My utility provider, Con Edison, recently announced yet another increase in utility prices and many of my neighbors are incensed. According to their website, “New York City residential customers may see an 11% increase in summer bills due to higher delivery charges. For the same reason, Westchester residential customers may see a 12% increase.” This is on top of continuous increases over the past few years. But their anger is misplaced. Instead of blaming Con Ed, they should be outraged...

Phil Gramm and John Early do a great job refuting the persistent concept of a gender pay gap in the Wall Street Journal. Whatever gap exists doesn’t stem from gender discrimination but rather from job choices. The pay gap as published is calculated each year by dividing the average full-time, year-round pay for women by the average full-time, year-round pay for men. But, as the authors point out, “that comparison is misleading because full-time, year-round work is defined so broadly.” ...

It has been widely written that the criminal charges against Hunter Biden, with respect to his tax evasion, were severely hampered because the IRS let the statute of limitations lapse. But it is clear to anybody that’s ever worked with the IRS that this is blatant coverup. It’s hard to know exactly what happened, but the fact remains that the IRS never lets the statute of limitations lapse. Indeed, when the IRS has an open case, the most important element of that case, always, is the statute...

President Biden and his cohorts in the White House, have been making the point recently that things are good now that inflation has come way down from its highs. In making these assertions, he is trying to take advantage of what he perceives is the economic ignorance of the American people. Let’s be clear: When the rate of inflation comes down from 9% to 3%, what that means is that instead of prices going up at a 9% annual rate, they are instead going up at a 3% rate.  Biden is trying to...