“As stated in our lapse of appropriation correspondence dated Oct. 1, 2025, SNAP has funding available for benefits and operations through the month of October,” reads a letter dated Oct. 10 from Ronald Ward, acting associate administrator of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. ...
In 2018, the Supreme Court voted 6-3 to strike down a federal law banning sports gambling, thus allowing individual states to decide whether to allow it, or not. It didn’t take a genius to predict what might happen, especially when politicians can find new sources of revenue beyond income, ...
In the 1960s, the conservative intellectual James Burnham wrote a book arguing that the decline of Western civilization was a self-imposed choice. The volume, famously called “Suicide of the West,” desperately needs to be updated with an epilogue about the U.S. dependence on China for ...
No two states voted more alike and closer to the national average in last year’s presidential election than the two states that have gubernatorial elections in this odd-numbered year: New Jersey and Virginia. New Jersey voted 51.8% for Kamala Harris and 45.9% for Donald Trump. Virginia voted ...
I am confessing up front that I suffer from logophilia. That sounds serious, and it is. It means I love words. I explore their meanings and derivations. I am always on a quest, often fruitless, for precisely the right one in each sentence I write. That’s what makes the term “antifa” ...
What do you do when voters have rejected your party’s policies and the losers have nothing new to offer? Answer: You stage large demonstrations that include name calling. Anyone who believes the Oct. 18 “No Kings” (was that poll tested?) demonstrations across the country were not ...