Tomi Lahren (bio here) and Maria Bartiromo (bio here) aren’t stupid people, although you’d never know that from their arguments in this video against appointing a black woman to the Supreme Court. They’re so full of helium you wonder how they manage not to float away. Return to The[...]
Archive for January, 2022
January 27th, 2022 - 3:42 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
What being loyal to Trump gets you
“Dozens of local and state Republican leaders who showed their loyalty to Donald Trump by casting fake electoral votes for him a year ago may now face prison time in return for that devotion,” Huffington Post reported on Thursday, January 27, 2022 (read story here). That’s because [...]
January 27th, 2022 - 3:08 pm § in Politics
Federal judge OKs states’ probe of shady GOP fundraising tactic
A federal judge threw out a lawsuit by WinRed, a GOP fundraising platform (details here), “seeking to block attorneys general in four states from investigating the company’s fundraising tactics,” CNBC reported on Thursday, January 27, 2022 (story here). The New York Times reported last[...]
Definition of “black”
Joe Rogan claims a black person is “someone who is, like, 100% African from the darkest place where they are not wearing any clothes all day.” (That didn’t go by without causing ripples; see story here). Rogan (bio here) hosts a popular podcast with a large following. But he’[...]
5-minute Ukraine briefing
I’m pretty certain there’s going to be a war. And although I hate to say this, a quick conquest of Ukraine by the Russian army might be the best thing for world peace, because a protracted conflict may not end like the Soviet-Afghanistan fiasco did; Putin might respond to unexpected setb[...]
January 26th, 2022 - 10:01 pm § in Foreign Affairs, Russia
Can Ukraine be defended?
From the map below (click on it to enlarge), it doesn’t look like it, as two-thirds of the country is a salient. A topo map of Ukraine (here) isn’t encouraging; except for the Carpathian mountains in the west, the landscape is mostly plains, steppes, and plateaus (details here). Harsh wi[...]
Support your local police
Who says we don’t? Well, apparently Jennie Nguyen thinks we don’t, if we also support racial equality and justice. Bravo, a cable network owned by NBC Universal that specializes in reality TV shows aimed at women, fired Nguyen from “Real Housewives of Salt Lake City,” The Hil[...]
January 26th, 2022 - 3:35 pm § in Donald Trump, Law and Courts
Capitol riot defense: “Trump made me do it”
In a variation of “the devil made me do it,” Capitol rioters are trying to shift the blame to Trump. “Many of the defendants facing criminal charges for their role in the January 6 insurrection have tried to share blame with Trump or shift blame to him,” CNN says (here), but [...]
YouTube bans vocal anti-masker
YouTube, owned by Google, “permanently banned conservative commentator Dan Bongino” on Wednesday, January 26, 2022, “saying he attempted to evade a previous suspension,” The Hill reported here. The suspension was for calling masks “useless,” in defiance of a YouTu[...]
Whose side is Florida’s GOP on?
They’re on the side of the virus, sickness, and death. Don’t get me wrong: The people of Florida elected them, had every right to do so, and are perfectly entitled to empower Republican anti-maskers and anti-vaxxers to kill them, if that’s what they want. I’m not questioning [...]