Joe Biden’s Ukraine Emergency – WSJ
The Senate voted Wednesday to block $110.5 billion in aid for Ukraine, Israel and U.S. allies in the Pacific, but this is best understood as kabuki-theater politics. Perhaps President Biden will now get serious about striking the kind of bipartisan compromise he said in 2020 that he was good at pulling off. Democratic leader Chuck […]
Georgia’s Flat Tax Advances – WSJ
State governments aren’t known to run ahead of schedule, but Georgia lawmakers plan to deliver early on a promised tax cut. The acceleration is made possible by another state budget surplus. As Gov. Brian Kemp put it, “this is what happens when you budget conservatively.” The Governor announced the updated tax cuts Monday to set […]
A Moot Supreme Court on ADA Lawsuits
The Supreme Court on Tuesday offered a reprieve to lawsuit factories, an outcome that’s disappointing if unsurprising, given how the oral argument went. “This is, like, dead, dead, dead in all the ways that something can be dead,” Justice Elena Kagan argued. The Justices have now said Acheson Hotels v. Laufer is moot, yet the […]
Joe Biden’s Assist to Hunter’s Business
House investigators keep digging into the Biden family business, and this week comes new evidence of the ways Joe Biden helped his son using alias email accounts. Internal Revenue Service agents Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler provided to the House Ways and Means Committee more information from their multiyear investigation into Hunter Biden’s taxes and […]
Manchester United 2-1 Chelsea: Scott McTominay double lands hosts crucial win
Scott McTominay is Manchester United’s top scorer in the Premier League with five goals For the second time this season, Scott McTominay scored twice at Old Trafford to secure a precious victory for Manchester United and ease the pressure on manager Erik ten Hag. The Scotland midfielder’s latest effort against Chelsea was not as thrilling […]
The Best Music of 2023: Rich Rewards Outside the Mainstream
Most of the biggest music news of 2023 had little to do with the release of a new album. Taylor Swift owned the year, with her still-running and record-setting Eras Tour—the receipts of which helped make her a billionaire—along with a concert film, a re-recorded LP that topped the charts, and just the right amount […]
Crystal Palace 0-2 Bournemouth: Cherries continue good form with victory at Selhurst Park
Bournemouth opened the scoring for the fourth Premier League game in a row thanks to Marcos Senesi’s header Bournemouth continued their impressive run of form as they beat Crystal Palace at Selhurst Park to claim their third win in four Premier League games. Marcos Senesi was left unmarked to head in at the far post […]
Contrite, shorn of theatrics – Johnson's first day at inquiry
Boris Johnson mixed contrition with an effort to take on former colleagues who questioned him. Source link
DEI Drives Campus Antisemitism – WSJ
Tuesday’s House hearing on campus antisemitism ratcheted up the pressure on American universities: counter the anti-Israel vitriol that exploded in the wake of Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack or risk losing philanthropic and government support. The leading approach is sure to fail: doubling down on the ideologies and practices that led to the pro-Hamas fever in […]
Kamala Harris’s Communication Problem – WSJ
If there were any doubts that Team Biden is still struggling to make its case to the American people, Andrew Ross Sorkin’s interview with Vice President Kamala Harris ended them. At last week’s annual Dealbook Summit in New York, Mr. Sorkin asked about the Biden administration’s handling of inflation. Ms. Harris responded that “we have […]