Top Story: Lee Zeldin Tells Senator He ‘Doesn’t Believe’ in ‘Armed Bureaucracy’ When Asked About ‘Outrageous’ EPA Raid
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Top Commentary: Time to Ask Tough Questions About These Student Loan Bailouts
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Biden’s Green Loan Office Offers Up a Staggering $22 Billion in Admin’s Final Hours
The Biden administration’s green loan office is shelling out nearly $23 billion to utility companies for green energy development and other projects in its final days.
The Department of Energy’s (DOE) Loan Programs Office (LPO) announced its conditional commitment to provide a combined $22.9 billion in financing to numerous utility companies across the country to “modernize” their grid systems by adding new green energy generation, building transmission lines needed to harness renewable generation and more. The LPO is continuing its lame duck lending spree through the very end of the Biden administration, even though Republicans and the DOE’s internal watchdog have called for a freeze on LPO activity due to concerns about the office’s safeguards pertaining to conflicts of interest.
Read MoreCommentary: Time to Ask Tough Questions About These Student Loan Bailouts
Even as the Trump inauguration nears, Biden continues to cause controversy, including with student loan cancellations.
On January 13, his Education Department announced yet another round of student loan forgiveness—this time, for more than 150,000 borrowers—bringing the Administration’s total number of individuals with student debt canceled to over 5 million.
Read MoreReview: Norm Grant’s ‘Tales of Young Patriots’
P. Norman Grant has written “Tales of Young Patriots,” a delightful collection of 12 short stories of historical fiction celebrating the story of America, and the virtues that made our people great, through the eyes and ears of young participants in key moments in our country’s history.
From the ocean passages of the 1600s to our modern desert wars, Young Patriots contains lessons in virtue driven by action. The stories are written in a style and with language to appeal to middle or high school students of social studies or history.
Read MoreLee Zeldin Tells Senator He ‘Doesn’t Believe’ in ‘Armed Bureaucracy’ When Asked About ‘Outrageous’ EPA Raid
Former Republican Rep. Lee Zeldin of New York said Thursday he believed the Environmental Protection Agency should not be an “armed bureaucracy.”
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) carried out a raid with dozens of armed agents on a mine near Chicken, Alaska, in August 2013, according to Fox News. Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan of Alaska asked Zeldin, who President-elect Donald Trump nominated to serve as EPA administrator, about the use of armed agents to conduct raids during a Thursday hearing, saying that the Biden administration was conducting armed raids similar to the 2013 raid on “small mechanic shops” in his state.
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