Remember back when the main mechanism for significantly changing federal government policy on something was Congressional legislation? And remember when transformative legislation was felt to need significant bipartisan support? The good old days, as far as I’m concerned. Back then, … Continue reading →
As I pointed out in this recent post, the cause of death of Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick remains unclear. And yet article after article states – without attribution – that rioters inflicted injuries on him that caused his death. … Continue reading →
Is the CDC so emboldened by the Democrats being in charge that it believes it can issue a nationwide mandate, just like that? Or was it the Biden administration that told it to go ahead? Of course, both can be … Continue reading →
…that FBI attorney Kevin Clinesmith, the man who altered an email on Carter Page in order to mislead the FISA court about Page’s innocence and justify spying on him and other Trump associates, would ever pay any consequences. No hands? … Continue reading →
Commenter “JohnTyler” writes: I recall that during one of Trump’s SOTU addresses, Manchin stood up to applaud one of Trumps points (think it was about energy policy). Chucky Schumer, who was sitting next to Manchin , ORDERED Manchin to sit … Continue reading →
Glenn Greenwald with some thoughts, including a caveat about who’s doing the buying. Among other points he makes, he points out that although much of the recent buying of GameStop stock has been driven by the redditers, the price of … Continue reading →
Wow, just wow. Could this be true?: Now comes news that Robinhood went further than just freezing trades on GameStop; They have allegedly begun force-selling investors’ shares. On Twitter, investors began sharing their stories of being notified that their shares … Continue reading →
Leonard Cohen songs keep coming to mind – and not just any Leonard Cohen songs, but the ones he wrote in the late 1980s and early 1990s, during an especially dark period in his musical oeuvre. Cohen had a lot … Continue reading →
I know just about everybody loves to bash McConnell. He’s not my favorite guy either, but one thing I’ve learned over the years that he’s been in power positions in the Senate is not to sell him short (hmmmm – … Continue reading →
So I’ve spent a while trying to get up to speed on the GameStop battles. If I can be said to have a wheelhouse, this is not it, and I’m going to assume that most of my readers already know … Continue reading →
All this Bidenesque healing and normalcy is just so soothing: According to Ken Cuccinelli, the former head of the Department of Homeland Security, Pelosi not only asked for those massive numbers of troops, but she also asked for the Guard … Continue reading →
Whatever the recent proposals of the Democrats might be – DC as a state, court-packing, national voting “reform” that would enable voting fraud in the entire country – the key to passing or not passing such bills in the current … Continue reading →