Coal Baron: The NY Times eviscerates West Virginia’s Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin for his opposition to President Biden’s clean fuel initiative simply by reporting the facts.    Manchin has said he’s protecting West Virginia’s coal and gas production industries by spurning the President’s …

Covid Nation: The Food and Drug Administration has voted to recommend that people who got the one-shot Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine can get a booster shot two months later.   The FDA might also consider allowing people who got the J &J …

Banned Again: A three judge panel of a federal appeals court has ruled 2-1 that the Texas law severely restricting abortion can remain in effect until challenges to it wend their way through the courts. A federal trial-level judge had previously …

The Shipping News: In an effort resolve a shipping logjam, the Port of Los Angeles will operate 24 hours a day, President Biden announced. Ports around the country are clogged with shipping containers while ships wait offshore to unload.   But Biden …

The Coroner’s Report: Gabby Petito, the 22-year-old woman who went missing on a cross-country adventure with her fiancé and was later found dead, was strangled, according to the Teton County Coroner in Wyoming.   The circumstances keep pointing to Petito’s 23-year-old fiancé, …

Thrown for a Loss: Las Vegas Raiders football coach John Gruden has resigned after the revelation of hateful, racist, and just plain ignorant emails he had sent back when he was a color commentator for ESPN on “Monday Night Football.”   The …

Sunk: A US Navy nuclear engineer and his wife have been charged with trying to sell information about secret submarine technology to another country.    The engineer, Jonathan Toebbe, is accused of trying to sell information on the nuclear propulsion system of …

Non-Executive Privilege: Former President Donald Trump is trying to exert executive privilege over documents sought by the Congressional committee investigating the January 6th insurrection.   Responding to the committee’s request for 40 documents,  Trump said in a letter to the National Archives that “I hereby …

Self-Sabotage: Democratic leaders have bowed to the Republicans, agreeing to a short-term hike in the debt ceiling and allowing government to operate into December.   Mike Lofgren, a Republican staff member for the House and Senate Budget Committees for 28 years, writes in The …

Messing With Texas: A federal judge in Texas has blocked enforcement of the state’s strict abortion law, which bars the procedure as early as six weeks into pregnancy.   US District Judge Robert Pitman in a 113-page order granted the Biden administration’s request …