CRIME AND POLITICS: Proving that the Justice Department doesn’t indict only Republicans, New Jersey’s Democratic Sen. Robert Menendez, the powerful Democratic chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, was charged yesterday with taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes — including gold …

TOUGH JUSTICE: Attorney General Merrick Garland sat for a five-hour grilling yesterday by Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee obsessed with the case of Hunter Biden while also accusing the Justice Department of political prosecutions.  They even raised the conspiracy theory that …

Threat to the World: Speaking at the annual gathering of world leaders at the UN General Assembly yesterday in New York, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky described Russia’s aggression against his country as a worldwide threat that would not stop if Russia completely …

SHUTDOWN LOOMING:  A tentative deal on a short-term spending plan reached over the weekend already appears to be in trouble as Republican hardliners are still bent on drastic budget cuts that would never pass the Senate. This leaves the federal government still headed …

ON STRIKE: President Biden came out in support yesterday for the striking United Auto Workers. “Let’s be clear, no one wants a strike. Say it again. No one wants a strike,” Biden said at the White House. “But I respect the workers …

HUNTER INDICTED: President Biden’s son Hunter has been indicted on three federal felony gun charges, accusing him of lying about being addicted to cocaine when he bought a firearm in October 2018.    The charges are somewhat unusually severe given that the gun …

TAKE DICTATION: Following a meeting with Russia’s Vladimir Putin, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un called his country’s relationship with Russia his top priority and pledged full support for Russia’s war on Ukraine.  Sitting on opposite sides of a small table with flowers on …

IT’S POLITICAL: Under pressure from far right Joe Biden hating Republicans, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has directed committees to open impeachment investigations of the President.   The question is whether Biden made any money from his son Hunter’s business dealings, among other issues, …

MEETING OF MINDS: North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un arrived in Russia today aboard a slow moving armored train. On the agenda is artillery shells for Russia’s depleted war stocks in possible exchange for food, oil, hard currency, or even more sophisticated weapons technology …

September 9, 2023 LIGHTS ON: Big 24 hour power outage in upstate New York starting Thursday night so we have catching up to do … MAGNITUDE: As many as 820 people are reported to be dead after a 6.8 magnitude earthquake struck about 50 …