NYT: How Biden Ignored Warnings and Lost Americans’ Faith in Immigration
NYT admits how thoroughly Biden failed at immigration enforcement.
First, they underestimated the scale of migration that was coming. Second, they failed to appreciate the political reaction to that migration — believing that stronger enforcement would alienate Latino and progressive voters, and also that a border surge would not be an important issue to most voters.
NPR: FBI arrests suspect in investigation into pipe bombs planted near DNC, RNC before Jan. 6 attack
The FBI has spent years searching for the person who put bombs near the Democratic and Republican committee headquarters, hours before the assault on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
That probably isn’t true.
NYT: Rwanda and Congo Sign U.S.-Brokered Peace Treaty
Bongo, bongo, bongo, I don’t want to leave the Congo, oh no, no no no.
CBS News: Trump administration moves to roll back fuel economy standards set under Biden
If finalized, the plan would relax fuel economy standards by setting the industry average for light-duty vehicles at roughly 34.5 miles per gallon through the 2031 model year, lower than the 50 miles per gallon outlined by a Biden-era rule.
For fifty years, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) set fuel economy standards that car companies had to meet. It was a type of magical thinking. The NHTSA would issue a new fuel economy standard, and like Captain Picard on Star Trek, say, “Make it so.”
The NHTSA didn’t have to worry about physics, they just had to wish for it. The engineering teams had to figure out how to pull another rabbit out of the same old hat. The rabbits were getting smaller and harder to find.
NYT: How Fraud Swamped Minnesota’s Social Services System on Tim Walz’s Watch
Minnesota is a shit show, and that Walz was almost vice president.
The fraud scandal that rattled Minnesota was staggering in its scale and brazenness.
Federal prosecutors charged dozens of people with felonies, accusing them of stealing hundreds of millions of dollars from a government program meant to keep children fed during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Anybody who could figure out that Somalis aren’t Scandinavian, would have seen this coming.
The episode has raised broader questions for some residents about the sustainability of Minnesota’s Scandinavian-modeled system of robust safety net programs bankrolled by high taxes.
No More Cents- A Fond Farewell to the Penny
Thus, on November 12, the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia held a small ceremony where the U.S. Treasurer Brandon Beach struck the last penny that would be released into circulation.
Pennies have been a losing deal for twenty years. Nobody seems to care that they are gone. Maybe I am just in a bubble.
This is nice.
The protestors get together to show their commitment to a cause. Home Depot gets traffic in their stores a month before Christmas.
BREAKING – Liberals in California are now standing in line at Home Depot to purchase a single 17-cent scraper, only to return it and get back in line to purchase another, aiming to freeze sales in protest of Home Depot allowing ICE to conduct operations in their stores. pic.twitter.com/LaoDbsjOUv
— Right Angle News Network (@Rightanglenews) November 23, 2025
Several Democratic senators and congressman are one word away from sedition.
Our laws are clear. You can refuse illegal orders. You can refuse illegal orders. You must refuse illegal orders. No one has to carry out orders that violate the law or our Constitution.
Their statement is true, and every member of the military knows it. This message to the military is very dangerous and will do harm.
Trump Calls Democrats’ Bluff, Demands Republicans Release the Epstein Files
I thought we already did that.
Somebody in charge announces that the Epstein files are being released, and we get a manila envelope with some old news inside.
Just release everything with victims names redacted. Then the participants can get on with stepping down, or apologizing to their wives, or explaining their involvement.
WSJ: Old Age Will Be Different in the Robotic Age
WSJ: Old Age Will Be Different in the Robotic Age
Machines could soon help elders get out of bed, bathe them, even provide them with emotional support.
I always figured this problem would be solved by the Japanese inventing competent Elder-bots, the Chinese making cheap knock-offs and an American start-up company offering free robots that tended to the feeble as it harvested confidential medical information to defraud Medicaid. That won’t happen.
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