by Jay Ambrose For a quite a while, progressives were calling our country’s painful inflation mild and “transitory,” meaning it would last just a yawn or two and be gone. Relax, enjoy yourself, put up with policies that just maybe strike you as insane and vote for congressional ...
by Elizabeth Shackelford On Dec. 15, the Senate passed the National Defense Authorization Act, the annual legislation authorizing the yearly defense budget. At $768 billion, it breezed through the House and the Senate with widespread bipartisan support, at a time when that’s ...
MORGANTOWN — Whatever the fate of Build Back Better after the New Year — in whatever new form it might take — the expanded Child Tax Credit that Democrats hoped to continue as part of the legislation is coming to an end. The last payments went out Dec. 15 and the expanded program ends ...
Families, average citizens are put last Two stories in the Dec. 17 issue of The Dominion Post drew my attention for different reasons. The first reported on a press conference held by Sen. Capito in which one beheld a remarkable display of her priorities. On the one hand, she opposes ...
by Ramesh Ponnuru The Democrats should have listened to Joe Manchin. As their “Build Back Better” agenda assumed legislative shape, the Democratic senator from West Virginia kept telling them what he didn’t like about it. On Nov. 1, he decried the bill’s “shell games” ...
Sen. Joe Manchin’s announcement on Fox News Sunday that he was a “no” on the Build Back Better Act set off a flurry of coverage, which only intensified Monday when Manchin appeared on Talkline. The interview lasted for nearly 15 minutes, and in the first three or four minutes Manchin ...