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Some Reads for a Sunday

Joel and I went through some articles in our email boxes(?) and thought they may make good reads for a Sunday. Too much to post on Angry Bear. Maybe Sunday reads. Comment section is open for any thoughts you may have related to a particular article (please mention which one). You can use this as […]

SCOTUS Court Case Reports

Some court cases at the SCOTUS level which have had decisions made or are still progressing. I believe you have heard of all of them at one time or another. Not terribly long reads (a couple of paragraphs . . . if that much). “SCOTUStoday for Thursday, February 5, SCOTUSblog.” Brief reads (partials) as taken […]

Congress and Administration Move Forward on Oil & Gas Leasing

A move by the Trump administration is unneeded as yield is less than the cost of producing. Taxpayers will be paying for a government boondoggle. “two lease sales generated less than one percent of the $905 million the taxpayers were promised.” Reiterating what was going on in 2017, stopped in 2020 (Biden), and back again in 2024 […]

Trump DoD joins the ‘60s

Back in the 1960s, college antiwar protests included protests against ROTC and other military training programs. Now I see where “Whisky Pete” Hegseth also wants to shut down graduate military education on university campuses. “Beginning next fall, the Defense Department will discontinue graduate-level professional military education, fellowships, and certificate programs at Harvard, according to the […]

Newly Minted Family Billionaires

It’s good to be the president. Or at least this time around. Trump has managed to increase his worth via the presidency. Not saying this is illegal. The amount of enrichment for the Trump family is rather large. More than many presidents combined. ~~~~~~~ Press Release: “New Report Exposes the Trump Family’s Multi-Billion-Dollar Crypto Empire, […]

In Just the First Month of 2026

First saw a report on a Measles outbreak on Facebook after reviewing a fellow writer’s commentary. I do not know the Facebook author of Science and Tech Page. I did attribute the graph and subsequent words to the author Hashem Al-Ghaili. In any case, I believe it to be important to broadcast such information about […]

Degrading Healthcare in the United States, Why?

People will die, more will get sick, and many will forgo care because of the Trump administration’s assaults on public health over the past year. “A year spent degrading health” – by Merrill Goozner GoozNews Two snapshots of a health care system in precipitous decline: First, the latest Kaiser Family Foundation tracking poll shows Americans’ number […]

This is what a Governmental “Ass” Does

Can we get any worse in the attacks on immigrants whether in the U.S. legally or not? Is there no character or integrity? Apparently not as Kristi Noem’s DHS fast-tracks the deportation of 5-year-old after viral ICE arrest. Taken from The Mirror USA  Not much will stop the fast-tracking effort to deport a 5-year-old Liam […]

December JOLTS report stabilizing at near stall speed, despite one negative “soft data” outlier

 – by New Deal democrat I’m glad I waited a day to write about yesterday’s JOLTS report for December, because I got to read a lot of other commentary on the report, which convinced me to add some additional commentary about the entire JOLTS series.  Let’s start with the fact that it was not “stale” inasmuch […]