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When a politician finally goes down, the loyalists extricate themselves and write their memoirs.  Lis Smith, who worked for Spitzer and Cuomo, is doing that in a high-profile way with her book. Anything you needed to know about her can be summed up in this excerpt. Political strategist Lis Smith casts Bill de Blasio as…

Ah, Japan. Once the utopian ideal for gun controllers. A shining example of what America could be if we eliminated the Second Amendment and turned Japanese. How Japan Has Virtually Eliminated Shooting Deaths – The Atlantic The Japan lesson: Can America learn from the country that has almost zero gun deaths – The Washington Post…

The Army’s recruiting problems can only get better after this. The Army is at only 40% of its recruiting numbers for the fiscal year despite raising its maximum enlistment bonus from $40,000 to $50,000. It now offers new recruits up to $10,000 for showing up to basic training in 30 days. And is no longer even asking them for…

As bad as the oughts were, at least the Iraqi information minister wasn’t doing a non-stop tour of Washington D.C. After spending months denying loudly that there were any problems, then seizing on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to blame all the problems on Putin (or on corporate greed, depending which side of the coin lands…

Back in April, I wrote that, “The tight integration and interrelationship of Big Tech means that Musk won’t be allowed to take over Twitter. And he knows it too. I suspect this is a game whose upshot will be demonstrating the narrow limits of competition and mobility in a landscape dominated by a handful of…