Author: Tiana Lowe Doescher
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When reality TV gets too real for TV
A decade into its run, when most reality TV series have either died an ignoble death or are simply awaiting the axe of cancellation, Bravo’s Vanderpump Rules stumbled upon a late-career renaissance. When TMZ broke the news that the show’s leading lad, Tom Sandoval, was carrying on an affair with the best friend of his…
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Spirit Airlines bankruptcy shows perils of Biden’s disastrous antitrust crusade
Just eight months after the Biden administration successfully blocked a merger between Spirit Airlines and JetBlue, the former filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, necessitating its delisting from the New York Stock Exchange and wiping out tens of millions of dollars of shareholder value. Should Spirit’s restructuring fail and the budget airline exit the market altogether,…
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Trump should prioritize middle class tax relief over loopholes that benefit Democrats
President-elect Donald Trump will begin his second nonconsecutive term with Republican control of both chambers of Congress, including a 53-47 Senate majority. However, the House Republican majority is likely no higher than a narrow 221-214, or perhaps a seat more. Still, the former and future president’s victories in both the Electoral College and the popular…
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In the end, it was the economy, stupid
Kamala Harris’s team repeatedly warned the public that her supposedly deadlocked presidential contest against Donald Trump would last for days. In the end, the former Republican president secured his victory over the Democratic vice president not seven full hours after the polls closed on most of the East Coast. By the morning it was clear…
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Biden shouldn’t listen to a crack addict who owes millions to IRS
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Despite the overwhelming outrage from voters across the political spectrum at President Joe Biden’s public implosion during his first 2024 presidential debate against former President Donald Trump, Democrats are legally and practically stuck with their…
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Soaring interest rates punish consumers and taxpayers
After six months of internalizing a soft landing for the economy, investors have stomached the reality that a bipartisan addiction to federal spending is undermining the Federal Reserve’s war on inflation. With headline consumer price index inflation, wholesale inflation, and the consumption expenditures price index all back on the rise, Treasury futures now predict a…
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An over-the-counter birth control pill provides a pro-life, pro-capitalist alternative to the contraception mandate
More than six decades after Norgestrel was patented, the progestin-only birth control pill has debuted on drug store shelves and online as Opill. It’s the first oral contraceptive in the country granted nationwide over-the-counter status by the Food and Drug Administration. Already, retailers such as Amazon, Target, CVS, and Walmart have listed a three-month supply…
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More than money, government’s best help to Baltimore for bridge reconstruction is deregulation
After a catastrophic crash by a container ship led to the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Memorial Bridge in Baltimore, President Joe Biden jumped to his favorite response: publicly promising to give away more taxpayer money to rebuild in Maryland’s largest city. “It’s my intention that the federal government will pay for the entire…
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Social Security’s retirement age is a bad deal for us all
The Right and Left don’t agree on much these days. But over on X, people on both sides of the political spectrum recently united to lambaste conservative commentator Ben Shapiro for speaking some simple truths about the untenable trajectory of retirement. “No one in the United States should be retiring at 65 years old. Frankly,…
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Strange: ‘Unprofessional’ Fani Willis still allowed to try Trump
Stuck between a 20-ton rock and a Georgia hard place, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee attempted to split the baby in his ruling about District Attorney Fani Willis’s conduct of the election-related charges against President Donald Trump and others. McAfee will allow Willis to continue her unprecedented prosecution of Trump — but only…