With friends like these

Speaker Stephens drops the anvil and federal Democrats lose the plot in defense of a foreign government. But first, I've gotta survive a trip to New Albany.

Shoutout to Max Littman, special correspondent to The Rooster. Without him, I wouldn’t have thought to verify that the ankle specialist recommended to me by urgent care was “in-network” as the insurance perverts like to say.

He wasn’t! Max probably saved my operation about $15,000 on that out-of-network surgery, too. The downshot is that my in-network o…