The Kentucky Derby …
… begins in a few minutes. Here’s a thread for talking about it, if that’s your thing.
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Tucker Carlson’s apology for having supported Trump
There’s been a lot of brouhaha about Tucker Carlson’s unctuous “confession” to his brother Buckley (a lot of “ucks” there), saying that he deeply and contritely regrets his previous support of and campaigning for Trump. If you can stomach his … Continue reading →
Did the press get a wake-up call at the Correspondents’ Dinner?
Political changer Sasha Stone writes: Cole Allen took the press at their word, which is why he couldn’t understand how they could have dinner with a “rapist, traitor, and pedophile.” He has a point. After all, why would they if … Continue reading →
Why doesn’t the left care about the Iranian protesters who were slaughtered by the mullahs?
One would think they would care – after all, it’s a oligarchic theocracy slaughtering people who want freedom. But no. It’s as though it never even happened: The Left justifies its obsession with Gaza by citing casualty numbers provided by … Continue reading →
Open thread 5/2/2026
There’s lithium in them thar hills
This certainly seems like good news: The USGS is saying that Appalachia contains an estimated 2.3 million metric tons of undiscovered, economically recoverable lithium, enough to replace 328 years of U.S. imports at last year’s level. … As lithium demand … Continue reading →
The Golders Green stabber had a record
New facts about the Correspondents’ Dinner shooter, but gaps remain
Charges have been filed against Cole Tomas Allen, and yet there are still some significant gaps in the record. Awaiting ballistics tests, we still don’t know whether he fired the shot that struck the agent in his protective vest, although … Continue reading →
Mayday!
[NOTE: This is a repeat of a previous post.] Today is Mayday. As a child I was confused by the wildly differing associations the word conjures up. It’s a distress signal, for example, apparently derived from the French for “come … Continue reading →
Open thread 5/1/2026
A rather elaborate deception – but the grandparents seem awfully sweet:
Continue reading →Mamdani is there to make Hochul look moderate
She’s refusing to give him more and more money to play with in his Socialist paradise-to-be: Mayor Zohran Mamdani joined forces with City Council Speaker Julie Menin to try to squeeze more dough out of Albany — a plea that … Continue reading →
Oregon’s voter rolls have a tiny little problem
Oregon is one of those mail-in ballot states where everyone registered gets mailed a ballot: The U.S. state of Oregon established vote-by-mail as the standard mechanism for voting with 1998 Oregon Ballot Measure 60, a citizen’s initiative. The measure made … Continue reading →