Tag: Congress
House Republicans rumored to be considering Putin for Speaker
For the past several weeks, the U.S. House of Representatives has been a House Divided. That’s because a group of representatives voted to remove Kevin McCarthy as Speaker. This had never happened before in the […]
Ambushed By the Anti-Credit Crisis
So, I got a letter from my credit card company, saying I was scheduled for an “account review”. They wanted to let me know that, because the highest balance on my account has been significantly […]
US Congress Holds First Public UFO Hearing in Over 50 Years, BBC News May 17, 2022
At last, our Congress, which has proven itself incapable of dealing with real threats like climate change, pestilence, gun violence and assaults on democracy and […]
East Coast Earthquake Made Washington Wobble
Earthquakes recently hit northern California and the Midwest–nothing major, but it reminded me of one that shook up Washington, D.C. back in the summer of 2011. Major quakes aren’t common in the East, and some […]
Message from Space: Duck!
The threat of meteors devastating the Earth is so real that scientists at the recent Planetary Defense Conference in Washington, D.C. didn’t once giggle every time they said “Uranus.” To punctuate the dangers from space, […]
How The First World War Led To American Independence
Ever since Christopher Columbus first landed in the New World and hid all the Viking artifacts, America has been a land of opportunity, independence, and smallpox. Eventually the British colonists decided to go off and […]