The Tax Men: The House voted 227 to 205 yesterday to approve a sweeping overhaul of the tax code and a $1.5 trillion tax cut.  Thirteen Republicans voted against the bill and no Democrats voted for it. A tax bill …

Gotta Have Art: The Leonardo da Vinci painting “Salvator Mundi” once sold for $10,000 in 2005 because it was believed to be a copy.  Last night at Christie’s in New York the bidding jumped in steps by tens of millions …

Evangelical: A fifth woman came forward yesterday to accuse Alabama senate candidate Roy Moore of sexual abuse when she was a teenager.   Beverly Young Nelson said that in 1977 Moore flirted with her when she was a 16-year-old waitress …

Evangelical: Republicans are wrestling with what to do about the Senate candidacy of Alabama’s Judge Roy Moore, 70, who’s been accused of sexual contact with teenagers while he was in his 30s. Polling shows the race that was once a …

Dying Up There: Comedian Louis C.K. issued a surprisingly blunt admission that that stories about his sexual misconduct published in the NY Times are true. “I want to address the stories told to The New York Times by five women …

Mergers and Acquisitions: Several new outlets report that the Trump administration directed AT&T to sell CNN as a condition of merging with Time Warner, which owns the news network President Trump has denounced as “Fake News.” Neither the reason for …

The Ballot: Voters decided state and local races yesterday, giving an indication of the direction they are headed for the mid-terms a year from now. In Virginia, Democrat Ralph Northam trounced the Trump-backed Republican candidate, Ed Gillespie, the former Republican …

Mass Murder: The Air Force admits that it failed to enter the court martial conviction of the Texas shooter into a national database, thereby failing to block him from buying the assault rifle he used to kill 26 people and …

The American Cancer: Twenty-six people are dead after a shooting in a Baptist church in tiny Sutherland Springs southeast of San Antonio, Texas. The dead range in age from 5 to 72, including the pastor’s 14-year-old daughter. One woman said …

Saudi Roundup:  Arrests and a missile. In what’s described as an anti-corruption sweep that may really be a consolidation of power, Saudi Arabia has arrested one of the world’s richest men, 10 other princes, and perhaps dozens of current and …