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The truism is that if you run for president, you can double your asking price for speeches and someone may actually publish your campaign biography. There are ancillary benefits to running for public office so that people do it even when they don’t seriously intend to win. (There’s a comedy premise buried lightly in there.)…

School shootings may come as a shock, but school shooters are rarely a surprise. From Adam Lanza to Nikolas Cruz to the latest contestant in the Columbine psycho game, they’re exactly who people would expect to shoot up a school. The Uvalde, Texas, gunman gave off so many warning signs that he was obsessed with violence…

This also holds true for a range of social issues, but Democrats have managed to navigate most of those despite the basic split between the white socially liberal and the black socially conservative wings of the party. Gay marriage wasn’t a political dealbreaker, abortion certainly won’t be, but the lack of enthusiasm is a midterm…

The annual mass sacrifice to Gaia is underway. At least 350 people have died in Spain from high temperatures during the past week, according to estimates by Spain’s Carlos III Health Institute. In Portugal, health officials said that nearly 240 people died in the first half of July due to the high temperatures, which reached 117…

This wouldn’t be the first time George Soros lost a lot of money on a bad long shot candidate. And the old monster has cash to burn. American businessman George Soros has donated $1 million to Texas gubernatorial candidate Beto O’Rourke’s (D) campaign.  The Texas Ethics Commission confirmed Soros’s donation to O’Rourke’s Beto for Texas political action…