Let’s stipulate that all decent people, whatever their political views, wish good health and longevity to Reps. Dwight Evans (D-PA), Raul Grijalva (D-AZ), and David Scott (D-GA). More practically, Democrats need those three lawmakers and others who recently missed strings of votes due to health-related matters to be present and voting whenever the House is […]
In Top Gun: Maverick, Tom Cruise’s character must train a team of hotshot pilots to take out a facility in an unnamed country with snow-covered mountains. Were they training for a mission in Switzerland? Hollywood was so wary of having any villains identified in this one that pilots from the generic foreign adversary were literally […]
When President Donald Trump accepted the Republican nomination for the White House for the third time, he told the crowd in Milwaukee, “I’m not supposed to be here.” It was a line he repeated often in the weeks following the attempt on his life in Butler, Pennsylvania, which happened just days before the GOP convention. […]
Released Nov. 24, 1956, the movie Giant was a blockbuster hit. It earned $35 million in ticket sales during its original studio release as well as $12 million in rentals in the United States and Canada alone. It won several Academy Awards including best motion picture, best director, and best actor. James Dean, the star, […]
It is hard not to view the latest film by Robert Eggers (The Witch, The Northman) as intentionally correcting the perplexity Timothy Garton Ash writes about in his Stasi-haunted memoir, The File: “If only I had met, on this search, a single clearly evil person.” Being so understanding that one cannot understand so much as […]
Tech magnate Elon Musk is expected to operate the new Department of Government Efficiency from office space in the White House complex. The space that Musk is projected to use is the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, adjacent to the White House. Musk and fellow co-chairman Vivek Ramaswamy have been tasked to lead DOGE in a […]
Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) is denying that she reportedly rejected an offer to meet privately with the woman who has accused President-elect Donald Trump’s defense secretary nominee, Pete Hegseth, of sexual assault. Collins, a centrist who could prove vital to Hegseth’s future but so far remains undecided on his confirmation, was approached in recent weeks […]
The chairman of the Republican National Committee expressed little to no concern that Pam Bondi would face significant problems sailing through Senate confirmation hearings to become President-elect Donald Trump‘s attorney general. “I fully expect that Pam will be confirmed,” said Chairman Michael Whatley in a press call with reporters one day before Bondi’s hearing begins. […]
Senate Republicans are expressing optimism that Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to lead the Pentagon, earned the support he needs to be confirmed after he emerged mostly unscathed from his confirmation hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday. “I think it was a magnificent display of his knowledge and his ability to […]
New Portland Mayor Keith Wilson is using his first weeks in office to mandate all city government managers and supervisors to return to in-person work full-time starting in April. The change will affect roughly 700 employees who have been working remotely or hybrid. “As managers and supervisors, you set the tone and culture for staff […]
