The House passed the One Big Beautiful Bill by a margin of one vote. Well-deserved kudos have been conveyed to the masterful leadership of Speaker Mike Johnson, who navigated through a minefield to get done what needed to get done. Now it's up to the Senate. It's impossible not to think ...
How does a political party with overwhelming advantages, including increasing support from the growing bloc of highly educated and affluent voters, almost monopoly support from the press and broadcast media, and with burgeoning financial and high-tech sectors of the economy, manage to lose ...
I fell in love with audiobooks when my kids were young. We would stop at the library before a road trip and choose a few for our drive. I still love audiobooks. Many times it's a good audiobook that gets the chores done and the house clean. These days I use Audible or the library's Libby ...
President Trump is unhappy with Vladimir Putin. The Russian isn’t heeding the President’s entreaties to stop the killing in Ukraine, and Mr. Trump is nonplussed. “I’ve always had a very good relationship with Vladimir Putin of Russia, but something has happened to him. He has gone absolutely CRAZY! He is needlessly killing a lot of people, and I’m not just talking about soldiers. Missiles and drones are being shot into Cities in Ukraine, for no reason whatsoever,” Mr. Trump posted on Truth Social. Separately, Mr. Trump told reporters: “I’m not happy with what Putin is ...
The old professor in me thinks the best way to convey to you how utterly awful the so-called "one big beautiful bill" passed by the House last week actually is would be to give you this short 10-question exam. (Answers are in parentheses, but first try to answer without looking at them.) 1. ...
As the Senate takes up the "One Big Beautiful Bill" (Donald Trump's name for it) passed by the House last week, there's finally some discussion of the national debt. That's because the bill is estimated to add $3.8 trillion over the next decade to the current debt: $37 trillion, or more than ...
