ACTING OUT: Now it’s the actors going on strike, following the Hollywood writers and bringing Hollywood to a showstopper.   About 160,000 television and movie actors went out on strike midnight, shutting down Hollywood production for the first time in 63 years. Big …

FEDERAL CASE: FBI Director Christopher Wray spent yesterday before the House Judiciary Committee suffering the slings and arrows of Republican outrage, conspiracy theories, and political grandstanding. The Democrats threw softball questions and admiration in a session that overall was about political …

EXCLUSIVE CLUB: NATO leaders issued a joint statement saying Ukraine will be invited to join while remaining vague on how and when that might happen. The alliance leaders meeting in Lithuania struggled with language to describe a timeline and conditions for …

TALKIN’ TURKEY: The NATO summit is under way in Lithuania today only hours after Turkey reversed itself and decided to allow Sweden to join the growing military alliance.   As world leaders discuss the war in Ukraine and the possibility of allowing …

July 10, 2023Vol. 12, No. 2032 “ALL AT WAR”:  President Biden told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria that Ukraine is not ready for membership in NATO and that if Ukraine is admitted while at war with Russia then all the members would be instantly …

THE WAR ROOM:  Many Democratic members of Congress are angry with President Biden’s decision to send cluster munitions to Ukraine for use against their Russian occupiers.    Rep. Chrissy Houlahan, of Pennsylvania, an Air Force veteran serving on the Congressional caucus on …

Getting Warmer: Three days this week were likely the hottest in the history of Earth, climate scientists declared yesterday.    A surge of heat around the world shattered temperature records on July 3rd through the 5th from North America to Antarctica. The analysis is based on …

LIES AND LEGALITIES: A federal judge in Louisiana on Tuesday imposed temporary limits on how members of President Biden’s administration can engage with social media companies in their efforts to curb and correct lies and disinformation posted on the web.    The case stems …

THE NEWS IN REVIEW: On the eve of July 4th, we’re going to take it easy because there isn’t a lot of big breaking news. Unless there’s something big, we’re taking off the next two days.   Air travel has been hell …

INTEREST DUE: President Biden immediately said he would resort to another plan after the Supreme Court yesterday threw out his executive order to relieve $400 billion in student debt. “Today’s decision has closed one path,” Biden said. “Now we’re going to …