Source: National Action Network website

In a society based on centralized control (leftist, socialist, communist, whatever), there is really only one way to get ahead.  You must figure out who has political power, befriend them, and do favors for them.  There is no reason for you to help the common man, so you focus on those in power.  Everything is in one pie, and if you want a piece of that pie, you must serve those above you.

The House Oversight Committee has exhaustively confirmed what should have already been well-known about the origins of COVID-19 but for the concerted effort by the governments of China and the USA with the cooperation of zealously anti-Trump media to promote a lie.

The initial rise of COVID-19 cases in the northeast USA and Western Europe simultaneously began in mid-March 2020 and initially peaked in mid-April.  However, virologists had already analyzed the virus in January, and Anthony Fauci knew he had a problem. It was already clear that the virus was very unlikely to have a natural origin.

As of today, it appears to be the new (attempted) spin that Biden did not lie.  Circumstances changed. He considered what was best for his family and he then changed his mind, which means he was sincere earlier when he said he would not issue a pardon for Hunter.  Therefore, he did not lie. Sure.

The arrival of the second Trump presidency has brought out latent tensions in the troubled area of energy policy. Over a four-year period, the Democrats, under the leadership of Jor Biden, have made it their highest priority to turn away from fossil fuels to alternative forms of energy, most notably wind and solar. The key argument for this position was, and remains, that the existential threat of continued global warming makes it critical to adopt stern responses lest—in the words of Inside Climate News—Trump, along with people like Chris Wright, who has been tapped to lead the Department of Energy, manage “to turn the US into a pariah petrostate.”

At the political level, the current trend works in sharp opposition to the Biden administration’s nonstop initiatives that began on day one in 2021 with the shutdown of the Keystone XL Pipeline, which resulted in the cancellation of the project by TC Energy some six months later. TC Energy is a Canadian outfit operating in Alberta, whose Premier Jason Kenney reported that he was “disappointed and frustrated” by the unilateral cancellation without consultation.

Call this a sequel to She’s “Girl, Just Keep Your Legs Together, And All Will Be Well!” She just turned 70. When I turned 50, I thought nothing of it. I didn’t feel old, and actually, I still don’t. All the years between 50 and 60, I never thought much about retirement, being old, or what I was going to do with the rest of my life. Back in the middle of May, I had a cake with more candles than midnight Mass at St. Paul’s Cathedral. BOOM! It’s time to be responsible and start thinking about retirement. I know. I’m a procrastinator. I’m getting around to fixing that.

I started watching Holy Schmidt on YouTube. He is a financial guy with the perfect amount of dorkiness. Great guy with a lot of good advice. I came up with a financial plan that works for me. I won’t be driving a new Teletubby Jaguar but I’ll be fine. I hear they have TRANSmission problems anyway. I’ll get by but I’m looking for another line of work that has nothing to do with programming or managing people. I’ve had enough of both. Except for people I actually want to talk to, and using my computer to send invoices will be okay, too.

I’d like to provide an alternative to Dr. Bastiat’s recent post Leftism is based on individualism. Conservatism is not.

The good doctor observes the behavior of “the modern left,” searches for an underlying ideological consistency, gets frustrated, and eventually settles on the title. Which, I’m sorry to say, doesn’t make any sense.

Back in September, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was asked if the President had any plans to pardon his son Hunter. She answered with an emphatic, “No.” Tonight, he did just that.

The younger Biden was scheduled to be sentenced December 12th on a federal gun charge and December 16th on tax evasion charges. The pardon is expected to cover all charges.

Trump has nominated Kash Patel for FBI director. Wait a sec, isn’t Christopher Wray still FBI director? He hasn’t resigned or been fired yet, but it’s now clear Wray should have his desk packed up by the close of business on January 19. Wray treated Trump, the man who appointed him, with utter contempt; now Trump is paying him back in spades, and I’m loving it. Wray has earned every bit of this treatment.

In positive signs for Patel’s tenure, Morning Joe called him the “personification of MAGA rage.” Even more important, the disgraced Andrew McCabe called him “profoundly unqualified,” and Tom Nichols, a staff writer for the Atlantic magazine, slammed him as “as dangerous as it gets.”

What are Patel’s real qualifications or lack thereof? First, he understands the problem. He has called for the FBI headquarters to be closed and its 7000 staff located there to be sent out to be real cops. He has said that the FBI is too frickin’ big. (Above quotes are from a FoxNews article.)