Do we have Tom Cruise to thank for “Barbenheimer”?

The new faith-based film about child trafficking has flipped the script on the traditional Hollywood summer blockbuster formula.

One-world government. Social credit scores. You will own nothing and be happy.  At first glance, these sound like conspiracy theories. A vast right-wing conspiracy, if you will. 

The Court ruled 6-3 that the HEROES Act does not give Biden the authority to forgive billions in loans from millions of borrowers.

By: Richard B. McKenzie – wsj.com – June 27, 2023 Longer life spans are an underappreciated cause of the increase in wealth concentration. Wealth in America over the past several decades has increasingly become concentrated among the top 1%. As of 2021, the wealthiest 10% controlled nearly 70% of total wealth—up from 63% in 1989. The wealth of the bottom half...

President Biden took to the pages of the Wall Street Journal to defend his economic record.

By: John Fund – wsj.com – June 12, 2023 Frustrated by your commute? Unless you’re in the Philadelphia area, it could be worse. A Sunday tanker-truck fire in the city’s northeast caused an Interstate 95 overpass to collapse, closing a stretch of the heavily traveled road and subjecting some drivers to 43-mile detours. Gov. Josh Shapiro says reopening the freeway...

  Incentives for speed are the key. California showed the way after the 1994 Northridge earthquake. Source: How to Rebuild Fast After the Interstate 95 Collapse – WSJ

By: Daniel Henninger – wsj.com – May 31, 2023 The Biden-McCarthy debt-ceiling deal is a compromise driven, according to conventional wisdom, by the threat of a U.S. default. The triggering event looked to me more like the threat of a hanging. Virtually everyone in political life knows the saying by the 18th-century British wit Samuel Johnson that nothing so concentrates...

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – May 31, 2023 Some conservatives are grousing that the debt-ceiling bill negotiated by Speaker Kevin McCarthy has left President Biden’s legislation of the last two years largely intact. That’s undeniable, but we also wonder what political planet these folks are occupying. Members of the House Freedom Caucus and 71 Republicans in total voted...