Look at the record, starting with inflation. Remember six months ago, when Republicans were hollering over the price of eggs? For a variety of reasons, the wholesale price of eggs rose to over $5 a dozen. Now the same carton costs 99 cents. Doesn’t that deserve at least an honorable mention?

The proper role of a Supreme Court justice, as Chief Justice John Roberts famously said in his own confirmation hearings, is “to call balls and strikes, and not to pitch or bat.”

Through lack of legislative oversight, we have let a system arise in which the vast majority of “information” made public is not subject to screening. The companies that host these postings, such as Facebook and Twitter, bear no responsibility, pay no price, for what’s on their sites.

Mercenary commander Yevgeny Prigozhin didn’t dispute Russian President Vladimir Putin’s big lie about the Ukraine War, that Russia is fighting Nazis and NATO. The merc commander did something more lethal: He directly challenged the Kremlin’s veneer of competence and its mystical trust in overwhelming Russian military might.