Last week, while the nation’s elected officials were debating foreign aid to Ukraine, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) helped some school children visiting the Capitol to remember the United States. In what could only be described as a spontaneous moment of beaming, unbridled patriotism, Paul, walking between casting a vote in the Senate and back to […]
Alarmism and hyperbole are nothing new in politics. Whether it was the Bush administration’s warnings of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq or the histrionics about the impending dawn of fascism if Donald Trump becomes president again, exaggerations and hyperbole have long been a part of political discourse. But as Rep. Mike Turner (R-OH) showed […]
There is great dissatisfaction in the intelligence community over House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Turner’s (R-OH) decision to brief the full House of Representatives on an evolving Russian nuclear-armed, anti-satellite system. While Turner did not explicitly publicize the system in question, he is not an idiot. He knew that once the full House was briefed, […]
JACK SMITH IS IN A HURRY, BUT HE CAN’T SAY WHY. You’ve read it in this newsletter here and here, but it has popped up again. Jack Smith, the federal prosecutor pursuing former President Donald Trump, is again urging a court to speed up procedures in Smith’s case charging Trump in connection with the 2020 election […]
The policy for dealing with illegal immigrants has shifted from deportation to indifference, to encouragement, to subsidization, and next to forced cohabitation. An elderly English couple living in the United Kingdom was sent a letter by the North Northamptonshire Council that referred to their newly purchased home as “empty” and “derelict” to intimidate them into […]
Christian spectators of the 2024 Super Bowl received a drop of respite in a bucket of sacrilegious attacks on their faith. Actor Mark Wahlberg was featured in a short, 30-second advertisement for his prayer app Hallow, calmly inviting viewers to “stay prayed up” with him for Lent. One can only hope this quick breath of […]
As Colorado River Basin stakeholders scramble to formulate a long-term water conservation plan, the Centennial State’s main negotiator urged those at the table to be adaptable to change in an increasingly arid West. "Some may like to continue the status quo or some version of it," Becky Mitchell, Colorado’s Upper Colorado River commissioner, said at...
The confidential source at the center of allegations being promoted by House Republicans that President Biden accepted a bribe has been arrested and charged with making false statements to the FBI. The allegations risk unwinding the House GOP probe into President Biden. In making their case, GOP lawmakers have frequently pointed to conversations the confidential...
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) earned scorn from her Democratic colleagues for referring to herself as an expert in "recognizing bullshit" during a Thursday hearing on improving vaccine safety systems and Americans’ trust in vaccinations. “I’m not a doctor, but I have a Ph.D. in recognizing bullshit when I hear it,” Greene said shortly before...