Open thread 9/6/2024
An answer to a question you never thought to ask:
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If you were looking forward to seeing the evidence in the Hunter Biden tax fraud case, you may end up disappointed [scroll down for UPDATE]
And that’s because Hunter is apparently attempting to plead guilty, which if accepted would keep the court from airing all his dirty laundry. We’ve seen quite a bit of that laundry already on his own laptop, but this was going … Continue reading →
The Trump/Harris debate: the battle of the mics
For the Trump/Harris debate on September 10 – which may end up being the only presidential debate of the 2024 campaign – it was finally decided that the candidates’ mics will be muted when their opponent is speaking. Kamala Harris … Continue reading →
Caroline Glick has a very disturbing video on the Biden administration’s sanctions on Israeli citizens
I had read about this sort of thing before – that the Biden administration is sanctioning Israelis for fairly trivial (and in many cases only alleged) abuses, in a manner that’s very different from the way it’s treating people in … Continue reading →
Open thread 9/5/2024
This little girl is seven. I wish her teacher would restrain her in terms of the exaggeration of her extensions. She’s so naturally flexible that less is more in that regard. But otherwise she has a lovely quality of movement … Continue reading →
Hamas and the murder of hostages, Part II: blaming Bibi
Israel is torn right now, but it was already torn before 10/7. The trauma of that day of massive carnage and the ensuing war resulted in a temporary and illusory unity, somewhat like the US experienced after 9/11. Now, in … Continue reading →
The pretense of the Democrats’ 2020 and 2024 campaigns
In 2020, the Democrats’ pretense was that Joe Biden was healthy and sharp, and that he was a nice-guy moderate. In 2024, the Democrats’ pretense is that Kamala Harris hasn’t been part of the Biden administration, and that she’s a … Continue reading →
Open thread 9/4/2024
On the Jewish vote in 2024
I’m too busy today to put up Part II of my series on the Israeli hostages; I’ll probably do it tomorrow. There’s a lot to say. But in the meantime, I happened to see this Caroline Glick piece about the … Continue reading →
Our broken voting system
Ever since 2020 I’ve been saying the same thing over and over about our voting system: there is no developed nation on earth with such a loose system in terms of security, and therefore there is no trust in our … Continue reading →
Free speech: as Brazil goes, so goes … ?
There are growing ominous signs that the leftist governmental forces arrayed against freedom of speech are growing bolder and bolder. Now that the Gramscian march has given them control of the more conventional forms of media, such governments would like … Continue reading →