The Hall of Fire

I've seen several videos purporting to show some Iranians cheering the news of their president's death. It's very difficult to verify such videos, and even if you could, wouldn't do so put those Iranians at risk of execution?

Donald Trump today for the third time canceled a previously announced campaign event in Arizona.

My favorite line from the SNL opening two night ago: "Trust me, I would love to testify. I'm not afraid to testify at all. I'm just not going to out of fear."

A new January 6th defendant told a federal judge during arraignment today, "Trump's going to be back in office in 6 months, I've got nothing to worry about."

One claim made repeatedly by Donald Trump over the past several years was that Michael Cohen only flipped on him to protect his family. Has Trump's defense team tried to make this point? That Cohen (supposedly) lied to incriminate because he didn't want his wife or father-in-law to go to jail?

I started this post a couple hours ago and returned to find it was already out of date. Lisa Rubin reports on how Donald Trump's legal strategy today is apparently to slow down the trial. Prosecutors have video evidence of Trump speaking that they wish to introduce into evidence. Some of the videos ...

The Daily Mail today says that Israel fears that the International Criminal Court is going to issue an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for Israel's actions in Gaza. Believe me, I have no love for Netanyahu, but any such warrant that isn't issued simultaneously with warr...

Ivan, did you see the sunrise this morning?

(Enjoying some good old anti-Soviet propaganda on late night TV.)

So what's going on here?



If that's meant to be a dramatic pause, it goes on for an awfully long time.

Iran's president, Ebrahim Raisi, is presumed dead , along with the nation's foreign minister, Hossein Amir Abdollahian, and seven others in a helicopter crash earlier today. It took many hours for rescuers to find the crash site, but per CNN, Iran's state media is now showing drone footage that sugg...

If this young woman were, say, my sister, I'd want the military to kill every person who stood in the way of rescuing her: https://twitter.com/MarinaMedvin/status/1791903302235369604 They sliced her heels to keep her from running away?! The question, of course, is who standing in the way, and who is...

Roger Stone posted this about Trump's rally in Wildwood, NJ. ... The problem is that this image was taken on December 31, 1994 at the Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil at a concert by Rod Stewart in what is known as the world's largest free music concert, with an attendance of over 3.5 mil...

The New York Post reports that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has voted in New York for years based on a Westchester residence he owns but where he seems not to actually reside. And apparently he also said on a podcast that he lives in Los Angeles. Edited to add this question : has RFK been lying on his ball...

Ukraine has sunk the Russian corvette Tsiklon, which has been the launching point for a number of Russian missile attacks on Ukraine.

Here's some interesting early 1980s commentary I've never read before from the far-left poet Amiri Baraka (1934-2014) about the importance of political incrementalism. Although Baraka was staunchly anti-capitalist, he warned against commentary he'd heard from others on the left about the last presid...

Possibly I've mentioned before a discussion among the students of my high school government class when I was a senior in 1989-1990. The teacher had to step out of the room for a few minutes, and somehow the class got talking about the subject of interracial marriage, and it was clear that half the c...

Voronwë the Faithful wrote: ↑Sat May 18, 2024 3:04 am The flip side of the Alito news is that perhaps it will help spark CJ Roberts to a more favorable decision.

Chief Justice Roberts probably knew about the upside-down flag soon after it was flown.

Apparently Donald Trump had a very successful weekend:

"The party was hosted by Caroline Wren, an adviser to Arizona U.S. Senate candidate Kari Lake."

Wren has been mentioned here before, most recently because she was being sued for defamation by the man who was groped by Matt Schlapp.

Donald Trump not only gets his audience to boo the idea of the U.S. admitting Palestinian immigrants... https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1791542041756754232 But in feigning surprise at the audience's displeasure because, he says, "I thought you were a very liberal place," he tries to sup...