As D.C. Prepares To Implement a Vaccine Mandate, Matt Gaetz Tries To Block It
Gaetz has introduced a bill nullifying D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser's order requiring people to be vaccinated to visit bars, restaurants, gyms, and other indoor venues.
Gaetz has introduced a bill nullifying D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser's order requiring people to be vaccinated to visit bars, restaurants, gyms, and other indoor venues.
Using "we" implies a collective responsibility, creates the false impression that most people are on board, and hints that we'll share equally in the benefits.
Plus: Civil war fantasies, a challenge to California's ban on felons becoming EMTs, and more...
Shrink the federal waistline for healthier communities.
An old strategy that’s worked for Democrats before may work again.
Experts across the political spectrum support ways to forestall future efforts to use Congress to overturn presidential election results.
Plus: Yelling "fire" (literally and metaphorically), fundraising with non-fungible tokens, and more...
Stranger still, the leading drug policy reform organization supported Schumer's obstruction.
"You know what else is used for nefarious activities?"
The octogenarian columnist has a lot to say about happiness and history in the United States.
Time to stop pretending
Deficit spending and debt are out of control, and dragging down the purchasing power of the dollar.
Plus: A Japanese billionaire will spend 12 days in space, Rep. Peter Meijer is resigned to a second political act for Donald Trump, and more...
Malinda Harris’ ordeal shows how easily the government can take innocent people’s property under civil forfeiture laws.
Plus: Formerly imprisoned NSA contractor Reality Winner gets interviewed by 60 Minutes, San Francisco tries the novel approach of not taxing businesses to death, and more...
If all the Build Back Better plan's proposals were made permanent, the final price tag would be $4.8 trillion and the bill would add about $2.8 trillion to the deficit.
Biden’s presidency is already failing. Build Back Better wouldn't help.
The Congressional Budget Office projects that the tax will raise nearly $8 billion over the next 10 years. That money will come out of consumers' wallets.
The Congressional Budget Office's analysis of the bill is unlikely to prevent its passage through the House. A vote could happen later tonight.
Rep. Nancy Mace is touting "a framework which allows states to make their own decisions on cannabis."
The proposed vaping tax has caused a third Democrat to join Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema in opposing the bill.
The latest bill to “fight big tech” could turn your online experience into a miserable slog.
Plus: Moderna claims full credit for vaccines, 19 percent of university job openings require DEI statements, and more...
The one thing that would most help increase efficiency at America's lagging ports is also the one thing that Biden's union allies dislike the most.
It's one of the most expensive legislative packages in American history, but the $1.2 trillion bill will end up doing far less than it otherwise could have.
We can't afford to keep funding defense contractors' cost overruns.
Removing the cap on the state and local tax deduction would be a massive tax break for wealthy Americans who choose to live in high-tax states.
"I'm open to supporting a final bill that helps move our country forward, but I'm equally open to voting against a bill that hurts our country," Manchin says.
Careful, thoughtful policy making is not ruling the day.
Plus: Facebook rebrands, McDonald's hikes menu prices, and more...
Plus: Six Flags arbitrage, Tom Cotton misleads about qualified immunity, and more...
Plus: RIP to political humorist Mort Sahl, a look at which households pay the largest share of sin taxes, and more....
Legislating with budget gimmicks is shameful, timid, risky, and opportunistic. Mostly, though, it's really expensive.
Amazon promotes products that mimic its competition? Welcome to more than a century of American retail practices.
Manchin's $1.5 trillion plan is still bigger than the Obama stimulus, and would be a major expansion of government's power to redistribute wealth.
One of the big losers in the Illinois redistricting plan is Rep. Adam Kinzinger, a moderate Republican who voted to impeach Trump.
Congress prepares to assert its investigative authority.
Plus: Why "reforming" Section 230 makes little sense, the FDA finally admits vaping is safer than smoking, the U.S. will reopen its land borders with Canada and Mexico, and more...
Rather than fighting for power, Americans should ignore each other and go about their lives.
The Senate's leading progressive seems to misunderstand the basic math of American democracy.
Plus: California can't limit private prisons, Yellen dismisses bank privacy concerns, and more...
"We don't actually do finsta," Antigone Davis, Facebook's head of security, explained.
Among Americans who aren't liberal pundits, the debt and deficit rank as major concerns. It's about time Congress noticed.
Repealing the cap on the SALT deduction would overwhelmingly benefit the wealthiest households in America.
Democrats are now relying on the same "dynamic scoring" technique they've previously criticized.
There’s no clean way this applies to the pandemic.
Why is registration for involuntary servitude still a thing?