Can now generate talking video of people from a single image.
We’re rapidly approaching the time, if we’re not already there, when we can’t trust video.
Category Archives: Law
Collusionists, Leakers…
What have we learned about the Left’s moralistic talk of Trump’s supposed collusion, obstruction, Logan Act violations, and leaking? One, that these are all projections of real resistance behavior. The zeal to remove Trump by any means necessary justified colluding with Russians, obstructing justice, undermining his administration abroad, and chronic leaking. Two, these deep-state and media elites are narcissistically delusional. So inured are they to deference that they really believed they should have the power, indeed the right, to subvert democracy, to overturn a U.S. election on the justification that the wrong voters had voted for the incorrect candidate and both needed to be corrected by the right people. All that is why the last 28 months have been both scary and dangerous.
Whenever the Left accuses you of something, it’s a safe bet that it’s what they’ve been doing, or would like to do.
Drivers’ Licenses
Should they even be issued by the states? I’d prefer they not, but they are a convenient form of ID.
Samantha Powers
All of the unmasking was unprecedented, and probably related to opposition to Israel.
Lunar Heritage Sites
A bill has been introduced in the Senate, by Ted Cruz and Gary Peters, to preserve them. For All Moonkind has been working on this for a while. It would only protect the sites from Americans, but we need to make this into a multilateral agreement.
[And yes, link is fixed now]
The Mann Lawsuit
We have filed a petition to the Supreme Court to grant a writ of certiori.
[Mid-morning update]
National Review has filed as well. Their petition is here.
[Update mid-afternoon]
A reminder that we have 24 amici curiae in this. I suspect they’ll join the petition, and Mann will remain amiciless.
[Update a couple minutes later]
I also see that in re-reading that (I may have noted it at the time), that they misspell “warm mongers” in citing the blog post, and attribute my Jerry Sandusky comment to Mark Steyn, who was quoting me.
[Friday-morning update]
Here’s the press release from CEI. And the Daily Caller has a story on it.
[Bumped]
Maria Butina
…jailed for the crime of being Russian.
Seems like Trump should be able to pardon her. I would, just to watch heads explode.
And meanwhile, the rats are fleeing the sinking collusion ship.
The Gateway
Bob Zimmerman says it’s time for it to die.
Yes, the bureaucrats are pretending that it’s a required part of returning to the moon when, as Bob Zubrin has pointed out it’s a toll booth at best, and a likely roadblock, and there has been no public debate about its necessity.
Canadian Universities
Ottawa is imposing “social justice” on all of them.
The Steele Dossier
The “verified” document that wasn’t.
Someone’s (more than one someone) got a lot of ‘splaining to do.
[Update Monday morning]
How the FBI broke its own rules:
In the fall of 1975, FBI agent John Connolly met with Bulger in the agent’s car on an abandoned Boston street corner. What would follow was the FBI’s greatest scandal involving a confidential informant subverting the vast powers of the government in order to target his enemies. This stain on the history of the Department of Justice should have led to effective reforms but instead it only foreshadowed more of the same.
Well, to be fair, it was politically convenient to do the same thing with Steele.
[Update a while later]
Spy versus spy versus spy: How Comey, Clapper, and Brennan are turning on each other.
I hope they all rot in jail.
[Late-morning update]
Trey Gowdy says that there is a potential game changer if certain transcripts are released.
And thoughts on a tale of two coups:
The fact that the losers in this election appear to have attempted to undermine the winners is an extremely bad precedent because it leads to the winners deciding to take it out on the losers next time around and that in turn leads to people not relinquishing power short of being turfed out with violence – see Venezuela and any number of Latin American, Central Asian and African dictatorships. In fact allowing the losers to come up with one way after another to try and delegitimise an election they lost is bad on its own because the ability to “throw the bums out” is a key feature of democracy. If voters can’t trust that their votes will be respected they are likely to resort to other methods of expressing their displeasure with the current set of rulers and that is something that these rulers may come to regret. The good news is that the New AG seems to be doing his job and turning over any number of stones that various parties would have preferred remained unexamined.
Let’s hope.