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Proposed airline merger would bring more competition and lower fares

If you want to see a classic case of how President Joe Biden’s regulatory tendencies are strangling the U.S. economy and raising prices, look no further than the latest Justice Department efforts to kill an airline merger that is pro-consumer.

Second chances in the Holy Land

It was a pretty simple question: “So what brings you to Jerusalem, my friend?”

The eternal reexamination of Vietnam

The story of South Vietnam’s political and even military development deserved much more than an occasional passing mention.

Lloyd Morrisett, 1929-2023

There are generations of children for whom our first memories are a composite of Mom and Dad, Bert and Ernie, Grandma and Grandpa, and Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch. To the many for whom Sesame Street was as much a fabric of our infancies as were highchairs and strollers, last week’s death of Lloyd Morrisett, one of the two founders of the children’s television production company that gave birth to one of the most widely watched and longest-running shows in television history, hits close to home.

Pink gin

The wildly innovative musician Frank Zappa had some weird notions about drinking — not that it should come as a surprise that Zappa had some weird notions about any particular thing.

McCarthy: ‘We won’t touch Medicare or Social Security’

Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said on Thursday that House Republicans will not target Medicare or Social Security in their negotiations over the debt ceiling. “We won’t touch Medicare or Social Security,” he told Donald Trump Jr. in an interview in the Speaker’s office for Trump's "Triggered" podcast. The remark comes as some House Republicans have...

Disability, civil rights groups file lawsuit challenging Newsom’s CARE Courts program

Several disability and civil rights advocacy groups in California filed a lawsuit against Governor Gavin Newsom's (D) new court program targeting mental health concerns that he signed into law last year. Disability Rights California, Western Center on Law & Poverty and The Public Interest Law Project filed a petition with the California Supreme Court Thursday,...

Goldman Sachs says 4 cities likely to see a 2008-style housing crash: report

Goldman Sachs is predicting dark days in 2023 for some of the pandemic's red-hot U.S. housing markets.

Warner, Rubio push for Intelligence Committee access to Biden, Trump documents

Sens. Mark Warner (D-Va.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), the leading members of the Senate Intelligence Committee, are pushing for their panel to gain access to the classified documents found at President Biden’s and former President Trump’s residences over the last year. “Our job is not to figure out if somebody mishandled those [documents],” Warner told CBS...

Andrew Cuomo slams DA who charged Alec Baldwin: ‘Prosecutors are politicians’

Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) blasted the prosecutor who charged actor Alec Baldwin for involuntary manslaughter by suggesting the charges were politically motivated. Cuomo remarked that while people often believe prosecutors are "above politics," he believes they aren't. “Prosecutors are politicians," he argued on his "As a Matter of Fact...With Andrew Cuomo" podcast,...

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