Covid Nation: The Drug company Pfizer announced that it has an experimental pill that would reduce hospitalizations among coronavirus patients. Pfizer said its reduced the risk of hospitalization and death for high-risk patients taking part in a trial by 89 percent.    The …

Political Beat: President Biden returned from Europe to shaky political ground with voters not thrilled about the performance of Democrats in office.   After a Republican won the governor’s office in Virginia, a state Biden won last year, New Jersey’s incumbent Democrat …

Lungs of the Planet: Leaders of more than 100 countries gathered in Glasgow pledged to end deforestation by 2030. “These great teeming ecosystems — these cathedrals of nature,” Prime Minister Boris Johnson of Britain said in announcing the agreement, “are the …

 No Organized Party: The comedian Will Rogers used to say he was not a member of any organized political party; he was a Democrat. He’s dead but the joke lives.   Restrained by both moderates and progressives in the party from passing …

One Man One Vote: Continuing to exercise the veto power of his single vote, West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin has killed the paid family leave proposed in President Biden’s social policy spending bill.   With only 50 Democrats in the Senate, they …

Tax the Rich: Struggling to find a way to pay for social and climate policy, Congressional Democrats are hammering out new ways to tax the rich by taxing the wealth.   Instead of only paying tax on income, which pales compared to …

Face Time: Despite a massive document dump of unflattering internal information about Facebook, the social network earned $29 billion in the latest quarter ending September 30th, up nearly $8 billion from the same period last year.   But Facebook’s stock has also fallen …

Target Practice: Actor Alec Baldwin was rehearsing a scene which required him to point a gun toward the camera when the gun went off, killing the cinematographer, according to an affidavit filed in court.   The movie’s cinematographer Halyna Hutchins died and …

October 23, 2021 Abortion in the Court: The Supreme yesterday refused to block the Texas law that effectively bans abortion after six weeks but fast-tracked arguments by Justice Department and Texas abortion providers for November 1st.   Only Justice Sonia Sotomayor dissented. “For …

Gunplay: Actor Alec Baldwin fired a prop gun during rehearsals for a Western he was filming in New Mexico, killing the movie’s director of photography, and wounding the director.   Cinematographer, Halyna Hutchins, 42, was killed, and the director, Joel Souza, 48, …