Social Security Increases Accelerate Insolvency Timeline
By Sandy Fitzgerald The Social Security Administration’s plans to increase recipients’ benefits by 5.9% next year could lead the Social Security Trust fund to run out of money by 2032,…
California parents, teachers plan statewide walkout to protest school vaccine mandate
By Brie Stimson California parents and teachers who oppose school vaccine mandates are planning a statewide walkout Monday, according to reports. News about the planned protest has spread on social…
Walgreens is abandoning San Francisco because leftist policies created a shoplifting crisis
By Brad Polumbo Economics students learn in their 101 classes that basic markets can’t function without a few prerequisites — namely, the protection of private property rights. It’s an introductory…
Boeing workers stage protest near Seattle over U.S. vaccine mandate
By Eric M. Johnson EVERETT, Wash. (Reuters) -Waving signs like “coercion is not consent,” and “stop the mandate,” some 200 Boeing Co employees and others staged a protest on Friday…
Congress wants to put a price on your life
By Grace-Marie Turner While Democrats wrestle with internal battles over their multitrillion-dollar social welfare bill, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is determined to push it forward with her drug pricing plan…
Lazy crane operators making $250,000 a year exacerbating port crisis, truckers say
By Tori Richards LONG BEACH, California — Crane operators who belong to a powerful union and earn up to $250,000 a year transferring containers from ships to trucks are worsening…
A Russian spacecraft pushed the space station out of position and sent astronauts into emergency mode – again
By mmcfalljohnsen@insider.com A Russian spacecraft pushed the International Space Station out of position on Friday morning, prompting astronauts to go into emergency mode. It’s the second time Russian hardware has…
Keep Central Texas Working | UnSHAKEable Milkshakes
By Bary Roy When you walk inside Union Hall in Waco and walk towards the back left corner of the bustling business food hall you’ll find UnSHAKEable Milkshakes, a milkshake…
Biden Reinstating Trump’s ‘Remain in Mexico’ Policy, Tent Cities Will Cost $24.6M a Month
By Zoe Strozewski The Biden administration will reinstate the “Remain in Mexico” border policy enacted during the Trump administration that requires asylum-seekers to wait in Mexico for U.S. immigration court…
Microsoft Pulls LinkedIn From China as News Industry Crackdown Rattles Social Media
Patrick Frater Tech giant Microsoft has withdrawn its LinkedIn professional social media service from mainland China, citing the difficulties of compliance in the Middle Kingdom. The move marks the withdrawal…
The political peril that Biden didn’t see coming
By Megan Cassella Americans are likely to face higher prices on everything from gasoline to groceries well into next year — threatening to turn a simmering economic issue into a…
Bernie’s Tax the Rich Bluff Just Got Called by His Fellow Dems
Brian Riedl The Democratic party has been tearing itself to pieces debating whether its latest reconciliation bill should spend $3.5 trillion or $2 trillion or even $1.5 trillion. Less noticed,…
