Here’s the story as it now stands. I caution everyone to ask questions, though, before jumping to conclusions. For example: Video emerging online from Tuesday’s schoolchildren massacre in Uvalde, Texas shows local police more concerned with stopping parents than stopping … Continue reading →
This is from two days ago [emphasis mine]: It looks like the FBI top brass kept Hillary Clinton’s campaign identity a secret when it pushed her disinformation to Chicago-based FBI agents investigating ties between Trump and Russia’s Alfa-Bank. That’s according … Continue reading →
This is absolutely heartbreaking – photos and short bios of the teachers and children who were killed in Uvalde. People who kill random children are not just homicidally inclined, it’s a particular type of sadistic vengeance, and the target of … Continue reading →
…the results of yesterday’s primaries.
Continue reading →(1) Commenter “cb” has a good question: where did Ramos get the money for the guns? They wouldn’t be cheap. (2) “cb” also wonders whether this story from 2018 might have involved Ramos. Strangely enough, it’s written by someone whose … Continue reading →
When I heard that an Iraqi man living in the US had recently been arrested for plotting to assassinate George W. Bush, my first thought was possible entrapment. It didn’t used to be that way for me. Although I often … Continue reading →
It is depressing in so many many ways. First and foremost, there are the victims, now listed as 19 children and 2 adults. The cold-blooded killing of children is evil personified, and most human beings are especially revolted and outraged … Continue reading →
There has been another school shooting, this time in the town of Uvalde, Texas. Fourteen precious and innocent elementary school children and one teacher are dead. The shooter was named Salvatore Romas (or probably Ramos) and was apparently killed by … Continue reading →
Roger Angell, noted baseball writer for The New Yorker, has died at the age of 101. I had no idea he was still alive, but I used to read him regularly during the thirty or so years when I had … Continue reading →
On the judicial nominee front: Nusrat Choudhury, Biden’s pick for a New York City federal trial court, allegedly claimed during a 2015 panel that police shoot unarmed black people every day in the United States. Choudhury defended the statement in … Continue reading →