Manhattan DA: On second thought, we'll present a hate-crime case to grand...
Give the Manhattan District Attorney's office credit for finally coming to the correct decision. Initially, Cyrus Vance's office told attorneys representing Israeli student Lihi Aharon that her assault...
View ArticleMcConnell on impeachment: 'Their turn is over'
Mitch McConnell spoke on the Senate floor today, challenging Nancy Pelosi to stop stalling and send the article of impeachment to the Senate.“Their turn is over. They’ve done enough damage. It’s the...
View ArticleTrump on Soleimani: We took action last night to stop a war, not to start one
It's a great line.Think Iran will buy it?An unnamed State Department official made a similar point to reporters today, emphasizing as Trump did in the clip below that this was a defensive action by the...
View ArticleClimate change alarmism strikes the Golden Globe awards dinner
The 77th annual Golden Globe awards will be presented Sunday. It's billed as the biggest party of the year during the award show season. This year the dinner before the awards ceremony will present a...
View ArticleCan anti-Semitic attacks in New York be traced to the Nation of Islam?
The media finally seems to be paying attention to the wave of anti-Semitic attacks in the New York area, after the sheer number and violence of those attacks peaked last month. But while the media is...
View ArticleGood news: Lori Loughlin learning martial arts, "prison lingo" to prepare for...
To cleanse the palate, I have no deep thoughts here. I just wanted you to know that the woman you remember from the most wholesome sitcom on 80s television, who went on to star in soap operas for the...
View ArticleThere needs to be a new AUMF over Iraq
The new military action in Iraq is why Congress needs to vote on a new Authorization to Use Military Force in Iraq. It's constitutional, after all, since Congress is the only branch of the United...
View ArticleRetired general on Soleimani strike: This would be an excellent time for...
James "Spider" Marks has a few words for Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) -- use fewer yourself. In the immediate aftermath of the attack on the embassy in Baghdad, Murphy accused Trump of being "impotent,"...
View ArticleAre you ready for environmental reparations to fund the Green New Deal?
The leftists participating in the weekly Fire Drill Fridays want to eliminate the fossil fuel industry and take all the money from the energy industry companies. They tout wealth redistribution from...
View ArticleNYT reporter: Sources tell me the intelligence suggesting Soleimani was...
It's ironic that political considerations suddenly now require Trump and the GOP to place their faith in the good judgment of the intelligence community after deriding them as deep-state liars for the...
View ArticleNFL wildcard round 1 open thread
Jazz: Well, that was certainly an exciting end to the regular season. After an up and down series of performances leading to Ed and I being tied in weeks 15 and 16, it all came down to the last...
View ArticleUK court extends new legal protection to "ethical veganism"
A ruling was handed down on Friday by a U.K. employment tribunal allowing ethical vegans to be protected from discrimination by law. With this ruling, ethical veganism now has the same legal...
View ArticleThe "God is on our side" concern in politics
The entire notion of a political leader saying "God is on our side," tends to rub me the wrong way. I grew up at a Southern Baptist high school where the notion of God and politics crossed paths...
View ArticleWhy Rose Tico deserved to be written out of Rise of Skywalker
Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.As I said last month, I wasn't really interested in seeing Rise of Skywalker and I haven't. I assumed it would be bad and that it would make a lot of...
View ArticleSunday morning talking heads
A long string of Sunday programming devoted to impeachment and the 2020 race is broken today by this week's news out of Baghdad, with the morning shows turning their attention to the killing of Qassem...
View ArticleThe assassination debate and implications
One of the bigger questions for observers since the killing of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Major General Qasem Soleimani is whether the United States carried out its first blatant act of assassination...
View ArticleCruz trolls Democrats with Senate resolution praising Soleimani mission
Senator Ted Cruz is promoting a resolution commending the Trump administration for its mission to take out Iranian General Qassem Soleimani. In doing so he is daring the Senate Democrats to oppose it....
View ArticleDo you know what I know? Sunday reflection
This morning’s Gospel reading is Matthew 2:1–12:When Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, in the days of King Herod, behold, magi from the east arrived in Jerusalem, saying, “Where is the newborn king...
View ArticleNFL wild-card playoffs Sunday thread, the Pats Go Marching Out edition
Ed: I may have lost the regular-season contest, but at least I got off to a good start in the playoffs ... barely, at 1-1. Houston staged a comeback from a sixteen-point deficit to beat Buffalo in OT,...
View ArticleIraqi parliament votes to end U.S. troop presence after Soleimani killing....
Imagine trying to punish Donald Trump by making it easier for him to withdraw American troops from a Middle Eastern country.Next they'll penalize him by greenlighting construction of a new Trump hotel...
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