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The war on lawyers who would defend the right
The left doesn’t like the adversary system when it’s used to fight them, so they are determined to destroy the opposition’s ability to do so. From Legal Insurrection: We covered the effort to attack Republican lawyers previously, Operative David Brock … Continue reading →
Spambot of the day
When someone writes an paragraph he/she keeps the idea of a user in his/her brain that how a user can know it. So that’s why this piece of writing is amazing. Okay, bot. I hear you.
Continue reading →Roundup
It’s another one of those days with lots to talk about: (1) Mark Judge on how pop music criticism has become wholly taken over by wokeness. An excerpt: Spence Kornhaber almost got there. He almost let himself admit that “Renaissance,” … Continue reading →
Open thread 8/2/22
Nearly 21 years after 9/11, a drone takes out al-Zawahiri
The wheels of retribution grind slow: President Biden announced Monday that the U.S. government killed the leader of al Qaeda, Ayman Al Zawahiri in a “successful” counterterrorism operation in Afghanistan that removes the terrorist from the battlefield “once and for … Continue reading →
Krugman doubles down on his “O’Brien-crossed-with-Humpty-Dumpty” persona
Paul Krugman is a case of someone who has no problem contradicting himself, saying inane things that defy common sense, and doing it all with no sense of shame or apology but on the contrary with a sense of proud … Continue reading →
Sometimes a conspiracy is really a conspiracy and not just a theory
Saturday I wrote: [quoting from this article in Time]”…[F]ar-right figures and conspiracy theorists have also gotten involved. Twitter is filled with posts linking the Netherlands’ nitrogen policy to the Great Reset—a theory that claims international elites are trying to use … Continue reading →
Get ready for the new questions
Today I was making a doctor’s appointment, and the person I was speaking to on the phone said she needed to update my records and ask me a few questions. I could decline to answer if I so chose. The … Continue reading →
Open thread 8/1/22
I cannot believe it’s already August. And yet I must believe. Because it is.
Continue reading →What to do with Mrs. Barrie’s earrings?
I’ve recently been trying to organize my belongings better, and believe me there’s a lot of room for improvement. I’m not a pack rat, but I think I fall into that vast middle group who save too much stuff anyway. … Continue reading →
Sinema, the supposed mystery vote
There was a lot of excitement and publicity about getting Manchin onboard with the Democrats’ new tax and energy bill. But if you do the voting math, unless at least one Republican signs on, too (which certainly could happen, knowing … Continue reading →