The Biden administration has designated Laura Daniel-Davis, formerly Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Land and Minerals Management, as Acting Deputy Secretary of the Interior Department. DOI Secretary Deb Haaland praised the appointment, but the people have room for doubt. “Laura Daniel-Davis…
Take a deep breath. I will join you, now that my new lung can do it. Inhale. H-h-h-h-h. Exhale. Ph-ph-ph-ph-ph. Inhale. H-h-h-h-h. Exhale. Ph-ph-ph-ph-ph. Ah, the sweet smell of election season! Guess who are becoming Republican conservatives for a few months now? Oh, not literally GOP — just…
Suppose a terrorist decides one day to aim a biological weapon at the world. Instead of hacking government resources, he turns to AI. Within hours, he’s developed literally thousands of models for potential biological weapons. It’s a scenario that sounds…
Democrats don’t like the Senate. Sure, they currently hold more seats in the chamber than their GOP rivals. But there is deep dissatisfaction with the Senate’s structure. With senate seats apportioned equally by state, significant disparities can open up among…
With former President Donald Trump the target of a Third World dictator–style indictment and arrest by his political opponent, the GOP’s Senate leadership suddenly has fallen silent. In what is effectively a thumbs up for a wildly unconstitutional — not…
“Cut-outs, front groups, false narratives, hidden funding. It has the tradecraft of a covert op.” So says Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Chairman of both the Budget Committee and the It’s Always Sunny Meme Committee, of his rivals’ political support. Whitehouse’s conspiracy theorizing, recently expanded into…
Ya can’t make it up. In this year’s midterms, the Republican leader of the United States Senate went out of his way to defeat Republican candidates for the United States Senate. Yes, you read that right. Here, for example, is…
Gennifer Flowers, Paula Corbin Jones, Juanita Broaddrick, Kathleen Willey, Monica [go ahead and insert the surname]. I think I have them in the right order, more or less. Do these five names bring any person to mind? He denied. He…
Unless you have obsessively followed the midterm tracking polls in an effort to divine which party will control a majority in the U.S. Senate next year, you have probably never heard of the following people: Erik Gerhardt, Jeremy Kauffman, Chase…
