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NBC News is Worried Democrats Could Lose in 2024 – HotAir

This NBC News article is not an opinion piece so far as I can tell. Titled “5 twists that could upend Democrats’ best-laid plans for the 2024 election,” it’s intended to be a combination of prognostication and analysis, but the framing of the piece is clearly one-sided. It might as well be headlined ‘How Democrats Could […]

Markets and Miracles – HotAir

In this season of giving, I’ll donate to the Doe Fund, a charity that helps drug abusers and ex-cons find purpose in life through work. Doe’s approach doesn’t include many handouts. It’s mostly about encouraging people to work. “Work works!” they say. It does. Most Doe Fund workers don’t go back to jail. I’ll also […]

Elections 2024 | The Oligarch Kings

Hogarth “Chairing the Member” 1818 Auld Mac’s Almanack, or what the calendar for 2024 holds. And boy is 2024 going to be a one huge year for those of us who enjoy following elections and trying to for-guess the result.  Truly we are in for a combo of the World Cup and the Olympics as […]

News Briefs – 12/30/2023 | Anonymous Conservative

Here are some news stories that might be of interest. Most articles will be more or less summarized in the headline. You can skim the headlines and summaries, and click the links if they are of interest. Keep in mind, many of these reports are products of an unreliable news media, so although they will […]

TCW Christmas reads: The uncanny prescience of Mark Steyn

The Prisoner of Windsor by Mark Steyn; Stockade Books (April 2023)  LAUGHTER is the balm of life, and if you are in need some of that balm I cannot direct you to a funnier book – one that makes you laugh out loud – than Mark Steyn’s novel, The Prisoner of Windsor, which he describes as a sequel to The […]

News you might have missed

THOSE of you who peer at your phones to get the latest news often fail to see the really interesting items buried a long way from the front pages. Here are some that you might have missed, taken mainly from one broadsheet this month. ‘Staff at the accounting giant PwC have been told to settle […]

Go tell it to the lamp post

The Hello Lamp Post initiative in Dundee encourages members of the public to start up a conversation with lamp posts, bus shelters and fences about the climate and nature emergency.  FEELING lonely? Depressed? Out of sorts? You might consider popping up to Dundee to have a chat with a lamp post. You can talk about […]