Liberty
Canadian town grants rights to … trees?
Wesley Smith writes for National Review Online about another bizarre action from a government north of the border. In Quebec, a small town has granted “rights” to trees. From the…
Montreal
largest city in Quebec, Canada
Liberty
NYT Uses Harris Friend to Boost VP’s McDonald’s Story
Joseph Simonson and Chuck Ross of the Washington Free Beacon look into the New York Times’ reporting about a minor controversy involving Kamala Harris. A New York Times report on…
Research Brief
Law & Public Safety
More Cops, Less Crime
A large and growing body of academic literature confirms that police presence deters crime and helps maintain public order. Increased police presence has been shown to be an especially effective…
Elections & Public Integrity
Testing Biden’s cognitive skills
Elizabeth Bauer explains in a Federalist column how former Vice President Joe Biden could put to rest lingering questions about his mental capacity. It’s becoming increasingly probable that former Vice…
Transportation
Charlotte aviation baseline 2016: American Airlines
Here’s a summary of American Airlines fights from Charlotte Douglas International Airport (CLT) for Thursday, August 11, 2016: By aircraft type: Widebody: 8 (3 A330-300, 5 A330-200) Narrowbody mainline: 288…
Transportation
Charlotte Aviation baseline 2015: US Airways and American Airlines
And this would be a summary of US Airways and American Airlines fights from Charlotte Douglas International Airport for Thursday, August 13, 2015: US Airways flights by aircraft type: Widebody:…
Liberty
More international airports going to pre-clearance
The Customs and Border Protection has a program called pre-clearance, in which people flying from select foreign destinations clear U.S. immigrations and customs before they get on their flight, rather…
Liberty
Hello Burlington
US Airways will soon add another domestic destination from CLT: Burlington, Vermont (BTV). A single daily flight begins on August 18th (the return from BTV starts the next day) on…
Liberty
The Ottawa pullback
And the promised look at why US Airways’ Charlotte-Ottawa flight is ending in early June. The simple answer is that the Canadian market has turned against US Airways. If you…
Elections & Public Integrity
If you liked the technological failure surrounding HealthCare.gov …
Richard Pollock reports for the Daily Caller that you might soon be able to revisit that fun and excitement. Seven months after federal officials fired CGI Federal for its botched…
Liberty
2014 Charlotte aviation baseline
Bookmark this as a reference to what air service levels were like early in the American Airlines/US Airways merger integration. US Airways and American Airlines fights from Charlotte for Thursday,…
Liberty
AA/US merger route shifts, round 1
Big announcement from American Airlines (AA) and US Airways (US) over how they’d be handling their mandated slot sell off at New York’s LaGuardia (LGA) and Washington’ Reagan National (DCA)…