Open thread 9/25/21
Eclectic:
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The real “Pygmalion”? – Jane Burden Morris
[NOTE: I noticed that last night commenter “Zaphod” brought up Jane Morris towards the end of the open thread (see this as well as this). I thought I’d respond by putting up a link to an ealier post of mine … Continue reading →
More lies from Biden, and no one should ever be surprised
Biden repeats the Whipgate lie, and follows it up with his trademark macho bluster: Biden on the lie that border patrol were using whips on illegal immigrants at the border: "To see people treated like they did? Horses running them … Continue reading →
More questions about the January 6th surveillance videos
This RedState post, including the comments, raises further questions about January 6th and what the surveillance videos released so far show – and what they don’t show. Here’s a point I really didn’t discuss in yesterday’s post about the videos: … Continue reading →
The Biden administration wants Big Brother IRS to get even bigger
It seems to me that the Biden administration’s proposal to expand the spy powers of the feds and the IRS wouldn’t be popular even with most Democrats, if they knew about it: The Biden proposal would drop the dollar threshold … Continue reading →
Open thread 9/24/21
Roundup: Whipgate and other border news
There’s so much news about the southern border that I’m just going to do a roundup: (1) Child sexual abuse. (2) The government promotes the false Whipgate narrative. Why not? After all, lying comes naturally to them, and right now … Continue reading →
Behold, some of the January 6th “insurrection” surveillance video
We’ve seen a few carefully selected amateur videos of the events of January 6th at the Capitol, most of them of the more violent aspects – including the moment in which Ashli Babbitt was killed. However, although we’ve known that … Continue reading →
Vast and conspiratorial: more Durham fallout; plus Hunter Biden
I keep “circling back” (as Psaki would say) to the Durham investigation and its fallout and possible future fallout. On the one hand, I expected nothing from it. Oh, perhaps at the very beginning – it seems so long ago, … Continue reading →
Open thread 9/23/21
The computer may be the best tool tyranny ever had
When I saw this news story about a Biden administration proposal for the feds to monitor “all business and personal accounts from financial institutions, including bank, loan, and investment accounts,” it struck me – and certainly not for the first … Continue reading →
Melanie Phillips: on the desire to end “forever wars”
This piece by Melanie Phillips packs a lot into a fairly short essay. Phillips is a British writer who is a former liberal and who is not the least bit “woke” in her opinions. I believe she is spot on … Continue reading →