DEFENSELESS: Authorities in Azerbaijan are telling reporters that their airliner that crashed in Kazakhstan on Christmas day killing 38 people was brought down by Russian air defenses. The fuselage was peppered with holes that look like they were caused by shrapnel. …

FUNCTIONAL DISFUNCTION: The House and Senate last night passed a stopgap spending bill just after the midnight deadline keeping the government open into March in what amounts to a legislative defeat for Donald Trump even before his inauguration.   The bill does …

SHADOW GOVERNMENT: Spurred by his whisperer the Tesla billionaire Elon Musk, President-elect Donald Trump told the House leadership to kill the spending bill that would keep the government running into the month of March.   Musk posted on his Twitter/X that “Any …

PRESS RELATIONS: In a further indication that Donald Trump plans to fight and diminish the free press beyond just calling it “fake news,” the President-elect filed a lawsuit against the Des Moines Register newspaper, pollster J. Ann Selzer, and the Gannett  newspaper …

PRESIDENT FELON: The judge in Donald Trump’s  New York criminal fraud case denied the President-elect’s request to have his 34 convictions vacated because he is about to return to the White House.   Judge Juan Merchan ruled that Trump’s claim to presidential immunity …

 DRONE ON: Federal authorities have now been given as many as 5,000 tips about nighttime sightings of unidentified drones in six East Coast states, causing politicians to swarm toward the television cameras.    New Jersey Rep. Chris Smith said, “For weeks we’ve …

KEEP WATCHING THE SKIES: Sightings of unidentified drones over the night skies of New Jersey have spread to a larger region and other states as the phenomenon borders on becoming a national hysteria. It’s like a 1950s alien/red- scare movie come …

THE FIRST HOUR: Donald Trump said that he will begin issuing pardons for nonviolent participants in the January 6th insurrection during the “first hour” of his presidency as well as starting to deport undocumented immigrants and ramping up oil production.   Trump made …

THE EVIDENCE SHOWS: Investigators have matched the bullet casings found on the sidewalk where UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was murdered to the gun found in the possession of 26-year-old Luigi Mangione in Altoona, Pennsylvania.  They also found his fingerprints on a cellphone, …

 MURDER RAP: The suspect in the murder of healthcare executive Brian Thompson is fighting extradition from Pennsylvania to New York where he faces second-degree murder, forgery, and three gun charges. Luigi Mangione, 26, will remain in a Pennsylvania jail while he …