The Hall of Fire

In a newly-leaked recording obtained by the New York Times , Donald Trump complains at a closed-door high-end fundraiser that Democrats "start off essentially at 40 percent" of the vote -- shades of Mitt Romney's 2012 campaign there -- because they "have civil service ... the unions a...

And you will be shocked, shocked to learn that L. Brent Bozell IV tried to blame Jan. 6th on Antifa.

Apparently Leonard Leo's friends have taken to referring to the current SCOTUS as the "Leo Court."

I guess Marco Rubio was right back in 2016? https://twitter.com/NCGOP/status/1786739971929288901 Another aspect of that particular lightsaber is that the color was mostly used by the villains in Star Wars . But that would in keeping with Donald Trump's past comparisons of himself to Bane, the Empero...

There were more protests in Israel tonight. One group marching around the military headquarters in Tel Aviv was chanting "Replace him! Save them!" "Him" of course means Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. There were reports over the past 24 hours that Hamas is now willing to relea...

The Sixth , a new documentary about the events of Jan. 6th, was released yesterday, but Politico reports that the Hollywood studio that paid for it now seems to want to bury it, for unclear reasons. It wasn't mentioned on the studio's website until after Politico called to ask, the studio hasn't be...

Lots of politicians' "photo ops" are of course staged. But I do appreciate this analysis which points out that the pizzas that Donald Trump "delivered" to a New York firehouse this week had to be getting cold:

Somehow I missed an episode that was reported about The Room Where It Happened , the 2020 book by Donald Trump's departed national security advisor, John Bolton. (I wonder if Bolton had even seen Hamilton , which obviously inspired his book's title, and if so, what he thinks about it.) Bolton writes...

The ghostwriter just made up the meeting with the North Korean dictator? That's more like a poltergeist writer. Eta: "erroneously described" huh? So many ways for the journalists to avoid saying "lied about." Noem's people have implausibly claimed that this is a fabrication by a...

I'm not sure how I feel about statutes of limitation. It seems to me that a criminal who cleverly hides his wrongdoing can exploit them to evade the law. And yet, if you're charged with a crime you didn't commit, and it's been a very long time, the government is surely in a better position than the ...

President Biden today awarded former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Edited to note that a Fox News host "joked" last night that Biden should have awarded Pelosi's husband Paul a hammer.

Of course... Could have been worse : [picture of a Vogon from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ] Edited to add: " infrastruckersureparauhee ." The link was to Donald Trump struggling Wednesday to pronounce the word "vegan" during a campaign rally in Wisconsin. He kept pronoun...

This video really shows what the description says:



FYI, Tucker Carlson is saying that Alex Jones accurately predicted the events of 9/11.

I'm also struck by the fact that Jones recently had dinner at Carlson's house.

The April unemployment rate rose from 3.8% to 3.9% -- where it was in February -- as only 175,000 jobs were added. Forecasters had predicted 240,000 new jobs and that the rate would hold steady. Even so, this marks the 27th straight month under 4%, and this streak is thus now tied for the second-lon...

Will Judge Cannon further delay proceedings because prosecutors today noted that, in the process of going through the many boxes of documents stored at Mar-a-Lago, scanning those documents, documenting those documents, and returning those documents to the boxes -- or in the case of classified docume...

Houston Chronicle: "Texas man takes legal action against ex-partner who went to Colorado for abortion."

On March 26, 2024, the first day that Truth Social was on the stock market, it peaked at $74.79 per share. At the close of business today, April 5, 2024, Truth Social was trading at $40.57 per share, which is 46% below its peak. And it had dropped to $37.17 at close today. Blame it on the eclipse? ...

This probably won't make sense to casual readers without some explanation: [ Tweet from Marcy Wheeler: "Has anyone called Corey Lewandowski and asked if he was ever concerned Noem would shoot him?"] That would be South Dakota governor Kristi Noem, viewed by some as a possible running mate...

Guo Wengui (real name Ho Wan Kwok), the exiled Chinese billionaire and Steve Bannon's erstwhile funder and host ... was charged today in a $1 billion fraud scheme. Additional charges filed against Steve Bannon's backer, Guo Wengui. "Bannon is not referenced in the indictment, but the companies...

Rep. Henry Cuellar, Democrat of Texas, is expected to be indicted . Apparently something to do with business deals in Azerbaijan? It's bad news for Democrats' chances of retaking the House. If he resigns, any would-be Democratic successor would need to run as a write-in candidate, I think. Edited wi...