Politico this week inaccurately reported remarks by FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell about Florida’s response to Hurricane Ian, but she also appeared to be inaccurate in saying that she hasn’t ever acted politically during a natural disaster.   Criswell, who runs the Federal Emergency Management Agency under the Biden administration, spoke...

All three major stock indices ended the third quarter in a bear market after closing Friday, together having the worst nine-month stretch in a calendar year since 2002, after yet another pessimistic inflation report sent all three indices tumbling at least 1.5%. While the Dow Jones wavered in and...

Under Article V of the Constitution, two-thirds of Congress can propose constitutional amendments and, after 50 years of trying, sent the Equal Rights Amendment to the states in March 1972 with a seven-year ratification deadline. Even after a disputed deadline extension, only 35 of the necessary 38 states had...

Be prepared for Democrats to exploit the devastation of Hurricane Ian to peddle de-modernization. And because there is no conclusive way for anyone to prove that global warming isn’t triggering every natural disaster—and because nature offers a continuous flow of these terrifying events and always will—the exploitation will never...

Opponents of Arizona’s school choice program, which provides state funds to students to attend schools outside of the public school system, failed to collect enough signatures to place the issue on the general election ballot, according to a Friday statement by Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs. Save Our...

It looks like Walmart and the administrative state are going to court. The case has the potential, however, to affect not only Walmart, but also the entire federal bureaucracy.  The Federal Trade Commission has sued the retail giant, seeking civil penalties in what Walmart is calling “an egregious instance...

Republican Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio ripped the FBI for allegedly retaliating against whistleblowers during a Friday morning appearance on Fox News. “Established policies and procedures? Are you kidding me? In the past several weeks, they’ve raided the home of a former president, taken the phone of a sitting...

Russian president Vladimir Putin said the West had fallen for a “reverse religion of real Satanism” in forcing sex changes on children and committing “apartheid” against “savage” populations in a speech on Friday. He called transgender ideology a “denial of humanity” and “overthrow of traditional values,” marketing Russia’s war...

Thirty-one years ago, a media-anointed secular saint named Anita Hill uncorked some sexual-harassment charges against then-Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas that she could not substantiate. Thomas called it part of a “high-tech lynching.” But Hill, who became a millionaire author and a professor of “social policy, law, and women’s...

Minnesota election officials are investigating six counties where duplicate names were found on voter registration lists—in one case reaching more than 300 duplicate names in a single county.  The Public Interest Legal Foundation, an election watchdog group, said it found 515 duplicate names on voter registration lists across six...

A 10-year-old named Noella McMaher has become the youngest transgender model ever to open and close a runway show during New York Fashion Week. Noella was born a boy, but dresses in girls’ clothing. This is yet another example of an entire community—from this child’s parents, to the fashion...

Democratic Rep. Abigail Spanberger of Virginia blasted House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Democratic Rep. Steny Hoyer of Maryland, the House Majority Leader, Friday over the failure to pass legislation banning members of Congress from trading stock. “This moment marks a failure of House leadership — and it’s yet another...

The FBI arrested a former National Security Agency (NSA) employee Wednesday for allegedly trying to sell classified information to someone he thought represented a foreign government. Jareh Sebastian Dalke, 30, of Colorado, allegedly used an encrypted email to send three excerpts of classified documents between August and September 2022...

Republican candidate Dr. Mehmet Oz is narrowing the polling lead of Democratic Lt. Gov. John Fetterman in the Pennsylvania Senate race, according to a new Emerson College survey released on Friday. Oz garnered 43% support to Fetterman’s 45%, a difference within the margin of error, while 8% of respondents...

Former President Bill Clinton on Thursday warned that Democrats may harm their chances of winning November’s midterm elections if they adopt progressive policy positions. Speaking at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., Clinton said that “defund the police and socialism” would not appeal to “people in the middle, especially like...

Democratic politicians singling out Republican states for their crime issues fail to adequately address the pertinent and increasing issue in their own cities, according to experts. Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom recently questioned why Democrats do not push back on Republican crime messaging when Republican states accounted for 8...

As inflation continues to batter consumers, the number of Americans living paycheck to paycheck climbed to 60% in August, according to a Friday report from financial services company LendingClub. The increase, up from 57% in September 2021, was driven primarily by a greater portion of six figure earners slipping...

Economic data released recently reveals that the U.S. economy is still laboring under debilitating inflation.  Rising prices for essential goods and services act as a drag on discretionary spending and will make our current recession all the more painful and long-lasting.  Recent polling by TIPP/Insight provides useful insights into...

Among the most important aspects of our constitutional republic is education—specifically, how we teach our nation’s youngsters. Is it possible that we can save our country’s K-12 schools? The short answer is an unequivocal “no,” if we were to continue what is standard fare today. However, it doesn’t have...

The following article, Resources Vanishing Before Our Eyes, was first published on Flag And Cross. Most conservatives know that the Green New Deal misses the mark and that dire claims of global warming often fall far short. Still there are legitimate concerns about the environment that merit consideration. Decades...