Larry Elder is running for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination. I had to look him up. Wikipedia says (here) he’s a “right-wing political commentator and conservative talk radio host” in Los Angeles. He was on the ballot in California’s 2021 recall election against Gov. Gavin[...]
Archive for May, 2023
May 26th, 2023 - 11:10 pm § in Politics, Republicans
An obscure presidential candidate you should know more about
May 26th, 2023 - 10:17 pm § in Science
Technology: Lightning in a bottle
Modern technology is making a lot of age-old dreams come true (e.g., we can now make diamonds and gold), and while no one has figured out how to plug a cord into lightning, scientists are getting closer to making their own clouds and pulling electricity from them. Electricity from thin air — h[...]
Oath Keepers sentences
Leading figures in the Oath Keepers, a rightwing paramilitary group (details here), are getting the longest Capitol riot sentences so far. It seems pretty clear federal courts consider the group revolutionaries. But their sentences for Jan. 6 crimes also reflect judges’ reaction to advance pla[...]
May 26th, 2023 - 12:22 am § in Law and Courts
This state practice is so rancid all SCOTUS justices nixed it
It isn’t often the Supreme Court makes everybody happy, but the court’s decision in Tyler v. Hennepin County will please liberals, conservatives, and libertarians alike. “The case centered on Geraldine Tyler, a 94-year-old Minnesota woman whose home was taken by Hennepin County a[...]
May 25th, 2023 - 11:45 pm § in Politics, Republicans
Theocrat bows out of Senate race, thank God
I don’t think he’d be elected, but I don’t want to gamble. Doug Mastriano, a retired military officer whose grasp of government is less than a competent 9th grader’s, has bowed out of Pennsylvania’s 2024 U.S. Senate contest (see story here). Mastriano (bio here) is a th[...]
May 25th, 2023 - 10:20 pm § in Law and Courts
Taking the law into his own hands?
His lawyers insisted he’s not the perp, and innocent people do get convicted, but a Florida jury decided he sought revenge against the wrong people after he was robbed and shot on his ice cream truck route. Prosecutors told jurors Michael Keetley (photo, left) was “frustrated with law en[...]
May 25th, 2023 - 8:28 pm § in Law and Courts
Coathanger machineguns
Machineguns are illegal without a federal license to possess one. There are several ways to convert a standard AR-15 to a fully automatic weapon. You can literally do it with a piece of coathanger wire. This video shows would it looks like. Without a federal license, that weapon is illegal, but the [...]
May 25th, 2023 - 6:19 pm § in Law and Courts
Two in, one out
On the same day Oath Keeper honchos Stewart Rhodes and Kelly Meggs were sentenced to 18 and 12 years in prison (see stories here and here), Jacob Chansley, the s0-called “QAnon Shaman,” was released from a halfway house (see story here). Chansley (photo, left), a full-time protester befo[...]
Threaten gays, go to jail
A grand jury has indicted a New York woman for making phone threats to several Denver-area LGBQT businesses shortly after the Club Q shooting (read story here). Sharon Robinson, 40, was arrested for calling four businesses and saying she was going to “shoot them up” and they were “[...]
May 25th, 2023 - 12:58 pm § in Politics, Republicans
Ethics probe slams GOP attorney general’s crimes and corruption
A GOP-led investigation of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (photo, left), a Republican, accused him of “committing multiple crimes in office — including felonies — during an extraordinary public airing of scandal and alleged lawbreaking that plunged one of the GOP’s conservative stars [...]