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Letter: American Petroleum behind insurance crisis

Letters to the Editor

I moved to West Maui in 2021. While my home survived the 2023 wildfires, the aftermath has been difficult in another way: insurance fallout. Coverage was hard to find before the fires, but in the months after, my monthly housing costs increased by 130 percent, my insurer dropped me, and I was forced into a wildly expensive mainland policy after a dozen rejections. This is not a functioning market and it’s baffling that this practice is not only legal, but commonplace. Navigating this broken system is overwhelming, frustrating, and demoralizing, and we are all paying the ...

Clarence Page: Free speech isn't just for laughs

Columns

Following reports that Bill Maher will receive the prestigious Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt refused to believe it. "This is fake news," she told CNN. "Bill Maher will NOT be getting this award." Ah, guess again. On Thursday, the center ...

Veronique de Rugy: How will congress choose to handle the Iran bill?

Columns

Whatever you think of the war in Iran, there's a separate question — independent of the military merits — that Congress must answer: How will it be paid for? The Pentagon has requested $200 billion to fund the campaign. While circumstances could change the price tag, interest payments on ...

Letter: Only certain amount of errors can be tolerated

Letters to the Editor

In Kurdistan, there is a ruin called The Castle of Errors. It is said the castle was built by error, its location was chosen by error, the owner married by error, fell ill by error, had councilors by error, gambled by error, fell ill by error, and perished by error, and only a certain amount of errors can be tolerated. Prior to the rise of Trump, one might have thought no such person as the builder of the present ruin could have existed. But I have known lesser incompetents. People whose instincts were untimely; whose intelligence was below average; and whose intuition was ...

Rich Lowry: Honor the plumbers

Columns

There are many things in American life that deserve our suspicion and contempt, but plumbers aren't among them. Evidently, Jimmy Kimmel disagrees. The late-night host took a shot at newly confirmed DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin, who used to run a plumbing business, by saying, "We have a ...