Trump stops Biden’s Euro-style solution to flight delays and paves way to lower fares

Source: Fox News
by Stephen Moore

“The Biden administration spent four years placing a record level of new regulatory impediments on the nation’s airlines. An analysis by the Office of Management and Budget estimates that Biden’s Transportation Secretary, Pete Buttigieg, nearly tripled the number of transportation-related rules and regulations. There’s no evidence that all this added red tape made airline travel safer or reduced flight delays. Biden should have learned from the airline deregulations of the late 1970s, which liberated airlines from government controls on pricing and flight routes.” (10/06/25)

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/trump-stops-bidens-euro-style-solution-flight-delays-paves-way-lower-fares

Steve Trinward

Immoderate Bullets

Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob

“‘What began as a quiet October Friday in Virginia politics,’ reports Markus Schmidt for the Virginia Mercury, ‘erupted into a full-blown national scandal when screenshots of private, three-year old text messages showing Democratic attorney general nominee Jay Jones fantasizing about shooting then-House Speaker Todd Gilbert and his children were made public.’ With 280,000 people having already voted in Virginia’s race for attorney general, polls show Jones leading. ‘Like all people,’ Jones excused himself, ‘I’ve sent text messages that I regret.’ Have all of us sent texts such as these?” (10/06/25)

https://thisiscommonsense.org/2025/10/06/immoderate-bullets/

Thomas L. Knapp

American, Japanese scientists win Nobel prize in medicine

Source: CBC News [Canadian state media]

“Scientists Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for ‘their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance,’ the award-giving body said on Monday. This year’s prize ‘relates to how we keep our immune system under control so we can fight all imaginable microbes and still avoid autoimmune disease,’ said Marie Wahren-Herlenius, a rheumatology professor at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm.” (10/06/25)

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/nobel-sweden-medicine-1.7651903

Thomas L. Knapp

To Win the Shutdown, Democrats Need a Big Switch

Source: The American Prospect
by David Dayen

“I have consistently expressed my frustration with the different ways that Democrats are talking about the shutdown in public, compared with what they’re asking for in private. In public, this is just a fight about a looming health care cliff, using the leverage of needing Democratic votes (at least under current Senate rules) to pass government funding to demand that Republicans avert a crisis of millions of people losing their insurance coverage or seeing the price of it double. In private, this is a fight about extreme executive power and autocracy, with Democrats demanding that any government funding they pass must actually be spent, not withheld or rescinded. A No Kings Budget, in other words. That private conversation is becoming somewhat more public.” (10/06/25)

https://prospect.org/politics/2025-10-06-win-shutdown-democrats-need-big-switch/

Steve Trinward

SCOTUS to hear arguments in First Amendment challenge to Colorado’s “conversion therapy” ban

Source: Denver Post

“A Colorado case going before the U.S. Supreme Court this week could set nationwide precedent for whether states can bar licensed medical professionals from performing the widely discredited practice of conversion therapy on LGBTQ+ kids. On Tuesday, the conservative-majority court will hear oral arguments in Chiles v. Salazar, a case brought by Colorado Springs counselor Kaley Chiles, who alleges the state’s ban on conversion therapy for minors violates her First Amendment rights. The Colorado Attorney General’s Office will argue that trying to change a young patient’s sexual orientation or gender identity is substandard medical care, and that greenlighting such care under the umbrella of free speech would ‘open Pandora’s box’ to a litany of licensed professional malpractice. Nearly half of U.S. states have prohibited the practice of conversion therapy on minors.” (10/05/25)

https://www.denverpost.com/2025/10/05/colorado-conversion-therapy-ban-supreme-court/

Thomas L. Knapp

The Link Between Bad Bunny and Pete Seeger

Source: Foreign Policy
by Julian E Zelizer

“Bad Bunny is the latest entertainer to endure a conservative backlash in the United States. This past weekend the 2026 Superbowl headliner mocked MAGA critics while hosting ‘Saturday Night Live.’ Meanwhile, last month, ABC temporarily suspended late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel after political pressure. … Unfortunately, popular entertainers have been prime targets for U.S. government officials who didn’t like their views before.” (10/06/25)

https://archive.is/fHh3H

Thomas L. Knapp