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So says Punchbowl News’s Samantha Handler, who hears it from John Thune, who hears it from the holdouts in the GOP caucus. The reconciliation bill only needs 51 votes to pass, and Thune has 53 in his caucus, but wrangling them turned into a nightmare that will have consequences when the bill returns to the...

The Big Beautiful Bill is getting close to passage–maybe–and Elon Musk is very unhappy.  And when Elon is unhappy, everybody knows it, including Donald Trump, who, in turn, is unhappy with Elon.  And when these guys are unhappy, everybody else knows it immediately.  Elon famously hates the Big Beautiful Bill because it blows up the...

There is nothing unique, unfortunately, about people offering the lives of their children to the gods.  The Abrahamic religions were born out of the revelation from God that He does not demand such sacrifices–in fact, that they are wrong.  Unfortunately, one of those religions–Islam, or at least the radical Islamist version of Islam–has reverted to...

I came across this story today and thought it was pretty funny. Then I looked around and discovered it was part of a trend. There have been quite a few stories in the last few weeks about Gen-Z office workers and how truly special they are. In San Francisco, some managers have decided to hire...

Some jokes write themselves.  The projection is off the charts. It’s clearly a strategy that an actual Stalinist party would use. — Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) June 30, 2025 Coming from a political party that redefines words, airbrushes history, employs groups like Antifa to bully people, uses the security services to censor people, and works mightily...

There is civil war taking place within the Sinaloa drug cartel and the body count is piling up. This story was published today. Twenty bodies, several of them decapitated, were found on a highway bridge in a part of Mexico where factions of the Sinaloa drug cartel are fighting each other, authorities said Monday. Four...

It’s as if the voting British public expected RESULTS, or something. I mean, C’MON, man! Starmer’s only been Prime Minister, what? A year? Surely one can’t expect miracles, less mind promises to be kept in that little bit of time, even if the government had any intention of keeping whatever promises they made to begin...

Orwell was wrong.  Well, not quite. He was just 40 years early in predicting that Great Britain would become a totalitarian regime that wipes away history, common sense, and freedom of thought.  And even he could never have imagined the development of woke ideology, because cultural Marxism is even less sane than mere economic Marxism,...

DME stands for Durable Medical Equipment. It’s a class of medical gear which attracts a lot of fraud because Medicare agrees to pay 80% of the cost of any DME, such as a wheelchair, that is prescribed by a physician. The other factor that makes this kind of fraud appealing to criminals is that there...