To whip inflation in the US, we need to stop big businesses from raising prices from greed.

The way I prefer is to break up the many large companies that have too big a share of whatever market. Rather than launch a lawsuit against each excessively large company, I recommend a tax system that raises the tax rate sharply as a company gets bigger, or as it gets a bigger share of each market.

The corrupter said, "Only guilty people and mobsters plead the Fifth." This week, he did just that, while being questioned for a lawsuit.

It's tempting to say, "He's guilty, or he's a mobster — he said so himself!" But it's wrong to say that, because the "rule" he cited was bullshit all along. To treat it as valid is to undermine the Fifth Amendment itself, and we must not do that.

We have plenty of other reasons to believe that the corrupter is guilty of trying to overthrow the US government and seize power, as well as swindling in his fund-raising.

Not yet proof that can put him away, though.

Colombia's new president Gustavo Petro declared that fighting the war on drugs has failed.

but he means, fighting that war on Colombia's territory has failed. He's right about that. But he seems not to realize that fighting that war on US territory is equally a failure. "Strong measures that prevent consumption in developed societies" is not a solution to the problems caused by use of addictive drugs.

We should put that war into a treatment program to get it off drugs.

Death Valley suffered flooding from unusual heavy rainfall. At least no homes were flooded, since nobody lives there.

US citizens: phone your congresscritter and say to vote for the "Inflation reduction bill" (which includes climate defense, a little more tax on the rich, and reducing some medicine prices), which the Senate already passed.

The Capitol Switchboard number is +1-202-224-3121.

If you call, please spread the word!