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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.”…

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…

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…

I predicted this when the story first broke though apparently one of the men was also suggesting that he had ties to Pakistani intelligence.  Investigators alleged Arian Taherzadeh, 40, and Haider Ali, 35, posed as various officers and employees of the U.S. government, including members of federal law enforcement agencies, since February 2020 and duped…

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…

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…