This is sad. She’ll probably never learn to speak. It’s something that has to be learned at a very early age.
The Absurdity Of Prostitution Laws
The cheerleaders were just getting gifts from sugar daddies. It’s ridiculous to only call it legal prostitution if cash exchanges hands. Women have been offering sexual favors in exchange for things since time immemorial, and as long as it’s consensual, it should be legal.
Susan Rice
Here are the questions that she needs to answer under oath.
If Nunes is telling the truth—and despite a widespread effort to make him look like a liar, he’s been right so far—then this incidental collection had nothing to do with Russian collusion charges. Why has the media shown such little curiosity about the subject matter of the collection?
Yes, reporters, we know that “unmasking” is legal. So is meeting with a Russian ambassador during a campaign. And no, it does not vindicate Trump’s tweet. Stressing the legality of the unmasking is a way to distract from the real questions: Did Rice abuse her power? Who did she share it with? Why? Did those people then leak the information for political purposes? That is illegal.
That will be pretty challenging for her, given that she seems to be as big a congenital liar as Hillary Clinton.
[Update a few minutes later]
Sorry, Democrats, the Obama-spying scandal isn’t going away.
Nope. Sessions recused himself from the Russia investigation. He didn’t recuse himself from this.
The Bantustans Of California
It’s like an apartheid state.
Passover
For those in a hurry, a cute one-minute haggadah.
“The Nuclear Option”
The left brought it on itself by insisting on the politicization of judges. For a leftist, nothing can be outside politics, and political power takes precedence over the law. Fortunately, we may still have a chance to restore originalism, and the Constitution.
[Update early afternoon]
If judges want to make laws and bypass the legislature, let them be elected, not appointed for life.
The Erosion Of The Second Amendment
Why “liberals” should be concerned about it.
They’re not concerned about it because they’re not liberals — they’re leftists who are perfectly fine with the government having a monopoly on firearms (as long as they’re in charge of the government).
[Update a couple minutes later]
Nice to see that some commenters at Glenn’s site are making similar comments to mine. Stop calling leftists liberals.
“Help Us Stay In Our Country”
An interview with a Syrian refugee becomes a huge own goal for CNN.
You don’t help out a country (or region) by letting it fall apart, and then draining it of its best people.
Space Corps
Coyote is really pushing this concept. Now he’s got an op-ed at Aviation Week.
Syria
Michael Totten isn’t impressed with the Trump administration’s foreign-policy acumen:
…we need to get a couple of things straight here. Bashar al-Assad is not fighting ISIS in Syria. Not really. Nor are the Russians. Assad and the Russians are fighting every rebel army in the country except ISIS. Look at a map of the country. ISIS’s territory is centered on its “capital” in Raqqa in the northeast, but Assad and Russia’s theater of operations is in the west and along the coast. Only the United States has bombed ISIS in Syria, and only Kurdish militias have seriously resisted ISIS on the ground.
Assad did, however, facilitate ISIS’s rise in Syria and Iraq. Thousands of Americans and Iraqis are dead thanks to his sponsorship of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi’s al-Qaeda in Iraq—the precursor to ISIS—during the Iraqi insurgency.
This is hardly a secret. “We in Syria intelligence opened all the doors for [the jihadists] to go to Iraq,” Mahmud al-Naser, an intelligence officer who defected to the United States, told the Daily Beast.
Before writing off Syrian malfeasance during the Iraq war as irrelevant history, understand something else: ISIS in its current form is also a creature of the Assad regime. Assad wanted ISIS to rise. He needed ISIS to rise. He made damn sure that ISIS did rise and that it did so inside Syria.
I wish I had some reason to think that Trump has a plan.