EDITOR’S NOTE: Hoppy is on vacation this week. This column originally published on March 22. The news that the Greenbrier Hotel Corp. failed to pay five months of sales taxes […]
Opinion
With solar veto, Justice put self ahead of state
Gov. Jim Justice went on a vetoing spree last week, shooting down the vaccine exemption bill but also killing the research funding for the Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute and solar power […]
Voters wishing for Trump/Biden alternative got one — but it’s RFK Jr.
by Jonah Goldberg American politics is so intensely stupid and nasty that it sometimes seems as if somebody made a series of wishes with a monkey’s paw. The dark moral […]
For the beneficiaries, losing Obamacare would truly suck
Donald Trump last week posted an item on Truth Social that broke new ground for incoherence. What got his fingers fumbling on the keyboard was Joe Biden’s being out in […]
Touch screens distract drivers
As cars go electric and get more technologically advanced, their interiors are increasingly being built around prominent dashboard touch screens. Nearly every automaker has been moving controls for windshield wipers, […]
Primary no-shows a warning to Biden
They’ve almost finished counting votes from the California primary and the news is not good for President Joe Biden. Sure, he “won.” He was virtually unopposed and easily captured California’s […]
Checking the ‘Black Box’
Two men with decidedly different political outlooks have been my go-to sources on race in America. They are Dr. Thomas Sowell of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and Dr. […]
Arguments against mifepristone about ideology, not facts
For more than two decades, the pharmaceutical mifepristone, used in tandem with misoprostol, has been allowing Americans to have safe and effective medication abortions at home, saving the expense and […]
Justice coming to some of the liars
by Mark Z. Barabak The arc of the moral universe — the one that is supposedly long and bending toward justice — seems finally to be edging closer to its […]
Raising Social Security’s retirement age is the least bad option
by Karl W. Smith Republicans in Congress have proposed a plan to shore up the Social Security Trust Fund, mainly by slowly increasing the retirement age from 67 to 69. […]
