This seems like good news: Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards, a Democrat, fell short of the majority of the vote needed to clinch reelection in Saturday’s all-party primary and will face Republican businessman Eddie Rispone in a one-on-one general election … Continue reading →
It costs money to hire people to answer phones, even if they live in Bangladesh or wherever they tend to be these days. So websites that pretend to have customer service actively discourage phone calls. The first way they do … Continue reading →
Josh Chavetz is a law professor at Cornell, and he has written an opinion piece in the NY Times entitled “The House Can Play Hardball, Too. It Can Arrest Giuliani: Two ways that Democrats in the House can match the … Continue reading →
Here’s Erdogan: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatened to overrun Europe with “millions” of illegal immigrants if the EU dared to criticize his invasion of Kurdish-held northern Syria. “Hey EU, wake up. I say it again: if you try to … Continue reading →
It seems to me that it wasn’t all that long ago when the vast majority of Americans believed that the sort of behavior seen on the streets of Minneapolis by “demonstrators” “protesting” the Trump rally would be completely unacceptable, and … Continue reading →
The latest is that the so-called whistleblower (who is really a leaker, IMHO) worked with Joe Biden during the Obama administration. That seems odd, because the allegations of the whistleblower have the potential to hurt Biden as much as they … Continue reading →
It’s complicated, and to even begin to understand it you have to go back in time. But most of us here probably remember this: In 2014 Obama was negotiating his nuclear deal with Iran… Given its goal of embracing Iran, … Continue reading →
I explained in a couple of recent posts (see this and this) that my original Blogger blog was going haywire and would not display properly. Not only that, but when I signed in, I couldn’t see the old posts at … Continue reading →
So far, part of the approach of the Democrats and the MSM (but I repeat myself) to the whistleblower/Ukraine story is to indicate that the whistleblower’s interpretation of the Trump/Zelensky phone call is the truth and the transcript of the … Continue reading →
I started reading this article about how “desire and dread” are linked, using the example of rock climbing. It’s not much of an article, but this part certainly drew my attention [my emphasis]: In the early 2000s, Berridge designed an … Continue reading →
The other day I happened to see a quick clip of Trump saying “I sort of thrive on it” about the impeachment brouhaha. Here’s the video: He says there that he’s going to explain why he thrives on it, although … Continue reading →