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SBF was a regular visitor to the White House
Well this is a twist that shouldn't surprise anyone, and perhaps a clue as to why Sam Bankman-Fried and company have gotten kid-glove treatment by the media.Read More
Oopsie! J6 committee exposes nearly 2,000 Social Security numbers of Republicans, GOP governors, family members
At least no one can say that the January 6 committee didn't have an impact! Greg Abbott, Kristi Noem, Henry McMaster, and their families will have to guard against identity theft for the rest of their lives, thanks to…
BREAKING, kinda: McCarthy tells House GOP that he put out a deal with Roy, conservatives … or something
Haven't we heard this before? Ah well, hope springs eternal, and all that. According to Punchbowl's Jake Sherman, Kevin McCarthy has announced a proposal that should make him Speaker of the House.Read More
Hillary Clinton has a new job as a college professor – yes, really
Hillary Clinton has a brand new job. She is joining Columbia University as a professor and presidential fellow. She was hired as a professor at Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs and she joined the…
Salon: Republicans arguing over leadership will inspire terrorism
Well Salon apparently disagrees with my assessment that the fight over whether Kevin McCarthy should be Speaker of the House is a tempest in a teapot.Read More
WaPo: This new speaker deal is the end of the world as we know it, or something
Will Kevin McCarthy get elected to Speaker of the House on the 12th ballot this afternoon after finally putting a deal down on paper? News broke last night that the GOP leader had a breakthrough of sorts late in the day,…
Soft landing still in sight? US adds 223,000 jobs in December
Despite the hard work of the Federal Reserve over the last several months, the jobs market remains sturdy enough -- for now, anyway. Rising interest rates have not yet slowed jobs growth or even wages, although today's…
So now age is a “social construct?”
We're only six days into the new year, but if you were hoping that things were going to calm down a bit and seem a little less weird, I'm sorry to say that the ship has already sailed. The past several years saw the…
Eric Adams: We still need migration reform, you know
Biden's new immigration policies to deal with the historically high number of border crossings are fine with New York City Mayor Eric Adams but he wants Biden to know that it isn't enough. In a moment of unexpected…
How a scientific consensus can destroy good science
There's a great article in Bari Weiss' The Free Press that has great bearing on why consensus in science is often a bad thing, and how the consensus is enforced.Read More