Open thread 7/3/21
It was a cover, but what a cover:
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Bill Cosby has been released from prison
The ruling freeing Cosby was handed down on Wednesday: The court said Wednesday that it found an agreement with a previous prosecutor that prevented him from being charged in the case. The disgraced actor has served more than two years … Continue reading →
Sgt. Daniel Perry charged with murder for shooting an Austin protestor
Here are some of the facts of the case: Sgt. Daniel Perry, a soldier in the US Army, has been charged with murder after killing a BLM protester last summer. This happened during the months of violence and destruction that … Continue reading →
Nikole Hannah-Jones: the squeaky wheel gets academic tenure
Nikole Hannah-Jones, the disseminator of the wretchedly mendacious and destructive “1619 Project,” is a journalist. Her 1619 Project, which re-cast the history of the US as slavery-focused and slavery-driven from earliest colonial days, was excoriated by historians but lauded by … Continue reading →
Open thread 7/2/21
Two SCOTUS decisions favoring the right
(1) The first: The Supreme Court just delivered a big win to the Republicans in an Arizona voting rights case. The 6-3 decision was written by Justice Samuel Alito. Justices John Roberts, Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy … Continue reading →
Kamala Harris is getting some bad press from the MSM. Why?
It’s been obvious for a long, long time that Kamala Harris leaves something to be desired in the “likeability” department, lacks political skills despite the heights to which she’s risen, and isn’t even especially bright or articulate – unlike her … Continue reading →
The story of California so far
Here’s a summary by Michael Barone. The concluding paragraph: California’s divergence from the rest of the nation politically, on top of its continued domestic out-migration and, over the last decade, slower than average population growth, make it clear that it … Continue reading →
RIP Donald Rumsfeld
Rumsfeld died on June 29 at the age of 88. It seems like a long time ago that he was a mover and shaker on the world stage. A portrait of Rumsfeld by someone who knew him well: That’s the … Continue reading →
Open thread 7/1/21
Music videos from the 1980s are often so bizarre that a literal video treatment only makes them slightly funnier: Here’s the original video. I put it up for the spectacular tenor voice of Russell Hitchcock, which cannot be imitated: Jim … Continue reading →
Can trust in our election integrity be undermined any further? New York shows how it’s done.
After many months of shrieking that challenges to election integrity by anyone even vaguely on the right are Big Lies by definition, the left has a bit of egg on its face. In New York’s recent mayoral primary the Democratic … Continue reading →
The charges against the Trump organization
There’s been a lot of legal news lately, much too much for me to cover it all. But most of it seems to point to the continuing and deepening politicization of our legal system and the use of lawfare by … Continue reading →