Liberty
Splitting up Homeland Security funding
Editors at National Review Online ponder funding for the federal Department of Homeland Security. And to think, Congress was just about to look competent. For the first time in decades,…
Transportation Security Administration
United States federal government agency
Liberty
Columnist argues Gen Z will never be the same after Kirk’s killing
Brooke Brandtjen writes for the Federalist about one impact of Charlie Kirk’s assassination. Doubtlessly, a new age has just begun. Most of Gen Z was nothing more than a twinkle…
Liberty
Federal Department Labels Harris Program National Security Risk
Editors at the Washington Examiner highlight a federal agency’s interesting pronouncement. The catch-and-release migrant programs created by President Joe Biden and endorsed by Vice President Kamala Harris have increased national…
Liberty
The ongoing problem of ‘pandemic junkies’
Nathanael Blake writes for the Federalist about people who can’t escape the trappings of COVID-19 lockdowns. Even though vaccines essentially mean victory over COVID-19, some pandemic junkies just can’t quit…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
People ahead of government in returning to ‘normal’
Cassidy Morrison writes for the Washington Examiner about public response to recent COVID-19 developments. People have increasingly resumed travel and restaurant dining, optimistic that an end to the pandemic is…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
One lesson from the government shutdown
Stephen Moore shares with National Review Online readers his key takeaway from the record-setting partial government shutdown. One of the lessons of the Trump–Pelosi standoff on border security is that…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
An interesting lesson from the government ‘shutdown’
Can you tell that the federal government has “shut down“? If not, Christopher Buskirk offers a Spectator column that helps explain why. [F]or all of the breathless commentary from Beltway…
Liberty
United and the public’s distrust of capitalism
Kevin Williamson of National Review Online offers an interesting take on the current controversy surrounding United Airlines. Capitalism is unpopular for four reasons: banks, health-insurance companies, cable providers, and airlines.…
Liberty
“The Senator Charles Schumer Line”
In a recent City Journal article about the TSA, John Tierney offers the following proposal: At the entrance to the security checkpoint at LaGuardia Airport, let’s install a large bronze plaque…
Law & Public Safety
New airport security lanes are 30 percent more efficient
What happens when a business with an interest in having effective and efficient government action is allowed to team with a government bureaucracy to help solve its problems. Per NPR:…
Regulation
Stossel argues that private is better
John Stossel‘s latest column at Human Events focuses on the private sector’s critical role in delivering the goods and services we need. Politicians say there are so many things only…
Regulation
Putting the TSA troubles in perspective
Kevin Williamson of National Review Online focuses on a larger problem linked to the recent slowdown at American airports. The United States is suffering an air-travel meltdown as the TSA…