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Free Republic introduces me to Sam Tripoli, a comedian-slash-conspiracy theorist , who has some thoughts about the fires on Maui: Intere...

David French doesn't like the young men he refers to as "The Lost Boys of the American Right": It keeps happening. Since the ...

Thank you, Yas and Tom, for some great posts while I was away. I hope I can live up to your standards. I'm noticing today that even a...

  Photo by Todd Maisel/ New York Daily News . Just a note from Gothamist on that tour of the Riker's Island jail complex where the New...

  "Tit for tat" was the title of a Thomas the Tank Engine episode where Bert gets splashed by some visitors and their car, and dec...

Empress Catherine II touring the newly conquered lands along the Dnieper in 1787 greeted by her "Amazonskaya Rota" (Company of Ama...

In todays New York Times, Jack Goldsmith shows us how it's done : 1) Give yourself plausible deniability by framing the most inflammat...

  FYI, at the Substack, a slightly long read , no paywall.

Today's NY Post has a piece called " Trump prosecutor Jack Smith would rip up Americans’ right to free speech ", by Betsy McCa...

  A somewhat reassuring first snapshot of reaction to indictment no. 3, from  CBS/YouGov . That's not exactly a majority accepting Trump...

 Relief crew here, hi folks! Illustration via   Haley Zapal . Weird debate on the platform formerly known as Twitter, now going by the glyph...

I'm traveling today -- I'll be away from the blog for a week. The relief crew has promised to entertain and edify you while I'm ...

I have my doubts about this idea : The Constitution states officeholders who have “engaged in insurrection or rebellion” against the United ...

Seth Masket is certain he knows what the next presidential election will be all about: Let’s take a moment to imagine what, at this point, ...

New York magazine's Ed Kilgore thinks Jack Smith's case against Donald Trump could finally make voters understand the extent of Tru...

I won't try to persuade you to be alarmed at the fact that Donald Trump and Joe Biden are in a 43%-43% dead heat in the new New York Tim...

CNN's Ella Nilsen tells us that some Republicans now understand the seriousness of climate change and the need to address it, but they c...