John Gibbs (photo, left; bio here), a Stanford-educated software engineer and former Trump administration official who won a primary for a Michigan House seat by defeating an incumbent who voted to impeach Trump, “has a history of making false, inflammatory, and conspiratorial remarks on his [...]
Archive for September, 2022
September 21st, 2022 - 11:08 pm § in Donald Trump, Law and Courts
Will Trump’s Supreme Court judges turn on him?
Trump got what he wanted from an inexperienced federal judge he appointed shortly before leaving office, but her rulings were riddled with favoritism and legal errors, and an 11th Circuit panel (2 Trump judges, 1 Obama judge) struck most of them down (see story here; read their order here). He coul[...]
September 21st, 2022 - 2:39 pm § in Politics, Republicans
GOP candidate exaggerated his military service
Are we still surprised when a Republican politician is caught lying? I’m not, it’s so routine now. I have a theory about why Republicans lie so much, that goes like this: They think they’re on a Mission From God to “save America” from liberal heathens (who behave like [...]
September 21st, 2022 - 1:27 pm § in Science
PHOTOGRAPHY: Neptune’s rings
Top image below, brought to you by the James Webb Space Telescope. Now, you may ask why Voyager 2 photos — bottom image below — don’t show the rings. After all, Voyager 2 was millions of miles closer than JWST is. The answer is Webb has infrared cameras and Voyager 2 doesn’t,[...]
September 21st, 2022 - 2:18 am § in Politics, Republicans
How to find imaginary voter fraud
Make a wrong turn on a dirt road and go into the trees. “In late 2021, a group of volunteers turned onto Coulter Creek Road on a mission to uncover fraud and incompetence in Mason County elections,” a Seattle TV station says. They found an empty lot where, they believed, four people were[...]
September 21st, 2022 - 1:12 am § in Law and Courts
The guy who raped your sister can now legally carry a gun while stalking you
Until yesterday, a federal law prohibited people under felony indictment from buying guns. But that public safety protection is now gone, thanks to a ruling by an Obama-nominated, Trump-appointed federal judge in Texas (see his bio here). I’m not sure it’s his fault. In striking down the[...]
September 20th, 2022 - 10:57 pm § in Misc.
PHOTOGRAPHY: Ama Dablam
Despite its forbidding appearance, this 22,349-foot peak in the Everest region is a popular climb. It’s also one of the most-photographed, and therefore best known, Himalayan mountains. The site of Camp 2 (left) is rather interesting as climbers’ camps go. How do you go to the bathroom d[...]
GOP state AGs stick their noses in Mar-a-Lago case
It’s none of their business. Private Citizen Trump’s retention of records belonging to the government, some of which are highly classified and super-sensitive, is between him and federal authorities, including the National Archives and Department of Justice. It’s simply not a state[...]
September 20th, 2022 - 4:23 pm § in Donald Trump, News Media
More proof Fox isn’t a news organization
Journalism, like other professions, has standards. Don’t call yourself a new organization if you don’t adhere to them. A new book by New York Times journalists says Fox personality Bret Baier tried to pressure his superiors to rescind Fox News’ decision desk call of Arizona for Bid[...]
September 20th, 2022 - 3:50 pm § in Law and Courts
Going after Covid relief thieves
Federal prosecutors have indicted 47 people who participated in a massive fraud scheme to steal $250 million of Covid relief money, CNN and other news sources reported on Tuesday, September 20, 2022 (see story here). The defendants are charged with conspiracy, wire fraud, money laundering, bribery, [...]