Once a month, I put together an issue devoted primarily to events and issues that have dominated the news in the previous 30 days. This is that.

What I do to compose the issue is file all the news articles I found to be either consequential or just plain interesting, select those that are still interesting a few days before we publish this, summarize them, and, for some of them, give you my take.

As always, I’m going to start with some notes from my Journal – in this case, a report on my habit of forming new habits and not being able to break bad ones.

Following that, I get into this “news” thing with “Just the Facts,” where I do my best to provide an objective accounting of a current event that has been obscured and obfuscated by political bias. Up top, there’s the deportation of Khalil Abrego Garcia to El Salvador. Next is the controversy over the administration’s attempt to shut down USAID for wastefulness, mismanagement, and corruption. And then there’s another installment of my effort to demonstrate how much better a state Florida is than California.

Towards the bottom of this issue, you’ll find other “departments” – “Worth Considering,” “Readers Write,” and the always popular “Postscript.”

But first…