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Biden, or the guys and gals pulling his strings, couldn’t think of a better time to appoint a top banking regulator who wanted to destroy the oil and gas industry than when gas prices are already horrifyingly high. Until, once again, Senator Manchin stepped in to save Biden and his party from themselves. After Manchin came…

A brief flashback. “The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old, and their only reporting experience consists of being around political campaigns,” Ben Rhodes gloated. “That’s a sea change. They literally know nothing.” Rhodes, the White House’s “Obama whisperer”, was explaining how he had pulled the wool over the media’s eyes on the Iran…

Consider Hollywood thoroughly “disrupted”. Digital killed the movie theater star.  Before the pandemic, the theatrical and digital markets for entertainment were roughly similar in size. Last year, however, digital revenue was more than three times that of global box office, according to a new report by the Motion Picture Association. These are pandemic numbers and…

On this week’s episode of shameless virtue signaling, guest stars, including Apple and Microsoft, took out an ad in The Dallas Morning News falsely accusing Texas of discriminating against gay people for investigating the sexual mutilation of children as part of the “transgender” movement. Here’s what Governor Abbott’s letter to the Texas Department of Family and…

From the department of inevitable consequences. Following the American exit from Afghanistan, China’s move to claim the country’s vast mineral wealth is centered on a mountain south of Kabul. The mountain and the barren surrounding valley, in Logar province, a two-hour drive from the capital, contain one of the world’s biggest untapped reserves of copper. China…