When I was very young – in my early teens – I was alone, flipping around the TV dial late one night, and came across the Ingmar Bergman movie The Virgin Spring. It’s not for young people. I didn’t know … Continue reading →
The first topic I’ll be tackling in this post is: why did Decarlos Brown so seldom have to answer to the court? Here’s a handy timeline, although it certainly doesn’t answer all my questions on the subject. But some of … Continue reading →
I saw a link to an article about the murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska back when it happened a couple of weeks ago, but I didn’t click on it because one can’t follow everything, and I figured it was … Continue reading →
It shouldn’t be unusual for a politician to be able to admit an inconvenient truth, but it is. So praise is due to Muriel Boswer for this: Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser admitted on Wednesday that crime in the district … Continue reading →
You may recall that Tim Kaine was Hillary Clinton’s VP running mate. What is it with these Democrat VP candidates named “Tim”? Not his finest hour: This is one of the most embarrassing things I’ve ever seen from a Senator. … Continue reading →
Britain never had an especially robust tradition of free speech; certainly nothing to compare with that of the US. So it doesn’t come as a complete shock that Britain has been cracking down on what it defines as “hate speech” … Continue reading →
This is astounding (the clip I’ve selected is about three minutes long): Those instructions read something like the advice a therapist might give to deal with a verbal spat between friends or acquaintances. They would be absurd to use in … Continue reading →
The evidence is starting to be harder to deny. At least, it’s become more clear that the re-opening of the investigation of Bolton is justified: The New York Times wisely expanded its narrative from it not being clear “what culpability … Continue reading →
Terrible news: two Catholic school children have been murdered at a church in Minneapolis by a shooter who then turned the gun on himself. The shooter has been identified: The deranged gunman who slaughtered two children and injured at least … Continue reading →
Commenter “Variant” writes, on the Bolton raid thread: Trump is simply trying to settle petty personal grudges via Lawfare and we’re trying to justify it because it was done to him. I prefer intellectual consistency on the right. I realize … Continue reading →
John Bolton was Trump’s National Security Advisor from April 2018 to September 2019. It seemed an odd choice, because Bolton is a hawk and Trump is a Jacksonian on foreign policy, which is not the same thing. Bolton had good … Continue reading →
This was expected, but it’s still good to see: An appellate court has thrown out the $500 million civil fraud penalty against President Donald Trump in the high-profile case brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James. The New York … Continue reading →