This statistic rates a big headline at Drudge today: Nearly half of the residents in the nation’s five biggest cities do not speak English at home, choosing instead their native language, according to the latest Census Bureau data that details … Continue reading →
I’ve written about this subject before, and I’ll probably write about it again. But apparently it requires repeating: Anyone who says that members of a certain group always tell the truth is lying. There is no such group on earth. … Continue reading →
If Kavanaugh and Ford is the second act, Thomas and Hill was the first. Please don’t quibble with me. I know that Bork preceded that. But I’m talking about sexual allegations mounted against a SCOTUS nominee after the initial hearings, … Continue reading →
Ford’s position conforms quite nicely with the Democratic strategy of “we need to postpone the vote on Kavanaugh till something happens—like maybe a new Senate is elected that is Democratic, or enough Republican senators bow to the pressure and refuse … Continue reading →
This news has been long-predicted and long-awaited: President Trump on Monday ordered the declassification of several key documents related to the FBI investigation of Russian actions during the 2016 presidential election, including 21 pages of an application for a renewed … Continue reading →
On many blogs on the right I see commenters saying things like, “If Corker and/or Flake cave on Kavanaugh, that’s it for me. I’m voting third party and the GOP will be dead to me forever.” That makes zero sense. … Continue reading →
There are a lot of problems with the Kavanaugh accuser’s story, including the fact that she may be deliberately lying for political reasons. But even if she’s not purposely lying, there are many problems connected with the phenomenon of memory … Continue reading →
…the following question: Why should I, or anyone else, care what the 53-year-old Brett Kavanaugh did in high school, short of a criminal act? And even certain criminal acts would be okay—for example, Obama’s doing coke—if the person has reformed … Continue reading →
I think it’s time to revisit this post of mine. Here’s another relevant post, about the vagaries of memory.
Continue reading →This seems to be the strategy: President Donald Trump’s senior advisor Kellyanne Conway told Fox & Friends that the president supports Ford testifying in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Conway also said that the accusation should not disrupt Kavanaugh’s … Continue reading →
[Scroll down to see UPDATE below.] Slowly, with exquisitely perfect timing, the news reveals itself, in order to give strength to the cries to delay the vote on Kavanaugh. The entire idea is to delay it long enough to get … Continue reading →
I love this guy. Love, love, love. I once took about eight voice lessons before I quit in despair, and maybe if he’d been my voice teacher I would have improved rather than gotten worse over the course of my … Continue reading →