by Neil W. McCabe | Feb 15, 2021
Republican lawmakers, who voted to impeach or convict President Donald J. Trump, earned rebukes from their home states – a new trend of holding GOP legislators accountable for their actions in Washington. “Wrong vote, Sen. Burr,” Tweeted former...
by Florida Capital Star Staff | Feb 15, 2021
by Julie Kelly The cruelty, Donald Trump’s foes often claimed, is the point. Whether in response to a mean tweet or childish name-calling or the infamous “kids in cages” episode, the president’s critics collectively wailed in performative grief about Trump’s...
by Florida Capital Star Staff | Feb 15, 2021
by Thomas Catenacci The Department of Justice has opened a probe into the stock market frenzy that led to the meteoric rise of “meme stocks” such as GameStop, according to The Wall Street Journal. Federal investigators are reportedly looking into whether market...
by Florida Capital Star Staff | Feb 15, 2021
by Eric Lendrum A CBS News poll suggests that almost three-fourths of Republican voters would, in some capacity, be prepared to leave the GOP in favor of a third party founded by President Donald Trump, as reported by the Epoch Times. The poll found that 33...
by Florida Capital Star Staff | Feb 15, 2021
by Thomas Catenacci President Joe Biden on Sunday ordered the recreation of a White House office intended to promote partnerships between religious and secular groups to address several key issues. The White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood...
by Florida Capital Star Staff | Feb 15, 2021
by Kaylee Greenlee President Joe Biden should adhere to the agreement former President Donald Trump made with the Taliban to completely withdraw American forces from Afghanistan, a veteran of the war and foreign policy expert told the Daily Caller News...
by Florida Capital Star Staff | Feb 15, 2021
by Kaylee Greenlee Pharmaceutical companies are planning to deduct restitution payments from opioid lawsuit settlements from their tax filings and will get back around $1 billion each, The Washington Post reported Friday. Johnson & Johnson, McKesson,...
by Florida Capital Star Staff | Feb 15, 2021
by Catherine Smith The U.S. budget deficit will be larger than expected because of the $900 billion stimulus bill passed in December, a whopping $448 billion larger than was projected in September, the Congressional Budget Office said Thursday. According to...
by Florida Capital Star Staff | Feb 15, 2021
by Virginia Allen Some lawmakers’ push to raise the national minimum wage to $15 an hour is “truly maddening,” small business owner Stuart Hornsby says. Hornsby owns a frozen yogurt shop, a business he built from the ground up in 2013, in a small city in...
by Florida Capital Star Staff | Feb 15, 2021
by Michael De Sapio “This is Washington’s Birthday,” sings Fred Astaire in the movie classic Holiday Inn, “And I can’t tell a lie.” Americans of a certain age no doubt can remember when the day we now know as Presidents Day was called...
by Florida Capital Star Staff | Feb 15, 2021
by Bradley Stein A federal judge ruled on Friday that a former NYPD officer accused of spying for the Chinese will be released on bail immediately, according to the New York Post. The officer in question, Baimadajie Angwang, was recently diagnosed with COVID-19...
by Florida Capital Star Staff | Feb 15, 2021
by Matt Shapiro It is clear to everyone that the world of COVID-19 into which we have been hurled will become a turning point in our history. I started writing for this august publication about COVID in early March 2020, as the pandemic hit a nursing...
by Florida Capital Star Staff | Feb 15, 2021
by Eric Lendrum The San Francisco Board of Education voted on Tuesday to replace its long-standing merit-based admission system with a random lottery, accusing the former of being racist, as reported by the Washington Free Beacon. Included in the board’s...
by Chris Butler | Feb 15, 2021
Georgia State Rep. David Clark (R-Buford) has introduced a bill that, if enacted into law, would repeal the state’s film, gaming, video, and digital production income tax credits. The language of Clark’s bill says little else. The Georgia General Assembly’s...
