Closing existing bank accounts and/or denying basic services based on religious or political beliefs is worse than bad business; it is un-American. Source: De-Banking: Denying Banking Services Due to Religious or Political Beliefs Un-American | National Review

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – March 29, 2024 In 2021 the richest 1% paid 45.8% of income taxes, up from 33.2% in 2001. President Biden is proposing a bevy of tax increases, and his State of the Union address included the familiar call for the wealthy to pay their “fair share.” He should examine the Internal Revenue Service...

What if you come home and find strangers living in your house? I assumed you order the squatters out, and if they resist, call the police, and they will kick them out.

Officials said Tuesday that the container ship that crashed into Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge issued a “mayday” just before the collision, allowing bridge operators to halt traffic and potentially save lives. Six people remained missing Tuesday afternoon…

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – March 11, 2024 Most U.S. presidential budgets are exercises in fiscal deception, but even by that standard President Biden’s Monday proposal for fiscal year 2025 sets a record for unreality. It proposes defense spending as if the world is at peace, entitlement spending that isn’t sustainable, and tax increases that would hurt the...

By: Matt Ridley – wsj.com – March 6, 2023 The threat to humans from animal viruses is small. The financial incentive to pretend otherwise is large. That assumption is almost certainly false. A new report from the University of Leeds, prepared in part by former World Health Organization executives, finds that the claims made by the G-20 in support of...

The threat to humans from animal viruses is small. The financial incentive to pretend otherwise is large. Source: Why Scientists Love Chasing Bats – WSJ

Recall that Victor Frankenstein tried to tinker with nature. Let’s just say it didn’t go well, and he regretted it for the rest of his life. Today, a new group of scientists has announced their own plans to tinker with nature.

After getting slapped down by the Supreme Court, Biden keeps taking more steps to buy youth votes. Source: Biden Student Loan Relief: Desperate Politics | National Review

In fact, Americans haven’t spent this much of their money on food since the early 1990s.