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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 second stage of mainstreaming radical ideas is saying the quiet part out loud. When it comes to Israel, that means beginning to dispense with the pretense that hostility toward the Jewish State has anything to do with the liberation of captured territories during the Six Day War in 1967.  Or, for that matter, that…

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…

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…

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…

Unintentionally hilarious.  Jussie Smollett’s sentencing is coming up and Jesse Jackson as well as fellow celebrities are rallying in support of the hate crime hoax perpetrator. The Tribune also obtained a letter sent to Linn from actor Samuel L. Jackson and his wife LaTanya, as well as a message from actress Alfre Woodard. “We watched him…