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Why would anyone continue to want to elect Democrats in California?
And why would anyone want to vote for someone like Gavin Newsom for US president? Those are rhetorical questions, of course. Efforts to recall Newsom failed. He might even have gotten more votes than Harris had he run for president … Continue reading →
JFK was assassinated sixty-one years ago today
Like most people of a certain age, I remember where I was: in school. I found out piecemeal – first that someone had shot at him, then that he was injured, then that he was dead. Then all the rest. … Continue reading →
Open thread 11/22/2024
Gaetz out; Bondi in
House member Matt Gaetz was a controversial AG nominee from the start, and there was plenty of speculation that he wasn’t nominated with the intent of his actually being confirmed. At any rate, he’s withdrawn his name, saying: While the … Continue reading →
The mighty encyclopedia: doing research in grade school in the 1950s
The blue volumes of the World Book Encyclopedia stood tall on the shelves of my brother’s room, the only reference books our house had except for a dictionary and a thesaurus. But the World Book was king, an essential tool … Continue reading →
The dynamic duo: Musk and Ramaswamy
They explain their plans for government efficiency (sounds like the oxymoron to end all oxymorons, doesn’t it?): Musk and Ramaswamy are correct: unelected bureaucrats passing “rules and regulations” have detracted America from what the Founders framed in the Constitution. DOGE … Continue reading →
In the computer age, are objections to a national ID outdated?
It’s long been my impression that objection to a national ID stem from World War II, when they were often mechanisms of tyranny. But the world has changed a great deal since then, and even without a national ID the … Continue reading →
Open thread 11/21/2024
Trump has learned who his friends are – and who they’re not
Trump had a bunch of handicaps first time around: – The Democrats didn’t think he had a mandate, because of his failure to get the popular vote. Or just because. – He knew very little about Washington and how it … Continue reading →
Laken Riley’s killer got a free ride for a while – but now has gotten a sentence of life imprisonment
Jose Iberra has been convicted of murdering Laken Riley and sentenced to life imprisonment (which I suppose, in a way, is another sort of free ride, but a less pleasant one): Athens-Clarke County Superior Court Judge Patrick Haggard found Ibarra … Continue reading →
There’s never any election fraud – except when there is
This: Hubbard County Auditor Kay Rave filed a complaint after she determined that she could not find completed registration forms among the ballots she received from Scouton’s jurisdiction. This complaint led to an investigation by the Hubbard County Sheriff’s Office. … Continue reading →