Roger Simon writes: So Barr, in the company of John Durham, his lead investigator on these matters, was in Rome talking with several people high up in Italian intelligence. They are supposed to have played for him a tape recording … Continue reading →
Big deal turns out to be nothing. [NOTE: The reference in the title is to this dud from Geraldo Rivera.] [ADDENDUM II: For some weird reason I originally wrote “Jimmy Hoffa’s” in the title of the post instead of “Al … Continue reading →
That’s the question asked by Andrew C. McCarthy here: Democrats and their media friends are attempting to paint the Barr investigation, in the public mind, as a corrupt extension of a down-and-dirty Trump 2020 political campaign… Virtually all mainstream-media reporting … Continue reading →
I thought perhaps it might be nice to look at something besides Trump and impeachment and Ukraine today. And so as a non-refreshing palate cleanser we have this: In 2014 California passed Proposition 47, which made theft of property valued … Continue reading →
The long-held definition of what constitutes a whistleblower seems to have been changed just in time for the hearsay/secondhand/gossip Ukainian phone call whistleblower to file his complaint. Fancy that. Some conspiracy-minded people think that just because the DNI suddenly changed … Continue reading →
Yesterday I wrote a post about whether Ukraine’s former head prosecutor Viktor Shokin, fired after the pressure from Joe Biden, was actually corrupt. I found plenty of articles alleging that he was, but not much about the substance of said … Continue reading →
Here’s a fascinating article by Caroline Glick comparing the tactics of the anti-Netanyahu crowd in Israel to that of the anti-Trump crowd in the US. An excerpt [emphasis mine]: …[T]here is nothing unique about Trump’s actions [re Ukraine]. As Mark … Continue reading →
I utterly refuse at this point to write a big long in-depth post on this subject. Others have given their blood, sweat, and tears in such an effort, and I suggest you read what they have to say: for example, … Continue reading →
I continue to marvel that Beto O’Rourke almost became a senator from Texas. Of course, back then he didn’t sound quite as far-left as he does now. Prior to that, O’Rourke was a member of the House from a largely … Continue reading →
The Times hit piece on Kavanaugh that I discussed yesterday is still in the news, partly because the Times issued an addendum/correction to say that oh yeah, we forgot to mention it, but the supposed victim is reported to have … Continue reading →
You gotta say this about the NY Times: they keep trying. If one lie [*see NOTE below] doesn’t work, they come up with another similar lie and hope that the second lie makes the first lie seem more true. Or … Continue reading →
I just wrote a post about the Democrats’ cavalier attitude towards the 2nd Amendment, but that post was more about politics. Now I want to emphasize the anti-Constitutional aspects of the move. As John Hinderaker of Powerline writes: …[W]hy should … Continue reading →