U.S., European Allies Try to Restrain Global Oil Prices - WSJ

With gasoline prices climbing to records in the U.S., and inflation the Biden administration’s top economic policy priority, U.S. officials across the administration are reviewing ways to try to stabilize global oil prices and still penalize Russia

It’s too bad we don’t have massive underground oil reserves that we could just drill and bring to market.

That’d really be something, huh?

Rick Scott Revises Tax-Increase Proposal After Facing Criticism - WSJ

But the outline would have marked a radical change from today’s tax system, in which more than 40% of Americans don’t pay income taxes or get net income tax benefits because they earn too little or use specific tax provisions designed to aid parents and low-income workers.

White House Attempts To Distract From High Gas Prices By Putting Up Wacky Inflatable Tube Men In Front Of Price Signs - The Babylon Bee

“The problem is not our policies, the problem is that the media has done a terrible job communicating how great we are”

Swimming lessons are fun. And exhausting.

🏊🏻‍♂️

‘Peak Inflation’ Keeps Peaking - WSJ Opinion

One lesson is that progressive welfare spending and expanded child-tax credits in the name of aiding workers contributed to inflation that erased the value of those benefits. Workers would be far better off now if Congress hadn’t passed $2.8 trillion in Covid “relief” in late 2020 and early 2021. The federal government has $6.7 trillion more debt than before the pandemic, and inflation isn’t abating.

Government help.

The Evidence of the Jan. 6 Committee - WSJ Opinion

The House inquiry into the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot launched its TV miniseries Thursday night, and the trick for parsing the proceedings is to keep two ideas in tension. Do Democrats want to unfairly besmirch the entire GOP with the Jan. 6 disgrace, while distracting voters from 8.6% inflation and $5-a-gallon gasoline? Yes.

Trump should’ve resigned January 7th.

But even Impeachment 1 & 2, as melodramatic as they were, weren’t this embarrassingly transparent.

U.S. Inflation Hit 8.6% in May - WSJ

U.S. consumer inflation reached an 8.6% annual rate in May, its highest level in more than four decades as surging energy and food prices pushed prices higher.

There will be entire books and college courses taught on how this government squandered this recovery.

All they had to do was stay out of the way, but they couldn’t help themselves.

This is what happens when the government spends massive amounts of money to “help” you.

American Women Once Again Make Their Yearly Pilgrimage To The Magnolia Silos - The Babylon Bee

“If I could but touch the hem of Joanna’s dress I might be blessed with a vision for farmhouse decor in my own life!” said Susan Vail, who guilted her husband into taking her to Waco, Tx.

Rapid Pace of U.S. Inflation Held Steady in May, Economists Estimate - WSJ

The Labor Department on Friday is estimated to report that the consumer-price index rose 8.3% in May from the same month a year ago, the same as in April, according to economists surveyed by The Wall Street Journal.

Wrong. It’s 8.6%.

Yellen Sees High Gasoline Prices Persisting - WSJ

She said President Biden’s decision to release oil from the strategic petroleum reserve this year was the administration’s main tool to put downward pressure on prices.

What an embarrassing way to end a distinguished career.

That statement is demonstrably false.

Ms. Yellen and other administration officials have recently embarked on a renewed campaign to try to improve Americans’ view of the economy.

Here’s the problem with this strategy of condescension: it starkly conflicts with our everyday lived experience.

You can tell us that everything’s great, but when we see the price sign at the gas station, get our grocery bill at Walmart, or try to buy formula, it’s obvious that the problem isn’t our perception; the problem is reality.

Jan. 6 Committee Lays Out Case Against Donald Trump in First Public Hearing - WSJ

The hearing, shown on cable television and most major broadcast outlets, was the first in a series scheduled over the next two weeks.

Inflation is at a four-decades high with no end in sight, government policies have led to a baby formula shortage and taxpayers having to cover the bill for their incompetence, but the United States Congress is having late night made-for-TV hearings about this.

