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Dershowitz, Barr, Durham, and lawfare against political opponents
In line with Allen Dershowitz’s history as a defender of civil liberties, he’s going to represent the “My Pillow” guy Mike Lindell in his lawsuit: I disagree with My Pillow founder Mike Lindell about a lot of things, including his … Continue reading →
The Nordstream pipeline has been damaged, and it looks like sabotage
As if things weren’t bad enough, now this: Natural-gas is erupting like geysers on the surface of the Baltic Sea above the damaged Nord Stream pipelines, images from the Danish military show. Danish Defence on Tuesday released a video taken … Continue reading →
Open thread 9/27/22
How corrupt is the FBI?
This corrupt. And judges/magistrates seem to have little trouble rubber-stamping the FBI’s excesses. Neither of the stories of FBI malfeasance described in the linked post at Ace’s have anything to do with searching Donald Trump, by the way. The first … Continue reading →
The election of Italy’s “far-right” Giorgia Meloni: the EU “has tools”
The EU was none too pleased at the prospect of the election of Giorgia Meloni of Italy: As Italians prepare[d] to vote in [Sunday’s] general election, the European Union has issued a warning – making clear that it stands ready … Continue reading →
Open thread 9/26/22
Now, this is devotion. It’s a devotion I don’t quite understand, but it’s devotion nevertheless:
Continue reading →I blame it on the Neanderthals
Hey Jean! You have more Neanderthal DNA than 34% of other customers. You inherited a small amount of DNA from your Neanderthal ancestors. Out of the 7,462 variants we tested, we found 229 variants in your DNA that trace back … Continue reading →
Teaching Zinn: Part I
This post and a planned Part II are mostly based on a draft I wrote in March of 2013. That’s nearly ten years ago – how time does fly! I’ve mentioned before that I have a lot of old drafts … Continue reading →
Putin orders fuller mobilization; many Russian men flee if they can
Putin is planning the tried-and-true Russian tactic of throwing a lot of its male citizens into the fray and overwhelming the enemy by numbers. One problem, though, is that – unlike, for example, the Nazi invasion of WWII, when Russia … Continue reading →
Open thread 9/24/22
Clever:
Continue reading →Roundup
(1) Down the Dow goes. (2) The “Officer Sicknick was bludgeoned to death” lie persists. That persistence is the point of the propaganda in the first place. (3) Kurt Schlichter ♥ DeSantis. (4) “Martha’s Vineyard Takes Revenge on DeSantis By … Continue reading →