Gas prices dropped again on Friday, marking yet another day of decreases at the pumps. Friday’s dip resulted in gas prices costing over six cents per gallon less than a month ago. Friday’s decrease meant the average price for a gallon of regular gas in the United States was $3.454, according to AAA. This was […]
“Laws,” F.A. Hayek wrote, “must be general, equal, and certain.” An open society rests on public confidence in the impartiality of police and courts. Sometimes, that impartiality gives way under stress. It happened, for example, during the pandemic, when anti-lockdown protesters were repressed while Black Lives Matter protesters were indulged, and when 1,200 public health […]
Austrian law enforcement thwarted a terrorist attack at Taylor Swift’s shows in Vienna this week, the latest example of an attempted act of terrorism at a musical performance. The primary alleged perpetrator in this case, a 19-year-old, confessed to law enforcement that he started planning the attack last month and uploaded an oath of allegiance […]
The new disaster film Twisters has been described as a “stand-alone sequel” by its producers. Meaning, I guess, that it is not a sequel to 1996’s cult classic Twister in the sense that its events do not continue from those in the previous film, nor is it a “reboot” that rehashes the same events. Rather, […]
Maryland’s Senate candidates are deadlocked over when and where to debate this fall, raising questions about whether former Gov. Larry Hogan (R-MD) and Prince George’s County Executive Angela Alsobrooks will ever spar one on one. Both candidates have accepted invitations — just not to the same debates. The campaigns are accusing one another of dodging […]
Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone was already a star for the track and field team for the United States. She already held Olympic and world records in the 400 meters hurdles from her performances in past competitions. McLaughlin-Levrone, 25, added to her legend on Thursday night winning the gold medal in the event, setting a world record in […]
West Virginia and 24 other states are asking the Supreme Court to stall a Biden administration rule forcing fossil fuel plants to cut carbon emissions, spotlighting the Environmental Protection Agency once again. There are now eight emergency applications challenging the EPA’s rule that would force coal- and gas-fired power plants to limit carbon emissions beginning […]
Former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown pushed back on comments former President Donald Trump made about an alleged helicopter ride the two shared and his relationship with Vice President Kamala Harris. During a Mar-a-Lago press conference on Thursday that lasted over an hour, Trump covered a host of topics. Among them was an anecdote about […]
Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign quietly updated Gov. Tim Walz’s (D-MN) online biography after Republicans slammed its representation of her running mate’s military record. After Harris picked Walz to be her No. 2 on Tuesday, her campaign website called the Minnesota Democrat “the son of an Army veteran and a retired Command Sergeant Major in […]
When the Harry Potter series was becoming popular in the early 2000s, an impassioned debate arose among parents and teachers as to whether it was good that so many children were spending so much time reading such fantastical stories. Some thought that becoming hooked at a young age on this kind of easily digestible fare […]
