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You know, it's wild how much positive foreign policy leverage countries can get out of nuclear--or just WMD capacity--not based on those weapons themselves, but based on leader personality. So much of the benefit is utterly reliant on international poor perception and belief one might be so...

I'm still confused why this State of the Union was delayed so long. It feels incredibly late to me. Just to make sure I wasn't just crazy...It is late. Though not the latest (Biden's 2021 speech was in late April and the 2022 March 1st) so that's kind of been the Biden trend, but prior to that...

Y'know, I know it's cliche to complain about basically, but there is (and has been for...years) a lot of material produced by Biden. There should be funny segments on late-night mocking the man's utter and complete senility (you know, if the writer's strike didn't prevent all the clever and...

This is such a silly article. There is no looming debt showdown, there's the potential of one coming up in, like, six or more months when the debt ceiling is actually approaching. Maybe even September or whenever the weird federal budgeting BS fiscal years end. Man, the dishonesty of reporting...

The government. You are talking, in both of those cases, about the government. And specifically the left-aligned academia and managerial class running the bureaucratic arms of the government most visibly in this instance through the Department of Education. This doesn't hurt a 'bottom line'...

It's, like, 220 days to election day and these releases are going on over ~180 days--with it being cautioned as having a delayed impact that's likely to hit at the latter part of the year? If it were any transparently more an attempt to get a talking point for the November elections, it'd have...

Manchin coming out against unrealized gain taxation is just coming out as sane. The whole idea is bonkers from the get-go. The 'fair share' talking point is...not even mimetic, just, like, reflexive criticism-avoiding pablum at this point. Would be nice if the dude would actually forward some...

That seems an overreaction. NATO (and friends) are already giving Ukraine (probably more useful currently with Russian air defense and competing air forces still existing) lethal aid. Jets would just be more expensive versions of it--and still a step-removed from shit that happened in the Cold...

FACT CHECK: TRUE Surrounding a city in Ukraine with tanks is unlikely to have any impact on the popularity of a world leader in Iran--at least to the extent this phrasing suggests. Biden is speaking entirely accurately here.

You know, I was prepared to criticize the unnamed official* for calling on the US to do something nutty (like institute a no-fly zone or actually deploy troops/trainers in-country or one of the other such harebrained schemes running around) but they actually point out some of the issues pretty...

Boy, I sure could go for some mean tweets, $2/gal. gas, and international status quo because the President was and/or knew how to act like a batshit insane maniac right about now. Someone might, conceivably, read that as sarcastic. I wish to assure you, reader, it is not. This administration...

If you want the serious answer? Discouraging additional military conflict by drawing more explicit lines than the worthless posturing other disputed territory that Russia invaded got. Japan is a closer strategic ally than Ukraine or Georgia, for instance, and one the US might just be willing to...

Yeah, but it's not like Russia has a recent history of intervention into disputed areas with military force to acquire territo-- ... Sorry, I couldn't finish that sentence.

*Looks at Chechnya, Georgia...Recent Kazakhstan* That rather transparently looks like the old Russian reversal tale. The only difference being Russia's sphere of influence slash capacity to garner friends to go haring off into military expeditions isn't as great.

The most jaw-dropping part of this isn't how late it's come, or the hypocrisy of it coming so long after other folks did the same and all the actual science pointing out the uselessness of cloth masking came out, or even the eyebrow-raising nature of it coming just as state courts are getting to...

This program of the US Government is Tyrone Biggums approved!

The crowd that crowed about how unprofessional the mean tweets from the last guy were is in critical condition today because of it. Or, at least, they would be, if they had a thimble of honesty in their objections. Which they don't. Personally, I think it's a little funny and probly a little...

"Hello, America! I'm Tom Hanks. You may remember me from such dramatized historical films as 'Sully', 'Captain Philips', and 'Charlie Wilson's War' that were about the failures of American transportation bureaucracy, failures of international logistical systems, and the failures of America in...

To do this comparison right, one also needs to look at labor force participation* and note the outside factors. Chief among them that the feds and state governments spent months prior locking down the country and closing businesses. Those lockdowns becoming loosened and things recovering to a...

It bears mention that used to be, at least in some ways, true--insofar as 'pro-blue collar' translated to 'pro-union', and West Virginia certainly has a historical attachment to pro-union sentiment (pro-Union as well, but that's a different matter :p ) and, to my understanding, coal mining...