Beltway Confidential
Saying the quiet part out loud
The dimmest bulb on the New York Times’s editorial board did the COVID-19 masking enthusiasts a disservice recently when she said the quiet part out loud. Appearing…
September 13, 2022
Economy
Their last spending fight
When Sen. Patrick Leahy joined the Senate in January 1975, Gerald Ford was president. Sen. Richard Shelby came to Congress four years later during the Carter administration,…
Magazine - Your Land
A classic case of internalized misogyny
Women are the only people in the world capable of being mothers — and for good reason. They’re naturally able to meet the needs of their children…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Vacation is as vacation does
I have a friend in the finance business who convinced himself for several years that by taking his family to Hawaii for their vacation, he was hacking…
Business
Real estate market finally cools down
As list prices drop, fewer buyers are booking tours and homes are selling more slowly, industry experts say. The once-scorching real estate market is finally cooling down…
Crime
Teenage wasteland
The bill is coming due for our 2020 and 2021 efforts to “flatten the curve” of COVID-19. The price we are paying is a massive spike in…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Suffering for beauty in Lapvona
It’s a beautiful irony that Ottessa Moshfegh’s readership, consisting of the prim and proper elite set, gobbles up her highbrow depravities, and it’s all the better that…
Healthcare
Feds push booster as winter surge approaches
New COVID-19 booster shots from Pfizer and BioNTech have cleared all regulatory hurdles in time for the expected winter surge of the virus. The new vaccine aims…
Crime
Return of Russian ransomware group REvil
REvil, a notorious ransomware gang, has been resurrected after it was supposedly squashed by Russian authorities back in July. REvil websites disappeared from the internet in mid-July…
Healthcare
Farewell Fauci, and good riddance
Long before he became president, Donald Trump knew that few words are savored by the public as much as “You’re fired!” We take a certain devilish pleasure…