So-called experts and elites at the World Economic Forum in Davos this week have some alarming ideas about forced government compliance and tracking. First, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla expressed excitement over…

By: Kevin D. Williamson – nationalreview.com – May 31, 2022 On Sunday, I answered as briefly as I could – which in many cases was not very briefly at all – some common questions about the gun-control debate. I have a few even-less-brief observations for Tuesday, but I think you will find them useful. I begin with what seems to...

By: Kevin D. Williamson – nationalreview.com – May 29, 2022 Q: They didn’t have to worry about this kind of thing 100 years ago, did they? A: Of course they did. We are coming up on the 100th anniversary of the worst school massacre in American history, which happened in Bath, Mich., in 1927, and saw the deaths of 44...

By: Jim Geraghty – nationalreview.com – May 26, 2022 It has the power, but does it have the will? Inflation is not yet, and let’s hope will not be, running as high as it did in the late 1970s and early 1980s, when we hit double digits three years in a row. But it is at its highest level since that...

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...

Joe Biden’s ineptitude is now a threat to world peace.

By: Charles C. W. Cooke – nationalreview.com – May 26, 2022 Addressing the atrocity in Uvalde, Dan writes that numbers aren’t everything, but they should inform our sense of proportion in nationwide policy-making. Some perspective on the size of the problem and the direction of the trend is always important. The Associated Press counts 169 deaths in 23 years. That’s...

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – May 25, 2022 The massacre at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on Tuesday has produced the usual demands to “do something.” We share the impulse and the anger, but what specifically to do? The reason there are more demands than solutions is because the problem of how to stop mass shootings by...