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I liked it better when the Iraqi Information Minister wasn’t on our team. “This is not an economy that is in recession,” Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told moderator Chuck Todd on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”  “You don’t see any of the signs. Now, a recession is a broad-based contraction that affects many sectors of the economy. We just don’t have…

Long before the George Floyd drug overdose, Marilyn Mosby tried to lynch a bunch of Baltimore cops over a criminal’s accidental death. It didn’t go her way. Nothing did. And now she’s history. Eight years and more than 2,500 homicides later, the city’s Democratic voters ousted Marilyn Mosby as Baltimore state’s attorney, choosing defense attorney Ivan Bates in Tuesday’s…

We had to burn the trees to save the trees… from us. On Monday, Dutch reforestation company Land Life started what has become a 35,000 acre forest fire in Spain.  These things happen. And happen. This is the second forest fire started by Land Life in a month. I’m starting to think that environmentalists and…

Of all the fact-checkers out there, no one cares about Newsguard.  Steven Brill is raising $6 million to launch News Guard. This new service will rate news sites on their trustworthiness from green to red. Forget politically unbiased algorithms. The ratings will be conducted by “qualified, accountable human beings” from teams of “40 to 60 journalists.” Once upon a…

“By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet’s impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine’,” Paul Krugman, 1998 “Nobel Prize in Economics-winner Paul Krugman explains why the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and President Biden’s Build Back Better agenda “reduces the inflationary risks even further.” August…