He who must not be named. It appears the W.H.O. has skipped the next Greek letter after Nu to name the new variant. The next letter is Xi. The concern is that W.H.O. is again avoiding any discomfort for the Chinese government. So they named it Omicron...

American supply chains face a dire threat from China's water shortages thehill.com/opinion/energy…

Finding 6 bald eagles on your front porch deserves endless retweets

Kazakhstan rumors: a) the protests were tools of a Jihadi terrorist plot; or b) a Western "color revolution plot; or c) Putin's plot to recover the country or just the N/NE; or d) contrived by one or more ex-officials. The truth is simpler: parts of the country are poor & angry

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It's easy to have faith in the future when you take responsibility for the present and learn from the past.

When my mom spent a couple of years under the Communist regime in China as a young child, she remembers being taught to recite: “You don’t need your mother, you don’t need your father. All you need is your country.” I think about this often.

In Jan 2021, the 30-yr mortgage rate was 2.65% and average new home price in the US was $401,700. Today the 30-yr mortgage rate is 5.65% and average new home price is $546,800. Assuming a 20% down payment, that's a 95% increase in the monthly payment (from $1,294 to $2,525).

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Despite having Cerebral Palsy and a strong desire to skateboard, his mother ingeniously crafted this apparatus to fulfill his wish. Truly a Mother of the Year moment!👩‍👦

.Shivanthi Sathanandan, a Democrat Party leader in MN, worked toward dismantling Minneapolis PD during the 2020 #BLM-#Antifa riots. Now she has come forward about being the victim of a brutal carjacking outside her home by armed youths. She demands prosecutions. thepostmillennial.com/vice-chair-of-…

Attn Texas Republicans. Strongest trump supporter I know said today if the grid goes down he will never vote Republican at the state level again. Maybe, but he’ll sure vote against every current candidate.

Mark Twain's words are immortal as his wit. Here are some of his most famous quotes 🧵 1. "Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience."

After having dealt with hundreds of reporters in my legal career, this is unfortunately the first time I have to go on record and call out Jeffrey Goldberg@the Atlantic: not only did he misrepresent our conversation but he outright LIED in HIS sensational story. More

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Can I say something about Indian workers without Republicans shutting me down and Democrats calling me racist? This take is wrong. I spent years on a technologically complex oil rig off India, bringing energy independence to the subcontinent. Our crew set the Guinness World

American talent crunch is multidimensional and very very bad 1. About 25% of U.S. bachelor’s graduates are in STEM—roughly around the OECD average—but only 7.3% are in engineering, manufacturing & construction, 43rd of 44 countries benchmarked. 2. K‑12 math is weak by