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June 21st, 2022 - 7:28 pm § in Law and Courts, Schools & Colleges
What happens to kids who make school threats, and their whiny moms (video)
June 21st, 2022 - 2:24 pm § in Russia
Will Russia execute Americans?
U.S. women’s basketball star and Olympian athlete Brittney Griner (photo, left) went to Russia to supplement her income by playing for a Russian team (see story here). She was arrested at the Moscow airport because, Russian officials claim, they found hashish oil in her luggage. Russia insists[...]
June 21st, 2022 - 12:42 pm § in Misc.
Facts about Juneteenth
“Juneteenth” is a new federal holiday commemorating the issuance of General Order No. 3 on June 19, 1865, enforcing emancipation in Texas. Making this day a federal holiday passed the Senate unanimously, but 14 House members, all of them Republicans, voted against it. They are: Reps. Mo [...]
Why a gas tax holiday won’t lower pump prices
President Biden is warming up to a federal gas tax holiday (see story here), but will it help motorists? Or is it just empty election-year politics? Probably the latter. Let me explain why, starting with a simple supply-demand graph from Econ 101. In a free market, a lower price increases demand but[...]
How Texas plans to prevent more school shootings
“Gov. Greg Abbott said Wednesday that the Uvalde school shooter had a ‘mental health challenge’ and the state needed to ‘do a better job with mental health,'” NBC News reported on Monday, June 20, 2022. Then added, “— yet in April he slashed $211 million from t[...]
June 20th, 2022 - 8:56 pm § in Misc.
Airplane seating classes
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June 20th, 2022 - 5:03 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
You don’t have to like it, just shut up and eat it
American politics is a diner, not a white-tablecloth restaurant. The food can be hard to swallow. New Mexico held a routine primary this month. And, as MSNBC reported, “the process was largely unremarkable. Candidates ran, voters participated, ballots were counted, and election results were an[...]
June 20th, 2022 - 4:47 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Kevin McCarthy is a lousy chess player
There’s no chance Kevin McCarthy, GOP House leader, deliberately sabotaged his own party; so let’s take that explanation off the table right away. He’s just a lousy chess player. As an MSNBC journalist explains (here), when McCarthy “dispatched a trusted ally … to nego[...]
June 20th, 2022 - 2:29 pm § in Law and Courts, Misc.
Few things are more nauseating than crooks feeling sorry for themselves
Here’s an item from today’s CNN news: “Todd and Julie Chrisley are speaking out about the “very sad, heartbreaking time” for their family after they were convicted of conspiracy to defraud banks of more than $30 million in loans.” (See story here.) The Chrisleys [...]