Ukraine

The price of gasoline has risen across the United States again as experts warn that more pain could lie ahead at the pumps for Americans.

Biden is in serious trouble.

In perhaps the most predictable column of the year, the Wall Street Journal this week featured a column by Walter Russell Mead declaring it's "Time to Increase Defense Spending."

The U.S. has not made public the evidence it says is underlying its most specific warnings on possible Russian planning or timing.

I do try not to get angry when government actors confirm my belief that they are lowly human beings not worthy of respect.  With age and experience, most people eventually come face to face with enough instances of injustice or straight-up barbarity in the world to understand that life is no bed of roses wherein the righteous triumph effortlessly over the wicked.

When President Joe Biden arrived in Culpeper, Virginia, on Thursday, he received a rather cold welcome from local Republicans.

"It’s my position. Like any normal people, I don’t want war."

The last time US President Joe Biden enjoyed more than 50 percent of public support was at the beginning of his White House tenure. Since then, his numbers have plunged due to discontent over the withdrawal from Afghanistan, the border crisis, skyrocketing inflation and many other misfortunes.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has stated Western leaders are provoking Moscow into attacking Ukraine.

When Joe Biden’s administration was asked for evidence to back up dramatic claims about national security developments this past week, it demurred with a simple rejoinder: You’ll have to trust us on that.