Reciprocal drone attacks on Moscow and Kyiv underline the present intractability of the war in Ukraine on Monday. Neither Vladimir Putin nor Volodymyr Zelensky are willing to make concessions toward peace. Instead, the war's trajectory is set only for escalation.
Attacks on Florida have increased sharply since Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) announced he was running for president. They have been focused on everything from housing to guns to Disney. However, the most frequent area of political attack on Florida recently has been education. Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) tweeted out a picture suggesting Florida was keeping children from reading books, Politico ran a headline reading “Ron DeSantis upended education in Florida. He’s coming for your state next,” and travel advisories for Florida coming from the NAACP and others focused on DeSantis’s education policy. I could go on.
The city of Chicago will do anything to stop crime other than supporting police officers and putting criminals in jail. Unsurprisingly, that leads to several dumb, ineffective proposals that are making the crime issue worse.
THE PREGAME IS OVER FOR TRUMP VS. DESANTIS. There's been a huge amount of commentary on former President Donald Trump's big lead over Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) in national polls. In the current RealClearPolitics average of polls, Trump has a 30.8-point lead — 53.2% to DeSantis's 22.4%. That lead, while enormous, has been shrinking in the last week. On May 20, it was 36.9 points. Now, it's 6 points smaller. That is something to watch in the days ahead.
In February, a Chinese People's Liberation Army strategy paper disclosed plans to build 13,000 satellites in low Earth orbit. Its explicit mission: to "suppress Starlink" and, if desired, "destroy Starlink satellites that pass over China or other sensitive regions."
Elizabeth Holmes, the disgraced founder and former CEO of the now-defunct company Theranos, has reported to prison to begin her 11-year sentence for fraud and conspiracy stemming from false claims she made about her company’s technology. Holmes turned herself in to a low-security, women’s prison in Bryan, Texas, on Tuesday, more than a year after...
Gov. Jim Justice (R-W.Va.) is leading incumbent Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) by 22 points in a hypothetical U.S. Senate matchup in 2024, according to a new poll. In a new East Carolina University (ECU) Center for Survey Research poll of registered voters in West Virginia, Justice leads Manchin, 54 percent to 32 percent, in a...
House GOP leaders are racing to secure support for the debt ceiling deal that Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) struck with President Biden as they face growing criticism from Republicans. The bill needs a simple majority to clear the House and head to the Senate, and many Democrats are expected to support the measure, helping it...
Former Vice President Mike Pence, who is expected to launch a presidential campaign in the coming weeks, voiced his disapproval on Tuesday of a budget deal struck by the White House and House GOP leadership to raise the debt limit and avert a default. "Congress' debt limit deal doesn't just kick the can down the...