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Tennessee moves to ban drag performances
In a move that seems almost certainly doomed for failure, the Tennessee state legislature passed a bill on Thursday that would ban drag shows in public spaces. Governor Bill Lee will need to decide whether to sign it into law…
Media outlets get a close look at China’s operations in the South China Sea
Today is the one year anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine and while the US is doing a lot to fund and supply Ukraine's effort to push Russia back inside its own borders, there's also a clear focus on…
Gisele Fetterman tweets about driving to Canada when news about her husband broke
People have all sorts of ways of dealing with stress.Read More
Yes, we have no tomatoes
Finding salad ingredients is getting to be a pretty sticky wicket in the U.K. these days. As if those folks didn't have enough trouble trying to stay warm and keeping the lights on, now the shelves are bare at the local…
Is it really a presidential primary if no Texans are running?
If there are no Texans who decide to run for president in the 2024 election, it will be the first time since 1972. At least one Texan has run in every U.S. presidential race since 1972 - will the 50-year streak come to an end…
Michelle Goldberg: My knee-jerk progressive reaction to teen depression was wrong and conservatives might be right
Regular readers know I have not been kind to NY Times' columnist Michelle Goldberg when I thought here columns were absurd or truly awful. On the other hand, I've tried to give her credit when she gets it right as…
Feel-Good Friday: Operation Find the Ketchup Boat Guy edition
The Colombian Navy rescued a man adrift in his boat in the Caribbean. Now the maker of the most popular ketchup in the world is looking for that man.Read More
A win for Roald Dahl with some help from Salman Rushdie and the Queen Consort
Last weekend I wrote about the politically correct rewrite that was being given to Roald Dahl's books. Dahl died in 1990 but in 2020 the company that owned his works, including famous children's novels like Matilda,…
Massachusetts Democrat: the disabled cost too much to let them be born
Michael Hugo, the chair of the Framingham Democratic Committee, argued in a city council meeting that crisis pregnancy centers are a danger to the community because their screening might not catch a birth defect, the result…
