Saudi shooter held a mass shooting video party, plus an online rant pointing...
No one was ready to jump to any conclusions yesterday but the gap between what we suppose and what we know is getting a lot smaller. The AP reports that shooter Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani held a party...
View ArticleSunday morning talking heads
Democrats are bringing out the big guns, or what passes for big guns, this fine Sunday morning to press the case for impeachment. Adam Schiff is back after a rare week off, turning up on "Face the...
View ArticleNow we (probably) know what North Korea's "Christmas gift" is
As John discussed on Wednesday, the saber-rattling in North Korea has been slowly ramping back up in recent weeks. Their dictator, Kim Jong-un indicated that he would have a special "Christmas gift"...
View ArticleMedicare administrator bills taxpayers for $43,000 of stolen jewelry
It's likely you are not familiar with the name Seema Verma. Ms. Verma is the head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Her name is in the headlines today because her luggage was...
View ArticleMountains and molehills: Sunday reflection
This morning’s Gospel reading is Matthew 3:1–12:John the Baptist appeared, preaching in the desert of Judea and saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand!” It was of him that the prophet...
View ArticleNFL week 14 open thread, the Brady Fade-y edition; ESPN: No NFC East re-seeding
Ed: I'm back in control of the thread again after yet another tie with Jazz, mainly because I snuck this post in when he wasn't looking. We both went 5-2 last week, which pushed my season record to...
View ArticleGiuliani issuing Ukraine report to DOJ?
This has been one of the more curious occurrences in the entire Ukraine mess to be sure. Right in the middle of the impeachment hearings, Rudy Giuliani seemed to simply disappear. Shortly after that,...
View ArticleComing soon: Jesus Christ, the video game
I can't decide if it's the worst idea anyone's ever had for a game or the best.The title is "I Am Jesus Christ." This isn't a game that's merely about the Bible, in other words, in which you interact...
View ArticleSNL's Pelosi prays: Bless Lindsay Graham with a black and gay baby
It's the story that won't die, and rightly so. Speaker Nancy Pelosi jumped all over journalist James Rosen for daring to ask the question the rest of us think: Do you hate President Trump, Speaker...
View ArticleKatie Hill says she contemplated suicide
The former congresswoman from California who was at the center of the whole "throuple" mess somehow remains in the headlines this week despite having tendered her resignation. The New York Post reports...
View ArticleTrump may have China on the mind with Brazil, Argentina tariffs
Steel and aluminum tariffs on Brazilian and Argentinian products will go back in place in America. President Donald Trump announced the decision almost a week ago in a series of tweets accusing both...
View ArticleThe 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...
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