About a month late, presumably due to last fall's government shutdown, the Census Bureau has released its estimates of the populations of the 50 states and the District of Columbia for July 1, 2025. It provides an interesting picture of what the country is, and is becoming, halfway through the ...
Measles is a "cost of doing business," says a highly placed official at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. I'd like to know what business that is. To be fair, let me finish the CDC principal deputy director's quote. Ralph Abraham said that measles is a cost of doing business ...
Vice President J.D. Vance is putting his own spin on MAGA -- Make America Grow Again. Vance and Second Lady Usha Vance recently announced that she is pregnant. Their fourth child, a boy, is due in June. Usha isn't the only woman connected to the White House who is expecting. Press Secretary ...
A most American of movies, "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral," is a morality tale about what happens when intimidation goes unanswered. The Clanton gang marauds through Tombstone, flashing their guns and humiliating townspeople. Feeding on fear, their bullying escalates as decent people avoid ...
MIKE: I hereby call to order the first annual meeting of the tripartite national commission to discuss with the emperor his recent garment shortage. As you all know, of late, the emperor has been a bit, let's say, confused and has on one or two occasions, only, but still, he's appeared to ...
The last two weeks have been, like the preceding weeks, nuts. The president insisted the United States must own Greenland and he would not rule out military force, if necessary, to take the island. He imposed tariffs on the NATO allies who oppose his territorial lust. Then he walked it all back ...
