The massacre in Mexico
Here’s a thread to discuss the evil that occurred in Mexico on Monday. RIP.
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Spicing up Dancing With the Stars
I’ve watched Dancing With the Stars for a season or two a few years ago, and haven’t viewed it in ages. But I’m well aware of the brouhaha around the fact that execrable dancer Sean Spicer, former press secretary of … Continue reading →
The 40th anniversary of the Iran hostage crisis…
…is being celebrated: Iran on Monday held an event commemorating the 40th anniversary of the 1979 hostage crisis at the U.S. Embassy and also announced fresh violations of the 2015 nuclear deal it arranged with former U.S. President Barack Obama, … Continue reading →
Burisma and the Obama administration
The plot thickens: Hunter Biden and his Ukrainian gas firm colleagues had multiple contacts with the Obama State Department during the 2016 election cycle, including one just a month before Vice President Joe Biden forced Ukraine to fire the prosecutor … Continue reading →
About those NeverTrump Republicans
We’ve already talked an awful lot here about the phenomenon of the NeverTrumpers on the right. Even so, this piece on the subject is well worth reading: Before President Trump’s explosive entrance onto the political scene, mainstream conservatism was somewhat … Continue reading →
The revival of the Juanita Broaddrick rape charges against Bill Clinton: coming soon?
Ronan Farrow seems to be revving up for some investigative research on the rape allegations Juanita Broaddrick has made for years against Bill Clinton: Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ronan Farrow said on HBO’s Real Time With Bill Maher, that “credible” accusations … Continue reading →
Elizabeth Warren tries some math on Medicare for All…
…and the results are not good: Elizabeth Warren has come up with a plan to pay for her “Medicare For All” proposal, which has a price tag in the tens of trillions of dollars. Part of the plan is a … Continue reading →
Chronicle of a porch thief
This Atlantic article describes how home surveillance cameras have helped catch thieves who steal packages – predominantly Amazon packages – from porches. The attitude of the author is somewhat ambiguous, but as best I can determine she seems to lean … Continue reading →
Back spasms
I’ve had a bad back for over 30 years. Bad backs run in my family, and despite general athleticism (or maybe because of it?) three out of the four members of my family had serious and chronic disc problems and … Continue reading →
The nature of the present-day Congress
From commenter “Snow on Pine” a few weeks ago: It seems to me that Congress has gone so far off the rails that it no longer really represents the people–no more traditional “regular order” budgets, no major bi-partisan legislation of … Continue reading →
What Kamala and Beto have in common
Neither is going to be the Democratic nominee. But they each had their day in the sun as the darling of the MSM and the person who was going to rise to the top. The media is so eager to … Continue reading →
“Thank God for the Deep State!” says a denizen of the deep
A lot of people have opined about this comment by former acting director of the CIA John McLaughlin: McLaughlin embraced the term when asked during an event with other former intelligence officials whether a CIA whistleblower complaint that sparked an … Continue reading →