I don’t know. Probably a variety of things, some ordinary, others maybe defying explanation. Use your imagination: Frozen turds dropped by passing intergalactic spaceships? They’re receiving renewed attention because of an impending Pentagon report, which by all accounts won’t say [...]
Archive for June 18th, 2021
June 18th, 2021 - 2:53 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
Trump lawyers face sanctions
“Sidney Powell and other attorneys who defended former President Trump’s false claims about the 2020 presidential election have been summoned for a sanctions hearing in a Michigan federal court,” The Hill reported on Friday, June 18, 2021. “On Thursday, U.S. District Judge Lin[...]
It’s a bad idea for Catholic bishops to sanction politicians
“The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops … has voted to proceed with drafting a formal statement on the meaning of communion, which will include whether President Biden and other politicians should be denied the rite based on their stance on abortion,” The Hill reported on Friday, [...]
June 18th, 2021 - 12:25 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Deserve had nothing to do with it
Ashli Babbitt, the Capitol rioter who died from a police-inflicted gunshot wound to her shoulder, has become a symbol. To Trump supporters, she’s a martyr, which is nonsense; to some of her critics, she’s a domestic terrorist, which almost certainly is an exaggeration. By all appearances[...]