2/27/22 "This year’s informal survey showed that Trump and DeSantis are the leading contenders for the nomination in 2024" ... former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo "came in third with 2 percent of the vote."

2/22/22 "special-purpose acquisition company that is merging with Trump Media & Technology Group, soared nearly 19% in premarket trading on Tuesday ... Trump’s social media platform, went live in the U.S. Tuesday."

2/20/22 "one is struck not only by how irrelevant they are, but how shlocky ... Two major newspapers that hold themselves up as the pinnacle of press freedom, the “truth dies in darkness” brigade and all that, pushed a conspiracy theory."

2/20/22 "The agency has been reluctant to make those figures public, the official said, because they might be misinterpreted as the vaccines being ineffective."

2/16/22 "The left is dealt a blow in its most supportive city as fed-up tiger moms target the woke. ...angry San Francisco voters recalled three school board members in a landslide."

2/16/22 "'The CDC provides guidance,' CDC Director Rochelle Walensky can be heard saying on the recording. 'Our guidance currently is that masking should happen in all schools right now.'"

2/15/22 "This law creates a high and clear standard for good reason: the Act allows government to bypass ordinary democratic processes. This standard has not been met."

2/15/22 "it’s appalling to watch the trans-Atlantic liberals elide, excuse, and obfuscate the presence of neo-Nazis and other ideological ghastlies among their champs in places like Ukraine and Hungary."

2/15/22 "Russian officials taunted the Biden admin. by claiming the redeployment 'humiliated' Western war hysterics ... NATO military officials said they did not see any immediate sign of Russian forces actually pulling back"

2/15/22 "The state applied to receive the surplus 32-foot-tall steel panels in Nov. to contribute to Gov. Greg Abbott's planned state-funded border wall, & plans to use the new panels for 1.3 miles of new wall."

2/15/22 "Gollust, CNN’s chief marketing officer, resigned Tuesday following the conclusion of an investigation that incriminated her, former CNN President Jeff Zucker, and former CNN host Chris Cuomo."

2/14/22 80-year-old Mitch McConnell has had a long run as leading Republican in the upper body. "He hasn’t been a failure in that role. But the more McConnell says, the more he proves that the GOP badly needs new blood ..."

2/11/22 "Republican voters would like their leaders to meet the simple test of not calling them terrorists for engaging in peaceful political protest. ...of not accepting the media’s routine lies about them but, instead, to fight vigorously against those lies."

2/10/22 "DHS alert says that 'the group intends to start in California as early as mid-February and travel to Washington, DC, as late as mid-March, reportedly gathering truckers as they travel across the country'"

2/10/22 "Two U.S. senators are taking action to "nudge" social media companies in addressing concerns regarding the effects their platforms have on the mental health of users and the spread of misinformation."

2/10/22 "a gang of gunmen stole the car from a candidate for city council as he filled his tank. The highspeed operation, launched in broad daylight from an SUV, looks more like Baghdad than the United States."

2/9/22 "Rep. Ronny Jackson of Texas sent to the White House a letter co-signed by 37 other Republicans, saying Mr. Biden is showing some signs of mental decline ...  should take a test to show that is not the case."

2/9/22 "The 19th-century black educator Booker T. Washington feared that opposition to racism would turn into a financial racket. His fears have been realized."

2/9/22 "top of the list of accusers is the head of the radical leftist New Democratic Party, Fidel Castro sympathizer Jagmeet Singh, who has attributed the popularity and success of the 'Freedom Convoy' to 'Trumpism” & 'foreign actors'..."

2/8/22 "Friday night’s coverage on NBC, USA Network and Peacock averaged 12.8 million viewers, significantly down from the 27.8 million average in PyeongChang four years ago."

2/8/22 "Citing 'multiple sources' NY Post reports Cuomo, fired for 'helping his brother fend off sexual harassment allegations,' is claiming Zucker 'knew about his dealings with the governor...'"

2/8/22 "Assuming a ramp-up in EV sales from 2.3M in 2021 to 8.5M in 2030 ... 50 million more new EVs plugged into our electrical grid. ... where [do] vast amounts of so-called 'clean energy' come from"

2/7/22 "President Abraham Lincoln once described a hypocrite as 'the man who murdered his own parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.'"

2/7/22 "experts seized on the pandemic as an opportunity to reassert their own status and authority – and that of the liberal-technocratic politicians with whom they are largely aligned."

2/7/22 "Biden was explicit ... a 'minor incursion' by Russia into Ukraine would not be met by a meaningful Western response." Then, "as if he were a pundit rather than the president, 'My guess is he will move in.'"

2/6/22 "A new appeal for the Canadian Freedom Convoy has raised more than $2.1 million out of a $16,000 target on platform GiveSendGo ... one anonymous donor giving the truckers $215,000"

2/6/22 "the thieves in Silicon Valley decided we don't like your politics, so A. we're going to take your money and B. we're going to give it to people we like. Listen, if anyone else did that, that is called theft"

2/6/22 "COVID-19 restrictions ... or the location of the Winter Games – controversy around China’s record of human rights abuses has swirled – the energy around the Winter Olympics was noticeably lacking."

2/6/22 "Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene makes no excuses for routinely criticizing fellow Republicans ... battle is necessary if conservatives want to take a bigger stake in the party."

2/5/22 "The justification proffered by GoFundMe is feeble & deceives no one: they claim the demonstration has become an 'occupation' & that 'violence & other unlawful activity' is taking place, thus violating their terms of service."

2/5/22 "If the PM of a North African or Middle Eastern nation was forced into hiding by a protest occupying his capital city, Dick Cheney & Hillary Clinton would materialize from thin air to call for U.S.-backed regime change."

2/4/22 "Bush administration veterans, Never Trump remnants, and their new Democratic friends are trying to save her. But the effort is doomed."

2/4/22 Joint statement "denounced the civilized world for seeking to 'impose its own democratic standards' on authoritarian regimes, opposed 'further enlargement of NATO,' & confirmed China’s right to control Taiwan."

2/4/22 Pornographic actress's former attorney in lawsuit against Donald Trump "found guilty of committing wire fraud and aggravated identify theft in stealing $300,000 of an $800,000 book advance"

2/3/22 "Any 'mainstream' must, by definition, keep out certain 'fringe' ideas that it considers unacceptable. But it can’t be a true 'mainstream' unless it can accommodate the actual beliefs that most people hold."

2/3/22 "'I would say to our athletes – you are there to compete,' Pelosi said in part during testimony before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China. 'Do not risk incurring the anger of the Chinese government ...'"

2/3/22 "'Brian Stelter should be calling his agent to start looking for another job,' ... ‘He’s been Jeff Zucker’s water boy for years and no one believes he didn’t know about all of this.'"

2/2/22 "Garcetti is the latest Cal. politician to hammer home the point that the state's pandemic rules are just for the little people. What Gov. Gavin Newsom started, & SF Mayor London Breed continued, Garcetti has perfected."

2/1/22 "New York Democrat took heat after she was spotted having drinks with actor Billy Porter in Miami without wearing a mask early last month. She tested positive for COVID-19 on Jan. 9."

2/1/22 Biden dare not risk "crossing progressives, enduring the scolding of one-dimensional public-health experts, and courting comparisons to Donald Trump, or even worse, Glenn Youngkin and Ron DeSantis."