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Remember the VA waiting list scandals under Obama. They’re back under his veep. Or more accurately they never really left.  Biden decided to appoint Denis McDonough, an Obama aide, to head Veteran Affairs and things are going well. Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough acknowledged that he is “frustrated” with inconsistency in how medical appointment wait time data is…

Here we go again. The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has criticised the global community’s focus on the war in Ukraine, arguing that crises elsewhere, including in his home country of Ethiopia, are not being given equal consideration, possibly because the people affected are not white. Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus questioned whether “the world really…

Can it happen> Before former Gov. Elliot Spitzer, the odds of getting Amazon and every online retailer to collect sales tax seemed dim. And now it’s taken for granted. Governments love introducing all sorts of taxes and fees and fines on the thinnest of pretexts. So why not start charging every streaming service and then…

Whew. California’s air regulators unveiled a plan Wednesday that would require about one-third of all new passenger cars and trucks sold in the state to be zero-emission electric vehicles, or EVs, by 2025. Note the trucks part of that. This lunacy is only getting started. The proposal by the California Air Resources Board would require 35% of…

Here’s the interesting thing that happened when the Pennsylvania Senate voted on fraud prevention and election integrity bills. Ballot drop boxes and private funding of elections would be banned in Pennsylvania under legislation that passed the Senate on Wednesday. The ballot drop box ban passed the chamber on a 29-20 party-line vote. The measure barring the use private money to…

The hypocrisy here is both commonplace and astounding. GLAAD and other gay rights groups list Warners as an “ally”. After Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling was canceled for standing up for the rights of women against the transgender movement, the studio began carefully distancing itself from her and even pulling her name from the new…