Today is Tulsi Gabbard's last day as Director of National Intelligence. She is stepping down to spend time with her husband who is suffering from cancer. Tulsi Gabbard is a patriot, make no mistake about that.

In 1919, Eight Chicago White Sox players were credibly accused of taking money from mafia gamblers to fix the World Series. All 8, including certain Hall of Famer Shoeless Joe Jackson, were permanently banned from Major League Baseball by Commissioner Kennesaw Mountain Landis.

Watching the last week in legislatures around the country, both federal and state, has been like watching a reality show where one side has 100% buy in to their goals and executes with ruthless precision while the other side is a cowering, capitulating, cowardly, textbook example of how corruption and status quo matters more than the voice of the voters.

On Monday, New York City Mayor Mamdani laid out a plan straight from the philosophy of Marx and Engels that should make every American's skin crawl and every New Yorker flee. The plan is simple. Mamdani is proposing the enactment of strict rent controls, which will make owning rental real estate non-viable for the majority of real estate investors. As lower rents are received, the landlords face a lower class of tenant whose ability to make timely payments and maintain a prop

Apparently, I am some kind of a masochist because I watch the local TV news every morning; and every morning for the past two weeks I have heard the story of the dying sloths, and every morning I have been subjected to watching Ana Eskamani comment on the travesty that 4 dozen sloths dying from an exotic sloth disease is.