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Back on May 30, 2023, after then-Speaker Kevin McCarthy cut a deal with President Joe Biden to suspend any limit on the federal debt through all of 2024, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer praised the deal as an act of "responsible" government.

"Again, nobody got everything they wanted," said Schumer, "but this bill is the responsible and ...Read more

Utah, Idaho and Wyoming all share common borders and something else that matters more.

According to data the Census Bureau gathered in 2020, these were three of the four states that had the highest percentages of households headed by married couples of the opposite sex.

New Hampshire also ranked in the top four.

In 2020, 57.8% of the ...Read more

I saw it by accident.

I was sitting in the kitchen at my family's ranch in the high foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains -- not far from Yosemite National Park.

I got up to refill my water glass and looked out the window behind the kitchen sink. About a hundred yards away -- across an upward-sloping field of yellowed grass -- stood a ...Read more

There is one competition where Los Angeles, New York, Chicago and Philadelphia are not beating other major locations in this country. It is in persuading people to stay there.

The Census Bureau this month released its estimates on the populations that each American county had as of July 1, 2023. In a release about this data, it included a ...Read more

President Joe Biden -- in his State of the Union address -- once again tried to present himself as a "fiscally responsible" president.

"And, by the way, the first couple of years, we cut the deficit," he said, according to the White House transcript of his speech.

"I've been delivering real results in fiscally responsible ways," he said. "We...Read more

There seems to be at least one impenetrable barrier connected to this country's southwest border. It is the one that stands between Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and an accurate assessment of what is actually happening there.

In September 2020, the last month of that fiscal year, the Border Patrol encountered 54,771 aliens ...Read more

There is one area of competition where Catholic schools always beat public schools.

It is not in track and field. It is not in football or basketball. It is in the average scores for national reading and math assessment tests.

The National Center for Education Statistics, which is a part of the U.S. Department of Education, published a ...Read more

From February 2022 to December 2023, Congress appropriated about three times as much money for its response to the conflict in Ukraine as the federal government spent on Customs and Border Protection.

Congress approved approximately $113.4 billion in spending related to the Ukraine conflict during this period, while the government spent only ...Read more

The United States in 2023 imported $427.2 billion in merchandise from the People's Republic of China, a nation that the U.S. government reports is ruled by a communist regime that is engaging in genocide.

Because the United States exported only $147.8 billion in merchandise to China in 2023, according to the numbers published by the U.S. ...Read more

When I was a freshman and sophomore in high school -- before I was old enough to drive -- every weekday after football or track practice I would take a San Francisco municipal transit bus from my high school in the Sunset District to the corner of Haight and Stanyan streets.

That corner was the closest bus stop to St. Mary's Hospital, where ...Read more

President Joe Biden seemed a little confused when he gave a speech at a church in South Carolina on Sunday.

First, he mistook the Declaration of Independence for the Constitution.

"The Bible teaches that we shall know the truth, and the truth shall set us free," Biden said, according to a White House transcript of his remarks. "Well, I think...Read more

When John Modlin, the chief patrol agent for the Border Patrol's Tucson Sector, testified before the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability on Feb. 7, Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) asked him a straightforward question.

"How many agents roughly do you guys think that the Border Patrol needs right now?" she said.

"So, the Border Patrol is ...Read more

President Joe Biden -- wearing a brown leather jacket and a black baseball hat -- walked out onto the South Lawn of the White House on Saturday morning on his way to Marine One.

He was flying to Camp David for the weekend. But first he stopped to talk to some reporters.

"Mr. President," one of them asked, "would you call the situation on the...Read more