That $7,500 tax credit to buy an electric vehicle, now gone, was a "grotesque misallocation of federal spending." It was a form of "rent-seeking," whereby companies seek "to dominate the bureaucracy instead of the marketplace." Thus wrote Kyle Smith in a Wall Street Journal column titled ...
President Trump and Pope Leo are in a war of words right now -- when they should be allies, not enemies. Both want peace, but the president intends to get it by winning a war against Iran, while the pope thinks the war isn't worth fighting. "I don't want a Pope who thinks it's OK for Iran to have a Nuclear Weapon," Trump said Sunday on his Truth social-media network, in a post blasting the pontiff as "weak on crime and terrible for foreign policy." With midterm elections just seven months away, Catholic voters suddenly find themselves in the crossfire between the Vatican and the ...
Retail stores locking up items is the symptom of a much larger problem. I recently went to Walmart and had ibuprofen on my shopping list. I went to the medicine section and -- groan -- saw this $5 item locked behind glass. There were a couple of other people already waiting, so I looked around for a call button. That's when one of the people waiting said an employee was already helping them, but needed to get more boxes. I was utterly confused. One of the waiting customers remarked that he was from Florida and that stores there didn't have items behind locked glass. What a ...
San Francisco, a city long associated with exotic ideas, has been experimenting with a radical notion -- cracking down on car thieves. Unlike some of the city's other adventures, this one is actually working out. Car break-ins are down 85% from 2023, and are down 50% the first three ...
The disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, the mother of "Today" co-anchor Savannah Guthrie, has been a grueling national story. It has been over two months since Nancy was last seen on Feb. 1 at her home in Tucson, Arizona, and her case is perplexing and incredibly frustrating, as no specific suspects have been identified, and authorities continue to analyze surveillance video and retrieve DNA samples. Savannah returned to the "Today" show this month, and even for those of us who do not regularly watch her on weekday mornings, our hearts are still broken for her, and many of us have prayed for ...
Watching Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth lead us to war against Iran reminds me, as war stories often do, of a scene in one of my favorite war movies. I'm talking about the unforgettable Lt. Col. Bill Kilgore, brilliantly played by Robert Duvall, in Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 Vietnam War classic, "Apocalypse Now." The strutting, bare-chested Kilgore delivers one of the most memorable lines in cinematic history, as artillery explodes around him and others take cover in foxholes: "I love the smell of napalm in the morning. ... Smells like ... victory." Having just returned a few ...
