WRITTEN IN PENCIL: Trade talks between Canada and the US broke down over the weekend triggering stiff new tariffs on Canadian goods, causing Prime Minister Mark Carney to say Canada is “at war” with the United States and that his country …

THE WAR ROOM: Unable to bring Iran to its knees with bombing and threats of further bombing to send it back to the Stone Age, President Trump now says he will impose nuclear economic sanctions on the country he can’t defeat. …

PROGRESSIVE PROGRESS: Notch more wins for the Democratic Socialists and progressives. The Democrats may be having their Tea Party moment similar to when a Republican breakaway movement took their party to the far right.   In the contest for Senate, Florida State …

THE WAR ROOM: The so-called truce with Iran in which the gunfire never stopped expired yesterday, leaving President Trump with a war he’s claimed to have won without being able to end it.   Trump is fighting for control of the Strait …

GUILTY AS CHARGED: Twenty-eight-year-old Luigi Mangione pleaded guilty yesterday to federal charges of interstate stalking resulting in the death of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, who Mangione admitted shooting with a gun he made on a 3-D printer.   “I shot Mr. …

AT SEA: Some members of Congress say they are increasingly concerned about the crew of the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln as it approaches nine months on deployment following a report that a member of the crew jumped overboard. The crewman was …

CAREER PLANNING: The pundit class is scrutinizing the announcement by New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez that she’s going to have her eggs frozen and that she has broken up with her long-term boyfriend Riley Roberts.   This comes amidst increasing speculation …

IT’S POLITICAL: Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan won the Democratic primary race for Senate, another win for a progressive defeating a centrist congresswoman in the latest victory for the party’s left wing.   But in Wisconsin the progressive Francesca Hong lost to the …

DR. TRUMP PRESCRIBES: President Trump yesterday signed an executive order calling for American children to be immunized against fewer diseases with a longer schedule of shots.   He offered no medical evidence to suggest the change.   The order recommends immunizing children against 11 …

CRAZY IS AS CRAZY DOES: Nothing seems urgent this morning so we are going to mostly take the morning off.    But we thought we would share that the President of the United States, who presides over  a war he started and can’t …