Did Hamas intend to set off a region-wide war with its Oct. 7 attack? It seems they did whether they meant to or not. Now three U.S. soldiers in Jordan have been killed in a drone strike. Biden has vowed retaliation “at a time of our choosing” against the Iranian-backed militia that took credit for the attack.
Republicans have been screaming about immigrants for most of this century, but have resisted all proposals to fix it. With a Democrat in the White House, they’d rather let it fester and Blame It on Biden. This has been Republican operating strategy since the Gingrich years, and it’s about time they were called out on it. Now Biden is doing that, saying he’ll “shut down the border” the day the bipartisan deal passes, while Trump implores Republicans not to pass any bill. The media is even reporting it that way.
Mother Jones apparently reported on this story back in 2019, but it’s coming back into view now that Trump is on the ropes: He’s carrying what’s being characterized as a “mystery debt” of $50 million, a loan from one of his own companies (a Delaware shell LLC, naturally) that doesn’t show up on its books. It could be a way of avoiding taxes, but Trump wouldn’t do something illegal like that, would he?
The same media claiming to lack resources pours them into Trump trial coverage, so few outlets have noted that the U.S. economy keeps outperforming both forecasts and the rest of the world. The reason I’m a pessimist about human nature: The public persists in the belief that Republicans are better on the economy, and economists persist in ignoring reality when it fails to fit their theories. That’s why “dismal science” is only half true.
Some people like to scare themselves with horror movies. I get all the frights I need reading environmental stories like this one about the pollutants spewing from Canada’s tar sands. The process makes oil drilling look surgical by comparison.
The floor’s yours.