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Honoring George Soros and Hillary Clinton
Someone at the White House has a sense of humor – Biden gave the Presidential Medal of Freedom to George Soros and Hillary Clinton, among others: Soros, 94, was among the 19 people chosen to receive the nation’s highest civilian … Continue reading →
Judge Merchan schedules Trump sentencing hearing for January 10
And yet he also seems to be signaling that the case will be discharged without jail or probation. If that’s true, why do this at all? Simple, says Jonathan Turley: The sentence will finalize the case and allow for an … Continue reading →
Roundup
(1) The Las Vegas truck bomber was not a terrorist, but rather a veteran intent on suicide who wanted to publicize his views and get attention: A highly decorated Army soldier who fatally shot himself in a Tesla Cybertruck just … Continue reading →
Open thread 1/4/2025
Johnson is elected Speaker
There was really no other possibility, and all the objections were merely theater. Trump had – wisely, I think – endorsed Johnson. With the GOP’s razor-thin majority, unity was necessary and no other candidate was viable. Here’s the story: Rep. … Continue reading →
Fundamentalist Islam provides an out for people who are suicidal
I’ve sensed from the start that both the New Orleans car attacker and the Las Vegas truck bomber had one thing very much in common: an impulse to suicide. The latter seems to have carried off his demise without seriously … Continue reading →
Liz Cheney gets a medal
Biden – or the people dictating to him at this point – is having fun in his last few weeks as president distributing largesses. Hunter was just the beginning. Then the 1500 pardons and the 37 death sentence commutations. And … Continue reading →
Open thread 1/3/2025
Why poetry matters
Here’s a fellow lover of poetry: WHEN I speak of poetry, I think of classic poems written by great poets of the past, poetry that modern educationalists think of as ‘elitist’ literature. Such writing may now be largely the preserve … Continue reading →
The Las Vegas perp shot himself in the head
It gets stranger and stranger – Matthew Livelsberger, the Las Vegas truck bomber, apparently shot himself in the head: The highly decorated U.S. Army soldier inside the Tesla Cybertruck that burst into flames outside President-elect Donald Trump’s Las Vegas hotel … Continue reading →
The plot thickens: were the New Orleans perp and the Las Vegas perp linked?
The answer to the question is that we don’t know, but perhaps: The bomber who blew up a Tesla Cybertruck outside the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas has been identified as Army veteran Matthew Livelsberger. Although officers have not … Continue reading →