CNN Presents: Seven Hours Of Hot Air
[guest post by Dana] …and I don’t mean Hot Air, the terrific website. I mean “hot air,” as in an unbearable barrage of toxic word vomit. In other words, a seven hour climate crisis town hall because we...
View ArticleThe Apparently Looming Indictment of Andrew McCabe
The New York Times recently reported: Federal prosecutors in Washington appear to be in the final stages of deciding whether to seek an indictment of Andrew G. McCabe, the former deputy F.B.I. director...
View ArticlePresident Trump: Fox News Is Dead To Me, Time to Shop For A New Media Outlet...
[guest post by Dana] Seeing the Democratic National Committee’s communications director Xochitl Hinojosa discussing the upcoming Democratic primary debate while she was a guest on Fox News was just one...
View ArticleTrump Team Lies About Trump’s Lies
[guest post by Dana] That Trump lies is nothing new, we’ve seen it over and over again. But it’s interesting to see how far his people are going now to lie about his lies: On Wednesday night, Trump...
View ArticleAlabama Governor Kay Ivey: I’m Really Sorry I Wore Black Face In College Skit
[guest post by Dana] At this point, shouldn’t we just assume that every white politician in the Deep South who is over 40 years of age wore black face during their college years, at least once?...
View ArticlePatterico Talks to Bob Murphy About Plea Bargains and Anarchy
Anarchocapitalist economist Bob Murphy had me on his podcast recently, and the episode just came out. It’s about two hours long. We talk about Murphy’s view of plea bargains as an inherently corrupt...
View ArticleTrial Date Finally Set For Alleged 9/11 Mastermind
[guest post by Dana] A trial date has finally been set for the accused Khalid Sheikh Mohammed: Alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammad and four other accused plotters will go on trial on Jan....
View ArticleChristian Dior’s Latest Ad For “Sauvage” Men’s Fragrance Under Attack
[guest post by Dana] Taking a break from the dumb world of politics, let’s look at the dumb world of social justice. Specifically, the new, cringe-inducing Christian Dior ad for the men’s fragrance,...
View ArticleNext Up: Fox Business Host Lying About Trump Lying
[guest post by Dana] Earlier this week I wrote about Trump 2020 campaign spokesperson Kayleigh McEnany lying about Trump lying. On the heels of McEnany’s comments, and clearly evidencing that he didn’t...
View ArticleRoman Polanski Receives Standing Ovation At Venice Film Festival
[guest post by Dana] This, in spite of the unraveling horror show that is Jeffrey Epstein and his countless sexual assaults on untold numbers of minor females. I just can’t even. First, a brief...
View ArticleSunday Music: Bach Cantata BWV 47
It is the twelfth Sunday after Pentecost. Today’s Bach cantata is “Wer sich selbst erhöhet, der soll erniedriget werden” (Whoever exalts himself, will be abased). This recording is from a live...
View ArticleShootings in Midland and Odessa, TX
Awful: A man who was pulled over by Texas troopers shot at them with a rifle and sped away, setting off a terrifying rampage that ended with seven victims and the shooter dead, police said. After he...
View ArticleLabor Day Weekend: Shooting Deaths in West Texas And Chicago
[guest post by Dana] The West Texas shooting comes just a month after the mass shooting in El Paso: A man who was pulled over by Texas troopers shot at them with a rifle and sped away, setting off a...
View ArticleHurricane Dorian Update
[guest post by Dana] CNN is providing live updates on the hurricane: Category 4: Slow-moving Hurricane Dorian continues to pound the Bahamas. It’s the strongest storm anywhere on the planet this year....
View ArticlePence Commuting to Meetings by Plane So He Can Stay at a Trump Property in...
This kind of thing happens all the time, but the fact that it’s routine does not make it less appalling, but more so: President Donald Trump suggested that Vice President Mike Pence stay at his Irish...
View ArticleMocking the Alt Right Now Apparently a Fireable Offense in the Trump...
Philip Klein writes the post so I don’t have to: Shameful: Trump Labor appointee forced to resign after Bloomberg portrays sarcastic Facebook post as anti-Semitic. In one of the most shameful,...
View ArticleOn Humility and Saying “I Don’t Know” Plus an Update on that Bloomberg...
I started out thinking I might write about the fallout from the noxious actions of Bloomberg reporter Ben Penn, who managed to get a Labor Department official fired by smearing him as anti-Semitic,...
View ArticleWhat Democratic Presidential Candidates Are Peddling This Week
[guest post by Dana] As the Climate Change town hall is happening on CNN as we speak, I wanted to share few quick items that the Democratic presidential candidates are trying to sell voters on this...
View ArticleExactly Who Is Paying For The Promised Wall Again?
[guest post by Dana] Clearly not Mexico… According to this report, the Trump administration is going to take $3.6 billion in military construction projects to build the border wall: Defense Secretary...
View ArticleJobs Numbers Kind of Weak
Tiana Lowe at the Washington Examiner: On [its] face, the August jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics doesn’t look too bad for the economy. The economy added 130,000 jobs, missing the...
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