More than $100 million of taxpayer money was spent on materials intended for the border wall during the Trump administration. They should be made available to Gov. Abbott, but the Biden administration won’t allow it. President Biden canceled contracts for its construction after entering office last January.
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FedEx finds if you pay them, they will come
The company has hired more than 60,000 frontline workers since mid-September. Higher wage rates and network disruptions tied to labor shortages resulted in $470 million in additional costs in the three months ended Nov. 30, but the company expects those cost pressures to moderate in the second half of its fiscal year.
The danger of seeking compromise on voting rights
Although 19th-century parties were more fluid and the idea of bipartisanship did not exist, many moderates who served in the period before the Civil War were similarly concerned with forging national compromise — not among parties, per se, but between the slave states of the South and the nonslaveholding states of the North.
Rich Lowry: No, inflation is not a corporate conspiracy
All the hokum about the causes of inflation is basically a confession of impotence. If the Biden administration had a good story to tell about how it’s fixing inflation, it wouldn’t need to create cartoon villains.
David Griffiths: Blues and Blatz beer down south
Back when country music tunes were actually distinguishable one from another, my wife and I frequented raucous dances at VFW clubs and Elk clubs and the like in rural Maryland. Would a traveling Black man have been welcome in such venues in many sections of America?
Joaquin Contreras: Poutine a la Maine may be a mess but it’s a sumptuous mess
Local Flavors: A visit to Governor’s in Lewiston turns into an exquisite romp through the confluence of Canadian-Maine diner cuisine.
Bob Neal: The Countryman: Can the Supreme Court save us? Or itself?
John Roberts, chief justice of the United States, has one of the toughest jobs in a tough town, Washington. He may believe he can save the court from itself. I’m not so sure.
Cal Thomas: Restraint and the tornado tragedy
Some politicians and government officials can’t let a crisis go to waste. In the matter of the tornadoes that devastated parts of Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee and Missouri, restraint was called for, but went unanswered.
Austin Bay: The swarm war future?
The U.S. Army and Navy know enemy robot swarms are a threat. They are developing high-powered “microwave cannons” that can burn drone “brains” and protect armored units and Navy ships from swarm attack.
Clarence Page: After Smollett case, Foxx’s ‘progressive’ approach faces more trial
As a Cook County, Illinois, jury last week found actor Jussie Smollett guilty of faking a racist and homophobic attack on himself, attention quickly turned to State’s Attorney Kim Foxx, the prosecutor who tried to let him off easy.