The tables have turned. I’d still like to know why Samantha Powers, or someone acting in her name, unmasked a person per day on average in 2016. And who leaked the names.
Category Archives: Law
More Lawlessness From The Judiciary
An Obama-appointed judge throws out a Trump executive order overturning an Obama executive order.
Hard to see how this survives an appeal, even if it has to go all the way to SCOTUS.
Misunderstanding Socialism
Some instruction for millennials, from Bastiat.
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Milan Kundera on historical amnesia.
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Socialism: The delusional fantasy that always ends in a nightmare.
Thorium
A long article on the reasons we’re not burning it in reactors, including a lot of comments from Kirk Sorensen.
Free Inquiry
“Scientists” are horrified that colleges will have to respect free speech.
A Truth Commission
We need one for the Russia collusion set up:
…the most powerful individuals, institutions and interests in America conspired to set up a presidential candidate, and later president-elect, and later still President. Their goal? To defeat him in 2016; should he be elected, to prevent his taking office; and should he take office, to have him removed. And yet it’s precisely these people who accused (and, in many cases, still accuse) Mr. Trump of ‘stealing’ and ‘rigging’ an election, of ‘subverting our democracy.”’This is projection on an unimaginable scale.
Indeed. It also has to dig into the Clinton “investigation,” and see how high the abuse of power and obstruction of justice went.
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Sorry, broken link is fixed.
The Chicago Way
The charges against Smollett have been dropped. Same with my jaw.
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“This has never been about justice. It’s been about social justice.”
Michael Avenatti
In the past 24 hours, Trump has been cleared of the collusion charges, and Democrat hero Avenatti has been arrested for wire fraud. Gotta think this puts a damper on his presidential ambitions, even for a Democrat.
[Late-afternoon update]
Scumbag attorney (going at least back to Susan McDougal) Mark Geragos is allegedly a co-conspirator. It’s like a critical mass of scumbaggery.
The Mueller Report
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[Monday-morning update, after the Barr letter was released on Sunday]
Glenn Reynolds has some links.
My brief thoughts: Both in refusing to properly administer the law in the case of the Clinton server to keep her campaign viable, and in concocting a false case against first a presidential candidate of the opposing party, and then the president, weaponizing all the legal and intelligence tools against him, this was the greatest abuse of federal power in American history. Those responsible, at the highest levels of government, even into the Obama White House, must be held to account, or the people will no longer be able to trust the most powerful institutions of the Republic. The continuous lies from the Democrats and the media about “Russian collusion” no doubt contributed to the loss of the House to the Democrats last year, if not caused it in and of themselves. Not only must those responsible for the abuse of power be held to legal account, but it would be just and fitting for this to result in a great victory against the Democrats in both the presidential and congressional races next year. It’s unfortunate that the Republicans would be the beneficiary of that, but sadly, we have no good choices in political parties, and haven’t in my lifetime.
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Speaking of Glenn, his latest USA Today column: Collusion by the media, but don’t expect any apologies. And more at The Morning Brief.
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This wasn’t just the biggest abuse of federal power in American history, but the biggest media failure in American history.
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The real threat to the Republic: The Democrat Party. It always has been.
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No collusion, but the #Resistance is still yelling about it.
And Russiagate is WMD times a million.
The media should engage in a struggle session, but they won’t.
I’ll remember where I was when first I heard that the report had been released on Friday (Anza Borrego State Park, looking at a superbloom of wildflowers).
If you look carefully at the bottom shot, you’ll see a mountain sheep ram standing on top of the ridge (this was with my phone, kicking myself that we hadn’t taken a camera with a zoom lens).
I’ll also remember where I was when we heard the Barr letter being read on the radio yesterday: Looking at more wildflowers, including poppies, on a hillside north of Lake Elsinore (the crowds were apparently horrific down there in Walker Canyon, but this road was relatively empty).
The orange splash on the distant hillside in the top picture is the same kind of golden poppies (the California state flower) as the ones in the bottom picture, by the side of the road.
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Bob Zimmerman isn’t impressed with Mueller, but sees signs of hope.
Sweeping The Chessboard
Thoughts on the coming tyranny from Richard Fernandez.
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The Democrats have set the Wayback Machine to the 1930s.
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No, the Electoral College is not a “shadow of slavery’s power.”
As I’ve oft noted, hatred of the Electoral College and the equal representation of the states in the Senate is hatred of the United States of America. They want an overarching powerful federal government.