The latest news: Almost two months after the Russian Nord Stream pipelines blew up in the Baltic Sea, the Swedish prosecutors have found traces of explosives at the underwater site and declared that the incident was an act of “gross … Continue reading →
You can’t exactly call it a scoop, but CBS News seems to be admitting that the Hunter Biden laptop is authentic. Two years late and two elections short, they grudgingly admit something that was obvious from the start, and discredited … Continue reading →
..in the past. I happened across this 2010 interview with Victor Davis Hanson. I’ve cued up two short segments that I found impressive. Here’s the first part, which is about Russia and Putin: Here’s the second part, which is about … Continue reading →
[Hat tip: commenter “AesopFan”.] From Andrea Widburg: Today’s we-now-live-in-a-3rd-world-dictatorship news from the Biden administration is Merrick Garland’s breathtaking announcement that he has named a special counsel to conduct a criminal investigation into Donald Trump. Given the complete absence of evidence … Continue reading →
For anyone still scratching his or her head about what on earth FTX was supposed to do and what it actually did, here’s a good summary entitled “What You Need to Know about the Colossal Mess of FTX”. Some excerpts … Continue reading →
A magical place I happened across in Vermont last summer. The sides of the cliffs are high and sheer: The scene made me think of this Gauguin:
Continue reading →(1) It seems that despite a scheduled mandatory recount, Boebert has been re-elected to the House. (2) I’m getting that old deja vu feeling: Garland announces there will be a special counsel to investigate Donald Trump. For what? For possibly … Continue reading →
First we were told it was probably a bona fide accident. Then we were told it was likely to have been a purposeful crime. Now we hear this: Twenty-five recruits for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department got mowed down … Continue reading →
[NOTE: Whenever I have a math-heavy post like this, I always get nervous that I’ve made an arithmetical error.] I see it again and again: the assertion that the 2022 midterm results were almost unheard-of, because a president’s first midterm … Continue reading →
The WaPo says of the Mar-A-Lago raid: “never mind.” I guess post-election, Now It Can Be Told that there was no there there:
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