The danger of obscenity laws
There is a new social conservative effort to start a war on pornography. Perhaps the ‘war’ never ended and the advocates of stricter laws against sexual content simply waited for the right opportunity...
View ArticleHunter Biden's dad doesn't know (or care) what he did on Burisma board
If you've been waiting around for somebody to ask Joe Biden about his son Hunter's sweetheart deal with Ukranian energy company Burisma, wait no longer. He finally got the question this weekend and...
View ArticleHonorees slam Trump and Pompeo during Kennedy Center festivities
For the third year in a row, President Trump and First Lady Melania took a pass on participating in activities during the Kennedy Center Honors weekend. Who can blame them? The possibility of an...
View ArticleHmmm: Murkowski dings House Dems for making impeachment process more partisan...
She seems to be choosing her words carefully here so let's not presume too much about what it portends for impeachment vote.After all, one might read this as her way of trying to cover her right flank...
View ArticleBeltway battens down hatches for the Horowitz Report -- and new reveal on...
Is it beginning to look a lot like Horowitz-mas? And does that bear any resemblance to Fitzmas and Muellermas? The long-awaited Inspector General report on the FBI's Operation Crossfire Hurricane will...
View ArticleJonathan Haidt: Is social media a threat to democracy?
Jonathan Haidt and co-author Tobias Rose-Stockwell have a piece at the Atlantic arguing that social media has developed into a tool that is potentially doing more harm than good. Indeed, they argue it...
View ArticleHorowitz report: Sufficient predicate for Crossfire Hurricane -- but probably...
As most media outlets previewed, the inspector general report from Michael Horowitz doesn't accuse the FBI or Department of Justice of running a political hit on Donald Trump -- but that's not saying...
View ArticleA dating app to screen out inherited diseases?
A really weird story from the field of science (?) came out of a Sixty Minutes segment on CBS that was making the rounds this weekend. It dealt with Harvard geneticist George Church. He's working on a...
View ArticleThe IG Report on the reliability of the Steele Dossier
Ed has already written about the big conclusions from the DOJ Inspector General's report published today, including some pretty harsh conclusions about the Steele dossier. I wanted to focus a bit more...
View ArticleModerate House Dem: I'm struggling to see how the evidence here justifies...
A leftover from Friday via the Examiner. Two weeks ago I wrote here that despite all the reports of "cold feet" by House Dems, they'd have no choice but to follow through and vote for impeachment. And...
View ArticleAFL-CIO chief: We've got a deal on USMCA
Can Donald Trump score a major win on trade and international relations even as House Democrats prepare to impeach him on his handling of the latter? The president of the nation's largest labor...
View ArticleHuge gun control advocate appears to not understand how gun control works
As part of the rollout of his newly minted presidential campaign (for some reason), Mike Bloomberg unveiled his gun control policy this week. As you can imagine, given his history of starting up...
View ArticleActing CBP Commissioner: 'The era of catch and release is done'
Border apprehensions dropped for the sixth straight month in November showing once again that Trump administration efforts to curb illegal immigration are working:The Trump administration on Monday...
View ArticlePoll of Dems: Hillary 21, Biden 20, Bernie 12, Warren 9
Caveat: These aren't the numbers you get when you airdrop Clinton into the race and no one else. This is what the race looked like when Harvard-Harris added Clinton and Mike Bloomberg and John...
View ArticleWait... how many rapes took place in Uber cars?
An exceedingly disturbing safety report released by Uber last week has been drawing a lot of attention. After conducting a comprehensive review, the company declared that more than 3,000 sexual...
View ArticlePolice shot a homeless man in San Francisco this weekend, there are varying...
The police shooting that took place Saturday morning in the Mission District of San Francisco involved an apparently homeless person. Because of that and because this is the first police shooting since...
View ArticleComey takes victory lap over IG report: You're welcome, America
This is like running someone over and then doing a told-ya-so dance when the cops announce that you didn't do it on purpose, you're just a terrible driver.And then demanding an apology from the...
View ArticleThe Sun: That special moment when Prince Andrew invited Epstein and Weinstein...
Oddly enough, this might actually help Prince Andrew make his case that he's a complete moron rather than someone with something to hide. The British tabloid The Sun published a photo yesterday from a...
View ArticleHo, ho, no! Walmart apologizes for Cocaine Santa sweater
Some stories are just so wrong that they are funny. This is one of those stories. Walmart has issued an apology for a third-party's item listed for sale on its Canadian website. That item is a sweater...
View ArticleThe best political ad ever?
A late night treat to cleanse the palate. Either you've seen "Love, Actually" and immediately get the joke here, or you haven't seen it and---Ah, you know what, you don't have to have seen it. Just...
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