We were just there a couple years ago. These pictures are devastating. How could it happen? Was it arson?
[Mid-afternoon update]
Good news: They’re reporting now that the structure has been saved, including the north belfry, but that much of the roof will have to be rebuilt. Not to mention, of course, the spire.
Can Trump legally move the illegal immigrants to them?
While it does put the Democrats in a logical bind, it may be, though, as the article points out, that he’s being too clever by half:
The plan would put thousands of immigrants in cities that are not only welcoming to them, but also more likely to rebuff federal officials carrying out deportation orders. Many of these locations have more resources to help immigrants make their legal cases to stay in the United States than smaller cities, with some of the nation’s biggest immigration advocacy groups based in places like San Francisco, New York City and Chicago.
Well, that could be an oopsie.
[Update a few minutes later]
Spartacus says that moving illegal immigrants to sanctuary cities “makes us less safe.” Didn’t he get the memo? These are the most wonderful people in the world.
[Update a while later]
Yes, Democrats have no interest in illegal aliens, other than as a route to power. Which makes the irony of them declaring that Trump is using them as “political pawns” exceedingly rich.
This was inevitable, given the little thought apparently given to security on the Internet of Things.
…are garbage.
Yes, I’ve always thought this was stupid, since California implemented it. If you don’t wash the reusable bags regularly (and many probably don’t), they’re a public-health nightmare.
Was too easy on Hillary.
Well, duh. He was an incompetent boob. As I’ve long said, that case needed a seasoned prosecutor with RICO experience, not an amiable “distinguished” federal judge. While I can easily believe that Hillary was a bitch to her former lover, I remain skeptical that Vince Foster murdered Vince Foster; he was convicted without a proper trial or investigation.
Thoughts from Ann Althouse on the “threat” to send the wonderful immigrants to sanctuary cities.
Per one of the comments, one of the many reasons they’re squealing like the stuck pigs that they are is that sending the newcomers to blue cities and states defeats the purpose of importing large numbers of new Democrat voters. Obama always flooded the red states with them.
And yes, they are being NIMBY about this (as with much else).
And yes, this is still appropriate, half a century later.
[Update a while later]
Tucker Carlson: Trump calls the Democrats’ bluff on illegal immigration.
He really has put them in a box.
[Update a few minutes later]
Democrats are furious that Trump has exposed them for the virtue-signaling hypocrites that they are.
Washington is chock-full of foreign influencers.
I’m not sure I’d characterize the investigation as “failed,” though. It has (so far) accomplished what it was supposed to: Cover up the wrongdoing of 2016 (and before) and cripple the Trump presidency. Though the former is starting to unravel, I hope.
To cap off an exciting week in space, and particularly private space, the Roc flew for two hours in Mojave this morning.
I still don’t understand the business model for this airplane. I wonder if it will be another Spruce Goose (whose time in the air was vastly exceeded by this flight).
[Update a couple minutes later]
Doug Messier was there.
[Update early afternoon]
Here‘s Jeff Foust’s story.
Unlike Matthew Continetti, I refuse to call them “liberal.” I hope that this is indeed an “extinction-level event” for them.
Meanwhile, Brian Cates writes that Trump is now fully unleashed.
Not possible to believe that he wasn’t in the loop. Particularly since he had been emailing her on the private server.
[Update Saturday afternoon]
Meet James “Cardinal” Comey, the man who destroyed the FBI.
[Bumped]
[Update a while later]
Just as there is no fighting in the War Room, there is no spying at the FBI.