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Froma Harrop: Subsidies keep America on top

That $7,500 tax credit to buy an electric vehicle, now gone, was a "grotesque misallocation of federal spending." It was a form of "rent-seeking," whereby companies seek "to dominate the bureaucracy instead of the marketplace." Thus wrote Kyle Smith in a Wall Street Journal column titled "EVs ...

Daniel McCarthy: Pope vs. President is a fight everyone loses

President Trump and Pope Leo are in a war of words right now — when they should be allies, not enemies. Both want peace, but the president intends to get it by winning a war against Iran, while the pope thinks the war isn't worth fighting. "I don't want a Pope who thinks it's OK for Iran ...

Georgia Garvey: Jesus of Nazareth visits the Pentagon

PENTAGON FRONT DESK: Hello. Can I help you? JESUS OF NAZARETH: Hello, my child. I am Jesus of Nazareth, here for my 10:30 appointment with Elbridge Colby, the undersecretary of defense. FRONT DESK: OK, sure. Hold on a second. He's just finishing up with someone right now. (Out walks Mother ...

Clarence Page: Hegseth’s holy war has become a disaster

Watching Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth lead us to war against Iran reminds me, as war stories often do, of a scene in one of my favorite war movies. I'm talking about the unforgettable Lt. Col. Bill Kilgore, brilliantly played by Robert Duvall, in Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 Vietnam War ...

Barry Wurst: ‘Super Mario Galaxy Movie’ is an idiotic spectacle

“The Super Mario Galaxy Movie” exists because the first film grossed a billion dollars and for no other reason. Considering how the first film, “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” (2023), a charming and unusually clever CGI animated video game adaptation, tied everything up in the final ...