Greene Sidelined: The House of Representatives, with just 11 Republicans joining the Democrats, last night voted to remove conspiracy-minded Georgia freshman Marjorie Taylor Greene from her assignments to the education and finance committees.   It strips Greene of any power to influence …

Cancel Her: The House votes today on whether to strip Georgia freshman Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of her committee assignments for espousing conspiracy theories and calling for the execution of Democratic politicians before she was elected.   It’s a test for Republicans …

Fool for a Client: Just a week before his Senate trial is set to begin, former President Donald Trump has parted ways with five lawyers he had retained to represent him. He announced he hired two new ones yesterday.   Maggie Haberman …

Internal Combustion: General Motors, the car company that makes the gas guzzling Hummer off-roader and GMC Sierra trucks, announced yesterday that it will make only zero emission vehicles by 2035, a move that will influence the entire auto industry.   It will …

Danger Within: The Department of Homeland Security issued a rare bulletin warning of domestic terrorism following the Capitol insurrection.   The notice says, “Information suggests that some ideologically motivated violent extremists with objections to the exercise of governmental authority and the presidential transition, …

Son of Virus: The first case of a coronavirus variant  found in Brazil has been identified in Minnesota, putting added pressure on the effort to get Americans vaccinated.   The more the virus spreads, the more likely it is to mutate, possibly defeating …

Viral News: New cases of the coronavirus are down 33 percent percent over the last two weeks, and deaths yesterday slipped below 2,000.   While the numbers improve, the people fighting the pandemic are just returning from the alternate universe of the …

Gavel to Adjournment: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced that she’s sending the article of impeachment against Donald Trump over to the Senate Monday, and Senate leaders agreed to delay opening the trial of the former President until the week of February …

The Planning Department: The Biden team arrived at the White House this week only to find that the Trump administration had no real federal plan for vaccinating hundreds of millions of Americans against the coronavirus. The Trump people merely shipped vaccines …

A Different Tone: A full grown adult was inaugurated yesterday as the 46th President of the United States. Joe Biden hit the ground with a speech that was kind, reassuring, intelligent, and above all, absent anger.   “So now on this hallowed ground …