King Charles will make a splash at US-250
As in 1976, the British royal family hopes to promote the ‘Special Relationship’
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Wednesday
George Santos’s prison diary
Trump’s reprieve was a gift from God
Is Donald Trump a game theorist?
There may be method to his madness
Why Thomas Sowell still matters
His aphoristic style fits the era of short attention spans
Time for a reckoning on the 2020 election
The previous election was rife with anomalies
Putin thinks time is on his side
He is now willing to stake all on victory in the field
Humans are more than just apes
Unlike chimps, we have an alarming willingess to believe what we’re told
Pope Leo is following in Francis’s footsteps
The new pope refuses to discipline bishops who move against traditionalists
Why do white men’s feelings matter more than black lesbians’?
So there you have it: the feelings of white men matter more than the rights of black lesbians. That’s the takeaway from the mad fracas at a Gold’s Gym in Los Angeles this week, where a female gym-goer by the name of Tish Hyman says her membership was unceremoniously revoked. Her offense? She dared to complain about the presence of a person with a penis – what we used to call a bloke – in the women’s changing room. Ms. Hyman is a lesbian and a singer originally from the Bronx in New York. She says she encountered a man who identifies as a woman in the changing area of
Trump is being misled on Venezuela
He risks being bounced into an unpopular foreign war
Wokeness ended my backroom Jeopardy! habit
A bootleg re-enactment of the game succumbed to petty drama
The return of Erik Prince
The former head of Blackwater is becoming a prominent MAGA voice
How chess killed Danya Naroditsky
His passion for the game led to his suicide last month
The cruel, cold intellect of DC and San Francisco
Each city serves Power while sacrificing meaning
Can Spanberger offer Virginia more than vague platitudes?
She campaigned on the basis of what she was not: not Trump, not MAGA
California’s Prop 50 passed because grifters were scared of losing their grift
Big government went all in to retain power behind the Sierra Curtain
Tuesday
Mayor Mamdani will terrify America
His presence in Gracie Mansion will send unmistakable messages to police and criminals alike
Democrats win New Jersey governorship with Trump scare tactics
Both parties clearly saw this election as an indicator for elections to come
Marjorie Taylor Greene auditions for The View
Joy Behar said, ‘you’re slamming Republicans too much. You’re taking my job’
Dick Cheney dies at 84
Former vice president Dick Cheney died last night aged 84. He arrived in Washington as a congressman for Wyoming, then became secretary for defense under George H.W. Bush and served for eight years as George W. Bush’s vice president. He was considered by many to have pulled the strings behind the Bush administration. What is perhaps his most lasting legacy is the “Cheney Doctrine,” which influenced America’s decision to engage in wars in the Middle East. He campaigned for a military response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks, which drove his conviction that any country, organization or individual that posed a threat to the US, or that might in the future,
