Open thread 4/2/22
My grandfather holds me up, aged 3.
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Covering the Hunter Biden laptop story
The Hunter Biden laptop is the same, back in October of 2020 and now. All that has changed is the angle the media wants to take on it, and that depends utterly on politics. There is no truth; there is … Continue reading →
Putin’s rattling those nuclear weapons
Again: We’ve heard it from Vladimir Putin himself. We’ve heard it from Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. But just in case we somehow missed the message, a political scientist and longtime supporter of Putin by the name of Sergey Mikheev … Continue reading →
Meeting the challenges: Biden and Harris
At today’s press conference, President Biden discussed the uneasy situation in Ukraine and issued a challenge to President Putin: You know, Putin’s been in charge of Russia one way or the other since 1999. That’s almost as long as I’ve … Continue reading →
Open thread
Is he making love to the piano? Caressing it? Melting into it? Casting a spell on it? Giving it a massage? My favorite Gould version of The Goldberg Variations was also the later, slower, more soulful one from 1982 rather … Continue reading →
Roundup time again
(1) There’s been a study of anomalies in the 2020 election, by John Lott. Here’s a summary of some of the main points, and here’s the paper itself. It points out many of the inherent problem with increased absentee voting. … Continue reading →
Federal oversight of local police departments: consent decrees
Recently in this thread the topic of federal involvement in local police departments came up, and there are some points I want to add. The main way this is done at present is through federal oversight. And it didn’t just … Continue reading →
Open thread 3/31/22
I ask you – where did March go?
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Not Walt’s, either. Chris Rufo reports: In the wake of Florida’s Parental Rights in Education legislation, which prevents public schools from promoting gender ideology in kindergarten through third grade but which critics call the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, Disney executives … Continue reading →
Maybe Biden was referring to himself, not Putin
There was a big brouhaha the other day over Joe Biden remarking about Putin, “For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power.” Way to go, Joe – make Putin even more paranoid and angry and certain that the US … Continue reading →
Gaetz, the FBI, and the elusive laptop
One of the many odd things about the Hunter Biden laptop is the fact that, around when the story first broke in the NY Post – and was almost instantaneously suppressed by the rest of the press plus social media … Continue reading →
Open thread 3/30/22
I’m left-handed, and in my family three out of four of us were lefties. My mother was left-handed but was switched as a child, so she wrote and ate with her right hand but did just about everything else with … Continue reading →