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Rep. Bowman confronts Rep. Massie over gun violence Washington is buzzing over how Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.) confronted Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) in Congress over gun control. Here is how The Washington Post is reporting on it today: Standing in the hallway, Bowman accused Republicans of being ‘cowards’ and said voters should force them ‘to… Read more.
Scotland elected Humza Yousaf SNP leader on Monday. In doing so, it said to England, I’ll see your Indian Sunak and raise our Pakistani Yousaf – never mind your Khan. Granted, Brexit has relegated British politics almost irrelevant on the world stage. As such, it has rendered Scottish politics even more so. Scotland elects Humza… Read more.
Covenant School Mass Shooting Like gun violence in general, school shootings are now commonplace. In truth, it’s like groundhog day, the national mourning in their wake. After all, everyone – from the police to politicians and pundits – always says the same things. “Ban assault weapons!” “Guns don’t kill people, people kill people.” It makes them look… Read more.
Memphis Player Charged As the teams walked toward center court following Bowling Green’s 73-60 win in the Round of 16 game [on Thursday night], Memphis’ Jamirah Shutes stopped to talk with Falcons’ player Elissa Brett. After a short conversation, Shutes appears to throw a punch at Brett’s face. (CBS News, March 24, 2023) No, the… Read more.
Western countries reacted to Russia’s genocidal invasion of Ukraine by imposing sanctions. This saw over 1000 Western companies pledge to leave. Never mind that, to date, less than 10% of them have. Sergei Lavrov unwelcome in the West But many Western countries also banned Russian musicians, ballet dancers, and films. So sanctions are hurting Russians living outside the country… Listen.
Sports authorities should ban trans women from competing against cis women. Fundamental fairness demands it. Yet sports authorities worldwide have been allowing trans women to do just that. Fairness be damned. Trans women banned Harry Potter author JK Rowling has been the face of efforts to enforce this ban. And it has cost her a lot. Millions… Read more.
Putin hoped Xi’s state visit to Russia would reinforce their “friendship without limits.” He wanted Xi to agree to supply weapons to help him wage his genocidal war in Ukraine. But Xi has been limiting his support to little more than parroting Putin’s propaganda. Xi’s state visit to Russia And who can blame Putin? After… Read more.
Wellesley promotes itself as a women’s college. The “My Wellesley” page proclaims its mission is to educate women. But that mission got turned on its head this week. Wellesley students voted to admit trans men. Wellesley students vote to admit trans men Their vote triggered a national debate. Even Congress will soon debate a bill… Read more.
Donald Trump had the media all atwitter on Saturday. He “truthed” (on his Truth Social) that Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg will arrest him today. But Trump was trying to intimidate the prosecutor. You know, the way he intimidated special prosecutor Robert Mueller. And that was no different from him blurting out that the FBI was… Read more.
To be fair, the ratings were not as bad as I expected. But that’s only because everyone tuned in to hear host Jimmy Kimmel’s jokes about that slap. And suspended animation prevailed as most viewers waited with bated breath for them. I waited with bated breath only for winners in the acting categories to be… Listen.
