Year: 2023
Graham Supports Defense Supplemental Bill for Pentagon
“I’m going to leave it up to Kevin McCarthy to see if he wants to help defeat Putin,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) told Punchbowl News. “I mean, he’s been pretty good… But is the Republican Party going to be the party that bails out [Russian President Vladimir] Putin? I hope not.”
DeSantis Demonstrates His People Skills in New Hampshire
To DeSantis supporters, we would direct the governor’s question to the AP reporter: “Are you blind?”
Ron DeSantis snaps after being asked why he’s not taking questions from voters: “Are you blind?” pic.twitter.com/2tDLqSGzFT
— PatriotTakes ?? (@patriottakes) June 1, 2023
Russia Is in a ‘Demographic Tragedy’
2 million
The Economist: “A demographic tragedy is unfolding in Russia. Over the past three years the country has lost around 2m more people than it would ordinarily have done, as a result of war, disease and exodus…. The life expectancy of Russian males aged 15 fell by almost five years, to the same level as in Haiti. The number of Russians born in April 2022 was no higher than it had been in the months of Hitler’s occupation. And because so many men of fighting age are dead or in exile, women now outnumber men by at least 10 million.”
What’s a Good Citizen, Charlie Brown?
In 1970, students in a fifth-grade class at Hawthorne School in Beverly Hills were assigned to write a letter to someone they admired, asking them, “What makes a good citizen?”
Joel Lipton, 10 years old at the time, wrote to Peanuts cartoonist Charles Schulz. This was Schulz’s reply:
Good grief! Schulz still hits the salient points in a single paragraph here, some 50 years later.
