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Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the safe. Biden’s Plan A was to slap some sanctions on Russia in response to the Ukraine invasion, win some points, then finalize the Iran Deal. Instead, the Ukraine war is spiraling and facing serious pressure to talk the talk, Biden was forced to accede to…

The $1.5 trillion omnibus bill has plenty of inflationary spending, and the honorable members of the legislature didn’t leave themselves out. As part of the $1.5 trillion omnibus spending bill released Wednesday, the $5.9 billion fiscal 2022 Legislative Branch funding portion would substantially boost the office budgets of House members to pay staff more… This…

While the debate over COVID aid fund offsets and Ukraine aid is getting most of the attention, those are fairly small amounts of another insane $1.5 trillion omnibus spending bill. (Yes, we’re in territory where $13 billion is a small amount.) As usual, there’s a 2,741 page bill that no one except the lobbyists who…

I predicted that when the time was right the whole pandemic security state would rapidly collapse (at a time when the popular social media theory was that it would continue forever), but even I have been taken aback by the speed with which it’s being dismantled.  The airline mask mandate isn’t going away just yet,…

When Biden says that he wants to fund the police, the only cops he wants to fund are the Capitol Police. After Jan 6, I wrote that, “Congress’ private cops are the 19th largest police force in the country. It’s a larger force than the police forces of Atlanta, Baltimore, Denver, or Milwaukee with a…