We need to know what happened, we need to know why the Capitol wasn’t defended, DOJ has a firm grip on prosecutions.

This is nothing more than a disgusting, wasteful stunt designed to tar a particular group of Americans.

The talk of unity was less than lip service, it was a flat out lie.

I honestly believe that no one on the Office for Mac dev team has ever touched a Mac.

Tesla Employees’ Cars Will Now Drive Them To Work Against Their Will - The Babylon Bee

“At midnight on June 8, your vehicle will automatically install a mandatory software update. Expect bug fixes, stability improvements, and your vehicle driving you to your workspace to begin your 8-14 hour work day,” the email reportedly stated.

BA.4, BA.5 Variants Rise Among U.S. Covid-19 Cases - WSJ

Omicron Covid-19 variants BA.4 and BA.5 are on the rise in the U.S., adding two more highly contagious versions of the virus to the mix that has fueled a springtime surge in cases.

Anyone know what this is talking about?

What It’s Like to Be a Victim of Private Planes - WSJ Opinion

Which category—the flight romantics or their victims—is more numerous? Apart from that, who is entitled to the freedom of the air above your house? The question of who owns that air and who may put it to use for their own purposes is about to become urgent. The drones are coming. Your sky will be filled with them.

No one tell this guy about commercial and military aviation.

Biden Decision on Student-Loan Forgiveness Unlikely Until Later in Summer, Officials Say - WSJ

Officials said he remains concerned about the possible effects the move could have on record inflation, cautious about doing anything that could be perceived as contributing to high prices.

Too late.

If borrowers assume that a large share of federal student loans are likely to be forgiven, that in effect increases government spending by turning loans into de facto grants. It could also encourage colleges and universities to continue to raise tuition prices with the expectation that the costs would ultimately not be borne by their students.

You don’t say!

Biden’s Teleprompter Resigns To Take Job At MSNBC - The Babylon Bee

The teleprompter delivered his resignation at the end of Biden’s latest speech, sowing confusion as Biden continued to read everything on screen. “I can’t take this anymore! I quit!” yelled President Biden at a group of reporters. “I mean—3.7 bottles of formula, Joe? Are you freaking kidding me? After all I got you through, now you want to ad-lib? I’m going with Jen!!” screamed Biden, storming off. 

Individual Income Tax Payments on Pace to Reach Record Level - WSJ

CBO director Phillip Swagel said. “It’s a mystery. It’s a maybe happy mystery, to have strong revenues.”

Yeah, now instead of taxpayers using their own money to purchase goods and services in their communities, we can use it to send nude drawings into space or pay other people’s beer pong bills!

New Options for Using Leftover ‘529’ Plan Funds - WSJ

The Helping Parents Save for College Act would, in limited circumstances, let participants transfer or roll over some 529 account funds into a Roth IRA.  To do so, the account would have to be open for at least 10 years and the rollover money would have to be in the account for at least five years.

Solid proposal.

A Reading From Kamala Harris to the Corinthians - WSJ Opinion

First nationalize student loans claiming this will save money for taxpayers. Next let students pile up debt at for-profit colleges. Then prosecute those colleges for fraud and put them out of business. Then forgive all the debt and stick taxpayers with the bill.

John Durham vs. the Beltway Swamp - WSJ Opinion

The trial environment was no less intimate. Judge Christopher Cooper worked with Mr. Sussmann at the Clinton Justice Department in the 1990s. Merrick Garland, today attorney general, officiated at the judge’s marriage to Amy Jeffress, an Obama Justice Department official and now a private lawyer representing former FBI lawyer Lisa Page. And on and on the special circles go, down to the judge’s refusal to grant prosecutors’ request to dismiss a juror who admitted her daughter is on the same crew team as Mr. Sussmann’s child.

Gross.

How the Pro-Life Democrat Went Extinct - WSJ Opinion

It’s ironic that the Democratic Party, which is ostensibly built around the defense of the weak and the marginalized, is so fervidly committed to the right to kill the most vulnerable.