Five Rings in China: Events have begun and the opening ceremony is tonight as the Winter Olympics in Beijing get underway in a bubble of Covid-19 caution and political oppression.   In a public show that was no coincidence, Russian President Vladimir Putin …

The Madness of King Donald: A Washington lawyer named George Conway has been Twitter campaigning to convince America that the President of the United States is mentally ill and getting worse.   Conway tweeted, “It doesn’t take a person with an advanced …

The Virginia Mess: Amidst a political mess in which three top Virginia political leaders have been involved with incidents of white men wearing blackface, the politician under the most pressure to resign today is the one who’s actually black. A second …

The Scandal Sheets:  Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who’s also the owner of The Washington Post, has gone public with what he describes as attempted extortion and blackmail by The National Enquirer, whose publisher David Pecker is a close friend of President Trump.   Bezos …

Tough: Two women have become the first female soldiers to beat the fatigue, sleeplessness, and hunger to pass the Army’s difficult Ranger training at Ft. Benning, Ga. The 62-day Ranger course is in three phases – woodland, mountain, and swamp. …

Deep Freeze: It’s 5 degrees in Green Bay, Wisc., where the Packers meet the 49ers on Lambeau Field this afternoon. Bone crunching. The lowest temperatures in almost 20 years are spreading into the Northern and Central US today, bringing wind …

World: The State Department has flown diplomatic staff out of Yemen and urged UScitizens to leave the country. This follows the closure of US embassies and consulates across the Middle East after the interception of a message from Al Qaeda …