Editorial: North Korea launched a rocket on America’s Independence Holiday to drive a point as it claimed success in testing it’s first intercontinental ballistic missile.
For all our Libertarian (foreign issues don’t matter) readers this means that radioactive rockets from an insane dictator may soon land on your children. Continue reading
Oklahoma Senator Jim Inhofe
U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), senior member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) and chairman of the SASC Subcommittee on Readiness and Management Support, voted Wednesday to advance the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for fiscal year 2018 (FY18). The legislation passed out of SASC by unanimous vote (27–0) and is expected to be considered on the Senate floor in July. Continue reading
Fox News is reporting today that companies bidding on the Border Wall project will construct prototypes for the proposed wall with Mexico later this summer.
Ronald Vitiello, Customs and Border Protection’s acting deputy commissioner, said Tuesday that four to eight companies will get contracts for prototypes in San Diego that could be models for the roughly 2,000-mile border. Companies will have 30 days to complete the models. Continue reading
The Senate has finally unveiled its heretofore secret plan for pretending to repeal the (Un)Affordable Care Act (ACA, UCA, or ObamaCare): the Better Care Reconciliation Act.
There’s the excuse that they can’t repeal ACA by the reconciliation process, even though, as Michael Cannon of Cato explains, “ACA’s health insurance regulations are inherently budgetary in nature.” This seems absurd, but apparently there is no arguing with the Senate parliamentarian. Continue reading
The Associated Press is reporting today the Supreme Court approved the Trump administration ban on travel from six mostly war-torn countries, a victory for President Donald Trump in the “biggest legal controversy of his young presidency.” Continue reading