Howie Carr on Mueller’s involvement…
…in covering up an FBI frame-up. An old one.
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Prosecutor malfeasance rewarded: Weissmann and company
I don’t usually watch cable news on TV, but for some reason last night I happened across Mark Levin’s show on Fox, and saw an interview with Sidney Powell, an attorney who wrote Licensed to Lie: Exposing Corruption in the … Continue reading →
Nathan Phillips, character assassin: what even his critics seem to be ignoring about him
Nathan Phillips is fast wearing out his more-than-15-minutes of fame. But before he goes off our radar screen—and the next ramped-up Twitter brouhaha comes our way—I must point out something I think is important but which has been almost totally … Continue reading →
Nathan Phillips’ Vietnam service: in his own words
I had originally thought Nathan Phillips had been cagey enough to merely use phrases that gave the impression he was a Vietnam vet who actually, you know, went to Vietnam. In other words, phrases such as “Vietnam times vet.” But … Continue reading →
Representative Adam Schiff: about Bruce Ohr’s testimony
NOTE: This post is a companion piece to an earlier post of mine today describing how Bruce Ohr had informed the FBI and DOJ long ago about Christopher Steele’s bias and Fusion GPS’ conflicts of interest, and yet they concealed … Continue reading →
Beto O’Rourke: on a slow news day…
…Beto O’Rourke instagramming his dental cleaning is a big story. I kid you not. This sort of thing promises to be the wave of the future in political campaigns. Right now O’Rourke’s main activity since losing his Senate race seems … Continue reading →
Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s recovery
There’s a lot of speculation about what Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s current absence from the Court means. Is this the beginning of the end for RBG? Or just another bump on a long long road? Ginsburg had major lung surgery on … Continue reading →
Raising the tax rate versus raising the effective tax rate
Raising the tax rate is not the same as raising the amount of tax money collected, either in the aggregate or from a selected group such as “the rich.” Even a non-accountant non-economist like me knows that. Does Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez? … Continue reading →
Former NY Times editor Jill Abramson bashes the paper…
…for anti-Trump bias: Former ‘New York Times’ executive editor Jill Abramson rips her former publication, slams the media as “anti-Trump,” and complains that younger employees throw out standards in her new book, ‘Merchants of Truth.’ “The more anti-Trump the Times … Continue reading →
Yuval Noah Harari predicts the future—sort of
The name of Yuval Noah Harari came up recently in a conversation I had over the holidays. He seems to have become some sort of guru to a lot of people, and yet I know practically nothing about him or … Continue reading →
Chuck Schumer on immigration: then and now
It should come as no surprise that just nine years ago, when Obama was president, Chuck Schumer expressed rather conventional GOP-type sentiments on illegal immigration and on what should be done about it. But pointing out Schumer’s slippery political hypocrisy, … Continue reading →
The youthful fabulists: Stephen Glass vs. Claas Relotius
Perhaps you’ve heard of German journalist Claas Relotius. He wrote for the German periodical Der Spiegel and and had won “numerous awards such as CNN’s Journalist of the Year and Germany’s equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize.” I guess you’d say … Continue reading →