There has always been this puzzle as to why the surface statistics show a lot more warming than the satellites do. Heat contamination looks like the answer.

Democratic U.S. Senator Kyrsten Sinema said on Thursday she agreed to “move forward” on a $430 billion drug pricing, energy and tax bill.

Nearly two dozen Republican governors slammed a massive spending bill that Democrats are trying to ram through the U.S. Senate in a statement Thursday, saying that the bill will worsen inflation.

The Kansas abortion vote shows that the road ahead is long and perilous. We must resist the temptation to take shortcuts.

DeSantis said Hillsborough County State Attorney Andrew Warren — who oversees the Tampa Bay area — will be removed from his post immediately.

By: Sadie Gurman & Laura Kusisto – wsj.com – August 2, 2022 The Justice Department on Tuesday filed a lawsuit challenging Idaho’s near total ban on abortion, setting up the Biden administration’s first legal battle over abortion access since the Supreme Court in June overturned Roe v. Wade and eliminated the constitutional right to end a pregnancy. The lawsuit says...

Based on a simple reading, Proposition 1 would seem to push California abortion law far left by allowing pregnancy termination right up until birth. Could that be correct?

Even many voters who call themselves “pro-choice” on the issue of abortion have concerns when underage girls are involved.

In recent decades, hundreds of thousands of Californians and billions of dollars of wealth fled California for far freer states.

By: Tevi Troy – wsj.com – July 25, 2022 Mr. Biden’s inability to decide is reminiscent of Barack Obama, who was famous for long periods of indecision, particularly on what to do about Afghanistan in 2009. Former Vice President Dick Cheney accused Mr. Obama of “dithering” on this question. Mr. Biden shared this view of his former boss. “I thought he was...