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From the Wall Street Journal, after the Republicans lost the Supreme Court election in Wisconsin: “Republicans had better get their abortion position straight, and more in line with where voters are or they will face another disappointment in 2024. A total ban is a loser in swing states. Republicans who insist on that position could […]

It is going to be exciting for Republicans. I think I have figured out Donald Trump’s strategy. Trump has prosecutors and lawyers up and down the Eastern Seaboard after him. He has the DA in New York City in the Stormy Daniels case. He has a special federal prosecutor in the Jan. 6 and documents

The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank has made the Federal Reserve’s life more complicated. It is trying to bring down inflation. Until the middle of last week, that meant raising interest rates enough to throttle down the economy. The economy has not been cooperating. In January, it added 500,000 new jobs and in February it

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2023-03-04/rupert-murdoch-fox-new-accused-spreading-election-lies In order to be successful, Fox News had to look like a normal news network. This always caused problems, because its bread-and-butter was as a conservative thought leader. But there are a lot of conservative thought leaders. What set Fox apart was that it hired actual journalists to report the news, in addition to

https://www.postandcourier.com/columbia/business/volkswagen-subsidiary-scout-building-2b-plant-near-columbia-as-scs-ev-business-grows/article_5c5b3000-b9d8-11ed-9e09-f7d76b22e2d8.html?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Headlines%203423&utm_content=Daily%20Headlines%203423+CID_c866cdd7d150e24ad3f1196df4a578c9&utm_source=CampaignMonitor&utm_term=Volkswagen%20subsidiary%20Scout%20building%202B%20plant%20near%20Columbia%20as%20SCs%20EV%20business%20grows South Carolina is a Republican state. But it likes electric vehicles, especially EV plants that bring thousands of jobs. Texas is also a Republican state, but it likes Tesla a lot. And North Carolina likes EVs, especially its legislative leadership, because of the jobs they are bringing to rural counties like Randolph. I find

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2023-03-04/china-puts-private-enterprise-on-notice-as-congress-begins-new-economy-saturday?cmpid=BBD030423_NEF&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_term=230304&utm_campaign=nef&sref=y5OnTMHX This story from Bloomberg talks about how the Communist Party in China is getting more intrusive into big business in China. It reminded me about when I was an undergraduate, studying business at ODU in the early 1980s What was drilled into our heads was that the primary goal of a company was to

This was on the front page of my local paper today. It is remarkable how quickly a business can be vaporized these days. Everything Scott Adams said is protected by the First Amendment. But the First Amendment doesn’t protect a business from the owner’s free speech. That would seem to be obvious to most people.

First game of spring. 5-3 over the Northeastern Huskies at Jetblue. 7 1/2 months until the playoffs.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/22/wells-fargo-lays-off-mortgage-bankers-days-after-rewarding-some-with-california-retreat.html Some Wells Fargo mortgage bankers were successful enough last year to be flown to a resort in Palm Desert, California, for a company-sponsored conference earlier this month. They were laid off this week. This is a reminder. There is no such thing as job security anymore. Businesses complain that employees are now leaving for

https://www.pilotonline.com/government/local/vp-nw-portsmouth-deputy-city-manager-lawsuit-20230202-a7yoqoft45ddzfepmzjxppcmoy-story.html I worked in Portsmouth, Va., 35 years ago as a journalist. Recently, they came up with the idea of distributing federal pandemic aid directly to citizens in the form of $500 Visa gift cards. $3 million worth of aid. So 6,000 gift cards. So basically like 6,000 $500 bills needed to be handled very