For the rest of 2024, Nikki Haley should ditch the Republican label. As the former South Carolina governor exited the race for the Republican presidential nomination, she quite explicitly declined to endorse former President Donald Trump. She was right to decline. Trump is unfit for the presidency in multiple ways. Two-thirds of voters “want someone […]
When the federal government intervenes in the economy, it regularly accrues to the benefit of Big Business and to the detriment of smaller competitors and taxpayers. That’s the story with the Biden administration’s latest antitrust action, which successfully blocked the merger of JetBlue and Spirit Airlines. If the two of them had combined, they would […]
San Francisco voters are rolling back “progressive” fantasies in law enforcement, school, and drug and welfare policies. At what point do those voters hold it against the politicians and progressive activists who drove them to this point? San Francisco’s voters are projected to have approved several propositions that would roll back progressive policies or influence. […]
Much has been said and written by right-wingers about the precipitous decline of Saturday Night Live. There is a reason why SNL’s Donald Trump jokes are rarely funny while its rare Joe Biden jokes harken back to a bygone era when political comedy was appreciated by all: Hatred is off-putting. Comics on SNL like Biden and […]
Story at a glance Women make up the majority of unpaid caregivers for the elderly, according to a new report. The Wells Fargo report, published Tuesday, found that between 2021 and 2022 59 percent of such caregivers were female. It also found that older women make up a sizable portion of the group, with women...
West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey announced a coalition of nine states will file a legal challenge to new regulations requiring public companies to disclose their climate-related risks and direct greenhouse gas emissions. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) voted 3-2 Wednesday to approve the climate disclosure rule, which will go into effect in 2026....
A Republican-led Georgia state Senate panel gave the floor Wednesday to a defense attorney who surfaced allegations of a romance between Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis (D) and a special prosecutor in former President Trump’s 2020 election interference case. Over three and a half hours, defense attorney Ashleigh Merchant described her investigation into Willis’s...
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) announced that National Guard members will now patrol New York City subways. The governor announced a five-point subway safety plan Wednesday “to rid our subways of people [who] commit crimes and protect all New Yorkers.” The plan includes redeploying nearly 1,000 law enforcement members to conduct bag checks in...