The Hall of Fire

About once a year, some friends and I rent canoes and go for a morning paddle near the mouths of the Cuyahoga River or the Rocky River and out into Lake Erie. One one such occasion, I pointed to a power boat docked along the Rocky River and asked my friends what field they thought the boat's owner w...

Based on reports on Twitter, there's not much new in Stormy Daniels's testimony for someone who has followed Donald Trump's presidential career, but there's probably a segment of the public who will only learn now, for example, that before sleeping with her, Trump, age 60, compared Daniels, age 27, ...

I see that Donald Trump posted on his social media account this morning that he had "just recently been told who the witness" today would be, although he didn't name Stormy Daniels, and that it was "unprecedented" that there was "no time for lawyers to prepare." A half-...

The Federal Trade Commission has released evidence which suggests that, as one commentator summarizes the findings, "an oil price-fixing conspiracy caused 27% of all inflation increases in 2021." Specifically, some U.S. fracking companies seem to have colluded with OPEC to keep oil prices ...

Driving to band practice this evening, I heard on NPR that the deal to which Hamas agreed is not really the same deal that Israel had previously agreed to.

A Democratic candidate for Georgia's state supreme court, the former Congressman John Barrow, " filed a federal lawsuit Monday to block the state’s judicial watchdog agency from seeking misconduct charges against him for centering his campaign for a seat on the Georgia Supreme Court on a pledge...

Per reporting in Haaretz , international diplomatic observers, echoing my take, actually said "the ball is in Netanyahu's court" because the deal to which Hamas has agreed is "at its core, the same as the Egyptian proposal which Israel has already approved," but Israeli sources a...

I guess this means the ball is now in Israel's court?

Two polls over the weekend found President Biden leading Donald Trump among likely voters. ABC News had Biden over Trump 49%-45%, and NPR/Marist had Biden over Trump 52%-47%. Biden's four-point lead with ABC's sample shrinks to two points if the group is expanded from likely to registered voters, an...

Yep, Hamas continues to be awful. - - - - - - - - - - Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, just weeks after the U.S. played a huge role in defending Israel against an Iranian attack, said today in an address to his nation that "if we don't protect ourselves, no one will" a...

Lara Trump, the chair of the Republican National Committee, explained on Fox News today that they're suing Nevada to prevent the counting of votes after Election Day because "you cannot have ballots counted after elections are over." And of course, Republicans have previously passed laws i...

Israel's Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu and the entire cabinet unanimously made the awful decision today to shut down Al Jazeera offices in Israel, and the government has already seized the company's broadcasting equipment.

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." In a CBS interview this morning, Gov. Noem was explicitly asked if she...

In that fundraiser, Trump also bemoaned the federal bribery charges recently brought against Democratic Congressman Henry Cuellar of Texas. Trump suggested that the charges were brought because Cuellar takes a hard line on border issues. Obviously no sane person thinks that such political concerns w...

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...