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Please take just a moment to read this. Suicide rates among our active-duty military and veterans are at heartbreaking levels. Last year, 580 active-duty troops took their own lives, according to the Pentagon. That’s over 1½ every day, and it represents a 15 percent increase from the year prior. Meanwhile, our veterans are particularly at risk. The most recent report from the VA… Read more »

Wow. I can’t even express enough outrage over this. Arrests along our southern border have now reached the “highest levels ever recorded.” That’s according to unpublished Border Patrol data obtained by the Washington Post. Let’s unpack this information… Being arrested and being detained by our Border Patrol are generally two different things. Illegal immigrants are typically detained… Read more »

INDIAN LAND Residents (and those who live or work nearby) – I’m doing all I can to ratchet up the pressure on the U.S. Postal Service. It’s just one delay after another… one problem after another… one excuse after another. You all have been waiting entirely too long for a replacement facility, and I’m fed up and angry over the USPS’ handling of this matter. I WILL NOT let up on… Read more »

Let’s talk details. This is a long post, I know, but it’s important for everyone to understand just how bad the Democrats’ massive tax & spend package is going to be. Remember, this bill isn’t even finalized yet. I’ve linked to their initial version below. As of now, this is a 2,465-page monster that will expand cradle-to-grave government dependence, make inflation worse, and put our… Read more »

Our nation mourns this morning over the loss of Colin Powell. He was such an incredible individual, both personally and in service to our nation. May God bless both him and his family. Read more »

Good news from the South Carolina Supreme Court yesterday. This is concerning federal unemployment benefits here in South Carolina, which ended up hurting our state and economy. To refresh your memory, during Covid, the federal government was supplementing state unemployment benefits with federal money. So those who were unemployed due to Covid had been receiving not only unemployment… Read more »

More bad news today on the inflation front. Consumer prices jumped 0.4% last month, according to the Labor Department. Over the last year, prices have risen 5.4%. Let’s put that in perspective… Food prices alone have jumped 4.6% in the last 12 months. Certainly you’ve seen that reflected in restaurant prices or at the grocery store. (If not in higher prices, then definitely in… Read more »

The average price for gas hit $3.02/gallon here in South Carolina yesterday, according to AAA. That’s up a whopping 55% from this time one year ago. For now at least, President Biden’s energy policies are not (yet) the primary culprit. Several factors have contributed. For example, the oil cartel controlling most of the world’s oil & gas production, OPEC, has refused to increase… Read more »

I flew up to Washington earlier today in order to vote NO this evening on raising the debt limit. I'm done with spending RECKLESS amounts of money. I'm done with raising the ceiling each time the federal government reaches its borrowing limit. I'm done with the complacency on government waste, and this SICK mentality that it's somehow okay to kneecap our future generations with debt… Read more »

"But when the Taliban arrived, these heroic women were beaten with whips and batons." This article is a powerful summary of the the despair women & girls in Afghanistan now face because of President Biden's botched withdraw of U.S. forces from that nation. I want to thank Callista Gingrich for highlighting my resolution in the House on this important matter. (H.R. 694) Every… Read more »