Pfizer has pulled out of ALEC, in response perhaps to public pressure.

It is better to cease support for ALEC than continue it, but whatever motivated the company to support ALEC may find a new expression — perhaps through PhRMA, which lobbies for Big Pharma.

A leaked meeting recording shows Manchin asking rich donors to "convince" some Senate Republicans to vote for an investigation of the Jan 6 insurrection, to help him preserve the filibuster.

San Jose, California, cannot prohibit guns. It plans to require gun owners to carry insurance and pay a tax.

Those who possess guns but have not paid and insured them will have them seized.

I think it is a clever idea. Let's see how well it works.

Biden's order to stop issuing oil and gas leases on public lands, or offshore, was temporarily blocked by a judge. It may be blocked permanently.

We have to keep this in perspective. If this comparatively small action is a "key" part of Biden's efforts to avoid global heating disaster, it's because what he has done so far is small. He has proposed legislation to do more, but Manchin and Sinema are blocking those bills. Unless we do a lot more, our future is hosed.

Thugs in Lahore demanded gratis burgers at a restaurant. The staff said no, so the thugs returned the next day and arrested all the staff, leaving the restaurant unattended, even the machines that heat oil for frying. This risked causing injuries or a fire. Fortunately that didn't happen.

Reportedly the thugs have been suspended. They deserve more punishment than that; what they did was corrupt.