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The first bad actor in the latest play on the world stage was Russia. Their yearlong and counting Act One has been expensive to watch (120 billion or so and counting as well).  You don’t even get to see it anymore, you just hear about it. Enter Hamas(spelled I.r.a.n.).  Their brutal sneak attack on Israel …

If. If you want to see who should win the Darwin Award for long-term strategic planning, look south to the Texas Border.  Last evening United States Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas cited the “immediate need” to waive regulations and build a border wall in Texas as immigration surges.  What a forward-thinking planner he and …

As former Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy packs up his office belongings to move down the hall this AM, there is a lot to unpack about how and why he was sent on his not-so-merry way. First and foremost, remember that it took the Republicans 17 different votes to give him the gavel to …

In 2018 Joe Biden announced he was running for president. When asked why, he emphatically said, “It’s a battle for our nation’s soul.” In other words, “embrace our vision.” Last week, Nancy Pelosi announced that she was running for reelection as the representative from Cali District 11.  She said she has to as “we are …

Yesterday President Joe Biden took an early fall trip.  Walking down the short stairs of Air Force One to visit the Michigan United Auto Workers Union picket line he almost took a fall himself. Perhaps Karine Jean Claude Pepe Le Phew Pierre will characterize it as a misstep. The twenty gas-guzzling SUVs convoyed off of …

The Texas drought (insert climate change sarcasm) caused a three-month nugget supply chain issue.  Then the rains came 72 hours ago.  Let’s get to them. Do you listen to #iheartradio?   They have more COVID scare commercials than J&J and Pfizer combined.  Last night they lit up the Empire State Building in blue to bring awareness …

Novak Djokovic battled past Daniil Medvedev 6-3 7-6(5) 6-3 and into the tennis history books on Sunday, winning the U.S. Open and his record 24th major championship victory. But the numbers don’t tell the entire story.  In fact, they tell very little of it. When the last shot of Medvedev fell short, Djokovic fell to …

It’s the back-to-school time of the year.  Pull up a chair and sit up straight at your desk as class is now starting. Let’s start with defining tone deaf. Al Gore’s internet defines tone deaf as having or showing an obtuse insensitivity or lack of perception particularly in matters of public sentiment, opinion, or taste.  Sometimes …

“Follow the science,” we’ve been urged to do over and over.  We wonder if that should mean “follow the money,” though. For example, yesterday, John Podesta, the senior adviser to the president for clean energy innovation and implementation, said with a straight face from the White House podium, “We have cut the carbon pollution that’s …

Burmese pythons in the state of Florida are classified as an invasive species.  An invasive is an introduced species to an environment that becomes overpopulated, enabled, and harms its new environment.  An introduced species is one which has arrived there by human activity either deliberately or accidentally. This man-made (induced) problem has disrupted the …