Congress is once again on the edge of considering a bone-crushing sanctions package against Russia, but procedural disagreements threaten to derail the process. Senators Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., have been working on a sanctions package that would hit Russia and its energy trade partners where it hurts in a bid to cripple the Kremlin’s war machine. Movement ...
Jeffrey A. Singer On November 20, the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled 6–1 that the hypothesis behind Shaken Baby Syndrome/Abusive Head Trauma (SBS/AHT) — that shaking a baby’s head can cause the clinical “triad” of intracranial hemorrhage, brain swelling, and bleeding behind the retina — is controversial within the scientific community and cannot serve as a basis for convicting someone ...
Tennessee’s Education Freedom Scholarship and the Constitution’s Call to Value and Support Education
Colleen Hroncich A group of Tennessee parents and anti-school-choice advocacy organizations filed a lawsuit on November 20, challenging the state’s Education Freedom Scholarship (EFS) Act, claiming the program violates the state’s constitutional mandate to maintain and support a single system of public schools that provides every child with an adequate education. The lawsuit invokes Tennessee Constitution Article XI, Section 12, ...
Mike Fox It’s difficult to imagine a more quintessential conservative value than the idea that the government should leave peaceful people to their own devices. But that hasn’t happened, and it flows naturally that those who value traditionally conservative principles of constitutionally limited government would embrace the notion that when the government acts aggressively and outside the bounds of constitutional ...
Lawyers for John Bolton and the Trump administration appeared in federal court in Maryland Friday to discuss next steps in the criminal case for Trump’s former national security adviser, who was indicted last month on charges of mishandling classified and sensitive materials. Bolton was indicted last month on 18 criminal charges stemming from his alleged retention and transmission of classified ...
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., is signaling openness to making it harder for House lawmakers to punish each other via a censure resolution. The congressional leader sat down for an interview with Fox News Digital on Friday, the first week the House returned since the beginning of the 43-day government shutdown began on Oct. 1. But the five-day legislative week was ...
Dominik Lett Since taking office in January, President Trump has repeatedly suggested downsizing and eventually eliminating the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and returning disaster responsibility to the states. Trump’s instincts are right on the money: Decades of federal intervention in what has traditionally been a state-led process have produced slow, inefficient disaster responses, poor mitigation, and wasteful boondoggles. A ...
The Iran-backed Lebanese terrorist movement Hezbollah is rebuilding its military arsenal on Israel’s northern border, as experts warn that another war between the two sides could be on the horizon. The latest developments come a year after the U.S. helped broker a ceasefire between the parties. On Wednesday, IDF spokesman Nadav Shoshani, said Hezbollah had engaged ‘in a blatant violation ...
Nicholas Anthony The marketing team at the European Central Bank has picked up a new buzzword for its digital euro campaign: “freedom.” European Central Bank board member Piero Cipollone has been at the forefront of this marketing campaign. In a recent speech, Cipollone said the digital euro “would preserve our freedom to choose how we pay” and that “at its ...
Colleen Hroncich Montana mom Holly Long had no idea how motherhood would change her. “I loved my job. When I had my daughter, I thought I’d take my three months and go back to work just like all the other ladies that I worked with did,” she recalls. But, to her surprise, Holly didn’t want to send her daughter to ...