Chet Collins

The Washington Post’s Freedom Turn - WSJ Opinion

As for our discerning readers, our respectful counsel is: Accept no substitutes. Sample the competition but come back for the real thing.

That made me laugh.

Steep Drop in Credit Scores Hits Student-Loan Borrowers - WSJ

Garcia, the California nurse, said she didn’t resume making payments because she had applied for a program that lowers payments based on income. The program, SAVE, was created under the Biden administration and is being challenged in courts.

The government is very good at helping people.

House Hunters Episode Derailed After BlackRock Buys All 3 Properties - Babylon Bee

We were getting ready to present our featured couple with their three options, but at the last moment, we were notified that BlackRock had purchased all three properties and would never allow them to hit the market again.

U.S. to Hit Chinese Ships With Hefty Port Fees - WSJ

The proposal also mandates that a certain amount of U.S. exports are moved on U.S.-flagged and U.S.-built vessels. It seeks to restrict 1% of U.S. exports this year to vessels run by U.S. operators. The restriction would increase over time so that in seven years, 15% of exports would need to move on U.S.-flagged vessels, including 5% on U.S.-built vessels.

So many bad ideas.

Birds, squirrels, and now deer. Everyone loves seeds!

Russia Wants to Erase Ukraine’s Future—and Its Past - WSJ

“The big war started with an essay on history, and the guy who wrote that essay is still running the show,” said Serhii Plokhy, director of the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard. “So the idea that this is all about territory and that you have to make a deal, somehow drawing the border in the right place…is based on not understanding what this war is about.”

It’s easy to forget that smoke detectors expire after 10 years. The ones in the new house were 23 years old. Yikes!

A Leatherman and 5-7 minutes per unit was all it took to swap the wiring harness and keep the family safe.

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Trump Proposes Two Golf-Course Solution For Gaza - Babylon Bee

No one’s going to want to fight anymore when they could be driving balls down the fairway. We’re even going to have a gift shop that sells little bumper stickers that say, ‘I’d rather be golfing.’

Trump Fires Top Pentagon Officers in Sweeping Overhaul - WSJ

the moves caused shock waves in the armed forces and Congress and raise questions about Trump’s attempts to assert control over the Pentagon leadership after clashing with it repeatedly during his first term. 

Pretty shocking that the Executive branch, which holds authority over a civilian-led military, would assert control over said military.