Headlines indicate an over-the-top craziness in U.S.
Hyperventilation over the purchase of Twitter by Elon Musk led the news last week. The zillionaire paid $44 billion for the tech giant that has not been profitable.
• Washington State outlaws the word marijuana-it connotes racism.
• Biden’s Office of Public Engagement director and senior adviser Cedric Richmond refers to two prominent members of “the Squad” as “f---ing idiots.” He was referring to Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. and Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich.
• Top Biden adviser trades WH for Dem HQ after reportedly calling the ‘Squad’ ‘f---ing idiots.’
• Body of missing Texas National Guard soldier is found in the Rio Grande. He gave his life in an attempt to rescue two illegals who turned out to be drug dealers trying to enter the U.S. from Mexico.
• New York judge hold former President Donald J. Trump in contempt. The judge hit Trump with a $10,000 daily fine until the former president complies with New York’s Attorney General Letitia James’ subpoena in her investigation of the Trump Organization.
• Re-elected President Macron does not answer President Joseph R. Biden’s call after the French president was given a second term.
• Hunter Biden sent an email to his brother’s widow, Hallie Biden, pressuring her to get an HIV test as their relationship deteriorated in July, 2018, about a month before he fathered a child with another woman.
• What does Gov. Tim Walz plan to do with the $9 billion surplus? He wants to send out checks and he’s going to call them “Walz Checks.” (Excuse me, but this is the people’s money not the governor’s person slush fund for re-election.)
• Disney World had its plush deal with the State of Florida since Walt first established his own enterprise in the heart of the Sunshine state. Gov. Ron DeSantis pulled the rug out from Mickey Mouse when Disney’s CEO blasted the state legislature for passing and the governor signing a bill that prohibited teaching children in Kindergarten through third grade sexual identity and trans propaganda.
• Surging inflation hits 40 year high, putting the crimp purchasing groceries, gasoline, and services, such as, haircuts.
• Another area of inflation comes as an on fire real estate market is hit with higher interest rates. A 30-year fixed mortgage ranges from 4.86 percent to 6.29 percent.
• CNN+ closed 30 days after it was launched.
• Mueller exonerated Trump after claims that the former president was colluding with Russia. Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign, the Democratic National Committee, Fusion GPS and Perkins Coie are pushing against IG John Durham’s request to turn over documents.
• Charging stations are not keeping up with electric car demand.
• Inflation and the war in Ukraine are impacting U.S. Farm production.
Food costs are rising. Fertilizer and fuel increases are hitting farmers just as the war in Ukraine has taken that nation’s growing season out of the corn, wheat and soybean supply.
• U.S Supreme Court justices take up the case driven by Joe Kennedy the football coach of Bremerton School District against that district claiming his First Amendment rights were violated when he was fired. It has taken six years to reach the high court. A decision is expected in June.
• Tennessee passes a measure that will require drunk drivers to pay child support if they kill the parent of a minor.
• A truck hauling strawberry puree was hauling $35 million in meth. (On the U.S. border with Mexico.)
• With surging crime around the nation, a Florida sheriff suggests homeowners shoot intruders in order to save taxpayers money.
• There was outrage in a Pennsylvania school district following a proposal for a new after-school program: a “Satan Club.”
• A Colorado man lit himself on fire in front of the U.S. Supreme Court building. Police identified the man as Wynne Bruce, 50, of Boulder. He was protesting climate inaction.
PRESS
“You know, that is one of the consequences of the weak sense of responsibility of the press. The press does not feel responsibility for its judgments. It makes judgments and attaches labels with the greatest of ease. Mediocre journalists simply make headlines of their conclusions, which suddenly become generally accepted.”
— Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Warning to the West