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Sale signs hang on the long display of snacks at a Target store Oct. 4, 2023, in Sheridan, Colo. Target plans on cutting prices on thousands of consumer basics this summer, goods ranging from diapers to milk, with more Americans paying closer attention to their spending as inflation cuts into household budgets.(AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)

Washington ate your lunch, then blamed business

You're paying more for food because Congress refuses to control its spending. That was the testimony I recently gave before a Senate committee, but the committee chair, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, refused to believe the evidence presented. Her plan is not to reduce government spending, but to drive your food prices even higher.

Protesters gather at Drexel University campus during a new Pro-Palestinian encampment on Monday, May 20, 2024, in Philadelphia. (Jose F. Moreno/The Philadelphia Inquirer via AP)

Campus protests: Free speech needs order, too

Hot takes of the pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel demonstrations on our college campuses quickly became common. But those with enough legal and historical context to properly assess the situation have been rare.

Stickers and Palestininan flags cover a statue of George Washington at an encampment by students protesting against the Israel-Hamas war at George Washington University on Tuesday, April 30, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

It's time to quash campus radicalism

It's clear from Monday's "Day of Rage" that anti-Israel protesters don't care about winning the hearts and minds of their fellow citizens.

A hiring sign is displayed in Riverwoods, Ill., Tuesday, April 16, 2024. On Thursday, April 18, 2024, the Labor Department reports on the number of people who applied for unemployment benefits last week. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

New government data shows the economy may be losing jobs

The stagflationary report on first-quarter gross domestic product from the Bureau of Economic Analysis got plenty of attention, but the Bureau of Labor Statistics recently dropped a bigger bombshell, and no one seemed to notice.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen testifies before a House Financial Services Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, Feb. 6, 2024, in Washington. Yellen is offering her strongest public support yet for the idea of liquidating roughly $300 billion in frozen Russian Central Bank assets and using them for Ukraine’s long-term reconstruction. The U.S. and its allies froze Russian foreign holdings in retaliation for Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Is the Biden administration trying to destroy the dollar?

Confidence in Western financial markets has already been shaken enough by the 20% devaluation of the dollar over the last few years. But now the European Commission wants to hand Ukraine $300 billion seized from Russia. Doing so likely would sound the death knell for the dollar and eventually the euro.

The Dali, a massive container ship from Singapore, still sits amid the wreckage and collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in the Baltimore port, Monday, April 1, 2024. (Kaitlin Newman/The Baltimore Banner via AP)

How to rebuild Baltimore's Key Bridge without breaking the bank

The collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore last week came as quite a shock. After a massive container ship struck one of the bridge's pillars, the entire span quickly fell apart, costing several lives. The question is, what now?

A group of young people with mobile phones on the street. (File photo credit: carballo via Shutterstock)

Parents, you're destroying your kids

If you're a parent allowing your children unfettered access to social media, you're willfully abdicating your responsibility to protect and at grave risk of irreparably damaging them.

People gather to mourn the loss of Laken Riley during a vigil for the Augusta University College of Nursing student at the Tate Plaza on the University of Georgia campus in Athens, Ga., Monday, Feb. 26, 2024. Riley, a nursing student at Augusta University's Athens campus, was found dead Thursday, Feb. 22, after a roommate reported she didn't return from a morning run in a wooded area of the UGA campus near its intramural fields. Students also gathered to pay tribute to a UGA student who committed suicide last week. (Joshua L. Jones/Athens Banner-Herald via AP)

Laken Riley's mom has a message every American must hear

There's nothing more traumatic, painful and heart-shattering than the loss of a child. This reality has been on full display in recent days after the Feb. 22 murder of Laken Riley, a 22-year-old nursing student whose vibrant life and promising future were senselessly snuffed out.