Comment on Barney Frank Looks Back—And Forward—After Decades of LGBTQ Advocacy

Wall Street Journal: “Fed policymakers are poised on Wednesday to leave their benchmark federal-funds rate steady at the highest level in more than two decades, and inflation is the biggest reason.” “Americans detest what economists… thought of as relatively modest amounts of inflation.”

Eleven current and former newsroom veterans told to National Review that Emma Tucker, the Wall Street Journal’s new editor-in-chief, “appears to lack a basic understanding of American government, politics, and culture.” “They say she seems to be prioritizing less serious lifestyle stories with snappy headlines over hard-hitting accountability journalism. And they worry that several moves she’s made… could lead to readers losing confidence.” Tucker apparently said at a party last year that she hadn’t realized there were two houses of Congress.

Politico: “Today, they’re setting aside … past qualms about his personality and willingness to bulldoze institutional norms and focusing instead on issues closer to the heart: how he might ease regulations, cut their taxes or flex U. S. power on the global stage.”

“Hunter Biden’s defense team is expected to wrap up arguments in his federal firearms trial in Delaware on Monday, and the jury could begin deliberating by day’s end barring any dramatic moves — like a last-minute decision by Mr. Biden to testify on his own behalf,” the New York Times reports.

Wall Street Journal: “The U. S. Postal Service has been hemorrhaging money for years, due in part to declining mail volumes, limits on what it can charge customers and a costly mandate to deliver to every address. The agency is fighting for a larger share of the package business to turn itself around.” “It is overhauling its vast network of sorting centers and truck routes that had long been focused on moving flat letters.

Democratic strategist Laura Fink turned a Fox News segment about Hunter Biden into an indictment of former President Donald Trump. During the Sunday segment about Biden's trial and related addiction problems, Fink noted that the president's son would be held accountable before shifting the topic to Trump. "The inconsistency, of course, on the right with respect to this issue is wild," she explained.