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Print this article It’s fast turning into another unpleasant week for the White House, and the House Republican leader’s team is making sure the nation knows it. Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s communications team this morning, hours after gas lines started forming on the East Coast, sent out the following message. “This is President Biden’s America: Gas prices are up. The unemployment rate is up. And illegal border crossings are up.” It highlighted the gasoline pipeline crisis that Virginia...

Today’s jobs report is out and it is not what economists were expecting – by a long shot: According to CNN, they were expecting a surge in employment based on last month of close to a million jobs, but only netted 266k. Instead of the unemployment rate continuing to tick down, it went up by 1% to 6.1%. They say this is the worst miss since 1998: .@CNBCs @carlquintanilla notes todays jobs report is the worst miss in 23 years: "The worst miss, were told, since 98." pic.twitter.com/rv6wQVLRgt ...

  Share Source: AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite The U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 51—the bill providing "admission into the United States of the state of Washington, Douglass Commonwealth, composed of most of the territory of the District of Columbia" in a 216 to 208 vote Thursday afternoon.  Rather than prioritizing policies to address the crisis challenge at our southern border, spiking violent crime, rising fuel and energy prices, or aggression from China and Russia, the "we k...

  Share Source: AP Photo/Andrew Harnik Democrats in both chambers of Congress are advocating the implementation of statehood for the District of Columbia, via legislation. Republicans overwhelmingly oppose giving statehood to DC, arguing that the city does not merit representation by 2 United States Senators; both seats would undoubtedly be held by Democrats. Other Republicans, including a group of GOP Attorneys General, argue that granting statehood to DC legislatively is unconstitutional, w...

  Share Source: (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) Earlier this month, U.S. Customs and Border Protection released astonishing data detailing the number of people who crossed into the United States illegally during March 2021.  "In March 2021, CBP encountered more than 172,000 persons attempting entry along the Southwest border. This total represented a 71 percent increase over February 2021," CBP released in a statement earlier this month. "This fiscal year CBP has already had over 569,800 encount...

While suicides fell by 5 percent last year, rates of anxiety and depression surged, as did the number of overdose deaths throughout the coronavirus pandemic, which has spurred endless lockdowns and upended modern life for months on end. According to provisional mortality data from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) National Center for Health Statistics published in March, suicides fell from more than 47,500 in 2019 to less than 45,000 in 2020 beating out bleak predictions cast by alarming sp...

President Joe Biden announced Friday his administration would be keeping in place the refugee cap implemented under his Republican predecessor at 15,000 people. This breaks with an earlier pledge made by the Biden administration to raise admission. In February, Biden Secretary of State Tony Blinken told Congress the White House was preparing to raise the cap on refugees to admit more than 60,000 people, up from Trump’s historic low which Vice President Kamala Harris condemned as a senator. Th...

Only 32% of illegal immigrant family units were expelled under Title 42 authority: (17,345 expulsions out of 53,623 encounters) pic.twitter.com/54CwRA7jR0— Mark Bednar (@MarkBednar) April 8, 2021 "CBP continues to see a significant increase of unaccompanied children from Central America at the Southwest border, with 18,890 in March 2021 – a 100 percent increase over February. Although less than 11 percent of encounters in March were unaccompanied children, they make up the largest demograph...

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  Share Source: AP Photo/LM Otero Schools are never going to reopen ever again if we listen to the COVID panic peddlers. It’s time to reopen. Kids are killing themselves. Anxiety and depression cases in students from isolation have spiked. And no one in the education community cares. Teachers would rather not work. Teachers’ unions would rather flex their muscles through political exercises. And on top of that, hurl the insulting commentary that parents are the selfish ones because they j...