From the start of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the U.S. stock market, which has been "stumbling since the beginning of the year," writes The New York Times, is down "10.3 percent from its most recent peak on Jan. 3," and the cost of gas is rising rapidly.
Oh, for the good old days of the Soviet Union.
When a president's poll numbers are tanking, as the most recent Washington Post/ABC News poll shows they are for President Biden - 37% approval - he needed to do something spectacular, even radical, to keep him from sinking further. Unfortunately for Biden and his party, he did nothing that is likely to stem his free fall.
As often happens among the political class in Washington, we met on television debating each other. I liked him immediately, despite our political and even religious differences.
It is usually Republicans who blast the media for what they consider biased or unfair coverage of their policies, but increasingly we are hearing Democrats engaging in the same behavior, apparently frustrated their agenda is not being embraced by some of their fellow Democrats and the public.
"Dirty tricks" was a term used to describe the behavior of operatives within the Nixon administration to smear the reputations of opponents and undermine the appeal of certain politicians.
The election of Republican Glenn Youngkin and Winsome Sears as Virginia governor and lieutenant governor, respectively, provides a great opportunity for the GOP if they will seize the moment and expand on it.
Once in TV journalism there were people called assignment editors and news directors.
While President Biden and local officials keep talking about causes for the rise in crime in our major cities, proposing "solutions" that have failed in the past, like former President Bill Clinton's Midnight Basketball idea, the real reason for its escalation is deeper than what we see on the surface.
Former President Donald Trump has further undistinguished himself by again attacking his vice president, Mike Pence.
