Category: Politics / Geopolitics

What You Need To Know About The Major Abortion Case The Supreme Court Just Took by By Margot Cleveland for The Federalist On Friday, the Supreme Court agreed to hear an appeal involving a challenge to a Louisiana law that requires abortionists operating in the state to maintain admitting privileges at a nearby hospital. As the first abortion case to be considered by the high court since the confirmation of Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, the significance of this development cannot be overstated. Yet it is not just the new composition of…

Americans Spent More on Taxes in 2018 Than on Food, Clothing and Health Care Combined By Terence P. Jeffrey for CNS News Americans on average spent more on taxes in 2018 than they did on the basic necessities of food, clothing and health care combined, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumer Expenditure Survey. The survey’s recently published Table R-1 for 2018 lists the average “detailed expenditure” of what the BLS calls “consumer units.” “Consumer units,” says BLS, “include families, single persons living alone or sharing a household with others…

CNN Uses Andrew McCabe To Question Investigation Into Andrew McCabe By Chrissy Clark for The Federalist GNN Note – This is the same as asking the fox about the hens missing from the hen house. ****** During “CNN Newsroom” with Brooke Baldwin today, former acting FBI director Andrew McCabe questioned why anyone would investigate the beginnings of the Russia probe. Perhaps it’s because the available evidence suggests he might have been involved. Baldwin asked McCabe why Attorney General William Barr is meeting with foreign counterparts to find out more about the…

How The Left’s Immense Cultural Power Affects Politics By Saritha Prabhu for The Federalist Much of our current divisiveness and polarization stems from the imbalance between the left’s media power and the right’s political power. One problem in our politics today is the power imbalance between the left and the right. The left has immense cultural power in America, while the right has more political power (the presidency, the Senate, and the Supreme Court). This has given rise to our current state of frenzied, over-the-top politics wherein everything the president says…