Oscar-worthy Political Performances

Denver housing officials finally have zeroed in on how much they expect Mayor Mike Johnston’s All In Mile High homelessness initiative to cost the city on an ongoing basis: $57.5 million a year. It’s taken the Johnston administration almost a year to arrive at that budget estimate — which doesn’t include one-time start-up costs — much to the chagrin of some City Council members. “If we serve 2,000 people, which is what we anticipate serving, that is about a per-person cost of $28,750 per person.

“The fakest thing about The West Wing was that we had rational Republicans.” — Bradley Whitford, who played fictional White House deputy chief of staff Josh Lyman on The West Wing, quoted by The Hill.

“In the summer before a tough re-election contest in 2012, President Barack Obama was losing support from Latino voters who called him ‘deporter in chief.’ Then he signed a sweeping executive order to shield hundreds of thousands of young undocumented immigrants from deportation,” the New York Times reports. “Twelve years later, President Biden appeared to be trying to replicate that move.”

“President Vladimir Putin of Russia met with North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, in his first visit to the country in nearly a quarter-century on Wednesday, as the two autocrats vowed to build a joint front against the United States and deepen bilateral ties that Washington fears will include more arms trade,” the New York Times reports. “Mr.

The Democrats' treatment of Jan. 6 prisoners isn't all that different from what Democrats did to loyal Japanese-Americans in 1942.

James Brown, too, was known to stop in the middle of a show, but it was for very different reasons than Biden’s zombie moments.