide crises. The data continued the longest sustained decline in expected life span at birth in a century, an...

By: David French – nationalreview.com – November 29, 2018 The news was expected, but that doesn’t make it any less grim. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released its annual report on American life expectancy, and it’s official — American life expectancy has declined again. As the Washington Post reported, our nation is experiencing the “longest sustained decline...

By: Andrew Malcolm – hotair.com – November 16, 2018 Remember when Democrats mocked last year’s tax-cut legislation? And Nancy Pelosi called the tax breaks for Americans “crumbs”? But President Trump and congressional Republicans said they would ignite a booming economy and actually increase federal tax collections from greater economic activity including more consumer spending, business investments, higher wages and even...