FEMA announces $2 million grant to Utah to ‘retrofit homes against earthquake’
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has announced a federal grant for the State of Utah that will make $1,916,396 available to Salt Lake City to help retrofit 100 homes in a community built along the More...
Pro-lifers urge HHS to end taxpayer funds for aborted fetal tissue research
National and state pro-life leaders sent a letter this week to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar urging the government to end the taxpayer-funded use of aborted fetal tissue for More...
Fake News: NY Times lies about Nikki Haley spending $56K on curtains, but they were bought during the Obama administration
Some journalists and lawmakers called out the New York Times Friday after the newspaper published a false story which targeted Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley over the purchase of $52,701 curtains More...
Florida’s governor race: Andrew Gillum on universal health care, tax hikes to pay for it
CNN’s Dana Bash pressed Florida Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum on Sunday over his support for a $33 trillion government-run health care system, a “medicare for all” plan, and More...
Trump to freeze non-military federal raises
President Trump repeated his call for lawmakers to freeze the salaries of 2 million federal employees in 2019 Thursday, even threatening to use his executive powers to do so. Trump’s pay freeze doesn’t apply More...
CBO predicts continued growth for the US economy until next year
A new report from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects continue growth in the economy for remainder of this year before slowing some time next year. photo/Gerd Altmann The updated economic outlook states More...
US economy soars as GDP climbs 4.1%, CNN won’t give Trump is due
The U.S. economy exhibited amazing growth in the second quarter of 2018, with the gross domestic product (GDP) climbing 4.1%, nearly doubling the first quarter, which was revised up to 2.2%. The booming rate is More...
Republicans are the OTHER big government party: Shame on John Cornyn, John Thune
When the vast majority of the US Senate, including “fiscal hawk” Republicans, was wanting to vote for a bipartisan budget bill that would put annual deficits in the ballpark of $1.2 trillion and get More...
Senate passes massive spending bill to avoid government shutdown
Senate leaders rolled out a massive two-year budget deal Wednesday, pleasing both parties and preventing a government shutdown, but increases the federal government’s spending. The plan heads to the House. Majority More...
National Review Institute’s Kathryn Jean Lopez discusses adoption, foster care and March For Life
National Review Institute Senior Fellows Kathryn Jean Lopez and Kevin D. Williamson were in Washington, D.C. the 2018 March for Life, and Kathryn spent some time speaking on The Brandon Jones Show about the More...
How Cities Are Tackling Aging Infrastructure Problems
Infrastructure in the United States is well past its prime in many cities. Some cities have sewers that were put in place in the late 1800s. Some even used terracotta piping that hasn’t been in use in decades. The More...
TRANSCRIPT: President Trump’s 2018 State of the Union Address
President Donald Trump gave his first State of the Union address on Tuesday. Read the President’s speech as prepared for delivery and released by the White House. Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members More...
Bernie Sanders faced with 2013 shutdown remarks: throw ‘Americans out on the street, and we are going to get our way no matter what’
On Friday, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) appeared on MSNBC. During his segment, host Ali Velshi played a clip of OMB Director Mick Mulvaney reciting a direct quote from Sanders regarding the 2013 government shutdown: photo/ More...
CNN warns that government shutdown could result in NASA not warning of destructive asteroids hitting the earth
While the debate over the government shutdown continues to be misguided, fueling more immigration talks and none on spending, CNN offered up their own concern: NASA’s asteroid monitoring service. Yes, the More...
House passes Senate tax bill, heads to Trump who touts ‘Jobs jobs jobs’
The House of Representatives passed the Senate tax reform package Wednesday afternoon, sending the the legislation to President Donald Trump’s desk for his signature. The bill passed the House a second time More...
Rand Paul speech on government spending most important this year: Must Watch!
On Tuesday, Kentucky Republican Senator Rand Paul took to the Senate floor discussing government spending, wasteful spending and pointing at both parties as being guilty for the runaway deficits and $20 trillion More...
Rand Paul wants to save tax dollars, getting scientific types unwound
Good afternoon, Gramps here, Did you know that the US government, through the National Science Foundation (NSF), spent $30,000 of yours and mine hard earned tax dollars to study the gambling habits of people in More...
Preparing for the Stock Market’s Most Volatile Month – October
There’s an art to choosing the right stocks, and there’s an art to selling stocks at the right time. There are many ways to do this, which includes finding penny stocks pre-spike, but even the most sure-fire More...
SCOTUS rules government cannot exclude churches, religious groups for funding, programs
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 7-2 Monday that the government cannot exclude churches and other faith-based organizations from a secular government program simply because of their religious identity. The much-anticipated decision came More...
Rand Paul’s ‘America First’ amendment tabled by Senate
On Thursday, Kentucky Senator Rand Paul introduced the “America First” amendment to the hurricane relief legislation that would provide assistance while preventing the federal government from further running More...