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Market signals. Household staples are no longer immune to inflation. American consumers are starting to cut costs on mainstays from toothpaste to baby formula as inflation hits a swath of the economy that had thus far proven resistant to substantial price increases. Procter & Gamble Co., Clorox Co., Kraft Heinz Co. and other consumer-products giants have made a bet that…

Come back to New York City. We’ll not only shoot your children, we’ll sexually groom them too. New York City mayor Eric Adams has launched an ad campaign in five major Florida cities protesting the Parental Rights in Education bill recently codified into law by Florida governor Ron DeSantis in an attempt to lure New York…

Come on, man. If you’re going to be picky about who sits on UN bodies like the UN Human Rights Council, then you might as well shower every week too. U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield will seek to remove Russia from the U.N. Human Rights Council. In a press conference in Bucharest,…

I was there for and loathed the rise of Jon Stewart. The smug smirk, the mingled sarcasm and outrage, followed by arch deflection helped taint the culture and break the media. Between the Daily Show and Gawker, arguments quickly devolved into sarcasm, tribal sneering, and contempt.  When he finally retired, anticipating a Hillary administration, I wrote…

To mildly paraphrase Inigo Montoya, “Authoritarianism, you use that word a lot. I do not think it means what you think it means.” A few years ago,  “authoritarianism” seemed to have become the default lefty media meme. They couldn’t really define what they meant by authoritarianism except that it involved strong leaders whose politics they disagreed…

I would say that’s an interesting take from the first woman to be the presidential nominee of a major party, but I’m not a biologist. Hillary Clinton though, the first criminal to identify as a woman to win the nomination, has some advice for Democrats. And if Biden needs advice from anyone, it’s from a…