Open thread 10/4/2024
He didn’t look all that different back then:
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Another Hezbollah bunker, busted
Nasrallah’s likely successor and a whole bunch of other Hezbollah higher-ups were meeting in a bunker, and then: A series of huge explosions rocked the densely populated neighborhoods just south of Beirut at midnight on Thursday as Israel kept up … Continue reading →
Judicial election interference
From Gregg Jarrett, Fox News legal analyst, on Judge Chutkan’s release of Jack Smith’s new motion against Trump [my emphasis]: Yeah [Jack Smith is] trying to have a damning trial of Trump without a trial in the face of the … Continue reading →
Another terrorist gone, another captive freed
Do you remember the famous Ramallah lynching in 2000 of two Israeli reservists who’d had the terrible bad luck to wander into Palestinian territory, to be dismembered by the crowd who stormed a police station where they were being held? … Continue reading →
More on the Helene aftermath
It’s an ongoing disaster in North Carolina and also Georgia, and I’m reading varying reports on rescue efforts. It seems fairly clear that preparedness was lacking although it was known that the storm would be pretty bad in North Carolina, … Continue reading →
Open thread 10/3/2024
Iran the colonizer
Since “colonizer” is a popular epithet used for Israel by Israel-haters, although the word doesn’t fit, maybe it’s time to popularize it for a country whose behavior merits it: Iran. Iran specializes in taking over already-destabilized Arab countries and establishing … Continue reading →
Rosh Hashana begins tonight
Jewish holidays begin at sundown and end at sundown, and tonight is the start of Rosh Hashana, which is the Jewish New Year. It couldn’t come at a more appropriate time. Out with the horror of last year, in with … Continue reading →
On last night’s VP debate
Of course, the debate isn’t going to change the mind of anyone whose mind was already made up, and the vast majority of people fit into that category. But in a few days, polls will indicate whether those all-important “undecideds” … Continue reading →
Open thread 10/2/2024
Tonight is the vice presidential debate between Walz and Vance
I haven’t yet decided whether I’ll watch it, but probably not. How about you? Expectations are very low for Walz but beware – that is sometimes a setup to make anything the person does look good in comparison. Walz will … Continue reading →
Jimmy Carter turns 100 today
Carter is the first president to reach centenarian status. I’ve written about Carter in many previous posts: in this one I compare Carter and Biden, in this one I discuss Carter’s role in the rise of Iran’s mullahtocracy, this one’s … Continue reading →