There are no good guys among the factions vying for power in Syria. Here’s the situation at present, as best we can tell: Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad is nowhere to be found in Damascus, according to a source, but Syria’s … Continue reading →
Perhaps – like me – you’ve been surprised at the amount of venom expressed online in reaction to the hit-style murder of United Healthcare executive Brian Thompson. The anger I’m talking about is against the victim, not the murderer. It … Continue reading →
[NOTE: This is a revised and expanded edition of a post first published in 2006.] Eighty-three years ago today Pearl Harbor was attacked. That’s long enough ago that only a vanishing few remember the day and its aftermath with any … Continue reading →
[NOTE: Also please see today’s previous post on the Penny trial.] Just a little while ago the judge in the Daniel Penny case dismissed the first count – manslaughter in the second degree – after the jury once again announced … Continue reading →
Biden’s pardon of his son has many very unusual characteristics. It’s one thing for a president to pardon his son – which is already unusual. It’s another to do it like this (the clip is about two minutes long): The … Continue reading →
[NOTE: Please see UPDATE in this new post.] The jury is deadlocked on the charge of manslaughter in the second degree after three days of deliberation. Penny is facing a second lesser charge as well: criminally negligent homicide, which carries … Continue reading →
The body of hostage Ivay Svirsky has been found by the IDF. Svirsky was abducted alive on Oct 7, 2023, but was killed about four months later and it has been known for quite some time that he was dead: … Continue reading →
This guy discusses something that seemed mysterious shortly after the 2024 election – so many fewer votes than in 2020. It seemed to point to evidence that fraud had occurred in 2020. But it no longer seems that way, for … Continue reading →
I was talking recently to the only person I’m close to who is also on the right, and the topic of Trump-hatred came up. I said that I thought a huge part of the intensity of that hatred was snobbery. … Continue reading →