Brexit and Parliament and Boris Johnson: maneuverings
It’s complicated, as everything parliamentary seems to be. See this as well as this, this, and this.
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Rufuspetasumphobia
Here’s a sufferer from this malady: Is anyone else made really uncomfortable these days by anyone wearing any kind of red baseball cap? Like, I see one and my heart does weird shit and then I finally realize it only … Continue reading →
Will anyone behind Russiagate be prosecuted?
I have to say right upfront that I doubt it. It just seems to go that way. The state agencies are reluctant to charge their own bureaucrats, no matter what the violation, and the higher up the person is the … Continue reading →
Some reactions to the Horowitz report
Ordinarily I don’t watch a lot of TV news or opinion shows. But I have a tiny TV near my computer, and every now and then I turn it on and watch cable news if something especially important is happening … Continue reading →
The Democratic field right now
I think I can identify with the way a lot of Democrats must feel right now. I believe it parallels how I was feeling for much of the 2016 campaign season. At first I was excited. After eight long years … Continue reading →
Joe’s “word as a Biden”
Joe Biden is starting to worry the left, because it looks as though he might be nominated and would be a really bad candidate. That’s a nightmare they don’t want to relive. And so helpful outlets such as the WaPo … Continue reading →
On IG Horowitz’s report and the meaning of Russiagate
The revelations in the report by IG Horowitz released yesterday are disturbing on many levels, but one of the deepest and most basic is of the power of institutions such as the FBI if they become corrupted and corrupt. What … Continue reading →
On Democrats who skate
Commenter “Art Deco” writes (the first line is a quote from commenter “huxley”): Not all Democrats skate. Ask Al Franken. Franken was collateral damage in their campaign contra Roy Moore. If the media / DNC / Capitol Hill complex had … Continue reading →
The recent history of press bias
Here’s an interesting Twitter thread: Thread: On Media Narratives 1. Once upon a time, the legacy media controlled the daily news narrative. There were three principal broadcast TV networks which took their nightly news cues from the NYT and, secondarily, … Continue reading →
O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou being dragged into a dispute between National Review and Max Boot?
Yesterday I started reading this National Review piece by Charles C. W. Cooke criticizing Max Boot’s recent fault-finding with National Review. I thought it might be subject matter for a post, but I didn’t have much interest in it after … Continue reading →
Democrats say: nice SCOTUS you’ve got there, it would be a shame if something were to happen to it
Here’s an article at National Review by David French, who is not ordinarily a rabble-rouser. It begins this way: I just finished reading of the most astonishing legal briefs I’ve ever read. It is easily the most malicious Supreme Court … Continue reading →
Biden’s gaffe is the left’s truth
Which gaffe of Biden’s? I’m talking about this one: Everybody knows who Donald Trump is. Even his supporters know who he is. We got to let him know who we are. We choose unity over division. We choose science over … Continue reading →