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In what was originally expected to be a red-wave midterm election, Republicans barely eked out enough votes to win control of the US House. Now, notwithstanding the majority vote they enjoy, Republicans are struggling to elect their own speaker. As I write this, the second ballot is complete and...

Major setbacks to the Russian invasion of Ukraine have been reported as the Ukraine army takes back massive swaths of Ukrainian territory and Russian casualties mount. Sporadic reports are coming in from Russia of open opposition to Putin's war. It also appears that Trump buddy Putin has lost...

News broke today about the formation of the new Forward Party Forward Party Website https://www.yahoo.com/news/exclusive-former-republicans-democrats-form-223654665.html

I don't like this use of lawsuits in California and I don't like it in Texas. This does not heal the political divide that is tearing our country apart. It amplifies it. The more we try to force our political will on others, the less free we ourselves become. "California Senate Bill 1327...

It seems more uncommon than common for OOIDA and the ATA to agree on something, but about the Canadian trucker blockades, they do. "'I do not support any disturbance or destruction,' said Lewie Pugh, executive vice president of OOIDA and a long-time truck driver. While the group opposes the...

So as not to take the C19 Topics thread off topic, I'm sharing this comment here. Coalminer said: While this is a talking-tough fantasy expressed by many, is it a realistic expectation? With a like-minded President of the United states himself cheering his supporters on and rallying them with...

I think this is a good idea. https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/05/delta-asks-the-justice-department-to-put-unruly-travelers-on-a-no-fly-list.html

A cursory preview of last night's election results and today's headlines suggests to me that the Democratic candidates counted on people hating Trump more than they provided reasons for people to like them. With Trump himself not on the ballot, that proved to be a fatal mistake. If Trump is on...

There's talk now of "Red Covid." https://www.marketwatch.com/story/red-covid-coronavirus-deaths-are-highest-in-counties-with-the-largest-share-of-trump-voters-report-11632764116

Republican Donald Trump was elected president in 2016, partly because he promised to appoint conservative judges to the bench. He and the Republican-controlled senate made good on that promise, confirming hundreds of conservative judges, including three to the U.S. Supreme Court, which gave that...

How many expediters have health insurance now? If the bill now before the U.S. Senate, how many of those expediters will continue to have health insurance of equal or better quality?

As a business person, candidate and president-elect, Donald Trump has shown a penchant to fiercely attack those who attack him. These attacks are often made at the personal level where Trump tweets and makes statements elsewhere to undermine a critic's reputation and credibility. Where he has it...

Educational Video on YouTube about quantative easing and the Federal Reserve Bank.

The National Bureau of Economic Research is the entity that officially dates the beginning and end of U.S. recessions. It announced today that what has become known as the Great Recession ended in June, 2009. It began in December, 2007, making this the longest and deepest economic slowdown since...

Having had enough politics to last three lifetimes, I rarely read or post in The Soapbox forum but am making an exception today to share news that third-party advocates will enjoy. Independent and third-party candidates face formidable challenges in any election. Just getting on the ballot...

I seldom post in the Soapbox but this is a special case. File it under items that make you wonder what the world is coming to. Diane and I visited the Valley Forge National Historic Park today, the place where George Washington's Continental Army wintered in 1777-78, and from which they went...

Preferring to focus on business more than politics, I almost never post here in the Soapbox. I do so today to create a space to talk California politics, in hopes of keeping my other California thread focused on business.

A friend of Diane's and mine is running for U.S. Senate in Minnesota. If he wins, he would be a friend of yours too. I write this to introduce him and urge your support. His name is Dean Barkley. He is a third-party candidate running on the Independence Party ticket. The IP has been a major...