Kevin McCarthy’s grueling struggle to become speaker of the House of Representatives was mostly an embarrassment for him and his new Republican majority.

As we’re approaching the one-year mark in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, it’s clear that we’re witnessing something the world hasn’t seen in generations—a protracted all-out battlefield struggle between two large nations.

As news is breaking about a second batch of classified documents that President Biden illegally retained in an unauthorized location after the Obama administration ended, a few observations are in order regarding what he has had to say about all this so far.