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The Senate Parliamentarian..
…says that the Democrats are barred from including in the spending bill a plan to give out 8 million green cards, because “the policy changes of this proposal far outweigh the budgetary impact scored to it and it is not … Continue reading →
Looking back: predictions about our Afghanistan withdrawal
I’m not sure many of us were paying a whole lot of attention to what was being said about our withdrawal from Afghanistan before it occurred, but I think it’s instructive to look back and see what people in government … Continue reading →
Still more on the Sussman indictment and what it signifies
People have continued to opine on the subject of Durham’s indictment of Sussman. While I’m inclined to be very skeptical that it will lead to much, more legally informed minds are expressing at least somewhat greater optimism than I. And … Continue reading →
Open thread 9/20/21
It’s the awning that surprised me. A little stroll down memory lane. I was at the Colosseum in 2018. There was a huge downpour, and right afterward I took this selfie and put it on the blog:
Continue reading →California on their minds
Last night I was thinking how the Mamas and Papas song “California Dreamin’,” with its very 60s idealization of California as a magical place for which a person might yearn, could not possibly be written now. That segued into thoughts … Continue reading →
More on the Sussman case…
…from John Solomon: In painstaking detail, Durham laid out in the indictment Thursday how Democrat superlawyer Michael Sussmann used Clinton campaign funds to construct a now-debunked memo and other evidence alleging that computer communications between a server at the Alfa … Continue reading →
About that Tuskegee syphilis study – and about COVID
I’ve seen it over and over – assertions that researchers involved in the Tuskegee study of syphilis, back in middle third of the 20th Century, gave black men syphilis in order to study them. I saw the claim again the … Continue reading →
Staying away from the computer for 12 daytime hours yesterday…
…to see a friend meant that I skipped writing about a ton of stories. That happens anyway in these days of fast-breaking news flurries. But when I take a significant chunk of time off, it happens even more. So another … Continue reading →
Open thread 9/18/21
When these people look you in the eye, the intervening years seem to vanish:
Continue reading →Remember Durham?
Well, He actually indicted someone. I’m somewhat shocked. From the article: A federal grand jury indicted a former attorney for the Democratic National Committee Thursday, alleging that he falsely claimed to the FBI that he was not advising Hillary Clinton’s … Continue reading →
It’s hard to argue with this Mencken quote
H. L. Mencken was a famous pundit in the first half of the 20th Century, known for caustic wit. I’ve never been a Mencken fan, and I don’t share his contempt for people in general and for Americans in particular. … Continue reading →