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… just when you thought it was safe to go shopping. Is the public health security state gone? Not so far. Early on I predicted that, contrary to some conspiracy theory predictions, it would not be permanent. People would get tired of it and the system, as if often does, moves on before sufficient resistance…

A little but premature, but not at all surprising. Former ABC News anchorman Peter Jennings compared Americans to “a nation of two-year olds” for voting for Republicans during the midterms. “Some thoughts on those angry voters. Ask parents of any two-year-old and they can tell you about those temper tantrums: the stomping feet, the rolling…

I’m skeptical of the 90% of the spin in the Wall Street Journal article which attributes this as a response to the Ukraine conflict.  The Chinese nuclear effort long predates Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, but the U.S.’s wariness about getting directly involved in the war there has likely reinforced Beijing’s decision to put greater emphasis on…

What happens when one party has total control over a state while its only form of political competitiveness comes from adopting increasingly leftist positions? California isn’t the only example, but it may be the single most notorious one. The idea of a 32-hour full-time work week is being debated in the California State Legislature. “Debated.”…

Does Nancy really want to test how deep China’s pockets are? But apparently, Pelosi was unhappy to be part of the Mean Girls caucus. ‘Pelosi was the only Democrat in the chamber — the only Democrat alive — who had already served as Speaker, who had shown she could do the legislative arithmetic and twist the…

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley didn’t hesitate to bash Trump, but he’s working overtime to protect Biden over the linkage between Afghanistan and Ukraine. When pressed by Sen. Marsha Blackburn, a Tennessee Republican, on the Afghanistan withdrawal and whether it played a part in Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine, Milley…

Puerto Rico is a permanent disaster area. But it’s only the fault of the guy in the White House when he’s a Republican. Now that there’s a Democrat, Puerto Rico being blacked out for two days is just one of those things. It happens.  Puerto Rico was still reeling Friday from a massive blackout that initially…

Not all that long ago any such efforts were stymied by administration pressure and the reluctance of NATO members. Now Slovakia is providing its S-300 defense system to Ukraine while we’re sending them Patriot missiles. And NATO is urging members to provide heavy weapons. Why the shift? The most obvious answer is that Russia is…

Biden promised black voters in South Carolina he would pick a black woman. And he did. The result doesn’t represent America, the law or the Constitution, just people who fit a particular identity group.  And that’s the victory message that Ketanji Brown Jackson had in her speech.  “It has taken 232 years and 115 prior appointments for…