Source: The Daily Economy
by Jeffery L Degner
“For decades, federal regulators controlled airline prices and routes, limiting competition and keeping fares high. The Airline Deregulation Act changed everything.” (04/22/26)
Source: New York Post
by staff
“You can credit President Trump with taking extreme risks for the sake of a possible peace, but we fear he’s simply putting off the inevitable by giving Tehran another cease-fire extension. At the least, he should set a deadline of a day or two for the Islamic Republic’s factions to agree on an offer; if they can’t do it fast, they never will. Caveat: The president has access to intelligence he can’t share; that we can’t make clear sense of his decision Tuesday doesn’t remotely mean he was wrong to delay a return to active operations. Still, his stated reasons don’t add up: So what if Pakistan’s leaders asked Washington to hold off until the Iranians ‘can come up with a unified proposal?'” [editor’s note: Anything but declaring “victory” — despite it actually being a fiasco — and knocking off is a stupid idea – TLK] (04/21/26)
https://nypost.com/2026/04/21/opinion/the-iranians-cant-be-allowed-to-string-us-along-much-longer/
Source: USA Today
by Ingrid Jacques
“The tax credit program does not draw from existing public school funding streams. Instead, it gives families access to privately funded scholarships they can use for a range of educational needs.” (04/22/26)
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Connor O’Keeffe
“In 1977, Murray Rothbard wrote an article in response to an issue of Reason Magazine where the main feature of the month was a debate between interventionism and non-interventionism. The bulk of the 3,000-word article is spent tearing apart the two pieces by alleged libertarians who are advocating an interventionist foreign policy. But, before he dives in, Rothbard devotes some time to attacking the idea that this should even be up for debate within libertarian circles at all …” (04/22/26)
https://mises.org/mises-wire/rothbard-was-right-libertarians-must-never-warm-warfare-state
Source: Washington Monthly
by Markos Kounalakis
“More than three decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the promise of a democratic Russia has given way to something much darker — and far more durable.” (04/22/26)
Source: Adam Smith Institute
by Madsen Pirie
“Please excuse me for returning yet again to a solution to the UK student loans system. At present, graduates are burdened with debt that can climb, despite repayments, because of interest charges. It would be difficult for taxpayers to fund student costs, given that it would involve poorer people (for the most part) paying higher taxes so that those less poor could be given access to higher incomes in later life. The money has to come from somewhere, but if not from students themselves or taxpayers, then from whom? The obvious answer is business sponsorship of students.” (04/22/26)
https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/replacing-student-loans-with-sponsorship
Source: Quillette
by Henry I Miller
“Earth Day once helped focus public attention on real environmental problems. Today it is a festival of alarmism, misanthropy, technophobia, and moral theatrics.” (04/22/26)
https://quillette.com/2026/04/22/apocalypse-soon-earth-day-2026-rachel-carson/
Source: Reason
by JD Tuccille
“President Donald Trump’s doubts about the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) date back at least to the 1980s, when he took out full-page newspaper ads questioning the value of defending prosperous allies capable of paying for their own security. So, when he voices frustration with the alliance and the lack of support among its members for the U.S. and Israeli campaign against Iran’s theocratic regime, it’s not a new development. What’s new is growing disenchantment with NATO among Americans, led by the president’s Republican supporters.” (04/22/26)
https://reason.com/2026/04/22/led-by-republicans-americans-support-for-nato-fades/
Source: Common Dreams
by Mel Gurtov
“As another week of Trump’s war begins, it becomes ever more clear that all his presumptions about how the war would go have proven wrong. Iran’s economy has bent but not folded despite a blockade of its ports. Its ability to control the Strait of Hormuz hasn’t been eliminated. Iran still has drones and missiles for retaliatory attacks. The regime’s control of the population remains. Gas prices and the cost of oil remain high. The war goes on. Trump’s deadline on the cease-fire expires April 22. Will Vice President JD Vance travel to Islamabad for a second round of talks with Iran? … The only certainty is in Trump’s mind: that Iran has ‘no choice. We’ve taken out their navy, we’ve taken out their air force, we’ve taken out their leaders,’ he said on his social media. He just doesn’t get it.” (04/22/26)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/iran-war-was-trump-mistake
Source: Liberal Currents
by Holly Berkley Fletcher
“Around the country, Mainline Protestant churches are stepping up to help organizing the resistance to ICE’s incursions into their communities.” (04/22/26)
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/the-untapped-potential-of-organized-mainline-american-protestantism/