President Joe Biden and his economic advisors are dreaming up ways to fight rising gasoline prices. The steps they are reportedly considering would not just be worthless, they would be counterproductive.

By: Jim Geraghty – nationalreview.com – June 21, 2022 On the menu today: A fascinating in-depth report observes that “it’s hard to find a Washington-based progressive organization that hasn’t been in tumult, or isn’t currently in tumult,” with these groups “locked in virtual retreats, Slack wars, and healing sessions, grappling with tensions over hierarchy, patriarchy, race, gender, and power.” These...

First Liberty filed suit in federal district court against Alaska Airlines because the airline wrongfully fired two flight attendants over their religious beliefs.

By: The Editors – nationalreview.com – June 13, 2022 As an expression of optimism about the current economy, “peak inflation” has had a far shorter shelf life than “transitory.” May’s headline inflation number of 8.6 percent put an end to hopes that surging prices had peaked with March’s 8.5 percent (in April, the year-on-year increase had declined to 8.3 percent)....

By: Wayne Stoltenberg & Merrill Matthews – wsj.com – June 8, 2022 Oil and gas prices on the New York Mercantile Exchange are at five-year highs. But many publicly traded producers are pursuing a strategy that looks like “orderly liquidation”—only maintaining or modestly increasing production volumes. Meanwhile, they are returning significant cash to shareholders in dividends and share repurchases. Devon Energy recently issued...

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – May 27, 2022 Progressives blame the grid problems on climate change. There’s no doubt that drought in the western U.S. is a contributing factor. NERC’s report notes that hydropower generators in the western U.S. are running at lower levels, and output from thermal (i.e., nuclear and fossil fuel) generators that use the Missouri...

magine one of your kids freezing to death in your home. Eleven-year-old Cristian Pineda’s mother found her son dead during the Texas blackout in February 2021.

By: The Editorial Board – washingtontimes.com – May 26, 2022 Alaska Airlines wants everyone to know that it’s all for equality and inclusion. Except when it isn’t. In fact, thanks to a lawsuit filed May 17 by two fired former flight attendants against the Seattle-based Alaska Airlines, we know the carrier regards some favored classes — specifically, LGBTQ individuals — as more equal than...

By: Michael Brendan Dougherty – nationalreview.com – May 25, 2022 Why do our global elites sound like they belong in a bad dystopian movie? Why can’t our leaders imagine anything other than a future of privation and control? Listen, just about everyone seems to have fallen for one conspiracy theory or another. Americans regularly confess as much to pollsters. In 2018, 66...

By: Phil Gramm & Mike Solon – wsj.com – May 23, 2022 Based on the erroneous notion that all value comes from labor, Marx assumed that the financier, entrepreneur and manager were noncontributing claimants on the fruits of the worker’s labor and that government could displace them and then “wither away” as growth occurred spontaneously. Most subsequent collectivists have assumed the same thing....