The Government Shutdown is about to end. Here is the Democratic thinking on direction, strategy, and who can tick off wins, and who loses (from their perspective): There will be a vote soon ending the shutdown. It will extend funding until January 31. It will include three small appropriations bills
Anticipating that someone on the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party would eventually ask about the independence, or lack thereof, of DeepSeek, which now as a generative AI platform seems to be spreading faster than Covid-19 did, I decided to ask both DeepSeek and ChatGPT the same question: Does the Central Committee of…
This holiday, for the first time ever, I am giving some presentations on the world’s geopolitical and geo-economic fault lines on the really terrific Regent Seven Seas Explorer traveling between Australia and New Zealand.
The debate around President Joe Biden’s ability to vigorously take on a second political battle with former President Donald Trump is over. President Biden, as he expresses in the note above, is withdrawing from the election and will focus on serving out his term.
We have created a new company, Widehall LLC — and launched it quietly last November and have built it step by step sinc
Big city. Little village. A bus driver in New York City near Columbia University beckoned to a man running on the street whom he had just seen bludgeoned in the head to hurry and get on to his bus.
I am posting one of two documents that Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer distributed on January 18, 2022 to some Democratic Senate colleagues preceding the debate on the Voting Rights Act of 2021.
Dr. Leana Wen, former Baltimore Health Commissioner, nails what must happen immediately on the COVID vaccination front. Read her no nonsense Washington Post oped, but the gist is: Use It or Lose It. Wen argues that the Feds should give states and local governments guidance on getting vaccinations into people’s arms.
Newly elected and sworn in (today) U.S. House of Representatives Member Jake Auchincloss (D-MA) penned this oped in today’s Boston Globe calling for massive expansion of COVID testing to get schools reopened, but his proposal needs some other legs to stand on.
Happy New Year! Cliches can set in fast, but the declaration that everyone is glad to be done with 2020 is one with which I wholeheartedly agree. It’s hard to imagine 2021 being worse, so let’s toast the law of averages that eventually things must improve.
