Baby It’s Hot: The world is cooking.   Heat advisories are in effect early this week for Texas, much of the Central and Southern Plains, most of Oklahoma and Arkansas, southwestern Missouri, and southeastern Kansas. All those areas could experience the hottest …

Mandatory Carry: The Supreme Court last Friday made it easier to carry a gun and mandatory to carry a baby.   Having been leaked well in advance, the Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, the historic decision that made abortion legal, …

Taking off the Mask: Oregon has now joined New Jersey, Connecticut, California, and Delaware in announcing an end to their statewide mask mandate for schools or being indoors as states move toward normalizing life with Covid-19.   Oregon will end the requirement …

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 …

War of Words: In a heated exchange at the UN Security Council, the US accused Russia of threatening world peace over Ukraine while the Russians dismissed concerns as fearmongering.   “This is as clear and consequential a threat to peace and security as …

Reading Tea Leaves:  With more than 100,000 Russian troops surrounding Ukraine posed to invade, President Joe Biden told reporters yesterday he’s not sure what Russia’s Vladimir Putin is going to do. “It’s a little bit like reading tea leaves,” he said. “I …

Five Alarm: Nineteen people died yesterday, nine of them children, in a fire in a West Bronx apartment building.   Another 44 were injured, 13 of them critically, after the occupants of the third-floor apartment where the fire started left in a …

Coal for the Stocking: Given the go-ahead by Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the House might vote on whether to impeach President Trump before Christmas.   Pelosi announced yesterday that she has asked the Judiciary Committee to draft the articles of impeachment. Speaking sternly, …

Evidence of Obstruction:With Secretary of State Mike Pompeo pushing back against House subpoenas in the Ukraine and impeachment inquiries, the inspector general of State has requested to give an “urgent” briefing to members and staff of several House committees. He …

Hear the Whistle Blow:Washington is an uproar over a report in The Washington Postthat a US intelligence official was so disturbed by a promise President Trump made to a foreign leader over the telephone that he filed a whistleblower complaint with …