Some initial thoughts from Blake Powers, who seems to be continuing to recover from the lightning strike.
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More from Lawrence Person.
Category Archives: History
Another Aspect Of The Genocide
Why women stopped menstruating upon arrival at the Nazi death camps.
Ukraine Thoughts And Trends
An interesting assessment of the current situation.
What We’ve All Been Waiting For
History Taught Backwards
…and the educational crisis.
I think that our educational system lies at the heart of all of our other problems. We can’t expect to get good leadership when the people who vote for them are so ill informed.
The Rice Speech
Today is the sixtieth anniversary. I wrote this on the fortieth anniversary, and it holds up pretty well, I think. “Because it is hard” is a dumb reason to do something.
The Worst Form Of Government
…is “our democracy.”
The Intelligence Community
No, DoJ, it doesn’t get to overrule the Judiciary. There is no mention in the Constitution of the “intelligence community.”
Why is the DoJ so desperate to prevent a Special Master, even one with security clearance, to view those documents the department asserts are classified? (The parties each have offered two candidates for the position, one of Trump’s candidates, in fact, sat on the FISA court. Is he less certain to do this job properly than the National Archivist?) There are several possible explanations for the desperation I can think of — none of which do credit to the attorney general. The first and most common supposition is that the documents which they claim must be kept even from the eyes of the Special Master relate to the FBI and DoJ’s role in fashioning and perpetrating the phony Russian Collusion fairytale. That would be damning indeed, and frankly, I see it as the most likely explanation…
So do I.
Twenty-One Years On
The anniversary is old enough to drink, and as Glenn implies, it could use one.
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The forgetting of 911.
I think that Pearl Harbor remained much more foremost in peoples’ thoughts in 1962 than 911 does today, even though it wasn’t a living memory for the huge generation of Baby Boomers.
The Fall Of Los Angeles
A grim assessment. I was particularly amused by the LAT’s complaint that Caruso doesn’t have a “climate plan.” Because, you know, climate is at the tippy top of southern California’s problems.
We’re not in LA, but California itself is headed downhill as well.