Next time someone says “conventional wisdom,” you may want to roll your eyes. Or just look for the reality on your own.

Biden is an asset to Trump’s primary campaign and could, through his weakness and ineptitude, end up electing him in 2024.

The amount of money older Americans lose to financial abuse could be as high as $10 billion a year. It’s a hard number to pin down, because many older people are too embarrassed to admit their gullibility to the authorities. Crimes against the elderly are known to spike right after the Social Security checks go out.

If we elect bad leaders we have no one to blame but ourselves.

It’s not an endorsement of slavery to point out that slaves looked for every crack in the system to try to improve themselves and gain some autonomy — rather, it’s an endorsement of the initiative and resilience of an oppressed people operating in the worst of circumstances.

It’s understandable that “father of the atom bomb,” J. Robert Oppenheimer, would have qualms about the unfathomable horror inflicted on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but launching these attacks was clearly the right decision.

Is a war with China likely? We are in what is now sometimes called the “Davidson window of vulnerability” versus China. In 2021 former Indo-Pacific Combatant Commander Adm. Phil Davidson told the Senate Armed Services Committee China’s leaders were “accelerating their ambitions to supplant the U.S.” and might attack within the next six years — 2027.

After decades of making good money, what’s causing insurers to report less-than-zero profits after paying claims? It’s the parade of cataclysmic weather events made worse by rising temperatures. There have always been hurricanes. But warming sea surface temperatures are already spawning more very destructive Category 4 and 5 hurricanes.

Texas Gov. Gregg Abbott is doing the job the Biden administration refuses to do, and that is to enforce laws against unlawful border crossings that have been enacted by Republican and Democratic administrations.