Taking off the Mask: Oregon has now joined New Jersey, Connecticut, California, and Delaware in announcing an end to their statewide mask mandate for schools or being indoors as states move toward normalizing life with Covid-19.   Oregon will end the requirement …

The Gun Beat: Student protesters laid down in the street in front of the White House yesterday in sympathy with the surviving students and victims of the mass shooting in Florida last week. Some of the students from Marjorie Stoneman …

The Gun Beat: Thousands of people including high school students and parents protested in Fort Lauderdale yesterday, calling for tighter gun control after the Parkland school massacre in which 17 people were killed. On the steps of the federal courthouse, …

If You Build It: President Trump is expected today to reveal a plan for re-building the nation’s infrastructure that puts much of the burden of paying for it on state and local governments. He would pay the federal share by …

The Manchurian Candidate: The NY Times reports that US intelligence agencies have concluded “with high confidence” that Russia acted covertly to sway the November election to Donald Trump. The Times report says US intelligence believes the Russians hacked Republican computer …

Stranger Things: Two American Olympic swimmers were pulled off their flight home last night in a deepening investigation into the claim by four swimmers that they were robbed at gunpoint in Rio by men posing as police officers. The report …

It’s Political: Sticking to the script of a major foreign policy speech in Youngstown, Ohio yesterday, Donald Trump called for an end to “nation-building” and for “extreme, extreme vetting” of foreigners who enter the US. “If I become president, the …

Shoot the Messenger: Donald Trump is blaming the media for his precipitous drop in the polls, tweeting, “If the disgusting and corrupt media covered me honestly and didn’t put false meaning into the words I say, I would be beating …

It’s Political: Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine have released some tax returns, turning up the heat on Donald Trump do the same. Clinton’s 2015 return reveals that she and her husband Bill hauled in $10.6 million in 2015 and paid …

Now This: Donald Trump said nothing out of the usual yesterday that should eliminate him from consideration for President of the United States. Oh wait, he said President Obama is the founder of the Islamic State. “In many respects, you …