Putin Is Running Rings Around the West - WSJ Opinion

Now the Biden administration is simultaneously proclaiming overseas that America is back, in all its order-building awesomeness, and maintaining at home that democracy is one voting-rights bill away from collapse.

Russia, NATO Fail to Resolve Differences in Ukraine Talks - WSJ

“We have made it clear and we told the Russians directly again today that if Russia further invades Ukraine, there will be significant costs and consequences well beyond what they faced in 2014,” Ms. Sherman told reporters Wednesday in Brussels.

Except that Obama and NATO basically threw Putin the keys in 2014 and the G7 wouldn’t let him come to the clubhouse anymore.

U.S. Inflation Reaches Fastest Pace Since 1982 - WSJ

The Labor Department said the consumer-price index—which measures what consumers pay for goods and services—rose 7% in December from the same month a year ago, up from 6.8% in November. That was the fastest pace since 1982 and marked the third straight month in which inflation exceeded 6%.

But the climate, tho.

Bottom line is very simple: The ideologues in the Senate want to turn what the Founding Fathers called ‘the cooling saucer of democracy’ into the rubber stamp of dictatorship. We will not let them. They want, because they can’t get their way on every judge, to change the rules in mid-stream, to wash away 200 years of history. They want to make this country into a banana republic, where if you don’t get your way, you change the rules. Are we going to let them? It’ll be a doomsday for democracy if we do.

- Sen. Chuck Schumer, 2005

Walmart Online Grocery’s “out of stock” feature is not good at all.

Why must the joy of morning coffee dissipate so quickly?

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This is the definition of sin: the misuse of powers given us by God for doing good.

- St. Basil the Great

My son, hold fast to your duty, busy yourself with it, grow old while doing your task.

- Sirach 11:20

SEC Pushes for More Transparency From Private Companies - WSJ

“When they’re big firms, they can have a huge impact on thousands of people’s lives with absolutely no visibility for investors, employees and their unions, regulators, or the public,” said Democratic SEC Commissioner Allison Lee, who has called for the change.

If investors aren’t given information to satisfy their due diligence requirements, then they won’t give the companies their money.

So why does the SEC need to be involved in private market transactions?

Ms. Lee, fellow Democratic commissioner Caroline Crenshaw, and key members of SEC Chairman Gary Gensler’s staff have all expressed a desire to draw more companies into the public markets. Doing so would also increase the impact of Mr. Gensler’s plans to scale up disclosure requirements for public companies around climate change and other issues, supporters say.

Oh, not to promote healthy markets, to encourage good governance, or for economics. It’s for purely ideological reasons.

Report: Of The 4.2 Million Americans Who Quit Their Jobs In December, 74% Worked For Kamala Harris - The Babylon Bee

“The turnover in there is unimaginable. I was still in the parking lot when I saw my replacement dive out of the second-story window just to get out of there.”

This is one of those satire articles that is so close to the truth that people think it’s real.