Sens. John Barrasso

Thursday night, former collegiate swimmer Riley Gaines had to be escorted out of San Francisco State University by police after rabid, violent students physically attacked her. She was on campus to give a speech about saving women’s sports and ended up barricaded in a classroom for nearly three hours. Her husband said a male student wearing a dress hit her at least twice while she tried to escape the chaos.

On March 20, 2023, Fairfax County Public School students at Irving Middle School received a “social emotional learning,” or SEL, lesson on Ramadan, a Muslim holiday. The lesson, which included a video about Ramadan and Islam, was not part of a wider religious studies or cultural traditions curriculum. Rather, it was the only religious instruction the students have received this school year.

The United States is blessed with vast amounts of oil and gas reserves. On Dec. 30, 2022, the Energy Information Administration released the most recent data on proved oil reserves in the U.S. Proved oil reserves increased by 6.2 billion barrels to 44.4 billion barrels in 2021 over 2020. The U.S. holds the world’s largest recoverable oil reserve base – more than Saudi Arabia or Russia. The U.S. has 264 billion barrels of recoverable oil reserves. It is all a matter of price.