California’s fast-food minimum wage hike has been in effect for just one month, and the consequences are proving to be fewer hours and potentially fewer jobs for workers. Pollo West Corporation, the largest franchisee of El Pollo Loco restaurants in California, has said that its franchises went from profitable to losing money overnight when the […]
THE ‘BIDEN BUMP’ THAT DIDN’T LAST LONG. “The election is clearly changing now, moving towards Biden,” the influential Democratic strategist Simon Rosenberg declared on March 26. “The Biden bump is real.” For Republicans, Rosenberg is someone worth listening to. He was right about the nonexistent “red wave” that many in the GOP expected back in 2022. […]
Journalists and commentators were looking forward to the boost in clicks and views that typically accompanies a robust presidential primary. But since the Republican primary was over before it began, and the media’s beloved Democrats are now making a mess of both domestic and foreign policy, many in the commentariat are spending a lot of time speculating about who […]
Determined to increase both its battlefield pressure on Ukraine and its political pressure on Ukraine’s supporters, Russia is escalating its sabotage efforts in Europe. Last Friday, the United Kingdom announced criminal charges against five men accused of a March arson attack on a Ukrainian businessman’s warehouse in London. The accused ringleader is a 20-year-old Briton, […]
Methodist universities should not be forced to hire Roman Catholic priests to teach theology. Lutheran colleges should not be forced to hire Oneness Pentecostal ministers to teach religion classes. This is common sense, but a federal court is having trouble seeing it. Moody Bible Institute, a Calvinist college in Chicago, wants to hire faculty who share its views. At […]
China is ramping up its aggressive effort to subjugate an American treaty defense ally and plunder the ally’s resources. Geography is key here. The Scarborough Shoal is 142 miles west of the mainland of the Philippines, well within its exclusive economic zone, and 534 miles southeast of China’s Hainan Island. Nevertheless, the Chinese Communist Party […]
Eager to finish as many regulations as possible before his term in office ends, President Joe Biden and the Department of Health and Human Services have issued a regulation that could force doctors to perform gender-transition surgeries, even if it violates their conscience. The regulation, titled “Nondiscrimination in Health Programs and Activities,” is HHS’s new […]
The juxtaposition between Georgia’s new nuclear plant and California’s imaginary high-speed rail shows the difference between GOP and Democratic approaches to the environment. Georgia has completed the second of two nuclear reactors, the first two new nuclear reactors built in the United States since 1996. On the downside, the plant came in over budget and […]
Very soon the summer travel season will be upon us and, with it, ever longer lines at Transportation Security Agency passenger identification and screening checkpoints. Most people understand why physically and mechanically screening passengers and baggage is necessary, given that last year TSA uncovered nearly 7,000 guns on persons or in the checked baggage, with more than […]
The liberals in the Massachusetts legislature have little respect for their constituents’ tax dollars. The Massachusetts House of Representatives passed a pork-laden $58 billion budget last week. That budget included over 800 amendments, many of which are a great reminder of how Democrats waste your money when they’re in power. The budget amendments weren’t merely for giving municipalities additional first […]
