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WaPo: “Republicans seize®!” again, this time on train derailment
Just remember: the story when a Republican screws up is the screw-up. The story when a Democrat screws up is, well ... let's let the Washington Post demonstrate:Read More
DHS expands investigation into migrant child labor in slaughterhouses
There are illegal migrant children working in dangerous jobs across America. The porous southern border has resulted in more than 200,000 unaccompanied minors crossing the border. Federal immigration law allows them to stay…
Liz Cheney’s next career move
Maybe her students will listen to her better than voters did. Former Republican Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming was hired by the University of Virginia Center for Politics. She will serve as a professor of practice. Her…
TrumpWorld: Murdochs soft-banning Trump from Fox News
When was the last time Donald Trump appeared on Fox News? It's been a while, according to Semafor's Shelby Talcott and Max Tani, or at least according to their sources at Media Matters. Fox covered his presidential…
The Hershey highway to hell
Next Wednesday is International Women's Day. In the spirit of celebrating women, Hershey's Canada has issued special chocolate bars bearing the likeness of special women.Read More
Is Florida becoming a paradise?
Florida is too humid for my taste. And I don't care for heat. Nor bugs. Nor snakes. Nor large man-eating reptiles.Read More
Houston Police Department turns over investigation into Sam Brinton to FBI
The Houston Police Department has handed over its investigation into a former Biden administration official charged in two separate luggage thefts to the FBI. If the FBI finds he was involved in yet another luggage theft, it…
Matt Yglesias: Progressives are incentivized to catastrophize (aka the special snowflake problem)
Okay, I have to confess that Matt Yglesias definitely didn't say what my headline does exactly. The word snowflake does not appear in his latest essay but I do think that's a close approximation of his actual…
The COVID hearings you will never see covered in the news
Did you see the blaring headlines about the hearing held by the House COVID Subcommittee yesterday?Read More
Will Ghislaine Maxwell get a new trial?
Like many people, I foolishly thought that we had heard the last of disgraced sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell for at least the next twenty years. (Barring some sort of early release deal.) Maxwell was convicted of…