A week ago I put four stories on watch — Israel’s election, the Iran pledge, the shipping war in the Gulf, and Ukraine’s deep-strike campaign — mostly expecting to report that nothing much had moved. That’s not the report. All four moved. None of them finished.

I’m not a highly emotional person. It has nothing to do with my being male. I say that because the stereotypical man is stoic in his manner. No, all men are not the same just as not all women. Not all people of one race are alike either. That said, I have to say I am exhausted over the “Charlie Kirk Investigation”. Yes, it’s still being “investigated” (if you can call spreading rumor and innuendo as investigating). But more than that, it’s those that are telling me how sad I should be for a person I didn’t know, and didn’t care about one way or another while he was alive, was “suddenly taken from us.”

I’ve listened to the post-election analysis for two days now, most of it decent, and here is what it keeps walking around. The Republicans didn’t lose because of a bad ground game or a messaging problem. They lost because the president started a war.