…and it’s 568 pages long. Who’s going to read that? Not even bloggers like me, unless they’re gluttons for punishment or unusually OCD. So we’ll have to rely on summaries, reports, social media, pundits, and the like. I eagerly await … Continue reading →
Today there’s been a big flurry of coverage of the report that Michael Cohen (remember him? Trump’s attorney and “fixer”?) will be cooperating with Mueller, since Cohen is about to part company with his lawyers. My first reaction was: I’d … Continue reading →
Like Paul Mirengoff, you may think that Trump’s latest offer to the NFL players is absurd, a circus, and bizarre: I understood from the beginning that the Trump presidency would be a circus, but I didn’t expect a sideshow this … Continue reading →
Mueller has now charged him with obstruction of justice: The new charges ”” the first public ones against Kilimnik ”” track with allegations Mueller’s team leveled earlier this week that Manafort and an associate tried to influence the testimony of … Continue reading →
That’s the subtitle of an article in Foreign Policy. It describes traditional but still-existent customs of many Amazon tribes in Brazil that dictate killing handicapped children and even those one might define as transgendered, and a controversy in Brazil over … Continue reading →
It’s recently been publicized that under the Obama administration some very strange and disturbing policies were put in place governing the hiring of air controller trainee candidates: …Tucker Carlson revealed the Obama administration modified the FAA’s candidate selection process to … Continue reading →
…but it’s a narrow ruling: The verdict criticized the [Colorado’s] treatment of [baker] Jack Phillips’ religious objections to gay marriage, ruling that a civil rights commission was biased against him. As a result, the decision did not resolve whether other … Continue reading →
One of the things that struck me about this article excoriating Alan Dershowitz for his recent defense (not support, but defense) of Trump is that author Elie Mystal doesn’t actually engage with any arguments, nor does he cite anything Dershowitz … Continue reading →
Mollie Hemingway takes Gowdy on. As does Andrew C. McCarthy. So, what’s up with Gowdy lately? And does this former prosecutor not know (or care) about the difference between a criminal investigation and a counter-intelligence investigation? Gowdy’s on the way … Continue reading →
Once again, President Trump does what I consider to be the right thing. If I had pardon power, I would have pardoned d’Souza, whose conviction (for something ordinarily not prosecuted at all) seemed a clear case of vindictive political pursuit … Continue reading →
Read about it here, as well as here. From the latter: On Friday, British free-speech activist and Islam critic Tommy Robinson was acting as a responsible citizen journalist — reporting live on camera from outside a Leeds courtroom where several … Continue reading →
On “Spygate,” informants, sources, and scumbags.
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