By: Op-Ed – nytimes.com – November 2, 2022 The Federal Reserve raised rates by three-quarters of a point, continuing its campaign against inflation. Fed Chair Jerome Powell signaled a rationale for slowing the increases, but markets recoiled when he said it was “very premature” to consider a pause. Stocks seesawed on Wednesday, but eventually ended the day lower, after Jerome...

In 1629, the first American balloting for an election occurred in Salem, Massachusetts. The matter at hand? Choosing a minister and choosing a Christian teacher for the colony. “Such is the origin of the use of the ballot on this continent; [Samuel] Skelton was chosen pastor and [Francis] Higginson teacher.” So writes George Bancroft.

The Federal Reserve raised rates by three-quarters of a point, continuing its campaign against inflation. Fed Chair Jerome Powell signaled a rationale for slowing the increases, but markets recoiled when he said it was “very premature” to consider a pause.

Roe v. Wade has been overturned! In deciding the case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the US Supreme Court ruled that there is no constitutional right to abortion. Now, it’s up to states to decide their own abortion laws. Now that Roe is overturned, pregnancy resource centers will continue doing what they have been doing for years—supporting women and...

By: Gabriella Hoffman – townhall.com – October 31, 2022 While stumping for Virginia congressional candidate Yesli Vega on Friday (D-VA), Governor Glenn Youngkin (R-VA) made non-controversial comments that threw many Democrats into a frenzy. The Recount, a leftist media outfit, posted a clip of Youngkin’s remarks at the campaign rally suggesting he was inciting violence against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her husband, Paul...

US Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) hit the airwaves to connect the recent assault on Paul Pelosi with “fascism” and “white nationalism.”

By: Michael Brendan Dougherty – nationalreview.com – October 31, 2022 Emily Oster, writing at the Atlantic, asks whether we can all just forgive and forget about what we said and did to one another during the Covid-19 pandemic. On the question of masks, school closings, and the efficacy of this or that vaccine, some people got it right, and some...

MIDTERMS, BIDEN’S AGENDA, AND THE FILIBUSTER. On March 2, 2021, when he had been president less than two months, Joe Biden met with a group of liberal historians in the White House East Room.

Americans are worried about inflation, crime, groceries. So Biden talks with a transgender TikTok star.

Senator Rick Scott (R., Fla.), chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, on Sunday predicted Republicans will win at least 52 Senate seats in the midterm elections.