The national average price for a gallon of regular gas rose again to $3.268, according to AAA. This marks the third straight Friday that fuel costs have increased. Gas prices have changed over the last month. A week ago, a gallon of regular gas was $3.157. On March 18, it cost $3.078 per gallon. And […]
Hours before the NBA’s recent trade deadline, the Los Angeles Lakers agreed to swap players Dalton Knecht, Cam Reddish, and a future first-round draft pick to the Charlotte Hornets in exchange for center Mark Williams. However, the Feb. 6 trade was rescinded two days later after Williams failed his physical with the Lakers. By that […]
It may seem hard to believe now, but three things were happening when Democrats decided to nominate Joe Biden for president in 2020. The first was buyer’s remorse. Biden was dissuaded from running four years earlier, in effect ceding the nomination to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Clinton went on to lose to Donald […]
Old-timers who try to tell you what long-haul trucking was like in the 1970s will start with the frenetic rhythm of the highway and then somehow end up talking instead about the other guys lapping up the pavement, guys who were out there on the road, too. Back then, Merle Haggard crooned on the local […]
This spring, thousands of people, mostly but not exclusively men of a certain age and financial position, will drive their shiny new Escalades, Yukons, and Silverados to the local Harley-Davidson dealer to see a new-for-2025 motorcycle called the Pan America ST. An evocative name, to be sure, and one reinforced by the omnipresent U.S. flag […]
Any decent adult, whether a parent or not, knows the threats to minors that lurk online. No graphic details are needed here about the internet horrors that tech-savvy children can easily stumble upon or, depending on their age, seek out themselves. Yet, proposed remedies to shield minors from online sex, violence, and the like are […]
Vice President JD Vance took a page out of Hamlet and charged that something is rotten in the state of Denmark in a short video announcing his visit to Greenland. “Unfortunately, leaders in both in America and in Denmark, I think, ignored Greenland for far too long,” Vance said in a one-minute video posted to […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin has led the United States on a weekslong diplomatic goose chase with the promise of peace in Ukraine — an endgame that keeps getting pushed back. Kremlin envoy Kirill Dmitriev is in Washington this week to speak with White House officials and offer them a “real understanding of the Russian position” […]
The White House waited until after the closing bell on the afternoon of April 2, “Liberation Day,” before President Donald Trump announced the details of his long-awaited tariff regime. For the sake of the nearly two-thirds of people who have money invested in the stock market, it’s probably good that the administration did. In the […]
To be honest, I had never heard of Chappell Roan until clips of her talking on Alex Cooper‘s Call Her Daddy podcast started appearing in my X feed. “A lot of them are married with children, and they have their own houses,” Roan said of her childhood friends who still live in southeast Missouri. “To […]
