In talking with people, one of the most bipartisan issues people support involves some sort of ban on stock trading by government officials. This week, supporters of good government got some good news as the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee. But powerful forces in Washington DC are poised to block this reform. It won’t pass without you.
Several years ago, I wrote a column critical of Jeffrey Epstein getting a lenient deal in his original sentencing. I got angry replies, including someone in politics who informed me how ignorant I was, and that there was nothing wrong with such a mild sentence. It’s why I’ve been a little gun-shy about writing another column calling for more investigations of Epstein.
While some in the national media are sneering at the alleged “No Stars” Game, Major League Baseball, the staff, the players (current and former stars), and the hordes of volunteers have made this All-Star Game one for the ages. Because it was never about the stars. It’s the fans, not the big names on the field, that make this game special, something these columnists just don’t get.
As I write this, there’s a desperate search for dozens of girls, missing from a flood where the Guadalupe River rose 26 feet in 45 minutes. More than 80 people drowned at the time I sent this column. Yet critical data about this freakish weather hitting America and the rest of the world is about to go offline, at the moment in history that we need it the most. Don’t let the government withhold this lifesaving information from its people, for hurricanes, floods or other disasters.
As I write this, the House and Senate are rushing to pass what’s become known as “The Big Beautiful Bill.” There’s resistance to even a Senate reading of the nearly 1,000-page piece of legislation. The richest get thousands of dollars in tax breaks, the poor will lose over $1,500 each, and the bill increases the budget deficit by trillions of dollars. But there are solutions.
As Americans find themselves dragged into yet another Middle East conflict, it’s worth looking at how we wound up here, the role of Israel’s Prime Minister and his political problems, the impact of Hamas and how this has all increasingly undermined the American people’s support for Israel, as well as Israeli frustration with their regime.
There’s a good chance that the budget being proposed in Congress will seriously gut the Pell Grant programs. Here’s how it will hurt this country in general, and you in particular, and what you can do to stop this from happening.
A student posted something on his Instagram page that seemed to indicate that there are more deaths from police interactions with the public than when George Floyd was killed. Is this the case? I researched the statistics, and this is what I found.
A month ago, the United States and Ukraine signed a Rare Earth Minerals Deal. It’s a pact that if it passes over objections from Putin supporters in Congress, could bring an end to the Russian Invasion of Ukraine. Here’s how that would work.
