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President Biden's move to ban all Russian oil imports failed to impress ConocoPhillips CEO Ryan Lance, who didn't hold back on his opinion. It's "the stupidest thing you could ever imagine," said Lance during a Q&A moderated by Daniel Yergin at the CERAWeek by S&P Global conference in Houston. He warned that "it is incredibly shortsighted and may actually have the opposite effect of what they think will happen."

Mary Trump is ripping Donald Trump, Jr. in a new interview, just the latest example of her insulting another member of her famous family. Appearing on this week’s episode of the “UnPresidented” podcast, Trump, a psychologist who has written a highly-critical book about former President Donald Trump, referred to her cousin Donald Trump Jr. as “weak” and “the stupidest one” in her family. “Donnie is a deeply unintelligent person. I’ve been asked this, who’s the stupidest one, and it’s him,” Mary Trump said.

Political Pulse: 01.30.05 After Corpus Christi was named second-dumbest city in the nation behind Fort Wayne, Ind., local morning radio talk show host Jim Lago got on the radio and said Corpus Christi does not like coming in second. He wants to challenge Fort Wayne radio listeners to a trivia contest versus Corpus Christi listeners. He told the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, which picked up his show, that the cities are comparable because they have both struggled to keep manufacturing afloat, schools in both cities are facing budget crunches and the populations are comparable. Lago told the Journal Gazette that...

I just got a haricut. A good, decent, short haircut. A businessman's haircut. Conservative. Short back and sides with a number three buzzer. Ah. (Deep breath). Is there anything better than a fresh, honest haircut? The woman who cut my hair was named Ludmila, an emigre from Moscow. We were able to speak a few words of Russian together. "Does it luke alraght?" "Da. Xorosho. Cpaceba." Man, does anything make you feel as good as a nice, new haircut? I haven't got anything on my neck except a button-down collar and nothing on my ears except Rush Limbaugh.