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Craig Bannister | July 3, 2025
President Donald Trump’s “One Big, Beautiful Bill” overcame its final hurdle on Thursday, when the House narrowly passed the reconciliation (budget) bill and sent it to the White House, where the president will sign it into law. The bill passed by a tight 218-214 margin, with two House Republicans – Rep Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) and Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.) – joining all Democrats in voting…
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Craig Bannister | July 3, 2025
UPDATE: Following Rep. Jeffries' eight-hour speech, House Republicans passed their budget bill by a narrow 218-214 margin, sending it to President Donald Trump, who will sign it into law. “Hakeem Jeffries is officially the One Big Beautiful Bill's top salesman,” Turning Point USA Founder and CEO Charlie Kirk declared Thursday when the Democrat House minority leader warned that Pres. Trump’s…
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Craig Bannister | July 3, 2025
  Both job growth and the unemployment rate bested expectations in June, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported Thursday. June’s 4.1% unemployment rate was both down from May’s 4.2% level and better than the increase to 4.3% analysts had predicted. Compared to June of 2024, the unemployment rate was unchanged. Likewise, the 147,000 nonfarm payroll jobs created bested analysts’…
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Craig Bannister | July 2, 2025
“You directly violated Florida Law,” State Attorney General James Uthmeier warned Key West commissioners Tuesday, after they voted to void their police department’s cooperative agreement with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). “They have a choice: stop impeding law enforcement from enforcing immigration law or face the consequences,” AG Uthmeir declared in a July 2 social media post…
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Craig Bannister | July 2, 2025
While it’s being widely reported that Paramount has reached a $16 million settlement with President Donald Trump to resolve his CBS/“60 Minutes” election interference lawsuit, the final tab could exceed $30 million, inside sources say. The lawsuit alleges that “60 Minutes” deceptively edited an interview with 2024 Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris to help her campaign ahead of the…
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Craig Bannister | July 1, 2025
Florida opened a new detention facility for illegal aliens – policed by alligators – on Tuesday, and Pres. Trump was there to take a tour and celebrate the event. As CNSNews previously reported, Alligator Alcatraz is the brainchild of Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier, who recently proposed converting an old Air Force training facility into an illegal immigrant detention center. “I call…
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Craig Bannister | July 1, 2025
In politics, as in comedy, relying on shock value to command an audience requires employing an ever-increasing dose of shock to have the same effect – until the audience becomes so desensitized that the tactic becomes impotent – take, for example, “comedian” Kathy Griffin’s latest attempt to recapture her “inglorious days.” In a sad, desperate attempt to use shock value to gain attention over…
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Craig Bannister | June 30, 2025
“It just can't be right that one district judge can stop a nationwide policy in its tracks,” Justice Elena Kagan declared when Democrat Joe Biden was president, three years before she voted in favor of district judges being able to issue nationwide injunctions to stop Republican President Donald Trump’s policies. On Friday, the Supreme Court issued a 6-3 decision that "puts an end to the '…
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Craig Bannister | June 27, 2025
On Friday, the Supreme Court sided with a group of Muslim, Catholic and Ukrainian Orthodox parents in Maryland asking for the right to opt-out their children from instruction that violates and disparages their religious beliefs by indoctrinating students with LGBTQ+ sexual ideology. The parents are suing Montgomery County Public Schools for incorporating books into their preschool through 12th…
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Craig Bannister | June 27, 2025
In a hotly contested 6-3 decision Friday, the Supreme Court limited the power of district courts, dodged the issue of birthright citizenship, and delayed renewal of Pres. Trump’s executive order on the subject for a month. Friday’s ruling "puts an end to the 'increasingly common' practice of federal courts issuing universal injunctions," Justice Clarence Thomas declared in a concurring opinion…