Faith, Freedom,
Self-reliance

Have you heard the liberal refrain that banning abortion does not prevent abortions from happening? It turns out that is a bogus statement, as a new study from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health confirms.

On Saturday, the District of Columbia sees its second wage hike for tipped restaurant workers this year — going up to $8 per hour after rising to $6 per hour just two months ago. Yet even in its early stages, the city’s restaurants and employees are already feeling harsh consequences.

The Supreme Court released three rulings on Thursday, one of which was the behemoth 6-3 decision to throw out affirmative action in higher education; the other was a ruling about a trademark infringement case. The final is an important, but somewhat quieter, ruling that strengthens legal protections for people of faith in the workforce.

President Joe Biden is framing his new, vaguely defined “Bidenomics” as an alternative to what is widely referred to on the Left as “trickle-down” economics. CNN has gone right along with this, writing that Bidenomics “rejects the idea of ‘trickle-down’ policies in favor of focusing on the middle class,” and the Financial Times describes it as an “antidote to failed trickle-down policies.”

Inflation has fallen to its lowest rate in two years and the Federal Reserve has paused interest rate hikes, but storm clouds still loom on the economic horizon. Even as monthly labor reports outperform expectations, only 24% of respondents described the national economic conditions favorably, according to a recent poll from the Associated Press. In May, overall consumer confidence declined for the fourth time in five months. And more than half of respondents to an Economist-YouGov survey believe that the country is in a recession.

As the 2024 races heat up, some members of the president’s party will no doubt agree with him that it is the best of times. But others pushing to revive the 2021 child tax credit expansion and still more pandemic benefits are likely to convey a darker take. For them, the current “savage” economy will somehow always trail conditions at the height of the pandemic — when record government benefits flowed like water, and the cost to taxpayers was no object. That’s because, in the end, regardless of current conditions, permanently reviving those massive benefits is their only real goal.

Democratic Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney criticized the conservative political organization Moms for Liberty as their four-day convention launched in the Center City neighborhood of the city.

As Americans, we have accepted without pause that sickness is inevitable.

New York Times critic A.O. Scott is concerned about America’s reading crisis. “Across the country,” he wrote in a recent Sunday edition of the Times, “Republican politicians and conservative activists are removing books from classroom and library shelves, ostensibly to protect children from ‘indoctrination’ in supposedly left-wing ideas about race, gender, sexuality, and history.”