Calling it an “inflation tax,” Bloomberg reports that the average American household will spend an additional $5,200 this year if they want to enjoy last year’s lifestyle. Last year, the median American household income was $68,703. Minus the average household tax burden of $15,322, that’s about $53,000 in spendable income. So a $5,200 “inflation tax”

The heiress to Anheuser-Busch has thrown her hat in the ring to be Missouri’s next senator in Congress. Trudy Busch Valentine announced on Tuesday she would run as a Democrat, entering what has been a relatively quiet primary in the solidly red state. Former state Sen. Scott Sifton dropped out of the primary on Monday

A girl walks in the courtyard of an apartment building destroyed in the besieged southern port city of Mariupol, Ukraine, March 28, 2022. (Alexander Ermochenko / Reuters) Putin’s forces may yet crush the Ukrainians. A sobering, and excellent, column comes from Bret Stephens: here. But the Ukrainians are putting up an extraordinary fight. Here in

One of the most entertaining aspects of football and media relations are locker room interviews. Throughout the years, we have seen countless players and coaches give timely quips, angry stares, or short-tempered replies in exchanges with reporters that have provided us with plenty of juicy and memorable content. The NFL’s COVID protocols forced the media

Last year, I decided to get vaccinated for COVID. I didn’t want to, as I considered myself to be at relatively low risk of death from the disease, between my age and lack of comorbidities. But, enticed by the prospect that being vaccinated would allow me more freedom in the police state known as New

President Joe Biden’s budget framework released Monday appears to suggest the federal government will not hold any offshore lease sales for at least another 18 months. The Department of the Interior (DOI) projected offshore oil and gas lease revenues to decline from $395.5 million in fiscal year 2022 to just $25 million in 2023, a

Robert Conquest receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President George W. Bush in the East Room of the White House on November 9, 2005. (Mandel Ngan / AFP via Getty Images) Robert Conquest was the historian, poet, etc., who lived almost 100 years — from 1917 to 2015. One of his books is Reflections

Over twenty-four hours after Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis signed the Parental Rights in Education bill into law, MSNBC is still melting down over the fact that DeSantis and Florida Republicans dared to introduce the legislation which would prevent children ages four to eight from being taught about sexual orientation or identity, with The 11th

It goes without saying that if you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember what your lies are. This relatively simple axiom is something that the Biden White House should start to follow because, quite clearly, they are having a hard time keeping track of their lies. During a press briefing on Monday, Joe

“This war is not as in the past. Whoever occupies a territory also imposes on it his own social system. Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach. It cannot be otherwise. If now there is not a communist government in Paris, this is only because Russia has no army which

Outside the Wuhan Institute of Virology, February 2021 (Thomas Peter/Reuters) Anthony Fauci — remember him? — was back on TV this Sunday, making a desperate bid for relevance on BBC’s Sunday Morning. You probably didn’t see it, given that the vast majority of the country has all but forgotten the Good Doctor. But Fauci isn’t

To help ring in the first day of CNN+ on Tuesday, Reliable Sources Daily host Brian Stelter brought on CNN’s first two anchors Dave Walker and Lois Hart (a married couple) with the idea that they would tell some stories about the early days at the network and give advice to the hosts on their

(Kruiser’s Permanote Description: This column is intended to be a lighthearted, short-form way to frequently connect with our cherished VIP readers. Sometimes it will be serious. Sometimes it will be fun. Sometimes it will be a cornucopia of intellectual curiosities and fascinations. OK, maybe not so much the last one. Anyway, as this is a

HIDALGO, Texas—U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the Hidalgo and Anzalduas International Bridge intercepted $2,300,000 worth of alleged methamphetamine.  “Our CBP officers continue to rely on their experience and all available resources to thwart smuggling attempts at our ports of entry, and preventing harmful narcotics from getting to American streets,” said Port Director Carlos

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) leads a group of legislators to introduce a bill to ban Russian energy imports at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., March 3, 2022. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) Well, it was fun while it lasted. Senator Joe Manchin (D., W.Va.) told the Hill that he won’t be supporting President Biden’s plan, announced yesterday,

