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Revealed: How Much You Have to Earn to Be ‘Middle Class’ in Your State Staying in the middle class takes a lot of work, according to a new analysis. A look at the numbers from the website GOBankingRates.com found that it took a nearly 42 percent increase in income to remain in the middle class…

Bad News Delivered After Oscars, Motion Picture Academy Forced to Launch $500 Million Fundraising Drive It’s not quite to the point where the hashtag “OscarsSoBroke” will be trending, but the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is passing the hat around the globe. A $500 million fundraising campaign was launched Friday with the goal…

Groups Behind Protests Seizing College Campuses Get Bad News as Senators Head Letter to IRS In the wake of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol incursion, the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, known as FinCEN,  asked financial institutions to use search terms like “TRUMP” and “MAGA” to comb through customer data on purchases of items…

Biden Admin Planning to Roll Out ID Cards for Illegal Immigrants This Summer: 10,000 Cards in First-Round Issue Across US Coming this summer to a city near you: taxpayer-funded identification cards for thousands of illegal immigrants. Well, maybe to a city near you; Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials insist that some aspects of the plan are…

Weekly Jobless Claims Unexpectedly Shoot Up to ‘Worrisome’ Level Another day, another piece of bad election-year news for proponents of Bidenomics. The Department of Labor on Thursday released its weekly report of seasonally adjusted data on new unemployment claims through May 4, reporting a total of 231,000 jobless claims. That number was both up from…

‘A Real-Life Hero’: Father Sacrifices His Life to Save Three Children Most people have at least a vague notion of the virtue of self-sacrifice. But considering how few people in the developed world face life-or-death situations on a daily basis, how many of us could truly embody that virtue if it came down to it?…

House Passes Bill That Forces Biden Administration to Keep Its ‘Hands Off Our Home Appliances’ The House on Tuesday passed a bill designed to ensure that any new energy efficiency standards promulgated by the U.S. Department of Energy be based on available technology and economic reality, according to a media release from the bill’s sponsor….

Watch: CNN Host Calls Out Joe Biden for ‘Being All Over the Map” on Abortion CNN’s Jake Tapper called out President Joe Biden’s ever-changing position on the issue of abortion. In an interview that aired Sunday with Biden campaign co-chair Mitch Landrieu, Tapper questioned whether Biden’s shifting stance on abortion over his political career will…

Judge Hands NY Democrats Massive Loss, Axes Abortion Rights Measure A state judge in New York has shot down a pro-abortion ballot measure just ahead of the November election, dealing a blow to Democrats who hoped to use the initiative as a top campaign issue this fall. A judge in Livingston County ruled on Tuesday…

Trump Drops Ad Putting University Presidents ‘On Notice,’ Pledges to Deal with Pro-Palestinian Protests Donald Trump’s presidential campaign released an ad Monday putting university leaders on notice that if he is re-elected his administration will not tolerate anti-Semitism on campuses. The online ad, which dropped on Holocaust Remembrance Day, included clips from a speech Trump…