McConnell Reelected As Senate GOP Leader Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell – who’s been widely criticized for ‘blowing‘ the midterm election by abandoning Trump-endorsed Arizona candidate Blake Masters – has been reelected as Senate GOP leader despite a challenge from Sen. Rick Scott. If he completes this term, McConnell will be the longest-serving party leader…
Op-ed views and opinions expressed are solely those of the author. In Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous Sherlock Holmes tale, “Silver Blaze”, the detective investigates the case of a murder of a horse trainer. At first, investigators presume that the murderer of the trainer must have been a stranger to him. But Holmes cracks the…
Voters in Arizona chose to expand access to more affordable education for illegal migrants as part of a ballot initiative in the midterm election. Arizona voters approved Proposition 308, a measure to allow illegal immigrants to pay in-state tuition at state universities and community colleges. The measure received 51.2% of the vote, according to The…
Polish President Andrzej Duda said Tuesday the missile that struck Poland and killed two was likely the result of a Ukrainian air defense strike targeting incoming Russian fire and accidentally crossing into NATO territory. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) called an emergency meeting Wednesday after an apparent Russian-made missile struck a farming area in…
The morning that hurricane Ian hit the coast of southwest Florida, the dramatic images of the raw power of Mother Nature blowing apart structures built by human hands and sweeping them into the sea were unbelievable.1 After hours and hours of wind, rain and a catastrophic water surge that left a trail of destruction in its…
We do not want World War III Suspected Russian missile hits Poland, a NATO nation. Do not escalate this war. We want peace, not World War III. Humanity depends on it. — Lex Fridman (@lexfridman) November 15, 2022 The post We do not want World War III appeared first on Liberty Tree.
AP Photo/Evan Vucci On Monday, the White House released a statement about the shooting at the University of Virginia in which three members of the school’s football team were killed. The statement itself isn’t all that unusual, but what really stood out to me was the fact that Biden tried to tie this shooting to…
After his speech announcing his run for president last night, the anti-Trump fact checkers were out like they never were for Biden. The hate speech raged on Twitter, and the media sent creative fact checkers to the nearest megaphone. “On day 1, we will end Joe Biden’s war on American energy. You will see energy…
Layoffs Rise, What’s It Mean For The Fed? by David Reavill Life for the US Federal Reserve just got infinitely more complex. Major companies across the country are freezing new hiring or laying off workers entirely. The reduction in employment is a dramatic change from where the economy has been for the past two years.…
Total industrial production decreased by 0.1 percent in October after increasing by 0.1 percent in September. Total industrial production is down in four of the last six months. Over the past year, total industrial output is up 3.3 percent (see first chart). Total industrial capacity utilization decreased 0.2 points to 79.9 percent from 80.1 percent…