American political disputes often revolve around a dichotomy between democracy and authoritarianism. In domestic policy disputes, the separate political parties use the rhetoric of that dichotomy against each other. Each party perceives the other as the party of authoritarianism, and describes itself as the party of democracy. Democrats see the Republicans as the party that

The National Football League’s Rooney Rule has been re-made into the “loony rule.” On Monday, the league mandated diversity Kool-Aid overdoses for each of its 32 teams. The mandate requires all of its teams to hire a minority offensive assistant coach for the 2022 season, as part of an effort to engineer greater diversity.  The offensive coach could

Russian oligarch and Vladimir Putin friend Roman Abramovich and two Ukrainian peace negotiators may have been poisoned after a meeting early in March, according to a Wall Street Journal article citing “people familiar with the matter.” Mr. Abramovich, Ukrainian lawmaker Rustem Umerov and another negotiator developed symptoms following the March 3 meeting in Kyiv that included

The Biden administration initiated a probe into whether Asian solar panel makers have violated tariffs, a move widely opposed by clean energy industry groups. The administration will investigate whether solar firms outside of China have used Chinese components for products then shipped to the U.S., according to a memo from the Department of Commerce’s International

William F. Buckley Jr. (National Review) Here at National Review, we like to think of ourselves as well-trained in the bon mot and the mot juste. William F. Buckley Jr., this publication’s founder, was certainly skilled in this area, and we do our best to measure up to him – in this and in every other

In Jackson, Roberts could have a second compromise vote to offset divisions among the Supreme Court’s conservatives. Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, photographed during her Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill on Monday, Mar. 22, 2022 in Washington, D.C. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images) Ketanji Brown Jackson

President Biden’s gaffes in Poland about the red-hot Russian war on Ukraine have not gone over well among the European allies. Our media elites wanted to compare Biden to JFK or Ronald Reagan speaking boldly about Russia, but they ended up trying to insist these gaffes weren’t really gaffes. Either they soft-pedaled them or ignored

In 2016, I understood when some conservative pundits weren’t happy with Trump’s candidacy or his winning the Republican nomination. I was one of them. At the time, I was convinced he wasn’t a true conservative and had no chance of winning. I was wrong on both counts, and I’m happy to say so. Trump proved

I can sum up my response to the soaring price of gasoline in just one word: aargh! (RELATED: Here’s an easy way to ease the pain at the pump) While waiting for prices to come down (Do you think they will?), don’t sit around complaining all the while paying through the nose to drive your

Will Smith wins the Oscar for Best Actor for King Richard at the Academy Awards in Los Angeles, Calif., March 27, 2022. (Brian Snyder/Reuters) After Will Smith went up on stage and slapped Chris Rock for joking about his wife, “Behind the scenes at the Oscars, there were serious discussions about removing Mr. Smith from

President Biden’s revival of the Bush Doctrine is dangerously out of tune with the deeper processes transforming world order Joe Biden presents George W. Bush and Laura Bush the 2018 Liberty Medal at The National Constitution Center on November 11, 2018 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Photo by William Thomas Cain/Getty Images) Much has been made of

At a Monday press conference after returning from a gaffe-packed trip to Europe where he made multiple provocative comments regarding Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, President Biden asserted to Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy that none of his gaffes occurred. And despite running reports highlighting his biggest gaffe and showing Biden sticking to it,

Less than 20 minutes after President Donald Trump was sworn in, the Washington Post declared that the campaign to impeach President Trump had already begun. It was neither the first nor the last time impeaching Trump was floated during his presidency, and just as soon as Democrats won back control of the House, they pursued their

President Joe Biden said Monday he did not “see any of” Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation hearings, despite the White House previously stating he had watched portions of it. “I didn’t get a chance to see any of it,” Biden told reporters when asked if he had watched the hearings. White House spokesman Chris Meagher

Women clear debris from a school that was shelled by Russian forces in Kharkiv, Ukraine, March 27, 2022. (Thomas Peter / Reuters) You may have “reached out” to people in a war zone. Tried to contact them. When you hear back — there is hardly a better feeling, true? • A cellist from Kharkiv, Denys