Top O’ the Briefing Happy Thursday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends. The Sine Qua Non Sequitur is attending a lactose-intense Jack LaLanne retrospective.  These are certainly passionate times for political news junkies. OK, that’s a demographic that tends to be passionate all the time, but it feels like there’s […]

Sen. Tina Smith, a Democrat from Minnesota, was hospitalized after experiencing an undisclosed medical issue while at work in the U.S. Capitol. Her staff announced the news Wednesday evening on her official X account. “A Note from Senator Smith’s Staff: While at work at the Capitol today, Sen. Smith started to not feel well. She […]

One history professor whose lectures I thoroughly enjoyed in college started one semester by sharing his scale model of the Titanic. That ship, he said, represented the symbol of the greatest technological advancements in human history up to that point.  When it launched, the Titanic wasn’t merely a ship. […]

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump hosted a pair of Arab Gulf leaders at the White House on Wednesday as violence between Israel and Syria renewed doubts about his pledge to impose peace on the Middle East. Trump held a meeting in the Oval Office with Bahrain’s crown prince and dined privately with Qatar’s prime minister. […]

The urgency of this matter doesn’t allow for me to segue my way into this article with a nice, fluffy, tactically minded soft landing, so I’ll just say it. For its own sake, the Trump administration needs to be completely transparent about the Epstein files. Now. Thus far, the […]